Personal data
Privacy policy
This policy explains what personal data is collected on this website, why it is collected, how long it is kept and what rights you may exercise over it. It has been drawn up in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the amended French Data Protection Act (loi Informatique et Libertés).
Last updated: 29 July 2026
This English translation is provided for convenience. In the event of any discrepancy, the French version prevails.
01Data controller
- Controller
- LEWYS, a French simplified joint-stock company (société par actions simplifiée) with share capital of €1,000
- Registered office
- 11 rue des Archives, 75004 Paris
- Registration
- 990 483 844 R.C.S. Paris
- Contact
- contact@lewys.fr
- Data protection officer
- [TO BE COMPLETED] — to be stated if an officer is appointed; otherwise delete this line
02Data collected
We collect only the data necessary for the purposes described below. No sensitive data within the meaning of Article 9 of the GDPR is collected.
- Data submitted via the forms: surname and first name, establishment, job title, business e-mail address, telephone number, size of the establishment, subject of the request and content of the message.
- Data submitted with a job application: surname and first name, e-mail address, telephone number, message, CV and, where applicable, the position applied for. The CV is sent by e-mail to the recruitment team and is not stored on the website.
- Browsing data: IP address, browser type, pages viewed and date of viewing, recorded by our hosting provider in its technical logs for security purposes.
- No audience measurement tool is used on this website at present. We carry out neither profiling nor automated decision-making.
03Purposes and legal bases
- Responding to your contact and diagnostic requests — legal basis: your consent, obtained when you submit the form.
- Reviewing your application and getting back to you — legal basis: pre-contractual measures taken at your request.
- Managing the commercial and contractual relationship — legal basis: the performance of pre-contractual measures or of the contract.
- Ensuring the security and proper functioning of the website — legal basis: our legitimate interest in protecting our systems.
04Recipients of the data
Your data is intended solely for authorised persons within Lewys. It is not assigned, rented out or resold to any third party.
Certain technical service providers may have access to it, strictly within the scope of their assignment, acting as processors within the meaning of Article 28 of the GDPR:
- Hosting provider for the website and back office: [TO BE COMPLETED]
- E-mail sending and receiving service: [TO BE COMPLETED]
05Transfers outside the European Union
[TO BE COMPLETED] — To be determined once the hosting provider and e-mail service have been chosen. If any data leaves the European Union, the safeguards governing such transfers must be specified: an adequacy decision or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. If no transfer takes place, this must be stated explicitly.
06Retention periods
- Contact requests that did not lead to any business: 3 years from the last exchange.
- Unsuccessful applications: [TO BE COMPLETED] — the French data protection authority (CNIL) recommends not keeping them for more than 2 years after the last contact, unless the applicant objects.
- Data relating to a contractual relationship: for the duration of the relationship, then archived for the applicable statutory limitation periods.
- Browsing data and connection logs: 12 months maximum.
08Security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data against unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or access: encryption of communications using the HTTPS protocol, access restricted to authorised persons only, and selection of service providers offering sufficient guarantees.
09Your rights
In accordance with Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, you have the following rights over your data:
- Right of access: to obtain confirmation that your data is being processed and to receive a copy of it.
- Right to rectification: to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected.
- Right to erasure: to request the deletion of your data, within the limits laid down by law.
- Right to restriction of processing: to request that processing be frozen in certain cases.
- Right to object: to object to processing based on our legitimate interest, or to direct marketing.
- Right to data portability: to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before its withdrawal.
- Right to give instructions regarding what happens to your data after your death.
To exercise these rights, write to contact@lewys.fr stating your request. Proof of identity may be requested if there is reasonable doubt. We respond within one month, which may be extended by two months if the request is complex.
If, after contacting us, you consider that your rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the CNIL — 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, or at www.cnil.fr.
10Changes to this policy
This policy may be amended to reflect legal, regulatory or technical developments. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the document. We encourage you to consult it regularly.
Document to be finalised. The “[TO BE COMPLETED]” items must be filled in by the company, then the whole document reviewed by legal counsel before publication. This block is to be removed once the document is approved.