Lyon Métropole and ONLYLYON & CO (the Economic Development Agency for the Lyon Region) undertake to ensure that the personal data processing operations carried out on business.onlylyon.com comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act (“Informatique et Libertés”).

In summary

Protecting your data

The website ONLYLYON Business, business.onlylyon.com, is managed in full compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act (“Informatique et Libertés”).

The personal data that you enter on the ONLYLYON Business website are collected and processed by by ONLYLYON & CO via its ONLYLYON Invest attractiveness program for the Lyon region and Lyon Métropole, joint Data Controllers.

The personal data collected by ONLYLYON & CO and Lyon Métropole on the ONLYLYON Business website is entered voluntarily by website users. It is only processed for the purposes outlined on the data collection forms. It is only transferred to individuals responsible for carrying out the processing operations in question, as outlined on the data collection forms.

Lyon Métropole and ONLYLYON & CO retain the information contained in emails for a maximum period of two years, in a confidential manner. Your personal data as well as the email addresses collected are not transferred to third parties by Lyon Métropole and Aderly.

Website traffic data is only collected to enable us to analyse the number of visits to our information pages in order to improve the content (see the “Web analytics” section).

Exercising your rights

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act (“Informatique et Libertés”) as amended, you have the right to access, rectify and erase your personal data. If consent is required for the processing operation, you have the right to withdraw this consent. Under certain regulatory conditions, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted, or object to the processing. In this case, we will be unable to process your request sent via the website forms.

You can exercise these different rights by contacting one of our data protection officers (DPO) directly:

  • For Lyon Metropole:
  • For ONLYLYON & CO (formerly Aderly - Economic Development Agency for the Lyon Region):
    • By email at the following address: invest(at)onlylyon.com, specifying in the subject heading “A l’attention du Délégué à la protection des données” [For the attention of the DPO];
    • By post to the following address: 20 rue de la bourse - 69002 Lyon - France
    • By telephone: +33 (0)4 72 40 57 50

If you feel, after contacting us, that your data protection rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL). Whose address is: Commission nationale informatique et libertés - 3 place de Fontenoy - 75007 Paris - France; its telephone number is: +33 153732222; link to its online service: https://www.cnil.fr/en/contact-us.

Cookies

When you visit business.onlylyon.com, cookies (small text files) may be stored on your computer or telephone to improve the interactivity of the website and our services.

In general, you can object to the storage of cookies by configuring your browser as follows:

For more information about cookies, how they work and how to refuse them

3 types of cookie may be placed on your device via the ONLYLYON Business website:

Web analytics with Matomo

In order to provide a better service and improve your user experience on our website, we use web analytics solutions that use “cookie” technology, text files that are stored on your computer or telephone that generate information that is sent to web analytics servers.

On these servers, the IP address is anonymised. The data is only collected to analyse the number of visits to our pages in order to improve the content. Visitor browsing data is not used to identify visitors by name. These are aggregated statistics showing the number of visits and different visitors, the most popular pages, preferred pathways, activity levels per day of the week and per time of day, the main errors, etc.

Our Matomo cookies are exempt from consent as they meet the conditions outlined by the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL).

For more information about the CNIL exemption (in french)

However, you have the right to object to the use of cookies, and therefore the processing of your personal browsing data, using an “anti-cookie” cookie. To object to the tracking of your browsing on our website, you must go to the dedicated Matomo page and uncheck the box “You are not opted out. Uncheck this box to opt-out.” (Vous n'êtes pas exclu(e). Décochez cette case pour vous exclure). To no longer opt-out, simply check the box “You are currently opted out. Check this box to opt-in.

You have the right to view, rectify and delete the personal data that our Matomo solution may have collected. To exercise these rights, or for any information about the processing of your personal data, please contact the Lyon Métropole Data Protection Officer:

Communication

It is recalled that the privacy of correspondence is not guaranteed on the Internet and that it is the responsibility of each individual to take all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software from contamination by any viruses circulating on the Internet.