Privacy & Cookies Policy

Last update: April 24, 2025

Preamble

Bamboo SAS (hereinafter "Bambboo", "we", "us", "our"), whose contact details appear in the Legal Notice of this site, attaches great importance to the protection of your personal data. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about how we collect, use, share and protect personal data:


  1. Visitors to our public website accessible at www.bambboo.fr (hereinafter "the Website").

  2. Users (representatives of our Business Customers and Collaborators invited by them) of our AI-based recruitment and sourcing platform (hereinafter "the Platform").

  3. Indirectly, Contacts (professional profiles) whose data are processed via the Platform by Bambboo on behalf of our Corporate Clients, following the actions of Employees.


It also describes the data subject's data protection rights and how to exercise them.


We undertake to process all personal data in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter "RGPD") and Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 as amended relating to data processing, files and freedoms.

/ ARTICLE 1 - ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Whereas Bambboo alone determines the purposes (technical and administrative management of the Platform, administration of User accounts, invoicing for Services) and means of processing data relating to Users (Customer representatives, internal or external Collaborators) for the purposes of executing the contract and providing its Services, Bambboo acts, for these specific processing operations, as the data controller. Given that the Client Company is the entity that determines the purposes (achievement of its recruitment or sourcing objectives for its own account or that of its customers) and the essential means (by choosing to use the Bambboo Platform for this purpose, defining the Job Offers guiding the analysis, and inviting Employees to participate) of the processing of data relating to Contacts, the Client Company assumes, for this sourcing activity, the capacity of data controller. Bambboo contractually undertakes to comply with the obligations of the RGPD in its capacity as subcontractor for this sourcing activity, in particular by implementing the appropriate technical and organizational security measures. This distribution ensures that the Customer has control over its sourcing strategy within a compliant framework.


Bambboo's contact point for data protection issues is contact@bambboo.fr.

/ ARTICLE 2 - DATA PROCESSING ON THE WEBSITE

This section concerns only data collected when you visit or interact with our public website.

2.1. Data collected on the Website

  • Browsing data (via cookies): IP address, browser type, operating system, device, pages visited, date/time, time spent, traffic source, approximate location, cookie identifiers. (See Article 8 for cookies).

  • Contact form data: Last name, first name, professional email, company name and size (mandatory); phone number (optional); message content.

2.2. Purposes of Processing on the Website

  • Ensure the technical operation and security of the Website.

  • To measure the audience and analyze usage in order to improve the Website (statistics).

  • Manage your cookie preferences.

  • Respond to your requests (contact form).

  • Manage the pre-contractual/commercial relationship initiated by your request.

  • Carry out targeted marketing/advertising campaigns, with your consent.

  • Send newsletters/commercial information, with your explicit consent (opt-in).

2.3. Legal basis for processing on the Website

  • Legitimate interest: Security, technical operation, response to contact requests, anonymized audience analysis.

  • Consent : Depositing non-essential cookies, sending newsletters/commercial prospecting.

  • Pre-contractual measures: Processing your request via the form with a view to a potential subscription.

2.4. Retention Period on the Website

  • Cookies: Consent max 13 months; variable lifetime (see Article 8).

  • Form data: Time required to process request; if no contractual follow-up, max 3 years for prospecting (if consent) or archiving according to legal prescription (e.g. 5 years).

/ ARTICLE 3 - DATA PROCESSING VIA THE BAMBBOO SAAS PLATFORM

This section concerns data processed in connection with the use of our Platform by Business Customers and their Authorized Users (Customer Representatives and Employees).

3.1. User Data (Employees and Customer Representatives)

Data concerning Users themselves :

  • Data collected : Identification data provided during registration or account management (surname, first name, professional email), professional information (position, company), connection and authentication data (logs, identifiers), account preferences, technical and Platform usage data. For representatives of the Corporate Customer: contractual and billing information.

  • Purposes: Creation and management of User accounts, authentication, provision of Platform Services and functionalities, technical support and maintenance, billing (for the Corporate Customer), service-related communication (functional notifications, updates), technical and functional improvement of the Platform, compliance with our legal and contractual obligations, Platform security. Bambboo alone determines the purposes and means of data processing and acts, for these specific processing operations, as data controller.

  • Legal basis: Contract performance (T&C accepted by the User and Commercial Contract with the Corporate Customer), legitimate interest (security, service improvement, administration), legal obligation (e.g. billing).

  • Retention period: Retained for the duration of use of the Platform by the User and/or the duration of the contract binding Bambboo to the Corporate Client, plus a maximum period of one (1) year after the end of the contract or the deactivation of the account, unless an early request for deletion is made or a longer retention period is required by law (e.g. billing data).


  • Business Contact Data Provided or Made Accessible by Users :

    • Origin and Nature of Data: This data concerns third parties (Contacts) and comes from the actions of Employees who use the Platform for the sourcing needs of the Client Company. They may be :

      • Arises from the voluntary and consented connection by the Collaborator of his/her professional social network account (e.g. LinkedIn) to the Platform. In this case, Bambboo accesses the public profile information of the Collaborator's Contacts (profile URL, surname, first name, geography, professional experience, training, skills, languages) and imports it for analysis. Under no circumstances does Bambboo collect or process the direct contact details (email, telephone) of Contacts from this source.

      • Voluntary import of files by the employee (e.g. CVs). The data processed is that contained in these files.

    • Assertion by the Contributor : For all imports, and in particular in the case of non-public or sensitive data (e.g. CV files), the Collaborator affirms that he/she holds the rights, authorizations and consents to allow their processing for the purposes of the Services.

    • Purposes (defined by the Client Company): To enable Bambboo to analyze the relevance of the Contacts' profiles in relation to the Job Offers defined by the Client Company, and to facilitate the targeted sharing of these offers to identified Contacts, either manually by the Collaborator, or automatically if the Collaborator has activated and consented to the Automatic Sharing functionality. Bambboo acts as a subcontractor for this sourcing activity.

    • Legal basis (relevant to the Client Company) : The Client Company (Data Controller) determines the legal basis for sourcing (generally its legitimate interest). The specific and revocable consent of the Collaborator is required by Bambboo for certain technical actions facilitating this processing: the connection of his/her LinkedIn account to the Platform and the activation of Automatic Sharing.

    • Bambboo's role: Acts solely on the instructions of the Client Company and in accordance with the DPA, by providing the technological tools. Bambboo does not use the Contact data for its own purposes.

    • Retention period: Kept by Bambboo (as a subcontractor) according to the instructions of the Customer Company (Data Controller) or, failing that, for the period required to analyze and share offers, without exceeding the duration of the contract with the Customer + 1 year, unless consent is withdrawn or deletion requested by the Employee (for data linked to his/her account) or specific instructions are given by the Customer.

/ ARTICLE 4 - DATA RECIPIENTS

Your personal data may be communicated to :

  • Authorized Bambboo personnel: Within the limits of their authority.

  • Subcontractors : Captain Data & Evolix

  • Customer company : For data processed by Bambboo as a subcontractor (analyzed contact data, employee activity reporting).

  • Competent authorities : On legal request.

/ ARTICLE 5 - DATA SECURITY

Bambboo implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect all personal data processed.

/ ARTICLE 6 - DATA TRANSFERS OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION

If transfers outside the EU/EEA take place (e.g. via subcontractors), they are governed by appropriate safeguards (Adequacy Decision, Standard Contractual Clauses, etc.).

/ ARTICLE 7 - YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

In accordance with the RGPD, you have the following rights: access, rectification, erasure, limitation, portability, opposition, withdrawal of consent, post-mortem directives, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (the CNIL in France).


How to exercise your rights? Contact Bambboo at contact@bambboo.fr. Functionalities may exist in the Platform for certain rights (account management, withdrawal of consent for LinkedIn connection / Auto Share).

/ ARTICLE 8 - COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

8.1 What is a cookie?

A small text file deposited on your terminal when browsing the Website or using the Platform.

8.2 Cookies on the Website (www.bambboo.fr)

  • Strictly necessary cookies: Essential for operation (security, session). No consent required.

  • Analytical cookies: anonymized audience measurement (e.g. Google Analytics). Requires your consent.

8.3 Cookies on the Bambboo SaaS Platform

Strictly necessary (functional/session) cookies: Essential to keep your User session open, manage your permissions, and ensure the security and technical operation of the Platform. No prior consent is required for these cookies.

8.4 Cookie management

  • On the Website: A consent banner allows you to manage your preferences for non-essential cookies on your first visit.

  • On the Platform: Strictly necessary cookies cannot be refused without affecting operation. If other types of cookies are used, information and a means of management will be provided.

  • Browser settings: You can configure your browser to refuse cookies.

/ ARTICLE 9 - MODIFICATION OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

We may modify this policy. Any changes will be posted on this page (for the Website) and/or notified to Platform Users. The last update date at the top of the document indicates the current version.