This privacy policy describes the personal data that is collected or generated (processed) when you use the website. This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal data collected when you use our site and how your personal data is used, shared and protected. It also explains the choices you have regarding your personal data and how to contact us.
Table of contents
- Who are we?
- Use of collected personal data
- Comments
- Media
- Contact forms
- Use of cookies
- Audience statistics and measurements
- Storage times for your data
- The rights you have over your data
- Transmission of your personal data
- How we protect your data
- Contact Information
Who are we?
Discover all our information on the page legal notices.
Use of collected personal data
We automatically and directly collect any data about you.
Notwithstanding, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see the Cookies section).
Comments
When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, but also your IP address and the user agent of your browser are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The confidentiality clauses of the Gravatar service are available https://automattic.com/privacy/. After validation of your comment, your profile photo will be publicly visible next to your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and upload images to the Website, we advise you to avoid uploading images that contain EXIF GPS coordinate data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact forms
You may choose to provide us with information when you complete a form, this will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than our email service, this information will be used for the sole purpose of responding to your request. If information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a notice will indicate this at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.
Use of cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred and stored on your device. Concretely, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognize your browser, your language or to retain your preferences.
Two types of cookies are used on our site: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. Session cookies expire when you close your browser while persistent cookies remain on your device after your browser is closed and can be used again the next time you visit our site.
More information at allaboutcookies.org.
Our cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be asked to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in this information if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a connection cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “Remember me”, your login cookie will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
By editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the article you have just modified. It expires after one day.
Third-party cookies
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Content embedded from other sites behaves the same as if the visitor went to that other site.
These websites could collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, track your interactions with this embedded content if you have an account connected to their website.
We may allow certain business partners to install technologies on our site. These partners use these technologies to help us analyze how you use the site, such as by noting the third-party services through which you arrived on the Platform, market and promote our services on our site and on the third party websites, help us detect and prevent fraud or conduct risk assessments, or collect information about your activities on the website.
Our website may use social plugins provided and operated by third party companies, such as the Facebook “Like” button. Consequently, you can send to the third party the information that you view in a particular section of our site. If you are not connected to your account opened with the third party, the latter will not be able to know your identity. If you are connected to your account opened with the third party, then the latter may link the information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to the account you hold with the third party in question. Please review the third party’s privacy policies to learn more about their data practices.
The list of third-party cookies used on this site is available from the cookie management panel.
Audience statistics and measurements
In terms of analysis, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information regarding the use of our website in order to improve it. The latter can be deactivated from the cookie management panel.
To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics purposes, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here. Please note that we have no control over this opt-out link and we are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. See this documentation for more information.
Storage times for your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows subsequent comments to be automatically recognized and approved instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Site managers can also view and modify this information.
The rights you have over your data
If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we have about you, including that you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data concerning you. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Transmission of your personal data
Visitor comments may be checked using an automated spam comment detection service.
All personal data we process is processed within the European Union.
How we protect your data
We continuously implement and update site security to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction or alteration. We are therefore working to make your data as invulnerable as possible. As the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot completely guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.
Contact Information
For any request or question regarding your personal data, contact us at this address, other contact information is available on our legal notices. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action regarding your request.