Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective on May 25, 2018.

This website is operated by OneAngstrom. All references such as "we", "us" herein means OneAngstrom, 36 avenue Félix Viallet, 38000 Grenoble, France.

Your privacy and trust are very important to us. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain how we collect, use, and share information that is collected about you through our products and services.

This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to any third-party websites or services even if they are accessible through our Services. Please, read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand what we do and how we treat the information that is collected about you and about your usage of our products and services.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Service. So, please make sure that you have read and understand our Terms of Service as well.

By using our products and services you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and in our Terms of Use.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@samson-connect.net.

Revisions to this Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by sending you an email or posting a notice on our services. If you receive notification of a change in our Privacy Policy, you must review the new Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures. By using our products and services after the updated Privacy Policy is posted on our Website you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

Controllers of Personal Information

Any personal information provided to or gathered by the Samson Connect Service is controlled by OneAngstrom, 36 avenue Félix Viallet, 38000 Grenoble, France.

What Personal Information About Customers Does Samson-Connect.net Gather?

The database makes it possible to operate the service offered by the SAMSON Connect website. SAMSON Connect enables the distribution of the SAMSON software platform and the associated modules (called SAMSON Extensions). We need to associate the installed modules to the users who install SAMSON. Here are the types of information we gather:

  1. Information You Give Us: we receive and store any information you enter on our website, including a first name, last name, email address, organization, password, a profile picture and the reason to join that you enter when you create an account. We also store the list of SAMSON Extensions (modules) that you add to your SAMSON installation. We also store new SAMSON Extensions you might add as a developer. Finally, SAMSON also offers the user the possibility to voluntarily send execution reports, and we store these execution reports.
  2. Automatic Information: we receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use "cookies" and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses Samson-Connect.net. We also store the IP address used, the OS for which you download SAMSON and / or the SAMSON SDK, as well as the time at which SAMSON connects to the SAMSON Connect website to determine whether SAMSON Elements should be updated, installed, or removed. To provide a better service we store and analyse data which are sent by SAMSON when it connects to the SAMSON Connect website: number of sessions, usage time, crash logs if they were sent to us, as well as usage of SAMSON Extensions and SAMSON functionalities. This helps us improve SAMSON and SAMSON Extensions.

If you communicate with us regarding our products or services, we will collect any information that you provide to us in any such communication.

We do not collect any sensitive information about you, i.e. no information about race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, political or philosophical opinions, memberships to syndicates, health or sexual orientation. If such information were communicated to us, we would delete it.

Your personal data are kept for a period of time that is in accordance with legal provisions, or proportional to the purposes for which they were recorded. All of your personal data is kept for five years after you last signed in to your account. In any case, we regularly review the information we hold. When their retention is no longer justified by legal, commercial or customer management reasons, or if you exercise your deletion rights, we will delete them securely.

What About Information Collected Using Cookies and other Web Technologies?

Cookies. To enable our systems to recognize your device and performs usage statistics, we use cookies – small text files that are placed on your device by a web server when you access our Services. Cookies are unique identifiers that we transfer to your device to enable our systems to recognize your device and determine, for example, how and when you visit the SAMSON Connect website, as well as the pages you visit. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to identify that you’ve logged in to the Services and to tell us how and when you interact with our Services. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted when you log off from the Services and close your browser. Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you can change your browser options to stop automatically accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting cookies. Please note, however, that if you don’t accept cookies, you may be unable to access all portions or features of the Services. Some third-party services providers that we engage may also place their own cookies on your device. Note that this Privacy Policy covers only our use of cookies and does not include use of cookies by such third parties.

"Pixel Tags"/"Web Beacons". We may use “pixel tags” which are small graphic files that allow us to monitor the use of the Website or actions taken with emails we send to you. A pixel tag is a type of technology placed on a website or within the body of an email for the purpose of tracking activity on websites, or when emails are opened or accessed, and is often used in combination with cookies. A pixel tag can collect information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the tag appears; the URL of the page on which the pixel tag appears; the time the page containing the pixel tag was viewed; the type of browser that fetched the pixel tag; and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. Unlike Cookies, which are stored on the user’s hard drive, pixel tags are typically embedded invisibly on web pages (or in an e-mail). Usually, email clients download pictures in emails automatically, if you do not want pixel tags to be downloaded, switch off the automatic download of pictures in emails.

Widgets. “Social Media Widgets” such as the Facebook “Like” button, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn may be on our Website. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. These social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Analytics. We may also use Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to collect information regarding visitor behavior and visitor demographics on some of our Services, and to develop website content. This analytics data is not tied to any Personal Information. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google’s collection and Processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Our uses of such Technologies fall into the following general categories:

  1. Operationally Necessary. We may use cookies, pixel tags, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of our website, services, and tools. This includes technologies that allow you access to our website, services, and tools; that are required to identify irregular website behavior, improve security and prevent fraudulent activity; or that allow you to make use of our website functions.
  2. Performance Related . We may use cookies, pixel tags, or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our website, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our website, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content, services, or tools.
  3. Functionality Related. We may use cookies, pixel tags, or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our website, services, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our website or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our sites.

What about the blog and the forum?

You should be aware that Personal Information which you voluntarily include, publish, and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, forum or otherwise online may be viewed and used by others without any restrictions. We are unable to control such uses of your information, and by using our services such as the blog and forum, you assume the risk that the Personal Information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes.

Who Can Access the Collected Personal Data?

The collected information is kept on OneAngstrom computers, and is not shared except, were it required by French law, with local authorities.

Some of your data may be accessed by OneAngstrom staff or associates who directly manage the SAMSON Connect service. Access to your data is based on individual and limited access permissions. The personnel who can access the personal data are subject to an obligation of confidentiality.

How Secure is Information About Me?

  1. The SAMSON Connect website uses a certificate to make it possible to securely visit it (https protocol)
  2. We maintain physical and electronic safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information.
  3. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

What Information Can I Access?

Samson-Connect.net gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with Samson-Connect.net for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information.

In compliance with articles 39 and 40 of the French data protection act (Act no. 2004-801 of August 6th 2004) concerning data processing, files and individual liberties, , and in agreement with the new European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR') taking effect on May 25th, 2018, you have the right to access and modify your personal information.

OneAngstrom has designated a special correspondent (CIL) to handle data processing and privacy issues with the CNIL, in compliance with article 22-III of the amended Act of 6th January 1978. This correspondent keeps records of data processed internally and normally subject to declaration. He is notably in charge of ensuring the right to access and correct personal information. For any requests concerning personal information, please contact the CIL at cil@oneangstrom.com.

You may exercise your right to data portability, i.e. ask us to receive the data we have collected about you in a structured, broadly used format, so you can transmit this data to someone else.

What Choices Do I Have?

  1. You can add, update or remove certain information on pages. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the previous version for our records.
  2. The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable cookies altogether.
  3. You can request your account to be deleted by sending an email to contact@samson-connect.net. All personal information associated to your account will be deleted.
  4. If you want to unsubscribe from emails we may send you, you can use the unsubscribe feature contained in the e-mails.
  5. If you want to obtain information on what data we have on you, please, contact us by sending email to gdpr@oneangstrom.com. Be aware that it may take several weeks to provide this information to you depending on the number of requests.

International Privacy Practices

Using the Internet to collect and process your information may involve the transmission of information internationally. By providing us with your information you acknowledge and agree that we may store your information and transfer it to and from our servers located in France and throughout the world.

Accessing Third Party Websites

You may be able to access third party websites directly from the Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply when you access third party websites. We cannot control how third parties may use any information you disclose to them, so you should carefully review the privacy policy of any third party website you visit before using it or disclosing your information to its provider.

Our Policy Toward Minors

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service as it is stated in the Terms of Use. If you are under the age of 18, please do not attempt to provide any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from someone under the age of 18, we will promptly delete that information. If you believe we have collected personal information from someone under the age of 18, please contact us at gdpr@oneangstrom.com.

Questions and How To Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or otherwise need to contact us, please contact us by email at contact@samson-connect.net.