Legal Info & Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

eÿeka and your private data

The personal data provided by the users of the eÿeka website are processed by eÿeka. The controller and recipient of these personal data is EYEKA, a company incorporated in French law under number 488 120 916 whose headquarters is at 128 rue La Boétie 75008 Paris, France.

The collection of personal data is necessary to eÿeka for the following legitimate purposes: to perform its services and to organize the crowdsourcing contests on the eÿeka website, in order to carry out the management of the users, to identify the users, for user support purposes, to analyze the data, to communicate with the users, and to pay the winners of the contests. eÿeka uses the users’ email addresses to send information emails about the contests organized on the eÿeka website. eÿeka processes the users’ data with the users’ consent and given eÿeka’s legitimate interest to provide quality service and to improve the eÿeka website and the users’ experience.

eÿeka will share the winning users’ personal data with the its clients having acquired the intellectual property rights in the winning submissions for the purpose of enabling these clients to exercise all of their rights under the transfer of rights agreement signed between the clients and the winners. These data concern the first name, last name, post address, and date of birth.

The personal data are stored for a maximum period of one (1) year upon the closing of the personal account by the user, provided it is not necessary information for the execution of the transfer of rights agreement.

Pursuant to French Data Protection Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 (Loi relative à l’informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés), and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, the users have a right to request from eÿeka access to, rectification or erasure, restriction of processing or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability concerning their data, by sending an email to dataprivacy@eyeka.net or by writing to eÿeka, 128 rue La Boétie 75008 Paris, France by providing a copy of both sides, front and back, of the national identity card or passport.

The users may choose to unsubscribe at any time from eÿeka’s email list by clicking on the unsubscribe button available in the newsletters or by changing the settings in the “Edit Preferences” of their user account.

The users have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

eÿeka intends to transfer the users’ personal data outside the European Union for data hosting purposes in relation to a contract containing the standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission a copy of which can be requested by sending an email to dataprivacy@eyeka.net.

eÿeka implements digital, organizational, technical, software and physical security measures in accordance with state of the art technology in order to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful unauthorized loss, destruction, alteration and access.

Emailing Preferences

Check out the "When do you want to receive our newsletter?" option within your "Edit preferences" page on the Website. When you are logged in to your account, you can access your "Edit preferences" page by clicking on your profile picture at the top of the screen.
From the "When do you want to receive our newsletter?" option you can tell us when you want to receive our newsletters and our notifications (For each new contest; As a weekly digest; Never). If you select "Never", this will immediately disable all newsletters, other than transactional account notifications.
It is also possible to unsubscribe from email newsletters and notifications (other than essential account notifications) at any time by clicking on the link at the end of each email.

Cookies

When the user visits the eÿeka Website, eÿeka may record and store a "cookie" on the user’s computer, smartphone and tablet. For the following purposes:

• Identifying the user during each connection to the eÿeka Website and facilitating his/her access to the eÿeka Website;
• Personalizing the interface of the user account;
• Measuring the traffic of the eÿeka Services;
• Ascertaining the origin of the user.

Remove tracking cookies from eÿeka

The tracking cookies from eÿeka have been removed

Definition of the cookies

A cookie is a text file put down on the hard drive of the terminal of the user (computer, mobile phone or tablet) during the visit of a web site. It aims at collecting information relative to the browsing of the user and at sending him/her adapted services.
Cookies are managed by the browser of the user.

Setting up of the browser

User can decline to accept the Cookie by setting the browser to notify when the Cookie is received following instructions hereinafter and being aware that the refusal may affect the use of website.

Windows Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Internet Explorer 11

1. Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options".
2. Open the "Privacy" tab.
3. In the "Settings" area - to disable cookies move the slider bar to "Block All Cookies" (at the top).
4. Click OK.

Firefox

1. Click on the menu button and then choose 'Options'.
2. Select the 'Privacy & Security panel' and go to the History section.
3. Set 'Firefox will': to 'Use custom settings for history'.
4. Check mark 'Accept cookies from sites' to enable Cookies, and uncheck it to disable them.
5. Choose how long cookies are allowed to be stored: Keep until 'they expire' ou 'I close Firefox' ou 'ask me every time'.
6. Click OK to close the Options window.

Chrome

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More ⋮ Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. Under 'Privacy and security,' click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Turn Allow sites to save and read cookie data on or off.