Last updated: 10/14/2026. This policy may change; we invite you to review it regularly.
Ancoris attaches great importance to protecting your personal data. This policy explains how we collect and use the data you provide when you visit the English version of our website (www.ancoris.fr/en), as well as the rights available to you. It complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR — EU Regulation 2016/679) and the French Data Protection Act (Loi Informatique et Libertés) of 6 January 1978, as amended.
You can browse the website without providing any personal information. Such information is only requested when you contact us through our contact form.
Data controller
The data controller is Ancoris (SAS) — 83 rue de la Boétie, 75008 Paris, France. For any question regarding your data, please email us at contact@ancoris.fr.
Data collected and purposes
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
- Responding to your requests — through the contact form (first and last name, company name, email, mobile or direct phone number, message). Legal basis: our legitimate interest in handling the requests we receive and in following up on potential projects with economic development organisations and investors.
- Measuring and improving the website’s audience — through cookies (see the Cookies section). Legal basis: your consent.
- Displaying video content — through YouTube videos embedded on the website. Legal basis: your consent, where cookies are involved.
Recipients of the data
Your data is intended solely for Ancoris’s teams. Depending on the nature of your request, it may be shared with our teams in our international offices (Frankfurt, Milan, Barcelona, New York) so that we can respond to you. It is neither sold nor transferred to third parties.
It may be processed by our subcontractors, strictly within the scope of the purposes set out above and under a confidentiality obligation:
- SARL Artgomedia, website hosting (details on our Legal information page);
- Matomo, audience measurement;
- Google, via Google Tag Manager (tag management) and YouTube (embedded videos).
Transfers outside the European Union
Some of our service providers, including Google via Google Tag Manager and YouTube, may process data outside the European Union. Where your request is handled by our New York office, your data is also transferred to the United States. Such transfers are governed by appropriate safeguards compliant with the GDPR, such as an adequacy decision (including the EU–US Data Privacy Framework) or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
Retention period
- Data from a contact request: a maximum of 24 months from our last exchange.
- Cookies: a maximum of 13 months, in accordance with the recommendations of the CNIL (the French data protection authority).
Your rights regarding your data
In accordance with the GDPR, you have the following rights:
- right of access, rectification and erasure;
- right to restriction of processing and right to object;
- right to data portability;
- right to withdraw your consent at any time;
- right to set directives concerning your data after your death.
To exercise these rights, please email us at contact@ancoris.fr. Proof of identity may be requested in the event of reasonable doubt. We undertake to respond within one month of receiving your request.
Lodging a complaint with the CNIL
If you consider that the processing of your data does not comply with the applicable regulations, you may lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the supervisory authority for data protection in France: www.cnil.fr/en. If you reside in another EU country, you may also contact your local data protection authority.
Data security
Ancoris implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data against loss, alteration and unauthorised access:
- system monitoring;
- access management and secure access controls;
- staff awareness of data protection;
- security requirements in the selection of our subcontractors.
Cookies
On your first visit, a banner informs you of the possible use of cookies and lets you accept, refuse or configure them by category. You can change your choices at any time via the consent-management tool available at the bottom of every page.
The cookies that may be placed on the website:
- Strictly necessary cookies — essential to the operation of the website (navigation, security, saving your choices). They do not require your consent.
- Matomo (statistics category) — an audience-measurement solution that helps us understand how the website is used and improve it.
- Google Tag Manager — a tag manager used to deploy and organise the tags on the website. It only triggers tags that require consent once you have given it.
- YouTube — embedded videos, which may place cookies once you have given your consent.
Refusing non-essential cookies does not prevent you from browsing but may affect certain features, such as video playback.
Database protection
The databases on the website are protected by the French Act of 1 July 1998 and by French copyright law.