Privacy policy and mandatory information according to Art. 13, 14 GDPR (EU) 

Information on the controller

Vermilion REP SAS
Route de Pontenx
40160 Parentis-en-Born
Phone : +33 (0)5  58 82 95 00
Email: vrep@vermilionenergy.com

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and treat it confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal information refers to information that identifies you as a person. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect and what it is used for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We remind you that the transmission of data over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) might entail security gaps. A full protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

1. Cookies

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.

You can set your browser in such a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

2. Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

 A merge of this data with other data sources will not be done.

Basis for the data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website provider has a legitimate interest in the storage of this data for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services.

This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files which are stored on your computer and which allow an analysis of your usage of the website. The information about your website usage generated by the cookie is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.

1. Browser plug-in

You can prevent cookies from being saved by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully utilize all the functions of this website. In addition, you can prevent Google from tracking the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in.

 2. Objection to data collection

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Disable Google Analytics.

3. Demographic features in Google Analytics

This website uses the demographics feature of Google Analytics. As a result, reports can be produced that contain information on the age, gender and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and from third-party visitor data. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time through the ad settings in your Google Account, or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Objection to data collection”.

Transferring, selling or other forms of transmitting your personal data to third parties does not take place.

Since the protection of children’s privacy is of great importance, we do not want to collect, process or use personal data from anyone under the age of 18. If you, as a legal guardian, learn that your children have submitted their personal data to us, you can contact us via the addresses mentioned in the imprint and ask for the data to be erased.

We take all necessary technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data from loss and misuse. Your data is saved in a secure operating environment that is inaccessible to the public.

Your data will be erased after fulfilment of the purpose for which it was stored, unless the deletion is contrary to statutory storage periods. These result partly from the German Civil Code, the German Commercial Code or the German Tax Code and can amount to 2–30 years.

After expiry of such a retention obligation, the data will be permanently erased.

You have the right to information about personal data concerning you, as well as to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing. Furthermore, you have a right to object to the processing and the right to data portability. You can read more about this in Section III of the GDPR (EU).

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, workplace or the place of the alleged infringement, when you are convinced that the processing of personal data concerning you violates GDPR.

The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant on the progress and the outcome of the complaint including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to article 78 GDPR. However, before contacting the supervisory authority, we would like to ask you to give us the opportunity to provide you with information about your questions/concerns. You can contact us directly:

• Phone: +33 (0)5 58 82 95 00
• Email: vrep@vermilionenergy.com