Last updated: 02/10/2025
At ESSENTIAL PARFUMS, protecting your privacy is essential. When you use our services, you entrust us with your personal data. We are committed to safeguarding it. This policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and process your personal data and what your rights are.
1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA?
The company ESSENTIAL PARFUMS, SAS, registered under number 830 888 558 RCS Paris, with its headquarters located at 176 Boulevard Saint Germain, 75006 Paris, is responsible for processing your data.
2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?
We collect the following personal data:
- Data you provide to us: When you create an account on the application, use our services, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us (via our contact form, email, or phone), we collect the personal information you provide. For example, to create an account and use our services, you must provide your first name, last name, email address, and phone number and set up a password.
Required data for providing our services or responding to your requests are marked with an asterisk or equivalent indication on collection forms or specified orally at the time of collection. If you do not provide the required fields, we will be unable to respond to your requests.
- Transactional data: We collect data related to your orders, including transaction numbers and order details.
- Payment data: When you make payments on the application, your payments are secured. We do not collect your payment details, only a payment identifier and part of your card number to help recognize the card used for the last transaction. Full banking details are collected only by our PCI-DSS certified payment service provider to ensure payment security.
- Location data: You have the option to share your current location via your phone or browser settings to find a nearby ESSENTIAL PARFUMS center.
- Usage data: We collect data on user interactions with the application and website, including access dates and times, pages visited, and browser types. These data are collected automatically via cookies. For more information, please read our Cookie Policy.
Our services are not intended for minors. We do not knowingly collect information from minors and do not request any data from them. Any person providing information to ESSENTIAL PARFUMS in the context of an order declares they have reached the legal age of majority. If we discover that we have collected data from a minor without parental or legal guardian consent, we will delete it. Please contact us at the details in Section 8 if you believe we have collected information on a minor without proper authorization.
3. WHY DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA?
We process your personal data only when we have a legal basis to do so:
We use your data to manage contracts and services, including:
- Providing the requested services via our application, processing transactions, billing, fraud management, and handling payment issues
- Managing your personal account
- Handling complaints and after-sales service
- Sending our newsletter
- Sending information and promotions about other ESSENTIAL PARFUMS services
- Storing payment card data to facilitate future purchases
- Sending information and promotions to our customers regarding ESSENTIAL PARFUMS
- Conducting commercial statistics and reporting, after anonymizing or implementing measures to prevent re-identification
Some data are processed to comply with legal obligations (e.g., accounting, tax obligations, and data protection rights management) and to defend our interests in case of disputes or legal action.
4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA?
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which they were collected. Specifically:
If you create an online account, your personal data is retained as long as you use our services through your account. Your data and account will be deleted if:
- You choose to permanently delete your account or if we delete it per our Terms of Use; or
- Your account remains inactive for five consecutive years with no interactions (e.g., no email opens, logins, etc.).
Data is retained until you unsubscribe via your account or the unsubscribe link in newsletters. If no customer account is linked to your email, your data will be deleted three years after your last interaction.
These data are not retained beyond the transaction by default. Our payment service provider may archive data for 13 months (or 15 months for deferred debit cards) for dispute resolution purposes.
Retained for the legally required period.
Retained for three years from the exercise of the right.
Your data may be retained longer for legal compliance or dispute resolution. Once no longer necessary, your data will be deleted or anonymized.
5. WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH?
We share your data only with:
6. TRANSFERS OUTSIDE THE EU
Your personal data is stored and processed within the EU. If data is transferred outside the EU in the future, it will be protected by appropriate safeguards per GDPR regulations, such as Standard Contractual Clauses.
7. YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW TO EXERCISE THEM
You have several rights regarding your data:
To exercise your rights, contact us using the details in Section 8.
You may also file a complaint with the relevant data protection authority. In France, this is the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).
8. CONTACT
For more information, to exercise your rights, or for any questions or complaints regarding data protection, contact us via:
9. POLICY CHANGES
We may modify this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect legal changes, technological advancements, and best practices. We will notify you of significant changes.