Global privacy statement

Last update: 13 February 2025

Your privacy is important to us and to Société Générale Group to which Ayvens belongs. This is a matter of priority for us and we have implemented strong principles in that respect, especially in regards of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Ayvens S.A. and its affiliated entities (hereafter “Ayvens”) value the trust of customers, suppliers and business partners and are committed to protecting their personal data. Compliant privacy and information security practices are therefore integral components of Ayvens’ services, corporate governance, risk management and overall accountability. We only process such personal data as is necessary for our business activities and the provision of the Ayvens services.

This Global Privacy Statement (the “Statement”) describes our practices in connection with the personal information (“Personal Data”) that we process about you and your business relationship with Ayvens.

Please read this Global Privacy Statement carefully so that you understand how we collect and use your Personal Data

Click here to download this Global Privacy Statement

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1. Scope of this statement

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We collect and use your Personal Data through our various vehicle and fleet leasing, fleet management and driver mobility services and in the course of performing our business activities (“Services”).

Please also note that specific services may be subject to a separate privacy statement referenced in the respective terms.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF CUSTOMERS Insofar as Customers in their capacity as employers have access to Personal Data of their employees, i.e. Drivers, the Customer is the controller responsible for the processing and use thereof in such capacity. This Statement does not apply to the processing and use of Personal Data of Drivers by Customers.

2. Who are we?

Ayvens S.A. is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data (controller). Address: 1, Rue Eugène et Armand Peugeot 92500 Rueil Malmaison, France

Ayvens may also be referred to as “we”, “our” or “us”.

3. How do we collect your personal data?

We and our service providers collect Personal Data in the following ways:

Through sales activities

We commence the processing of Personal Data if you provide this, directly or indirectly via third parties, e.g. as part of an offline sales lead, registration, online contact form, inquiry by e-mail, telephone, chat and/or application, survey or price competition.

Through the Services

Most of the Personal Data we collect are in relation to the Services we provide or will be providing to you as (i) a Driver and our Customer, your employer, if you are using a company vehicle, or (ii) a Private Lease Customer. This starts with the registration of your Personal Data with respect to the vehicle to be leased (in some circumstances we may do some preliminary credit checks before this) and continues with the registration of the leased vehicle and when we communicate with you about our services, e.g., to arrange for periodic maintenance and repairs. We may also process your Personal Data when your vehicle inadvertently is involved in an accident, to ensure that we restore mobility and handle any damage, or where we are the recipient of traffic fines in relation to your leased vehicle. Next to our core-leasing activities, we also provide a number of other related services, such as e-mobility services, fuel card services, charging services, car rental services, and roadside assistance. Another service we provide relates to car remarketing, sales of used Ayvens vehicles.

Online

We collect Personal Data from you online, when:

From other sources

We receive your Personal Data from other sources, for example:

We need to collect Personal Data in order to provide the requested Services to you or to handle queries, comments or complaints related to our Services. If you do not provide the Personal Data requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any Personal Data relating to other persons to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Statement.

**Monitoring of communications ** Subject to applicable laws, we will monitor and record calls, e-mail, text messages and other communications we have with you. We do this for compliance with regulatory rules, self-regulatory practices or procedures relevant to our business, to prevent or detect crime, in the interests of protecting the security of our communication systems and procedures, and for quality control and staff training purposes.

For example, where we are required by a regulator to record certain telephone lines (as relevant) we will do so. In addition, where appropriate and having regard to applicable data protection law, our monitoring will be to check for inappropriate content in communications. In very limited and specific circumstances we may conduct short term carefully controlled monitoring of your activities where this is necessary for our legitimate interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may do this for instance where we have reason to believe that fraud or other crime is being committed, where offences are suspected and where the monitoring is proportionate to the type of the disciplinary offence, or where we suspect non-compliance with sanctions and embargoes or anti-money laundering and counter terrorism regulations to which we are subject. In particular, telephone calls may be recorded for these purposes

5. Who has access to your data?

In addition to what is indicated for each purpose above regarding who has access to Personal Data under the control of Ayvens, we may also share Personal Data:

In order to provide you with our services, we often work closely with service partners, service providers and unaffiliated partners. Our independent service partners assist us in providing our leasing and other services to you, and include dealerships, maintenance providers, body repair shops, and roadside assistance providers, but also rental service companies and the administrators of our driver safety programs. Dealerships or suppliers of (electric) vehicles may require contact details of a driver to activate a personal account necessary to be set up as a driver, otherwise the vehicle does not work.

Service providers are companies we retain that support us in running our business, for example to help us maintain our IT network and related infrastructure and security and access controls to our premises.

We also use and disclose your Personal Data as necessary or appropriate, especially when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:

We will limit access to Personal Data to personnel with a business need to know for the purposes described in this Statement.

6. Why personal data may be transferred to third countries?

Ayvens is a global service provider that has customers and locations around the globe. Your Personal Data may be stored and/or processed in a country other than the one you reside in. For a list of the Ayvens affiliates and their locations, that jointly process and use Personal Data, see the language sign on the top right of www.ayvens.com.

Some of the non-EEA countries are considered to provide for an adequate level of protection of your Personal Data, according to EU standards. You can find a list of these ‘adequate countries’ here. For the transfer of Personal Data to other countries, Ayvens has put in place adequate measures to protect your Personal Data, such as Standard Contractual Clauses. You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us using the address in the ‘How can you contact us?’ section below or by following this link.

7. Children's privacy

Our Services are not directed at individuals under the age of 18.

8. Do we use your data for other purposes?

We may also use your Personal Data for a purpose other than the initial purpose. This is subject to the condition that the secondary purpose is in line with the initial purpose. The following factors are inter alia taken into account: are the purposes clearly related; is the secondary purpose appropriate and/or expected, was the Personal Data obtained directly from you or in another way; what kind of Personal Data is concerned for the secondary purpose; what would be the implications for you; and what data protection measures are applied when using your data for the secondary purposes.

9. How long will we keep your data?

Personal data of data subjects will be kept for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Statement unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria applied to determine the applicable retention periods are: the duration of a relationship and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you use or lease an Ayvens vehicle); as required by a legal obligation to which we are subject; and as advisable in light of our legal position, such as in regard of applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations. After the relevant retention period, Ayvens will either anonymize or purge your Personal Data.

10. How do we secure your data?

We seek to use appropriate organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Data within our organization, in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please notify us in accordance with the ‘How can you contact us?’ section below immediately.

11. Changes to this statement

We reserve the right to amend this Statement at any time in order to, for instance, address future developments of Ayvens or changes in industry or legal trends. The ‘Last Updated’ legend at the top of this Statement indicates when this Statement was last revised.

12. How can you contact us?

If you have questions, requests or complaints, please feel free to contact us via the contact page of the relevant Ayvens entity. Because e-mail communication is not always secure, please do not include sensitive personal information in the e-mails you send us.

13. How can I exercise my personal data rights?

Please contact our Data Protection Correspondent via this link if you have any questions or concerns about how Ayvens processes your Personal Data; if you would like to exercise your right to request access, correct, suppress or delete Personal Data about you or request that we cease using it (right to object), withdraw your consent or if you would like to request a copy or portability of your Personal Data. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

Please note that we may not be required to comply (or fully comply) with your request. Applicable laws or regulations may impose conditions or restrict certain of such rights. For instance, for as long as we have a relationship with you, or where personal data is kept in a backup system (for the purpose of restoring the data in case of a data loss event) and the data purging cycle may be different than applicable to the production system. In those circumstances, we will write to you explaining why we are unable to comply at that moment or, in the case of backup data, the request may be implemented at a later stage (when the backup is overwritten). In your request, please make clear what Personal Data you would like to access or have changed or deleted, or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Data.

For your protection, in principle we only implement requests with respect to the information associated with the particular e-mail address that you use to send us your request, and we may request additional information necessary to verify your identity before implementing your request. Please note that certain Personal Data may be exempt from such requests pursuant to applicable data protection laws or other laws and regulations. You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or in the place of the alleged misconduct. Please see here a link to the national data protection authorities located in the European Union and the European Economic Area.

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