Protection of personal data
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), users of the www.meating-group.com website may contact the administrator using the contact form.
Who are we?
Our website address is: www.meating-group.com
Use of collected personal data
Media
If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS coordinate data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact forms
When you use one of our contact forms on the website (contact, job application, etc.), the data entered in the form is collected so that we can contact you.
Meating Food Group informs the user that personal data concerning them will be processed for the benefit of authorised members of Meating Food Group, as well as the publisher and its subcontractors.
The user has the right to object, the right to restriction, the right of access, the right to rectification, the right to portability and the right to erasure of their data.
The user also has the option of giving instructions to the publisher regarding the fate of their data after their death.
To exercise their rights, users must send a letter to Meating Food Group via the contact form or to the postal address mentioned on the legal notices page, accompanied by a photocopy of an identity document bearing their signature.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small files that certain platforms, such as websites, can install on your computer. They can serve a variety of purposes: they can store your browsing preferences, collect statistical information, enable certain technical features, etc.
Sometimes cookies are used to store basic information about the user’s browsing habits or their computer, to the point where they can be recognised in certain cases. Cookies are also used to manage the user’s session, reducing the number of times they need to enter their password or adjusting the website content to their preferences.
Cookies can be “temporary”, meaning that they are deleted from the user’s computer once they leave the website that generated them, or “persistent”, meaning that they remain on the user’s computer until a specific date.
If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies to record your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, and that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you tick “Remember me”, your login cookie will be stored for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after one day.
What are cookies and how does Meating Food Group use them?
Meating Food Group may use cookies when a user browses the website, either on its own behalf or on behalf of a third party engaged to provide tracking services. Cookies are files sent to the browser via a web server for the purpose of recording the user’s activities while browsing.
The use of cookies allows the server where the website is located to recognise the web browser used by the user in order to make browsing as easy as possible, allowing, for example, users who are already registered to access areas and services that are exclusively reserved for them without having to register each time they visit. Cookies are also used to measure audience and traffic parameters, as well as to monitor progress and the number of entries.
Guarantees regarding the use of cookies
The cookies used by the website are only associated with anonymous users and their computers and do not provide references that could be used to deduce users’ personal data.
Some cookies are used by third parties (e.g. Google) to send Meating Food Group data on the effectiveness of its promotions. Under no circumstances do cookies obtain personal information that could identify a specific user.
The cookies used on the website are, in any case, temporary in nature, with the sole purpose of making subsequent transmission more efficient. No cookie used on the website will have a validity period of more than two years.
Users can configure their browser to notify them when cookies are received and to refuse their installation on their device.
By deleting or disabling Meating Food Group cookies, users run the risk of not being able to access certain features of the website.
To use the website, users do not need to allow cookies to be installed, but they will need to restart the session as such in each of the services that require prior registration or session initiation.
What types of cookies does Meating Food Group use?
Meating Food Group uses two types of cookies:
Technical cookies
They enable the user to browse the web and use features such as ‘likes’ and sharing articles on social media.
Sharing to social networks is possible on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, for example. We invite you to consult the personal data management rules of the various social networks.
Analytical cookies
Meating Food Group uses Google Analytics cookies to quantify the number of users who visit the website. These cookies measure and analyse how users navigate the website. This information allows Meating Food Group to continuously improve its services and facilitate the purchasing process for website users. For more information on this subject, please visit the Google Analytics privacy page.
How can the user configure cookies?
Users may permit, block, or delete cookies installed on their computers by configuring their Internet browser options.
Change my consent
The user may modify their consent by enabling or disabling the types of cookies.
| Purpose | Shelf life |
|---|---|
| Cookie management | The data retention period shall not exceed 13 months. |
| A request for contact or a study of your project | The data retention period shall not exceed 3 years. |
| Your exchanges with your dedicated contacts, who are responsible for maintaining business relations with your institution | The data retention period shall not exceed 3 years. |
| Your interactions with our services | The data retention period shall not exceed 3 years. |
What about links to other websites?
The Meating Food Group website may contain links to other websites with privacy policies that differ from those of Meating Food Group. In this regard, Meating Food Group assumes no responsibility for the content or practices of linked websites.
Meating Food Group recommends that web users review the privacy policies of all websites they may access through https://meating-group.com/.
How does Meating Food Group collect and use IP addresses?
Web servers will be able to automatically detect the IP address and domain name used by users.
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the internet. This information enables the subsequent processing of data in order to obtain purely statistical measurements that reveal the number of visits made to the website, the order of visits, the access point, etc.
Protecting your IP address
We have implemented a tool to anonymise the IP addresses we collect for statistical purposes via a third-party service, as required by European Union law.
Find out more about IP anonymisation on the page published by Google here.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with these embedded contents if you have an account logged in on their website.
Statistics and audience measurements
Meating Food Group only uses Google Analytics to obtain statistics and audience measurements.
Use and disclosure of your personal data
Storage periods for your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows subsequent comments to be recognised and approved automatically, rather than being held in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also view and modify this information.
Your rights regarding your data
If you have an account or have left comments on the website, you may request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us. You may also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Transmission of your personal data
Visitor forms can be checked using an automated spam detection service.
Automated marketing operations carried out using personal data
Data collected via our forms: newsletter subscription form, job application form, contact forms, etc. may be used to send you content proposals and commercial offers related to our business.
Rest assured that we do everything possible to protect your personal data and therefore limit its retention period to three years from our last contact.
Contact details
Meating Food Group may retain personal data for the entire duration of the relationship with Meating Food Group and for up to three years after the end of this relationship between Meating Food Group and the user.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Our team performs updates to prevent malicious attacks and data leaks. Our host provides us with a highly secure hosting platform. We invite you to review their security management policy.
