French Thinking is committed to protecting your privacy. This statement together with any other documents that are referred in it set out the basis on which personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

The following important information concerns the protection of your personal data. Before providing us with any of your details, please read this:

Information we may collect from you, and use we may make of it
We will hold and process any personal information which you provide via the site (and linked pages and sites – site(s)) or by submitting emails and/or online forms, for our own business purposes, including transactional actions relating to recruitment.

In addition to the information you submit to us via the site(s), we may collect information about visits to the site. We collect information on the page browser access. This is used within French Speaking to improve the design and layout of our site(s). We gather information on the popularity of each page relative to other pages, the number of pages accessed by visitors and the average number, the average time spent on the site and the number of emails sent or files downloaded. None of this information is connected to you as an individual.

Google Analytics
This website(s) uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website operators analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website(s) (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where they are required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Cookies
What are cookies?
‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.