Privacy policy

Your personal data

Personal data is any information that can be used to directly (surname, first name, address, etc.) or indirectly (date of birth, login ID, cookie, etc.) identify a natural person. This identification can be made on the basis of a single piece of data or by cross-referencing a set of data.

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

Mediapart will only collect information that is strictly necessary to provide you with quality content and manage your subscription.

When you subscribe, you are asked to provide us with a username 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 username is recorded in our audience measurement statistics tools. When you subscribe, in accordance with the French Law on Confidence in the Digital Economy (LCEN), your IP address is recorded at the time of payment.

When subscribing, we also ask you to provide your date of birth and gender, although this is entirely optional. This information helps us to better understand our readership and to personalise certain communications (emails) with our subscribers.

Mediapart is an independent media outlet, with no subsidies, no advertising, no shareholders, and funded solely by the subscriptions from its readers. 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, proposed by the CNIL, is as follows: ‘A cookie is a small file stored by a server on a user's device (computer, telephone, etc.) and associated with a web domain (i.e. in most cases, 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 about cookies on the CNIL website.

Why use the term ‘similar technologies’ ?

Our mobile application works differently from our website. Cookies are only available with browsers, which are software programs that allow you to access the web.

For this reason, we have chosen to refer to ‘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 the other categories, you can authorise or refuse the collection and use of personal data.

Necessary for the functioning of the website or application

Connecting subscribers, anonymised audience measurement, sending push notifications, monitoring outages, promoting our services: these tools are necessary for monitoring the activity of our services and ensuring their proper functioning.

  • Authentication cookies: subscriber login.
  • AT Internet: anonymised audience measurement.
  • Selligent (only on the website): promotion of Mediapart's services, offers and subscriber benefits.
  • Batch (only on the app): sending push notifications and in-app messages.
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging (only on the application): necessary for push notifications to work on Android.
  • Microsoft App Centre (only on the application): system for updating and tracking application crashes.
  • Typeform: provision of optional questionnaires to collect readers' comments and suggestions on our digital products.
  • Displaying multimedia editorial content: YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Ina (videos), Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest (social networks), Scribd, Document Cloud, Slideshare (documents), Soundcloud, Spotify, Deezer (audio), Google Maps, Mapbox, CartoDB, uMap (maps), Highcharts, GitHub, Datawrapper, Flourish, Infogram, Thinglink, Jquery, Google Fonts, Bootstrap (infographics), 24liveblog, RockContent (live blogs), Embedly (media integration assistance in Journal and Club publications).
  • Datadog (only on the website): technical indicators and load balancing.

Statistics

These tools enable us to collect statistics on website and mobile application traffic in order to understand usage patterns, detect potential problems and optimise the usability of our products.

The following third-party tools are included in this category:

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

Personalised messages

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

This category includes:

  • Batch (only on the application): for push notifications and in-app messages when they are personalised through connection to Selligent based on your subscriber ID.

Targeted advertising

There is no advertising on Mediapart. However, we promote our content and services on other websites and social networks. To do this, we use technologies provided by certain advertising companies.

The following third-party tool falls into this category:

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

Exercice my rights

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

If you have any questions about your data and our data management policy, you can contact our data protection officer by email at dpo@mediapart.fr.

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

Set my privacy preferences

You can view and change your privacy settings at any time.

Video on demand (VOD) service

Mediapart uses OKAST to provide its video-on-demand (VOD) service, hosted on AWS servers located in Europe.

In this context, OKAST collects certain personal data, namely: surname, first name, email address, and connection data. This information is kept for up to 15 days after the end of the contract.

In addition, OKAST uses several trackers to ensure the proper functioning and optimisation of the service:

  • Ad Server Publica: for advertising distribution,
  • NPAW: for video performance analysis,
  • Firebase: for tracking navigation on the platform.

OKAST specifies that blocking these trackers may cause malfunctions in the use of the service or even prevent access to it altogether.

The data collected by these trackers is stored for a maximum period of 12 months.

For any requests relating to your personal data rights, you can contact OKAST's Data Protection Officer (DPO) directly at the following address: dpo@okast.tv.