Definitions
Customer: any professional or natural person capable within the meaning of articles 1123 et seq. of the French Civil Code, or legal entity, who visits the site which is the subject of the general terms and conditions below.
Content: all the elements making up the information on the Site, in particular text, images and videos.
Customer Information: Hereafter referred to as "Information (s)" which corresponds to all the personal data which may be held by cottonco.fr for the management of your account and customer relations and for analysis and statistical purposes.
User : Internet user connecting or not and using the cottonco.fr website.
Personal information : "Information which allows, in whatever form, directly or indirectly, the identification of the physical persons to whom it applies" (article 4 of law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978).
The terms "personal data", "data subject", "sub-processor" and "sensitive data" have the meaning defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: no. 2016-679).
1. Presentation of the website:
Please refer to the "Legal information" page(link to the legal information page).
2. General conditions of use of the website and the services offered:
The Site constitutes an intellectual work protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code and applicable international regulations. The Customer cannot in any way re-use, transfer or exploit for his own account all or part of the elements or works of the Website.
The use of the cottonco.fr website implies full acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use may be modified or completed at any time, the users of the cottonco.fr website are therefore invited to consult them regularly.
In the same way, the legal notices may be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding on the user who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to become aware of them.
This website is normally accessible to users at all times. It is regularly updated by its teams and partners. An interruption for technical maintenance may be decided by cottonco.fr, who will endeavour to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention.
3. Description of services provided:
The purpose of the cottonco.fr website is to sell fashion products and accessories. cottonco.fr endeavours to provide information on its website which is as accurate as possible. However, cottonco.fr cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies or lack of updating, whether caused by cottonco.fr or third party partners who provide this information.
All information provided on the cottonco.fr website is given for information only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the cottonco.fr website is not exhaustive. It is subject to modifications having been made since it was put on line.
4. Contractual limitations on technical data:
The website uses JavaScript technology.
The cottonco.fr website cannot be held responsible for any material damage linked to its use. In addition, the user of the site undertakes to access the site using recent equipment, free of viruses and with an up-to-date browser of the latest generation. The cottonco.fr website is hosted by a service provider on the territory of the European Union in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD: n° 2016-679).
The objective is to provide a service that ensures the best rate of accessibility. The host ensures the continuity of its service 24 hours a day, every day of the year. However, it reserves the right to interrupt the hosting service for the shortest possible time, notably for maintenance purposes, to improve its infrastructures, in the event of a failure of its infrastructures or if the Services generate traffic deemed abnormal.
cottonco.fr and the host cannot be held responsible in case of malfunction of the Internet network, telephone lines or computer and telephony equipment linked in particular to network congestion preventing access to the server.
5. Intellectual property and counterfeiting:
cottonco.fr is the owner of the intellectual property rights and holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the website, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons and sounds.
Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the website, whatever the means or the process used, is forbidden, except prior written authorisation from cottonco.fr.
Any unauthorised use of the site or of one of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.
6. Limitations of responsibility:
cottonco.fr acts as the editor of the website. cottonco.fr is responsible for the quality and veracity of the published content.
cottonco.fr cannot be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of its website and / or caused to the user's equipment, when accessing the cottonco.fr website, and resulting either from the use of equipment which does not meet the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or an incompatibility.
7. Management of personal data:
The Customer is informed of the regulations concerning marketing communications, the law of 21 June 2004 for confidence in the Digital Economy, the Data Protection Act of 06 August 2004 as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD: n° 2016-679).
7.1 Persons responsible for collecting personal data
For the Personal Data collected within the framework of the creation of the User's personal account and his navigation on the Website, the person responsible for the processing of the Personal Data is: Mr Brian BEDEAU. cottonco.fr is represented by Mr Brian BEDEAU, its legal representative.
As the person responsible for the processing of the data it collects, cottonco.fr undertakes to respect the legal provisions in force. In particular, it is the responsibility of cottonco.fr to establish the purposes of its data processing, to provide its prospects and clients, from the collection of their consent, with complete information on the processing of their personal data and to maintain a register of processing in accordance with reality.
Whenever cottonco.fr processes Personal Data, cottonco.fr takes all reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the Personal Data with regard to the purposes for which cottonco.fr processes it.
7.2 Purpose of the data collected
cottonco.fr is likely to process all or part of the data:
- To allow navigation on the Website and the management and traceability of services ordered by the user: connection and use data of the Website, invoicing, order history, etc;
- To prevent and combat computer fraud (spamming, hacking, etc.): computer equipment used for browsing, IP address, password (encrypted), etc;
- To improve browsing on the Site: connection and usage data;
- To conduct optional satisfaction surveys on cottonco.fr;
- Your email address: to carry out communication campaigns. cottonco.fr does not sell your personal data which is only used by necessity or for statistical and analysis purposes.
7.3 Right of access, rectification and opposition
In accordance with current European regulations, the Users of cottonco.fr have the following rights:
- Right of access (article 15 RGPD) and rectification (article 16 RGPD), update, completeness of Users' data;
- Right to block or delete Users' personal data (article 17 RGPD), if it is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, out of date, or the collection, use, communication or storage of which is prohibited;
- Right to withdraw consent at any time (article 13-2c GDPR);
- Right to limit the processing of Users' data (article 18 RGPD);
- Right to object to the processing of Users' data (article 21 GDPR);
- Right to the portability of data provided by Users, where such data is subject to automated processing based on their consent or on a contract (article 20 GDPR);
- Right to define the fate of the data of the Users after their death and to choose to whom cottonco.fr will have to communicate (or not) their data to a third party that they will have previously designated. As soon as cottonco.fr is aware of the death of a User and in the absence of instructions from the User, cottonco.fr commits itself to destroying his data, except if their conservation is necessary for evidential purposes or to answer a legal obligation.
If the User wishes to know how cottonco.fr uses his Personal Data, ask to rectify them or oppose their processing, the User can contact cottonco.fr in writing at the address of the "Contact" form.
In this case, the User must indicate the Personal Data that he would like cottonco.fr to correct, update or delete, identifying himself precisely with a copy of an identity document (identity card or passport).
Requests for deletion of Personal Data will be subject to the obligations imposed on cottonco.fr by law, notably in terms of the conservation or archiving of documents. Finally, Users of cottonco.fr may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authorities, and in particular with the CNIL on the following website: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/plaintes.
7.4 Non-communication of personal data
cottonco.fr will not process, host or transfer the Information collected on its Clients to a country located outside the European Union or recognized as "non adequate" by the European Commission without informing the client beforehand. However, cottonco.fr remains free to choose its technical and commercial subcontractors on the condition that they present sufficient guarantees with regard to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD: n° 2016-679).
cottonco.fr undertakes to take all necessary precautions to preserve the security of the Information and in particular that it is not communicated to unauthorised persons. However, if an incident affecting the integrity or confidentiality of the Client's Information is brought to the attention of cottonco.fr, the latter must inform the CNIL as soon as possible and communicate the corrective measures taken. Furthermore cottonco.fr does not collect any "sensitive data".
The User's Personal Data may be processed by cottonco.fr subsidiaries and subcontractors (service providers), exclusively in order to achieve the aims of the present policy.
Within the limits of their respective attributions and for the purposes recalled above, the main persons likely to have access to the data of the Users of cottonco.fr are mainly the agents of our customer service.
8. Notification of incident:
Whatever our efforts, no method of transmission over the Internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
If we become aware of a breach of security, we will notify the users concerned so that they can take appropriate action. Our incident notification procedures take account of our legal obligations, whether at national or European level. We are committed to keeping our customers fully informed of all matters relating to the security of their account and to providing them with all the information necessary to help them meet their own regulatory reporting obligations.
No personal information of the user of the cottonco.fr website is published without the user's knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold on any medium whatsoever to third parties. Only the assumption of the purchase of cottonco.fr and its rights would allow the transmission of the said information to the eventual purchaser who would in turn be bound by the same obligation of conservation and modification of the data with respect to the user of the cottonco.fr website.
8.1 Security
To ensure the security and confidentiality of Personal Data, cottonco.fr uses networks protected by standard devices.
When processing Personal Data, cottonco.fr takes all reasonable measures to protect them against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
9. Hypertext links " cookies " and internet tags
The cottonco.fr website contains a certain number of hypertext links to other sites, set up with the authorisation of cottonco.fr. However, cottonco.fr does not have the possibility to check the content of the sites thus visited, and consequently will not assume any responsibility of this fact.
Unless you decide to deactivate cookies, you accept that the site may use them. You may deactivate these cookies at any time, free of charge, using the deactivation options offered to you and described below, bearing in mind that this may reduce or prevent access to all or part of the Services offered by the site.
9.1 "Cookies
Please refer to the "Cookies" page(link to the cookies page).
9.2 Internet tags
cottonco.fr may occasionally employ web beacons (also known as "tags", action tags, single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs and one-to-one GIFs) and deploy them through a web analytics partner that may be located (and therefore store related information, including the User's IP address) in a foreign country.
These beacons are placed both in the online advertisements allowing Internet users to access the Site, and on the different pages of the Site.
This technology allows cottonco.fr to evaluate the responses of visitors to the Site and the effectiveness of its actions (for example, the number of times a page is opened and the information consulted), as well as the use of this Site by the User.
The external service provider may collect information about visitors to the Website and other websites using these tags, compile reports on the activity of the Website for cottonco.fr, and provide other services relating to the use of the Website and the Internet.
10. Applicable law and attribution of jurisdiction
Any dispute relating to the use of the cottonco.fr website is subject to French law. Except in cases where the law does not allow it, exclusive jurisdiction is given to the competent courts of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
11. Additional information
11.1 "Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google In. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer (by your browser), to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information collected by the cookie about your use of the website is transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will first be compressed by Google in the Member States of the European Union or in the other Member States of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and then compressed. Google will use this information on behalf of the owner of this website in order to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on visitor activity and also to provide data to third-party services linked to the use of the website and the Internet. Google will not associate the IP address transmitted by your browser with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. However, you can prevent the recording of personal data (including your IP address) generated by cookies and the use of the site, as well as the use of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following address: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
You will find more information about the Google Analytics Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in the About Google Analytics section.
11.2. re-Captcha
We use the reCAPTCHA service from Google Inc (Google) to protect form entries on your site. This service is used to differentiate between human input and automated abuse. This involves sending the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose, your data will be communicated to Google and used by their services. However, your IP address will first be shortened by Google in the Member States of the European Union - or in other countries which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area - and will thus be anonymised. In exceptional cases, your full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and subsequently shortened. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website on behalf of the website operator. The IP address provided by your browser to reCAPTCHA will not be merged with other Google data. This data collection is subject to Google's Privacy Policy. For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit this page. By using the reCAPTCHA service, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.