LEGAL NOTICE
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Lynx Educate
French société par actions simplifiée
Share capital: 1596,48 €
Registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 900 471 053
VAT number: FR31900471053
Registered address: 185 rue Ordener, 75018 Paris, France
Email: admin@lynxeducate.com
Publication Director: Sylvie Milverton
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PERSONAL DATA & PRIVACY PROTECTION POLICY
For your usage of our website (the « Website ») and of our services (the « Services »), we (« Lynx Educate », « We », « Us », « Our ») may collect and process your personal data.
The purpose of this personal data & privacy protection policy (the « Policy ») is to inform the Website users (« User », « You », « Your », « Yours »), the Lynx Educate clients (the « Clients ») and their employees (the « Learners ») and the Lynx Educate learning partners (the « Partners ») about the resources adopted to collect and process Your personal data, in compliance with the applicable French and European laws, notably the Act n°78-17 of January 6, 1978, regarding information technology, files and freedom, modified by the Act n°2004-801 of August 6, 2004 and by the Act n°2018-493 of June 20, 2018 (« French Data Protection Act »), the Regulation (UE) n° 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and rules relating to the free movement of personal data (« GDPR ») and the Directive 2002/58 of July 12, 2002 modified by the Directive 2009/136/CE (« ePrivacy Directive »), and any national transposition text or any later text following those (the « Applicable Laws »).
We regard with the deepest importance Your privacy respect and to Your personal data protection.
By accessing and/or using Our Website or by signing up Our Services, You understand that Your personal data may be collected and processed in the terms and conditions hereinafter described. If You do not agree with this Policy, You must cease any access and/or use of Our Website and Our Services.
This Policy should be jointly considered with Our Usage Terms and Conditions for Our Services, with Our contracts and with Our Cookies Policy available below.
1. DEFINITIONS
The terms « personal data » (« Personal Data »), « processing », « controller », « processor », « recipient », « consent », « filing system » shall have the same meanings given to them by GDPR Article 4.
2. CONTROLLER
Your Personal Data controller is the French company Lynx Educate, société par actions simplifiée (SAS), registered with the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS) of Paris under n° 900 471 053, the registered office of which is located at 185 rue Ordener – 75018 Paris, with contact details specified in Article 10.
3. WHICH PERSONAL DATA ARE COLLECTED?
While collecting Personal Data, the User or Client or Learner or Partner will be informed of the facultative or required nature of the Personal Data given while signing up on the Platform and/or while using the Website. In the case that mandatory Personal Data is not completed by the User or Client or Learner or Partner, access and use of some services on the Website may be impossible.
Specifically, Lynx Educate may collect the following varieties of Personal Data:
| For the Website Users | For the Clients | For the Partners | For the Learners |
| Data relating to Your contact requests (including those via Our contact form): – Family name; – First name(s); – Email address | Data relating to identity: – Family name; – First name(s); – Phone number (landline and/or mobile); – Email address; – Postal address | Data relating to identity: – Family name; – First name(s); – Phone number (landline and/or mobile); – Email address; – Postal address | Data relating to identity: – Family name; – First name(s); – Phone number (landline and/or mobile); – Email address |
| Technical data regarding navigation and interaction with the Lynx Educate website: – visits statistics: IP address, cookies, for instance web page visited by the User, Lynx Educate website visit date and hour (refer to the ) | Data relating to means of payment: – Transaction number; – Credit card data (credit card holder details, expiry date, cryptogram) | Data relating to the sale relationship: – Ongoing training; – Ongoing training amount; – Billing address; – Training history | Data relating to the Learners’ training path: – Ongoing training; – Data relating to the ongoing training (attendance, results obtained in the context of the training) |
| Data relating to the sale relationship: – Ongoing Pack; – Ongoing Pack amount; – Billing address; – Signed-up Services history | Data relating to invoice payments: – Payment methods; – Agreed discounts if any; – Receipts; – Invoices | ||
| Data relating to invoice payments: – Payment methods; – Agreed discounts if any; – Receipts; – Invoices |
4. WHY DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
The Personal Data You provide to Us, and the collected and/or processed data in the context of Your use of the Website and our Services, are processed with the aim of meeting the following purposes:
| Legal basis | Purposes |
| Contract between the Client and Lynx Educate (consisting of the enterprise partnership agreement, of the Lynx Educate Platform usage terms and conditions, and of this Policy) | Providing You the Services and the Platform ensuring its proper functioning, facilitating Your Pack subscriptions processing, and more generally the sale relationship with Our Clients processing, etc. |
| Contract between the Partner and Lynx Educate (consisting of the education partnership agreement, and of this Policy) | Managing the sale relationship with Our Partners and providing Our Services to Our Partners. |
| Contract between the Learner and Lynx Educate (consisting of the Lynx Educate Platform usage terms and conditions, and of this Policy) | Providing Services to Learners. |
| Learner’s consent to his/her Personal Data transfer to Lynx Educate, previously collected and documented by the Client and to his/her data processing by Lynx Educate for Lynx Educate to provide services | Learner’s data processing for Lynx Educate to provide its Services.
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| Lynx Educate legitimate interest to manage its client relationship | Managing the sale relationship between Lynx Educate and its Clients and Partners. |
| Lynx Educate legitimate interest to promote its products and to propose You offers and news | Informing You about Lynx Educate offers and news, unless You request otherwise. |
| Compliance with a legal obligation | Being compliant with Our legal obligations. |
| Compliance with a legal obligation | Respond to Your rights exercising requests (access, opposition, portability, etc). |
5. WHO ARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA RECIPIENTS?
Lynx Educate will take all useful precaution, organizational and technical measures suited to protect security, integrity and confidentiality for Personal Data, and specifically to prevent them from being altered, damaged or accessed by non-authorized third parties.
5.1 DATA SENT TO PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AND/OR ORGANIZATIONS
In compliance with the regulations in force, Personal Data can be sent to competent authorities at request and especially to public organizations, exclusively to meet legal obligation, answer to representatives of the law, to ministerial officers and to organizations in charge of debt recovery.
5.2 DATA ACCESSIBLE TO THIRD PARTIES
Personal Data may be used by Lynx Educate, its subcontractors, its affiliates and/or, if necessary, its business partners, for the purposes described in Provision 4 aforementioned.
- Lynx Educate staff, the organizations in charge of inspection (including external auditor) and Lynx Educate subcontractors will be able to access Personal Data gathered within the framework of providing the Services and the provision of the Site;
- Any third party led to be involved in Services You would have signed up for;
- For Learners data: education Partners with duly signed agreement;
- Subject to Your consent when it is required, we may communicate Your Personal Data to Our partners, particularly for direct marketing purposes.
5.3 TRANSMISSION OUTSIDE EUROPEAN UNION
Your Personal Data may be processed outside the European Union, including via remote access. Lynx Educate will execute no Personal Data transmission outside European Union without implementing suitable measures pursuant to Applicable Laws.
6. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
In accordance with Applicable Laws, subject to an express request accordingly, You are granted for Your Personal Data the right to access, correct, oppose, and delete, under the conditions of Applicable Laws.
Your right to delete Your Personal Data is enforced subject to obligations Lynx Educate may prove for Personal Data preservation, particularly regarding its legal obligations.
In the event of exercise of the right to oppose, Lynx Educate will stop processing the Personal Data, except in the case of legitimate and compelling motive(s) to process, or to ensure the observation, the exercise, or the defense of its rights before the Court, pursuant to Applicable Laws.
Providing compliance with the conditions of Applicable Laws, You can also request process restriction to Your Personal Data.
While Your Personal Data processing is based on Your consent, You have the right to revoke Your consent at any time.
You can give instructions to Lynx Educate about Your Personal Data fate after Your death.
If necessary, Lynx Educate will inform You of the reasons for which the exercise of Your rights may not be fulfilled in whole or in part.
In order to exercise the rights mentioned in this provision, You can contact Lynx Educate by sending your request to contact details specified in Provision 10 hereunder.
7. YOUR PERSONAL DATA RETENTION PERIOD
Lynx Educate undertakes not to keep Your Personal Data beyond the duration strictly needed for the purposes they have been collected for, and pursuant to Applicable Laws.
Lynx Educate will anonymise or delete Your Personal Data from the end of their purpose and/or defined retention period.
However, the Personal Data may be archived beyond the expected duration for research, observation, and legal proceedings purposes only to allow, if necessary, the provision of this Personal Data to the Court, or for other retention obligations, especially accounting or tax goals. Archiving involves the Personal Data access to be restricted and that the Personal Data will not be remotely available for consultation but extracted and stored on an autonomous and secured recording medium.
Maximum retention periods apply as defined in the table below, except if You request Your Personal Data deletion or end of processing before the term of these durations, in compliance with Provision 6 hereinabove, and subject to any obligation for a longer retention.
| Category | Retention period |
| Data and contact relating to Clients, Partners, Learners and data about Learners’ trainings | 3 years after last contact with You |
| Data relating to transaction with credit card | These data are not retained beyond the transaction period unless You consent their storage |
| Data relating to services subscription and invoices payment | 5 years from subscription date |
| Personal Data processed in the framework of requests and promotional operations, offer and news mailing | 3 years from the end of the relationship with You or from the last contact You initiate |
| Technical data of navigation and interaction with the Lynx Educate website | The placement of cookies duration may vary according to the cookie sort regarded (please refer to the Lynx Educate cookies policy for more details), in any case, the maximum retention period for cookies is 13 months from the cookie placement on the internet user terminal. |
| Personal Data relating to administration of requests for rights exercise and questions about Personal Data | 3 years from the last contact You initiate |
| Data relating to Lynx Educate legal obligations administration | This duration may vary according to the legal obligation regarded. |
8. UNDERAGE PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
In general the Website and the Services are not designed for persons under the age of 18. This is the reason why We do not collect or retain Personal Data regarding minors under 18 years of age, without receiving a verifiable parental consent, knowing that the parental authority holders can request to receive their child’s data or request their deletion.
When You, as an adult, input Personal Data relating to a person under the age of 18, you undertake to secure the verifiable consent of the parental authority holders, and to provide on request any evidence of this consent.
9. SECURITY
Considering technologies evolution, implementation costs, the nature of Personal Data that need to be protected as well as risks for people’s rights and liberties, Lynx Educate implements technical and organizational measures suited to guarantee collected and processed Personal Data confidentiality and a security level fitting the risk, in compliance with the present Policy.
All useful precautions, in accordance with the state-of-the-art, in relation to the nature of Personal Data and the risks produced by the processing, will be taken to preserve the Personal Data security and particulary to prevent them from being altered, damaged, or accessed by unauthorized third parties.
10. CONTACT
For any request regarding Your Personal Data processing, You can send Your request or Your claim directly to Lynx Educate to its headquarters at 185 rue Ordener – 75018 Paris or to the following email address: admin@lynxeducate.com
Lynx Educate will endeavour to find a satisfactory solution to ensure the respect of the Applicable Laws.
Should Lynx Educate fail to answer or should the dispute persist, You may file a plea to the CNIL or to the controlling authority in the Member State of European Union in which You reside.
11. UPDATE
We may update or modify this Policy form time to time according to legal, technical or sales evolution. We will notify you and/or request your consent for any significant change of this Policy when required by the law. The date of the most recent version of this Policy will be specified below.
Last update: December 1, 2022
