Privacy Policy
LAST UPDATED september 2020
Massage Me SARL ("Massage Me", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read this Privacy Policy (the Policy) carefully as it contains important information about how we will use and treat your personal data. By visiting www.massage-me.com (“Our Website”) and/or our Massage Me booking tool you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
For Customers and Visitors to our Site/Users of our booking tool
(If you are or wish to apply to be an Independent Partner, please also read the separate section below).
We act as agents of the Independent Partners in providing our Booking Services and in storing any Client Consultation Forms.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on Our Website, on our booking tool, or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use Our Website or partner portal, subscribe to our service, use Our Booking Services, when you report a problem with Our Website or contact us for any other reason. This may include your name, date of birth, gender, address of where the Massage will be provided, email address, phone number and payment card information. It will also include any further information that you provide in relation to your booking, either to us or to your Independent Partner (and this may include information about your health).
Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to Our Website or use of our booking tool, we may automatically collect the following information:
Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; your login information; browser type, version, country and language; time zone setting; browser plug-in types and versions; operating system and platform;
Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from Our Site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
Device Information : Each time you use Our Website we may also collect information about your device. This may include information on the type of mobile device that you are using and its unique device identifier (for example, the IMEI number, the device's mobile phone number, the MAC address of the device's wireless network interface or push ID), the mobile operating system that you are using and mobile network information.
Information we receive from other sources. Client Consultation Forms – Prior to your Massage you will be asked to complete a Client Consultation Form in which you will be asked for details of any medical conditions. We will store these on behalf of the Independent Partners.
Partners' Notes - The Independent Partners may make notes during the Massage. These notes will record information that you give the Independent Partner and the Independent Partner's observations, e.g. whether there are any pets at the premises and whether you experienced any discomfort during the Massage. If any of this information include details of your physical or mental health, or any other sensitive data, you will be asked for your explicit consent. We will store these notes and may make them available to other Independent Partners that you choose to book through our Booking Service.
We work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, subcontractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers and search information providers) and may receive information about you from them.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
To carry out our obligations arising from our Booking Services that you request from us;
To store and share the Partners Notes. These may be shared with other Independent Partners that you choose to book.
To store the Client Consultation Forms on behalf of the Independent Partners
To notify you about changes to our Booking Service that may affect you;
To ensure that content from Our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device;
To improve our services;
To measure or understand the effectiveness of our advertising to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
To contact you and make suggestions and recommendations to you about Massage that may interest you or them by email, ‘ phone, SMS, mail, or via our websites
To remind you of your appointments;
For administration and internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, data security, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
Disclosure of your information
We will share your information with the Independent Partners to enable them to provide the Massage effectively and to effectively manage customer relations.
We also provide your information to selected third parties including:
Suppliers for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of Our Website.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If Massage Me or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation
To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or
To protect the rights, property, or safety of Massage Me, the Independent Partners or others.
To law enforcement agencies and regulators in connection with their investigations
This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") that may not have similar data protection laws. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, for example, the provision of support services of the processing of your payment details. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to adequately ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
Security
We use appropriate technical and organisational safeguards to protect your data. However you should be aware that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Your Rights
Marketing - You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes and ask for your consent. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing use to collect your data by clicking the unsubscribe button in our emails or you can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@massage-me.com.
Access to Information and other rights – you have the right to ask to see the information which Massage Me holds about you and why. If you want to see the information we hold about you then you must ask for the information in writing and give your full name and address. You should send your request to the below contact details.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed in writing to :
Data Protection - Massage Me
540 Avenue de la Tarentaise
Aime Cedex
73210
FRANCE
email: info@massage-me.com
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Links to other websites
Massage Me is not responsible for the content or reliability of linked websites. Linking should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages
FOR INDEPENDENT PARTNERS AND PARTNERS WISHING TO JOIN THE ONLINE PLATFORM
Over and above what we say to Customers and visitors about privacy (as set out above) we will use, process and disclose your personal data in accordance with applicable law.
Your personal data will include:
your facial image/photo
name
address and contact details
location, using GPS technology
bank details
details of your training, qualifications and experience
results of all checks undertaken, including identity checks, background checks, document image checks, criminal record cheques and taxes checks.
insurance details
eligibility to work in France
car ownership
language skills
feedback on your services or details of any complaints of clients
any other personal data that we may collect from you or otherwise receive from third parties
details of criminal convictions
Should you become one of our Independent Partners you will be required to notify us promptly of any changes to your personal data. Our Uses and Disclosures of the Personal Data may include:
Responding to any queries you may have
Contacting you in respect of your registration to join the online platform
Inviting you to our trade-test day (where you will be asked to demonstrate your skills)
Undertaking identity, background, document image and checks (to the extent permitted by applicable law)
Introducing you (possibly with the use of your image) via our website(s) or booking tool, or offline to members of the public who are seeking therapeutic massage services from professional self-employed massage therapists
Managing our relationship with you, including the making of payments
Complying with and enforcing any agreement between you and us
Analysis and research
Assisting you to make the most of our services
Dealing with any complaints or investigations
Complying with statutory and other legal requirements
Processing in our legitimate interests otherwise as reasonably notified to you
Marketing
Assisting you to benefit from the service
Disclosure so far as is reasonably necessary externally for the above purposes
Disclosures for the purposes of undertaking identity, background, document image and criminal records checks.
We may monitor your use of our technology, systems and customer personal data for the purposes of record keeping, to establish facts, to establish compliance with regulatory and self-regulatory procedures, to prevent, detect or investigate: crime; wrongdoing; the unauthorised use of our proprietary technology and/or Customer personal data; non-compliance with any agreement between us and you or any of our practices and procedures;
We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area in order to carry on our business. In any case, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to adequately ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
Independent Partners will comply with the applicable law, our privacy policy and other policies and procedures notified to them by us from time to time.
In respect of any Customer personal data, including data collected whilst making notes of the Massage or accessed whilst viewing such notes through our technology Independent Partners will:
use such personal data only in so far as is necessary for the purpose of carrying out Massages on Customers and for no other purpose (including, without limitation, their own marketing purposes);
not disclose such personal data unless specifically authorised by us to do so;
comply promptly with our instructions in respect of such personal data;
not disclose such personal data to any third party other than on our written instructions or as required by law;
not allow such personal data to be transferred out of the European Economic Area;
promptly assist us with requests in respect of such personal data;
when making notes during the Massage , ensure that any such personal data included therein (i) does not contain any sensitive or inappropriate data and (ii) is accurately recorded and promptly amended if inaccurate;
immediately forward to us any communications from Customers, regulatory bodies and other third parties concerning such personal data and not respond to or act on such communications without our prior agreement; and
on request provide to us such personal data in the format reasonably specified.
not retain any (or any copies of Customer personal data) on completion of the Massage other than for the purpose of submission of notes to us. After such submission, the Independent Partner shall securely destroy such notes.
will keep, transport and dispose of any Customer personal data securely to prevent unauthorised disclosure, access, loss, destruction or damage to such personal data.