Privacy Policy
BC DIFFUSION is the company that distributes and represents the Line Magnetic brand in Europe, the BC Acoustique and Mosscade brands internationally, as well as the Amina brand on the French territory.
The protection of customers' data remains an absolute priority of BC Diffusion SAS. Discover how BC Diffusion SAS works towards its compliance with the GDPR.
BC Diffusion SAS is a French company with customers all over the world. As such, the protection of the personal data of our customers and our employees is one of our priorities. In 2016, the European Union approved a new law on data protection, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies to all organizations that collect the personal data of EU citizens. Since then, BC Diffusion SAS has been striving to be in compliance with the GDPR.
At BC Diffusion SAS, we know that a proper implementation of this new regulation presupposes a transverse approach within our organization. To successfully carry out this compliance initiative, we have therefore mobilized collaborators coming from several of our divisions: Products, Information Security, Legal, Compliance, and IT. The transverse team thus created works closely with the different people involved in each of the functional units concerned to, on the one hand, review all Products, Operations, and Suppliers impacted by the GDPR and, on the other hand, ensure that the adequate level of compliance is achieved both at the company scale and at the systems scale.
Moreover, we also work with external consultants and lawyers to ensure on the one hand that BC Diffusion SAS respects the deadlines of this project and on the other hand that our efforts capture the required level of compliance. Based on the work carried out to date, we plan to be in compliance with the requirements of the GDPR by July 15, 2018.
How is BC Diffusion SAS preparing for the GDPR?
We are proceeding with an ongoing review of compliance and the resulting actions rely on our existing investments in terms of confidentiality, security, and on the operational processes necessary to respond to the requirements of the GDPR and other applicable regulations. As a company brought to process data, BC Diffusion SAS is aware of its obligation to help its customers prepare for the change that the GDPR represents. We are therefore currently providing our customers with several guarantees regarding the use of their personal data, notably in terms of:
Practices relating to the processing of personal data: Each of our online applications or software involves at a different level the collection, use, storage, and elimination of personal data. We have carefully and scrupulously reviewed the personal data collection practices of each of these applications, we have documented the different data sources, and we have implemented automation measures aiming to guarantee that we are in compliance with the GDPR.
Visibility and Transparency: One of the important aspects of the GDPR concerns the way in which personal data is used. BC Diffusion SAS is a company brought to process data exclusively internally for its communication and promotion. In this context, our role is to provide our direct or indirect customers with one or more accesses from which they will be able to not only manage but also effectively protect their personal data. We have therefore developed automated measures to optimize BC Diffusion SAS products without compromising their performance, this in order to be able to guarantee transparency to our customers.
Improvement of data integrity and security: BC Diffusion SAS is aware of its duty regarding the confidentiality and security of its customers' data. In this regard, we maintain security practices and measures that are both technical and organizational to protect the confidentiality, security, availability, and integrity of the data of all our customers. We are also streamlining processes by implementing IT policies and procedures that contribute from end to end to data security.
Portability and transferability of data: At BC Diffusion SAS, we estimate that each end user should have the possibility to know, receive, erase, or transfer the entirety of their personal data. In this context, we are working on technical improvements that will favor these capabilities.
Agreements on the processing of data (of a personal nature): We have resorted to important agreements on the processing of data of a personal nature in the past and we have undertaken to revise them to respond to the requirements of the GDPR:
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"), on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. our interests relating to the analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our online offer). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookies, relating to the use of the online offer by users, is generally transmitted to Google and stored on its servers located in the United States.
Google uses this information on our behalf in order to evaluate the use of our online offer by users, to compile reports on the activities of our online offer, and to provide other services relating to the use of this online offer and of the Internet. The processed data allows the creation of anonymous usage profiles.
Google is certified to the Privacy Shield and thus offers the guarantee of respecting European law relating to data protection.
Newsletters: The following information concerns the contents of our Newsletter, the registration, sending, and statistical analysis process, as well as your rights of opposition. By subscribing to our Newsletter, you accept its reception and the described process.
We send Newsletters, e-mails, and other electronic messages containing advertising information (hereinafter designated "newsletter") only with the consent of the recipients or a legal authorization. If the contents are described in a concrete manner within the framework of a registration to the Newsletter, they are turning points [determinant] for the consent of the users. Furthermore, our Newsletters contain information on the developments and offers of the machining sector as well as our services.
The registration to our Newsletter uses a double confirmation procedure (Double-Opt-In). Indeed, after your registration, you receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary to avoid registrations with false e-mail addresses. Registrations to the Newsletter are recorded in order to be able to establish a connection process compliant with legal requirements. This involves the saving of the date of the registration and of confirmation, as well as the IP address. Modifications of your data stored by the shipping service provider are also recorded.
Cookies and audience measurement: Cookies are information transmitted by our web server or web servers of third parties to the web browser of the user where they are recorded for a later consultation. Cookies are small files or other types of information records. In order to control, for ex., the status of the connection or to allow the order function and consequently the use of our online offer, we use session cookies. A session cookie contains a unique identification number generated in a random manner, called a session ID. In addition, a cookie contains information on its origin and the retention period. These cookies cannot record other data. Session cookies are erased when users cease to use our online offer and log out. This confidentiality declaration informs users of the use of cookies within the framework of an anonymous audience measurement.
Users not wishing for cookies to be recorded on their computer are invited to deactivate the corresponding option in the adjustment parameters of their browser. Recorded cookies can be erased from the parameters of the browser. The absence of cookies can prevent you from fully benefiting from the functionalities of this online offer.
Facebook Social Plugins: Our online offer uses Social Plugins ("plugins") of the social network facebook.com, managed by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook"), on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. our interests relating to the analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our online offer). The plugins are recognizable by one of the Facebook logos (white "f" on a blue square, "Like", "J’aime", or "Thumbs up") or are endowed with the mention "Facebook Social Plugin".
Find here a list of Facebook Social Plugins as well as their appearance: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When a user calls a function of this online offer containing a plugin, their device establishes a direct link with the servers of Facebook. Facebook directly transmits the content of the plugin to the device of the user, which integrates it into the online offer. The processed data allows the creation of usage profiles. We therefore have no influence on the volume of data collected by Facebook using this plugin and we inform users according to the state of our knowledge.
By integrating the plugin, Facebook is informed that a user has consulted the page of our online offer. If the user is connected to Facebook, Facebook can associate this visit with the Facebook account of the user. If the user interacts with the plugin, for example by clicking on the "Like" button or by adding a comment, this information is sent directly by your device to Facebook, where it is recorded. If you are not a member of Facebook, it is still possible that Facebook takes knowledge of your IP address and saves it.
For more information on the purpose and scope of the collection, processing, and use of data by Facebook as well as on your rights and adjustment options relating thereto for the control of privacy, refer to the information of Facebook on this subject: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
Facebook is certified to the Privacy Shield and thus offers the guarantee of respecting European law relating to data protection.
If a user is a member of Facebook and does not wish for Facebook to collect, from our website, information about them and linked to their data saved on Facebook, they must log out of Facebook before using our online offer and delete their cookies. The user can parameterize and oppose the use of data for advertising purposes in the parameters of their Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads or on the American site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the European site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. The adjustments are independent of the platform, that is to say that they are recorded on all devices, whether they are desktop computers or mobile devices.
Modifications of the privacy policy
We reserve the right to modify the privacy policy in order to adapt it to modified legal situations or in case of modifications of the service and of data processing. This applies exclusively to declarations on data processing. If the consent of users is necessary or if elements of the confidentiality declaration regulate the contractual relationship with users, the modifications will only be made with the agreement of the users.
Users are requested to inform themselves regularly of the content of the confidentiality declaration.
