Personal data protection policy

At Danone we are committed to protecting your right to privacy. We aim to protect any personal data we hold, to manage your data in a responsible way and to be transparent in our practices. Your trust is important to us. We have therefore committed ourselves to the following basic principles:

·       You have no obligation to provide any personal data requested by us. However, if you choose not to provide any personal data requested by us, we may not be able to provide you with some services or products.

·       We only collect and process your data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement or for specific purposes that we share with you and/or that you have consented to.

·       We aim to collect, process and use as little personal data as possible.

·       When we do collect your data, we aim to keep it as accurate and up to date as possible.

·       If the data we collect is no longer needed for any purposes and we are not required by law to retain it, we will do what we can to delete, destroy or permanently de-identify it.

·       Your data will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this Privacy Statement.

This Privacy Statement describes the following important topics relating to your data (you can click on the links to find out more):

1.           Who are we?

2.           Generic data collected

3.           The purpose and legal basis for collecting and using data

4.           Session analysis and automated decision making

5.           Links to other websites

6.           How to contact us

7.           Changes to our Privacy Statement 

DANONE NUTRICIA AFRICA & OVERSEAS SAS (“DNAO”) is responsible for the data that you share with us. When we say “Danone”, “us”, “our” or “we”, we are referring to DNAO.

DNAO’s registered office is located at 81 rue de Sans Souci – 69576 Limonest – France.

If you want to know more about DANONE and its products, please visit https://www.danone.com.

The website https://www.my-c-section.com/ (the “Website”) is not an interactive website and does not contain any form, questionnaire, page or account creation, registration or contact module asking the user to provide personal information.

Consequently, the Website does not collect any personal data or information that could directly or indirectly identify an individual, nor any geolocation data or IP address.

As part of its operations, the Website may collect generic non-identifying data, such as browsing information (e.g. pages viewed, time spent on the site, type of browser used). Some of this data is collected via cookies and similar tracking technologies - see our Cookie Statement  for further details on this.

This data is collected for purposes strictly defined within the cookies statement policy , in order to improve the user experience and guarantee optimal operation of the Website.

When you browse and interact with our Website, we may also collect aggregated and non-identifying information such as device type, time of the day, country, browser type, page URL and conversion type, which is a metric that identifies an action a user has taken on a website (i.e., making a purchase, registering for an event, or subscribing to a newsletter)

We use these anonymized data to build statistical models, allowing us to infer the impact of our ads on users’ actions, such as purchases, while respecting your privacy.

This helps us refine our advertisements to make them more relevant to our consumers, thereby enhancing their experience on our Website.

It is important to underscore that this method of gathering information does not, under any circumstances, enable users’ identification.

This generic data :

•             Do not identify a specific user;

•             Is not cross-referenced with other sources of information, websites or databases that could have the effect of identifying a user;

•             Are kept securely and only for as long as necessary for processing.

By browsing the Website, you agree to this processing of generic data under the conditions described above.

The list below shows the purposes for which we collect and use the generic data :

·      To keep track of the users’ interactions with the Website

·     To provide, improve, maintain, keep secure and provide technical support in relation to the Website

·     To evaluate your visit to our Website and your use of our services and prepare reports to compile statistics to understand how people use the Website and how to make our Website more intuitive

·     To manage, develop and improve our services and communications

·     To manage our network and information security systems

·     For fraud prevention purposes

·     For training and quality assurance purposes

·     For internal corporate reporting, business administration, ensuring adequate insurance coverage for our business, research and development, and identifying and implementing business efficiencies 

·     To provide our expertise for more informed decision-making, in a collaborative and transparent environment with decision-makers and other relevant stakeholders

The legal basis of these purposes is our legitimate interest. Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. Our legitimate interests might include the following: running, growing and developing our business; operating and ensuring the security of our Website; providing services to our customers.

When we collect and use your data for new purposes, we will inform you before or at the time of collection (and ask for your consent when required) unless we reasonably consider that this purpose is compatible with the original one as detailed above.

We may analyze information about you in order to create groups (e.g. by compiling different sessions into groups that have certain common behaviors). We use these groups to personalize our websites, apps, services or products, as well as our communications to you (e.g. by showing content that may be relevant and useful to the users).

Where we do this, we will of course inform you and we will give you an opportunity to object to these processes in advance. We will also obtain your consent where this is required by law, for instance where information about you is collected via certain types of cookies that we use – please see our Cookie Statement  for further details on our use of cookies. You are also free to contact us for further information on this type of processing

Our Website may contain hyperlinks to third party websites, plug-ins or applications that are not operated by us. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of such third-party websites or any association with their operators.

This Privacy Statement only applies to the data that we collect or which we receive from third party sources, and we cannot be held responsible for personal data about you that is collected and stored by third parties. Third party websites have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies, and you should read these carefully before you submit any personal data to these websites.

We do not endorse or otherwise accept any responsibility or liability for the content of such third-party websites or third-party terms and conditions or policies.

If you have any questions, comments or complaints regarding this Privacy Statement or the processing of your data, please write to us at DANONE NUTRICIA AFRICA & OVERSEAS, service juridique, 81 rue de Sans Souci – 69576 Limonest – France 

We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time (for example, to comply with changes in laws or regulations, our practices, procedures and organizational structures, requirements imposed or recommended by supervisory authorities or otherwise). Any changes we make to our Privacy Statement in the future will be posted on this page and will be applicable on the effective date of implementation.  Where we are legally required to do so, we will notify you of any changes. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Statement. 

This Privacy Statement was last updated on November 19th, 2024.