Privacy and cookies
We, Photonis Defense Inc, located at 1000 New Holland Ave, Lancaster, PA 17601
(USA), acting as data controller, wants to inform you about our policy regarding
the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data (“Policy”) when you connect,
visit or use our website (the “Service”) and the choices you have associated with your data.
When you connect or use the Service, you acknowledge that you are aware of this Policy
and agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with the Policy.
This Policy may be amended from time to time. Therefore, we recommend checking it regularly.
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and
improve our Service to you.
Use of the site
When you visit our website, we automatically collect information with respect to how
the Service is accessed and used by you (“Usage Data”).
This Usage Data includes information such as:
- your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address)
- browser type
- browser version
- the pages of our Service that you visited
- the time and date of your visit
- unique device identifiers
Purpose of the processing: we use your data to provide and improve the Service
and in compliance with our legitimate interest to do so as provided in the GDPR.
This data is collected and secure us as data controller or by our validated data
processors. This data is collected by and secured through Google Analytics.
This website uses Google Analytics a web analysis which is a tool provided by
Google Inc (“Google”). Google uses cookies which are small text files stored on
your device. The information created by those cookies is sent to Google in the USA,
saved there on a Google server and is used by Google to give us an analysis of
your visit to our website.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie
is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to
use some portions of our Service.
You can download a browser plugin at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. This browser plugin prevents
the collection of personal data by the cookie.
Contact form
When contacting us through the contact form, we ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Those data will only be used to handle your inquiry. After your matter has been handled by us completely those data will be deleted completely unless there are statutory or other retention obligation to store such data:
- First name and Last name
- Company
- Email address
- Phone
- Country
If you ticked the opt-in box in order to be contacted by Photonis in the future, we will be able to use your information to contact you for direct marketing such as sending you a newsletter, contacting you by phone, mail or by other means. We will process your data in accordance with the GDPR and for the purposes of our legitimate interest in relation with commercial prospection. We will retain your data in accordance with our obligations in this respect as provided below. You can always exercise your right in respect to your data and can change your mind at any time by contacting us or unsubscribe to any communication you might receive from us.
Newsletter
When subscribing to our newsletter, we ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to send newsletter to you:
- First name and Last name
- Email address
- Country
Upon subscribing our newsletter on our website, we will send you a confirmation
email. The newsletters will be sent to you in future only if you confirm that
email. You can unsubscribe the newsletter at any time. Should you want to
remove your data from this email notification list, you can click on the
Unsubscribe button at the bottom of any of the emails.
Alternatively, you may contact us at webmaster@photonisdefense.com and request
removal. We will then remove your data from our Photonis or MailChimp records
entirely unless there are statutory or other retention obligation to store such data.
Cookies
We use cookies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are small text files that were stored on your device. Some cookies that we
use are delete after you end your visit on our website and some will remain on your
device. These cookies will allow us to recognize you once you will visit our website
again but they cannot be used to access your device.
Most browsers allow automatically that cookies are accepted. You can instruct your
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Cookies are stored as detailed below:
Internal cookies necessary for the site to function:
| Nom du cookie | Responsable de traitement | Finalité | Durée de conservation |
|---|---|---|---|
| SESSXXX | Photonis | Cookie de session pour connecter l’utilisateur au site | Session |
| axeptio_cookies | Photonis | Cookie stockant les préférences de cookie | 12 months |
| axeptio_all_vendors | Photonis | Cookie stockant les préférences de cookie | 12 months |
| axeptio_authorized_vendors | Photonis | Cookie stockant les préférences de cookie | 12 months |
Third-party cookies to analyze the statistics of consultation of our site:
| Nom du cookie | Responsable de traitement | Finalité | Durée de conservation |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Politique de confidentialité | Enregistre un identifiant unique utilisé pour générer des données statistiques sur la façon dont le visiteur utilise le site. | 13 months |
| _gat | Google Politique de confidentialité | Utilisé par Google Analytics pour diminuer radicalement le taux de requêtes. | 1 day |
| _gid | Google Politique de confidentialité | Enregistre un identifiant unique utilisé pour générer des données statistiques sur la façon dont le visiteur utilise le site. | 1 day |
Third-party cookies to analyze the statistics of consultation of our site:
| Nom du cookie | Responsable de traitement | Finalité | Durée de conservation |
|---|---|---|---|
| uvc, xtc, __atuvc, __atuvs | Addthis / Oracle Politique de confidentialité | Evaluer le nombre de partage sur les réseaux sociaux | 13 months |
| GPS | YouTube (Google) Politique de confidentialité | Enregistre un identifiant unique sur les appareils mobiles pour permettre le suivi basé sur la localisation géographique GPS. | 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube (Google) Politique de confidentialité | Tente d’estimer la bande passante des utilisateurs sur des pages avec des vidéos YouTube intégrées. | 179 days |
| YSC | YouTube (Google) Politique de confidentialité | Enregistre un identifiant unique pour conserver des statistiques sur les vidéos de YouTube vues par l’utilisateur. | Session |
ReCaptcha
We are using reCAPTCHA in order to prevent automated services (called bots)
to perform abusive activities on our website.
In this respect, by using reCAPTCHA, we inform you that hardware and software
information, such as device and application data, is collected and transmitted
to Google, headquartered in the United States. Information collected as part
of your use of this service will be used by Google to improve the reCAPTCHA
functionality and for the purposes of general security. We invite you to
review the Google Terms of Service at the following link:https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US
Recipients of data
We may transfer the personal data to provide or improve the Service only
to our subsidiaries or to data processors, only on need-to-know basis
and by using all reasonable means to secure your data.
Your rights
We inform that you have:
- the right to request access and rectification or erasure of your personal data or a restriction of the processing concerning your data as well as the right of portability;
- the right of portability which means the right to obtain your personal data in a legible form and to transfer them to another data processor;
- the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
- the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
If you want to exercise your rights you may contact us using the following email address: websmaster@photonisdefense.com. The exercise of these rights is subject to the communication of a valid proof of your identity including your signature.
Retention period
As data controller, we commit to storing personal data for a limited time,
proportionally to the purpose of the data processing and defined a retention
period according to the rules proposed by the French Control Authority, the
Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés
(CNIL) https://www.cnil.fr/fr/donnees-personnelles.
Personal data provided by applicants will be stored for a maximum of two years.
Our sites and associated data are managed on premise to ensure controlled and
supervised security.
Some parts of your personal data are hosted by our data processors under
contracts that take into account data security and confidentiality clauses.
For cookies, retention period is listed in the table above.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: webmaster@photonisdefense.com
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated
by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to
that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy
Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the
content, privacy policies or practices of any third party
sites or services.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you
of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any
changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Effective date: March 2021
