The first worldwide company rating system

 
We at cofacerating.com make it possible for you to check the identity of 41 million companies and to consult the @rating of a sample of companies. You also have the opportunity of requesting and then monitoring your own @rating quality Label.
 
We offer our services to companies, but, within this framework, we may be required to request information of a personal nature.

We are a Coface Group company and a certain number of self-regulatory rules have been established concerning the collection, utilisation and distribution of data.
 
This document outlines the data protection rules in place on the cofacerating.com web site.

1. What personal information is collected by cofacerating.com?

You wish to obtain general information on the @rating solution, check the identity of a company or consult the @rating of a company on our site free of charge:
In this case you can visit our site anonymously. You will not be asked to supply any information unless you wish to obtain specific information on the @rating solution, in which case we will request the name of your company, its address, your name, telephone and fax numbers in order to contact you and answer your questions.

You wish to obtain the @rating quality Label:
you will need to supply the name of your company, its address (including city and post code), country, your name, telephone number and e-mail address, so that we can allocate your company a reference number.

You will then need to complete a questionnaire composed of three sections.

In the first section, you must supply general information relating to your company, information considered as being in the public domain. In particular, you must communicate information concerning the type of company, its activity and the name of its directors and shareholders.

In the second section, you must provide financial information about your company, as well as the names of five major clients and suppliers.

2. How do we use this information and to whom do we communicate it?

We use the information that you provide to deliver a faster service, to improve our site and to enable us to establish reliable and accurate @rating scores.

When you request an @rating quality Label, our local Phone Service Centre is at your disposal to assist you in completing the questionnaire.

We use the information contained in your questionnaire solely to establish and to monitor your @rating. It is only disclosed to our subsidiaries or branches which specifically require it for @rating purposes. All subsidiaries and branches have signed a confidentiality agreement, so that the information you have supplied is never made available to third parties.

Please note that if you refuse your @rating or if your @rating contract is terminated, we undertake to destroy all information that you have communicated to us in the framework of this contract.

3. Can you access personal information, request its updating or deletion?

The cofacerating.com web site has been declared to the French authority responsible for the Data Protection Act. In France, this is the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés.

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act of 6th January 1978, you are entitled to access, modify, correct or delete the personal data that you have supplied to us. You may exercise this right at any time by writing to us at our head office or to the following e-mail address : ratingserviceuk@coface.com.

We shall do everything in our power to reply to such requests as soon as possible.

We may use certain general information that you have supplied to us for marketing purposes. You can refuse such use by sending a message to our head office or to the following e-mail address : ratingserviceuk@coface.com.

4. Does Cofacerating.com use cookies?

A cookie is a piece of information that a web site places on the hard drive of your computer to retain a record of your visits to a web site. The majority of browsers accept cookies. If you wish to do so, you can adjust your browser so that it warns you each time that a cookie is proposed. In this case you may decide to accept it or not.

Our cofacerating.com web site uses cookies solely for technical reasons in order to count the number of visitors and the amount of time that they are connected to the cofacerating.com site.

5. Is the information encrypted?

In order to retain the quality and integrity of the information that you have supplied to us, we have put in place procedures at both technical and organisational level.

To be more precise, cofacerating.com uses the Secure Socket Layer encryption protocol " SSL " (S.S.L.3.0.) of Certplus. This provides secure authentication, data confidentiality and integrity via a recognised encryption process. Thus the transmission is well protected.

Furthermore, cofacerating.com stores your information in an encrypted format. The access of personnel to our servers is strictly controlled.

When you request paid services, you may pay by credit card. Your electronic payment is similarly protected by SSL protocol.

Despite all these precautions, we cannot guarantee control over the Internet and we draw your attention to the possible risks of personal information transmitted via this means.

6. What is our policy concerning links to other web sites found on cofacerating.com?

We are not responsible for the content or protection policy on other web sites that are linked to our web site by hyperlinks. We advise you to consult the data protection regulations that are in force and published on these sites.