PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY
In accordance with European Regulation 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 (RGPD).

The present personal data protection charter (the "Charter") describes the commitment of the AAASeedz Site, published by Damien B. as data controller, with respect to the privacy and protection of the personal data of its users. This Charter has been drawn up to inform you of the practices and conditions under which AAASeedz collects, uses and stores your personal data (hereinafter referred to as the "Data"). You will find a description of the various Data that we may collect and process or that you may transmit to us when you access and/or use the www.aaaseedz.com site on which our products are sold. The term "Site" refers only to the www.aaaseedz.com website.

Given the constant evolution of laws and regulations concerning technology and the protection of personal data, it is likely that the present Charter will be updated. If you are a user of the Site, you will be informed of any changes by e-mail. Should any clause of the present Charter be declared invalid or contrary to regulations, it will be deemed unwritten, but this will not invalidate the other clauses of the present Charter.

The present Charter applies to Data collected :

- Simply by browsing the Site
- Via e-mails or other messages exchanged between AAASeedz and you
- When you create a user account on the Site
- When you make an order on the Site
- When you subscribe to the Newsletter

It does not apply to information collected by any third parties or via sites managed by them, including via applications or content (including advertisements) redirecting the user to the Site. We thank you for reading carefully the Charter concerning the processing of your Data and we inform you that browsing our Site necessarily implies acceptance of this Charter. If you do not accept the present Charter, we invite you to leave our Site. It is your responsibility to check that the Data communicated to AAASeedz are in conformity. If necessary, you can correct and update them in your "My account" area.

1. What Data does AAASeedz collect?

Depending on the nature and purpose of your interaction with AAASeedz (creation of a user account, subscription to the Newsletter, completion of contact forms, as well as during any telephone exchanges) we are likely to collect the following Data:

Your e-mail address will be required if you wish to create a user account, communicate with us via the contact forms and/or receive our Newsletter.
Data relating to your identity such as your surname, first names, e-mail address, postal addresses and telephone numbers may be requested.
Browsing data: this is data relating to the way in which you use the Site, including: IP address, browser used, browsing time, search history, operating system used, language and pages viewed.
Data concerning your visits to the Site, including traffic data, log files and other data or communication resources you use when accessing the Site
Order-related data: your postal address is required for invoicing purposes. Likewise, your bank details, or those of any other financial partner, must be provided in order to pay for your order.
Data relating to the use of social networks when you use their functionalities.

2. How is your Data collected?

Data may be collected in various ways on the Site. Data may be collected directly when you transfer them to us using the contact and user account creation forms, newsletter registration forms available on the Site and/or communicated when you contact us by telephone. When you contact us by these different means, a copy of your exchanges with AAASeedz, including e-mail addresses, may be made and archived. AAASeedz also collects certain Data indirectly by means of cookies/trackers. We invite you to familiarize yourself with our Cookie Charter, which is intended to help you better understand these technologies and the use we make of them on the Site and in the context of our services, applications and tools.

3. Why is your Data collected?

If you are an ordinary user, we collect your Data for :

Send you our Newsletter and/or personalized commercial offers if you have given your consent
Managing orders and executing contracts
Ensure the security and traceability of site purchases
Send you information about your account (including purchase invoices and order history)
Manage your requests via the contact page
Allow you to leave a review of products and/or the Site
To inform you of changes concerning the Site or our products and services.
To respect our rights and obligations stipulated in contracts concluded with users and for any other legal purpose

We may also use cookies or trackers:

To secure your browsing and improve your user experience, in particular by recognizing the user name and password you have already provided so that you do not have to enter them on every page of the Site where they are required. Refusal to do so will prevent you from placing an order on the Site (impossible identification). To analyze traffic and data on the Site in order to measure the number of users of the Site, to make it easier to use and to ensure its ability to respond promptly to your requests.

Refusal to fill in the Site's form(s) correctly may block access to certain pages, in particular those concerning the ordering of products or services.

4. Who processes your data?

Your Data is processed by AAASeedz staff and associates in charge of : Site management (orders and shipments), support management, to answer all your questions, billing management.

In addition, within the scope of our activity, and for processing purposes, your Data may be communicated to subcontractors, service providers or other third parties, and in particular: e-mailing service, carriers (La Poste, Colissimo, ...), accounting services, tax services, Google Analytics. Each of these parties is bound by a confidentiality agreement concerning the use and processing of personal data.

For payment management and to facilitate the experience of its users, AAASeedz offers the following means of payment to make purchases on the Site: online payment by credit card (Carte Bleue, Visa, Eurocard / Mastercard). AAASeedz has no access to your credit card information. All transactions are secured using SSL encryption, guaranteeing both the identity of the payment organization and the confidentiality of your data.

To send our Newsletters, our emailing campaigns are managed by AAASeedz.

All of the above-mentioned subcontractors, service providers, partners or other third parties are bound by contractual obligations to respect the confidentiality and protection of Data and to process it solely for the purposes for which we transfer it to them.

Your Data may be transferred to any purchaser or other successor in the event of a merger, assignment, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of AAASeedz's assets due to uncertainty or bankruptcy, liquidation or other processes in which AAASeedz's User Data is one of the transferred assets.

Finally, we may also disclose your Data: to comply with any mandate required by applicable law, including governmental and regulatory requests. If we believe that disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of AAASeedz, its customers or other stakeholders. This possible disclosure includes the exchange of information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of protection against fraud and counterfeiting.

The Site may contain links to various sites and social networking platforms managed on third-party servers, by persons or organizations over which AAASeedz has no control. As a result, we cannot be held responsible for the way in which your Data is stored or used on the servers of these third parties. We advise you to read the applicable privacy policy of each third-party website you access via the Site in order to understand how your Data will be used.

5. How long will your Data be kept?

AAASeedz retains your Data only for the time necessary to achieve the purposes set out in Article 3. This retention period is not the same depending on the Data in question, as the nature and purpose of the collection may vary. Similarly, certain legal obligations impose a specific retention period.
When you subscribe to our newsletter, we keep your e-mail address until you unsubscribe.

When you contact AAASeedz using the contact form or when you contact us by telephone, your data may be kept: up to one (1) year from the last contact if you do not have a customer account or have placed an order on the Site. Up to ten (10) years (legal period) from the last order placed on the Site, if this information concerns this order. In all other cases, the retention period for the Data exchanged shall not exceed one (1) year.

In the case of your user account, all your billing data is kept for ten (10) years from the date of purchase, even if you have requested that your user account be deactivated.

If you request the deletion of your Personal Data, your user account will be deactivated and anonymized, and then completely deleted at the end of the aforementioned periods from the day on which you made the request. Finally, data collected by means of cookies or tracers will be kept for up to six (6) months in the case of audience measurement cookies or tracers, and for up to thirteen (13) months in the case of other cookies or tracers. Beyond the above-mentioned retention periods, your Data will be anonymized and stored exclusively for statistical purposes.

6. How is your Data protected?

Your Data is stored on a secure server protected by a firewall and antivirus software. We have implemented technical and organizational measures to guarantee the security and confidentiality of your Data against accidental loss and against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. However, given the inherent characteristics of the Internet, it is impossible for us to guarantee the optimal security of information exchanges on this network. While we strive to protect your Data, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to the Site. You agree that you transmit your Data at your own risk. We cannot be held responsible for non-compliance with confidentiality parameters or security measures in place on the Site. As such, you agree that the security of your information is also your responsibility. For example, it is your responsibility to keep secret the password that gives you access to your user account. Do not, under any circumstances, divulge it to third parties. Similarly, you should be careful when disclosing information in the public sections of the site, which can be consulted by any site user.

7. What are your rights?

You can choose how the Data you send us is used:

You may browse the Site without providing any Data. In this case, you will not be able to use certain features of the Site, and in particular, to make purchases (if you are a simple user) and/or downloads from the Site. You may refuse to provide your bank details and/or postal address. In this case, you will not be able to make any purchases on the Site. You can opt out of receiving our newsletter and personalized offers by logging into your account or by clicking on the link in the e-mail sent to you.

In any event, you may access your user account at any time to view or update your Data and unsubscribe from our Newsletter if you were subscribed to it. In accordance with the provisions of the applicable regulations on the protection of personal data, in particular the European Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the "RGPD") as well as the law of January 6, 1978 n°78-17 known as "Informatique et Libertés" and its amendments, you have a right of access and a right to rectify your Data. In addition, subject to the conditions laid down by the said regulations for the exercise of these rights, you benefit from:

The right to erase your Data (excluding accounting data, which must be kept for 10 years under French law - article L123-22 of the French Commercial Code)
A right to limit the processing of your Data
A right to object to the processing of your Data for legitimate reasons, in accordance with Article 21 of the RGPD
A right to portability of the Data you have provided (for automated processing based on consent or the performance of a contract)
The right to withdraw your consent, where you have been asked to do so. When your Data is processed on the basis of your consent, you may withdraw it at any time

You acknowledge, however, that any processing carried out prior to the revocation of your consent remains perfectly valid. You also have the right to object without cause to AAASeedz analyzing your Data in order to share it for marketing purposes. However, in accordance with Article 12.6 of the RGPD, in order to exercise these rights, AAASeedz, as the party responsible for this processing, reserves the right to ask you to justify your identity. We inform you that the data enabling you to justify your identity will be deleted once we have responded to your request. You can exercise these rights by sending an e-mail in French to the following address: [email protected].

We have a period of one month in which to respond to any request relating to the exercise of your rights. This period may be extended by two months if the request is too complex or too numerous.

8. What are Cookies and how can I manage them?

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer, smartphone or tablet, via your Internet browser, and stored on your terminal's hard disk when you visit our site. Cookies enable AAASeedz, for the duration of their validity, to recognize you each time you access our site.

Cookie validity and retention periods vary according to the type of cookie. Cookies can be temporary (session cookies) or permanent. Session cookies are active for the duration of your visit only, and are deleted when you close your browser. Permanent cookies remain on your terminal's hard disk when you leave the site, until you delete them manually or the browser purges them after a certain period.

A cookie records anonymous information relating to your terminal's browsing on our site (pages consulted, date and time of access, Internet service provider, operating system) which may be read throughout its period of validity, and used solely for statistical purposes.

AAASeedz may process the information contained in the cookies concerning your visit in order to improve the content of our site, to identify the pages of the site requiring maintenance, to analyze user behavior patterns and to optimize your browsing experience. They facilitate site navigation and improve user-friendliness.

AAASeedz uses performance analytics cookies to monitor the performance of its websites, for example to determine the number of times a page is viewed and the number of unique users on its website. Web analytics services may be designed and operated by third parties.

AAASeedz uses third-party solutions (notably Google Analytics) to collect information about visitors to the site through these cookies. This information may be used by the providers of these solutions.

As a user, you are informed that cookies are used when you connect to the Site, and you can prevent cookies from being saved by configuring your browser settings. If necessary, you will be informed that access to certain content or functionality of the Site may be impaired or impossible. In such cases, AAASeedz declines all responsibility for the consequences of the altered functioning of our site and its proposed services.

Most browsers are set to accept the cookies used on our websites. However, you can adjust these settings to deactivate cookies. The following links explain how to adjust your browser's cookie settings:

- Firefox : Click HERE
– Internet Explorer : Click HERE
– Google Chrome : Click HERE
– Opera : Click HERE
– Safari (iOS) : Click HERE

When deactivating cookies, please note that some graphical elements may not be displayed correctly, or that you may not be able to use certain applications.

Finally, when you click on the icons dedicated to social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube ...) appearing on the Site, and if you have accepted the deposit of cookies by continuing your navigation, these social networks may also deposit cookies on your terminal.

Information concerning your consent to cookies stored for a maximum period of 13 months.

9. Storage of Data collected by AAASeedz

Data collected in connection with the use of the Site is stored exclusively on a server located in France, hosted by the company IONOS 7 place de la garre 57200 Sarreguemines.

Last update: 04/30/2024