Privacy policy

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Who is MECADRUM?

MECADRUM, a simplified joint-stock company, SIREN no. 748 800 547 00022, is domiciled at 60230 CHAMBLY, 274 RUE ISAAC NEWTON.
It is registered with the COMPIEGNE Trade Register under number 748 800 547.

Our website address is: https://www.mecadrum.com.

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to help you make informed decisions when using the Site. This Policy explains our management of Personal Data that we may collect from you or that we have obtained about you from a third party, including the nature of the Personal Data processed about you and the purposes for which We process your Personal Data.

Use of personal data collected

Media

If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website may download and extract location data from these images.

Contact forms

Use of the Site may involve the communication of Personal Data (hereinafter referred to as “Data”) by the user, in particular to make requests for information or quotes via the contact form. All Data is communicated voluntarily by the user of the Site. The user must provide the Data required during the contact procedure in the mandatory fields of the questionnaire marked with an asterisk (*) in order to benefit from the Services. User responses in fields not marked with an asterisk (*) are optional. By using this form, the user accepts that the information entered may be used for the purpose of responding to his/her request and for any resulting commercial relationship.

Cookies

This site also uses “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that most websites store on your hard disk for identification purposes when you visit them. These cookies are used for various purposes:

  • to optimize the site and make it easier for you to navigate ;
  • to enable the provision of a service expressly requested by the site user, such as access to certain services;
  • to analyze trends and measure the site’s audience and compile statistics.

If you have an account and log on to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser. When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to record your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a connection cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “Remember me”, your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted. When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the identifier of the article you have just modified. It expires after one day.

Cookie deactivation

Users may deactivate cookies for statistical and audience measurement purposes by clicking on “No” in the cookie information panel on the Site. The user may also deactivate these cookies using the settings in his or her browser software, as follows:

For Microsoft Internet Explorer

  1. Select the “Tools” menu, then “Internet Options”.
  2. Click on the “Confidentiality” tab.
  3. Select the desired level using the slider (High to block all cookies).

For Safari

  1. In the menu bar, select the Edit menu
  2. In the drop-down menu, select Preferences…
  3. Select the “Security” icon
  4. To disable cookies, select the “Never” option. It is not possible to block cookies on a case-by-case basis with this browser.

For Mozilla Firefox

  1. Select the “Tools” menu, then “Options”.
  2. Click on the “Privacy” icon
  3. Locate the “cookie” menu and select the options you require.

For Chrome

  1. Click on the Google Chrome menu in the browser toolbar.
  2. Select Settings.
  3. Click on Show advanced settings.
  4. In the “Privacy” section, click on the Content Settings button.
  5. In the “Cookies” section, you can modify the following settings:
  6. Block all cookies: select the option “Prohibit all sites from storing Data

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other site. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, track your interactions with such embedded content if you have a logged-in account on their website.

Statistics and audience measurement

Aggregate Data, such as the pages users access and the information they voluntarily provide when filling in the contact form, is collected in various ways. When you use our site, we also automatically detect certain information about you. This information includes the URL you came from, the URL you go to, the browser you use and your IP address. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you surf the Web. Web servers, the computers that “serve” Web pages, automatically identify your computer using this IP address, and when you visit one of our pages, our servers record your IP address. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable data. So even if your session is logged, you remain anonymous to us.

Use and transmission of your personal data

Data storage periods

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This makes it possible to automatically recognize and approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue. For users who register on our site (where possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Site managers can also view and modify this information.

The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including that which you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Contact information

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978, as amended, and the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD), the user has a right of access, rectification, limitation, portability, deletion and opposition for a legitimate reason with regard to Data concerning him or her. He or she may request that inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous or out-of-date Data concerning him or her be rectified, completed, clarified, updated or deleted. The data subject may also object, on legitimate grounds, to Data concerning him or her being processed. These rights may be exercised, at any time, as follows:

  • By signed letter accompanied by a copy of an identity document to the following address: Mecadrum – A l’attention du Délégué à la protection des Données (DPO) 274 RUE ISAAC NEWTON 60230 CHAMBLY
  • By email, to the following address: dpo@mecadrum.fr

How we protect your data

Data is kept for the time strictly necessary to achieve the above-mentioned purposes. After this period, it will be anonymized and kept exclusively for statistical purposes, and will not be used in any way whatsoever. We are committed to preserving the confidentiality of Data and take reasonable precautions to protect Personal Data against loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access or disclosure. We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. All our employees and data processors (those who process your Personal Data on our behalf) who have access to and are associated with the processing of Personal Data are required to respect the confidentiality of the Personal Data of all users of our site and services. No data is stored on the https://www.mecadrum.com website.