Privacy Policy


Who is responsible for the personal information collected on this site?

The website "www.club-certas.com" is owned and managed by the company Certas Energy France (simplified joint-stock company with capital of 109 414 890,00 € whose registered office is at 9 Avenue Edouard Belin, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison, and registered under number  RCS Nanterre 808 636 849. You can contact us on [email protected]; call us on 01 55 94 06 20.

Special Notice - if you are under 18

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 18 and we will not collect, use, provide or otherwise deliberately process any personal information of children under the age of 18. We also ask you, if you are under 18, not to send us your personal information (for example, your name, your mailing address and your e-mail address). If you are under the age of 18 and still wish to ask a question or use this website in any way that requires you to submit your personal information, please ask your parent or guardian to do so on your account.

This privacy statement sets out 

Certas Energy France is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Certas Energy France  may change this statement from time to time by updating this page. We will make clear whenever any changes are made. This statement is effective from 1st January 2018.


What we collect

We may collect the following information:


What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. In particular, we will use it for the following legitimate interests of our business:

If you contact us or we contact you, we may ask for certain information from you to confirm your identity, check our records and deal with your account efficiently and correctly.

Where we have asked for your consent to use your personal information for a particular purpose, this consent may be withdrawn by you at any time.  Please see the section entitled ‘Controlling your personal information’ below.

 

Security

The security of your information is very important to us. As part of our commitment to keeping your data safe, our technical experts maintain physical, electronic and managerial procedures to keep safe the information we collect online.

Only authorised employees and carefully checked agents, contractors and sub-contractors, who provide a particular data processing service for us, are permitted access to your data. These people will only be allowed access to your data for the purposes identified within this Privacy Policy, processing it on our behalf or for IT security and maintenance.

If a third party processing your data on our behalf is located in a non-EU country that does not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the EU, we will always take appropriate additional steps to ensure that your personal information is kept safe and secure by those processing your data on our behalf. This will generally involve ensuring that such third party agrees to sign up to a formal legal agreement committing such party to comply with standards equivalent to those that would apply where that party to be located within the EU.  

We aim to protect all of our customers from fraud. As part of this, we may use your personal information to verify your identity to help prevent or detect fraud. 


How long we hold your information for


The time period for which we keep information varies according to what we use the information for. Unless there is a specific legal requirement for us to keep information, we will keep your information for as long as it is relevant and useful for the purpose for which it was collected.

Where we are using your personal information to send you marketing information we will retain that for 12 months as we understand that you will not buy from us on every occasion but frequently we see repeat purchases from customers in this time period. We will retain your account information for up to 10 years in line with relevant tax and legal requirements.

You are entitled to request that we erase your personal information at any time, for example where you cease to be an active customer of ours.  Whilst we will generally seek to comply with your request, there will be circumstances where we are entitled to retain such personal information (e.g. in respect of legal claims).  

 

Controlling your personal information


You may choose to restrict or control the collection or use of your personal information in the following circumstances:
when you are asked to fill in a form on the website or elsewhere (ensure that you do not tick any box which consents to our use of your personal information

You have the right to:

It is important to note that this is not an absolute right to review all the information that is held about you, as there are various exceptions to this right.  These include:

(a) where personal data is kept for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating offences and related matters; and
(b) where the data is given by another person in confidence.

If you want to remove a consent or request erasure or transfer of your personal information, you may do so at any time by contacting us at ; Service Marketing & Development at [email protected] ; call us on 01 55 94 06 20 or write to us at Certas Energy France SASU, headquartered at the following address: 9 Avenue Edouard Belin, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison, and registered under the following number: RCS Nanterre 808 636 849.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.  Where we do seek your permission we will name the relevant third party at the time we seek such permission from you and any such permission shall be limited to that third party.

Sometimes we may have to pass information to statutory bodies authorised to obtain data under various legislation, such as the police or tax authority. 

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write, email or call us as soon as possible, using the details set out above. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

This policy replaces all previous versions and is correct as of 1st January 2018 . We reserve the right to change the policy at any time.

 

Cookies

How we use cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers which enable our systems to recognise your browser in order that we can provide you with easy use of the various services available on the website.

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.


The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie NameCookie IDCookie DescriptionAdditional info
Has Javascripthas_jsA cookie that determines whether your browser has JavaScript enabled. Required by the content management system this site has been built with.This cookie is strictly necessary for the website to operate.
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. This cookie is essential for the website to operate efficiently.Click here for an overview of privacy at Google

If you wish to learn more about cookies go to www.aboutcookies.org