Privacy policy

LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires Sociétés) is a website presenting its members, news, events, theses and research projects. A secure intranet space is also available.

LATTS makes every effort to protect your personal data, in accordance with the French Data Protection Act (Lil) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Privacy Policy informs you about the purposes and conditions under which we process personal data that I may collect in connection with our exchanges and services.

LATTS invites you to read the Privacy Policy to learn about how your data is used and the rights you can exercise under the regulations.

General information

You acknowledge that you have read the Privacy Policy and accepted the Legal Notice, available at the bottom of this website.

Assetou Coulibaly is responsible for the collection and processing of your personal data submitted via the contact form.

As LATTS services are not intended for minors, this website does not collect personal data from minors.

The digital resources offered by LATTS may contain or use links to websites, applications, products or services operated by third parties (e.g. social networks, partners, advertising sites). We remind you that the Privacy Policy does not apply to these third parties, over which LATTS has no control and for which it cannot be held responsible. We invite you to read their privacy policies.

Personal data collected

LATTS may collect personal data from:
(i) online contact and information forms;
(ii) comments and interactions with our services;
(iii) traffic information;
(iv) our written and oral exchanges;
(vi) the provision of LATTS services (in particular the creation of member files and Intranet access).

Data security

LATTS takes all necessary precautions to preserve the security of the personal data collected and processed and to prevent it from being distorted, damaged or accessed by unauthorised third parties, in accordance with the regulations.

Use of personal data

We use your personal data for the following main purposes:
(i) to respond to your requests and provide you with information, based on your consent, pre-contractual and/or contractual measures;
(ii) to provide you with LATTS services, ensure the contractual, technical, financial and accounting management of the relationship with our members and partners, carry out statistical analyses, based on the contractual relationship, our legitimate interest or your consent, where applicable;
(iii) to better understand your needs and expectations in order to provide you with tailored services and measure the use of our services with a view to developing our offerings, on the basis of the contractual relationship or your consent, where applicable
; (iv) to process your requests, the exercise of your rights and your complaints, on the basis of legal obligations;
(v) comply with the law, regulations, and legal requests and orders.

When your personal data is collected and processed on the basis of your consent, you may object to the processing of this personal data for commercial purposes by contacting us under the conditions set out in the section below entitled “Contact us“.

Recipients of the data.

The personal data we collect is intended exclusively for LATTS. Your data will not be used for commercial purposes.

Rights of data subjects

In accordance with regulations, you have the right to
: (i) access your data in order to verify it;
(ii) rectify your data in order to update or correct it when it is incomplete or inaccurate;
(iii) erasure, in particular when your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed, or when you withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data collected on this basis;
(iv) restriction, which allows you to temporarily freeze the use of your personal data, in particular when exercising your right to rectification, during the period of verification of the accuracy of your data;
(v) to object to the processing of your personal data, for reasons related to your particular situation. In this case, LATTS will no longer process your data unless it can justify the existence of legitimate and compelling reasons for the processing that override the interests and rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. In the case of commercial prospecting, you may object without reason;
(vi) portability, which allows you to request that I transfer the personal data you have provided on the basis of your consent or a contract, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
(vii) withdraw your consent, when your personal data is collected and processed on this basis;
(viii) to lodge a complaint with the CNIL;
(ix) to define the post-mortem fate of your data.

You may exercise these rights by sending a written request to the address mentioned in the “Contact us” section below, accompanied by proof of identity. LATTS will endeavour to respond to your requests as soon as possible and in accordance with the conditions set out in the regulations.

Retention periods for collected data

LATTS retains your personal data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes, taking into account the requirements and authorisations of laws and regulations. The maximum retention periods applicable, or imposed on us, depending on the purposes are described below.

Cookie management

When you use our digital resources, information relating to your browsing may be recorded via cookies in order to improve their interactivity.
Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer, mobile phone, tablet or any other device used for browsing) when you visit a website. Their purpose is to collect information relating to your browsing in order to improve the interactivity of the website.
Cookies are managed by your web browser. Depending on the choices you have made, cookies process information about your use of our resources.
The LATTS website uses cookies specific to its resources, enabling them to function optimally, as well as third-party audience measurement cookies using the Matomo Analytics tool, in particular with a view to adapting our resources.
Audience measurement cookies enable us to analyse the browsing of our digital resources in a global and anonymous manner. Your consent to the use of audience tracking cookies is valid for 13 months from the date the cookies are placed. At the end of this period, your consent will be requested again.

You may choose at any time to express and modify your cookie preferences using the methods described below:

(i) The choices available to you via your browser software: you can decide at any time to change your cookie preferences by using the information and tools available on our digital resources and by configuring your browser, device or service using the information available:

For Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

For Safari™: https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

For Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm;=en&answer;=95647

For Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies-preferences

For further information, you may also consult the CNIL website:

https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser

(ii) The choices available to you via the website’s audience measurement tool: LATTS uses the Matomo Analytics tool (https://fr.matomo.org/) to manage cookies. This tool is exempt from consent by the CNIL. The data is stored exclusively in the Matomo data centre located in Germany and is not used for advertising purposes or resold (https://fr.matomo.org/google-analytics-alternative/).

Our digital resources may also provide access to social networks that themselves use cookies. LATTS is independent of these services provided by third parties. Any use of services provided by third parties will be subject to their own terms and conditions. We recommend that you consult these terms and conditions, and we will refer you to them for any enquiries, as this does not fall within the scope of our commitments and responsibility.

Contact LATTS

To exercise your rights or for any enquiry regarding my Privacy Policy, LATTS invites you to contact me by post at:

Assetou Coulibaly – Data
Protection Officer École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC)
14/20 Boulevard Newton
Plot B & C, 2nd floor
Cité Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne
77447 Marne-la-Vallée

or by email to assetou.coulibaly@enpc.fr

Changes to the Privacy Policy

LATTS may modify its Privacy Policy. We therefore invite you to consult it regularly to check the provisions in force and the measures that LATTS takes to protect your personal data.

Updated on 9 March 2026