1. Website publisher

The villesvivantes.com website is published by:

Villes Vivantes

Legal form: SAS (simplified joint-stock company)

Registered office: 117, rue François de Sourdis – 33000 Bordeaux

Telephone: +33 6 50 89 20 11

Email: bonjour@villesvivantes.com

Bordeaux Trade and Companies Register (RCS): 791 961 204

Intra-Community VAT number: FR 59 791 961 204

APE / NAF code: 7111Z – Architectural activities

Share capital: €327,000

Publication director: David Miet, in his capacity as President.

2. Hosting

The website is hosted by:

Webflow, Inc. 398 11th Street, 2nd Floor – San Francisco, CA 94103, United States

Email: contact@webflow.com / Website: webflow.com

3. Intellectual property

All content on the website (texts, photographs, illustrations, graphics, logos, icons, layout, source code, etc.) is protected by copyright in accordance with Articles L. 111-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code and, where applicable, by the applicable international legislation.

The structure and organisation of the website’s content may constitute a protected database under Articles L. 341-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code. Any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial extraction or reuse of the content of this database is prohibited.

The name “Villes Vivantes”, the logo and the associated distinctive signs are registered or unregistered trademarks of Villes Vivantes, protected under Articles L. 713-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code. Any unauthorised use of these signs is prohibited.

Unless otherwise stated, these elements are the exclusive property of Villes Vivantes or are used under an authorisation. Visuals and illustrations from external sources remain the property of their respective authors and are used in accordance with the licences governing them.

In accordance with Article L. 122-4 of the French Intellectual Property Code, any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation, in whole or in part, of any of these elements, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written authorisation of Villes Vivantes, is strictly prohibited and constitutes an infringement punishable under Articles L. 335-2 et seq. of the same Code. The exceptions provided for in Article L. 122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code (in particular the right of short quotation, private copying and press reviews) remain reserved.

4. Limitation of liability

Villes Vivantes endeavours to provide information on its website that is as accurate and up to date as possible. However, it cannot guarantee the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the information published. Consequently, users acknowledge that they use this information under their sole responsibility.

The website may contain hyperlinks to third-party websites. Villes Vivantes has no control over the content of these websites and accepts no liability for their content or for any damage that may result from consulting them.

Villes Vivantes cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from access to the website or the inability to access it, or from the use of the information it contains.

For any question, correction or report, you can write to: bonjour@villesvivantes.com

5. Personal data protection (GDPR)

5.1 Data controller

Villes Vivantes, represented by Denis Caraire, is the controller of the personal data collected via the website, within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) and amended French Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 (French Data Protection Act, “loi Informatique et Libertés”).

5.2 Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Denis Caraire – privacy@villesvivantes.com

5.3 Data collected and purposes

The website collects personal data in the following cases:

• Newsletter subscription: email address (mandatory); first name, surname and profession (optional). The profession is selected from a predefined list. Purpose: sending communications relating to the activities of Villes Vivantes and, where applicable, personalising content according to the subscriber’s professional profile. Legal basis: consent of the data subject (Art. 6.1.a GDPR). You can unsubscribe at any time via the link provided for this purpose in each email or by writing to privacy@villesvivantes.com.
• Browsing data: IP address, browser type, pages visited, date and time of connection, collected automatically by the host (Webflow). Purpose: operation and security of the website, visitor statistics. Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f GDPR).
• Cookies and trackers: see section 6 below.

5.4 Recipients

The data collected is intended exclusively for Villes Vivantes’ internal departments. It is neither sold nor transferred to third parties, with the exception of technical processors acting on behalf of Villes Vivantes in compliance with the safeguards provided for by the GDPR (Art. 28), and cases where a legal obligation so requires. The processors concerned are:

• Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), a French company – management and sending of the newsletter. Subscription data (email address and, where applicable, surname, first name and profession) is transmitted directly from the user’s browser to Brevo’s servers located in the European Union, without passing through Webflow’s servers.
• Webflow, Inc., a company governed by US law – hosting of the website’s static elements (pages, images, code). Webflow does not process any newsletter-related data. Only technical browsing data (in particular the IP address) is processed by Webflow as part of the operation of the website.

5.5 Retention period

• Newsletter-related data: kept until consent is withdrawn (unsubscription), then deleted within a reasonable period not exceeding 30 days.
• Browsing data and logs: 13 months maximum (in accordance with the recommendations of the CNIL).
• Cookies: see section 6.

5.6 Data subjects’ rights

In accordance with Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, you have the following rights over your personal data: the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, portability and objection, and the right to withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

You can exercise these rights by sending your request to: privacy@villesvivantes.com, together with proof of identity in the event of reasonable doubt.

If you are not satisfied with the response, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, the French data protection authority): www.cnil.fr.

5.7 Transfers outside the EU

The hosting of the website by Webflow, Inc. (a company governed by US law) involves a transfer of technical browsing data (in particular visitors’ IP addresses) to servers located in the United States. This transfer is limited to what is strictly technically necessary to display the website and manage security logs; newsletter-related data, managed by Brevo, remains hosted in the European Union and is not transferred outside the EEA. Webflow implements appropriate safeguards (standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or, where applicable, the EU–US data protection framework — EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework) in accordance with Chapter V of the GDPR. Webflow’s European privacy policy can be consulted at: https://webflow.com/legal/eu-privacy-policy.

6. Cookies and trackers

The website uses cookies managed through the Cookiebot solution. To find out which cookies are placed, their purposes, and to make your choices, see our Cookie policy. You can change your preferences at any time via the consent management banner.

7. Applicable law and jurisdiction

This legal notice is governed by French law. Any dispute relating to the use of the website shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Bordeaux.

8. Credits

This website was designed and produced by Villes Vivantes.

Images and illustrations used on the website that do not bear a specific credit are produced by Villes Vivantes.

For images and illustrations bearing a credit, their terms of use are set by the rights holders.