Terms and Conditions of Use of the Website:
1. Purpose
These Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms and Conditions of Use” or “TCU”) apply to browsing the website www.fondation-gattefosse.org (the “Website”) and to the use of the Website’s features.
By accessing the Website, the user (the “User”) acknowledges that they have read and accepted without reservation all these Terms and Conditions of Use and undertakes to comply with them.
These Terms and Conditions of Use may be revised by the Gattefossé Foundation at any time without any formalities other than the publication of a new, amended version online, the latter taking precedence over any previous version.
2. Access to the Website
The Website is accessible free of charge from any location to any User with internet access.
All costs necessary to access the Website (hardware, software, internet connection, etc.) are the responsibility of the User.
In the event of maintenance work, events beyond the Gattefossé Foundation’s control, technical failure or force majeure, access to the Website may be interrupted or suspended without notice or justification, and the Gattefossé Foundation shall not be held liable.
Furthermore, the Gattefossé Foundation reserves the right to interrupt or permanently cease the operation of the Website at any time, without prior notice or justification, and without being held liable.
3. Intellectual property
The trademarks, whether registered or not, logos and acronyms featured on the Website, as well as all its content (text, images, photographs, illustrations, layouts, etc.), are the exclusive property of the Gattefossé Foundation
Any reproduction, representation, publication, redistribution or copying of all or part of these elements must be authorised in advance by the Gattefossé Foundation.
Failure to comply with this obligation may constitute an act of infringement punishable under Articles L335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code.
Access to the Website shall not be construed as conferring upon the User any licence or intellectual property right whatsoever in respect of the Website and/or its content.
Furthermore, no User may use any automated process to access, scrape or extract the data contained or presented on the Website.
Without prejudice to the foregoing, any User may download the materials made available on the Site. These materials may only be used for personal and informational purposes, for the exception of any commercial and/or advertising use. The User further undertakes not to (i) remove or modify any copyright notices or other proprietary notices affixed to or contained within such materials; (ii) modify or alter such materials and their content; or (iii) publish or distribute, in any manner whatsoever, whether for a fee or free of charge, such materials and their content. More generally, the User shall not infringe, directly, indirectly or through third parties, in any way whatsoever, the rights of the Gattefossé Foundation and/or the rights of third parties in respect of these materials.
4. Cookies
To ensure the Site functions optimally, the use of Cookies is offered to the Site User upon their arrival on the Site.
This use is entirely optional and requires the User’s express consent.
Disabling or refusing certain cookies may affect the functioning of the Site. The User is informed of this when customising their cookie settings. Should the User decide to block a cookie necessary for the optimal functioning of the Site, the Gattefossé Foundation shall in no circumstances be held liable for any consequences arising from the Site’s impaired or degraded functioning.
Cookies may be placed by partners (such as Google Analytics) of the Gattefossé Foundation. These partners may also use the information contained in the cookies.
The User is entitled to withdraw their consent and/or change their cookie settings at any time.
5. Liability
The Gattefossé Foundation makes no warranty, whether express or implied, regarding the Website and/or all or part of its content.
The Gattefossé Foundation will use its best endeavours to ensure that the information presented on the Website is accurate, up to date and reliable, but shall in no event be held liable for any error or omission in this regard.
The information presented on the Website is provided for information purposes only.
Consequently, the Gattefossé Foundation shall not be held liable for any damage, direct or indirect, of any nature whatsoever arising from the User’s use of the information presented on the Website.
The Gattefossé Foundation accepts no liability for any viruses that may infect the User’s computer equipment because of accessing or using the Website.
The Gattefossé Foundation shall not be held liable for any difficulties in accessing the Website and/or interruptions to the Internet connection. Similarly, the Gattefossé Foundation’s liability is excluded in cases of force majeure.
In general, the Gattefossé Foundation accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage, whatever the causes, origins, nature or consequences, arising from access to and/or use of the Website and/or its content, with the User alone assuming full responsibility and the resulting risks.
6. Links to other websites
The Website may contain hyperlinks directing the User to other websites. The Gattefossé Foundation accepts no liability whatsoever regarding access to and use of these third-party websites and/or their content, with the User alone assuming full responsibility and the resulting risks.
7. Applicable law, competent courts
These General Terms and Conditions of Use are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute or litigation, the courts of LYON (69) shall have exclusive jurisdiction, including in the event of summary proceedings, third-party proceedings or multiple defendants.
DATA COLLECTION AND PRIVACY POLICY
Version in force as of 3/04/2026
1. Purpose
The User may, at their sole discretion, choose to contact the GATTEFOSSE Foundation and/or subscribe to the GATTEFOSSE Foundation’s Newsletter.
To ensure a response and/or receipt of the Newsletter
Personal data is any information that may enable, directly or indirectly, the identification of a natural person.
This personal data protection policy applies to personal data collected by the Gattefossé Foundation directly from users (the “Users”) of the website www.fondation-gattefosse.org (the “Website”).
In its capacity as data controller, the Gattefossé Foundation undertakes to collect, process and store Users’ personal data in complete confidentiality and in accordance with the provisions of this policy, the French Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation.
By completing the contact form or the newsletter subscription form, the User acknowledges that they have read and accepted without reservation the terms of this personal data protection policy.
2. Collection, purpose and retention period of data:
The Gattefossé Foundation collects the personal data that Users consent to provide. The collection and processing of this data are for the following purposes:
·1. Contact form:
Data collected:
Surname, first name, email address.
Purpose of processing:
– Management, processing and response to questions and requests for information originating solely from Users.
– Management and processing of requests for information, access, rectification, erasure or portability of personal data, or requests to object to or restrict the processing of data.
Retention period: 2 years
2. Newsletter subscription form:
Data collected: email address, surname, first name, country and profession.
Purpose of processing:
– distribution of an information resource, the “Newsletter”, to subscribers.
Distribution of information regarding the Foundation’s programmes,
Retention period: 5 years.
The User may choose to unsubscribe from this Newsletter at any time.
Subscription to the Newsletter shall not exceed five years and will require the User to renew their consent.
The personal data collected will be deleted:
– Upon expiry of the various periods set out above; or
– At the User’s request, in accordance with applicable regulations and the terms set out below (subject to any legal retention obligations).
3. Solidarity Program form:
Data collected: surname, first name, email address, job title, name of organisation, website, country.
Purpose of processing:
– Management and processing of applications submitted solely by candidates;
– Management and processing of requests for information, access, rectification, erasure or portability of personal data, as well as requests to object to or restrict the processing of data.
Retention period: 5 years.
The personal data collected will be deleted:
– Upon expiry of the various time limits set out above; or
– At the User’s request, in accordance with applicable regulations and the terms set out below (subject to any legal obligation to retain data).
3. Disclosure
This data may not be disclosed to third parties for commercial and/or promotional purposes without the User’s prior consent.
However, this data may be transferred to certain technical service providers/subcontractors of the Gattefossé Foundation (hosting provider and marketing communications provider) who are bound by confidentiality and data security obligations, and exclusively for the purposes described in Article 2 above.
The Gattefossé Foundation may be required to disclose the data to the competent administrative or judicial authorities, upon their request.
4. Confidentiality and security
The Gattefossé Foundation undertakes to implement all necessary technical and organisational measures to preserve the confidentiality and security of the personal data collected on the Website.
However, the Gattefossé Foundation shall not be held liable for any security breach attributable to the User.
5. User Rights
In accordance with the provisions of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, files and freedoms (known as the ‘Data Protection Act’) and European Regulation 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 (known as the “GDPR”), the User has the following rights regarding their personal data:
- Right to information;
- Rights of access and rectification;
- Right to erasure; to deletion;
- Right to object to processing on legitimate grounds;
- Right to object, without giving reasons, to the processing of data for marketing purposes;
- Right to data portability;
- Right to restriction of processing.
These rights may be exercised at any time by the User by sending an email to: dataprotection@gattefosse.com, if proof of identity is attached.
In the event of an unsatisfactory response from the Gattefossé Foundation regarding the exercise of the rights mentioned below, the User may lodge a complaint with the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, ‘CNIL’).
6. Amendments
This personal data protection policy may be updated at any time by the Gattefossé Foundation without any formalities other than the publication of a new, amended version online, the latter taking precedence over any previous version.