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This privacy policy defines and informs you of how DISTILLERIE DES ALPES uses and protects the information you provide to us, where applicable, when you use this site accessible from the following URL: https://www.distilleriedesalpes.com/.

It is drafted in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – EU Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016) and amended law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, data files and civil liberties.

This policy may be amended or supplemented at any time. Users of the site are therefore invited to consult it regularly.

1. Identity of the data controller

The controller responsible for processing data collected on this site is:

SAS DISTILLERIE DES ALPES
907 avenue de la Houille Blanche, ZI de Bissy – 73000 Chambéry
Phone: +33 4 80 81 64 10
Email: adv@edelweiss-spirits.eu
SIREN: 309 020 576 – Chambéry Trade Register

Data Protection Officer (DPO): DISTILLERIE DES ALPES – adv@edelweiss-spirits.eu

2. Personal data collected

Generally speaking, you can visit the DISTILLERIE DES ALPES website without disclosing any personal information about yourself. However, certain features of the site involve the collection of personal data.

The categories of data collected are as follows:

Purpose of processing	Data collected	Legal basis	Retention period
Contact form	Last name, first name, email address, phone number, message content	Legitimate interest (responding to your request)	3 years from the last contact
Newsletter subscription	Email address, first name (optional)	Consent	Until unsubscription or withdrawal of consent
Site comments	Name, email address, IP address, browser user agent	Consent	Indefinitely (for automatic moderation)
Browsing and audience measurement	IP address (anonymised), pages visited, visit duration, browser type	Consent (cookies)	13 months maximum
Uploaded media	EXIF data from images (if present)	Legitimate interest	Duration of content publication

3. Legal bases for processing

In accordance with Article 6 of the GDPR, each instance of personal data processing is based on one of the following legal bases:

Consent (art. 6.1.a): for newsletter subscription, the placing of non-essential cookies, and comments. You may withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before such withdrawal.
Legitimate interest (art. 6.1.f): for processing contact requests, securing the site, and detecting unwanted comments (spam).
Legal obligation (art. 6.1.c): for the retention of certain data required by applicable regulations (in particular for accounting and tax purposes, where applicable).

4. Data recipients

The data collected is intended exclusively for DISTILLERIE DES ALPES and is not sold, rented or transferred to third parties. It may, however, be passed on to the following technical subcontractors, strictly within the scope of their duties:

SCALEWAY (host) – 8 rue de la Ville l’Evêque, 75008 Paris – for hosting the site and storing data.
Web|Alternatif – https://www.webalternatif.com – for the development and technical maintenance of the site.
Agence AdNI – https://agence-adni.fr – for the development and technical maintenance of the site.
Automattic / Gravatar – if you post a comment, an anonymised version (hash) of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have an avatar. Gravatar privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

These subcontractors act exclusively on the instructions of DISTILLERIE DES ALPES and are subject to confidentiality and security obligations in line with the GDPR.

No personal data is transferred outside the European Union, except for the third-party services mentioned above, whose servers may be located outside the EU. In such cases, appropriate safeguards (European Commission standard contractual clauses) are put in place.

5. Cookies

Browsing the site https://www.distilleriedesalpes.com/ may result in the installation of cookie(s) on the user’s computer.

A “cookie” is a small file that records information about a user’s browsing on a site. The data obtained in this way can be used to measure visitor numbers, for example.

No cookie will be placed without your prior consent, with the exception of cookies strictly necessary for the operation of the site.

Cookies are stored for a maximum period of 13 months. You can accept or refuse cookies at any time by changing your browser settings or via our cookie management banner.

Types of cookies used

Strictly necessary cookies: essential for the site to function (session, security, language preferences). They do not require consent.
Audience measurement cookies: used to analyse traffic and use of the site in order to improve its performance. They are placed only after you give your consent.
Preference cookies: remember your choices (language, display). Duration: 1 year.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

6. Content embedded from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles, etc.). Content embedded from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited that other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to their website.

7. Data retention period

Personal data is retained for the period strictly necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, in accordance with current legal provisions:

Contact data (form): 3 years from the last contact.
Newsletter data: until unsubscription or withdrawal of consent.
Comments: kept indefinitely to allow for the recognition and automatic approval of subsequent comments.
Browsing data / cookies: 13 months maximum.
Accounting and legal data: 10 years in accordance with legal obligations.

At the end of these periods, the data is deleted or irreversibly anonymised.

8. Your rights over your personal data

In accordance with the GDPR and the French Data Protection Act, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of access (art. 15 GDPR): you can obtain confirmation that data concerning you is being processed and receive a copy of it.
Right of rectification (art. 16 GDPR): you can request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete data concerning you.
Right to erasure (art. 17 GDPR): you can request the deletion of your personal data, subject to legal retention obligations.
Right to restriction of processing (art. 18 GDPR): you can request the temporary suspension of the processing of your data in certain cases provided for by the regulations.
Right to data portability (art. 20 GDPR): you can receive your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and transmit it to another data controller.
Right to object (art. 21 GDPR): you can object at any time to the processing of your data for commercial prospecting purposes or where the processing is based on legitimate interest.
Right to withdraw consent: where processing is based on your consent (newsletter, cookies), you can withdraw it at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before such withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights, you can contact our Data Protection Officer:

DISTILLERIE DES ALPES
907 avenue de la Houille Blanche, ZI de Bissy – 73000 Chambéry
Email: adv@edelweiss-spirits.eu

Your request will be processed within one month of receipt. This period may be extended by a further two months in the case of complex or numerous requests.

9. Right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL

If, after contacting us, you believe that your rights over your data are not being respected, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in France:

Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)
3 Place de Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 Paris Cedex 07
Phone: +33 1 53 73 22 22
Website: https://www.cnil.fr

10. Data security

DISTILLERIE DES ALPES undertakes to take all useful precautions and appropriate organisational and technical measures to preserve the security, integrity and confidentiality of your personal data, and in particular to prevent it from being altered, damaged, or accessed by unauthorised third parties.

In the event of a data breach likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms, you will be informed as soon as possible in accordance with Article 34 of the GDPR.

11. Hyperlinks

The site https://www.distilleriedesalpes.com/ contains hyperlinks to other sites. DISTILLERIE DES ALPES accepts no liability with regard to these external links or links created by other sites to https://www.distilleriedesalpes.com/. This privacy policy does not apply to third-party sites that may be linked to.

12. Updates to the privacy policy

This privacy policy may be updated at any time, in particular to comply with any new applicable regulations or any change in the processing carried out. The date of the last update is indicated at the bottom of this page. We encourage you to consult it regularly.

Last updated: June 2025

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