PRIVACY POLICY
Website rhumblinespartners.com – last updated: September 2026
This privacy policy explains what personal data may be collected when you use the rhumblinespartners.com website, why it is collected, how it is used and retained, and how you can exercise your rights. It applies to the rhumblinespartners.com website.
1. Data controller
Personal data collected through the website is processed by PL&C Consultants, a French simplified joint-stock company (société par actions simplifiée) trading under the Rhumb Lines Partners brand, registered under SIREN number 533 485 629.
The address of the registered office is given in the website’s legal notice.
For any question about the protection of your personal data, or to exercise your rights, you may write to: Cecile-Cloarec@rhumblinespartners.com
2. Data collected
Contact form
When you use the contact form, the following information may be collected: first and last name, company name, job title, country, email address, telephone number and the content of your message.
This information enables Rhumb Lines Partners to respond to your request, to prepare an initial conversation suited to your situation and, where appropriate, to send you a proposal.
Fields marked as mandatory are required to process your request. If they are not completed, the form cannot be sent.
Please do not send sensitive information through this form, in particular information relating to your health. Should such information be needed in the course of a coaching engagement, it can be discussed later through an appropriate channel.
Technical data
Certain technical data may also be processed while you browse, in order to ensure the operation and security of the website and its features, in particular when Google Maps and Google reCAPTCHA are used.
The website does not use Google Analytics.
3. Purposes and legal bases
Data collected through the contact form is used to respond to your request, arrange an initial conversation and, where appropriate, prepare a commercial proposal. The processing is based on pre-contractual measures taken at your request and, where applicable, on the legitimate interest of Rhumb Lines Partners in responding to people who contact it.
The website uses Google reCAPTCHA to secure the form and to limit automated or fraudulent submissions.
The website uses Google Maps to display maps and geographical information.
Rhumb Lines Partners does not use the information submitted through the form to send you a newsletter or unsolicited commercial communications.
The personal data collected is neither sold nor rented.
4. Recipients of the data
Information sent through the contact form is intended for Cécile Cloarec, founder of Rhumb Lines Partners.
Certain technical service providers may also have access to some data, strictly to the extent necessary to provide their services:
– o2switch, for hosting the website and the associated data;
– Google, through the use of Google Workspace, Google Maps and Google reCAPTCHA;
– the provider responsible for building and/or maintaining the website, where its work requires technical access, subject to the confidentiality of the data.
The website also contains a link to the LinkedIn page of Rhumb Lines Partners or of Cécile Cloarec. This simple link does not, in itself, embed any LinkedIn content in the website. When you click on it, you leave rhumblinespartners.com and become subject to LinkedIn’s terms and privacy policy.
5. Transfers of data outside the European Union
The website is hosted in France.
Certain services provided by Google, in particular Google Workspace, Google Maps and Google reCAPTCHA, may involve data processing outside the European Union, notably in the United States.
Where such transfers take place, they are carried out in accordance with the mechanisms provided for by the applicable European data protection regulations.
6. Retention periods
Personal data is kept only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Contact requests: information is kept for as long as necessary to handle your request and any exchanges that may follow.
If a contractual relationship is entered into, the data needed to manage that relationship is kept for its duration and then archived in accordance with applicable legal obligations.
Cookies and other trackers: their retention period depends on their nature and purpose. Choices you express regarding cookies are kept for a limited period before you are asked to choose again.
7. Cookies and third-party services
The website may use cookies or other trackers necessary for its operation, as well as services provided by third parties.
Necessary cookies
Some cookies are essential to the technical operation and security of the website, or to remembering your cookie choices. Where they are strictly necessary to provide the service requested, they do not require prior consent.
Google Maps
Some pages of the website embed Google Maps to display a map or a location. Use of this service may result in certain technical information being transmitted to Google and in trackers being placed or read. Where consent is required, the service is activated in line with the choice the user has expressed through the cookie management tool.
Google reCAPTCHA
The contact form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA to limit automated submissions, spam and fraudulent use. Use of this service may result in technical data being processed by Google.
Managing your choices
Where consent is required, you can accept or refuse the cookies and services concerned from the consent banner displayed during your visit.
You can change your choices at any time using the cookie management link available on the website.
A detailed cookie policy, generated and kept up to date by Complianz, is also available on the website.
8. Security
The website is accessed over a secure HTTPS connection.
Access to the website’s administration, to the mailbox and to information submitted through the form is protected and restricted to authorised persons.
Rhumb Lines Partners and its service providers implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration or disclosure.
9. Your rights
In accordance with applicable data protection regulations, and depending on the circumstances, you have the right to access, rectify and erase your data, to restrict its processing, to object to its processing and, where applicable, to data portability.
You may also withdraw your consent at any time for processing based on consent, and set out instructions regarding what happens to your personal data after your death.
To exercise your rights or ask a question about the use of your personal data, you may write to: Cecile-Cloarec@rhumblinespartners.com
You will receive a response within the time limits set by the regulations.
If, after contacting Rhumb Lines Partners, you consider that your rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL):
3 place de Fontenoy
TSA 80715
75334 Paris Cedex 07
www.cnil.fr
10. Changes to this privacy policy
This policy may be amended to reflect changes to the website, the services offered or the applicable regulations.
The date of the last update appears at the top of this page.
