This privacy policy is presented by Hub Institute, a simplified joint stock company whose registered office is located at 29 rue d'Astorg - 75008 Paris, registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number B 523 594 752. 

Hub Institute's data protection coordinator can be contacted by post for the attention of the data protection department, or by email at politiquedeconfidentialite@hubinstitute.com 

The Hub Institute is committed to data security and the fair and transparent processing of personal data. this privacy statement sets out how we process the personal data you provide to us, in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, in particular the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).

In the context of its commercial activity, which is divided into 5 areas of expertise: conferences, reports, networking, training and learning expeditions, Hub Institute is required to process information about you. For example, by filling in a subscription form, by registering for an event that we organise, by browsing our websites or our mobile and digital applications, by clicking on an advertising link that we present to you, you are transmitting information to us, some of which is likely to identify you ("Personal Data").

This Privacy Policy tells you how we collect and process your Personal Information. Please take the time to read it carefully. We will only use your Personal Data in the cases provided for by the law and the regulations in force, in particular the RGPD:

- To carry out the tasks that you entrust to us, the contract that we have concluded with you; 

- To comply with a legal obligation (e.g. to manage our accounts or our tax obligations); 

- With your consent to the use of your data. When collecting data you will always be informed whether certain data is mandatory or optional; - The existence of a legitimate interest in using your Personal Data, i.e. a set of reasons that justifies the use of your data by Hub Institute. This legitimate interest is mainly to ensure the security of our Site and to improve its features. It is also to be able to send you newsletters, surveys, information on our offers, events and services offered by Hub Institute and likely to interest you. We may also use this information for marketing purposes or to develop commercial revenues in order to continue to provide quality editorial content and/or to keep certain content free of charge. By agreeing to receive marketing and advertising information from our publications and partners, you are helping to maintain the economic viability of our newspaper publishing business. 

Your individual rights and decisions will always outweigh the legitimate interests of the Hub Institute and we will never use your personal data for commercial purposes against your wishes.

During the various contacts we have with you, you may be asked to provide us with information about yourself. This data is collected in particular when you register for an event, download/access content (videos, articles, etc.), register for newsletters, place an order on our sites (ticketing, purchase reports, etc.), or fill out a contact form.

These data are in particular : 

- Name, first name, title ; 

- Company, Position ; 

- e-mail address, telephone number, billing address; 

- Identifier and encrypted password used to identify you on our sites or our applications; 

- Encrypted information relating to your means of payment (in particular your credit card number). 

The data that we collect during our commercial relationship with you are notably the following: 

- Information relating to our business relationship - choice of sessions at our events - face-to-face and online 

- Integration with Hub Institute's CRM (Newsletters / event and product invitations) 

Each time you visit our websites and mobile applications, we collect information relating to your connection and your navigation. Different technologies may be used to collect this data. We refer to them generically as "cookies.

 

A cookie is a text file deposited when you visit a website, mobile application or online advertisement and stored in a specific space on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. Cookies are managed by your Internet browser or the mobile application you are using, and only the issuer of a cookie can decide whether to read or modify the information it contains.

A cookie has a limited period of validity. It is deposited and stored on your terminal in compliance with applicable legislation and subject to the choices you have expressed and which you may modify at any time, under the conditions specified in Article 9 below.

A cookie does not identify you personally. It allows its issuer to recognise your terminal and to collect a certain amount of information relating to the navigation carried out from this terminal.

Cookies have several functions, such as enabling you to navigate efficiently on a website or mobile application, remembering your choices, the goods and services you wish to purchase, and offering you relevant advertising content according to your centres of interest expressed during your navigation.

The cookies placed by the Hub Institute give us access to the following information in particular: 

- Type of operating system used by your terminal (Microsoft Windows, Apple Os, Linux, Unix, BeOS, Android, iOS, etc.), 

- Type and version of browser software used by your terminal (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.), 

- Dates and times of connection to our services, 

- Address of the Internet page from which you came ("referrer"), 

- Browsing data on our services, content viewed.  

The purpose of these technologies is to enhance your experience on our sites and applications, including providing you with content tailored to your interests. For example, when a user is already known to our database, this allows us to ask them to fill in the missing fields only.  

These technologies give us access to the following information in particular: 

- Information about your use of our sites and applications; 

- Information on the presence of cookies on your terminal, the time and date of consultation of a page, and a description of the page where the web beacon is placed; 

- Information on whether you read the e-mails we send you, and on the clicks you make on the links contained in these e-mails. 

We may make assumptions about the content and services that are likely to be relevant to your tastes or uses by combining the data we have about you with general, anonymous statistical information.

  

  

Before offering our services and products to a third party, you must ensure that the person concerned agrees to the sharing of his or her data (name, first name, position, company and email address).

  

The following are considered sensitive data: racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data relating to health or sexual orientation, health. 

The Hub Institute does not collect any sensitive data about you. 

The data we collect is used primarily to provide you with Hub Institute products and services.

  

- Taking into account your subscription to one of our offers or products; 

- Taking into account your order and execution of this order. 

- Management of subscriptions to our newsletters and/or e-mail alerts; 

- Invoicing, collection of payments; 

- Sending information about our websites, publications and Hub Institute's activities; 

- Sending marketing, advertising and promotional offers relating to our products and services, by e-mail, mobile notifications, on social networks or any other medium; 

- Personalised loyalty or business development activities. 

- Sharing, exchange or rental of files with commercial partners in compliance with the regulations in force and security requirements; 

- Sending marketing, advertising and promotional messages relating to the products and services of partners by e-mail, mobile notifications, on social networks or any other medium.

- Storage of information relating to a form that you have filled in on our site (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information that you have chosen on our site (registration for an event, purchase of our products or services); 

- Automatically logging into reserved or personal areas of our site, such as your account, using identifiers or data that you have previously given us; 

- Provision of sharing tools on social networks; 

- Quality measures to ensure that our content is displayed on your device. 

- Establishment of statistics and volumes of traffic and use of the various elements making up our site (sections and content visited, path) in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services; 

- Determination of centres of interest and behaviour.

For the time being, the Hub Institute and in particular its website operate without advertising. We may change our policy on advertising in order to continue to offer free editorial content.  

The retention periods vary depending on whether we have an ongoing contractual relationship with you (you are an active customer), whether we have had a contractual relationship with you in the past (you are an inactive customer) or whether we have never had such a relationship with you (you are a prospect). The data related to your navigation on our online services collected by the cookies that you have authorised has a specific retention period.  

The following may have access to some of your data :

- Marketing, Sales and Administration Department ;

- Accounting department.

Access to your data is based on individual and limited access authorisations. 

The following may have access to some of your data :

  

- Follow-up of interactions, sending of additional documents 

Our subcontractors and partners have access to your data on the basis of signed contracts that mention their obligations in terms of data security and confidentiality. 

- Securing online payments 

- Personalisation of website and mobile application content 

- Provision of analytical solutions or audience measurement statistics 

The use of social networks to interact with our sites and applications (in particular the "share" buttons on Facebook, Twitter) is likely to result in data exchanges between the HUB Institute and these social networks.  

We keep your personal data in the European Union and do not transfer it outside the European Union.

  

- Raising awareness of the confidentiality requirements of our employees who have access to your personal data; 

- Securing access to our premises and IT platforms; Securing access, sharing and transfer of data; 

- The high level of data protection requirements when selecting our subcontractors and partners. 

In the event of a response that you consider unsatisfactory, you are informed that you have the possibility of lodging a complaint with the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL): https://www.cnil.fr/fr/plaintes

  

We may use your details for commercial solicitations in accordance with applicable law and the terms of this privacy policy. You may object to such solicitations at any time.

  

We may contact you by telephone to make offers on Hub Institute products or services or to enable us to fulfil and monitor your orders or the contract we have entered into.