Personal data management policy

Data protection policy

Each on-line service restricts the gathering of personal data to the absolute minimum (data minimisation) and provides information on:

• Parties in charge of processing the data and purposes for gathering the data (purposes);
• Legal basis for the processing of data;
• Mandatory or optional nature of data gathering for the processing of your request and a reminder of processed data categories;
• Sources of data (when data other than that provided via the on-line service is used to process your request);
• Categories of people concerned;
• Data recipients (only RTE in principle, with the exception of specific information if the data has to be passed on to a third party);
• Data retention time;
• Security measures (general description);
• Possible existence of data transfers outside the European Union or automated decision-making;
• Your freedom of information rights and how to exercise them with RTE.

Exercising your rights

 
Personal data collected for the purpose of services provided on the https://www.rte-france.com website are processed in accordance with secure protocols and enable RTE to process requests received in its IT applications.
In order to obtain information or exercise your freedom-of-information rights regarding the processing of personal data used by RTE, contact the RTE data-protection officer (DPO):

E-mail : Contact 

or via mail at the following address:

RTE
To the attention of the Data Privacy Officer (DPO)
Immeuble Window
7C place du Dôme
92073 Paris La Défense CEDEX

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What is a "cookie"?

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In order to tailor the website to the demands of its visitors, we measure the number of visits, the number of pages viewed, the activity of website visitors and their return frequency.

Matomo, one of the statistical tools used by this website, generates the following cookies:
 

We also collect your IP address in order to determine the city from which you have logged on. This address is immediately made anonymous after use. RTE consequently has no means of using this information to identify a physical person.

All website visitors (www.rte-france.com) are not required to consent to the use of Matomo because settings ensure that users remain completely anonymous as recommended by the CNIL (France’s freedom-of-information authority).

RTE keeps collected personal data (cookie ID) for a period of 13 months. This data is not passed on to third parties or used for other purposes.
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