Privacy policy

1. Data controller

The data collected on this website is processed by the Kristalia association, a non-profit association under the French law of 1901, SIRET 923 836 365 00026, whose registered office is at 215 impasse Marcel Fontaneilles, 12100 Millau, France.
Contact for any question about your data: kristaliaplm@gmail.com.

2. Data collected and how it is used

Show announcements sign-up

Data: your email address and the shows you chose (Millau, Montpellier, Paris).
Use: to send you a welcome email, then two or three emails before each of the shows you chose.
Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time using the unsubscribe link in each of our emails.

Request to become an exhibitor

Data: first and last name, company or stand name, email address, phone number, country, shows you are interested in, description of your goods, photos of your stand and any message.
Use: to review your request, reply to you and, if your stand is selected, send you the show registration form.
Legal basis: steps taken at your request before entering into a contract.
Your request is sent to us by email through Brevo, with your photos reduced in size as attachments, and you receive an acknowledgement of receipt. It is not stored on the website's server.

List your show (organisers)

Data: information about the show (name, town, dates, opening hours, prices, venue, description, links, poster) and your contact details (name, organiser, email, phone, any message).
Use: to check the information, publish or update the show's page in our calendar, and contact you if needed. The organiser's name and the information about the show are published. Your email and phone number are published only if you tick the box provided for this.
Legal basis: your consent, given by ticking the consent box on the form.
Your request is sent to us by email through Brevo, with the poster as an attachment. It is not stored on the website's server.

Show calendar

The calendar pages are based on information published by the organisers themselves (websites, announcements, public listings): show name, dates, venue, organiser's name and a link to their website. To invite organisers to complete their page, we may use the business contact details they publish; these are not displayed on the website.
Legal basis: our legitimate interest in informing the public about mineral shows in France.
You can ask us at any time to correct or remove a page by writing to us.

Audience measurement

Data: pages viewed, length of visit, type of device and browser, approximate country or city, using cookies.
Use: to understand how the website is used in order to improve it, with Google Analytics.
Legal basis: your consent, given in the cookie banner. Without your consent, Google Analytics is not loaded and no measurement cookie is set.

Email or phone exchanges

If you write to us or call us, we use your contact details and the content of your message only to reply to you.
Legal basis: our legitimate interest in replying to people who contact us.

3. Recipients of the data

Your data is intended only for the members of the Kristalia association who organise the shows. It is never sold or rented.

To work, the website uses service providers that process some data on our behalf:

• Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, 9-17 rue Salneuve, 75017 Paris, France): management of the announcement list, sending of emails and forwarding of exhibitor and organiser requests;
• Hostinger (HOSTINGER operations, UAB, Švitrigailos str. 34, LT-03230 Vilnius, Lithuania): website hosting;
• Google: the association's email service, which receives exhibitor and organiser requests, and Google Analytics if you accept it.

4. Transfers outside the European Union

Some Google services may involve a transfer of data to the United States. These transfers are covered by the safeguards provided for by the GDPR. To find out more, see Google's privacy policy.

5. Retention periods

• Announcement sign-up: until you unsubscribe.
• Request to become an exhibitor: 6 months after it is received.
• « List your show » request: 6 months after it is received.
• Information published about a show: as long as the show appears in the calendar.
• Audience measurement cookies: 6 months at most.
• Your cookie choice: 6 months, after which you are asked again.
• Email exchanges: as long as needed to reply to you and follow up your request.

6. Cookies

The website sets only one cookie of its own, « kristalia_cookies », which remembers your cookie choice. It is necessary to respect that choice and does not require your consent.

The Google Analytics cookies (« _ga » and « _ga_… ») are set only if you accept them. You can change your choice at any time with the cookie settings link at the bottom of every page.

7. Your rights

You have the right at any time to access, correct and erase your data, to object to and restrict its processing, and to data portability. Where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time, without affecting processing already carried out. You can also give instructions on what should happen to your data after your death.

To exercise these rights, write to us at kristaliaplm@gmail.com, or by post to the association's registered office. We will reply within one month.

If, after contacting us, you believe your rights are not being respected, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL (the French data protection authority): www.cnil.fr.

8. Security

The whole website is served over a secure connection (HTTPS). Exhibitor requests are not stored on the website's server, and the technical credentials of the services used are kept outside the public files.

9. Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated, in particular if the website or the regulations change. The date of the last update appears below.

Last updated: 3 November 2026.