BIC Group Privacy Statement for www.mybiclighter.com

BIC Group ("BIC") may revise this Privacy Statement from time to time by updating this posting. Therefore, please visit us regularly and read our Privacy Statement.

The data controller is Societe BIC, having its registered office 14 rue Jeanne d'Asnières – 92611 Clichy Cedex - France.


1. Privacy Statement.
 

• BIC is committed to protecting your online privacy when visiting our website. The purpose of this policy is to inform you about the types of information we gather about you and how we use that information, and the choices you have regarding our use of the information.
   

• By providing personal information you give your agreement to the data controller to collect and process your personal information.
   

• www.mybiclighter.com does not require personal information about visitors in order to gain access to any part of our website. Any personal information you may provide will be on a voluntary basis.
   

2. Use of Personal Information Which We Collect.
 

• www.mybiclighter.com complies with the French Privacy Laws and conforms to European Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. Upon request, you are granted access to your personal information and may also request it be amended, corrected or deleted.

Upon request, you are also entitled to object to the processing of your personal data and to be informed about the use of your personal data.

Any such request should be directed to:
Service Communication, Société BIC
14, rue Jeanne d'Asnières, 92611 Clichy Cedex – France
 

• We may ask you to provide us with personal information including your name, e-mail address and mailing address so that we may contact you to respond to your comments, questions or requests for information and to allow you playing to win a prize. If you refuse to provide this information, you could not be provided with some of the website services. Aside from a reply to your e-mail, it is not our intent to e-mail you unless you request information.

• It is precised that some of your personal data (name, first name and mail address) that have been collected in the forms you filled in, are likely to be transferred to Societe BIC's subsidiary of the country you are living in, in order for that subsidiary to send you prize(s).

• The data controller subsidiaries are located in the following countries: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Romania, Poland and Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.

• Each data processor's subsidiary is located in a county recognized by the CNIL as giving a level of personal data's protection equivalent to the French one or commits contractually to Societe BIC to maintain such a level of protection.

• We may perform analysis of user behavior to measure consumer interest in the various areas of our website for product and website development purposes. Any information we collect is used for our own internal purposes to improve the content of this website, to enhance users' experience when visiting our website, and to customize the content and/or layout of our pages. All analysis of user behavior will be recorded on a group basis, and such analysis may be shared with our website development consultants.
   

3. Links to or From Other Websites.

The www.mybiclighter.com website may contain links to other websites. BIC has no control over and assumes no responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of these websites. You should review the privacy policies of each website you visit.

4. Use of Cookies by www.mybiclighter.com
 

• Like many other commercial sites, our site may utilize a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how our site is used. Cookies were designed to help a website recognize a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was previously browsing the site, configuring your computer in the following way:

• The cookies we use cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on a computer virus. Our website may use cookies to enhance your visit. Cookies can securely store a user's password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of your preferences. Our cookies may collect a domain name and track a path through our web pages.

• We only use cookies to gather the information indicated in this policy and do not use cookies to gather personal identifying information about you without your consent.

• However, some difficulties to navigate on the website www.mybiclighter.com might occur.

• BIC is concerned with the protection of information provided by minors. We may ask minors to voluntarily provide us with personal information including name, e-mail address and mailing address so that we may contact him to respond to his comments, questions or requests for information or to allow them to play on the website and win prizes. Aside from a reply to an e-mail received by us, it is not our intent to e-mail minor visitors unless they request a particular information.

• In the case the minor does not live in France, some of his/her personal data (name, first name and mail-address) that have been collected could be transferred to the BIC's subsidiary of the country he/she lives in, in order for that subsidiary to send him/her the prize(s).

• Each data processor's subsidiary is located in a county recognized by the CNIL as giving a level of personal data's protection equivalent to the French one or commits contractually to Societe BIC to maintain such a level of protection.

• It is precised that no e-mail will be spontaneously sent to minors, that is to say, if minors did not ask for it.

• It is also precised that Societe BIC agrees to collect personal data concerning minors only with a parental authorization to do so.

• Besides, these personal data will not be used for a different purpose than the very one determined in this article.

• Societe BIC agrees not to sell the personal data related to minors without having a parental authorization to do it.