Legal notice

Version of 5 October 2026.

Publisher and publication director

The histoire-et-art.com website is published by Guillaume Lemaitre, sole trader (EI), 14 rue des Vignes, 77166 Grisy-Suisnes, France. SIRET 839 163 219 00018. Telephone: +33 6 78 16 23 93. Contact: contact@histoire-et-art.com.

Publication director: Guillaume Lemaitre.

Hosting

IONOS SARL, 7 Place de la Gare, 57200 Sarreguemines, France. Telephone: +33 8 05 54 21 80. Servers located in Germany (European Union).

Intellectual property

The texts, the modelling, the registers, the KODO codes, the dating systems, the correspondences, the 3D models and their organisation are protected. The conditions for their reuse are set out in the terms of use. Third-party data and software keep their own licence; their sources and licences are indicated where they are used (credits on each page and each scene).

Nature of the content

The maps, reliefs, 3D scenes and reconstructions are educational. They are approximate representations: each layer states whether it is attested, reconstructed or hypothetical, and cites its source. They do not replace the scientific publications they cite.

Applicable law

The site is governed by French law, subject to the mandatory protective provisions that the user enjoys in their country of residence. Disputes fall within the jurisdiction of the competent courts under the applicable rules. In the event of a discrepancy between language versions, the French version prevails.

Privacy

Data controller

Guillaume Lemaitre, sole trader, at the address above. Contact for any question about your data: contact@histoire-et-art.com.

Browsing without an account

Browsing the site does not require an account. To protect the site against abuse (mass collection, attacks), the IP address is processed at the time of the request and turned into a pseudonymised fingerprint (HMAC with a secret key) to keep rate counters. These counters expire after 30 days at most. Aggregated hourly volumes (number of requests and refusals, without IP addresses) are kept for 13 months. The server's technical logs are kept according to the policy of the host IONOS, for one year at most. Legal basis: legitimate interest in ensuring the security and availability of the site.

To detect unauthorised automated collection, the site contains links that are invisible to visitors and forbidden to robots by the robots.txt file. When an IP address follows one of these links, it is recorded as a pseudonymised fingerprint. During the first 14 days after the traps are activated, catches are only logged. After that, a single catch reduces access quotas for one hour; if a second sign of automated collection occurs within that hour (another trap or a quota overrun), access is blocked for 24 hours, then for 7 days in case of a repeat within 30 days. Any fingerprint in the log or in a block is erased 30 days after the last catch. Verified search engine robots are never blocked. Legal basis: legitimate interest in protecting the site and its content.

Sharing on social networks

The share buttons are simple links. The site loads no social network script, button or counter: as long as you do not click, no data is sent to these networks. If you click, your browser opens the chosen network's site with the address and title of the page; that network then processes your data according to its own privacy policy. "Copy link" and your device's built-in sharing send nothing to Histoire et Art. When a page is shared, the network reads its title, summary and image: these are public information about the page, not data about you.

User account

If you create an account, we process:

• your e-mail address, your display name, your language and your password, stored only as a hash (never in plain text);
• your roles and, where applicable, your organisations;
• address confirmation tokens (valid for 48 hours) and password reset tokens (valid for 1 hour), stored as hashes;
• requests to send confirmation or recovery e-mails: the e-mail address is erased from the sending queue as soon as the message is sent or expires (1 hour at most), and the row itself is deleted 24 hours later;
• attempt counters (login, registration, recovery, export) as pseudonymised fingerprints, which expire with their window (15 minutes for login, one hour for the other actions).

Legal basis: performance of the contract (provision of the account and its services) and legitimate interest (account security). Account data is kept for as long as the account exists. After a deletion request, the account and its data are permanently erased within one month. An account with no login for three years is deleted, after a warning sent to its e-mail address one month in advance.

The account is specific to Histoire et Art; it is not shared with any other site.

Subscriptions and payments

The site currently offers no paid service and processes no payment data. This section will be completed before any paid offer opens.

Messages sent to the publisher

The Contact page invites you to write to contact@histoire-et-art.com. Its form only prepares the message in your own e-mail software: nothing is sent to or stored by the site, and you send the message yourself. A message received contains your e-mail address and whatever you choose to write. It is used only to reply to you and, if you exercise a right, to handle your request. Legal basis: legitimate interest in answering requests, or legal obligation when you exercise your rights. E-mail is hosted by IONOS, which also hosts the site (see "Hosting"). Messages are kept for one year.

Backups

The databases are backed up every day; each backup is kept for 14 days and then deleted. Erased data may therefore remain in a backup for 14 days at most.

Recipients

The data is accessible only to the publisher, the site administrators and the host IONOS for the performance of its service. The site's e-mails (registration confirmation, account recovery) are sent through IONOS mail. The site loads no resources from a third-party content delivery network and contains no audience measurement or advertising tools. No data is sold.

Your rights

You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability. From your account, you can change your name and language and download all your data (export). Online account deletion is not yet available; you can request it in writing at the address below. For any other request, write to contact@histoire-et-art.com; you will receive a reply within one month. You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).

Cookies

The site uses only one cookie, which is strictly necessary:

This cookie is Secure, HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax. It is exempt from consent because it is essential to the service requested. The site sets no audience measurement, advertising or social network cookies.