Privacy Policy - GDPR

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1 - Introduction and summary

The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you about how we use your data.

The capitalized terms shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Terms of Use that you can find under the section Terms of Use of the Site and which include the present Privacy Policy by reference.

Things to remember:

  1. Blook up respects the right to privacy of visitors and members of its site.
  2. We only collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us via our Site or via the pages of the social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) owned by BlookUp.
  3. In general, Personal Information that you provide us with is used to respond to the requests that you make, or to help us serve you better in the context of a new service.
  4. We do not sell, do not rent or share your Personal Information with third parties and we will not disclose any financial information as part of your Personal Information.
  5. You have the right to ask us to update, correct, supplement or delete any personal information we hold about you at no cost.
  6. Links to other websites or blogs is made for information purposes. We are not responsible for their contents and have no control over it.
  7. We can create records of Anonymous Information based on the Personal Information by excluding data (such as your name) that personally identifies you to provide you with information and relevant third parties’ services.

2 - About us and our services

Blook up ("we") respects the right to privacy of visitors to its website and blogs whose home page are located at http://www.blookup.com, http://www.blookup.com/fr/blog/ and http://www.blookup.com/en/blog/, and of its social networks official pages (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) owned by BlookUp.

SAS BlookUp is recorded in the commercial register for companies of Bordeaux under No. 535 399 455 RCS Bordeaux with its headquarters located at 4, rue des Esprit des Lois - 33000 Bordeaux.

3 - Information collected about you

We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us through the website and blogs whose home page are located at http://www.blookup.com, http://www.blookup.com/fr/blog/ and http://www.blookup.com/en/blog/, or through the pages of the social networks owned by BlookUp (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram).

  1. When you register on the Site or when you use the pages of the socials networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) owned by BlookUp, we collect your user name, a password and an email address.
  2. When you use the Facebook page of BlookUp, we also collect information about your location, contact details and elements allowing you to share your content with others.
  3. When you publish a blook, we collect the URL of your blog, its platform and on a voluntary basis, personal information such as photos, biography...
  4. When you create your profile on the Site after you registered, we collect, on an optional basis, other Personal Information, such as your bio, photo, additional contact information, etc..
  5. When ordering products on the Site, we collect all the necessary information to complete the transaction, including your name, address, telephone number and information of the credit card.
  6. When you participate in one of our working groups and surveys, it is possible that we may collect additional information on your profile.
  7. When you contact us using the application forms accessible via the Site, BlookUp’s blogs, the pages of the socials networks or on the Facebook page, or via an email, we collect your name, email address and comments or questions you have entered in the form or in your email.

Please note that the Content that you use for your books or Ebooks may also contain Personal Information. Keep in mind that when you decide to make your blook or Ebook accessible to the public, such Content can be made available to others (including via the use of the preview function of the book) as the content of your books.

Please note that BlookUp does not access to and do not store:

  1. Your user names and passwords of your accounts of social networks or or your blogs to create the blook
  2. Your bank payment details

4 - Cookies

When you browse our Site or the pages of social networks owned by BlookUp (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), some information may also be collected passively, including your Internet Protocol address (IP) address, browser type, domain names, hours of access, your system exploitation, clicks and movements of your mouse, screen scrolling. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information you have searched and accessed.

This type of information is collected to analyze the use of our services and solutions and make them more useful for you. An "Internet protocol address" or "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when using the Internet. In some cases your IP address stays the same from browser session to another; but if you use an ISP public, your IP address will probably be different from one session to another.

We track IP addresses only in conjunction with session cookies to analyze our web page flow. Depending on the circumstances, those data may help us to draw conclusions on certain website visitors. BlookUp may use this information in order to analyze tendencies or establish statistics. However no personal data is used in such context. These data are used only after they have been anonymized. We inform you that you can also object to the recording of such cookies under the conditions described in Article 5 below.

5 – Your choice regarding cookies

Any settings that you can take to manage Cookies will likely change your internet browsing and your access conditions to some services requiring the use of Cookies.

You can set your browser so that cookies are stored in your terminal or on the contrary, they are rejected, either systematically or depending on the issuer. You can also configure your browser so that acceptance or refusal of Cookies is promptly proposed to you, before cookies can be stored on your computer.

If you reject the storing of Cookies on your computer or if you delete cookies that are stored then you will not be able to benefit from a certain number of features that are necessary to navigate through certain pages of our Site. Such would be the case if you were trying to access our content or services that require identification. Such would also be the case when we –or our providers- could not recognize, for the purpose of technical accounting, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and displays settings or the country from which your terminal seems connected to the Internet.

If necessary, we decline all liabilities for the consequences related to impaired operation of our services due to the impossibility for us to store or consult Cookies necessary for such operation and that you have refused or deleted.

Any recent web browsers allow you to change the settings related to cookies. These settings are usually available in the section “Tools”, “options”, “help” or “preferences” in your browser.

6 – Our use of the information

In general, Personal Information you provide to us is used to respond to requests that you make, or to help us serve you better in the context of a new service: surveys, test requests and information about our products and services. If you ever requested to receive communications from us, we may also use your personal Information to send you newsletters or for any other promotional purposes of BlookUp, of our non members or our partners.

We can create records of Anonymous Information based on Personal Information by excluding data (such as your name) that identifies you personally. We may use this Anonymous Information to analyze the types of applications and usage patterns so that we can improve our products and services. BlookUp reserves the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information to third parties, at its discretion.

It is possible that we share your Personal Information with third parties to provide the products and services we offer on the Site, such as to our service provide used for printing services. These third parties are required not to use your Personal Information except for the purposes of providing the products and services requested by BlookUp and are bound by confidentiality agreements about their use of such information.

If you use the "make my blook public" on your blook profile, any Personal Information contained in the Content of the Book will be made publicly available to visitors of the Site, including search engines.

The provision of links to other websites or locations is made for information purposes. This does not mean that we endorse these sites or other sites or their content. We do not control, do not check and accept no responsibility for any such third parties’ websites or their content. Please note that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to these third-party websites.

7 – The recipients of your data

Your personal data is mainly communicated to persons duly authorized within the BlookUp company to process it, but under no circumstances will this data be stored anywhere other than on our secure servers. In particular, it will not be stored on professional or personal devices of persons within the organization. 
requirements relating to your account maintenance system.
When a person leaves the organization, all accesses are revoked immediately, and every 12 months, all accesses that are no longer required or no longer in use are deleted. 
In addition, we would like to inform you that BlookUp may communicate your personal data to third-party service providers, in particular to provide the service (printers, delivery companies, etc.).

8 – Your privacy Rights

In accordance with Articles 38 and the following of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 amended in 2004, you have the following rights:

  1. the right at any time to access personal data;
  2. the right to ask us to update, correct, supplement or delete any data the right to ask us to update, correct, supplement or delete any inaccurate personal data, outdated or incorrect we maintain about you, without costs;
  3. the right not to receive any promotional communications that we may send you.
  4. the right to object at any time on compelling legitimate grounds relating to your particular situation to the processing of data by BlookUp.

To exercise any of the above rights, please contact our customer service.

9 - Archiving / Storing data

Regarding the data retention period of the data imported from blogs, stored, having been generated and formatted into a PDF on our servers or not, the rules are the following:

  1. Any created blook and ordered is stored during 3 years from the date of its creation.
  2. Any created blook but not ordered is stored during 3 months.
  3. Any imported blog but that did not generate a PDF is stored during 3 months.

10 - Safety and Updates

BlookUp is committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We use several types of standardized security procedures and technologies to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
BlookUp uses the TLS 1.2 security protocol for data in transit. Data is never transmitted without encryption in transit. SSL versions 2 and 3 are never used.
BlookUp implements static code analysis tesst procedures, checking for security flaws every 10 months with a hierarchy of severity. High severity vulnerabilities are dealt with within 48 hours. 
We also require you to enter a password to access your account information.

Privacy Policy updates

The present Privacy Policy is a living document, part of BlookUp's Terms and Conditions of Use and subject to occasional changes in accordance with said Terms and Conditions of Use .