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Privacy policy

Applicable from January 17, 2025

T-Heart, a French privately owned company having its registered office at 74, rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, represented by its CEO, Ms. Ella Faktorovich, publishes the website https://www.theheartvalve.com (“Website”).

T-Heart recognizes the importance of protecting all information that each user of this Website may choose to share with us and has adopted this Privacy Policy ("Policy") to guide how T-Heart collects, stores, uses and shares the information you provide us when you access to T-Heart Website), use and/or fill in our applications forms or otherwise interact and correspond with our personnel.

By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of information as further described in this Policy. You also acknowledge that T-Heart may elect to update, change, modify, add or remove this Policy, at its discretion, without prior notice. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Policy will mean that you accept such changes. Please note that T-Heart will always handle your personal information in accordance with the Policy in effect at the time of collection.

If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, please do not use the Website.

If you do not wish your Personal Information be collected, retained and/or used according to this Policy, please promptly inform us at info@theheartvalve.com, or send a letter at T-Heart SAS, 74 rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine, 75012 Paris, France.

A. Data Controller

As part of the provision of the Website, T-Heart collects and processes certain Personal Information of any person browsing, consulting and contacting T-Heart on the Website. Consequently, T-Heart acts as data controller.

In this respect, T-Heart (and consequently, its employees, agents, partners and subcontractors) undertakes to process users' Personal Information in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of Personal Information and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter referred to as the "RGPD"), Law no. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms (hereinafter referred to as "Law no. 78-17") as well as the terms of the Privacy Policy.

B. Personal Information

The term Personal Information as used in this Policy refers to data collected through connection to the Website as may, in particular, come from the registration of a user’s IP address through each connection; the automatic (login) or voluntary registration of a user’s basic contact and identification information (such as name, phone number, e-mail, company address or any other information the user agrees to submit); participation in chat rooms, studies, online surveys; request for further information on T-Heart, including press releases, job offers or marketing and advertising materials; or the subscription to newsletters or any other type of application form.

T-Heart may also collect and process your Personal Information when T-Heart corresponds with you through its newsletters. T-Heart may also collect and process Personal Information (such as past employments, qualifications, education etc.) for recruitment purposes when you choose to submit such information to us through our ‘careers’ application linked to this Website. Most of your Personal Information is obtained from our direct interactions with you (especially through the Website). However, there might be some situations where we collect or receive your information from third parties (for instance, for recruitment purposes, we may receive personal information from your last employer or from a recruitment firm or agent).

C. Collection and Use of Personal Information

Personal Information collected will only be used by T-Heart (and consequently, its employees, agents, partners and subcontractors) as provided in this Policy and, unless otherwise specified at the time of collection, will not be disclosed to, shared with or otherwise distributed to any third party for any purpose.

T-Heart may use your Personal Information to:

  • Engage in business, financial and/or scientific relationships with you in relation to T-Heart activities; this may include sending you newsletters, updates, communications, requests for proposal that may be of interest to you as (potential) investor, partner, supplier, client (the legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interests of T-Heart).
  • Compile a file of customers and prospects (the legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interests of T-Heart);
  • Process your job application where you have applied for a job position at T-Heart (the legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interests of T-Heart).
  • Establish, exercise or defend its legal rights or for the purpose of legal proceedings (the legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interests of T-Heart).
  • Record and monitor your use of this Website or our other online services for our business purposes which may include analysis of usage, measurement of Website performance and generation of reports (the legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interests of T-Heart).
  • Look into any complaints or queries you may have (the legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interests of T-Heart).
  • Manage requests to exercise the rights listed below (the legal basis for this processing is a legal obligation to which T-Heart is subject);
  • Notify you about changes/updates to our services, activities or policies (the legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interests of T-Heart),
  • Respond to a contact request sent to T-Heart via the contact form available on the Website (the legal basis for this processing is T-Heart' legitimate interest).
  • Perform administrative or operational tasks or as part of our efforts to keep the Website safe and secure (the legal basis for this processing is the legal obligation of T-Heart).

Personal Information collected through each connection, such as Cookies (insert link), may also be used to help us to better understand how users navigate the Website, to collect statistics on visited pages, to monitor the running of the Website and, more generally, to improve and/or customize a user’s experience with the Website.

Personal Information collected through chat rooms, online surveys, information application forms, subscriptions to newsletters, etc… will only be used to meet the purpose for which such information has been submitted and collected. Any subscription to a newsletter or placement on an investor or media e-mailing list may be cancelled at any time by contacting T-Heart at info@theheartvalve.com.

D. Recipients

Personal Information collected is strictly confidential and intended for use by T-Heart.

However, some of your Personal Information may be transmitted, in a secure and temporary manner, to third parties when this is necessary to enable it to meet the aforementioned purposes.

In this context, the categories of recipients likely to receive certain Personal Information are as follows:

  • Service providers with whom T-Heart has contracted to operate and maintain the Website (e.g. Website host);
  • T-Heart employees strictly authorized to answer your questions;
  • Financial, judicial or administrative authorities on request and within the limits of what is authorized by the applicable legislation;
  • Certain regulated professionals such as chartered accountants, statutory auditors and lawyers.

T-Heart ensures that all its partners who receive your Personal Information place the protection of Personal Information at the heart of their mission, make contractual commitments regarding data protection at least equivalent to the Privacy Policy, and undertake to take all measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of Personal Information. Personal Information may be transferred to third parties acting for or on behalf of T-Heart, for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data was originally collected or may otherwise be lawfully processed, such as services delivery, evaluating the usefulness of this Website, marketing, data management or technical support. Such third parties have contracted with T-Heart to only use Personal Information for the agreed upon purpose, and not to sell or disclose your Personal Information to third parties except as may be required by law or as stated in this Policy.

Such third parties are subject to relevant confidentiality and security contractual obligations.

E. Legal basis for using your Personal Information

T-Heart relies on the following legal grounds that might be cumulatively applicable to use your data:

  1. Consent
  2. Performance of a contract
  3. Legitimate interest
  4. Compliance with law or regulation.

D. Data retention period

T-Heart retains your Personal Information for a period of three (3) years from the last contact with you. However, at the end of the above-mentioned periods, certain data may be archived for longer periods (i) in the event of legal proceedings, in order to establish the reality of the facts in dispute; and/or (ii) for the purposes of investigating, establishing and prosecuting criminal offences, with the sole aim of making such data available to the judicial authorities, where necessary.

Archiving means that data can no longer be consulted online, but must be extracted and stored on an autonomous, secure medium. Once the time limits set out in the Privacy Policy have elapsed, your Personal Information will be deleted.

E. Security and confidentiality

To ensure the security and confidentiality of Personal Information collected online, T-Heart uses data networks protected, inter alia, by industry standard firewall and password protection. In the course of handling your Personal Information, T-Heart takes measures reasonably designed to protect such information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

Despite its efforts, T-Heart cannot and does not warrant that your Personal Information will be secure and free from theft, loss or unauthorized access or use. Please immediately notify T-Heart at info@theheartvalve.com, if you believe the security of any account you might have with T-Heart has been compromised.

F. Your Rights/ Contact Us

You have:

  • a right of access: this allows you to obtain information concerning the processing of your Personal Information as well as a copy of said data;
  • a right of rectification: this allows you to request that any Personal Information you consider inaccurate or incomplete be amended accordingly;
  • a right to object: this allows you to object to the processing of your Personal Information for reasons related to your particular situation;
  • a right of limitation: this allows you to suspend the processing of your Personal Information while retaining the data processed;
  • a right to portability: this allows you to have the Personal Information you have provided returned to you or, where technically possible, transferred to a third party. The information requested will be supplied in electronic form, unless expressly requested otherwise;
  • a right of deletion: this enables you to obtain the deletion of your Personal Information. The right to deletion of your Personal Information is not applicable in cases where processing is carried out in order to comply with a legal obligation;
  • the right to withdraw consent: when the legal basis for processing Personal Information is consent, you may withdraw consent at any time.

You may exercise your rights by sending an e-mail to info@theheartvalve.com.

T-Heart has one (1) month from receipt of your request to respond.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL, 3, place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 7 (https://www.cnil.fr) in the event of difficulty.

G. Personal Information and children

The use of this Website is intended for persons of 18 years and older. Any individual who requests information about our products indicated for use in children must be 18 or over. T-Heart will not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personal Information from a minor under the age of 18, without obtaining prior consent from a person with parental responsibility (e.g., a parent or guardian) through direct off-line contact. T-Heart will provide the parent with (i) notice of the specific types of Personal Information being collected from the minor, and (ii) the opportunity to object to any further collection, use, or storage of such information.

H. Links to other Websites

This Policy applies only to this Website, and not to websites of third parties. T-Heart may provide links to third parties’ websites which it believes may be of interest to this Website’s visitors. However, T-Heart can neither warrant the privacy standards of such third parties’ websites nor be responsible for the contents thereof. This Policy is not intended to be applicable to any third parties linked websites.

I. Terms of Use

The terms of this Policy are incorporated into our Terms of Use (insert link) by reference. All terms in capital used in this Policy shall have the meaning defined in the Terms of Use.