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Personal data and cookies

Our commitments

As the data controller, AXA France applies the following principles:

  • We will use your data solely for explicit, legitimate and pre-determined purposes in connection with our various businesses (such as insurance, banking and assistance);
  • We will only collect data that is useful to us;
  • We will not retain your data longer than the period needed for the transactions for which it was collected (e.g. assistance), or the period specified by CNIL standards and authorizations (compliance package for the insurance sector) or by law (such as legal time limits);
  • We will communicate your data only to the authorized intermediaries, AXA Group companies, partners, reinsurers, service providers and professional organizations who need it in the scope of our business;
  • We will inform you in a clear and transparent manner, for example when handling a request for a quote or a policy, of the purpose for using your data, whether your responses on forms are optional or required, and of your rights with respect to data protection;
  • We will provide you with updated information about the processing of your data by updating the AXA France website (www.axa.fr/donnees-personnelles.html).
  • Consult AXA France’s commitments regarding personal data: find out more

Use of your data

Your data will be used solely for the following purposes:

  • to enter into, manage (including sales) and perform your insurance contracts, pursuant to the NS16 and NS56 standards enacted by CNIL, which may include using your social security number and accessing the French National Natural Persons Identification Registry (RNIPP) under the conditions and for the situations listed in CNIL authorization AU31,
  • o fight money laundering and terrorism financing by implementing contract monitoring that could lead to a suspicious transaction report or an asset freeze, pursuant to the French Monetary and Financial Code and CNIL authorization AU003,
  • to fight insurance fraud in accordance with CNIL authorization AU39, which could lead to registration on a list of persons representing a fraud risk,
  • to collect data related to offenses, criminal convictions and security measures, whether at the time an insurance policy is purchased, while it is in force, or as part of a litigation, under the conditions provided for by CNIL authorization AU32,
  • to analyze all or part of the data concerning you that has been collected by the AXA Group and potentially compared with that of selected partners, to improve our products (research and development), assess or predict your situation (conversion probability scores) and personalize your customer experience (targeted offers and advertising).

AXA France is legally obligated to verify that your data is accurate, complete and updated as necessary. We might contact you to verify the data, or we may need to complete information in your file (for example, by recording your email address if you write to us by email.)
When you purchase a policy, the answers to some questions are required. False statements or omissions could result in the cancellation of the policy purchased (article L.113-8 of the French Insurance Code) or the reduction of claims paid (article L.113-9 of the French Insurance Code).

Data security

Confidentiality measures

We undertake to protect the security of your data by implementing enhanced data protection, using physical and logical security methods consistent with best practices and applicable standards.

Binding Corporate Rules (BCR)

We are the first insurance company to have Binding Corporate Rules approved by 16 European personal data protection authorities, including CNIL. These rules guarantee a minimum level of intangible protection of your data by the various AXA Group companies around the world.
The BCR are currently being deployed. You can view them by clicking on this link.

Control of data transfers

The AXA Group is present in more than 50 countries and has implemented a specific policy and governance framework for the international protection of personal data.
It covers the strict control of the transfer of your data, in particular when performed outside the European Union and the EU’s protective legislation, like systematically requiring the necessary authorizations from personal data protection authorities, such as CNIL, in advance.

AXA France currently makes data transfers outside the European Union to the following:

  • an AXA France subsidiary and a service provider in Morocco, for the purposes of managing insurance policies and telemarketing,
  • an AXA Group company located in Mauritius, for managing legal protection guarantees and for a telemarketing service,
  • an AXA Group company located in India, for certain accounting processing for insurance transactions,
  • a company located in Vietnam, for certain IT maintenance transactions,
  • a service provider located in Mauritius, for managing collective retirement contracts.

This list will be updated when there are changes.

Your rights

Rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and to decide what happens to your data after you pass away

You have rights that allow you to:

  • access your data,
  • request rectification if there is an error,
  • request erasure,
  • request that processing be restricted,
  • request portability,
  • object to processing,
  • provide instructions for what happens to your data after you pass away.

To better understand your rights, go to CNIL’s website (www.cnil.fr/fr/comprendre-vos-droits).

You can exercise your rights by filling out this form, sending an email to service.informationclient@axa.fr, or sending a letter by postal mail to AXA France, Service Information Clients, 313 Terrasses de l’Arche, 92727 Nanterre cedex.

Don’t forget to include an identification document with your request (copy of your French National Identity Card or your passport).

Telephone solicitation

If you do not wish to receive any direct marketing calls, you can register for free on the BLOCTEL opt-out list.

For more information, go to www.bloctel.gouv.fr

About cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files in alphanumeric format that are placed on your computer when you visit a website, either by that website’s server or by the server of a third party, such as an advertising or web analytics service. As defined by the CNIL, the French data protection authority, “A cookie is a set of data, generally small and identified by a name, that can be sent to your browser by a website to which you connect. Your web browser saves it for a certain duration and sends it back to the website’s server each time you connect to it.”

What types of cookies do we use?

AXA France’s websites use only one type of cookie, called “HTTP cookies”, which are the most commonly encountered. According to the cookie standard RFC 2695 [RFC2695], this type of cookie is a set of data sent by a Web server to an HTTP client. The latter returns the content of the cookie with every request to a Web server having the same domain name.

Cookies classified by purpose

The cookies used by AXA France websites may have different purposes, depending on the third-party website issuing them. 

  • Strictly necessary cookies: they enable you to browse our websites and use essential features, such as logging into a secure area or requesting a quote. These cookies do not gather any information that could be used for marketing or targeted advertising purposes.
  • Functionality cookies: these cookies are essential to allow our websites to remember your login data or improve your user experience.
  • Audience measurement cookies: they enable us to gather information about website visits and to analyse visit-related data. For example, site visit statistics help us to detect navigation problems or identify content in high demand by visitors.
  • Video cookies: the cookies placed by video sharing services enable users to watch multimedia content directly in a website.

Where do the cookies come from?

The cookies placed on your computer by our websites may come from AXA or a third party. “Third-party cookies” may be placed by our service providers or by advertising services through ads shown on our websites. AXA ensures that the cookies they issue and use comply with regulations in force. Only the issuer of a cookie is able to read the information that it contains.

Cookies placed by AXA France and cookies placed by third parties:

Cookie name Domain Purpose Duration
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_ga Google Audience measurement 13 months
_gid Google Audience measurement 24 hours
_gat Google Audience measurement 1 minute
_GRECAPTCHA Google Anti-spam 12 months
_GPS Youtube Videos 13 months
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Youtube Vidéos 6 months
AnalyticsSyncHistory LinkedIn Audience measurement 1 month
UserMatchHistory LinkedIn Audience measurement 1 month
bcookie LinkedIn Audience measurement 24 months
bscookie LinkedIn Audience measurement 24 months
lang LinkedIn Audience measurement Session
lidc LinkedIn Audience measurement 1 day
_fbp Faceboob Audience measurement 3 months
_fbp Facebook Audience measurement 3 months
c_user Facebook Audience measurement 3 months
datr Facebook Audience measurement 24 months
dpr Facebook Audience measurement 7 days
fr Facebook Audience measurement 3 months
sb Facebook Audience measurement 24 months
spin Facebook Audience measurement 1 day
xs Facebook Audience measurement 12 months

Cookie consent

To improve the quality of your browsing experience, your choice to accept or refuse cookies will be saved for a duration of 12 months so that the consent request does not reappear each time you visit the website.

However, you always have the option of managing your cookies, for example to withdraw your consent, by clicking on Manage my cookie settings at the bottom of this page.

The steps to take to manage your cookies and choices depend on your web browser. You can find out how to change your cookie settings using the Help menu of your browser.

Please note that if you set your browser preferences to refuse cookies, you will not be able to access certain website features, pages and areas. We are not responsible for this unavailability.

To find out more about how to configure your web browser, please visit the French data protection authority’s website: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser.