Privacy Policy

This document aims to inform on the nature, the scope and purpose of the processing of personal data by LAB. The information contained in this Privacy Policy applies to all processing of personal data conducted by LAB and specifically:

  • Visitors of the website www.lab.fr about how LAB collects and processes their personal data when visiting and browsing the website www.lab.fr (including any data you may choose to provide via the contact form or by submitting a spontaneous application).
  • Generally, in the context of our online presence.
  • Visitors to our premises or worksites

As well as representatives of our partners during professional exchanges

Joint Controllers for processing personal data:

  • LAB – Simplified Joint Stock Company, RCS Lyon: 428 679 385
    259 avenue Jean Jaurès – 69007 Lyon – France
  • LAB GmbH – HRB 758162 (Stuttgart), Hedelfinger Straße 137 – 70329 Stuttgart – Germany

Contact us: For any question regarding the protection of your personal data, you can contact us:
📧 By email: data-privacy@lab.fr
📮 Or by post:

For France: LAB – Legal Department, 259 avenue Jean Jaurès, 69007 Lyon, France

For Germany: LAB – Hedelfinger Straße 137, 70329 Stuttgart, Germany.

Collection of personal data:

Personal data may be collected during your interactions and professional exchanges with LAB, during our online presence, as well as on the website www.lab.fr through:

• Contact forms;
• Document downloads;
• Spontaneous applications;
• Audience measurement tools (cookies).

or by other means

  • During trade fairs, events, or direct exchanges — LAB may collect your data (business card, mailing list registration, paper form, etc.).
  • Your visits to our premises or to our sites.
  • Generally, via all professional exchanges including correspondence by emails.

Purposes of processing:

The personal data collected is used depending on your interactions and exchanges with LAB staff, and on your online activity on www.lab.fr

• To respond to your contact request, process your inquiry, and, if necessary, ensure commercial follow-up and customer service;
• To carry out commercial prospecting;
• To assess your application and possible recruitment;
• To monitor and improve your visit and navigation on the LAB website, as well as other online presence.

• For administrative reasons or for the protection of our premises or construction sites.

• If necessary for the drawing up or the performance of the contract.

Data collected and processed:

In accordance with the principle of minimization of processing, we only collect and process the data that is necessary:

• Via the electronic contact form, LAB will collect and process your contact details ( surname, first name, telephone number and email address);
• Via a spontaneous application, LAB will collect and process the personal data you provide with your application;
• Your contact details collected by other means in our professional relationships ( e.g. Email exchanges);

• During your visit to our premises (first and last name)

• Professional qualifications if there is a need to identify them (e.g., during your visit to our premises or a construction site).

• In the event of a site visit, we can also collect and process copies of your identity cards and/or professional accreditations.

• General information required in connection with invoicing and final payment;
• Cookies.

Legal bases for processing:

Depending on each processing activity, the identified legal basis is:

- Consent (particularly while you are connected via the form or when you submit your application).

- Contract execution.

- Legitimate interest

LAB may also process your personal data to comply with legal obligations (e.g., visit to a construction site, obligation to keep proper accounts).

Recipients:

The personal data collected must only be made accessible to authorized people at LAB to know about it regarding their missions and functions.

The transfer of your data to third parties takes place only within the scope of legal requirements. We only pass on your data to third parties if this is necessary. For example, disclosure may be required for billing purposes or when it is necessary to comply with a contractual obligation.

If we use processors, we will take appropriate legal precautions as well as appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data in accordance with applicable law.

To ensure the continuity of the protection of personal data, their transfer outside the European Union is subject to specific rules (Article 44 and following. of the GDPR) and if there is an adequate level of data protection in the country in question, i.e., when other legal conditions apply.

Data retention period:

The data recorder will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose, and provided that its deletion does not conflict with any legal retention obligations.

Personal data is retained:

• Until your request for deletion;
• Or for a maximum of 2 years from your last interaction with LAB;
• For 13 months maximum for cookies.

• For the duration necessary to fulfill a contract

• Or in accordance with the legal retention period.

Your rights relating to the processing of your personal data:

In accordance with the GDPR (EU Regulation 2016/679) and in France, French Data Protection Act and in Germany, Federal German law BDSG, you have the following rights:

• Right of access to your data and information (Art.15 GDPR): You can ask whether we are processing your personal data. If this is the case, you have the right to be informed about this personal data as well as other information relating to the processing. Please note that in some cases, this right to information may be limited or excluded
• Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): If the personal data concerning you are no longer accurate or incomplete, you may request that it be rectified and, if necessary, supplemented; • Right to erasure (right to be forgotten) (Art. 17 and 18 GDPR) which applies that if the legal conditions are met, you can demand the deletion of your personal data, this right may be limited or excluded in accordance with the legal rules (if necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority);
• Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR) for reasons relating to your particular situation, you can also object to the processing of personal data at any time, if the legal conditions are met, we will no longer process your personal data in the future;
• Right to withdraw your consent at any time for the future , revocation only applies in the future, this means that revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of consent.

To exercise your rights, contact us at:
📧 By email: data-privacy@lab.fr
📮 Or by post

For France: LAB – Legal Department, 259 avenue Jean Jaurès, 69007 Lyon, France

For Germany: LAB - Hedelfinger Straße 137, 70329 Stuttgart, Germany.

If you believe your rights are not being respected, you have the right to file a complaint with the competent authority:

For France

  • Online complaint service: Plaintes | CNIL
  • Or by post:
    Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)
    Complaints Department
    3 Place de Fontenoy - TSA 80715
    75334 PARIS CEDEX 07 - FRANCE

For Germany

by post:

  • Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)
  • +49 (0) 981 180093-0
  • poststelle@lda.bayern.de
  • Post office box 606
  • 91511 Ansbach
  • Germany

Use of social networks:

LAB has accounts on certain social networks to present its activities and interact with users.

Please note that your personal data may be processed by the provider of the respective social networks, possibly outside the European Union, which may entail additional risks regarding the exercise of your data protection rights.

Social media providers may process user data for advertising and market research purposes, including the creation of user profiles based on your behavior and interests. This may involve the use of cookies and tracking technologies across different devices.

We have no influence on the data processing conducted by these platforms. However, we may receive aggregated and anonymized statistics (e.g., the number of visitors or interactions).

As a rule, we do not store or process personal data via social media, except when you contact us directly (e.g., via private messages), in which case your username may be processed to respond to your request.

For more information, please refer to the privacy policies of the relevant platforms:

You can also manage your advertising preferences here:

We recommend that you exercise your data protection rights directly with the respective platform provider.

Updates:

LAB reserves the right to modify this policy to comply with legislative, regulatory, or technical developments processing techniques or to reflect changes in the online presence. If your consent is required or if parts of the data protection declaration contain provisions relating to the contractual relationship with you, changes will only be made with your consent.

We ask you to check the content of this data protection policy regularly.