Last updated: February 2026
1. Who We Are
La French Tech Tokyo ("we", "us", "our") is an international community certified by La Mission French Tech, a French government programme supporting the growth of the French tech and startup ecosystem worldwide. Our community is made up of volunteer entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and tech professionals based in Japan, with the mission of connecting the local and French tech ecosystems, promoting France, supporting startup internationalisation, and attracting talent and investors. We operate this website and related community services.
2. Data We Collect
We collect personal data through the following channels:
Newsletter subscription
- First name, last name (optional)
- Email address (required)
Whitepaper download
- First name, last name (optional)
- Email address (required)
- Newsletter preference (optional)
Community member profile
When you join our Slack community and complete your member profile, we collect:
- First name, last name
- Email address
- Company and job title
- LinkedIn URL and mobile phone number (optional)
- Location, nationality, and company country
- Gender and age range
- Professional status and company size
- Community activities and motivations (multiple-choice)
3. How We Use Your Data
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Sending our newsletter and event updates | Consent (you opt in via a form) |
| Providing access to whitepaper content | Consent (you submit a form to access the content) |
| Managing your community member profile | Consent (you complete your profile voluntarily) |
| Sending profile completion reminders via Slack and email | Legitimate interest (necessary to run a functioning community) |
| Spam prevention via CAPTCHA | Legitimate interest (protecting the integrity of our services) |
We occasionally prepare anonymised community statistics and may share them with sponsors, institutional partners, or La Mission French Tech. These reports describe the community as a whole (for example, age ranges, professional backgrounds, or geographic spread) and contain no information that could identify any individual member.
4. Third-Party Services
We share data with the following sub-processors to operate our services:
| Service | Purpose | Privacy Policy |
|---|---|---|
| Brevo | Email marketing platform and contact database | brevo.com |
| Slack | Community platform and automated onboarding messages | slack.com |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | CAPTCHA spam and bot protection on forms | cloudflare.com |
These services may transfer data outside the European Economic Area. Where applicable, such transfers are governed by appropriate safeguards including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission.
5. Data Retention
We retain your personal data for as long as you are an active member of our community or subscribed to our newsletter. If you request deletion, we will remove your data from our systems within 30 days.
Community members who have not completed their profile and have not responded to our reminders may be removed from the community after 30 days.
6. Your Rights Under GDPR
If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right of access — request a copy of the data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification — correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to erasure — request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten").
- Right to restriction — ask us to limit how we process your data in certain circumstances.
- Right to data portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Right to withdraw consent — withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.
La French Tech Tokyo is run entirely by volunteers. Where possible, we encourage you to use our self-service tools:
For all other rights (access, portability, restriction, objection), email us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates the last revision. Significant changes will be communicated via email or a notice on our website.