Privacy policy

Personal data policy of www.hmclause.com website:

HM.CLAUSE, its subsidiaries and affiliates, (collectively “HM.CLAUSE,” “us,” “our,” or “we”) pay particular attention to the protection of your personal data. This privacy policy describes the types of personal data we collect or you may provide us when visiting www.hmclause.com (the “Site”), our practices regarding processing, protection, use of your personal data as well as information on your rights regarding your personal data. HM.CLAUSE undertakes to collect and process your data in accordance with the European Regulation 2016/679  and national applicable personal data protection laws. To ensure protection of personal data, Limagrain Group (HM.CLAUSE is part of Limagrain Group) has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO).

1. Scope of the privacy policy

This privacy policy applies to the Site as well as to personal data collected by and through the Site.

2. Personal data we collect from you

HM.CLAUSE undertakes to collect and process relevant and necessary personal data only, for explicit, specific and legitimate use. HM.CLAUSE  process or may process personal data you provide us through the Site and personal data we automatically collect. Personal data HM.CLAUSE collects on the Site is used to manage our relationship with you, user of the Site,  and to process your requests.

2.1 Types of personal data

a) Personal data you provide us when filing-in the “Contact Us” form
This personal data is:
  • Your surname
  • Your first name
  • Your Company name (optional)
  • Your email
  • Your phone number (optional)
  • Your geographic location
  • The object of your message, when it contains personal data
  • Your message, when it contains personal data, if the case may be
b) Personal data you provide us when creating an account.
This personal data is:
  • Your title (optional)
  • Your first name
  • Your surname
  • Your email
  • Your phone number (optional)
  • Your password
  • Your geographic location
  • Information related to products you identified as favorite products, if the case may be
c) Personal data we automatically collect
HM.CLAUSE may automatically collect the following information as you navigate through the Site:
  • Number of users and sessions
  • Duration of the session
  • Operating system
  • Device models
  • Geographic data
  • First outings
  • Time of opening
  • Updates

2.2 Legal basis

HM.CLAUSE uses the legitimate interest as legal basis to process your data mentioned in 2.1.a. HM.CLAUSE uses this data for the sole purpose of assisting you, and answering your queries. HM.CLAUSE uses the consent as legal basis to process your data mentioned in 2.1.b. HM.CLAUSE uses this data for the sole purpose of creating your account, and, if your agree by clicking the concerned box, sending you marketing materials and commercial offers. Regarding your data mentioned in 2.1.c, HM.CLAUSE has implemented a Cookie Policy explaining the use made of cookies and the purposes pursued. HM.CLAUSE encourages you to read our Cookie Policy you can access by clicking here.

2.3 Retention period

HM.CLAUSE shall keep your personal data for a determined and proportionate duration depending on the purpose(s) of the processing.

3. Security, Storage and recipient of your personal data

HM.CLAUSE sets out appropriate measures for the protection of you personal data. Information you communicate or we collect from the Site are stored on secured servers. Nevertheless, and because of the nature and risks associated with the use of the Internet and its contents, HM.CLAUSE cannot under any circumstances guarantee a total security of your data. In addition, only people who needs to know such information to perform their duties may have access to your personal data, on a “need to know” basis. Thus, are likely to have access to your personal data:
  • CLAUSE: HM.CLAUSE is part of Limagrain Group, an international group, and may need to communicate your personal information within the Limagrain Group.
  • DE BUSSAC MULTIMEDIA, as data processor may have access your personal data.

Yours rights regarding your personal data

You benefit from the rights as provided under the European Regulation 2016/679 and national applicable personal data protection laws. In particular, you can request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability of your personal data and/or to object to the processing of your personal data by contacting HM.CLAUSE: Communication Department, Rue Louis Saillant, Z.I. La Motte, 26800 PORTES-LES-VALENCE, France or at personaldata@hmclause.com.

United States Privacy Policy

HM.CLAUSE, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates, (collectively “HM.CLAUSE,” “us,” “our,” or “we”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it consistent with this policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy sets forth the types of information we collect from you or that you may provide to us when you visit www.hmclause.com or other promotional websites, online surveys, and social media pages operated by HM.CLAUSE (collectively, the “Site”), and provides transparency about our privacy practices, including how we collect, use, and disclose personal information (as may be defined by applicable privacy law), and how you can exercise your applicable privacy rights. The privacy rights available to you may vary based on your individual circumstances and the laws applicable to you. By engaging with us through the Site, you consent to our use of your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Scope of This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Site and information collected by and through the Site for users located in the United States. It does not apply to any other HM.CLAUSE services or dealings with users or customers, offline or through any other means, nor does it apply to third party websites which may be linked to the Site. This Privacy Policy is effective as of the “Last Modified” date found at the bottom of the page. We may revise this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion (see “Changes to Privacy Policy” below). By continuing to use the Site, you are consenting to any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then-current Privacy Policy. However, we will not use previously collected personal information for a purpose different from which it was originally obtained without providing you notice.

Use by Minors

The Site is not intended for minors. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors. If you are a minor, do not use or provide any information on the Site. If we learn that we have collected or received Personal Information from a minor without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have inadvertently collected information from or about a minor, please contact us at personaldata@hmclause.com.

Information You Provide to Us (“Personal Information”)

We collect Personal Information supplied to us through any webform, survey, social media page, or other correspondence, including the Contact Us and Report a Problem webforms. Personal Information we collect may include the following categories of information:
  • Contact data: Name (first and last), company, title, phone number, e-mail, physical address, mailing address, country, professional or consumer status, and the object of any messages, including any personal data
  • Survey data: Information you may provide in a survey, contest, or promotion sponsored by us, including your responses to survey questions
  • Social media data: Information and messages shared with us through our social media pages, including your associated profile information
We use Personal Information in the following ways:
  • Presenting the Site and its contents to you;
  • Operating our business and administering customer accounts;
  • Communicating through email and other means;
  • Promoting our products through sales and marketing;
  • Detecting and preventing abuse and security threats;
  • Complying with legal and regulatory obligations;
  • Providing you with information that you request from us;
  • Fulfilling any other purpose for which you have provided us with your information;
  • Notifying you about changes to the Site, our Terms of Use, or this Privacy Policy;
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
  • For any other purpose to which you consent.

Information We Collect Automatically (“Visit Information”)

We collect information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns automatically as you navigate through the Site through the use of automatic data collection technologies, including Google Analytics. You can learn how Google uses personal information here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites Visit Information collected automatically may include the following categories of information:
  • Log data: Information collected by our servers when you access our website, including IP addresses, referral URLs, browser type and settings, date and time of usage, language preferences, and cookie data
  • Device data: Information about your device, including type of device, operating system, application IDs, unique device identifiers, and crash data
  • Analytics data: Approximate location based on your IP address (e.g., geolocation) and information your browsing session and duration, and your other interactions on the Site
We may maintain or associate Visit Information with Personal Information we collect from other sources or that you provide to us. We use Visit Information in the following ways:
  • Administering, designing, and improving the Site;
  • Website analytics, e.g., tracking and measuring movements and interactions on the Site;
  • Gaining sales and marketing insights;
  • Detecting and prevent abuse and security threats;
  • Operating and improving our business and services; and
  • Complying with legal and regulatory obligations.
The technologies we use for automatic data collection may include a small data file placed on the hard drive of your computer when you visit the Site (known as a “Cookie”). A Cookie file contains information that can identify you each time you visit the Site. The Site may use Cookies as a way to measure activity and traffic patterns on the Site in order to improve your experience, monitor usage and compile analytics, and for advertising and marketing purposes. Your browser can be set to warn you before accepting Cookies and you can choose to refuse Cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have Cookies turned on to visit the Site, but you may need them to use certain customizable features of the Site. Our Cookie Policy further explains our use of cookies and we encourages you to read our Cookie Policy here: HM.CLAUSE Cookie Policy.

Online Tracking and How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals

Under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we want to inform you about our “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) request policy. DNT is a feature that some web browsers offer to allow users to send signals to websites so that no information about their browser session will be shared. While we take all reasonable steps to protect your online privacy, we cannot promise that the current limitations of our online applications programming will address every browser setting or honor every personal browser preference. In particular, we have not implemented the necessary program changes to honor “Do Not Track” or “DNT” browser signals. As our online applications programming is refined, we will take all reasonable steps to honor such requests in the future. Please return to this Privacy Policy for further updates on this topic. You can learn more about DNT here: https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track

Information We Disclose

We may disclose Personal Information you provide to us and Visit Information with the following categories of recipients for the purposes described below:
  • Subsidiaries and Affiliates: We share Personal Information and Visit Information within the HM.Clause family of companies to operate and improve our business
  • IT Providers: We share Personal Information and Visit Information with our IT providers as needed to operate the Site and our business, including with software and web hosting providers
  • Distributors and Partners: We share Personal Information with our Distributors and Partners to follow up on inquiries about our products
  • Business Services Providers: We share Personal Information and Visit Information with our business services providers, including contractors, marketing services, security vendors, auditors, information services providers, and professional advisors
  • Government and Legal: We share Personal Information and Visit Information with governmental authorities and third parties as may be required by applicable law, regulation, or legal process
  • Corporate Transaction: We may share Personal Information and Visit Information as part of a Corporate Transaction e.g., to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some of HM.CLAUSE’s assets, whether as a going concern or as a part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by HM.CLAUSE about the Site’s users is among the assets transferred
Aggregated and anonymized information that is incapable of identifying an individual is not considered personal information under this Privacy Policy. We may disclose aggregated and anonymized information, including certain Visit Information, without restriction.

Privacy Rights of California Residents

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and California Consumer Rights Act (together, the “CCPA/CPRA”), and their respective amendments and implementing regulations, California residents are afforded certain privacy rights. If you are a California resident, subject to certain limitations, you have the following rights concerning your personal information:
  • Right to Know. You have the right to access the specific pieces of personal information collected about you, the sources from which such information was obtained, the categories of information that have been sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and the commercial purpose for which the information was collected or sold, provided to you in a reasonably portable format if you have a password-protected account.
  • Right to Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete any of the personal information we have collected or maintain about you.
  • Right to Rectification and Correction. You have the right to rectify and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information.
  • Right to Opt-out of Sales of Personal Information. You have a right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, including cross-context behavioral advertising, and to opt-in again at your election.
  • Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. You have a right to opt-out of secondary uses and disclosures of your Sensitive Personal Information.
  • Right to Opt-out of Automated Decision-making. You have the right to opt-out to certain types of automated decision-making, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination. You have a right to not be discriminated against in the event you exercise your other rights listed above. If you exercise these rights, HM.CLAUSE will not deny you goods or services, charge you a higher rate, or provide you with lower quality products.

Exercising Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA

You, or an authorized agent, may exercise your rights by submitting a request to personaldata@hmclause.com. The CCPA/CPRA allows for 1 disclosure request per 12-month period at no cost to you. For subsequent requests, we may charge a fee if we determine that the request is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded, but will not do so without providing you with a cost estimate before processing your request. We respond to and process requests promptly and within the timeframes required by the CCPA/CPRA. Please note that all requests are subject to proper prior verification before processing, as required by the CCPA/CPRA. If you are the authorized agent of an individual making a request, you may have to take additional steps to verify your identity and demonstrate that you can exercise the individual’s rights on their behalf.

Sale of Personal Information

With respect to the scope of this Privacy Policy, HM.CLAUSE does not “sell” personal information as such term is defined by the CCPA/CPRA. Furthermore, we have not sold personal information in the preceding 12-months.

International Transfer of Your Personal Information

Your Personal Information may be transferred to third countries with different or less privacy protections than your own country. By sharing Personal Information with us, you consent to the transfer of your Personal Information to such third countries.

Retention Period

We will retain your personal data for a determined and proportionate duration depending on the purpose(s) of the processing. 

Security of Personal Information

We have implemented appropriate measures for the protection of your Personal Information. If any of the personal information we retain about you is the subject of a breach of personal information under applicable law, we will take such actions, including providing you with notification, as such law or laws may require.

Changes to Privacy Policy

If we decide to change this Privacy Policy or our practices, we will post a notice of those changes to our Privacy Policy on the Site home page in advance of the changes taking effect, so that you are always aware of our current policy and practices.

Contacting HM.CLAUSE

For exercising your applicable privacy rights or if you have any questions, concerns or complaints about the manner in which your Personal Information has been collected or handled by HM.CLAUSE, please contact us at personaldata@hmclause.com.