Privacy policy

📅💫 Last updated on August 25, 2022

The domains parking-garage.com, cipg.fr, parking-garage.info and parking-garage.eu are hosted by the companies OVH and Gandi. The entire content of the website belongs to and is the responsibility of its creator, CIPG club, whose legal manager is Mr Christopher MARTIN. Sole trader registered under French Siret number : 820 744 647 00018, the head office is located at 91 allée Rosa Parks 42153 RIORGES, France.

This website is an IT platform that puts property investors, landlords and property sellers in touch with each other, and can provide related services directly or indirectly for all users of the website.

Publication manager : Christopher MARTIN, CIPG club manager, is in charge of publication. Click here to contact the website manager.

Declaration to the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) : Declaration of the data collected to the French data protection authority, under registration number : 1838311. Click here to find out more about the processing of your personal data.

Website rules : Use of the website is governed by the General Terms and Conditions of Use (GTCU) and the General Terms and Conditions of Sale (GTCS). Click here to consult them.

Website designed by : CreationSiteWeb.

This website constitutes a work protected under intellectual property law. Any reproduction or use of the website’s content other than for individual and private consultation is strictly prohibited. The same applies to its general structure, tree structure, forms and texts appearing on the website. The same applies to graphics, photographs and any other data. Any total or partial reproduction, representation, modification, publication or transmission of the website or part of its content constitutes an infringement punishable under articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code and renders the Internet user liable under articles L.713-2 and L.713-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Privacy policy

The information collected in all the forms on this website is recorded in a computerised file on behalf of www.parking-garage.com by OVH company in its capacity as host. In order to ensure that the services offered by the CIPG club website function properly and are carried out correctly.

Under no circumstances will OVH make any use whatsoever of this personal data; only the CIPG club may make use of it in the context of the services described in its general conditions of use. This data is stored on servers physically located in a European Union country and is kept for the duration of the website’s existence.

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act, you may exercise your right to access and correct your personal data by contacting the website manager via the contact page. None of the data collected on the www.parking-garage.com website may be passed on to third parties.

How is your personal data used ?

Les données personnelles sont notamment protégées par la loi n° 78-87 du 6 janvier 1978, la loi n° 2004-801 du 6 août 2004, l’article L.226-13 du Code pénal, la Directive Européenne du 24 octobre 1995 ainsi que par le Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données (RGPD). Protéger vos données personnelles et en faire un usage raisonné sont des priorités pour nous, vous trouverez ci-dessous le cadre dans lequel les données collectées sur notre website www.parking-garage.com seront utilisées.

As part of contact forms

Our contact forms may ask for personal information such as your e-mail address, surname, first name, telephone number and postal address. The data collected on these contact forms may be used to respond to requests made via these forms, or to provide any other services offered on our website www.parking-garage.com in accordance with our general conditions of use. Under no circumstances will this data be made public or disclosed to third parties.

Data linked to our contact forms is kept for a maximum of 3 years.

As part of our classified ads service

We offer a service for publishing and consulting classified ads. We are likely to ask you for certain personal information such as your surname, first name, postal address, telephone number and e-mail address. All of this data is collected for the sole purpose of putting advertisers and buyers in contact with each other (which is the purpose of this classified ad service). Advertisers’ e-mail addresses will under no circumstances be disclosed on our website www.parking-garage.com. To contact an advertiser, buyers must use a secure contact form to prevent spam. Advertisers’ postal address details may be displayed after checking that they have been requested by a human being and not by a robot that sucks up data. If you are a user and you upload images to our website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

Our www.parking-garage.com website may send e-mails to advertisers to monitor ads that are awaiting publication, have been published or have expired in accordance with our general terms and conditions of use. Under no circumstances may this data be used outside the framework of this classified ad service.

Data from our classified ad service is automatically deleted when you delete your ad. Automatic deletion without any action on your part applies for a maximum of 6 months after the end date of publication of an advert.

When creating an account and receiving our newsletter

To subscribe to our monthly newsletter, you will be asked for your e-mail address. This e-mail address will be validated using the double opt-in method: a validation link will be sent to you by e-mail. The CIPG club will use this e-mail address to send you news about the website, as well as offers relating to the activities of our www.parking-garage.com website and in accordance with our general terms of use. Under no circumstances will your e-mail address be used for any other purpose. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by visiting this page.

Data relating to our newsletter is kept for the duration of your subscription. Deletion will take place a maximum of 10 months after you unsubscribe.

In the context of comments left on our website

When you leave a comment, you may be asked for the following information: your e-mail address, your surname and your first name. When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, your IP address and your browser’s user agent are collected to help us detect undesirable comments. An anonymised string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service confidentiality clauses are available here. Once your comment has been validated, your profile photo will be publicly visible alongside your comment. Your e-mail address will not be made public under any circumstances. It may only be used to inform you of a reply to your comment, or to ask you for further information about your comment.

Your first and last name may be displayed publicly on our website www.parking-garage.com alongside your comment. You can use a pseudonym instead of your first and last names. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be kept indefinitely. This makes it possible to automatically recognise and approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue. An anonymised string created from your email address (also known as a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The confidentiality clauses of the Gravatar service are available at this link. Once your comment has been validated, your profile photo will be publicly visible next to your comment.

We are delighted to be able to talk to you and listen to your comments and suggestions. However, the Club d’Investisseurs dans les Parkings et les Garages reserves the right to delete and/or temporarily suspend your access rights to our services if your comments contain :

  • insulting, degrading or pornographic remarks,
  • xenophobic, racist or defamatory references,
  • information about another user provided by a third party,
  • messages repeated a large number of times (spamming),
  • personal attacks on a contributor or another user,
  • messages infringing a property right or using a commercial brand.

All moderation decisions will be taken in private, and any discussion of them must also take place in private.

As part of our members’ area (forum and exchange platform)

When you register for our members’ area, you will be asked for your e-mail address, a password and, where appropriate, other information such as your surname, first name, telephone number and postal address. This data may be used for all the services offered on our website www.parking-garage.com, within the restricted framework of support services and exchanges of information as defined in our general terms and conditions of use. Under no circumstances may the data collected via registration to this members’ area be used outside the framework defined above.

Our forum and exchange platform are private areas reserved for members of the community. Certain information, such as your username and profile photo, may be visible to all members. Your e-mail address and contact details (surname, first name, address, town, telephone number, social network account) left in the member area will not be visible under any circumstances. Please note that you are free to choose what information you provide and that you can delete it at any time from your account management. Only members of the CIPG team will be able to use it to inform you of a reply or ask you for further information. If you leave a comment on the forum or on the platform, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows the community to benefit and grow through the sharing of experiences.

If you are a registered user and you upload images to our website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website may download and extract location data from these images.

The website may collect connection/disconnection information that can only be used by members of the CIPG team for administrative and statistical purposes. All information relating to the payment of membership fees is not stored on our platform. See the payment section below for more information.

We are delighted to be able to talk to you and listen to your comments and suggestions. However, the Club d’Investisseurs dans les Parkings et les Garages reserves the right to cancel and/or temporarily suspend your access rights to our services.

Please note that all moderation decisions are taken in private, and any discussion of them must also take place in private.

As part of our online payment module

We may ask you for certain personal information such as your surname, first name, postal address, telephone number and email address. All of this information is collected in order to carry out the service you order, to deliver the products you order and to provide follow-up and after-sales service. If you give your consent, your email address and postal address may be used to send you commercial offers in connection with our shop. If you purchase a customisable product, we may also ask you for information that will enable us to customise these products. This information will not be used for any other purpose.

Credit card information will not be stored but will be shared via a secure connection with the following payment gateways to process the payment :
PayPal : https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Stripe : https://stripe.com/fr/privacy

For content embedded on other websites

Articles, the discussion platform and the forum may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, links to other articles, etc.). Content embedded from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools and track your interactions with this embedded content if you have an account connected to their website. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of each website you visit.

What are cookies ?

A cookie is a piece of information placed on an Internet user’s hard drive by the server of the website they are visiting. It contains several pieces of information: the name of the server that placed it, an identifier in the form of a unique number, and possibly an expiry date. This information is sometimes stored on the computer in a simple text file that a server accesses to read and record information.

What are cookies used for ?

Cookies have different functions. A cookie can enable the person who placed it to recognise an Internet user from one visit to the next by means of a unique identifier. Some cookies may also be used to store the contents of a shopping basket, others to record a website’s language settings, and still others for targeted advertising.

How do we use cookies ?

Cookies play an important role in the operation of our www.parking-garage.com website, enabling us to improve your experience of the website. We use cookies to enable us to provide you with targeted advertising and information that is interesting and useful to you. The use of cookies enables us to collect anonymous statistical data and to offer you social media functionalities (in order to provide you with better content). We also share information about the use of our website with our social media, advertising and analytics partners, who may combine this with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected through your use of their services.

If you have an account and log on to this website, 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 a number of cookies to record your login details and screen preferences. The lifetime of a connection cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you tick « Remember me », your connection cookie will be kept for a fortnight. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted. By modifying or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply indicates the identifier of the article you have just modified. It expires after one day.

Using the Amazon EU affiliate programme

Our website www.parking-garage.com is part of the Amazon EU Partner Programme, an affiliate programme designed to enable websites to earn money by linking to Amazon.co.uk. We would like to stress that the content of our blog is in no way driven by the desire to sell a product at any cost. You’ll never find an affiliate link to a product or service that we wouldn’t have linked to anyway.

Statistics and audience measurement

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other internet related services. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by changing the settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

You can deactivate this tracking by configuring the cookies on our website. Click on the modify cookie settings button in the information bar at the bottom of the website. Deactivate unnecessary cookies to suspend our audience measurement. If no cookie bar is displayed, you have already accepted the cookies present on our website. You need to empty your browser’s cache to change the settings.

The rights you have over your data (access, modification and deletion)

The CIPG club complies with the recommendations of European Directive 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. This Directive standardises the legal regime applicable to the processing of personal data in Europe.

You have a right of access, a right of rectification and a right of opposition. You can exercise these rights by accessing, modifying and checking the information in your personal space in the Manage my account section. You also have the right to portability, the right to limit processing and the right to delete data. You can exercise these rights by contacting the CIPG club team.

If you have an account or if you have left comments on our website www.parking-garage.com, you may request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including that which you have provided to us. You may also request the modification or deletion of your personal data. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes, which is kept for a period of 6 years.

Procédures mises en œuvre en cas de fuite de données

No method of transmission over the Internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a breach of security, we will notify the users concerned so that they can take appropriate action. Our incident notification procedures take account of our legal obligations, whether at national or European level. We are committed to fully informing our users of all matters relating to the security of their account and to providing them with all the information necessary to help them comply with their own regulatory obligations.

In accordance with the procedure laid down by the general data protection regulation in the event of a leak or anomaly concerning personal data in our possession. We will inform the relevant authorities and inform you of the nature of the leaked data. We will inform you of the nature of the data that has been leaked, as well as the nature of the risk that may be engendered if this may affect your rights and freedoms (sensitive data) within a maximum of 72 hours after the problem has been identified. If you notice any anomaly in the processing of your data, please do not hesitate to contact our team.

Updates to our privacy policy

The CIPG club may amend this privacy policy at any time. All changes will be posted on this page. If the changes are significant, we undertake to provide you with notification by e-mail.

Questions, complaints or suggestions

We want to be as clear as possible about the confidentiality of your data. If you have any questions, suggestions or concerns regarding the processing of your data or the way in which the CIPG club collects and uses your data, please do not hesitate to contact us.