At Saint-Gobain, privacy is a serious matter and we are committed to protecting it.
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), this policy explains when, why and how companies in our group governed by this Regulation:
This policy may evolve over time so please check the date on this page to make sure that you have the latest version.
This policy was last updated on 17th of May 2018.
The Saint-Gobain group (hereafter the “Group”) is made up of numerous individual companies. Whenever dealing with one of our Group companies (hereafter the “Company”), the “controller” of your personal data will be the Company that decides why and how your personal data is processed.
Where this policy refers to “we”, “our” or “us” below, unless mentioned otherwise, this refers to the particular Company that is the controller of your personal data.
We may collect and process the following personal data:
Personal data you give to us: this is information about you that you give to us, entirely voluntarily, by entering information via:
Example: this includes information provided at the time of registering to use our websites, subscribing to the services we provide through our websites, posting material or requesting further services, managing your account online (including accessing documentation and engaging in correspondence with us by phone, email or otherwise). We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our websites. If you complete any surveys requested for research purposes, we will collect information in such circumstances as well.
The information you give us may relate to your identification, such as your name, address, email address and phone number, or enquiry details, and may include records of any correspondence and responses to any surveys.
Personal data we collect about you: we may automatically collect the following information:
Personal data we may receive from other sources: we obtain certain personal data about you from sources outside our business which may include our Group companies or other third party companies.
The remaining provisions of this policy also apply to any personal data we obtain from these sources.
We process your personal data lawfully for:
We may use and process your personal data principally:
Group companies
We may share your information with other Companies within the Saint Gobain group for internal administrative purposes or for marketing purposes in connection with the products and/or services that complement their own range of products and/or services that might interest you.
We may also transmit your personal data when we redirect your request to our contacts within the Group who are able to handle your request (for example, to solve a problem you have reported to us).
Our suppliers and service providers
We may disclose your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other organisations for the purposes of providing services to us or directly to you on our behalf. Such third parties may include cloud service providers (such as hosting and email management) or advertising agencies, administrative services, credit reference agencies, credit/debit card payment processors, customer satisfaction surveys or other third parties who provide services to us and assist us in the operation of our business and website.
When we use third party service providers, we only disclose personal data that is necessary for them to provide their service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and confidential, and not to use it other than in accordance with our specific instructions.
Third parties who provide products and services to you through us
We work closely with various third parties to bring you a range of products and services which are complementary to those which we provide. In particular, we may offer finance or insurance products in relation to our own products and services.
When you enquire about or purchase one or more of these products or services through us, the relevant third party may use your details to provide you with information and to carry out their obligations arising from any contracts you have entered into with them.
These third party product providers may share your information with us which we will use in accordance with this policy. In some cases, they will be acting as a controller of your information and therefore we advise you to read their own privacy policy.
Other ways we may share your personal data
We may transfer your personal data:
However, we will always take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
Your information is stored either in our databases or in the databases of our service providers. Mainly because of the international dimension of the Saint-Gobain group and in order to optimize service quality, the information you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
In such cases, we will take to the appropriate security and confidentiality measures to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this policy. These steps include imposing contractual obligations on the recipient of your personal data or ensuring that the recipients have subscribed to “international frameworks” that aim to ensure adequate protection.
We retain your personal data for a period of time necessary to achieve the purpose for which we use that information and to fulfil our obligations under other laws. Except in specific cases, this period is specified at the time the information is collected.
We do not retain personal data in an identifiable format for longer than is necessary.
Subject to applicable law and certain exemptions, restrictions or circumstances, you may have the right:
These rights may be exercised by written request sent to the contact details that will be provided to you at the time of data collection. A reply will be provided to you within a reasonable delay, in accordance with the applicable regulations.
Our aim is to keep your data as safe and secure as possible at all times. Once we have received your personal data, we put in place reasonable and appropriate technical and organisational measures and controls to prevent as much as possible any accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorised access.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, owner of this Website, will on an ongoing basis use its best efforts to ensure the reliability of any and all information provided on this Website at the time it is displayed online, as well as while it is available online.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain reserves the right to modify and/or rectify the content of the information and documents published on this Website at any time, without notice.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (as well as any other Saint-Gobain Group Entity) may not be held liable for errors or omissions in the information disseminated or technical problems encountered on the Website and on all the other sites to which it establishes links, or any interpretation of the information published on these sites, or the consequences of their use.
More generally, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (as well as any other Saint-Gobain Group Entity) shall not be liable for any and all damage, direct or indirect, whatever the cause, origin, nature or consequence, caused by the access of anyone to the Website or the impossibility of accessing it, or by the use of the Website and/or the credit given to any information available directly or indirectly from this Website as well as any website to which the Website refers or establishes a link.
Unless otherwise stated, the intellectual property rights in the documents on the Website and in each element created for this Website are exclusively owned by Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and/or the Saint-Gobain Group Entities, which grant no license or right other than the rights to visit and navigate on the Website. The reproduction of all documents published on the Website (notably, the photographs, films and animations) is solely authorized for information purposes, and only for personal and private use, any reproduction and any use of copies made for other purposes being expressively prohibited, except with the prior written permission of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. The corporate names, logos, products, brands and domain names mentioned on this Website are the sole property of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and/or the Saint-Gobain Group Entities, and shall not be used without the prior and written authorization from the company or entity concerned.
Like many other websites, our websites use cookies (including Google Analytics cookies) to obtain an overall view of the volumes and the habits of our visitors on our websites.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information sent to your device and stored on its hard drive to allow our website to recognise you when you visit.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on how we use cookies and how to switch them off on your device, please visit the applicable cookies policy of the concerned website.
Cookies of third parties placed on cultilene.com
Google Analytics
Cookie: Google Analytics
Function: analytical cookie measuring website visits
Retention period: 2 years
See here for more information about Google Analytics and the cookies used: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.
Cultilene uses Google Analytics to gain insight regarding, for instance, visitor flows, traffic sources and page views on our website. This means that Google acts as an adapter in the processing of personal details by Cultilene .
Google will never process your entire IP address and protects your anonymity as much as possible. Cultilene , for example, cannot identify individual visitors paying a visit to our website.
Google can only provide your information to third parties in case the company is legally required to do so, or insofar third parties process the information on behalf of Google. For more information, go to Google’s Privacy Policy.
To find out which settings are used by Google with regard to (personalised) adverts, you can consult https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
Google Maps
Cookie: Google Maps Cookie
Function: functional cookie
Retention period: 2 years
See here for more information about Google Maps and the cookies used:
https://policies.google.com/privacy.
On our website, Google Maps is being used on some of our pages. Google can make use of cookies here as well, to store user preferences concerning the last selected location.
Please direct any queries about this policy to our Data Protection Officer using our contact details below.
If you wish to write to us, please write to Ericssonstraat 2, NL-5121 ML Rijen | P.O. Box 10190, NL-5000 JD Tilburg.
Our email address for data protection queries is privacycultilene@saint-gobain.com.