Privacy Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

Friends Concept is a social Events Company  (website URL address: https://friendsconcept.com). We appreciate your business and trust. We are a Paris, France-based company, that creates innovative experiences to help people connect and make friends in a genuine way.  Please read this Privacy Policy, providing consent to both documents in order to have permission to use our services.

2. OUR EVENTS

ATTENDANCE

By attending a Friends Concept event you confirm that you grant Friends Concept the permission to take and use audio or visual recordings and photographs of you that may be displayed on the Friends Concept website or social media accounts and for general publicity purposes. Please see the corresponding event descriptions to see the specific partners and event sponsors with whom we may share your info.
You have the right to withdraw the consent you have given at any time by calling the Friends Concept customer service team at +33 6 65 26 76 48 or writing to Friends Concept at contact@friendsconcept.com.

REGISTRATION DATA

If you register on our website, we store your chosen username, your email address, and any additional personal information added to your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except your username). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.

PURCHASE DATA

To reserve a ticket to attend a Friends Concept sponsored event you may use our website, Facebook, Instagram, Meetup, or Eventbrite purchase options. We will receive your name and the number of tickets reserved. The storage of your user data is required for us to allow you access to the event and provide other customer services. We do not store any further data. If you are asked to complete a survey in the course of your ticket reservation, please note that your answers will be tabulated anonymously.  Any purchase codes or confirmation numbers will be stored together with expiration dates and your user data when submitted via the Facebook, Instagram, Meetup, or Eventbrite portals. Please see each respective site for their policies on data storage.
Only the data you explicitly provide is sent, and you are asked for consent, each time you want to reserve a new ticket.

CONTACT FORM

Information submitted through the contact form on our site is sent to our company email, these submissions are only kept for customer service purposes. Where specifically noted, information submitted through the contact forms on this site will subscribe you to our monthly newsletter. Your email and personal data will never be shared with third parties.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behavior on our website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.

CASES FOR USING THE PERSONAL DATA

We use your personal information in the following cases:

  • Verification/identification of the user during website usage;
  • Providing Technical Assistance;
  • Sending updates to our users with important information to inform them about news/changes;
  • Checking the accounts’ activity in order to prevent fraudulent transactions and ensure the security
  • over our customers’ personal information;
  • Customize the website to make your experience more personal and engaging;
  • Guarantee overall performance and administrative functions run smoothly.
3. CONTENT

Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Below you can find a list of the services we use:

FACEBOOK

The Facebook page plugin is used to display our Facebook timeline on our site. Facebook has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Facebook and your IP is not sent to a Facebook server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Facebook Privacy Policy.

INSTAGRAM

The Instagram page plugin is used to display our Facebook timeline on our site. Facebook has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Facebook and your IP is not sent to a Facebook server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Instagram Privacy Policy.

TWITTER

We may use the Twitter API to display our tweet timeline on our site. Twitter has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. Your IP is not sent to a Twitter server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Twitter Privacy Policy.

YOUTUBE

We use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.

MEETUP

We use Meetup events embedded on our site. Meetup has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Meetup and your IP is not sent to a Meetup server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Meetup Privacy Policy.

GDPR Privacy Notice

For more information about your specific rights under the GDPR please see here.

You directly provide Friends Concept with most of the data we collect. We collect and process the following data from the visitors of this site:

  • Email addresses as voluntarily submitted through our form entry Newsletter signup.
  • Customer surveys are voluntarily submitted when you provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
  • Browser Cookies upon your use or viewing of our websites.

Our Company may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

  • Facebook Event RSVP or Ticket Sales via our Facebook Page Friends Concept.
  • Eventbrite Ticket Sales via Event Specific ticket sales.
  • Be aware: Upon your consent, we may share your data with our partner companies so that they may offer you their products and services to improve your overall experience.

How do we store your data?

  • We do not store any data not voluntarily submitted through newsletter signups and customer surveys.
    • Surveys are deleted regularly and removed from Friends Concept trash monthly.
    • Emails for the purpose of sending monthly newsletters are stored until we are notified in writing of your desire to UNSUBSCRIBE from our mailing list.
  • For data submitted to Facebook, please see Facebook Specific Privacy Guidelines.
  • For data submitted to Eventbrite, please see Eventbrite Specific Privacy Guidelines.
  • For data submitted to Instagram, please see Instagram Specific Privacy Guidelines.
  • For data submitted to Meetup, please see Instagram Specific Privacy Guidelines.

Our Company would like to send you information about our products and services that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies.

  • We do not share the email addresses of any of our event participants with any of our partner or sponsor companies without your prior consent.

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Friends Concept from contacting you for marketing purposes or sharing your voluntarily submitted data (Surveys and Newsletter Signups) with our partner and sponsor companies.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please be sure to unsubscribe from our newsletter mailing list, remove Friends Concept from your Instagram & Facebook pages, and contact us in writing at  contact@friendsconcept.com if you receive an errant email or partner offer.

Cookies

( For more information on what a Cookie is, see here.)

How do we use cookies?
Apéros Frenchies uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • Understanding how you use our website:

What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

  • Functionality – We use these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies is used.
  • Advertising – We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed, and information about your browser, device, and IP address. We sometimes share some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy Policies of other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 29 August 2023.

4. COOKIES

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third-party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)
  • cfduid: This is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
  • PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ADDITIONAL FOR LOGGED-IN CUSTOMERS)
  • wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication, and user verification.
  • wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication, and user verification.
  • wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
  • wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
  • wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
5. WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

If you are not a registered client on our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding yourself.

If you are a client with a registered account, your personal information can be accessed by:

  • Our system administrators.
  • Our supporters when they (in order to provide support) need to get the information about the client accounts and access.
6. THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners we have to share limited data with in order to provide the services you expect from us. Please see below:

7. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

When you submit a support ticket or a comment, its metadata is retained until (if) you tell us to remove it. We use this data so that we can recognize you and approve your comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.

If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. SECURITY MEASURES

We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personal identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.

In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.

9. YOUR DATA RIGHTS
GENERAL RIGHTS

If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us.


You can also request that we erase any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address).

If you wish that all of your data is erased, we will no longer be able to offer any support or other product-related services to you.

GDPR RIGHTS

Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. AncoraThemes permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of AncoraThemes to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.

10. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties, unless you explicitly click on them.

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. AncoraThemes bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.

11. RELEASE OF YOUR DATA FOR LEGAL PURPOSES

At times it may become necessary or desirable to Friends Concept, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.

Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country you reside in.

12. AMENDMENTS

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our services.