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Legal notice

In accordance with the provisions of the law no. 2004-575 “pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique” (Confidence in the Digital Economy Act) dated June 21st, 2004, the editor of this website is: Business France which is an industrial and commercial public body registered in the Commercial Register of Paris under the number 451.930.051 and whose head office is located at 77 bd Saint-Jacques, 75998 Paris Cedex 14 (phone number: +33 1 40 73 30 00).

The editorial director of the present website is Laurent Saint-Martin, CEO (Chief Executive Officer).

The personal data collected are subject to a processing for Business France to insure its assignments in the framework of the French public program for supporting the international development of the French economy.

The personal data are kept during the period required for the purpose for which they are collected, that is for the duration of the contract increased by the legal prescriptions periods and to ensure the respect of the legal or regulatory requirements compulsory for Business France. They are intended to its corporate services, its overseas offices, some of which are located outside of the European Union, and to Team France Export members (Regions, French chamber of commerce and industry in France, Bpifrance).

In application of the law no. 78-17 “relative à l’informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés” (Information Technology, Computer Files and Freedom Act) amended dated January 6th, 1978 and of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on April 27, 2016, the information relating to the processing of your personal data and the exercise of your rights (access, change, remove, objection, etc.…) are available in the Privacy and Data Protection Policy.

 

To exercise your rights, you can go here or write by post at:

Data Privacy Officer (DPO) of Business France
77 Boulevard Saint-Jacques
75014 PARIS

 

Our Agency subscribes to the principles which governed the adoption of OECD convention of December 1997 against the corruption of foreign public agents in international and commercial transactions, ratified by France in May 1999. Business France invites its partners, suppliers and customers to take note of the decree no. 2000-948 of September 28, 2000 enforcing this Convention and to measure its stakes for their professional practices.

Business France Intracommunity VAT number: FR19451930051

 

Liability

 

welcometofrance.com provides information and guidance about procedures to be completed before and during the year of its installation in France.

Despite all the care taken in transcribing official texts, verifying the contents and information, the online elements cannot, in any manner, claim to the perfect accuracy nor engage Business France’s liability.

The information and documents available in this website site are subject to change at any time and may be updated. In no event shall Business France be liable for any kind of damage whatsoever resulting from the interpretation or use of the information and/or documents available in this website.

 

Re-use of information from welcometofrance.com

The re-use of the information made available on welcometofrance.com is free subject to mentioning the authorship of the information in the following form: “extract from welcometofrance.com” as well as the last updated date.
Visuals (graphic elements, maps, logos…) can only be reproduced with prior written consent of Business France.
The complete reproduction or reproduction of an important part of the content is prohibited.

 

Confidentiality policy – Use of cookies

 

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can recognize you when you revisit and remember certain information about you. This can include which pages you have visited, choices you have made from menus, any specific information you have entered into forms and the time and date of your visit.

 

The obligation to inform about the use of cookies

EUROPA websites must follow the Commission’s guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies are not being used to gather information unnecessarily. The ePrivacy directive requires prior informed consent for storage or for access to information stored on a user’s terminal equipment. In other words, users must be asked if they agree to most cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, Flash cookies, etc.) before the site starts to use them. For consent to be valid, it must be informed, specific, freely given and must constitute a real indication of the individual’s wishes.

However, some cookies are exempt from this requirement.

When you visit our website, cookies can be recorded or read, on your computer, mobile phone or tablet, depending on your preferences.

The cookies that are used on our website and require your consent are the following:

  • Cookies that allow us to collect statistics about our website visitors (most visited pages, search terms used in the search engines).
  • Preference cookies that save choices made by users on our website. Users thus benefit from more customized functionalities. The information gathered does not allow users to be identified personally or their browsing activity to be monitored.

The analytics tool ‘At Internet’ is used on this website in order to obtain information about the navigation of visitors. It particularly enables us to understand how users navigate through the website. – the information collected is not associated with any other data processing; – the cookie that is stored is only used to produce anonymous statistics; – the cookie cannot be used to track the navigation of the internet user on other sites.

If you do not want to be tracked, you can refer to the terms and conditions applicable to the protection of personal information.

Cookies from social networks when you share our website’s content and your opinion on it with others, e.g. “Share” and “Like” application buttons

Advertising cookies or pixel: third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads

 

Accept or refuse cookies

You can at any time choose to deactivate all or part of the cookies. Your browser can also be set to alert you of cookies stored in your device and ask you whether to accept them or not (case-by-case or all cookies).

As concern management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which you can use to find out how to modify your wishes concerning cookies:

If you do not want our site to store cookies issued by a social media network in your browser, you can click on the following deactivation links which will store on your browser a cookie whose sole purpose is to block use of other cookies from the same issuer. Deactivating these cookies will therefore prevent any interaction with the social media networks concerned:

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
TWITTER: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169453#
LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

 

Information about the analytics tool

The analytics tool ‘At Internet’ is used on this website in order to obtain information about the navigation of visitors. It particularly enables us to understand how users navigate through the website. – the information collected is not associated with any other data processing; – the cookie that is stored is only used to produce anonymous statistics; – the cookie cannot be used to track the navigation of the internet user on other sites.

If you do not want to be tracked, you can refer to the terms and conditions applicable to the protection of personal information.

NB: Your wishes regarding cookies are associated with a specific cookie or specific cookies. If you delete all the cookies stored in your device concerning our site, we will no longer know which you have accepted or refused. This means that you will have to reinitialize your consent and once again refuse the cookie(s) you do not wish to store. Likewise, if you use another internet browser, you will have to once again refuse these cookies, since your choices, like the cookies they concern, are associated with the browser and the device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) that you use to visit our website.

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