This Personal data protection policy is addressed to the users (hereinafter referred to as the Users or you) of the website  https://www. bbhome-group.com/ (hereinafter the Site). Its purpose is to inform you, in accordance with Regulation No. 2016-679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter referred to as the “Regulation” or “GDPR”), about how your personal information may be collected and processed through our Site when you use the website https://www. bbhome-group.com/.

B&B HOME FRANCE is fully committed to the compliance of personal data processing with the requirements of the GDPR.

This personal data protection policy aims to inform you about the categories of personal data we may collect or hold about you, how we use it, with whom we share it, how we protect it, and the rights you have over your personal data.

Your privacy and the protection of your personal data is a priority for us, which is why we are committed to processing your personal data in strict compliance with the Regulation and the applicable national laws.

1 – Definitions
2 – Identity of the data controllers
3 – Data origin and collection
4 – Data that is processed
5 – Purposes and legal bases of data processing
6 – The recipients of the data
7 – How long the data is kept
8 – Transfer of data outside the European Union
9 – Exercising the rights of the data subject
10 – Login data and cookies
11 – Security
12 – Contacts

Data controller: refers to B&B HOME FRANCE in its capacity as the main data controller on the Site.

Site: refers to the website accessible at the URL address https://www. bbhome-group.com/.

Users: refers to any person who accesses or browses the Site.

The data being processed is as follows:

• Data relating to your identity: title, surname, first name(s), address, telephone number, email address,
• Data relating to your professional life: company, location,
• Information about your education: degrees obtained, universities/schools attended
• Data relating to browsing: your logs and login data, computer hardware identification data, your language preferences, geographical location data, data relating to your use of the Site, including the data communicated to our teams when you make requests (language preference, etc.), data collected via cookies and other tracers,

Please note that the B&B HOME FRANCE only collects data that is strictly necessary for the purpose for which it is processed.

We treat the Data we collect with the utmost care. Only strictly necessary Data will be communicated to third-parties for processing.

Within the limits of their respective attributions and for the purposes mentioned in article 4, the main persons who may have access to your Data are as follows:

• The authorised staff of our human resources, franchise department, sales, development, finance, M&A, legal, administrative and IT departments,
• Authorised staff of our data processors and service-providers such as hosting and cloud storage service-providers, mailing service-providers, IT maintenance service-providers, marketing research service-providers, human resources software publishers
• The list of the authorised staff of the joint controllers  can be found here
• If necessary, the competent authorities upon request, in particular public bodies, the relevant courts, ombudsmen, chartered accountants, auditors, lawyers, bailiffs, judicial officers, police officers, exclusively to meet legal obligations, as well as in the case of looking for the perpetrators of offences committed on the Internet,
• Third-parties who may place cookies on your terminals (computers, tablets, mobile phones, etc.) when you consent to them (For more details, see our Cookies Management Policy).

Your personal data will not be disclosed, exchanged, sold or rented without your express prior consent in accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions.

In our dealings with our data processors within the meaning of the GDPR, we contractually ensure that they process the data in a way that guarantees its integrity, confidentiality and security.

The B&B HOTELS Group is a global organisation providing services in many countries. Cross-border data sharing is therefore essential to our services so that you receive the same high quality service wherever you are in the world.

In this respect, and for the purposes indicated in Article 4 of this Policy, we may transfer your personal data to internal and external recipients who may be located in countries outside the EU.

The B&B HOTELS Group has therefore implemented suitable measures to secure the transfer of your Data outside the EU.

The transfer of personal data to countries without equivalent personal data protection is governed by the standard contractual clauses defined and approved by the European Commission(art. 46 GDPR).

You can access all of these documents by contacting privacy.france@hotelbb.com, or directly to our Data Protection Officer at the following email address: dpo-france@hotelbb.com, or at the postal address: B&B HOME France, Legal Department, 9 boulevard Romain Rolland – 75014 Paris.

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act and the GDPR, you have the following rights (read more):

–       right of access and information (article 15 GDPR) right of rectification (article 16 GDPR) right to update and the right to complete your data

–       right to delete (or “right to be forgotten”) your personal data (article 17 of the GDPR), if it is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, out-of-date, or if its collection, use, disclosure or retention is prohibited

–      the right to withdraw your consent at any time (article 7 of the GDPR);

–      the right to restrict the processing of your data (article 18 of the GDPR)

–      the right to object to the processing of your data (Article 21 GDPR)

–      the right to portability of the data you have provided to us, where your data undergoes automated processing based on your consent or on a contract (Article 20 GDPR)

–      the right not to be the subject of a decision based solely on automated processing (article 22 of the GDPR); no final decision based exclusively on automated processing is currently applied by B&B HOME FRANCE

–      the right to determine what happens to your data after your death and to choose whether or not we disclose your data to a third-party that you have designated (article 85 LIL). In the event of your death and in the absence of instructions from you, we undertake to destroy your data, unless its retention is necessary for evidential purposes or to meet a legal obligation.

You can exercise your rights in one of the following ways:

–       by mail to privacy.france@hotelbb.com or directly our Data Protection Officer at the following email address: dpo-france@hotelbb.com

–       by letter to B&B HOME France, Legal Department, 9 boulevard Romain Rolland – 75014 Paris.

by proving your identity and providing a legitimate reason when required by law.

Finally, you can also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authorities and in particular with the CNIL or any other competent authority.

In practice, technical cookies allow us to authenticate you, identify you, speed up your browsing on our Site and provide access to their various functionalities. They may collect data about the characteristics of the operating system, browser or terminal (computer, tablet or mobile phone) that you use. They also allow the collection of data relating to your location (in particular your IP address).

The list of cookies, their purpose and retention period is available here.

By default, by continuing to browse our Site, you consent to the deposit of these cookies. However, you can configure the settings of your browser software at any time to:

• accept or decline the cookies on our Site
• systematically refuse all cookies
• request that your consent be required for each cookie you encounter while browsing the internet.

To do this, simply refer to your browser and follow its instructions. For example:

• With Microsoft Edge™: Menu ►Settings► Cookies and site authorisation ►Manage and delete cookies and site data ►Choose the desired options
• With Firefox™: Menu►Settings ►Privacy and security ► Cookies and site data ►Choose the desired options

Configure the “Retention rules “menu to “Use custom settings for history “. Finally, uncheck the “Accept third-party cookies ” box.

• With Chrome™: Menu ►Settings ►Privacy and security►Cookies and other site data► Choose the desired options
• With Safari™: Safari►Settings►Privacy►Cookies and website data►Choose the desired options
• With Opera™ Tools menu ► Preferences ► Advanced tab ► Cookies section ► Manage cookies ► Choose the desired options
• However, you should be aware that by choosing to block technical and functional cookies, you may find your browsing experience on our Site impaired.

For cookies other than purely technical ones, we have written a Cookies Management Policy to inform you more specifically about their use which can be accessed here.