Privacy Policy
ARTICLE 1: PREAMBLE
The website https://www.echelon-advisory.com/ (hereinafter the "Site"), published by the company Echelon Advisory (hereinafter "Echelon Advisory") is the corporate site of Echelon Advisory presenting its activities.
While accessing, consulting, browsing, and using the Site, you may be required to provide certain personal data to Echelon Advisory.
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform the Users of the Site:
- On how their personal data are collected. Personal data are any information that can identify a User. As such, it can be their name and surname, their age, their postal or email address, their location or their IP address (non-exhaustive list);
- On the rights they have concerning these data;
- On the person responsible for processing the personal data collected and processed;
- On the recipients of this personal data;
- On the Site's policy regarding cookies.
This policy completes the legal notice and the General Terms and Conditions that can be consulted by Users at the following address https://www.echelon-advisory.com/terms-and-conditions
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ARTICLE 2: PRINCIPLES RELATING TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
In accordance with Article 5 of the European Regulation 2016/679, personal data are:
- Processed lawfully, fairly and transparently with regard to the data subject;
- Collected for specified (see Article 3.1 hereof), explicit and legitimate purposes, and not further processed in a way incompatible with those purposes;
- Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed;
- Accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. All reasonable steps must be taken to ensure that personal data which are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;
- Kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed;
- Processed in such a way as to ensure appropriate security of the data collected, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures.
Processing is lawful only if, and to the extent that, at least one of the following conditions is met:
- The data subject has consented to the processing of his/her personal data for one or more specific purposes;
- The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or for the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject;
- The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
- The processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
- The processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
- The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data prevail.
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ARTICLE 3: PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED AND PROCESSED IN THE CONTEXT OF NAVIGATION ON THE SITE
Article 3.1: Data collected
The personal data collected in the context of our activity when you enter them on the Site or when you communicate with Echelon Advisory are the following:
- Identification data: first name and last name
- Contact information: email address, telephone number
- Data relating to your exchanges with Echelon Advisory in the context of your contact requests: date, subject, and content of your exchanges with Echelon Advisory
- Connection and navigation data
This data are collected and processed for the following purposes:
- Processing your contact requests made by sending a contact form on the Site
- Proper technical functioning of the Site and its services
Article 3.2: Mode of data collection
When you use our site, personal data are collected when you perform the following operations on the platform:
- Use of the site
- Transmission of personal data when completing the contact form
Personal data will be kept by the data controller in reasonable security conditions. Personal data will only be kept for the period necessary to achieve the purposes for which the data was collected or to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
Data collected in the context of a contact request is kept until the request is fully processed.
Connection and browsing data are kept for thirteen (13) months.
The company is likely to keep certain personal data beyond the above-mentioned periods in order to fulfil its legal or regulatory obligations.
Article 3.3: Data hosting
The host of the Site https://www.echelon-advisory.com/ is the company Wix Online Platforms Limited, whose registered office is located at 1 Grant's Row, Dublin 2 D02HX96, Ireland.
Article 3.4: Transmission of data to third parties
The personal data collected by Echelon Advisory are only intended for the company Echelon Advisory and its possible subcontractors for the sole purpose of responding to requests from the User.
Echelon Advisory undertakes to ensure that the personal data collected will only be disclosed internally to those members of its staff who are bound by a confidentiality agreement and who need to know the data in order to respond to the User's requests.
Echelon Advisory undertakes to ensure that the personal data collected will only be disclosed externally to partners or potential acquirers identified for the sole purpose of responding to the User's requests and with whom a confidentiality agreement will be established by Echelon Advisory.
Article 3.5: Cookies policy
The User is informed that during their visits to the site, a cookie may be automatically installed on their browser.
Cookies are small files temporarily stored on the hard disk of the User's computer by your browser and which are necessary for the use of the site https://www.echelon-advisory.com/. Cookies do not contain personal information and cannot be used to identify anyone. A cookie contains a unique identifier, randomly generated and therefore anonymous. Some cookies expire at the end of the User's visit, others remain.
The information contained in the cookies is used to improve the https://www.echelon-advisory.com/ website.
By browsing the site, the User accepts them.
However, the User must give their consent to the use of certain cookies.
In the absence of acceptance, the User is informed that certain functionalities or pages may be refused.
The User may deactivate these cookies by using the settings in their or her browser software.
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ARTICLE 4: DATA CONTROLLER AND DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
Article 4.1: The data controller
Personal data are collected by Echelon Advisory, SARL with a capital of 1000€, registered at the Trade and Companies Register of Paris under the number 915081772.
The person in charge of processing personal data can be contacted in the following ways:
- By mail at the address: 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France.
- By e-mail: contact@echelon-advisory.com.
Article 4.2: The data protection officer
The data protection officer of the company or the person in charge is:
Guillaume Babin, 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France, contact@echelon-advisory.com.
If you consider, after having contacted us, that your rights are not respected, you can contact the CNIL.
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ARTICLE 5: THE USER'S RIGHTS REGARDING DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING
Any User concerned by the processing of his/her personal data may avail himself/herself of the following rights, pursuant to the European Regulation 2016/679 and the French Data Protection Act (Law 78-17 of 6 January 1978):
- Right of access, rectification and right to erasure of data (laid down in Articles 15, 16 and 17 of the GDPR respectively);
- Right to data portability (article 20 of the GDPR) ;
- Right to limitation (Article 18 of the GDPR) and opposition to data processing (Article 21 of the GDPR);
- Right not to be subject to a decision based exclusively on an automated process;
- Right to determine the fate of the data after death ;
- Right to have recourse to the competent supervisory authority (Article 77 of the GDPR).
To exercise your rights, please send your letter to Echelon Advisory, 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France, or by e-mail to contact@echelon-advisory.com.
In order for the data controller to comply with your request, the User may be required to provide certain information such as: their full name, their e-mail address as well as the date of transmission of their data by filling in the contact form and the nature of these data.
Consult the cnil.fr website for more information on your rights.
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ARTICLE 6: CONDITIONS OF MODIFICATION OF THE PRIVACY POLICY
The publisher of the Echelon Advisory Site reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time in order to ensure that the Users of the Site comply with the law in force.
The User is invited to read this Policy each time he/she uses our services, without the need to formally notify him/her.