The CIES – The Food Business Forum coporate website you have just connected to has been developed by CIES – The Food Business Forum for the benefit of all visitors who would like to know more about our association, its members, its products and activities, and its services.

PRIVACY

CIES – The Food Business Forum is concerned with protecting the privacy of all of those who wish to access our Web site. Therefore, CIES wishes to inform you:

• on the type of information gathered by CIES when you access our site,
• on how CIES uses this information and protects it.
  

If you do not want CIES to keep any personal information concerning you when you access our Web site, we will indicate how to proceed and enable you to modify any information you may already have communicated to us. In general, you have the possibility of accessing information concerning you at any time, to update it and correct any errors.

When you connect to the CIES Web site, you accept the terms appearing in this charter and, by communicating any personal information, you authorise us to use it in compliance with this charter. If you do not agree to the principles stipulated herein, you must leave our site. CIES does not wish to keep personal data concerning you without your prior approval.

CONTENT AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

By "Personal Information", we mean any information which enables a person to be identified. Most often this will mean a name, an address, a telephone number, a credit card number or an e-mail address.
Therefore, in browsing through our site, you may be led to communicate a piece of Personal Information. This information may be gathered by CIES and subsequently reused in order, for example, to send you information on our activities.

WHAT ARE "COOKIES"

"Cookies" are the files sent by a site manager, in this case CIES, to the user's hard drive in order to enable the manager to identify and memorise the user when he or she connects to the site.

CIES may want to use the "cookies" system in order to collect information on your visit to our site. This will enable us to learn which parts of our site are of interest to you. In doing so, CIES may become familiar with your centres of interest and provide you with information that is adapted to your needs. These "cookies" will also keep you from having to provide information you have already communicated to us with each visit, as they will remember that you have already provided this information previously. You will be able to detect the existence of these "cookies" and, if you wish, to delete them.

HOW CIES – The Food Business Forum USES THE INFORMATION CONCERNING YOU

The information concerning you that we gather when you visit the CIES site is only used by CIES to improve our Web site and to provide you with services that are increasingly adapted to your needs.

However, you should know that we will only contact you to inform you on our activities with your authorization: if you do not wish to be contacted in the future, just follow the instructions indicated below in the section "how to contact us".

We also wish to inform you that all information communicated will be used solely by CIES – The Food Business Forum, with the view to offer an increasingly efficient service.

Finally, any information concerning you will be revealed by CIES to any individual, organization or administrative body authorized to demand such information in compliance with French law.

WHAT SECURITY FOR THE INFORMATION THAT IS TRANSMITTED TO US

CIES has adopted measures to protect the information you communicate to us. For this reason, CIES staff is only authorized to use the information you transmit to us if it is necessary.

HOW TO CONTACT US

As the purpose of this charter is to protect your privacy, we thank you for informing us of your wishes and comments. Please do not hesitate to inform us of any violation of your privacy due to a visit to the CIES site. We will answer you within a reasonable deadline.

If, in the future, you do not wish to be contacted further to a visit to the CIES site, write to us at privacy@ciesnet.com

If you would like to verify, correct or update any Personal Information you have communicated to us, write to us at mydata@ciesnet.com

CIES will take all necessary steps to meet your expectations. In compliance with the provisions of the French Law of January 6, 1978, this site has been declared with the National Computer Technology and Freedom Commission (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés). You now have the possibility of exercising your right to access, modify, rectify or delete the information concerning you at mydata@ciesnet.com.

USE AND CONTENT OF THE CIES WEBSITE

Use of any document from the CIES site is authorised for information purposes and for private use only. Any use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited.

CIES cannot guarantee the exactitude or the comprehensiveness of the information made available to you on its site.
Consequently, CIES shall not be held liable for any inexactitude and/or omission contained in one or several pieces of information available at its site.
More generally, CIES may not be held liable for any damage resulting from a user accessing the CIES site or, inversely, to the impossibility of accessing it. CIES declines all responsibility relating to damage resulting from the use of this site and the information contained in it.

MODIFICATION OF THE CHARTER

This charter and the principles resulting from it may be modified by CIES at any time. CIES agrees to inform you as soon as possible of such modifications and invites you to regularly consult this page of our site.