2025-01-05

Publisher Information

Managing Service
Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion
General Commission for Sustainable Development
Tour Séquoia
92055 La Défense, France
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 81 10 40

Publication Director: Thomas Lesueur

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Access the contact form for State Services : https://contact.ecologie.gouv.fr/

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Ministry Responsibility

The information provided on this website is offered as a service to the public and the Sustainable AI Coalition. The documents available online do not bind the responsibility of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, nor the Ministry of Energy Transition.

The information and/or documents available on this site are subject to modification at any time and may be updated accordingly.

The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, as well as the Ministry of Energy Transition, cannot be held liable for any damages of any nature resulting from the interpretation or use of the information and/or documents available on this website.

Preamble: Definitions

1. Personal Data

When the data available on this site includes personal information, users must use it in compliance with current regulations and the recommendations of the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL).

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended, you have the right to object (Art. 38), access (Art. 39), rectify, or delete (Art. 40) the data concerning you. You may exercise this right by contacting the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

2. Data subjects’ rights

Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation: The data subjects have rights over their data including the right to access, rectification, objection, restriction, erasure and portability of your personal data.

3. General Data Protection Regulation

Indicates the legal corpus relating to personal data protection, including amended Act 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on Data Processing, Data Files and Individual Liberties, and any new laws and implementing decrees, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an important reference in the area of personal data protection, which came into effect on 25 May 2018.

4. Controllers

Article 4.7 of the General Data Protection Regulation: “Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

Confidentiality and Data Protection Policy

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, the processing referred to in this Confidentiality and Data Protection Policy are supported by a specific legal basis.

This policy informs you of the conditions in which the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion collects, processes, stores, archives and deletes your personal data. It also informs you of the rights that you have over your data.
The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion collects personal data concerning you when you voluntarily chose to transmit this data to us.

1. What personal data does the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion process and collect?

• Cookies: When you visit this website, cookies are automatically stored on your computer, your mobile phone or your tablet.
  A cookie is a text file stored on your computer when you visit a website or view an advertisement.
  For more information on our cookies policy (type, duration, objection procedures).
• Logging system: Logging concerns access of users including their IP address, the date and the time they log in and log out and their browsing history (all of the links and pages viewed by the user).
• Contact form: The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion collects personal data concerning you when you voluntarily chose to transmit this data to us using the contact form available online on this website.
  In this way, we automatically collect your IP address. Your IP address and personal information that you chose to indicate in your message (surname, first name, address) is stored in a database and accessible to staff working at the Ministry in charge of processing responses.
• Exercising rights: Identification data (surname, first name, e-mail address, telephone number, company, position, where necessary, a copy of identification card, for the purposes of exercising right to access, rectification or objection or to respond to a legal requirement)

2. What are the purposes and grounds for the collection of your personal data?

Cookies (Consent)

Facilitate users’ browsing by storing their data
To measure site visits and to suggest videos, sharing buttons and content from social platforms, and animated and interactive content.

Logging system (Legitimate interest)

To identify fraudulent access or abusive use of personal data or determine the origin of an incident, we record certain action conducted in information systems.
To do so, France Diplomatie has a system to manage traces and incidents. It records relevant events and ensures that these records cannot be changed.

Contact form (Consent)

To enable all users to contact the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion about a specific question it may be interested in.

Exercising rights (Legal requirement)

To reply to requests from data subjects with regard to the availability of this personal data, its processing in compliance with this policy.

3. Who are the recipients of the personal data processed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion?

The only recipient of personal data that you may transmit is the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, which processes it.

4. What are the security measures implemented by Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion?

The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion has committed to implementing all the technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of personal data processing and the confidentiality of your data, in compliance with the Act on Data Processing, Data Files and Individual Liberties, and any new laws and implementing decrees, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Therefore, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion takes all the necessary security precautions with regard to the nature of your data and the risks involved in the processing in order to protect the confidentiality and the integrity of data. This consists of preventing data from being distorted or damaged or non-authorized third parties from having access (physical protection of offices, accreditation procedure to access competent staff, personal and secure personal access with confidential logins and passwords, logging connections, etc.)

5. How long is personal data stored?

Cookies

A cookie is a text file deposited on your computer when you visit a website or view an advertisement. It enables retention of user data in order to facilitate browsing and enable operation of various functionalities. Cookies are managed by your Internet browser.

Three types of cookies are used on the sustainableaicoalition.org website:

1. Internal cookies necessary for the website to function

These cookies enable the website to function optimally. You can refuse their storage and delete them using your browser settings, although this may spoil your user experience.

2. Audience measurement cookies

Audience measurement tools are used to obtain information on visitors’ browsing. For example, they can be used to understand how users arrive on a website and reconstruct their route.

You can choose to refuse these audience measurement cookies via your browser settings.

3. Third-party cookies, aimed at improving site interactivity

The website sustainableaicoalition.org can use certain services provided by third-party sites. These include:

• Sharing buttons (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn);
• Videos posted on the website (YouTube);
• Embedded tweets (Twitter);
• Embedded Facebook posts (Facebook).

These functionalities use third-party cookies installed by these services themselves.

Refusing the storage of cookies

You can choose to deactivate cookies at any time. Here is how to refuse them by default in the most common browsers.

If you use Firefox:

1. Click on the menu button and choose Options.
2. Select the Privacy panel and go to the History section.
3. In the drop-down menu next to Firefox will:, choose Use custom settings for history.
4. Uncheck Accept cookies from sites to disable cookies.
5. In the drop-down menu next to Accept third-party cookies, choose Never.
6. Close the about:preferences page. Any changes you’ve made will automatically be saved.

If you use Chrome:

1. At the top right, click on More and then Settings. At the bottom, click on Advanced. Under Privacy and security, click on Content settings.
4. Click on Cookies.
5. Turn off Allow sites to save and read cookie data.
6. Click on OK to validate.

If you use Internet Explorer:

1. Select the Tools button, and then select Internet options.
2. Select the Privacy tab, and under Settings, select Advanced.
3. Check the Override automatic cookie handling box then select Block in the Third-party cookies column.

If you have any questions regarding this information on personal data and cookies, feel free to write to us via our contact form.

Logging system

This data is stored one year.

Contact form

This data is stored one year.

Exercising rights

This data is stored one calendar year from the time of the special request, plus two years.

III – Data subjects’ rights

1. What rights do you have?

Personal data protection regulations recognize that people whose data is collected have the possibility to exercise certain rights:

• A right to access: You have the right to attain confirmation of whether or not your personal data is processed, and when it is, to attain access to the said data and a certain amount of additional information.

• A right to rectification: You may ask that the data concerning you be corrected or supplemented if it is inexact.

• A right to deletion: For certain reasons, you may have the Ministry to delete the personal data concerning you.

• A right to objection: You may object at any time for reasons regarding special circumstances, personal data processing based on public or legitimate interest of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion.

• A right to portability: You may recover the data you provided the Ministry, in a structured format, commonly used and legible by a machine.

2. How can you exercise your rights?

To exercise these rights or for any questions regarding the processing of your data in this system, you can contact our data protection delegate.

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Ministère de la Transition écologique et de la Cohésion des territoire
Commissariat Général au Développement Durable
ECOLAB
Tour Séquoia
92055 La Défense