Privacy policy

At Differs, protecting your personal data is our priority.

Whether you use the website differs.io (the "Website") and/or the platform Differs (the "Platform") as our client (the “Client”), we may collect personal data about you.

The purpose of this policy is to inform you about how we process your personal data in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter the "GDPR") and French Data Protection Law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978 (together the "Applicable Regulations").


  1. Who is the data controller?

The data controller is Differs, French single-member société par actions simplifiée, registered with the Registry of Trade and Companies of Paris under the number 921 466 066 and whose head office is located at 11 Rue du Jour, 75001 Paris, France (“Us” or “We”).


  1. What personal data we collect?

Personal data is a data that identifies an individual directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name.

We may collect the following personal data:

  • Identification data (e.g., full name, email address, telephone number);

  • Data relating to your professional life (e.g., company name, position/function, CV, LinkedIn URL, number of employees in the company);

  • Data related to your interests (e.g., selection of interests, subscription history to solutions);

  • Login data (e.g., logs, encrypted passwords);

  • Browsing data (e.g., IP address, pages viewed, date and time of connection, browser used, operating system, user ID, MAID);

  • Data related to recordings from video conference calls with our customer care service (e.g., content of the calls, dates of the calls) or your chat or email exchanges with our customer service;

  • Economic and financial data (e.g., bank details, data related to your credit cards);

  • Any information you wish to send us as part of your contact request.

We inform you, when collecting your personal data, whether some of these data are mandatory or optional.


  1. On what legal basis, for what purposes and for how long do we keep your personal data?


Objectives

Legal basis

Data retention period

Data retention period

To provide you with our services available on our Platform through your account

Performance of a contract to which you are party and/or taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract

When you have created your account: personal data are retained for the duration of your account.

Your connection logs are kept for 1 year. If your account is inactive for a period of 2 years, it will be deleted if you do not respond to our reactivation email.

In addition, personal data may be archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

When you have created your account: personal data are retained for the duration of your account.

Your connection logs are kept for 1 year. If your account is inactive for a period of 2 years, it will be deleted if you do not respond to our reactivation email.

In addition, personal data may be archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

To perform operations related to contracts, orders, estimate, invoices, and customer relationship management

Performance of a contract to which you are party

Personal data are retained for the duration of our business relationship.  In addition, the data relating to your transactions (with the exception of your banking data) are archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

The data related to your credit card are retained by our payment service provider for the duration of your subscription. The CVV2 (Card Verification Value) listed on your credit card details will not be stored.

Personal data are retained for the duration of our business relationship.  In addition, the data relating to your transactions (with the exception of your banking data) are archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

The data related to your credit card are retained by our payment service provider for the duration of your subscription. The CVV2 (Card Verification Value) listed on your credit card details will not be stored.

To create a database of customers and prospects

Our legitimate interest in developing and promoting our business

For our customers: their personal data are retained for the duration of our business relationship. For our prospects: their personal data are retained for a period of 3 years starting from the last contact with us (e.g., communication, action).

For our customers: their personal data are retained for the duration of our business relationship. For our prospects: their personal data are retained for a period of 3 years starting from the last contact with us (e.g., communication, action).

To train our teams and to improve our services

Our legitimate interest in improving our services

Recording of video conference calls are retained during 1 year Video conference calls content analysis documents are retained during 1 year. Personal data collected via cookies to enhance the user experience is retained for 1 year.

Recording of video conference calls are retained during 1 year Video conference calls content analysis documents are retained during 1 year. Personal data collected via cookies to enhance the user experience is retained for 1 year.

To manage your opinions on our products / services

Our legitimate interest in collecting your opinions on our products, services

Our legitimate interest in collecting your opinions on our products, services

2 years from the publication of the opinion

To answer to your information request and demonstration of the Platform

To answer to your information request and demonstration of the Platform

Our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiries

Personal data are retained during the processing of your request and is deleted once the request has been processed.

Personal data are retained during the processing of your request and is deleted once the request has been processed.

To send newsletters, requests and direct marketing mailings

Our legitimate interest in winning customer loyalty and informing our customers of our latest news

Our legitimate interest in winning customer loyalty and informing our customers of our latest news

Personal data are retained for a period of 3 years starting from the last contact with us.

Personal data are retained for a period of 3 years starting from the last contact with us.

To process your applications and to manage interview (pre-selection of candidates, contact to evaluate the candidate's ability to fill the position, finalization of the recruitment process)

Execution of precontractual measures

Your data is kept in an active database for the duration of the recruitment process until the hiring decision is made.

If your application is rejected, your data may be kept for 3 months after the end of the recruitment process, in order to be able to provide you with explanations on the reasons that led to the rejection of your application. 

Your data may be kept in an intermediate archive for evidential purposes for 5 years from the date of the hiring decision.

Your data is kept in an active database for the duration of the recruitment process until the hiring decision is made.

If your application is rejected, your data may be kept for 3 months after the end of the recruitment process, in order to be able to provide you with explanations on the reasons that led to the rejection of your application. 

Your data may be kept in an intermediate archive for evidential purposes for 5 years from the date of the hiring decision.

To create a CV database

Your consent

The data is kept for two years from the last contact with the data subject.

The data is kept for two years from the last contact with the data subject.

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

Legal and regulatory obligations

Invoices are archived for a period of 10 years. In addition, the data relating to your transactions (with the exception of your banking data) are archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

Invoices are archived for a period of 10 years. In addition, the data relating to your transactions (with the exception of your banking data) are archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

To elaborate analytics and to improve the functionalities of the Platform through the deposit of audience measurement cookies

To elaborate analytics and to improve the functionalities of the Platform through the deposit of audience measurement cookies

Your consent

The personal data are retained for 25 months.

To process data subjects’ requests to exercise their rights

Our legitimate interest in responding to your requests and keeping records of them

If we ask you for a proof of identity: we only retain it for the necessary time to verify your identity. Once the verification has been carried out, the proof is deleted. If you exercise your right to object to direct marketing: we keep this information for 3 years.

If we ask you for a proof of identity: we only retain it for the necessary time to verify your identity. Once the verification has been carried out, the proof is deleted. If you exercise your right to object to direct marketing: we keep this information for 3 years.

  1. Who are the recipients of your personal data?

The following categories of recipients will have access to your personal data:

i. The staff of our company;

ii. Our processors: hosting provider, mailing provider, audience measurement tool, CRM tool, appointment scheduling tool, cookie management tool;

iii. If applicable: public and private organizations, exclusively to comply with our legal obligations.


  1. Are your personal data likely to be transferred outside the European Union?

Your personal data is hosted for the duration of the processing on the servers of the company Amazon Web Services Inc., located in the European Union and in the United States of America.

As part of the tools, we use (see article on the recipients of your personal data, especially our processors), your personal data may be transferred outside the European Union. The transfer of your personal data in this context is secured with the use of following safeguards:

  • Either personal data are transferred to a country that has been recognized as ensuring an adequate level of protection by a decision of the European Commission, in accordance with article 45 of the GDPR: in this case, this country ensures a level of protection deemed sufficient and adequate to the provisions of the GDPR; or

  • The personal data are transferred to a country whose level of data protection has not been recognized as adequate to the GDPR: in this case these transfers are based on appropriate safeguards indicated in article 46 of the GDPR, adapted to each provider, including but not limited the execution of Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, the application of Binding Corporate Rules or an approved certification mechanism; or

  • The personal data are transferred under any appropriate safeguards described in Chapter V of the GDPR.


  1. What rights can you exercise on your personal data?

You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

  • Right to be informed: this is precisely why we have drafted this privacy policy as defined by articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR.

  • Right of access: you have the right to access all your personal data at any time as defined by article 15 of the GDPR.

  • Right to rectification: you have the right to rectify your inaccurate, incomplete or obsolete personal data at any time as defined by article 16 of the GDPR.

  • Right to restriction of processing: you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain cases defined in article 18 of the GDPR.

  • Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): you have the right to request that your personal data be deleted and to prohibit any future collection as defined by article 17 of the GDPR.

  • Right to file a complaint to a competent supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL), under article 77 of the GDPR, if you consider that the processing of your personal data constitutes a breach of applicable regulations.

  • Right to define instructions related to the retention, deletion and communication of your personal data after your death.

  • Right to withdraw your consent at any time: for purposes based on consent, Article 7 of the GDPR provides that you may withdraw your consent at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before the withdrawal.

  • Right to data portability: under specific conditions defined in article 20 of the GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us in a standard machine-readable format and to require their transfer to the recipient of your choice.

  • Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data as defined by article 21 of the GDPR. Please note that we may continue to process your personal data despite this opposition for legitimate reasons or for the defense of legal claims.

You can exercise these rights by writing us using the contact details below. For this matter we may ask you to provide us with additional information or documents to prove your identity.


  1. What cookies do we use?

For more information on cookies management, please consult our Cookies Policy.


  1. Contact information for data privacy matters

Contact email: privacy@differs.io

Contact address: Differs.io – Agoranov – 96bis Boulevard Raspail – 75006 Paris - France


  1. Modifications

We may modify this privacy policy at any time, in particular in order to comply with any regulatory, jurisprudential, editorial or technical change. These modifications will apply on the date of entry into force of the modified version. Please regularly consult the latest version of this privacy policy. You will be kept posted of any significant change of the privacy policy.


Entry into force: 1st April 2023

Privacy policy

At Differs, protecting your personal data is our priority.

Whether you use the website differs.io (the "Website") and/or the platform Differs (the "Platform") as our client (the “Client”), we may collect personal data about you.

The purpose of this policy is to inform you about how we process your personal data in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter the "GDPR") and French Data Protection Law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978 (together the "Applicable Regulations").


  1. Who is the data controller?

The data controller is Differs, French single-member société par actions simplifiée, registered with the Registry of Trade and Companies of Paris under the number 921 466 066 and whose head office is located at 11 Rue du Jour, 75001 Paris, France (“Us” or “We”).


  1. What personal data we collect?

Personal data is a data that identifies an individual directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name.

We may collect the following personal data:

  • Identification data (e.g., full name, email address, telephone number);

  • Data relating to your professional life (e.g., company name, position/function, CV, LinkedIn URL, number of employees in the company);

  • Data related to your interests (e.g., selection of interests, subscription history to solutions);

  • Login data (e.g., logs, encrypted passwords);

  • Browsing data (e.g., IP address, pages viewed, date and time of connection, browser used, operating system, user ID, MAID);

  • Data related to recordings from video conference calls with our customer care service (e.g., content of the calls, dates of the calls) or your chat or email exchanges with our customer service;

  • Economic and financial data (e.g., bank details, data related to your credit cards);

  • Any information you wish to send us as part of your contact request.

We inform you, when collecting your personal data, whether some of these data are mandatory or optional.


  1. On what legal basis, for what purposes and for how long do we keep your personal data?


Objectives

Legal basis

Data retention period

To provide you with our services available on our Platform through your account

Performance of a contract to which you are party and/or taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract


When you have created your account: personal data are retained for the duration of your account.

Your connection logs are kept for 1 year. If your account is inactive for a period of 2 years, it will be deleted if you do not respond to our reactivation email.

In addition, personal data may be archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

To perform operations related to contracts, orders, estimate, invoices, and customer relationship management

Performance of a contract to which you are party

Personal data are retained for the duration of our business relationship.  In addition, the data relating to your transactions (with the exception of your banking data) are archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

The data related to your credit card are retained by our payment service provider for the duration of your subscription. The CVV2 (Card Verification Value) listed on your credit card details will not be stored.

To create a database of customers and prospects

Our legitimate interest in developing and promoting our business

For our customers: their personal data are retained for the duration of our business relationship. For our prospects: their personal data are retained for a period of 3 years starting from the last contact with us (e.g., communication, action).

To train our teams and to improve our services

Our legitimate interest in improving our services

Recording of video conference calls are retained during 1 year Video conference calls content analysis documents are retained during 1 year. Personal data collected via cookies to enhance the user experience is retained for 1 year.

To manage your opinions on our products / services

Our legitimate interest in collecting your opinions on our products, services

2 years from the publication of the opinion

To answer to your information request and demonstration of the Platform

Our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiries

Personal data are retained during the processing of your request and is deleted once the request has been processed.

To send newsletters, requests and direct marketing mailings

Our legitimate interest in winning customer loyalty and informing our customers of our latest news

Personal data are retained for a period of 3 years starting from the last contact with us.

To process your applications and to manage interview (pre-selection of candidates, contact to evaluate the candidate's ability to fill the position, finalization of the recruitment process)

Execution of precontractual measures

Your data is kept in an active database for the duration of the recruitment process until the hiring decision is made.

If your application is rejected, your data may be kept for 3 months after the end of the recruitment process, in order to be able to provide you with explanations on the reasons that led to the rejection of your application. 

Your data may be kept in an intermediate archive for evidential purposes for 5 years from the date of the hiring decision.

To create a CV database

Your consent

The data is kept for two years from the last contact with the data subject.

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

Legal and regulatory obligations

Invoices are archived for a period of 10 years. In addition, the data relating to your transactions (with the exception of your banking data) are archived for probationary purposes for a period of 5 years.

To elaborate analytics and to improve the functionalities of the Platform through the deposit of audience measurement cookies

Your consent

The personal data are retained for 25 months.

To process data subjects’ requests to exercise their rights

Our legitimate interest in responding to your requests and keeping records of them

If we ask you for a proof of identity: we only retain it for the necessary time to verify your identity. Once the verification has been carried out, the proof is deleted. If you exercise your right to object to direct marketing: we keep this information for 3 years.

  1. Who are the recipients of your personal data?

The following categories of recipients will have access to your personal data:

i. The staff of our company;

ii. Our processors: hosting provider, mailing provider, audience measurement tool, CRM tool, appointment scheduling tool, cookie management tool;

iii. If applicable: public and private organizations, exclusively to comply with our legal obligations.


  1. Are your personal data likely to be transferred outside the European Union?

Your personal data is hosted for the duration of the processing on the servers of the company Amazon Web Services Inc., located in the European Union and in the United States of America.

As part of the tools, we use (see article on the recipients of your personal data, especially our processors), your personal data may be transferred outside the European Union. The transfer of your personal data in this context is secured with the use of following safeguards:

  • Either personal data are transferred to a country that has been recognized as ensuring an adequate level of protection by a decision of the European Commission, in accordance with article 45 of the GDPR: in this case, this country ensures a level of protection deemed sufficient and adequate to the provisions of the GDPR; or

  • The personal data are transferred to a country whose level of data protection has not been recognized as adequate to the GDPR: in this case these transfers are based on appropriate safeguards indicated in article 46 of the GDPR, adapted to each provider, including but not limited the execution of Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, the application of Binding Corporate Rules or an approved certification mechanism; or

  • The personal data are transferred under any appropriate safeguards described in Chapter V of the GDPR.


  1. What rights can you exercise on your personal data?

You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

  • Right to be informed: this is precisely why we have drafted this privacy policy as defined by articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR.

  • Right of access: you have the right to access all your personal data at any time as defined by article 15 of the GDPR.

  • Right to rectification: you have the right to rectify your inaccurate, incomplete or obsolete personal data at any time as defined by article 16 of the GDPR.

  • Right to restriction of processing: you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain cases defined in article 18 of the GDPR.

  • Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): you have the right to request that your personal data be deleted and to prohibit any future collection as defined by article 17 of the GDPR.

  • Right to file a complaint to a competent supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL), under article 77 of the GDPR, if you consider that the processing of your personal data constitutes a breach of applicable regulations.

  • Right to define instructions related to the retention, deletion and communication of your personal data after your death.

  • Right to withdraw your consent at any time: for purposes based on consent, Article 7 of the GDPR provides that you may withdraw your consent at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before the withdrawal.

  • Right to data portability: under specific conditions defined in article 20 of the GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us in a standard machine-readable format and to require their transfer to the recipient of your choice.

  • Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data as defined by article 21 of the GDPR. Please note that we may continue to process your personal data despite this opposition for legitimate reasons or for the defense of legal claims.

You can exercise these rights by writing us using the contact details below. For this matter we may ask you to provide us with additional information or documents to prove your identity.


  1. What cookies do we use?

For more information on cookies management, please consult our Cookies Policy.


  1. Contact information for data privacy matters

Contact email: privacy@differs.io

Contact address: Differs.io – Agoranov – 96bis Boulevard Raspail – 75006 Paris - France


  1. Modifications

We may modify this privacy policy at any time, in particular in order to comply with any regulatory, jurisprudential, editorial or technical change. These modifications will apply on the date of entry into force of the modified version. Please regularly consult the latest version of this privacy policy. You will be kept posted of any significant change of the privacy policy.


Entry into force: 1st April 2023