Privacy policy

By using the Site, you consent to this online Privacy Policy.

The data controller is Société BIC, having its registered office 14 rue Jeanne d’Asnières, 92611 Clichy Cedex, France.

BIC Group (meaning Société BIC and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries referred to herein as "BIC" or "We” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy when visiting our website, www.nextbicthing.com, (“Site”). The purpose of this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is to inform you about the types of data we gather about you when you visit the Site, how we use that data, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of your data. If you would prefer your personal data is not used in the manner described in this policy, you should not use our Site.

The Site does not require personal information from visitors in order to gain access to any part of our Site. Site usage information and cookies, no personal information is automatically collected from visitors to the Site. Any other personal information you may provide will be on a voluntary basis.

You may at any time withdraw or change your consent to our use or disclosure of your personal information, or request that we delete it from BIC’s files, subject to legal and contractual restrictions. However, if you do not provide personal information required for us to supply you with a service offered on the Site, we may not be able to provide that service to you.

For California residents, see article “Your California Privacy Rights” regarding your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.

We may also use your personal data for other purposes which are disclosed to you and to which you consent, or for such other purposes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We may use Google Analytics or other third-party analytic tools to analyse user behaviour which allows us to measure consumer interest in the various areas of our Site for product and Site development purposes.  These third-party analytic tools tell us aggregate and collected information such as how the site was accessed and how long visitors stayed.  This information is used for our own internal purposes to improve the content of this Site, to enhance users’ experience when visiting our Site, and to customize the content and/or layout of our pages.  All information of user behaviour described herein will be recorded on a group basis, and such analysis may be shared with our Site development consultants.  This information is aggregated and not personally identifiable.  To learn more about Google Analytics and how it uses your data, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

The Site may contain links to other websites. BIC has no control over and assumes no responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of these websites. You should review the privacy policies of each website you visit.

The Site may integrate third party platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter “like” and “share” function.  We can collect technical information using cookies and other technologies on our own behalf and through the use of third-party platforms, such as those named in this paragraph.  Technical information may include your IP address, browsing path, operating system, and other information.  When you interact with the third-party platforms, such as using the Facebook “like” or “share” feature, that platform may record your interaction with the Site.  The third-party platforms have their own privacy policies, which govern the use of any personal or non-personal information they collect. 

We will only process your personal data where we have a legal basis to do so. Depending on the purposes for which we are processing your personal data (as explained in section 2 above), the legal basis will be one of the following:

• Performance of a contract: for example, where it is necessary for us to process your personal data to process an application you have placed via our Site.
• Your consent: for example, if you have given us your consent to provide your personal data to us or third parties for marketing purposes.
• For our or our third parties’ legitimate business interests: for example, where it is necessary for BIC to process personal data for the purposes of preventing fraud.
• Compliance with law: for example, where BIC is subject to a legal or regulatory obligation and needs to use your personal data in order to comply.

We take steps to ensure that the personal data that you provide is retained for only as long as it is necessary considering the purpose for which it was collected. Personal data collected to apply to join the BIC R&D Squad made via our Site will typically be retained for the duration of the contract plus an additional period, which will be in line with the statutory limitation period in the applicable jurisdiction.

Where we have collected your personal data based on your consent and we have no other lawful basis to continue with the processing, you may at any time withdraw or change your consent to our use or disclosure of your personal data subject to legal restrictions. The revocation of your consent will be valid for the future and will not affect the legality of the processing that was done based on your initial consent.

Like many other web sites, our Site may use a standard technology called a "cookie", or technology which is similar to a cookie, to collect and record information about your usage of the Site. Cookies are designed notably to help us recognize you as a previous user of the Site and thus offer you a service tailored and personalised to your profile and improve your user experience when you visit our Site again.

Cookies that we may issue cannot retrieve any other information from your hard drive or pass on a computer virus.

We may issue cookies that allow us to:

• customize the presentation of our Site to the display settings of your data terminal (language, screen resolution, operating system, etc.) during your visit on our Site, based on your data terminal's hardware, viewing software and video software;
• customize the advertising content displayed in our advertising space on your data terminal based on previous information that you have provided;
• implement security measures, such as when you are asked to log in again to contents or a service after a certain period of time;
• identify which parts of our Site you have been visited or keep track of your preferences, track a path through our web pages;

We only use cookies to gather the information indicated in this policy and do not use cookies to gather personal identifying information about you without your consent.

In any case, you can decide to allow or block cookies. There are several ways to manage cookies, as described below. However, some difficulties to navigate on our Site might occur.

• You can configure your browser to allow cookies to be stored on your data terminal, to reject them automatically or to reject them from certain issuers. You can also configure your browser so that you are promptly asked to accept or reject cookies before a cookie is saved to your data terminal. Each browser has a different way of managing cookies and cookie settings. The configuration of your browser is described in its help menu which will inform you of how to change your cookie settings.

Your navigation on our Site can lead to the installation of cookies issued by third parties partners (for example communication agencies, web and audience analytics agencies, social media, YouTube, …) for statistical purposes or to be able to propose you offers on their platforms which may interest you. The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties.

Finally, you can also connect to www.youronlinechoices.com, a website proposed by digital advertising professionals, in order to help you control, accept or reject some cookies placed in your browser.

We have policies and procedures in place to protect your personal data from loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. In addition, we have implemented technological safeguards including security software, passwords and firewalls intended to prevent unauthorized computer access. No claim is made as to the impenetrability of the system under unusual circumstance or its resilience to future attacks.

We do not track your activity on any other website, but ours. We do not use information obtained from this Site to participate in activities commonly known as behavioural advertising and we, by default, do not track your activity on any other site. Some browsers have a "do not track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. These features are not yet uniform, and our website is able to respond to some, but not all of those signals.

Except as specified herein or permitted or required by applicable law, we do not share personal information about you with any third party without your permission and we do not allow third parties to collect personally identifiable information from users on this Site.  This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating the Site, conducting our business or serving you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information secure and confidential. Third party providers maintain the information they need to perform their designated functions and we do not authorize such parties to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes.

We may release your personal information when release is permitted by or appropriate to comply with the law (for example, in response to a legally valid inquiry or order or otherwise required or permitted by applicable law), to enforce our Site policies, to exercise or a defend legal claims or to protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.  However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

If we become involved in a transaction to sell all or parts of our business or assets or merge with another business, as personal information may be part of such transactions, we may use or disclose such information to other parties involved in the transaction.

Please note that your personal information may be maintained and processed by service providers located in foreign jurisdictions, whose data protection laws may differ from the jurisdiction in which you live. 

Your personal data collected on the Site is stored at secure locations. We foster, as far as possible, the storage and transfer of your personal data on servers located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”). However, please note that your personal data may be kept and processed by service providers located in jurisdictions outside the EEA, whose data protection laws may differ from the jurisdiction in which you live, and which may provide you with fewer rights. We will take all the reasonably necessary measures to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and the applicable EU regulation. If you would like more information on these safeguards put in place, please contact us.

We do not knowingly collect or store any personal data from or market to children under 13 or as defined by local legal requirements.

Should we decide otherwise, we will obtain consent from a legal representative before we collect personal data of children where it is required by applicable laws and regulations (the age at which consent from a legal representative is necessary varies from country to country).

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy, the collection or the accuracy of your personal data, the use or disclosing of the information, or requests to correct, amend and request deletion of your personal data may be directed to our Data Protection Officer: data-protection@bicworld.com.

This Privacy Policy is subject to change at our discretion. You should periodically check this Site for changes to this Privacy Policy. All changes will be posted as soon as they go into effect.

You may also have a right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority however we recommend you contact us before doing so as we may be able to resolve any issues with you directly in a more efficient manner.

For inquiries from Canadian Citizens or Residents:

BIC Inc., Attn: Privacy Officer, Consumer Affairs, 155 Oakdale Road, Toronto, ON M3M 1W2. PrivacyOfficer.Toronto@bicworld.com

This Privacy Policy is subject to change at our discretion. You should periodically check this Site for changes to this Privacy Policy. All changes will be posted as soon as they go into effect. Your continued access to and/or use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, this Privacy Policy, as revised.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access Request Rights

You have the right to request that BIC disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.  Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.

Sale of Personal Information

BIC does not sell your personal information.

Use of Personal Information

For information on how we use your personal information, see section Use of personal information we collect from you, above.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

Exercising Access and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Completing the appropriate webform in the link below:
  • If you connected with us using the join the “BIC R&D Squad” feature on our website, fill out this webform.

• Emailing us at data-protection@bicworld.com.

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or deletion twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.  In order to verify your identity, we may request that you provide us with your name, address or email address. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.  We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt.  If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt.  The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. 

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, our Privacy Statement, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at: data-protection@bicworld.com.

This Privacy Policy is subject to change at our discretion. You should periodically check this Site for changes to this Privacy Policy. All changes will be posted as soon as they go into effect. Your continued access to and/or use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, this Privacy Policy, as revised.

Last updated December 2019