Personal Information Privacy Notice

American Tower Corporation and each of its wholly owned subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "American Tower") place great importance on the protection of your personal data and handle the collection and processing of such personal data in accordance with applicable laws. Personal data refers to any information that identifies you, directly or indirectly, by reference to one or more unique elements that are specific to you, or by cross-referencing information. This notice outlines the general framework for the management of personal data by American Tower.

American Tower's Commitment

As the data controller, American Tower may collect and process the personal data of its employees, landlords, and certain other parties, as appropriate, and will do so in a fair and transparent manner. American Tower is committed to ensuring the security and confidentiality of the personal data entrusted to it.

Scope of this policy

This notice is addressed to all contacts of American Tower: suppliers, landlords, customers/prospects, employees, and other individuals whose personal data American Tower receives. It applies solely to activities for which American Tower is the data controller or processor, in accordance with applicable law.

What Legislation Applies?

American Tower is subject to the rules of various jurisdictions in which it processes personal data, including but not limited to the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 (directly applicable from May 25, 2018), and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

What data is collected?

The data collected by American Tower is limited to the data necessary for the purposes pursued, as described below. This data may include, but is not limited to: identification and contact data (name, first name, business and/or personal address, date of birth, phone number, email address, and other available contact details of the concerned individuals), data related to business relationship tracking, financial and economic status, transactions and payment methods, invoice payment, your feedback on American Tower's products and services, and data resulting from the exercise of your rights. This personal data may also be used for prospecting and creating a database to offer potential landlords related to ATC France's activities and may be shared with third parties responsible for carrying out these tasks.

Additional Data Collected Specific to Customers/Prospects: Data related to business relationship tracking, financial and economic status, transactions and payment methods, invoice payment, feedback on our company's products and services, and data resulting from the exercise of your rights.
Additional Data Collected Specific to Suppliers: Data related to your professional activity, economic/financial information (including billing and payment data), location data, and connection data.
Additional Data Collected Specific to Individuals Involved in a Procedure with American Tower: Data related to that procedure.
Additional Data Collected Specific to Employees: Identity and information to identify or contact them, professional activity (job title, professional background, training received, etc.), payroll management data, work organization data (professional agenda, internal directories, organizational charts, etc.), connection data to the various information systems provided for their professional activities, and the use of professional tools (IP address, work phone, email, etc.).
Additional Data Collected Specific to Prospects and Landlords: Identification and contact data (name, first name, business and/or personal address, phone number, email address). This data is intended for prospecting and creating a database to offer proposals related to ATC France's activities that may be of interest. They may be shared with third parties responsible for carrying out these tasks.

What are the Purposes and Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data?

Generally, personal data is processed by American Tower in the context of managing administrative or commercial operations related to its relationships with landlords or employees. These purposes are common to all interlocutors and are in addition to the following specific purposes for certain categories of individuals:

Specific Purposes Related to Customers/Prospects: Operations related to customer management; management of access, rectification, and opposition rights requests; conducting studies, tests, and commercial statistics; managing feedback on our services; managing unpaid invoices and disputes.
Purposes Related to Ongoing Disputes with American Tower: Managing procedures related to criminal offenses or convictions or security measures, specifically preparing, exercising, or following up on disciplinary action or legal proceedings, and, if necessary, executing the resulting decision.
Purposes Related to American Tower Employees: The recorded information is used for managing employment contracts and their employment within American Tower, specifically for the following necessary purposes: administrative personnel management, providing IT tools, work organization, career management and mobility, and training. The processing carried out by American Tower is either (i) necessary for the performance of a contract or to take measures at the request of the individual concerned before entering into a contract, (ii) based on your prior consent, or (iii) necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which American Tower is subject. Without this processing, the aforementioned actions could not be properly implemented by American Tower.

Data Recipients

Only recipients duly authorized by American Tower due to their functions will have access to the personal data concerning you, without prejudice to their possible transmission to bodies responsible for a control or inspection mission in accordance with applicable regulations. These recipients include authorized persons responsible, as appropriate, for purchasing, marketing, commercial, administrative, accounting, and IT functions, as well as those in charge of customer relations.

Is personal data shared internationally?

Due to American Tower's global presence, certain personal data processed is shared outside of its country of origin, including data from the European Economic Area with the United States. This sharing is carried out within the necessary limits to achieve the aforementioned purposes and in compliance with applicable regulations.

Non-disclosure of data

American Tower does not sell, rent, share, or disseminate the collected personal data to third parties, including providers or other partners, unless required by applicable law. However, this data may occasionally be transmitted to third parties in accordance with the purposes for which it was collected. When the disclosure of personal data to third parties is necessary for these purposes, American Tower ensures, as the data controller, that these third parties provide the same level of protection for the concerned data as that offered by American Tower, and requires contractual guarantees that, among other things, the data will be processed exclusively for the purposes previously authorized by you, with all necessary confidentiality and security.

Is personal data stored securely?

We implement technical and organizational measures to ensure that your personal data is stored as securely as possible for the time necessary to achieve the pursued purposes in accordance with applicable law. Specifically, for customers and prospects, the data is deleted, for commercial prospecting, no later than three years after the end of the business relationship between your company and ATC France (or their collection for prospects), subject to shorter periods provided by applicable law depending on the types of data and purposes. For suppliers and individuals involved in procedures, under the same reservation, the data is deleted no later than the end of your business relationship with ATC France. For employees, personal data will be deleted no later than after the employee leaves the company, subject to legal obligations and the possibility of archiving certain data. This applies subject to legal obligations and the possibility of archiving certain data. This retention is carried out in our databases or those of our parent and sister companies and our subsidiary.

Exercising your rights regarding your personal data

Under certain applicable laws, you may have, under certain conditions and without limitation, a right of access, objection, and withdrawal of your consent to the processing of personal data, in addition to the rights of restriction, rectification, portability, and erasure that you can exercise at any time by sending an email to privacy.officer@americantower.com or by sending a letter with a piece of identification to the following address:

ATC France
Data Protection Officer
10 Avenue Aristide Briand
92220 Bagneux
France

American Tower will do its best to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event within thirty (30) days of receiving your request. If necessary, this period may be extended, considering the complexity and number of requests. Additionally, under applicable regulations, you have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Applicable law and competent court

This privacy policy and personal data protection policy is governed by French law. In the event of a dispute and in the absence of an amicable agreement on the subject matter herein, the competent court will be determined according to the applicable procedural rules.

You can contact American Tower for any questions regarding this privacy notice by sending an email to the privacy service at privacy@americantower.com or by contacting the privacy service at +1-617-375-7500, toll-free in the United States at 1-877-282-7483, or at
116 Huntington Avenue, 11th Floor,
Boston, MA
02116

or directly at the address:

ATC France
10 Avenue Aristide Briand
92220 Bagneux
France

Privacy Policy

American Tower provides a variety of materials, information, and online services on this website for wireless telecommunications operators, broadcasters, suppliers, customers, and partners. American Tower values your privacy, and all collected information is considered private and is not shared with other organizations. American Tower uses the information to improve the quality of the information and services on this website or to communicate directly with you about industry-specific information or special announcements. This privacy statement explains the use and care of the personal information received from you as users of this website.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

You have the right to use this website without identifying yourself unless you choose to do so. American Tower may request information from you in several areas of this website, including login areas, service-specific features, adding and modifying tower site listings, email forms, and surveys or contests that American Tower may conduct. American Tower will assume that you have the right to provide information about yourself or others that you choose to provide in response to American Tower's request.

American Tower may track your computer’s IP address or place a "cookie" in your browser's files. The information collected helps American Tower better understand the needs of its website users and improve its product and service offerings. Email addresses are used to communicate periodic announcements and for other notification purposes. Personal information may be used to contact you for research, product development, marketing, or customer service purposes. You can be removed from any email or direct mail list upon request by contacting the website administrator by email at privacy.officer@americantower.com. IP address and cookie log data are regularly analyzed to generate information about user trends and feature usage. This information is used to plan website improvements and measure overall site effectiveness.

Security of Personal Information

Your personal information deserves to be treated with the utmost respect. Personal information collected on this website may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where American Tower or its service providers have offices. American Tower will take commercially reasonable precautions to secure your personal information within its computer systems or those of its service providers and physical premises and to keep it confidential and proprietary. American Tower will not disclose personal information to third parties unless required by law.

Confidentiality Statement

Unless explicitly stated otherwise on this website, American Tower uses all collected information solely for internal purposes and does not share, sell, rent, or trade user-identifiable information to any third party. American Tower may, from time to time, disclose general, aggregated, or statistical information about its website services, users, or customers, such as the total number of users and customers and site features used, but will not reference any user or customer by name, address, or any other specific identifier without prior written permission. American Tower disclaims any responsibility for the privacy practices of third-party websites that may be found by following links from this website. For more information about accessing third-party websites via American Tower's website, please review the "Redirect Websites" section of American Tower's terms of use notice.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small file or part of a file that American Tower creates and stores on your computer for a certain duration. Cookies contain information about your activities on this website (such as a user ID code, personalized preferences, or a record of pages visited) used by American Tower to provide you with automated features and/or personalized materials or services. Most web browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies if you wish. Please consult your browser's help function for more information. Also, note that some features of American Tower's website will not be available if you configure your browser to refuse cookies.

Online Advertising

American Tower does not allow third-party advertising on its website. Unless explicitly stated otherwise on the website, no information collected on this website will be used for the purpose of targeting third-party advertising, nor will it be provided to a third-party advertising company.

American Tower reserves the right to modify this privacy notice at any time. The most recent version of the privacy notice is always the one posted on this website.

Please also review the terms of use notice elsewhere on this website. This notice governs your use of this website.

American Tower is committed to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and complying with legal and regulatory security requirements. Our information security management system drives the continuous protection of information and achievement of our security objectives in accordance with the controls under our ISO 27001 certification.

An information security management system defines and manages security controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of assets against threats and vulnerabilities. For more information about American Tower's information security management system, its scope, and the statement of applicability, please contact information.security@americantower.com.