Privacy policy

Data controller

Patrice Lebon

Denis Bernard Patrice Lebon is the controller of the correspondence-related processing described in this policy. Questions and requests may be addressed to patrice@patricelebon.com, or sent by post to the professional address stated in the legal notice.

Data processed

Your correspondence and connection data

When you use the contact form, write by email or access an external service, you provide the contact details and content you choose to communicate. This website has no ordering facility.

The public website is hosted by o2switch. Connection logs may record IP addresses, requested pages, browsers, access dates and technical errors to maintain the hosting service and its security.

Purposes and lawful bases

Responding to enquiries and maintaining the service

Correspondence is used to respond to enquiries, editorial proposals, institutional approaches and prospective collaborations. Depending on their purpose, these activities rely on the legitimate interest in answering the enquiry or on pre-contractual measures requested by its sender.

Technical data serve the availability and security of the website, on the basis of the legitimate interest in operating a reliable service and, where applicable, legal obligations. The hosting provider’s commitments are set out in its data protection policy.

Audience measurement and external resources

Services used by this version

The ‘Like’ and ‘Love’ controls remember your selection on your device and use a random identifier specific to each item so that you can change or withdraw it. This identifier is created only when you react; it is not linked to your identity, an IP address or your reactions to other items. The author’s private record retains active reactions and daily totals of clicks on sharing, link-copying and comment-opening controls for approximately thirteen months. Totals are never displayed publicly. Only the types of reaction received, a thumb and/or a heart, are visible, without numbers or identities. A click on a social network does not prove that a share was published there. These controls respect DNT and GPC signals for collection. No comment is published or sent automatically.

Internal audience measurement counts requested pages and aggregates, by day, referring sources, distribution campaigns, language, device type and certain interactions with the essay, including reading, audio, sharing and downloading. Country and, where available, an approximate city are derived locally from hosting information or a geographical database installed on the server. Cities are retained as monthly totals, and small counts are omitted from reports. An estimated city is neither a visitor’s home nor their exact location. This measurement installs no cookie, assigns no visit identifier, retains neither IP addresses nor individual browsing paths in its statistics, and sends no such data to advertising networks. Browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals are respected. These statistics cannot disclose a visitor’s name. The hosting provider retains its own technical logs separately.

Source of the local geographical database, where installed: DB-IP Lite, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Coverage is partial and location remains approximate.

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. Displaying them causes your browser to make requests to Google’s servers. Please consult the Google Fonts information and the Google privacy policy.

Videos play from files hosted on this website, without an embedded social player. Links to media outlets and social networks open external services governed by their own policies.

Recipients

Access according to the enquiry

Correspondence is accessible to Patrice Lebon and, only where its subject requires, to the colleagues or professional entities directly concerned. It is neither sold nor rented. Email, hosting and technical providers intervene only as necessary to supply their services.

Retention periods

No longer than necessary

Enquiries not leading to a contract

Up to three years after the last substantive exchange, unless an objection or a litigation requirement warrants otherwise.

Anonymous audience measurements

Approximately thirteen months, followed by automatic deletion of daily totals.

Hosting logs

For the periods and according to the criteria prescribed by the hosting provider for operation, security and applicable obligations.

Providers and transfers

Policies available for consultation

The public website is hosted by o2switch in France. Email providers and external resources operate under their own commitments. Some external services may process data outside the European Union, subject to the safeguards described by the providers concerned.

Further information: data protection at o2switch and Google privacy.

Your rights

Access, objection and erasure

Subject to the conditions of the GDPR, you may request access to your data, rectification or erasure, restriction of processing, object to processing based on legitimate interests, and request portability where applicable.

For correspondence data held by Patrice Lebon, please address your request to patrice@patricelebon.com. Proof of identity will be requested only where there is reasonable doubt about the applicant’s identity. For processing undertaken independently by an external service, please use the channels specified in its policy. You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL.