PRIVACY POLICY

https://www.bigben.eu/

As Data Controller, Bigben Interactive ("We", "Us", "Our", "Bigben"), a Bigben group company with its registered office at 396-466, rue de la Voyette – CRT 2 – 59273 Fretin, France, collects the personal data of Users and Customers (hereinafter the "Data") of the website https://www.bigben.eu (hereinafter the "Site").

Our Privacy Policy aims to inform you of Our practices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of the Data that you may provide to us through the Site or Our mobile applications in order to benefit from the proposed services (hereinafter the "Services").

  • Users shall mean any internet user who browses one of the Sites and has created an online account on the Platform to become a Bigben Member.
  • Subscribers shall mean any internet user who subscribes to the Site's newsletter.
  • Customers shall mean any User who has created an account and places an order on the Site to purchase a product or subscribe to the Services.

You should only use the Site after having read our Privacy Policy. If you are a minor, you must register as a member or access the Sites and its Services only after your parents (or guardian) have read our Privacy Policy. As the processing of your Data is carried out within the scope of Bigben's activities in the territory of the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (or "GDPR") applies, whether or not the processing takes place within the European Union. Thus, the processing of your Data is subject to the provisions of the GDPR even if you reside outside the European Union.

Data Collected

We may need to obtain certain Data from you when you use or interact with Our Services. We may ask you for the following Data:

Data you provide to us:

  • Your email address and your country/region when you register or log in to your Bigben member account. If you use a social media account to log in or create a Bigben member account to use Our Services, any publicly available Data (including, but not limited to, your profile picture, gender, date of birth, and language settings) associated with your social media account may also be collected by Us, subject to your consent.
  • Your email address when you subscribe to the Site's newsletter.
  • Information provided when you complete your account on the Site, namely: Your name, first name, date of birth, country, language, contact/delivery/billing address (including postal code), contact information, email address. If you do not provide us with this Data, you will not be able to use the Services.

Data relating to your orders that we collect during your purchases on the Sites (it being specified that creating an account is mandatory to order on the Sites):

  • Your name, first name, email, postal address, country, language, date of birth, purchase history, registered product(s), and wishlist.

Data relating to the use of the Services collected by our technical partners:

  • Device data: device model, version and type of your operating system, IP address.
  • Log information: such as settings, the time your device is active, the network you use to connect to the Services, availability, crash history, your interface preferences, the type and language settings of your browser, diagnostics and usage data, and your usage habits of Our Services.

Purposes and Legal Bases for Processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes: This processing is based on the following legal bases:
To evaluate and improve Our Services**.
To obtain feedback from Our Customers and analyze the User experience in order to develop and evaluate new services and devices**.
To send you satisfaction surveys, particularly concerning our Customer Service, to analyze the User experience**.
To respond to User requests, such as repair requests, and to answer your questions*.
Bigben's legitimate interest in:
improving the functioning of the Sites and Services**;
responding to your requests*.
To carry out the registration process for the Bigben member account or the device,
To send and fulfill any request you make, including, but not limited to, information and documentation relating to your purchase, such as invoices or proofs of purchase, software updates, and technical notices,
To verify your identity, send participation notifications and prizes awarded during campaigns when you participate in one of Our events or contests,
To assist you in registering, analyzing, modifying, and storing your Information, including data concerning you. Furthermore, we will assist you in modifying and accessing your data,
To accompany you throughout your purchase on the Sites and, where applicable, to send you an email in case of an unvalidated shopping cart,
To send you an email on your personal birthday or on the anniversary of your account creation or newsletter subscription to offer you a gift,
To send you important notifications, such as important changes to Our terms, conditions, and policies.
To create and send content such as electronic documents or newsletters to which you have subscribed in order to remain informed of the latest Bigben news, promotions, and upcoming events. You may terminate your subscription at any time, without additional cost, by clicking on the unsubscribe link,
To recommend other services that may interest you based on your use of Our Services,
To send you a promotional offer on Your birthday,
To provide you with marketing communications and advertisements that may be of interest to you, subject to your consent.
The consent of Users / Customers to receive by email marketing communications and advertising from BIGBEN, BIGBEN group companies, and/or its partners.
To place / read trackers and analyze your browsing on the Sites. The consent of Customers and Users to cookies on the Sites.
To respond to our legal or regulatory obligations applicable to the Site's activity, made notably by public authorities,
To manage your requests related to the exercise of your rights over your personal data, including your rights: of access, rectification, and opposition, which you benefit from pursuing the regulations on personal data.
Any other purpose, with your consent.

Recipients of your Data

To enable Bigben to fulfill the purposes stated above, your Data may be sent to the following recipients:

  • Authorized persons within Bigben's departments, and in particular:
    • Marketing Department
    • Customer Service Department
    • Legal Department
    • Accounting Department
    • IT Department
    • Logistics Department
  • Service providers, suppliers, and subcontractors who participate in the provision of the Services (including the company GAMES.FR, a subcontractor in charge of processing orders placed on the Sites, as well as the Site's host and service providers who help us send marketing communications, contribute to customer support, delivery of purchases, and billing). These service providers, suppliers, and subcontractors will only use your Data in accordance with Our instructions and for the purposes hereof.
  • Administrative or judicial authorities in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory provisions.
  • BIGBEN Group companies (in particular BIGBEN CONNECTED, GAMES.FR, NACON, and METRONIC) for Customer database management.

We will also share your Data outside the BIGBEN Group with third parties only with your consent:

  • Business partners: We transmit your Data, once anonymized, to Our business partners, including Our business partners who provide data analysis services or advertising and marketing communications based on aggregated and anonymized information.

Locations of Your Data Processing

Your Data collected and processed within the framework of the Services is primarily stored in the European Union. Bigben undertakes to take all appropriate protection measures in the event of a transfer of your data outside the European Union (implementation of the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision for the site host Google "Digital Privacy Framework").

Retention Period of Your Data

Your collected Data will be kept for the entire period necessary to accomplish the purposes above, plus the legal prescription period. Your data collected upon your registration will be kept for the entire duration of your relationship with Bigben. It may then be kept and processed for 3 (three) years from the end of the commercial relationship (for example, from a purchase, the expiry date of a warranty, or the last contact from you) to allow us to send you commercial solicitations, subject to the withdrawal of your consent where it was required or the exercise of your right to object. Your Data may be kept longer under specific legal obligations or in view of applicable legal prescription periods.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on your device by your web browser. They allow servers hosting a website's content to recognize a visitor and keep track of their activity. Cookies can be active for just one session, or they can remain on your device for longer, allowing the server to recognize a visitor over several visits.

Subject to your consent and your settings in the information banner during your first visit, the Sites may use the cookies listed in the information banner, including:

Service Cookies

Service cookies are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the Sites. Your consent is not necessary to read/place them. They include:

  • Session ID Cookies: These cookies allow us to record, recognize, and link your actions, to display the website correctly, and to provide you with the services you request. These cookies are only active when you visit the sites and do not remain on your device after the browsing session ends.
  • Browsing Experience Cookies: These cookies allow us to save a user's preferences, such as their language, country, age, and whether they have seen our privacy banner or disabled our cookie control. We use them to improve your browsing experience and display appropriate content. Some cookies will remain active for the duration of the session, while others (such as language preferences) will be stored on your device so that these preferences can be taken into account during your next visit.

Non-Service Related Cookies

Non-service related cookies are not strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the Sites, but they are useful for us to improve the Sites and offer more personalized and tailored content, as well as marketing and advertising elements. They include:

  • Web Audience Measurement Cookies: These cookies allow us to know when visitors interact with the Sites as well as our marketing communications and advertisements, on the Sites and on third-party sites. The information we may record includes actions taken with the mouse as well as scrolling movements, not to mention basic interactions with website forms or with any other content. We use this data to measure the performance of the Sites and our advertisements. These cookies may be set during your visit to the Sites as well as when you visit websites displaying our advertisements. These cookies may be managed by third parties who provide us with web audience measurement services and may remain on your device after your session ends.
  • Advertising Cookies: These cookies allow us to know and record when visitors visit and interact with our website, marketing communications, and advertisements, on this site and on third-party sites. We use this data for targeting and personalizing the Sites, our marketing communications, and our advertisements on the Sites and on third-party sites. They allow us to offer you products and services that are adapted and defined according to your visits, searches, and views during your previous interactions with the Sites. These cookies may be managed by third-party advertising networks and will remain on your device after your session ends.
  • Social Network Plug-in Cookies: If you are logged into a social networking site, such as Facebook, it may have placed a cookie on your device that recognizes you when you view content on the Sites. These cookies allow you to share content on social networks using common settings, and they may allow the social network to track your activity. Please consult the privacy and/or cookie policy of the social network in question for more information and control options.

The information banner allows you to accept, refuse, and configure your choices regarding cookies on the Sites. The validity period of the consent given in this context is a maximum of 13 months. You can withdraw your consent at any time via our cookie management tool accessible: here – AXEPTIO Banner at the bottom left of your screen.

Your Rights

In accordance with the regulations on the protection of personal data, you have a right of access, rectification, erasure, and portability related to the data concerning you, a right to restriction of and opposition to processing, as well as the right to define directives concerning the fate of your Data after your death. You may also withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise your rights, simply write by post to: BIGBEN (Bigben Interactive) – 396-466 Rue de la voyette – 59273 Fretin – France, or contact Us via our contact form: https://www.bigben.eu/contact/

For any questions or to exercise your rights, you can contact BIGBEN's Data Protection Officer at the following email address: dpo@bigben.fr

In the event that we are unable to respond to your requests in a manner that satisfies you, you can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, particularly in the country where you reside: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm. For example, in France, this is the CNIL: 3 Place de Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07. Tel: +33 (0)1 53 73 22 22.

Protection of Minors

Each User must provide their age when registering for the Services. We do not knowingly collect data from minors under the age of fifteen (15), or an equivalent age according to the regulations in force in their country of residence, without parental authorization. We encourage parents (or legal guardians) to actively participate in the online activities and interests of minors when they use Our Services.

If you are a minor under the age of fifteen (15), or an equivalent age according to the regulations in force in your country of residence, please ask for your parents' permission before using Our Services. You may only submit your Data with the permission of your parents or guardian. In all cases, if you are a minor, your parents (or legal guardian) have the right to request the deletion of your account.

Sensitive Data

Bigben will never ask you to provide so-called sensitive Data, such as information about your health, your political ideals, your religious beliefs, your criminal record, your sexual orientation, your sex life, your behavior, or your genetic information. We therefore thank you for not providing this kind of information.

Deletion of the BIGBEN Member Account

At any time, you can delete your account on the Platform. We draw your attention to the fact that once your account is deleted, you will no longer have access to your history or to any information that made up the account in question.

Modification of the Privacy Policy

We may make changes to Our privacy policy from time to time. We recommend that you regularly consult the Privacy Policy posted on the Sites. By accessing or using Our Services after the Privacy Policy has been updated, Bigben will consider that you have taken note of the terms of the Privacy Policy, including updates. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be available on this page. In the event of a significant change, you will be sent a notification by e-mail. You can check the date of the modification of the Privacy Policy at the bottom of the page.

Last modification: 01 11 2025