Version from 06/09/2024
This personal data and cookies policy applies to all users of the website www.valbiotis.com (the “Site”), access to which implies unreserved acceptance.
The purpose of the Site is to present certain activities of the company VALBIOTIS SA, with capital of €1,579,459.60, ZI des Quatre Chevaliers – Bâtiment 12F – Rue Paul Vatine – 17180 Périgny, 800 297 194 RCS La Rochelle (“Valbiotis).
Valbiotis needs to process your personal data to allow you to access the Site and to benefit from the various services available on the Site.
Valbiotis undertakes, as data controller:
- that the processing of personal data on the Site complies with the general data protection regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (LIL) in force and
- that the personal data processed are limited to what is strictly necessary and that they are processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.
Please note that if you visit other Valbiotis sites, other general conditions and provisions on the protection of personal data are applicable on these sites and we recommend that you consult them.
I. Personal data processed to benefit from the various services available on the Site
A. Categories of personal data processed
Valbiotis informs you below of the personal data that you transmit to us (or to our service providers) in order to benefit from the various services available on the Site. They are all mandatory in order to respond to your requests. Where applicable, the optional nature of their collection will be indicated to you.
The data processed concerns users of the Site.
| Data categories | Examples |
| Identification and contact data | Name, first name, email address, telephone number, CV |
| Requests for information | Purpose and content of requests for information |
B. Purposes and legal bases for the processing of personal data
Valbiotis informs you below of the purposes and legal bases for the processing of personal data that you transmit to us (or to our service providers) in order to benefit from the various services available on the Site.
| Purposes of processing – legal bases | Examples |
| Response to requests for information – legitimate interest and legal obligations | Requests for information on our products, interview requests, requests for information on our job offers or sending spontaneous applications via the “Contact” form and request for subscription to the “Letter to shareholders” via the “Shareholder Area” etc. |
| Requests for information | Purpose and content of requests for information |
C. Recipients of personal data processed and transfer outside the European Union
Your personal data is used mainly for internal use within Valbiotis.
However, these may also be shared with our partners and/or subcontractors with whom we have entered into a contract, to manage your requests and/or provide us with the necessary support. They are required to ensure a sufficient and appropriate level of protection of personal data and to use them only to perform the service ordered by Valbiotis.
In case of necessity, in particular technical, transfers of personal data to partners and/or subcontractors outside the European Union may occur. If these partners and/or subcontractors are located in countries not recognized as adequate by the European Commission, the contracts are governed by transfer tools, in particular standard contractual clauses.
Exceptionally, Valbiotis may be required to disclose your personal data to the judicial and administrative authorities who justify the need.
| Recipients – types of recipients | Purpose |
| Valbiotis and internal personnel processing data – data controller | Provide the various services available on the Site |
| Service providers – subcontractors Including: – Email service provider – Technical service providers – Consulting firms | Provide the necessary support to Valbiotis to provide the various services available on the Site |
| Judicial and administrative authorities | Obtain from Valbiotis the data strictly necessary for their prerogatives and authorizations within a legal framework following a justified request to Valbiotis |
Valbiotis informs you that no automated decision-making is carried out by Valbiotis on your personal data.
D. Duration of storage of personal data processed
Valbiotis informs you that it must keep your personal data only for the duration necessary to fulfill the processing purposes listed above and archive them to comply with its various legal obligations and applicable requirements.
| Type of data/documents | Shelf life |
| Data related to your request for information | 3 years from collection or from the last contact initiated by the person concerned |
| Data related to an application | Maximum 2 years after consent of the applicant or immediate destruction |
| Newsletter subscription data | Until you unsubscribe from the newsletter in question. You can unsubscribe at any time. |
We inform you that we or our service providers may be required to archive certain data or documents beyond the retention periods in order to meet our legal obligations and applicable requirements.
E. Duration of storage of personal data processed
You have the following rights, provided for by the regulations in force, which you can exercise at any time by writing:
by email to dpo@valbiotis.com , via the contact form on the Site or by post to Valbiotis SA – DPO – ZI des Quatre Chevaliers – Bâtiment 12F – Rue Paul Vatine – 17180 Périgny, France .
You can exercise:
- your right of access (Article 15 of the GDPR): this right allows you to know what personal data we process and to obtain confirmation in a comprehensible format, to check the accuracy of the personal data and, if necessary, to exercise your right of rectification or erasure;
- your right of rectification (article 16 of the GDPR): this right allows you to correct inaccurate personal data or to complete them in relation to the purpose of the processing;
- your right to erasure (article 17 of the GDPR): this right allows you to obtain the erasure of your personal data for various reasons (e.g.: the data is no longer necessary with regard to the purpose of the processing), except in cases of non-applicability (e.g.: necessity of processing to comply with our legal obligations);
- your right to limitation (article 18 of the GDPR): this right allows you to obtain the limitation of the processing of your personal data for a certain period when different elements apply (e.g.: you contest the accuracy of the data used, you therefore have the possibility of freezing their use for a certain period);
- your right to portability (article 20 of the GDPR): this right allows you to recover your data in order to transmit it to another data controller and
- your right to object (Article 21 of the GDPR) to the processing of your personal data: this right allows you to object to your data being used, unless there is a legitimate reason which prevails over your interest.
The request to exercise your rights will only be processed if you prove your identity by any means. In case of reasonable doubt, you may be asked for additional documents to prove your identity.
You can also submit a complaint to the CNIL if you believe that your rights have not been respected on the CNIL website or by post by writing to: CNIL – Service des Complaintes – 3 Place de Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07.
F. Security measures to protect the personal data processed
Valbiotis has an internal information systems security policy (PSSI) which aims to protect the resources of the information system and the data processed by these resources (availability, integrity, confidentiality). It ensures that its staff respects it but it also ensures that its service providers have an optimal level of security.
II. Data processed directly by the Site when browsing the Site (cookies)
When you browse the Site, personal data is directly processed via cookies.
A cookie (also known as a tracer or connection witness) is a small text file placed by a website server on your computer or mobile device when you visit this website. It records certain information for a certain period of time about your browsing or your online behavior.
Different types of cookies are placed on the Valbiotis Site:
- essential cookies exempt from the collection of consent,
- cookies with consent collection such as third-party analytics and performance cookies and third-party targeted advertising cookies.
For cookies with consent collection, data is only collected if you click on “Accept all” or if you click on “Manage my cookies” to select certain cookies in “How Google uses your data” and “Cookie preference center” (opt-in). The lifetime of cookies can be stored only for the duration of a session up to a maximum duration of 13 months depending on their type. Please note that a cookie already accepted can only be deactivated and will be deleted only at the end of its legal retention period. The information collected through these cookies is stored for a maximum period of twenty-four months.
Without consent, your continued browsing on our Site will only result in the collection of essential cookies exempt from the collection of consent.
- Essential cookies are automatically placed:
During your visits, you are informed that a connection cookie may be automatically installed on your browser software. This is a block of data that is not used for identification purposes but is used to record information relating to your browsing on the Site. In particular, it allows for traffic and audience measurement analyses in order to improve the quality of the Site.
Name of cookies: axeptio_all_vendors, axeptio_cookies, axeptio_authorized_vendors (Axeptio) – Purpose: Saving choices regarding consent/refusal to the deposit of cookies – Deadline: 6 months
Cookie name: pll_language (WordPress) – Purpose: Allows you to keep the version of the site used (FR/EN) for the next visit – Period: 365 days
- Third-party analysis and performance cookies are placed with your consent:
The Site uses Google Analytics 4 cookies, these cookies help us in particular to identify the content that interests you the most, track visits and visitor characteristics, track the user session, as well as to identify certain malfunctions.
Name of sub-cookies: _ga, _ga_container-id – Purpose: Track visits and visitor characteristics – Period: 24 months
- Third-party targeted advertising cookies are placed with your consent:
The Site uses cookies offered by third-party sites (youtube.com), these cookies help us to identify the way in which the user interacts with the advertisements displayed on the Site.
Cookie name: APISID,_Secure-3PSID, SID, SIDCC, HSID, wide, PREF, LOGIN_INFO, YSC, CONSENT,
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (youtube.com) – Purpose: User tracking and advertising targeting – Timeframe:
Session duration up to 13 months
You can find Google Inc’s privacy rules by clicking on the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=fr In addition to the cookie selection banner on the Site, you can also deactivate cookies by following the instructions as follows (note that your user experience may be degraded if you delete, for example, a cookie necessary for identifying malfunctions of the Site):
1/ if you are using the Internet Explorer browser, click on the “Settings” menu icon then go to the “Cookies and site permissions” section.
In “Cookies and stored data”, click on the “Manage and delete site data” button and on the “Show all cookies and site data” button then locate the files that contain the name “Valbiotis”.
Select them and delete them.
2/ if you are using the Firefox browser, click on the “Settings” menu icon then go to the “Privacy and security” section.
In “Cookies and site data”, click on the “Manage data” button then locate the files that contain the name “Valbiotis”.
Select them and delete them.
3/ if you are using the Safari browser, click on the “Settings” menu icon and then go to the “Privacy” section. Click on “Manage website data”. Select the cookies that contain the name “Valbiotis” and click on “Delete” or “Delete all”.
4/ if you are using the Google Chrome browser, click on the “Settings” menu icon then go to the “Privacy and security” section.
Click on the “Third-party cookies” button then “See all site data and permissions”. Locate the files that contain the name “Valbiotis”.
Select them and delete them.
