Privacy Policy

To allow you to browse our website with peace of mind, we wish to share on this page the purposes and methods of processing personal data that we collect during your navigation.
The processing of your personal data is always based on the principles of legality and fairness in accordance with all applicable laws.
Below you will find all the details regarding the processing of your personal data.

Data protection is ensured with the aim of confidentiality, integrity, and security of the data you entrust to us.

All necessary measures are taken to ensure that;

  • – You are fully informed about how your data is processed,
  • – Your data is kept only for as long as necessary for the purposes of processing,
  • – You can access your data at any time to modify it or request its deletion.

To achieve these objectives, we implement appropriate technical measures to ensure that processing complies with applicable data protection law.

Privacy Policy Statement

This statement allows you to know, even before accessing the different sections of the Site, how we will process your personal data, whether it is provided directly by you (such as your name, first name, postal and email address, password, age, date of birth, gender, profession, marital status, etc.) or collected by us in another way.

Identity and Contact Details of the Data Controller

The data controller is ODEA, with its registered office at 38-40 38 RUE DE LA CROIX DE MISSION 42100 SAINT-ETIENNE

ODEA will process your personal data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”).

Which Personal Data is Processed by ODEA

ODEA collects only the information strictly necessary to provide our services. Your browsing on the Site and/or your access to certain sections of the Site may involve the collection and subsequent processing of your personal data by ODEA. When accessing the Site, the computer systems and software procedures used to operate them automatically and/or indirectly acquire certain information (Cookies).
In accordance with the law, ODEA does not collect data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership, genetic personal data, biometric personal data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, personal data concerning health, or personal data concerning a person’s sexual life or sexual orientation.

Legal Obligations

ODEA may be required to disclose your data in response to legitimate requests from public authorities, notably to meet national security requirements, combat fraud, or enforce the law.

How We Process Your Personal Data

The processing of your Personal Data may include any operation, including collection, recording, organization, storage, consultation, processing, modification, selection, extraction, comparison, use, interconnection, blocking, communication, erasure, and destruction.

Your Personal Data will be processed mainly in automated form but also in paper form, strictly for its intended purposes, through databases, electronic platforms managed by ODEA or by designated third parties as external processors and/or integrated IT systems of ODEA and the aforementioned third parties and/or websites owned or used by ODEA.

ODEA has assessed the security level as adequate, taking into account the risks that could result from loss, destruction, unauthorized disclosure, accidental or illegal access, abuse, or modification of your Personal Data.

Specifically:

  • – appropriate security measures have been implemented;
  • – your Personal Data is stored on servers mainly located in Europe. In any case, the servers are backed up daily using advanced backup systems.

Who are the recipients of your data?

ODEA ensures that only authorized personnel within its organization can access your data when this access is necessary for the execution of our business relationship.

Our service providers may also receive the data strictly necessary to perform the services we have entrusted to them.

Retention of Personal Data

To ensure compliance with the principles of necessity and proportionality of processing, the data controller has identified different retention periods for personal data depending on the specific purposes pursued:

  • – For managing your registration on the Site, your personal data will be kept only for the strictly necessary time and, in any case, as long as your profile is active.
  • – For managing and fulfilling legal obligations (accounting, administrative, fiscal, etc.), your personal data will be kept for the strictly necessary duration for this purpose.

At the end of these retention periods, we may archive the data, notably to meet statutory limitation periods for legal actions.

Data retention periods comply with the recommendations of the CNIL and/or legal obligations.

Your Rights Regarding the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Privacy Policy recognizes several rights for you as a data subject. In particular, you have the right to:

  • 1. Obtain from the Controller confirmation of the existence or non-existence of your Personal Data, even if not yet recorded, and their communication in an intelligible form, as well as access to your Personal Data (by obtaining a copy) and relevant information (including processing purposes, categories and origins of Personal Data, categories of recipients to whom they have been or may be disclosed, retention period (if possible), rights that can be exercised);
  • 2. Obtain from the Controller the correction of your Personal Data and the completion of incomplete Personal Data;
  • 3. Delete your profile on the Site and, in any case, obtain from the Controller the deletion of your Personal Data without undue delay, notably when the Personal Data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was processed or when there is no legal basis for its processing;
  • 4. Obtain from the Controller the anonymization or blocking of Personal Data processed unlawfully, including data whose retention is unnecessary, related to the purposes for which the personal data was collected or subsequently processed;
  • 5. Obtain from the Controller the restriction of processing of your Personal Data, for example, when you contest their accuracy or object to their processing, for the period necessary for verification;
  • 6. Receive your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and transmit it, or, if technically possible, obtain direct transmission to another data controller without hindrance, where processing is automated and based on your consent or necessary for contract execution;
  • 7. Withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data for the purposes for which it was provided.

You can exercise your rights against ODEA via the “Contact” section of the website, by emailing sales@odea-europe.com, or by sending a letter to ODEA at the address indicated in the “Identity and contact details of the data controller” section.

Additionally, if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the Privacy Policy, you may file a complaint with the data protection authority of the country where you reside, where your workplace is located, or where the alleged violation occurred, or contact the same authority for guidance on exercising your rights under the Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy – Cookies

Cookies are computer markers sent by a server to a user’s device (usually the web browser) when the user accesses a given page of a website; cookies, which can also be set by websites other than those visited by the user (“third-party cookies”), are automatically recorded by the browser and sent back to the server that generated them each time the user accesses a web page. Cookies allow and/or facilitate access to certain web pages to improve user navigation (e.g., storing visited pages and other specific information such as frequently viewed pages, login errors, etc.). Therefore, to use a website fully, users are advised to configure their browsers to accept these cookies.

Browsers are often configured to accept cookies automatically. However, users can change the default settings to disable or delete cookies (temporarily or permanently), which may prevent optimal use of certain areas of the site. You can also check the methods and types of cookies stored in your browser by modifying your browser’s cookie settings.

Types and Purposes of Cookies

Our Site uses the following categories of cookies, which may come from ODEA or third parties.

a) Technical cookies;
Used to facilitate your navigation on the Site and the use of its functionalities. Technical cookies include essential cookies, which are required for full use of the Site, and performance cookies, which improve Site functionality.

b) Functional cookies;
Allow the Site to remember choices you have made (e.g., language or geographical region) and offer them again on subsequent visits to provide better and more personalized services (e.g., suggesting content similar to what you have previously requested).

Cookie Consent Methodology

When you first access the Site, you will see a banner with a link to this statement where you can find more information about cookies installed by ODEA and third parties.

For technical and anonymous analytics cookies, your consent is not required. However, you can disable them following the procedure described in the “How to enable or disable cookies on your browsers” section.

By browsing the Site, you consent to the use of cookies. In any case, you can modify your cookie preferences at any time, including refusing consent to the use of cookies (including third-party cookies, if applicable).

How to Enable or Disable Cookies on Your Browsers:

You can block cookies acceptance in your browser. However, this may reduce functionality or prevent access to certain functions or pages of the site.

Below are the ways in which major browsers can block cookie acceptance:

For any questions regarding personal data protection, our internal contact person is at your disposal. To contact them, please send your requests to:
sales@odea-europe.com

Revision and Update of the Policy

This policy will be updated as needed to comply with applicable data protection regulations.

December 24, 2025