Privacy policy

CESI is involved in an ongoing process of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation of 27. April 2016. With this new regulation, CESI enhances its personal data protection policy to ensure that our users’ data is collected and used in a transparent, confidential and secure manner. Our Personal Data Protection Policy describes how CESI deals with the personal data of visitors and users (hereinafter the “Users”) during their navigation on our sites (hereinafter the “Site”):

  • cesi.fr
  • lineact.cesi.fr
  • aix‐en‐provence.cesi.fr
  • angouleme.cesi.fr
  • arras.cesi.fr
  • bordeaux.cesi.fr
  • brest.cesi.fr
  • caen.cesi.fr
  • dijon.cesi.fr
  • grenoble.cesi.fr
  • ismans.cesi.fr
  • la-rochelle.cesi.fr
  • le-mans.cesi.fr
  • lille.cesi.fr
  • lyon.cesi.fr
  • montpellier.cesi.fr
  • nancy.cesi.fr
  • nantes.cesi.fr
  • nice.cesi.fr
  • orleans.cesi.fr
  • paris.cesi.fr
  • pau.cesi.fr
  • reims.cesi.fr
  • rouen.cesi.fr
  • saint‐nazaire.cesi.fr
  • strasbourg.cesi.fr
  • toulouse.cesi.fr

The Personal Data Protection Policy is part of the Site’s Legal Notice.

CESI gives constant attention to the data of our Users. We may therefore be required to modify, complete or update the Personal Data Protection Policy. We invite you to regularly consult the latest version in effect, accessible on our Site. If major changes are made, we will inform you by email or by our services to enable you to examine these changes before they become effective. If you continue to use our Services after we publish or send you notice of changes to the Privacy Policy, this means that you accept the updates.

Personal data and objectives

By personal data we mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable person, in particular by reference to IDs such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, one or more specific elements relating to physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity, as well as any other information that our clients decide to communicate to us. When you use our Site and you wish to receive information on our offers, via a contact form, or an application form, we collect and process personal data about you, such as: your Civility, Surname, First Name, Date of Birth, Telephone, Mail, Address, Postal Code, City. We will also ask you to provide us with your email address so that we can use this data to send you informative emails and notifications, as well as for the newsletter.

At the end of your degree course, for statistical purposes and for the renewal of our titles, we will ask you to complete a graduate follow-up survey. In the context of satisfaction surveys, we may use a customer satisfaction measurement tool. You will be asked via this tool to write an opinion on the training followed with CESI.

Cookies

This Cookie Policy was last updated on 15 September 2022 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland

1. Introduction

Our website, https://cesi.fr/en/ (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

5.4 Social media

On our website, we have included content from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are located in the United States.

6. Placed cookies

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

Sharing data
Sharing of data is pending investigation

Purpose pending investigation
Name
_uetsid_exp
Expiration
Function
Name
smartlook_ban_reason
Expiration
Function
Name
smartlook_ban_expire
Expiration
Function
Name
_uetvid_exp
Expiration
Function
Name
_grecaptcha
Expiration
Function
Name
u_sclid
Expiration
Function
Name
cmplz_consenttype
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
_uetsid
Expiration
Function
Name
_uetvid
Expiration
Function
Name
WP_DATA_USER_10219
Expiration
Function
Name
cmplz_selected_region
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
tt_sessionId
Expiration
Function
Name
cmplz_user_data
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
_cltk
Expiration
Function
Name
tt_pixel_session_index
Expiration
Function
Name
tt_appInfo
Expiration
Function
Name
cmplz_id
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
u_scsid
Expiration
Function
Name
_gcl_au
Expiration
Function
Name
_scid
Expiration
Function
Name
_clck
Expiration
Function
Name
visitor_id893481
Expiration
Function
Name
visitor_id893481-hash
Expiration
Function
Name
wp-settings-10219
Expiration
Function
Name
wp-settings-time-10219
Expiration
Function
Name
cmplz_policy_id
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
cmplz_consented_services
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
cmplz_marketing
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
cmplz_statistics
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
cmplz_preferences
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
cmplz_functional
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
cmplz_saved_categories
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
cmplz_saved_services
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
_hjSessionUser_1532605
Expiration
Function
Name
fc_sb_47
Expiration
Function
Name
wordpress_test_cookie
Expiration
Function
Name
_hjSessionUser_1546842
Expiration
Function
Name
displayPopin
Expiration
Function
Name
_tt_enable_cookie
Expiration
Function
Name
_ttp
Expiration
Function
Name
_clsk
Expiration
Function
Name
cmplz_banner-status
Expiration
365 days
Function
Name
_ga
Expiration
Function
Name
_gid
Expiration
Function
Name
wordpress_logged_in_e98e8f5632bc503de33c4c7c3b70945d
Expiration
Function
Name
_gat_UA-403669-1
Expiration

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Sauvegarder les préférences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

We have received a privacy signal from your browser. For this reason we have set your privacy settings on this website to strictly necessary. If you want to have full functionality, please consider excluding https://cesi.fr from your privacy settings.

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
  • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

CESI Association
la Défense FR, 1 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 92074 Paris – FRANCE
Website: https://www.cesi.fr/en/
Email: rf.isec@tcatnoc
Phone number: 01 44 45 92 00

This Cookie Policy was synchronized with cookiedatabase.org on 4 October 2022

Types of cookies used.

The following types of cookies are used on this Site:

  • Temporary” cookies: this type of cookie is active in your browser until you leave our platform and expires if you do not access the Site for a certain period of time.
  • Permanent” or “tracker” cookies: this type of cookie remains in the cookie file of your browser for a longer period of time, which depends on the settings of your web browser. Permanent cookies are also known as tracking cookies.

With respect to promotional emails: You may withdraw your consent at any time by (i) un-checking the relevant box in your account, (ii) clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in each of our communications, or (iii) contacting us.

With respect to targeted advertising on third party sites: you may refer to our Cookie Policy to understand how to withdraw your consent.

We collect the information that you provide to us when :

  • you create, modify and access your personal account
  • you fill in a contact details form
  • you fill in an application form for our training offers
  • you contact our Customer Service

Sharing with third parties

We provide a legal framework for transfers through contractual commitments with our sub-contractors in order to provide you with a high level of security.

The personal data relating to you collected on our Site are intended for CESI’s own use and may be transmitted to the subcontracting companies that CESI may call upon in the performance of its services.

CESI does not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes under any circumstances.

We also work closely with third party companies that may have access to your personal data, in particular:

  • When we use search engine and analytics providers to improve and optimise our platform;
  • Where we are legally obliged to do so or where we believe in good faith that it is necessary to (i) satisfy any claim against CESI, (ii) comply with any court order, (iii) enforce any contract entered into with our members, such as the General Terms of Use and this Personal Data Protection Policy (iv) in the event of an emergency involving public health or the physical integrity of a person, (v) in the context of investigations and enquiries or (vi) in order to guarantee the rights, property and safety of CESI, its members and more generally any third party;
  • In addition, CESI does not disclose your personal data to third parties unless (1) you request or authorize disclosure; (2) disclosure is required to process transactions or provide services requested by you; (3) CESI is compelled to do so by a government authority or regulatory body, in the event of a judicial summons, subpoena or other similar governmental or judicial requirement, or to establish or defend a legal claim; or (4) the third party acts as an agent or sub-contractor of CESI in the execution of services.

If CESI or all or part of its assets are purchased by a third party, the data in our possession will, where applicable, be transferred to the new owner.

We may aggregate data about you that we receive or send to our business partners, including all or part of your personal data and information collected via cookies. This aggregated information will only be used for the purposes described above.

Personal data protection

We take all necessary steps to ensure that your data is protected. We also advise you to keep your data confidential. CESI applies generally recognized technological and organizational security measures to ensure that the personal data collected is not lost, misappropriated, consulted, modified or disclosed by unauthorized third parties unless the disclosure of such data is required by the regulations in force, in particular at the request of a judicial authority, police, the gendarmerie or any other authority empowered by law. The security of personal data also depends on the Users. Users who are members of CESI undertake to keep their login and password confidential. Members also undertake not to share their account and to declare to CESI any unauthorized use of their account as soon as they become aware of it.

Storage period

Your data is kept for a limited period of time to ensure optimum security.
This data will be kept for the duration of your registration to the training course and for one (1) year after the end of the training course. If a title or a diploma is awarded, the data relating to it will be kept for a period of 99 years from the date of issue of the diploma or certificate. They are then stored until the expiry of the applicable statutory limitation period. With regard to the training courses offered, we keep your personal data for the longest of the applicable legal and regulatory periods or for another period taking into account operational constraints such as proper maintenance of the student file, effective management of student relations and replies to requests from the Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP – National Directory of Professional Certifications). The data collected for commercial prospecting purposes is kept for a maximum period of three (3) years from the end of the commercial relationship.

Minor users

Minors, in the context of their information search, can access our site. They can also request additional information on some of our training courses. Our aim is to make education accessible to all. Nevertheless, any final registration of a minor will only be made with the consent of the holder(s) of parental authority. As a minor, you will be able to exercise your right to be forgotten if you no longer wish your data to be in our databases. Relationship between CESI services and social networks. We are not responsible for the use of data made by social networks.
You can set them up on their sites. When you use social networks and CESI’s services or applications in connection with social networks, this may result in the collection and exchange of certain data between the social networks and CESI. We are not responsible for the use of your data by social networks for their own account. You have the option to set up and control access and confidentiality of your data directly on the social networks.

Rights

In application of the European regulations in force, we have introduced procedures and mechanisms to help you exercise your rights. In accordance with the regulations in force, Users of our Site have the following rights:

  • right of access and rectification ;
  • right to update and complete User data;
  • right to block or delete Users’ personal data when it is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, out of date, or whose collection, use, communication or storage is prohibited;
  • right to withdraw consent at any time;
  • right to restrict the processing of Users’ data;
  • right to refuse the processing of personal data;
  • right to data portability of the data provided by Users, when such data is subject to automated processing based on their consent or a contract.

If you wish to know how CESI uses these personal data, or request a correction or object to their processing you can send an email to dpo@cesi.fr or send a letter to the following address: CESI – Data Protection Officer – la Défense FR, 1 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 92074 Paris – FRANCE. In addition, CESI Users may file a complaint with the supervisory authorities, in particular with the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority). Your requests will be processed within 30 days. In addition to your request, we will need you to attach a photocopy of a proof of identity so that CESI can verify your identity.

Contact us

If you have any questions or complaints or if you wish to send CESI suggestions or comments to improve our Personal Data Protection Policy you can send an email to dpo@cesi.fr or write to the following address: CESI – Data Protection Officer – la Défense FR, 1 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 92074 Paris – FRANCE