This page is the readable summary. It covers what LIFeLiDAR collects when you visit the site or write to the team, why, and what you can do about it. The full legal version with article references, retention tables, and lawful-basis breakdowns lives in the GDPR notice.
The short version
LIFeLiDAR is a small instrument company. The site is static, runs no advertising trackers, and sets no cookies for profiling. The only personal data the team holds is what visitors send directly, contact-form submissions, emails, and the details that come with a commercial or research engagement. That data is used to reply to the request, to run the engagement, and for nothing else.
What we collect
Three categories, in practice:
- What you send us. Name, organisation, professional email, phone, and the message body when you use the contact form or write to info@lifelidar.com.
- Contractual paperwork. If we end up in a commercial relationship, the usual counterparty details, signatories, billing addresses, banking information for payment.
- Server logs. The web server records standard technical information about page requests (IP, user-agent, timestamp, referrer) for security and stability. These are not joined with anything personal and are deleted on a rolling schedule.
No sensitive categories (health, opinions, biometrics, etc.) are processed. No automated decision-making is performed. The bio-optical measurements published in survey pages are environmental data, not personal data.
Why we collect it
- To answer enquiries and provide the information you asked for.
- To run contracts, quotes, deliveries, invoices, support.
- To meet accounting and tax obligations.
- To keep the site secure and stable.
- To send the newsletter, if and when you opt in (consent, with a clear unsubscribe).
Who can see it
Only the authorised team at LIFeLiDAR SAS, on a need-to-know basis. A short list of external providers handles narrow technical or regulatory functions, hosting, transactional email, accounting, banking. They process the data on our instructions and are bound by data-processing agreements where required.
Data is not sold, rented, or shared for marketing purposes outside the company. External disclosure happens only when the law requires it.
How long we keep it
We keep data only for as long as is needed for the purpose it was collected for, or for the period required by French law. Enquiry correspondence sits for around three years from last contact; contractual and accounting records for ten years; server logs for twelve months; newsletter subscriptions until you unsubscribe, plus a short period to prove that consent existed. Detailed periods are in the GDPR notice.
Your choices
Under the GDPR, you can:
- Ask for a copy of the data we hold about you.
- Ask us to correct it if it is wrong or incomplete.
- Ask us to delete it, when the legal grounds allow.
- Ask us to restrict or stop a specific use of it.
- Receive your data in a portable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time, for anything that runs on consent (such as the newsletter).
To exercise any of these rights, write to info@lifelidar.com. We respond within one month. If you believe the response is not adequate, you can lodge a complaint with the French data-protection authority, the CNIL, at www.cnil.fr.
How to reach us
For anything privacy-related, write to info@lifelidar.com or by post to LIFeLiDAR SAS, 1 Place Sophie Laffitte, 06560 Valbonne, France.
Updates
This page changes when our practices or the rules around them change. Material changes are signalled on the page; routine clarifications are not. The date below records the most recent revision.
Last updated, 11 May 2026