Privacy policy

Last update : July 2021

1. General statement

We take your privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting it. We believe that you should easily know what personal data we collect and use, as well as to understand your rights in respect of your personal data.

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains our policies and practices regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal data that we collect through our Digital Platforms, our stores or during our events.

We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy carefully as it provides important information about your personal data.

Do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions or remarks about this Privacy Policy (See section “How to contact us?” below).

2. Who we are?

“Hermès”, “we” “us” and “our” refer to Hermès International and to Hermès Sellier as the controllers of your personal data, except otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.

• Hermès International is a French limited partnership with shares (“Société en commandite par actions”) with a capital of 53,840,400.12 euros, having its registered office at 24, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Registry under number 572 076 396 RCS Paris.
• Hermès Sellier is a French simplified joint-stock company (“Société par actions simplifiée”) with a capital of 4,976,000 euros, having its registered office at 24 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Registry under number 696 520 410.

3. What personal data do we collect and how is it collected?

Personal data is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. For example, it may include an e-mail.

4. Why do we collect your personal data and how do we use it?

We collect and use your personal data based on one or many of the following legal basis: – we have obtained your prior consent (for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter). Please note that for this specific legal basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (see below “What rights do you have on your personal data?”);

5. How long do we keep your personal data?

Your personal data are processed for the period necessary for the purposes for which they have been collected, to comply with legal and regulatory obligations and for the duration of any period necessary to establish, exercise or defend any legal rights. In order to determine the most appropriate retention periods for your personal data, we have specifically considered the amount, nature and sensitivity of your personal data, the reasons for which we collected your personal data, the service you deserve and expect from us together with the applicable legal requirements. For example: – With regard to our prospects (potential customers): your data is stored for three years from your last action and then deleted or archived to comply with legal retention obligations; – With regard to the cookies used on Digital Platforms: they are stored for up to 13 months from the moment they were installed on your device.

6. How do we disclose and transfer your personal data?

We only disclose your personal data to Hermès employees that need to have access to your personal data and are authorized to process them in order to achieve the aforementioned purposes and who are committed to confidentiality.

7. How do we protect your personal data?

All your personal data is strictly confidential and will only be accessible, on a need-to-know basis, to duly authorized personnel of Hermès and other entities of the Hermès Group and third providers acting on our behalf with appropriate technical and organizational security safeguards.

The Hermès group has implemented security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access and use. We follow appropriate security procedures in the storage and disclosure of your personal data so as to prevent unauthorized access by third parties and to prevent your data being accidentally lost. We limit those who access your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those who do access your data will be subject to a duty of confidentiality towards Hermès.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

We also require those parties to whom we transfer your personal data to comply with the same. However, unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. So, we cannot ensure the security of your personal data transmitted by you to us via the internet. Any such transmission is at your own risk and you acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible for any unauthorized use, distribution, damage or destruction of Your Information, except to the extent we are required to accept such responsibility under the law. Once we have received your personal data, we will use the security measures abovementioned.