Privacy and cookies policy

This privacy and cookies policy applies to the processing of your personal data by Aprifel, in particular via its Website and the services offered therein, which can be accessed at the following addresses: https://www.aprifel.com and https://documentation.aprifel.com.

When processing your personal data, Aprifel takes great care to comply with the applicable regulations, including the French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978 as amended by Act No. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 and European Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 26 April 2016 (GDPR), as well as Act No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, Article L. 226-13 of the French Criminal Code and the European Directive of 24 October 1995 (hereinafter referred to as “the Applicable Regulations”).

The purpose of this privacy and cookies policy is to inform you of the processing operations carried out on your personal data by Aprifel and of your rights.

We recommend that you read it regularly to keep abreast of any changes it may undergo. You will be notified of any substantial changes.

1. Identity and contact details of the data controller

Information about you is collected and processed by: the Agency for Research and Information on Fruit and Vegetables (Aprifel), a French non-profit association under the Act of 1 July 1901, whose SIRET number is 323 687624 000 60. Its registered office is at 97-99 Boulevard Pereire, 75017 Paris; Tel: +33 (0)1.49.49.15.15; Fax : +33 (0)1.49.49.15.16.

2. Contact details for the Data Protection Officer

Aprifel has appointed a Data Protection Officer (hereinafter “DPO”) who you can contact at the following email address: dpd@interfel.com.

3. Collection of personal data by Aprifel

3.1 Categories of personal data collected

In its capacity as data controller, Aprifel processes your personal data on secure servers, in particular your: (i) identification data (surname, first name, email; telephone, password); (ii) connection data and (iii) data concerning your professional life (sector of activity, job title).

Aprifel also processes data on the devices you use to access the website, such as data from cookies (see. Article 8 Cookie management).

3.2 How Aprifel collects personal data

Aprifel is likely to collect your personal data in various ways, in particular:

when you use and browse through the website (cookies);
during exchanges via the forms on the website, by email, by post, by telephone, by fax or on social media;
when you subscribe to the Aprifel newsletters;
when you register for an event organised by Aprifel;
when you place an order on-line via the Aprifel documentation space.

This personal data may be collected directly by a declaration on your part (e.g. via a contact form, a newsletter subscription) or automatically by our systems placing cookies on your terminal.

3.3 Need for data collection and mandatory information

The provision of certain information is required to enable Aprifel to respond to your request and enable you to benefit from certain specific services.

If you do not fill in the required information in the forms on the website, Aprifel may be unable to provide you with certain services, or to follow up your request.

Fields in a form that are not marked as required are left to your discretion. It is up to you to decide whether or not to fill them in.

4. Purposes and legal basis for processing your personal data

Aprifel collects and processes your personal data for certain services offered by its website.

Aprifel processes your personal data only if this is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. All data processing carried out by Aprifel is legitimate in that it complies with current applicable legislation. These purposes include:

contacting Aprifel via the contact form. This processing is needed to enable Aprifel to respond to requests made via the form.
managing registration for events organised by or with the participation of Aprifel. This processing is needed to enable Aprifel to manage subscribers’ participation in this event and to inform them of the steps to be taken.
managing your newsletter subscriptions. This processing is based on your consent, which you must give when you register.
compiling statistics in the legitimate interests of Aprifel, in order to improve the information and procedures it offers (Art. 6.1.f of the GDPR).
sharing on social media and enabling website users to easily share content.
enabling your orders to be sent and received via the Aprifel documentation space and enabling users to retrieve their previous information for a future order.

Description of processing carried out by Aprifel

Purpose for which Aprifel collects personal data	Legal basis for processing personal data	Personal data collected	Retention period
Contacting Aprifel via the contact form	Aprifel’s legitimate interest in responding to user requests	Identification details: first name, surname, email address, status	5 years from referral
Compiling of statistics	Aprifel’s legitimate interest in processing users’ personal data in order to improve the information and procedures it offers (Article 6.1 GDPR)	Browsing data	14 months
Sharing on social media	Consent to allow users of the website to easily share content and to improve social interaction	Identification data	Time required to achieve the purpose
Registering for events organised by or with the participation of Aprifel	Participants consenting to the processing of their personal data with respect to their wish to take part in the event	Identification details: first name, surname, email address, status	18 months
Subscribing to and sending of Aprifel newsletters	Consenting of subscribers wishing to receive news about the fresh fruit and vegetable sector	Identification details: first name, surname, email address, status	Until the data subject cancels their subscription
Managing requests to exercise rights	Compliance with a legal obligation	Identification data	Time required to achieve the purpose
Managing orders on the Aprifel documentation space	Consenting of subscribers to the Aprifel documentation space to the processing of their personal data with respect to their wish to order Aprifel information material	Identification data: first name, surname, email address, telephone number, entity, addresses to which the order should be sent, etc.	Until the person concerned cancels their registration or leaves Aprifel

5. Time for which personal data is retained

Aprifel keeps personal data in a form that allows you to be identified for as long as it takes to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. Personal data is then archived for the applicable statutory limitation period, to enable Aprifel to meet its legal obligations or for purposes of proof unless you exercise your right to deletion, or a longer retention period is authorised or imposed by virtue of a legal or regulatory provision.

The criteria used to determine the retention periods applied are as follows:

the existence of a legal or regulatory obligation to which Aprifel is subject;
the period during which Aprifel maintains a relationship with you (for example, the period during which you subscribe to the Aprifel newsletter).

6. Recipients of personal data

No personal information of users of the www.aprifel.com site is published without their knowledge, nor is it exchanged or sold on any medium whatsoever to third parties.

Access to your personal data is strictly limited. Nevertheless, Aprifel may transmit your personal data to certain third parties:

internally: to Aprifel team members, who are subject to a non-disclosure obligation and are in charge of the processing operations identified above in the performance of their duties;
to other third parties if such disclosure is required by law, regulation or court order, or to respond to any complaints or protect the security of your personal data.

In the event of transfer outside the European Union, Aprifel undertakes to guarantee a sufficient level of protection and to take all appropriate precautions.

7. Exercising rights and making complaints

In accordance with the applicable regulations, you have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

right of access to find out exactly what data is processed by Aprifel.
the right to rectify incorrect or out-of-date data.
the right to delete data if you no longer wish Aprifel to process all or part of your personal data.
right of portability if you wish to retrieve your personal data or have it retrieved by a third party.
the right to halt operations if you wish the processing of your personal data to be suspended.
the right to object if you no longer wish your personal data to be processed by Aprifel.
the right to define directives concerning the fate of your personal data after your death.

You have the right, at any time and without giving any reason, to object to the processing of your personal data for commercial prospecting purposes, including profiling, and the right to withdraw any consent given to Aprifel.

If telephone data is collected by Aprifel, you have the right, pursuant to Article L. 223-2 of the Consumer Code, to register on the telephone-marketing blocking list (Bloctel).

You may also end your subscription to Aprifel newsletters at any time and without giving any reason, by clicking on the unsubscribe link attached to the newsletter.

You may exercise these rights by contacting Aprifel at the following address: dpd@interfel.com or by post to its headquarters at the above address.

Finally, you can also send a complaint to the CNIL on-line (https://www.cnil.fr/fr/plaintes) or by post to the following address: 3 Place Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 Paris Cedex 07.

When browsing through the www.aprifel.com site, cookies are placed and/or read by Aprifel on your terminal.

Cookies are files stored on your computer that record specific parameters and data for interacting with our system via your browser. Saving them enables us to tailor the website to you and makes it easier for you to use, for example by registering specific data entries so that you do not have to repeat them over and over again.

For example, cookies enable us to record your actions, your preferences and some of your characteristics for the duration of the cookie’s validity. Not all cookies contain personal data, but where they do we treat them in accordance with our privacy policy.

8.2 Which cookies are placed/read by Aprifel?

Aprifel uses the following cookies to operate the website, optimise your browsing and get to know you in order to improve your experience:

Technical session cookies: whose purpose is to allow certain parameters linked to connection data or user information to be memorised. These cookies do not require your consent and you cannot object to them being placed. They are kept for the duration of the session.
Consent cookies: When you accept the use of certain cookies on our website, consent cookies may be stored, which is necessary for proof that consent was obtained. These cookies do not require your consent.
Audience measurement cookies: these cookies enable us to determine the number of visits and sources of traffic, in order to measure and improve the performance of our website. They also help us to identify which pages are visited more or less frequently and to determine how visitors browse through the website. All the information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymised.

These cookies are implemented by Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager. The list of cookies that may be placed by Google Tag Manager can be viewed at https://tarteaucitron.io/fr/service/googletagmanager/. These cookies are stored for 13 months. You can view the Google Analytics data protection policy here. You can disable Google Analytics cookies by following this link.

We ask for your consent to place these cookies. If you agree to them being placed, we shall use them to obtain information about your visits to the website. If you refuse to accept them, your visit to the website will not be affected in any way.

With the exception of functional technical cookies, which are strictly necessary for using the website, you can accept or refuse the placing of the cookies mentioned above.

Unless you object in advance, the period of validity of your consent to the placing of cookies is 30 minutes for session cookies and one year for audience measurement and browser-tracking cookies. When you visit the website, a banner will ask you to give your prior consent to the placing of cookies used by Aprifel.

Please note that you may change or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking on the dedicated section of the website.

8.4 Changes to the cookies policy

We inform you that this policy may be subject to change, in particular following developments in our technological solution and applicable legal or regulatory provisions.

You can click on the icons for the LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube social networks. Any personal information that you have set as public and accessible from your LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube profiles will be accessible to Aprifel. However, Aprifel will not use any of this data which relates to your private life.

If you wish to oppose access by Aprifel to personal information published in the public space of your social profiles or accounts, you must use the means made available to you by LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to limit access to your personal data.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy was updated on 19/06/2025.