SOMFY North America - United States

Last update: 01/12/2005

We collect both personal and anonymous information. The person in charge of this collection is J. Chris Olivieri.

Anonymous information, such as pages viewed or search requests helps us understand your preferences and trends and improve our website for your convenience. This privacy statement describes our practices on personal information gathering via our website and on its use. Personal information is any information enabling an individual identification (name, address…).

Your use of our website signifies your acceptance of our Privacy statement.

Information we require

1.	Transparency
2.	Respect of your will

Automatic collection by cookies

1.	Transparency
2.	Respect of your will

Common rules for personal information gathered

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Information we require

1. Transparency

We inform you whether answers required are optional or compulsory while collecting personal information.

Any refusal to give information required as non optional will result in the impossibility to send your request. We inform you of other consequences of a lack of answer, if any, on a case by case basis.

We use the information we collect to :

-	understand your needs better and target information sent to you,
-	improve our products and services,
-	establish communication with you,
-	recognise and serve you better in the future.

We can disclose the information we collect to :

-	share the information within Somfy International Group,
-	share the information with our partners
-	make any disclosure required by law or competent governmental or judicial authorities,
-	establish or preserve a legal claim or defense,
-	prevent fraud or other illegal activities.

Such information may also be sold, notably in case of sale of part of our business.

2. Respect of your will

a.	Should you wish to refuse the registration of your personal information, any disclosure or sale to third parties, please send an e mail to: privacy.statement_com@somfy.com.
b.	We might send you commercial offers in the future. You can refuse by un-clicking the appropriate box in information collection areas. This allows you to control and limit the contact we can have with you.
c.	We might share information with foreign countries ; be aware that some of them may not provide a protection judged adequate to the European standard. You can refuse by un-clicking the appropriate box in information collection areas.
d.	You have the right to access personal information collected, to complete, rectify, and ask us to erase personal information collected by sending an e mail to privacy. privacy.statement_com@somfy.com or a letter to Communication Department, privacy statement, 50 avenue du Nouveau Monde, 74300 CLUSES.

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Automatic Collection by Cookies

1. Transparency

What is a cookie ?
A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier placed on your hard drive when you visit a website.
Why do we use cookies ?
We use cookie in order to :

-	identify you for future logins, which saves you from registering each time you connect to our website.
-	ensure that we provide you with new information.

Consequences of the refusal or disablement of cookies :
If you refuse cookies, you may not be able to use some features on our website.

2. Respect of your will : how to refuse a cookie?

Your browser manages the cookies. You can configure your internet browser to erase all cookies from the computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored, so that you can then refuse it.

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Common rules for personal information gathered

1. Duration of the storage of personal information

We store the information for a maximum of 2 years.

2. Security of the personal information collected

The security of your personal information is of the utmost importance to us.
We implement technical measures to prevent accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration, unauthorized disclosure, modification or access to your personal information.

Our employees who have access to your personal information are committed to respecting strict confidentiality.

3. Links to other websites

While we enable you to connect with other websites through hypertext links, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such website.

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