Privacy Policy

Your personal data

Personal data is any element that allows a natural person to be identified directly (surname, first name, address, etc.) or indirectly (date of birth, login ID, cookie, etc.). This identification can be carried out from a single piece of data or from the cross-referencing of a set of data.

Historically, the 1978 Data Protection Act already defined personal data and the initial means of protecting it. Reworked over time and with the evolution of technological means, it now incorporates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force at the European level on May 25, 2018.

Mediapart is committed to collecting only the information strictly necessary to provide you with quality content and manage your subscription.

When you subscribe, you are asked to provide us with an account ID that you can use to comment on articles, participate in the Club (the blog area), and interact with other subscribers or the editorial team. This ID is included in our statistical audience measurement tools. When you subscribe, in accordance with the Law for Confidence in the Digital Economy (LCEN) , your IP address is recorded at the time of your payment. When you subscribe, we also offer you the option of providing us with your date of birth and gender, which is completely optional. This information helps us better understand our readership and personalize certain communications (emails) with our subscribers.

Mediapart is a free and independent media outlet, with no subsidies, no advertising, no shareholders, and a platform that thrives solely on reader subscriptions. We do not sell any of our users’ data to third parties.

Cookies and other technologies used on Mediapart

What is a cookie?

The definition of cookies as proposed by the CNIL is as follows: “A cookie is a small file stored by a server in the terminal (computer, telephone, etc.) of a user and associated with a web domain (i.e. in the majority of cases with all the pages of the same website). This file is automatically sent back during subsequent contacts with the same domain.” You can find more information on cookies on the CNIL website .

Why use the term “similar technologies”?

Our mobile app works differently from our website. Cookies are only available with browsers, the software that allows you to access the web.

For this reason, we have preferred to speak of “cookies or similar technologies” rather than just “cookies”.

What are cookies and similar technologies used for on our website and mobile application?

Cookies and similar technologies are grouped into different categories, corresponding to several purposes.

So-called “functional” cookies are not subject to consent. For other categories, you can authorize or refuse the collection and use of personal data.

Necessary for the operation of the site or application

Subscriber connection, anonymized audience measurement, sending push notifications, tracking outages, highlighting our services: these tools are necessary to monitor the activity of our services and their proper functioning.

Statistics

These tools allow us to collect statistics on site and mobile application traffic to understand usage, detect potential problems and optimize the ergonomics of our products.

Here are the third-party tools included in this category:

  • AT Internet : audience measurement linked to subscriber ID.
  • Crazy Egg  (website only): customer journey analysis.

Personalization of messages

All Mediapart readers have access to the same information, but we offer certain personalized messages depending on your subscription.

Here’s what’s included in this category:

  • Batch (app only): For push notifications and in-app messages when personalized through the Selligent connection based on your subscriber ID.

Advertising retargeting

There are no ads on Mediapart. However, we do promote our content and services on other websites and social media. To do this, we use technologies made available by certain advertising companies.

Here is the third party tool included in this category:

  • Facebook  (on the website only): audience targeting on social networks to promote Mediapart.

Exercising my rights

You have the right to access, rectify and erase your data, which you can exercise simply by completing the contact form for our subscriber service or directly by contacting our data protection officer.

For any questions regarding your data and our data management policy, you can contact our data protection officer by email at [email protected] .

We do not process subscription requests at this address . For any subscription requests, please contact our subscriber service via their contact form.