Our privacy statement

• Who takes my calls or reads my messages?

Only trained volunteers, who have accepted Nightline France's charter (integrate a link to the charter),  can hear your phone calls (and answer them) or read your messages (and answer them).

Only one volunteer will answer your call or chat, except for volunteers in training, who may be assisted by another volunteer.

Anyone outside the Nightline France volunteer team (employees, journalists, partners) present during the shift have no access to your calls or messages.

• Who has access to my phone number and IP Address? 
  No one. Phone numbers and IP addresses are not accessible to members of our association.

• Are my calls and messages recorded?
  Telephone calls are never recorded. Your chat messages are deleted after 48 hours and are no longer accessible after this time limit. 
  The waiving of our anonymity or confidentiality principle

• In a case of emergency, with your permission
  In the event that you are in imminent danger, during a suicide attempt for example, volunteers may ask you if you would like Nightline to call for help. If you make this request explicitly, your anonymity can be lifted and the volunteer will ask you for details to identify and locate you. The details you choose to provide are then passed on to the rescue team and are deleted after one week. 

• Misuse of the service
  In the event that a caller misuses the service in order to voluntarily harm volunteers (harassment, insults, inappropriate behaviour, etc.), the confidentiality of these discussions may be lifted within the association to allow volunteers to respond to this abusive behaviour.
  
  It is possible to block a caller during a chat if there is misuse of the service. In this case, the IP address is recorded (but not accessible) in order to prevent the caller from accessing the service in the future.

Nightline France authorises lifting partial or total anonymity or confidentiality of conversations in the following circumstances, and only in these cases:

• In a case of emergency, with your permission
  In the event that you are in imminent danger, during a suicide attempt for example, volunteers may ask you if you would like Nightline to call for help. If you make this request explicitly, your anonymity can be lifted and the volunteer will ask you for details to identify and locate you. The details you choose to provide are then passed on to the rescue team and are deleted after one week. 

• Misuse of the service
  In the event that a caller misuses the service in order to voluntarily harm volunteers (harassment, insults, inappropriate behaviour, etc.), the confidentiality of these discussions may be lifted within the association to allow volunteers to respond to this abusive behaviour.
  It is possible to block a caller during a chat if there is misuse of the service. In this case, the IP address or phone number is recorded (but not accessible) in order to prevent the caller from accessing the service in the future. 

At the end of each discussion ( by phone call or chat), volunteers fill out a call statistics form to allo a subsequent analysis of the number of contacts and topics covered. 

The statistics automatically include: the time and date of contact; the duration of the discussion; the topics discussed; the format of the call (chat/phone call) ; the channel used (Paris, Lyon, etc.); whether the caller was information about another service; whether the caller was abusive to the volunteer.

They may also include the following information (the caller chooses to provide this information during the discussion): level and field of study; type of institution (university, private school, etc.); the gender of the caller; nationality.

At the end of a chat, you have the opportunity to give feedback to Nightline France. This feedback consists of a rating and a possible review. It is completely anonymous.

Feedback is used to improve the service and to underline the positive elements of the service.

If you accept (by ticking the dedicated box), your feedback can be shared anonymously, on our social media and on the Nightline France website, etc.

Otherwise, your feedback will only be shared internally (employees and volunteers of Nightline France).

If you use the contact form on the dedicated page, it will collect your email address, necessary for its proper functioning.

Your email address is stored and processed only within the framework of the contact form and is only kept for the time necessary to ensure the operation ( and to contact you in response, if necessary).

If you use the donation form to give money the association via our website, it will collect the necessary data for its proper functioning: your bank details or any other information concerning the payment method (Paypal details ...), as well as the information necessary for the creation and sending of a tax receipt (name, address, country, date of birth and company name in case of donation on behalf of a company or association), and your email address.

This data is collected and stored by the payment operator Stripe (see: https://stripe.com/fr/privacy) to assure the functioning of the form and is only kept for the time required for the operation (receiving the donation and sending you the tax receipt). In the case of regular donations (e.g. monthly), they are kept until the donations cease.

Your first and last names and email addresses are also accessible to Nightline France employees and volunteers in charge of managing donations. This data is only used to thank the donors.