Privacy Policy

Name

Cairn.info SAS

Description

Cairn.info SAS is a distributor of electronic publications for publishers and an agent for any user making a purchase on the site www.cairn.info and its subdomains.

Data Controller

Cairn.info SAS
Headquarters
26 rue Edouard Lockroy
75011 Paris
France
SIRET Number: 487 704 942 00035

Jurisdiction

Paris, France

Data Collection Methods

During your visit to the site www.cairn.info and its subdomains, personal data concerning you may be collected or processed as follows:

Forms

In the case of, for example, an online order or a contact request (chat/form/email), you will be asked to fill in certain mandatory fields, necessary to provide the requested service. Others are optional ("optional fields"). These are intended solely to allow us to contact you quickly if necessary.

Cookies

Other Technologies

We may also use standard Internet technologies such as scripts, tags, pixels, and redirects.

The purpose of these technologies is to enhance your experience on our sites and applications, including providing you with personalized content based on your interests.

These technologies give us access to the following information, among others:

  • Page that referred you to our site
  • Presence of cookies on your device
  • Date and time of viewing a page, downloading a PDF, watching a video, or listening to an audio file on our site
  • Information about the assumed reading of certain emails we send to you, as well as any links you click on in these communications

Purposes

In addition to the purposes outlined in the section regarding cookies, the data concerning you is collected and processed solely for the purposes mentioned below (email, chat, social networks):

Cairn.info Account

  • Initial setup and discovery of your Cairn.info account
  • Tracking your orders (confirmation, payment, delivery, etc.)
  • Managing subscriptions to our newsletters
  • Alerts on journals, authors, and other content you follow
  • Personalization of your author page

Consultation

  • Implementation of security measures and fraud prevention
  • Access to audiovisual content, including author meetings
  • Sharing anonymized usage data with our client institutions

Personalization

  • Display of our site in your preferred language
  • Automatic login to your personal account
  • Recommendations of articles, issues, dossiers, and meetings
  • Personalization of some of the editorial content highlighted on the site

Marketing

  • Information on the development of our services
  • Subscription offers for journals and Cairn Pro
  • Recommendations for partner events and news
  • Compilation of statistics

Support

  • Responses to the questions you ask us directly
  • Conducting satisfaction surveys and collecting customer feedback
  • Improving the design and usability of our sites

Additionally, to ensure proper management of the IT system, we may access any communication stored in our IT system. Technology evolves. CAIRN.INFO SAS may therefore need to carry out processing that is not yet provided for in this Charter. In this case, we will contact you before reusing your data, to inform you of the regulatory changes and give you the option, if necessary, to refuse this reuse.

Newsletters

You can manage your subscriptions and unsubscribe from our alert and recommendation emails at any time on your My Newsletters page in your account.

Payments

For security reasons, we do not have access to your full payment card number but only to the last 4 digits and the expiration date. Only Lyra, our payment service provider, stores the full data to ensure the transaction.

Remote Access

For users of remote access, the anonymous eduPersonTargetedID attribute is used and retained between each session to allow users to find the site configuration as they left it. It is not transmitted to any third party.

Transmission to Third Parties

Your data will not be transmitted to any third party (including partner publishers) without your consent.

Only the hosting company of our site and the trusted technological third parties mentioned in the cookie section may have partial and temporary access to your data as part of their service for Cairn.info.

Furthermore, the hosting provider has been asked to take all necessary steps to store and process this data with the utmost care so that it cannot be unlawfully disclosed to third parties. However, we reserve the right to disclose personal information upon request from a legal authority or in good faith if we believe that such action is necessary,

  • To comply with any applicable law or regulation;
  • To protect or defend the rights or property of CAIRN.INFO SAS, the site, or its users;
  • To intervene in extreme circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CAIRN.INFO SAS, the site, or the public.

Right to Deletion

You can anonymize your data and deactivate your account at any time by clicking on the "delete my account" link at the bottom of the My Account page. We commit to doing so as quickly as possible, except for information necessary for our billing service, to comply with accounting rules and regulations.

Security

CAIRN.INFO SAS is committed to making every effort to protect your personal data, particularly to prevent it from being altered, damaged, or disclosed to unauthorized third parties.

Consent

By using our site, you explicitly declare that you accept the privacy policy of CAIRN.INFO SAS, and you consent to us collecting and processing your data in accordance with the terms and principles described herein.

Furthermore, any promotional emails that may be sent to you will always include a link that you can click to access your profile or a specific page to stop receiving promotional information from us.

Contact

You can always contact us to check the status of the data concerning you. We will provide you with this information as quickly as possible after verifying your identity. You can also modify your data at any time via the My Account page. In the event of erroneous, inaccurate, or incomplete data, you can, of course, ask us to correct this information. Similarly, if you believe that our site does not comply with privacy regulations, you can contact us.

Personal Data Contact Form

GDPR

CAIRN.INFO SAS is committed to complying with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons concerning the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance), more commonly known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This charter does not prejudice the right that CAIRN.INFO SAS has concerning certain visitors for whom a contract, law, or any other contractual, regulatory, or legal document authorizes more extensive operations. In such cases, the most favorable standard for CAIRN.INFO SAS applies. |

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