This website is operated by Artefact S.A, a company registered under the Trade and Companies Registry of Paris under number 418 267 704, located 19 rue Richer, 75009 Paris, France (hereinafter “Artefact” or “we” or “us”).

For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, including but not limited to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (hereinafter the “GDPR”), Artefact is the controller of the Personal Data you provide to us (“Data Controller”).

This privacy policy (hereinafter the “Privacy Policy” or the “Policy”), together with our Terms & Conditions and any other documents referred to on it, describes the ways in which we collect and process information about individuals who visit this website (hereinafter the “Personal Data”). We invite you to carefully read the following to understand in which context we are processing your Personal Data.

As a Data Controller, we process your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the provisions of applicable data protection laws, including the French Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, data files and civil liberties and the GDPR.

By using and visiting the website “artefact-ai-film-festival.com” (hereafter the “Website”) and/or by submitting your personal information to us, and/or by registering as a user of the services that we provide, you agree to us using your Personal Data as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Any dispute which may arise over privacy will be subject to this Privacy Policy, the data protection notice (if any) incorporated into this Website and the provisions of French laws.

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any modification will be effective as of its publication on the Website. We will notify you of any significant changes.

We attach great importance to the protection of your Personal Data and safeguarding your privacy. To ensure that you are fully informed about the collection and use of Personal Data on our Website, please note the following information.

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any Personal Data to these websites.

You can visit our Website without telling us who you are. We do not save the name of your Internet service provider, or the website from which you visit us, or the name of the requested file.

We only collect and maintain information that you enter on our Website.

We collect information about you when you fill in any of the forms on our Website.

Subscribing to our newsletter

When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect and process your first name, last name and email address to be able to send you our newsletter by email. In the event that you have agreed to receive newsletter from other companies of the Artefact Group, we will share your Personal Data within the Artefact Group only for those purposes.

This processing is based on your consent. This means that you can withdraw your permission at any time, by using the unsubscribe link included in every newsletter you will receive.

We will retain your Personal Data as long as we have an ongoing relationship with you, i.e. three years since your subscription or your last interaction with Artefact. At the end of that period, or once you withdraw your consent, your Personal Data may be stored for evidentiary purposes for the legal prescription periods.

Any Personal Data collected in that manner is intended exclusively for Artefact or its subsidiaries (hereinafter the “Artefact Group”).

We do not sell or rent your Personal Data to any other parties.

Please note that the transmission of the data is not encrypted and therefore no confidential information should be sent via the contact form.

As a data subject, and in accordance with the French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978 and the GDPR, you have the right to access, interrogate, limit, port, erasing, modifying and correcting information about you. You also have a right to object to the processing of your personal data, as well as a right to object to this data being used for commercial prospecting purposes. Finally, you have the right to define general and specific guidelines defining the manner in which you intend to exercise these rights after your death.

You may exercise these rights with the Data Protection Officer at the following address: privacy@artefact.com or by post to ARTEFACT, Legal Department, Data Protection Officer, 19 rue Richer – 75009 Paris, France, accompanied by a copy of a signed identity document and specifying the return postal address. Artefact has a period of one month from the receipt of your request to communicate, complete or delete the information, as the case may be.

Internet users who consent on forms to receive e-mails containing information and requests from the Artefact Group may revoke this consent at any time, either by clicking on the hyperlink provided for this purpose at the bottom of the e-mails they receive, or sending an e-mail with unsubscribe on the subject line: privacy@artefact.com.

Finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority, as for instance with the ”Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés” (CNIL), the French supervisory authority responsible for compliance with obligations regarding the protection of personal data.

Your Personal Data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). For example, some companies of the Artefact Group are located outside the EEA. When this is the case, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Any transfer of your Personal Data outside the EEA will be based on an adequacy decision or are governed by the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission.

Our Website uses 3 types of cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. It is sent to your web browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. These cookies:

• allow us to distinguish you from other users of our Website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website; and also allows us to improve our site;
• allow us to track your progress through the site and to understand and save your preferences for future visits;
• enable us to measure the frequency of page views and general navigation.

You may set your web browser to notify you of cookie placement requests or to decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contain cookies; those files are stored on your hard drive.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.

Cookies come in many forms. We have set out below the 3 types and categories of cookies that are used. This section refers to all types of categories of cookies and not just those we use on our Website(s).

First and third-party cookies

Whether a cookie is first-party or third-party refers to the domain placing the cookie. First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user, the website displayed in the URL window e.g. https://www.artefact-ai-film-festival.com/. Third-Party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that Website this would be a third-party cookie. For more information please visit https:..www.artefact-ai-film-festival.com/cookies.

Persistent cookies

These cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookie

These cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window?. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

By agreeing to the opt-in following the display of the Cookies Box at the beginning of your navigation on our Website you agree to the use of such cookies. We inform you that you can refuse cookies at any time, if your browser so permits.

Use of Google Analytics

Our Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereinafter referred to as “Google”). In the European Economic Area (EEA) the company responsible is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google has certified to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=en-US.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies” – text files that are stored on your computer – to help analyse how users use this Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. If the IP anonymisation on this Website is activated, your IP address will, however, first be shortened by Google in countries of the European Union or in other Contracting States to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a server of Google in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this Website Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, compiling reports on Website activity for website operators and providing other use of this Website activity and internet related services Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, we must point out that you may not be able to use all the features of this Website to the full extent. By using this Website you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described above and for the purposes set out above. The data collection and storage can be revoked at any time with effect for the future. Alternatively, you can use the opt-out add-on from http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en, if it is available for your browser.

Moreover you can prevent the collection of the data created by the cookie and connected to your use of the Website (incl. your IP address) being sent to Google and the processing of this data through Google, if you download and install the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

It should be noted that this Website uses Google Analytics with the extension of the IP anonymisation, meaning that the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses are deleted and thus made anonymous. More information on IP anonymisation can be found under the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en.

We value the protection of your Personal Data. On our Website wherever you can input data in an active manner, we use encryption systems, such as SSL (Secure Socket Layer) so keep your personal data safe. We secure our Website and other systems through technical and organisational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by unauthorised persons.

Access to your account or to certain parts of our Website that are access-protected is only possible after entering your personal user name and password. Please do not forget to keep your password confidential and do not share your password with anyone. When you have finished your communication with us on our Website, please do not forget to log off and close the browser window, especially if you share your computer with others.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised data access, destruction or alteration. As technology advances we are regularly updating and enhancing the security and organisational measures.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Please check this page every once in a while to ensure that you are aware of any changes. This policy was last updated on 12 April 2019.

If you have further questions about this Policy, please contact us:

Artefact S.A.
Data Protection Officer
19 Rue Richer
75009 Paris
FRANCE
Tel: + 33 1 79 72 45 45
privacy@artefact.com