Privacy Policy

1. Purpose and scope of the policy

DesignFuture SAS (“Material Bank Europe”) is committed to the protection of your privacy and personal data, as well as to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter "GDPR"). The GDPR provides that Personal Data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. Thus, this Privacy Policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) aims to provide you with simple and clear information on the Processing of your Personal Data when you visit and use our website. Capitalized terms that are used but not defined in this Policy have the meanings provided in the GDPR.

2. Data Controller

When you interact with the Material Bank Europe website, we collect and use personal data relating to you as an individual. You may be referred to in this Policy as the “Data Subject.”

DesignFuture SAS (“Material Bank Europe"), registered in Paris under RCS number 91150576600012, with capital of 100,00 euros, having its registered office at 4 RUE ROYALE 75008 PARIS, is a Data Controller within the meaning of the GDPR and determines the means and purposes of the Processing of Personal Data.

3. What Personal Data do we collect and how?

By using the Material Bank Europe Services (as defined in our Terms of Use), including our website, you provide us with certain information about yourself, some of which may identify you (“Personal Data”). For example, we collect certain Personal Data from you when you browse our site, fill in online forms, or provide information to become a member of Material Bank Europe. The Personal Data we collect about you includes:

Identifying data: All information that would allow us to identify you, such as your name, postal address, telephone number, and email-address.

Authentication data: Information required to access your Material Bank Europe account, such as password, and other information necessary to authenticate and access an account.

Professional data: Information about your title, employer, position and role to validate you as a professional in the design community.

Project data: Details about your project such as location, type of property (e.g., commercial or residential), project size and scope. You may also provide us with images and different types of documents (e.g., PDF, JPEG, etc.) that include titles, folder names, or other content related to a document, such as comments, alerts and reminder dates.

Data collected from Third Parties: Personal data from third parties that you agreed to share with us or that is publicly available on social networks or other publicly available databases that we may collect.

Communication data: Records of our conversations through emails, messages, chats or support inquiries.

Preference and interest data: Information about your preferences, interests, behaviors, and demographics. We gather this information from surveys, your preferences settings or by understanding how you use our platform.

Behavioral/user interaction data: Data about how you navigate our website or services, including your browsing patterns, pages you visit, time spent on pages, clicks, search queries, and other actions you take on our website or platform.

4. For what purposes do we collect your Personal Data?