LEGAL NOTICE AND PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: September 22, 2026
1. Website Publisher
The website www.fimea.fr is published by the Fédération Interprofessionnelle des Métiers de l’Environnement Atmosphérique (FIMEA), an association governed by the law of July 1, 1901, RNA W751202536, SIREN 522 886 456, with its headquarters located at 28 rue Saint-Dominique, 75007 Paris.
Contact: contact@fimea.fr
Publisher: Etienne de Vanssay, President of FIMEA
2. Hosting
OVH SAS, 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France. Phone: +33 9 72 10 10 07
3. Purpose and Use of the Site
The website provides an overview of FIMEA, its missions, regional branches, and initiatives, and includes a directory of member companies.
FIMEA strives to provide accurate and up-to-date information, but cannot guarantee that there are no errors or omissions. The directory entries are compiled based on information provided by member companies.
FIMEA may suspend access to the site for maintenance purposes, while making every effort to keep the downtime to a minimum.
4. Intellectual Property
The text, images, graphics, logos, and other elements of the website are the property of FIMEA or third parties who have authorized their use. Unless otherwise specified in a downloadable document, any reproduction, display, modification, or adaptation of all or part of these elements without FIMEA’s prior written authorization is prohibited and constitutes an infringement punishable under Articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.
The directory is a database protected under Articles L.341-1 et seq. of the same code. Any substantial extraction of its content is prohibited.
5. Liability and Links
FIMEA shall not be held liable for any damages resulting from the use of the website or from the inability to access it.
This site contains links to third-party websites. FIMEA has no control over their content and assumes no responsibility for them.
6. Personal Information
Sections 6 through 10 explain what personal data FIMEA collects on the website, why it collects it, how long it retains it, to whom it is disclosed, and how to exercise your rights.
The data controller is FIMEA, whose contact information is provided in Section 1. FIMEA has not appointed a data protection officer. For any questions regarding your data, please contact: contact@fimea.fr.
7. Data Collected and Purposes
Contact Form
- Data: name, email address, message.
- Purpose: to respond to your request.
- Legal basis: FIMEA’s legitimate interest in responding to requests submitted to it.
- Retention period: 3 years from the date of the last exchange.
Membership and Membership Renewal
- Data: company information; last name, first name, job title, email address, and phone numbers of the representative and, if applicable, the billing contact; company description and logo; selected payment method.
- Purposes: membership and dues management, billing, publication of the company profile in the directory, and member relations.
- Legal basis: performance of the membership agreement; compliance with accounting obligations regarding invoices.
- Retention period: for the duration of membership, followed by 3 years; invoices and accounting documents are retained for 10 years.
Credit card payments are processed directly by Stripe. FIMEA never has access to your credit card numbers.
APQAI Educational Kit
- Data: name and ZIP code of the institution, email address.
- Purpose: to send you the kit; to notify you of updates to it, no more than twice a year.
- Legal basis: FIMEA’s legitimate interest in distributing the kit and promoting it. You may opt out of receiving update notifications at any time by clicking the link included in each message or by writing to contact@fimea.fr.
- Retention period: 3 years from the date of the last exchange.
Newsletter
- Data: email address.
- Purpose: to send you FIMEA news.
- Legal basis: your consent, which you may withdraw at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in each email.
- Retention period: until you unsubscribe.
Site Security
- Data: IP address, pages requested, date and time of connections.
- Purpose: to protect the site from attacks and misuse.
- Legal basis: FIMEA’s legitimate interest in ensuring the security of its website.
- Retention period: 6 months.
Requests to Exercise Your Rights
- Data: email address, nature of the request.
- Purpose: to process your request and keep a record that it has been handled.
- Legal basis: legal obligation.
- Retention period: 1 year after the request is closed.
8. Recipients and Transfers
Your data is accessible only to FIMEA staff authorized to process it. It is never sold or passed on to third parties. FIMEA uses the following service providers, who act on its instructions:
- OVH (website hosting, in France);
- Google (business email, web analytics, videos, and maps);
- Bloom (newsletter distribution);
- Stripe (payment of dues by credit card).
The information in members' company profiles is published in the website's directory and is therefore accessible to the public.
Some Google services may involve the transfer of data to the United States. These transfers are governed by the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework, to which Google LLC has adhered, as recognized by the European Commission in its adequacy decision of July 10, 2023.
9. Cookies
With your consent, the site uses Google Analytics to track visitor activity (pages viewed, duration of visit, referral sources) and displays content hosted by third parties (YouTube videos, Google Maps). None of these services are activated until you have accepted them. This processing is based on your consent.
Cookies are valid for up to 13 months; audience measurement data is retained for 14 months; your choice—whether to accept or decline—is retained for 6 months.
Details about the cookies we use are provided below:
You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the “Manage Consent” link at the bottom of each page.
10. Your Rights
You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, and transfer your data, as well as the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests. When processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time. You may also provide instructions regarding the handling of your data after your death.
To request the export or deletion of your data, please use the form below. For any other requests, please email contact@fimea.fr. FIMEA will respond within one month. You will only be asked to provide proof of identity if there is reasonable doubt regarding your identity.
Request to Export or Delete Your Data
If, after contacting us, you believe that your rights have not been respected, you may file a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr), 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07.
11. Governing Law and Amendments
This website and this page are governed by French law.
FIMEA may modify this page to reflect changes to the website or to regulations. The date of the last update appears at the top of the page.
