Version posted online on 01.10.2025
ELICIT PLANT places particular importance on protecting your Personal Data and respecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy is intended to inform You about our practices regarding the collection, processing, use, and sharing of information that You may provide to Us, directly or indirectly, when accessing and using our ELICIT PLANT Website.
We therefore invite You to read it carefully.
ARTICLE 1 – DEFINITIONS
“CNIL”: means the French Data Protection Authority (“Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés”), which is the competent supervisory authority for this Privacy Policy.
“Personal Data”: means any data and/or information that can identify a natural person, directly or indirectly. The personal data that We collect via the ELICIT PLANT Website are described in Article 3.
“ELICIT PLANT” or “We”: means ELICIT PLANT, a Simplified Joint-Stock Company (SAS) with share capital of €139,417.50, with its registered office at Lieudit Le Châtaignier, 1 Passage de la Croix, 16220 Moulins-sur-Tardoire, registered with the ANGOULÊME Trade and Companies Register under number 831 286 455.
“Privacy Policy”: means this Privacy Policy regarding the processing of your Personal Data by ELICIT PLANT in connection with the ELICIT PLANT Website.
“Personal Data Regulations”: means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR), French Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, files and freedoms, as amended, and more generally any applicable provision relating to personal data.
“ELICIT PLANT Website” or “Website”: means the website www.elicit-plant.com
“User” or “You”: means any natural person accessing, using, and/or visiting the ELICIT PLANT Website.
ARTICLE 2 – WHAT IS ELICIT PLANT’S ROLE IN PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA FROM THE ELICIT PLANT WEBSITE?
2.1
We act as the data controller for Personal Data processed in connection with the ELICIT PLANT Website.
For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or for any request relating to your Personal Data, You may contact Us at any time as follows:
- By post: ELICIT PLANT – LIEUDIT LE CHATAIGNIER, 1 PASSAGE DE LA CROIX, 16220 MOULINS-SUR-TARDOIRE, CHARENTE (16)
- By email: dataprivacy@elicit-plant.com
2.2
In our capacity as data controller, We undertake to comply with the Personal Data Regulations when processing your Personal Data, including when We use processors.
To this end, We ensure that each processing operation complies with fundamental data protection principles.
We collect and process your Personal Data only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, and We undertake to collect and process only the Personal Data strictly necessary for those purposes.
Where required, We will seek your prior consent for any new and/or modified processing of your Personal Data.
2.2.1
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time and will inform You as soon as reasonably possible.
The applicable version of our Privacy Policy is the latest version posted online and accessible from the ELICIT PLANT Website.
ARTICLE 3 – WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT VIA THE ELICIT PLANT WEBSITE?
3.1
When You visit and use the ELICIT PLANT Website, We may process some of your Personal Data as follows:
| CATEGORY OF DATA SUBJECTS | CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA | SOURCE OF PERSONAL DATA |
| User of the ELICIT PLANT Website |
Identity data, including your last name, first name, phone number, email address, and your country |
Personal Data that You voluntarily provide to Us when You access and/or use the ELICIT PLANT Website via our contact forms |
| Data relating to the content of messages and documents You send Us, including when You use the contact forms on the Website, the questions You ask Us, or issues You report to Us | ||
| Professional activity data, including your skills, experience, and more generally any information You provide to Us as part of your request to get in touch with Us, for example as a distributor or when applying for or responding to one of our job offers (such as your CV and cover letter). | Personal Data that You voluntarily provide to Us when You access and/or use the ELICIT PLANT Website via our contact forms
Personal Data that We may collect from third parties in order to verify/confirm the reliability of the information provided |
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| Connection data, including certain information recorded during your visit to our ELICIT PLANT Website, such as:
o audience statistics o your IP address o your user identifier o your geographic data o data regarding your browsing on the ELICIT PLANT Website, including your path across different URL pages, the content You access or view, and the time spent on specific pages |
Personal Data that We obtain directly when You access the ELICIT PLANT Website via cookies and other trackers.
For more information, please refer to our “Cookie Policy”. |
3.2
When You use the ELICIT PLANT Website—particularly the contact forms—the mandatory or optional nature of the requested information is specified.
If You do not provide the information marked as mandatory, We will be unable to respond and/or process your request.
3.3
For more information about the cookies and other trackers We use on the ELICIT PLANT Website, including their purposes, our partners, and how to configure them, please refer to the “Cookie Policy” section, accessible from the ELICIT PLANT Website.
ARTICLE 4 – WHAT PROCESSING DO WE PERFORM ON YOUR PERSONAL DATA VIA THE ELICIT PLANT WEBSITE?
4.1
This section describes the processing We carry out on your Personal Data in connection with your use of the ELICIT PLANT Website, including their purposes and legal bases.
| PURPOSES OF PROCESSING | LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING |
| Responding to the request/solicitation You send Us and communicating with You about it, including sending You information about our services, answering your questions, or resolving a dispute with You | Your consent.
For any processing based on your consent, You may at any time: withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data, and/or object to such processing, and/or exercise your right to data portability. If You do not consent to the processing and/or withdraw your consent, We will not use your Personal Data for the relevant purpose. In such cases, We may be unable to respond to the requests/applications that You send Us. Any processing carried out prior to the withdrawal of your consent remains lawful. |
| Carrying out recruitment operations necessary for our activity, including processing your application and managing our job offers | |
| Engaging with You with a view to a potential business relationship, including where You are a distributor interested in our products and services | |
| Conducting our commercial prospecting by sending You marketing communications, including by email or via our newsletter | |
| Measuring the audience and analyzing traffic on our website | |
| Establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims | Compliance with our legal obligations |
| Compliance with any regulations applicable to Us | Compliance with our legal obligations in connection with our activity |
| Collecting your consent | Compliance with our legal obligations under the Personal Data Regulations |
ARTICLE 5 – TO WHOM DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
5.1
Your Personal Data are made available and disclosed to:
- our departments concerned by your request: human resources, legal, quality, distributor relations, customer service, etc.;
- the technical service providers We use to host the ELICIT PLANT Website and perform related maintenance operations, acting as processors;
- the distributors of our products and services;
- partners with whom we have business relationships and who are responsible for presenting and promoting ELICIT PLANT;
- any person or body requesting it pursuant to our legal obligations, as well as authorities, auxiliaries of justice, and court officers, notably in the context of inquiries and investigations, and the body in charge of the do-not-call list;
- any third party where the disclosure of your Personal Data is necessary (i) to enable Us to respond to any claim against Us, (ii) in an emergency involving public health or a person’s physical integrity, or (iii) to safeguard our rights, property, and security, those of our members, and more generally any third party.
5.2
Where your Personal Data are collected and processed by our processors within the meaning of the Personal Data Regulations, We remain the data controller for such Personal Data, with the associated responsibilities and obligations, which are detailed in this Privacy Policy.
Our processors use your Personal Data solely for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and are responsible for the security and confidentiality of your Personal Data. These processors are liable within the limits and conditions specified in our contractual agreement and applicable law.
Where our processors collect and process your Personal Data for their own purposes, acting as data controllers, they are responsible for informing You of such collection pursuant to the Personal Data Regulations.
Your Personal Data collected and processed in connection with the ELICIT PLANT Website in accordance with this Privacy Policy are stored and hosted in Switzerland, where our hosting provider is located.
ARTICLE 7 – HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
7.1
The retention period for your Personal Data may vary depending on the category of Personal Data concerned and the purposes for which We collected them.
Unless otherwise stated herein (see 7.2), your Personal Data are generally retained for as long as necessary to process your request and, once our exchanges have ceased, are deleted within 3 years of our last interaction.
7.2
By way of exception to the foregoing, certain Personal Data are retained as follows:
| Purpose of processing | Retention period |
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Connection (log) data |
Please refer to our Cookie Policy |
| Establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims, notably under the whistleblowing mechanism, and more generally compliance with any regulations applicable to Us | For the period prescribed by our applicable legal obligations |
ARTICLE 8 – WHAT SECURITY MEASURES ARE IN PLACE FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
8.1
We implement measures and methods—physical, organizational, and technical—to ensure the security and confidentiality of your Personal Data in connection with the use of the ELICIT PLANT Website.
We take all appropriate precautions to prevent unauthorized takeover of Personal Data, including encrypting all exchanges of Personal Data with state-of-the-art algorithms, protecting encryption keys from any accidental disclosure, authenticating devices that receive Personal Data, and requiring reliable user authentication (password, electronic certificate, etc.) for access to control features of the system.
8.2
We undertake to comply with physical and logistical security standards (premises protection, server protection, etc.) that fall within our responsibility for browsing and use of the ELICIT PLANT Website, excluding any backup and/or security obligations that fall under the responsibility of our hosting provider for the ELICIT PLANT Website.
8.3
As a website publisher and the party responsible for the security of browsing and using the ELICIT PLANT Website, We implement appropriate measures to prevent processed data from being altered or damaged or accessed by unauthorized third parties, notably by controlling access to processing and securing any data transmissions.
8.4
Any information accessible on the Internet via an outbound link from the ELICIT PLANT Website—except for our own sites—is not under our control, and We disclaim any responsibility for such content and any potential IT security vulnerabilities, as well as any resulting consequences.
8.5
In the event of a security breach or loss affecting all or part of your Personal Data, We will inform You under the applicable legal conditions.
We will use our best efforts to take all necessary measures to remedy the breach and ensure the security of your Personal Data, in particular by:
- notifying You of the incident as soon as possible, especially where legally required;
- examining the causes of the incident;
- taking necessary measures, within reasonable limits, to mitigate the negative effects and harm that may result from the incident.
ARTICLE 9 – WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
9.1
You have certain rights regarding the Personal Data collected and processed in connection with the ELICIT PLANT Website:
- You may access your Personal Data at any time.
- You may request that your Personal Data be rectified, completed, clarified, updated, or erased.
- You may, under your right to data portability, retrieve the Personal Data concerning You for your personal use, or request that they be transferred to a third party, where technically feasible.
- You may object, on legitimate grounds, to the processing of your Personal Data, it being specified that exercising this right may prevent Us, in whole or in part, from processing your request/solicitation or sending You job offers.
- You have the right to restrict the processing of your Personal Data, it being specified that exercising this right may prevent Us, in whole or in part, from processing your request/solicitation or sending You job offers.
- You may also inform Us of your wishes regarding the fate of your Personal Data in the event of your death (deletion or transmission to heirs that You have designated, in particular).
9.2
You may at any time exercise your right of access, your right to object, and your right to rectification or erasure of your Personal Data by sending your request, indicating your email address, last name, and first name:
- By post to: ELICIT PLANT – LIEUDIT LE CHATAIGNIER, 1 PASSAGE DE LA CROIX, 16220 MOULINS-SUR-TARDOIRE, CHARENTE (16)
- By email to: dataprivacy@elicit-plant.com
We may request proof of identity to ensure that You are indeed the originator of the rights request.
We will use the means at our disposal to process requests relating to your Personal Data, subject to the mandatory legal provisions applicable to Us.
9.3
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority—namely the CNIL—regarding our collection and processing of your Personal Data.
ARTICLE 10 – APPLICABLE LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
10.1
This Privacy Policy is governed exclusively by French law to the extent permitted by law.
10.2
Failing an amicable resolution of any disputes, and absent an express agreement between You and Us, disputes that cannot be resolved amicably relating to the collection and processing of your Personal Data and to this Privacy Policy—its validity, interpretation, performance, consequences, and aftermath—shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the French courts, in accordance with the procedural rules applicable to the case at hand.