Privacy Policy

Welcome to our web site ("atelier99.com"). Please read our Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy applies when you visit or surf our web site without purchasing any product, when you register with atelier99.com, and when you use our services for purchasing products.

If you haven't already done so, please also read the General Terms and Conditions of Use of atelier99.com containing relevant information on privacy and on the security systems used by the web site.

atelier99.com is managed by SARL Atelier 99 ("ATELIER 99"), its registered office is located 10, rue Auguste Barbier - 75011 Paris, France.

1. Our Policy

Everyone has the right to protection of his/her personal data.

ATELIER 99 respects its users' right to be informed regarding the collection of and other operations involving their personal data. In using data, that may directly or indirectly identify you personally, you will apply the principle pf strict necessity.

For this reason, we have designed atelier99.com in such a way that the use of your personal data will be kept to a minimum and will not exceed the purposes for which your personal data was collected and/or processed; we do not process your personal data when we can provide you with services through the use of anonymous data (such as marketing research made for improving our services) or by other means which allow ATELIER 99 to identify you a part from when it is strictly necessary or upon request of the competent public authorities or the police (as, for example, in case of traffic data or your IP address).

ATELIER 99 determines the purposes and means for the processing your personal data, including security measures, as ATELIER 99 controls atelier99.com users' personal data.

This Privacy Policy provides you with all information needed to understand how we collect data which may identify atelier99.com's users. For further information on our Privacy Policy, please contact us at our e-mail address contact@atelier99.com or at SARL Atelier 99, at our registered office located 10, rue Auguste Barbier - 75011 Paris, France.

2. Who Processes Your Personal Data

ATELIER 99 controls the use of atelier99.com users' personal data; ATELIER 99 autonomously determines the purposes and means of use, including security measures, for the protection of personal data.

3. How Do We Use Personal Data and for What Purposes

Your personal data is collected and processed by ATELIER 99 for purposes which are strictly connected to the use of the web site, its services and to the purchase of products on the web site. However, your personal data may also be used for other processing operations within the limits of such purposes.

Your personal data is mostly processed by electronic means and in some circumstances by paper-based means, when, for example, the processing of your personal data is required in order to prevent fraud against atelier99.com. Your personal data shall be stored in a way which allows ATELIER 99 to identify you for the period that is strictly necessary for the purposes for which the data was collected and subsequently processed and, in any case, in accordance with applicable law.

Please report any modification or amendment of your personal data to contact@atelier99.com in order to ensure that your personal data is always accurate and kept up-to-date and however adequate and not exceeding the purposes for which your personal data was collected and/or processed.

Your personal data shall not be disclosed to third parties for purposes which are not permitted by law or without your explicit consent.

Your personal data may only be disclosed to third parties when it is necessary in order to process an order. For example, your personal data is disclosed to Paybox Services for the performance of electronic distance payment services, through credit/debit card, when you purchase a product on atelier99.com. Moreover, your data may be disclosed to the police or to judicial authorities, according to law and upon a formal request by such entities, for example in the event ATELIER 99 needs to prevent fraud on atelier99.com (anti-fraud services).

Your personal data may be disseminated to the public after receiving your approval and only for the supply of services on atelier99.com, for example, in order to allow ATELIER 99, upon your request, to post your photos and suggestions on atelier99.com, as testimony of atelier99.com.

Your personal data will not be transferred abroad to non-EU countries, which do not ensure an adequate level of protection of individuals. Should the above be necessary in order to supply services or to execute a contract with ATELIER 99 for the purchase of products, the transfer of your personal data to such non-EU countries, shall be carried out only after the execution of specific contracts between ATELIER 99 and such entities, according to laws and applicable regulations.

We wish to inform you that ATELIER 99 shall process its users' personal data for purposes that are strictly connected to the supply of services on atelier99.com, execution of contracts related to the sale and purchase of products on atelier99.com and, after receiving your consent, in order to send to you information on new commercial initiatives which are strictly connected to the web site's activities and services.

ATELIER 99 shall process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, also by e-mail, only after receiving your consent.

ATELIER 99 may have access to third parties' personal data which was directly disclosed by its users to ATELIER 99, for example when a user bought a product to be sent to a friend, when the user paying the purchase price of a product is different from the recipient of such product, or when a user wishes to recommend to a friend a service of atelier99.com or the sale of a particular product.

In all of the above cases, please make sure you receive the consent of such individuals before disclosing their personal data to ATELIER 99 and make sure you informed such individuals about this Privacy Policy, since you will be the only person liable in connection with the disclosure of information and data relevant to such third parties (and with any other incompatible and unlawful use) if they have not provided you with their consent. We inform you that the consent of such third party individuals is not required if personal data belonging to the above individuals has been disclosed to ATELIER 99 for the execution of a sale and purchase contract with ATELIER 99, on their exclusive behalf.

4. What Happens if You Do Not Disclose Your Personal Data to ATELIER 99

Your personal data supplied to ATELIER 99 (in particular, your personal details, your e-mail address, your address, your credit/debit card numbers and bank code and your telephone number), are necessary for the processing of your order for the purchase of products on atelier99.com, to supply other services provided on the web site upon your request, or when your personal data needed to carry out obligations arising out of applicable laws or regulations.

The refusal to provide ATELIER 99 with some of your personal data necessary for performing the above purposes, may consequently prevent ATELIER 99 from processing your order for the purchase of products sold on atelier99.com or from supplying other services provided on atelier99.com. Failing to provide data may imply, in some cases, a legitimate and justified reason for ATELIER 99's refusal to process your order for the purchase of products sold on atelier99.com or to provide services on atelier99.com.

5. To Whom Your Personal Data Will Be Disclosed

Personal data will be disclosed to third party companies which provide, on behalf of ATELIER 99, specific services as Data Processors or to other recipients of personal data collected by ATELIER 99, which autonomously process your personal data only for the performance of a contract for the purchase of products on atelier99.com (such as, for example, Pabox Services) and only when such purpose does not exceed the purposes for which your personal data was collected and subsequently processed and, in any case, according to applicable laws and regulations.

Personal data will not be disclosed to third parties or disseminated or transferred, without informing our users of such disclosure/dissemination/transfer and without their consent, when required by law.

6. How Do We Collect Your Data on atelier99.com

When you are using atelier99.com, some personal data might be collected automatically (through the so-called "cookies"), for example, when we automatically collect users' IP addresses and other information regarding the users' data traffic or the users' preferences in the choice of services provided on this web site and of the products purchased through the provided services.

This information and data are collected directly and automatically by the web site as part of its operational functions. This information and data are then processed in a collective and anonymous way for commercial purposes in order to optimize the services provided on atelier99.com for the needs and preferences of the web site's users.

In other circumstances, ATELIER 99 directly collects personal data and information from its users when they register on-line with atelier99.com or when they send purchase orders of products sold on the web site in order to finalize e-commerce transactions.

Moreover, we collect personal data in the Press Room area in order to process requests for information from journalists and from media and press agencies and in order to send the Press Letter, upon a specific request and after the performance of atelier99.com's registration process.

Finally, we collect personal data of third parties interested in starting business relationships with ATELIER 99 only for such purposes.

7. Security Measures

We have adopted security measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and against all other unlawful forms of data processing, as provided in our Privacy Policy.

Nevertheless, ATELIER 99 cannot guarantee that the security measures adopted for the protection of the web site and for data and information transmission on atelier99.com will prevent or exclude any risk of unauthorized access or of loss of data. It is advisable that your computer is provided with software devices for the protection of network data transmission/receipt (such as updated antivirus systems), and that your Internet services provider has taken appropriate measures for the security of network data transmission (such as, for example, firewalls and anti-spam filtering).

8. Cookies

atelier99.com uses automatic systems of data collection, such as cookies. A cookie is a device transmitted to the hard disk of an Internet user; it does not contain intelligible information but it allows linking between an Internet user to his/her personal information provided by the user on atelier99.com. Cookies are disseminated by our servers and no one may gain access to the information contained therein. Only ATELIER 99 processes information collected by cookies, in an collective and anonymou way, in order to optimize its services and its web site for the needs and preferences of its users.

As you know, each Internet browser allows the deletion of cookies after each session. Your Internet browser contains instructions on how to carry out these procedures of deletion. Please access the information on your Internet browser if you wish to delete cookies.

The acceptance of automatic procedures of collection of data and the use of cookies are necessary for the use of the web site and its services, including the purchase of products. If you have started the procedure of deleting cookies, ATELIER 99 cannot ensure that all web pages of atelier99.com will be displayed or that certain services will be supplied such as, for example, storage or display on the web pages of products you chose when you were finalizing the on-line purchasing processes.

9. Opt-in/Opt out

ATELIER 99 processes your personal data only after receiving your consent, freely expressed, in order to send you advertising material and direct marketing or other commercial communications which do not fall within the services provided by ATELIER 99 , also via e-mail, upon the user's request.

Each time your consent is required, we will inform you in advance and we will give you the option to either provide or refuse your consent for the use of your personal data, including your e-mail address, for the above purposes, by ticking the appropriate boxes.

We wish to inform you that law provides that your consent is not necessary and that ATELIER 99 may process your personal data without your consent when such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which ATELIER 99 is subject; or such processing is necessary for processing an oder with its users (such as, for example, if you purchased products on atelier99.com or if you asked to use specific services through our web site).

In any case, we wish to inform you that ATELIER 99 ensures its users that, even when prior consent is not necessary, users may exercise, at any time, their right not to receive future communications connected to particular services upon request.

10. Your Right to Access Personal Data and Further Rights

You are entitled to obtain, at any time, confirmation from ATELIER 99 as to whether or not data relating to you is being processed, whether the data is not yet registered, and the communication in intelligible form of the data undergoing processing.

Moreover, you are entitled to receive from ATELIER 99 information on the source of your personal data; the purposes and way of processing your personal data; the logic involved in any electronic data processing; details of the data controller and of the data processors and the names of subjects and categories of subjects to whom your personal data may be disclosed or who may access your personal data like, for example, the names of data processors. You can easily find all of the above information in our Privacy Policy.

You are entitled to obtain at any time from ATELIER 99:
  1. he updating, rectification or, when you have an interest in, the integration of your personal data;
  2. the deletion, the transformation into an anonymous form or blocking of your personal data, (unlawful processed), including data which does not need to be stored for the purposes for which it has been collected and subsequently processed;
  3. the confirmation that the operations under letters a) and b) have been reported, (together with the contents of the same), to whom the data was disclosed or disseminated, except when it becomes impossible or if it means exceeding the protection of the relevant right.
You are entitled to object, in all or in part:
  1. for legitimate reasons, to the processing of your personal data, even if it is related to the purposes for which it was collected;
  2. to the processing of your personal data for advertising or direct marketing purposes or in order to carry out marketing researches or commercial communications.

You may freely and at any time exercise your rights, provided that you do so in compliance with applicable laws, by sending your request to ATELIER 99 at the following e-mail address contact@atelier99.com. We will reply to you in order to satisfy your request.

11. Links to Other Web Sites

atelier99.com contains links to other web sites which may have no connection with atelier99.com or with ATELIER 99.

ATELIER 99 does not control or monitor such web sites or their web content. ATELIER 99 shall not be held liable for the web content of such sites and for the rules adopted by them in respect of your privacy and the processing of your personal data while you are visiting those web sites. Please, pay attention when you connect to these web sites through the links provided on atelier99.com and read their terms and conditions of use and their privacy policy carefully. atelier99.com's Privacy Policy does not apply to the web sites managed by third parties.

atelier99.com provides links to other web sites exclusively to help its users in their searches and net-surfing activities and to allow links to other web sites on the Internet. When ATELIER 99 provides links to other web sites, ATELIER 99 does not reccomend the use of these web sites and does not provide any guarantees to their web content or to the services and products supplied and sold by these web sites to Internet users.

12. Contacts

If you wish to receive further information on how ATELIER 99 processes your personal data, please send an e-mail to the following e-mail address contact@atelier99.com.

13. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by French law.

14. Modification and Updating of atelier99.com Privacy Policy

ATELIER 99 may amend or simply update all or part of atelier99.com's Privacy Policy, in consideration of amendments to legal provisions or regulations which govern data protection and protect your rights. The amendments and the updating of atelier99.com Privacy Policy shall be notified to our users on atelier99.com's homepage as soon as such amendments or updates have been introduced and shall be binding as soon as they are published on the web site in this section. Therefore, you are requested to regularly access this section in order to check the publication of the most recent and updated ATELIER 99 Privacy Policy.