Laurent Di Raimondo

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

 Since 25 May 2018, all businesses and professionals must comply with the RGPD Regulation, or General Data Protection Regulation, to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens. Any business or professional that does not comply with the GDPR Regulation faces costly penalties ranging from a simple warning to fines. All businesses (including SMEs) and professionals must therefore implement systems and procedures to ensure they are compliant with their customers’ data protection laws.

Under the GDPR Regulation, the following types of personal data are protected: basic personal data (name, address, ID number), web data (IP address, location, cookie data, etc.), medical and biometric data, racial or ethnic data, political opinions and sexual orientation.

The GDPR Regulation does not apply to data processed for purely personal purposes or for activities carried out within the family. However, such data must not be linked to any commercial or professional activity.

The law does not only apply to businesses and professionals residing in EU Member States. It also applies to any company that does not have a commercial presence in the EU Member States, but whose transactions involve the storage or processing of personal data relating to EU citizens within the EU Member States.

This means that even translators, interpreters, proofreaders and related professionals must comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation when working with businesses, as they process documents and information that contain private data relating to the business.

In addition, companies and professionals must also ensure that they comply with confidentiality agreements (non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs). The GDPR Regulation aims to protect private data, while a NDA prevents the disclosure of information belonging to direct and indirect customers. These agreements are complementary to each other and must be included in the addendum of each company in order to fully guarantee confidentiality and compliance with the RGPD Regulation.

Nature of personal data collection

Users may provide Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo), in its capacity as data controller, with personal information and data concerning them (such as their name, IP address, connection and browser data and email address). Some personal data is mandatory and some optional, to access certain services present on the Website (such as newsletters and contact forms). Users are informed whether data is mandatory or optional at the time of collection by means of an asterisk. If mandatory personal data is not provided, Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) will be unable to accede to the users’ requests.

Purpose of data collection

The collection, storage and processing of this personal information and data have the main following goals:

– to enable functioning of the Website;

– to enable Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) to respond to requests from users of the Website;

– to manage and improve relations between Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) and users;

– to permit the management of commercial relations between Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) and users;

– to send users publications, notices and information from Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) at their request;

– and to enable Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) to comply with its legal and regulatory obligations, particularly in terms of security.

Data recipient(s)

The data may be communicated and/or transmitted, in return for payment or free of charge, to third parties contractually linked to Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) for performance of the subcontracted tasks necessary for management of the Website, for logistical purposes, without users being required to give their consent. In the event of a proven infringement of legal or regulatory provisions, this information may be subject to communication in response to an explicit and justified request from judicial authorities.

Retention period

Personal data and/or information shall be retained for the duration of the commercial relationship and after it ends, for a maximum period of three years following the end of the commercial relationship, except in the event of a legal archiving obligation or for evidential purposes or accounting obligations, for a period not exceeding the applicable statutory limitation periods.

Exercise of rights

In accordance with data protection regulations, anyone has the right to access, rectify, restrict, delete and, where relevant, transfer their data, as well as a right of objection, potentially subject to legitimate and compelling reasons, to the processing of personal information and data concerning them, which they may exercise at any time by writing to the following address: Laurent Di Raimondo, 11 Route du Perchis, 79160 ARDIN (France), or by sending an email to: contact@translate4me.fr.

Users may also prepare instructions concerning how their personal data should be handled after their death. These rights may be exercised in their personal space on the Website https://www.Translate4Me.fr.comby logging in using their email address and password entered at the time of registration. Finally, users have the right to submit a complaint to a supervisory authority. For security reasons and to avoid any fraudulent request, we may ask for proof of identity in order to respond to the request. This proof of identity will be destroyed once the request has been processed.

Transfert of data outside the European Union

Since some of our partners are located outside the European Union, the data collected in this way may be transferred to European Union non-member countries whose personal data protection legislation differs from that of the European Union, it being stipulated that if the recipient countries do not provide an equivalent level of data protection to that in the European Union, Translate4Me.fr (Laurent Di Raimondo) undertakes to obtain all appropriate guarantees, either based on an adequacy decision or, in the absence of such a decision, based on appropriate guarantees concluded by sending a copy of binding internal regulations, standard contractual clauses adopted, the code of conduct or the certification mechanism duly approved by the competent authority.