Privacy Policy

Last update on November 4^th, 2025

LEGAL NOTICES

The website https://hal-picture.com/ (the “Website”) is published by Polyson Postproduction, whose registered office is located at 49 rue de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris, France, and which is registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 432346062, hereinafter referred to as “HAL Picture”.

Our VAT number is FR79432346062.

You can contact us:

by email at the following address: contact@hal-picture.com
by telephone at the following number: 0033 1 83 62 66 09

Our publishing director is Mr. Charles Bussienne, in his capacity as Chief Executive Officer.

Our hosting provider is the company Digital Ocean EU BV, ZEKERINSTRAAT 17A 1014 AMSTERDAM PAYS-BAS.

PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT

This document explains how your personal information is processed by HAL Picture when you use its services, browse its Website, or are in contact with HAL Picture in any other way.

HAL Picture provides two plug-in software programs, Diachromie and Diaphanie, dedicated to color editing in films. The Privacy Policy also covers the processing of personal data resulting from the provision of a license for its software.

HAL Picture also places cookies on its Website, and we invite you to consult the dedicated Cookie Policy for details on how these cookies are placed.

WHY AND HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION USED BY HAL PICTURE?

HAL Picture has summarized the following in the table below:

the reasons why your data is used (the purposes of processing)
the types of data that are collected
the legal basis on which the processing of your data is based
the retention period for your data for each type of processing.

Purpose of Processing	Type of Data	Legal basis	Retention Period
Purchase of a license	Identification data (first and last name, professional email address) Information about the purchased license (software, duration, price, number of seats) License management account (username, password)	Contractual performance	Duration of the contractual relationship on an active basis and then for a period of 3 years from the end of the contract on an intermediate basis.
Payment of a license	Payment information (bank details, credit card number, billing information as provided by our payment provider)	Contractual performance	During the contractual period in the active base and for a period of 10 years from the invoice in the intermediate archive (accounting obligation)
Provision of the software license	Data connection (professional email) Technical information about your use of the license (Operating system, host software, and plug-in version)	Contractual performance	Duration of the contractual relationship on an active basis and then for a period of 3 years from the end of the contract on an intermediate basis.
Newsletter sending	Email (business or personal)	Legitimate interest in prospecting for potential new customers if you are a professional or in sending newsletters to our client if you are. Consent if none of above situation apply	Until you object (or withdraw your consent, if applicable) or for a maximum period of 3 years from the last contact we have with you.
Provision of software support	Identification data (professional email, name, company) Support request (subject and content of the message) All information necessary to process the support request.	Contractual performance	For the time required to process your support request and then delete it
Management of contact requests or complaints	Identification data (email address, last name, first name, job, company name) Any data provided to manage your request	Legitimate interest to respond to clients and prospects	For the time required to process your request and then delete it
Advertise our services on other websites and social media platforms	Information collected and transmitted by relevant social networks and websites (see their own privacy policies)	Consent	For a maximum period of 3 years from the date of publication of the advertisement, after which it will be deleted.
Manage the proper functioning and security of the website	Navigation information (IP address, exploitation system, etc.).	Legitim interest in providing a functional site	For the duration of the navigation
Social network and audience measurement Cookies	Navigation data (IP address, pages viewed, etc.)	Consent	25 months

At the time of collection, we will inform you of the data that is required in order to use our services. The rest are optional.

Personal data is provided directly by you or is collected automatically when you use our services or browse our Website, unless otherwise stated.

In any event, we undertake to delete your Personal Data from our databases at the end of these various periods, subject to the retention of certain information for a period after the closure of your personal account to meet our legal, accounting and tax obligations.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH?

HAL Picture employees

Authorized HAL Picture employees have access to your information to ensure the correct operation of the Website, to provide you the services, to respond to your requests and to manage the commercial relationship with you.

Cookies providers

Your personal data are transmitted to third parties depositing cookies on the Website, according to the choices made via the cookies banner and subject to your consent, under the conditions provided in the Cookies Policy.

Other providers

Your information is also processed by our third-party service providers for the purposes of performing their services. This is particularly the case for our hosting provider, our newsletter management provider, and our online payment provider.

Legal requirements

Your personal data may be communicated to third parties when such communication is required by law, regulation, or judicial decision, or if such communication is necessary in the event of litigation.

TRANSFER OF YOUR DATA OUTSIDE THE EEA

Your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, in particular because of the use of services providers.

In this case, these transfers are carried out with appropriate guarantees to ensure a sufficient level of protection of privacy and fundamental rights, including the signing of standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission. A document listing the data transfers and guarantees implemented by HAL Picture will be sent to you if you request it by e-mail to the following address: privacy@hal-picture.com.

WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

For any exercise of the below-mentioned rights, you can contact us at the following e-mail address: privacy@hal-picture.com.

We commit ourselves to answer you as soon as possible (and within the time limits provided for by law) and to give you information about the progress of the study of your request.

You have the following rights:

Right of access at your information, including the right to obtain from HAL Picture some information such as the purposes of the Processing, the categories of Personal data concerned (article 15 GDPR);

Right to rectification: You can ask us at any time to rectify any information concerning you that are inaccurate or incomplete (article 16 GDPR);

Right to erasure/ right to be forgotten: You can request the deletion of your information when it’s no longer needed, you have withdrawn your consent or you object to the processing (article 17 GDPR);

Right to restriction of processing: You can obtain the restriction of the use of your data except in case of compelling reasons (article 18 GDPR);

Right to data portability: You may request the transfer of your information in a machine-readable format to you or to a third party, in certain cases provided for by law (article 20 GDPR);

Right to object: You may request that your information no longer be used by HAL Picture when processing is based on legitimate interest, provided that HAL Picture does not have a compelling reason to process it (article 21 GDPR);

Right to determine what happens to your information after your death: or choose a trusted third-party to whom HAL Picture can entrust your information (article 40-1 de la loi 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978);

Right to withdraw your consent: at any time without affecting the lawfulness of use based on consent before its withdrawal (art 13 2c GDPR).

If you aren’t satisfied with the result of the exercise of one of your rights, you can introduce a complaint to the Data Protection Authority, in France, the CNIL.

MODIFICATION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The Privacy Policy may be amended and updated to reflect changes in HAL Picture’s data protection practices, or to ensure compliance with regulations when they are amended.

In this case, we will set up a way to inform you of this change.