Privacy Policy

Data controller

Manager: Guillaume Velé

Address: 39 rue des Limousines, 78700 Conflans-Sainte-Honorine

Email: contact@guidechirurgie.fr

Confidentiality Commitment

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) No. 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 and the amended French Data Protection Act No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, guidechirurgie.fr is committed to ensuring the protection, confidentiality and security of users' personal data.

Data collected

Simple navigation

While you browse the site, we collect:

• IP adress
• Browser type
• Pages visited
• Duration of visit
• Source of origin (search engine, external link)

Purpose: Audience measurement using Google Analytics, only after your consent. This data may be transferred outside the European Union to Google servers.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect:

• The data displayed in the comments form
• The visitor's IP address
• The browser's character string (user agent string)

This information is collected to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . After approval of your comment, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Purpose: Moderating comments, preventing spam, displaying your public profile

Shelf life: 3 years from the date of the last comment

Contact form

If you fill out the contact form, we collect:

• Full name
• Email
• Address
• Country
• Subject of request
• Message

Purpose: To process your request and respond to you

Shelf life: 3 years from last contact

Free kit and monthly newsletter

If you request the free kit, we collect your email address. You confirm your registration by clicking on the link in the confirmation email; without this click, no kit will be sent.

Purpose: To send you the kit, then the website newsletter, at most once a month (new guides, dated updates, journals). Your address will not be resold or transferred.

Legal basis: your consent. Each email contains a one-click unsubscribe link; you can also write to contact@guidechirurgie.fr.

Service provider: Brevo, who sends the emails on our behalf.

Storage period: until you unsubscribe.

Questions asked in the guidance assistant

Some articles offer a navigation assistant, "What's Next, Depending on Your Situation," which directs you to our guides. It does not use any third-party services or artificial intelligence. If you ask a question there, we receive:

• The text of your question, which may relate to your health
• The language and address of the page where you posted it
• The date of sending

We do not ask for your name or contact information. Email addresses, phone numbers, and links contained in the text are automatically replaced upon receipt. Your IP address is not recorded: a non-reversible time stamp is used for only one hour to limit repeated mailings.

Purpose: To identify frequently asked questions in order to write new guides or expand existing FAQs. We do not provide individual answers or medical advice.

Legal basis: your explicit consent, given by ticking the box provided before submission (Article 9, paragraph 2, point a, of the GDPR, for data relating to health). You can withdraw it by writing to contact@guidechirurgie.fr; as the question is anonymous, please indicate its date, page number, and text so that we can find it.

Shelf life: twelve months maximum, then automatic deletion.

The assistant also counts, without cookies or identifiers, the number of views and selections per day (for example, "recovery") to determine its usefulness. These totals are kept for one hundred and twenty days.

Partnership requests and proofreading proposals

If you fill out the form on the Advertisers page , we collect:

• The company name, its SIREN number and its activity
• The desired domain, format, page, and time period
• The presentation of your service
• Your email address

If you fill out the form on the Review a guide page , we collect:

• Your first and last name, your profession and your specialty
• Your RPPS number and your professional email address
• The pages or topics you propose, and your declaration of competing interests
• The result of comparing your RPPS number, your name and your profession with the Health Directory, a public list maintained by the Digital Health Agency

Purpose: To review the request, verify that it complies with the rules published on the page, and respond to you. This data is not used for marketing purposes; it is neither sold nor transferred, and is processed only by the website's editorial team and hosting provider (see "Data Recipients").

Data retention period: 3 years from the date of the last exchange. For established partnerships, the information necessary for invoicing is retained for the period required by law. For published proofreading, your name, profession, specialty, and the date remain displayed on the proofread page until you request their removal.

Advertising

Some pages display advertisements, always marked "Advertisement" and served by the Ezoic advertising network and its partners. With your consent, obtained via the website banner according to the IAB TCF framework, these partners may place cookies and process browsing data (IP address, cookie identifiers, pages viewed) to display and measure advertisements and, if you agree, personalize them. You can change your choice at any time via the consent management link at the bottom of the page.

No advertising is displayed on the pages where you enter information about your health (questionnaires, calculators, tracking logs), nor on the homepage.

Detailed statement of the advertising network (partners, cookies, purposes): Ezoic's privacy policy for guidechirurgie.fr.

Legal basis for processing

The processing of personal data is based on:

• Your explicit consent (analytical cookies, contact form)
• The execution of a requested service (responding to your request, moderating comments)
• The legitimate interest of the site (security, spam prevention)

Shelf life

The data is retained for:

• Browsing data (Google Analytics): 13 months
• Contact form data: 3 years from last contact
• Partnership requests and proofreading proposals: 3 years from the date of the last exchange
• Comments and related data: 3 years from the date of the last comment
• Cookies : 13 months maximum

Data recipients

Your personal data is not shared with any third party for commercial purposes. It may be shared with:

• Google Analytics (audience measurement, after consent)
• The advertising network Ezoic and its partners (display and measurement of advertisements, after consent)
• GTranslate (automatic translation of pages viewed in a language other than French)
• The Awin and Effinity affiliate networks, and Amazon and Etsy merchants, only when you click on one of their links
• Stripe (payment for notebooks and support, entered on Stripe's payment pages)
• Brevo (sending the recovery kit to those who request it)
• Gravatar (for displaying commenters' profile pictures)
• O2switch (website host)
• The competent authorities upon legal request

Your rights

In accordance with the GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Permission to access : Obtain confirmation that your data is being processed and get a copy of it.
• Right of rectification: To correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• Right to erasure: Obtain the deletion of your data (right to be forgotten)
• Right to restriction: Limit the use of your data
• Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your data for legitimate reasons.
• Right to portability: Receive your data in a structured format and transmit it to another controller
• Right to withdraw your consent: At any time for consent-based processing

How can you exercise your rights?

Contact us by email: contact@guidechirurgie.fr

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority): https://www.cnil.fr

Data security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, damage or fraudulent use.