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The privacy of your personal details

On the Culture Diff' website, your personal details (full name, mailing address and email address) are collected in strict compliance with the French law No. 2004-575 of the 21st June 2004 on Confidence in Digital Economy : with your consent, following your registration on the mailing list or following the use of the free services offered (free trial of astronomy softwares, for example) or following the purchase of one or several of the proposed products (astronomy softwares, paper journals, etc.). "Pursuant to Act No. 2004-801 of the 6th August 2004 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and amending Act No. 78-17 of the 6th January 1978 concerning the computers, files and freedom, published in the Official Journal of the 7th August 2004", the website www.culturediff.org has been declared to the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL) under the number 799846.
Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés
Here are the details of the arrangements made and implemented regarding your personal details (full name, mailing address, email address) and informations about your navigation on the website www.culturediff.org (creation of cookies, your IP address) :


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Your personal details (full name, mailing address, email address) can be collected in three different ways :
1. when you subscribe to the Culture Diff' mailing list ;
2. when you enter your e-mail in an access form to the user interface of the Culture Diff' softwares ;
3. when you purchase a Culture Diff' product via PayPal.

Collected in strict compliance with the law of the 21st June 2004 on Confidence in Digital Economy, your personal details (full name, mailing address, email) are then inserted into the Culture Diff' mailing list and / or customer file to which only Karine Gadré, the Culture Diff' company-header have access. They are kept for the sole purpose of keeping you informed of the future developments of the Culture Diff' website. They will not be published nor passed to any third parties. You may at any time unsubscribe from the Culture Diff' mailing list. Under the Data Protection Act, you have indeed a right to access, modify, correct or delete your personal data. To do so, simply contact the Culture Diff' company by e-mail or post.

Under the new decree implementing the Data Protection Act published in the Official Journal of March the 27th, 2007, you now also have a right to object to the collection of your personal data - during the free trial software or when making a purchase on the Culture Diff' website, in this case. To do this, simply contact the Culture Diff' company by email or post in the hours following the capture of your personal details into one of the forms of the Culture Diff' website.


point vert Information about your browsing

Your navigation on the Culture Diff' website requires the activation of the Cookies option of your browser in two cases:
1. when you wish to purchase one or more products (astronomy software, paper journal, etc.) : the reference of each item is then stored on your personal computer as a cookie (a small text file), so that your shopping cart will fill correctly ;
2. when you access the user interface of the Culture Diff' softwares : your access code is provided as a cookie on your computer. Your browser is so personalized.
The inactivation of the Cookies option of your browser would therefore result in the inability to make any online purchase of any product and the inability to access the user interface of the Culture Diff' softwares. By authorizing the creation of cookies on your computer, you will enjoy these additional features. Culture Diff' Cookies have a life span not exceeding 24 hours. Beyond that, they are automatically destroyed.

Within the context of the AdSense program, a partnership was concluded between Culture Diff' and Google. Thus, on each page of the Culture Diff' website figure one or more targeted advertisement banners. The authors of such advertisements or third party providers, including Google, use cookies to serve on each Web page, ads related to your browsing history. You can disable the use of advertising cookies by visiting the website of the Network Advertising Initiative, or simply by disabling cookies in your browser.

The usage statistics of the Culture Diff' website do not reveal your IP address. They simply prepare the temporal record of connections made from such provider (orange.fr ...), using such a browser (Firefox, ...), from this url (google.fr, ...), in the descending order of the number of visits. These data are stored on the server of the Culture Diff' website for a period of one year to learn about their evolution.

On almost every page of the Culture Diff' Website, there are ads whose content is consistent with that of the Webpage you visit, and therefore with at least one of your main interests. These ads are served by the Google Network, within the context of the AdSense program. When you click one of these advertisements, information relating to your navigation, such as your IP address, is collected by the advertising (Google). This information is collected for the sole purpose of paying the Culture Diff' company to display targeted ads on its Web site.


For information, www.culturediff.org is hosted on one of the servers of the NordNet company, Service Le Relais Internet, Château de la Bonnerie, 111 Chemin de Croix, 59510 HEM, France.


For questions concerning the application of the Law for Confidence in the Digital Economy and the Law Data Protection, please contact the Culture Diff 'company.
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