This policy describes how personal data is collected and processed during your visit to ericbad.net, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act.
Data controller
Eric Villain – contact via the website contact form
Data collected
- Contact form
If you use the contact form, the information you submit (name or pseudonym, email address, message content) is used solely to respond to your request. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6.1.a of the GDPR), given when sending the form. The data is kept for a maximum of [12 months] and then deleted. The form is protected by an anti-spam and anti-bot mechanism. - Visit statistics
This website uses the audience measurement tool provided by our hosting provider (IONOS WebStat). This tool operates without cookies and collects anonymised data: pages viewed, device type, browser, approximate geographic origin. This data is used solely to produce traffic statistics and improve the website. Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f of the GDPR). - Security
A website protection and firewall service (security processor) may collect technical information (in particular the IP address) in order to detect and block intrusion attempts, spam or attacks. This information is kept for a limited period, strictly necessary for the security of the website. Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f of the GDPR).
Recipients and processors
Your data is not sold, transferred or shared with third parties for commercial purposes. It may only be transmitted to our technical processors (hosting provider and security provider), who act on our instructions and within the scope of their contractual obligations.
Retention period
Data submitted via the contact form is kept for the time needed to process your request and then deleted (within a maximum of [12 months]). Statistical data is kept in aggregated form for [24 months / duration of the statistics tool]. Server technical logs are kept for a maximum of 8 weeks.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights over your personal data:
- right of access;
- right to rectification;
- right to erasure (« right to be forgotten »);
- right to restriction of processing;
- right to object;
- right to data portability;
- right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise these rights, send your request via the website contact form. A reply will be provided within one month.
You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority):
Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés
3 place de Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 Paris Cedex 07
Website: https://www.cnil.fr
Data security
The website is protected by a web application firewall and a security monitoring service. Communications with the website are encrypted via the HTTPS protocol.
Changes
This policy may be modified at any time. The applicable version is the one published on this page.
Last updated: 18 October 2026