Personal data
USE OF COLLECTED PERSONAL DATA
Comments
When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and your browser’s user agent 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 verify if you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After validation of your comment, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF data with GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you don’t have to enter this information if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be automatically deleted when your browser is closed.
When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “Remember me”, your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
When editing or publishing a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded content from other sites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles…). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way 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 a connected account on their website.
Statistics and audience measurement
USE AND TRANSMISSION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
DATA STORAGE DURATION
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and automatically approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if this is 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 administrators can also view and modify this information.
THE RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we have about you, including those 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 reasons.
TRANSMISSION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Visitor comments may be checked using an automated spam detection service.
CONTACT INFORMATION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
How we protect your data
Procedures implemented in case of data breach
Third-party services that transmit data to us
Automated marketing and/or profiling operations carried out using personal data
Display of information related to sectors subject to specific regulations
