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Privacy policy

What data Alpimate processes, why, for how long, and your rights. Cookies included.

Version 2.1·Published on 27 septembre 2026·

This translation is provided for convenience. The French version prevails.

1. Data controller

The controller for the processing described here is the publisher of the website, identified in the legal notice: Maxime Geay, sole trader trading as Alpimate, Chambéry, France. Contact for any question about your data: team@alpimate.com.

No data protection officer has been appointed: Alpimate falls under none of the cases where an appointment is mandatory. No representative in Switzerland has been appointed to date, as the cumulative conditions of article 14 of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection are not met. This point will be reviewed if activity in Switzerland changes in scale.

2. Data processed and purposes

Website visitors

Browsing data processed by the trackers described in section 9, only after your consent. Email address, first name, town and favourite sports when you fill in a sign-up or contact form.

Clients (explorers)

  • Account: email address, first and last name, town, sport preferences, photo if you add one, telephone number where the profile provides for it.
  • Bookings: activity, dates, number of participants and their data from the platform's catalogue (age, height, weight, shoe size, level, ability to swim, hire needs), amounts, status, cancellation grid and the versions of the terms accepted, with their date.
  • Safety-relevant information: the optional field of your booking request in which you may mention a health matter or a personal circumstance that matters for the safety of the outing. This data falls within the special categories of article 9 of the GDPR: it is processed only with your explicit consent, is read only by the professional of the booking, appears in no email, notification, export or statistics, is not visible to the Alpimate team, and is deleted automatically seven days after the date of the activity, including when it is cancelled. You may change or withdraw it until the outing.
  • Messaging: the content of your exchanges with professionals is stored so that it can be displayed to you. Alpimate does not read the content of conversations between a client and a professional. To handle a support request, the team only accesses metadata (date, sender, related booking). Messaging is not intended for health information. If you write some anyway, you may ask for it to be erased.
  • Reviews: content, date and related booking, once reviews are in service.

Professionals (pros)

  • Public profile: name, professional title, sports, territories, biography, photos, languages.
  • Listing file: identity document, diploma, professional card or trainee certificate, additional certifications, professional liability insurance certificate and its expiry date, SIRET number, legal status and, where applicable, company registration extract. These documents are used to check that the professional may legally lead an activity for payment.
  • Payment account: identity and banking data are entered directly with Stripe and do not pass through Alpimate, which only keeps the account identifier and transaction amounts.
  • Client attribution log: for each client, the origin of the introduction and its date, which determine the commission rate.
  • Acceptance history: versions of the terms, annexes and service terms accepted, with their date, and acknowledgements of revisions.
  • Calendar: see section 7.

3. Legal bases

ProcessingLegal basis
Accounts, bookings, messaging, payment, attribution log, acceptance historyPerformance of the contract (GDPR art. 6.1.b)
Professionals' listing fileLegal obligation (art. 6.1.c): article L.212-1 of the French Sports Code, which reserves paid supervision to holders of a recognised diploma or title; and performance of the contract
Accounting recordsLegal obligation (art. 6.1.c): French Commercial Code
Platform security, fraud prevention, technical loggingLegitimate interest (art. 6.1.f)
Safety-relevant informationExplicit consent (art. 9.2.a)
Audience measurement and advertising trackers, calendar synchronisationConsent (art. 6.1.a), withdrawable at any time
Monthly round-up of new professionals, sent to professionalsLegitimate interest, with unsubscribe at any time

4. Retention periods

SituationPeriodBasis
Active client accountLifetime of the accountContract
Closed client accountImmediate anonymisation of identifying data; accounting records kept for 10 yearsFrench Commercial Code
Bookings and payments10 years from the end of the financial yearFrench Commercial Code
MessagingLifetime of the account, then 5 yearsOrdinary limitation period
Safety-relevant information7 days after the date of the activityData minimisation
Acceptance history and attribution logLifetime of the account, then 5 yearsProof of the contract, limitation period
ReviewsAs long as the professional's page existsInformation of clients
Active professionalDuration of the relationshipContract
Deregistered professionalImmediate anonymisation; compliance documents kept for 5 years, then deleted automaticallyHandling of disputes
Professional liability insurance certificateRenewed yearly, previous certificate archived for 5 yearsSports Code L.212-1
Unfinished listing2 years at mostCNIL recommendation
Email address collected by a website form3 years after the last contactCNIL recommendation
Google Calendar synchronisation (busy slots and tokens)Until the calendar is disconnectedConsent
Tracker consent choice6 monthsCNIL recommendation

After these periods, data is deleted or irreversibly anonymised. If a dispute is pending, the data concerned may be set aside with restricted access until it is resolved.

5. Recipients and processors

Your data is intended for the Alpimate team, to the extent its work requires, for the professional concerned by a booking (section 6), and for the following processors, bound to Alpimate by a data processing agreement within the meaning of article 28 of the GDPR:

ProcessorRoleLocation of the data
Supabase (Supabase Pte. Ltd)Database, files, authenticationEuropean Union (Stockholm); company established in Singapore
Stripe Payments Europe LimitedPayments; independent controller for payment data, under its own policyIreland, with transfers to the United States
Vercel Inc.Website hostingUnited States
ResendTransactional emailsUnited States
Google (Google Ireland Limited, Google LLC)Google Calendar API for calendar synchronisation; Google Analytics if you consentIreland and United States
Meta Platforms Ireland LimitedMeta pixel, if you consentIreland and United States

No data is transferred or sold to third parties.

6. Transmission to the professional

When you book, the professional concerned receives the data needed to carry out the activity: your identity, your contact details, the participants' data and, if you provided it, the safety-relevant information. The professional becomes the controller for their own purposes, within the limits set by their service terms and by the Professional terms: use limited to the booking, no copying, no retention beyond the activity for safety-relevant information. Your contact details are passed on only once the booking is formed. The professional's contact details are not passed on to you; exchanges go through messaging.

7. Calendar synchronisation (Google Calendar)

If you choose to connect your Google Calendar from your professional space, Alpimate accesses your calendar through the Google Calendar API (calendar.events permission), in read and write mode. This access serves only to read your busy slots so as to block your availability on Alpimate automatically and avoid double bookings, and to add your Alpimate bookings to your calendar. Alpimate keeps only the busy slots needed to display your availability and your access tokens, stored securely. It neither reads nor stores the detailed content of your other events. This data is never sold, shared with third parties, used for advertising or used to train models. You may disconnect your calendar at any time from your space, which revokes access and deletes the tokens. Alpimate's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs complies with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

8. Transfers outside the European Union

Data entrusted to Vercel, Resend, Google and Meta may be processed in the United States. These transfers rely on the European Commission's adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, for the entities certified under it (Google LLC, Meta Platforms Inc., Resend, Vercel Inc.), and, as an additional safeguard or for entities that are not certified (Supabase), on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses included in their data processing agreements. Data hosted by Supabase remains in the European Union.

For people in Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection applies in addition to the GDPR. You have the same rights, and you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

9. Cookies and trackers

No tracker subject to consent is set before you have made a choice. On your first visit, a window offers you to accept or refuse, with the same simplicity in both cases. Your choice is kept for six months, after which you are asked again. You may change it at any time through the "Manage cookies" link at the bottom of the page. Refusing prevents no feature of the website.

NameIssuerPurposeDurationRegime
Session cookies (sb-…-auth-token)Supabase, for AlpimateKeep you signed inSession, renewed at each sign-inStrictly necessary, no consent
alp_refAlpimateRemember the professional whose personal link you followed, for the attribution of your sign-up and first booking30 daysNecessary for the requested service, no consent
alp_parrain, alp_parrain_nomAlpimateRemember a professional's referral of another professional (code and first name of the referrer)30 daysNecessary for the requested service, no consent
alpimate_cookie_consent (local storage)AlpimateRemember your consent choice and its date6 monthsNo consent
Local preferences of the signed-in space (view, listing draft, display)AlpimateConvenience, data staying in your browserVariableNo consent
_ga, _ga_*Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited)Audience measurement: pages viewed, paths leading to a sign-up, without reading what you type13 monthsConsent
_fbp, _fbcMeta pixel (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited)Measure whether our Instagram and Facebook adverts bring visits and sign-ups90 days, according to MetaConsent

If you refuse after having accepted, the audience measurement and advertising cookies already set are deleted.

10. Security

Alpimate protects all personal data, and in particular professionals' documents, safety-relevant information and Google Calendar data, with the following measures: encryption of communications (TLS); encryption at rest at Supabase; row-level access control in the database (each user only accesses their own data; professionals' documents are accessible only to their owner and, for verification only, to the authorised team; safety-relevant information only to the professional of the booking and to the client); Google access tokens stored encrypted and accessible only to the server functions that perform synchronisation; files in private storage served through time-limited signed links; automated permanent deletion at the end of the retention periods; internal rule of not reading conversations between clients and professionals.

11. Your rights

You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability of your data, the right to withdraw at any time a consent you have given (trackers, safety-relevant information, calendar synchronisation), and the right to give instructions on what happens to your data after your death. These rights are exercised:

  • from your space, for closing your account (client or professional), changing your information, withdrawing safety-relevant information and disconnecting your calendar;
  • by email to team@alpimate.com for any other request, in particular access and portability. Alpimate answers within one month.

Closing your account anonymises your identifying data immediately. Accounting records and, for professionals, compliance documents are kept for the periods in section 4, then deleted automatically. Closure is deferred while an upcoming booking or a refund due exists.

In case of a persistent disagreement, you may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL, cnil.fr) or, if you live in Switzerland, with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

Contents
  1. 1. Data controller
  2. 2. Data processed and purposes
  3. 3. Legal bases
  4. 4. Retention periods
  5. 5. Recipients and processors
  6. 6. Transmission to the professional
  7. 7. Calendar synchronisation (Google Calendar)
  8. 8. Transfers outside the European Union
  9. 9. Cookies and trackers
  10. 10. Security
  11. 11. Your rights
Contents
  1. 1. Data controller
  2. 2. Data processed and purposes
  3. 3. Legal bases
  4. 4. Retention periods
  5. 5. Recipients and processors
  6. 6. Transmission to the professional
  7. 7. Calendar synchronisation (Google Calendar)
  8. 8. Transfers outside the European Union
  9. 9. Cookies and trackers
  10. 10. Security
  11. 11. Your rights
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