What CAF (Allocations Familiales)'s terms say
CAF (Allocations Familiales)'s terms of service and privacy policy have 15 rated points: 1 serious, 1 bad, 5 worth knowing and 8 good. 14 apply whenever you use the site, signed in or not; 1 only once you have an account.
Whenever you use CAF (Allocations Familiales)
Serious 1
Your personal data is used for automated decision-making, profiling or AI training
"Concretely, the CAF uses the monthly resource scheme to: [...]" "parameterize the datamining model “incoming data” (construction of the algorithm from the data of a sample of households Composed of the beneficiary himself, the spouse, children and other dependents (people with disabilities, children entrusted by judgment, etc.)."
Bad 1
Information is gathered about you through third parties
'Caf collects personal data. This includes information provided during declarations as well as data transmitted by other administrations in the context of inter-agency exchanges."
Worth knowing 5
You agree not to use the service for illegal purposes
"In general, Internet users are prohibited from using all or part of the site for purposes that are unlawful or contrary to these terms of use."
The service assumes no liability for any damages the user incurs
"In no event shall the Cnaf be held liable for any damage, whatever its nature, arising from the use or total or partial impossibility of accessing the site and/or using the services of the site."
This service is only available for use individually and non-commercially
"The use and consultation of the website "Caf.fr" is limited for personal and non-commercial purposes."
Your personal data may be aggregated into statistics
Your personal data is aggregated into statistics
"In addition, this information is used for the purposes of accounting management, service relationship, statistical compilation"
Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location
"In order to guarantee the security of our systems, certain technical data, such as your IP address, may also be collected."
Good 7
Information is provided about what kind of personal information is collected
"What data do we collect?"
Information is provided about how your personal data is used
"For what purposes is your data used?"
Contact information from a Data Protection Officer (DPO) is provided
"You can contact the Data Protection Officer directly by completing this form (https://www.caf.fr/allocataires/contacter-le-delegue-la-protection-des-donnees). You can also send your requests to your Home Caf. Or by mail, you can write to: Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales, Data Protection Officer, 32 avenue de la Sibelle, 75014 Paris"
You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data
"right of access: know the data we hold about you; right to rectification: correct inaccurate data; right to erasure: request the deletion of your data, under certain conditions;"
The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users
"In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have rights to your personal information:"
This service claims that your personal data is not being sold
"Given its public service mission, no commercial or advertising exploitation, even partial, of the data collected will be carried out by the Cnaf."
You can limit how your information is used by third parties and the service
"right to restriction of processing: limit the use of your data in certain cases;"
If you have a CAF (Allocations Familiales) account
Good 1
Two factor authentication is provided for your account
"Make sure that an email address is properly filled in and associated with your My Account Space to benefit from two factor authentication by sending a verification code to your email address."
The documents
- Mentions Légales (Legal Information) ↗
- La Caf et vos données personnelles (The Caf and your personal data) ↗
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