PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: 18 March 2026
1. Personal Data Protection
Our website mysmartbook.fr (the “Website”) collects personal data in order to create and maintain customer records, in accordance with applicable regulations, of which you must be informed and, where required, subject to your consent.
Under applicable data protection regulations, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier or to one or more factors specific to that person’s identity (such as surname, first name, email address, location data, identity card number, IP address or other data enabling the person concerned to be identified). Anonymous information and information relating solely to legal entities do not constitute personal data.
Certain personal data concerning you is necessary for the creation and operation of a Customer Account, the management and processing of your orders and, more generally, our commercial relationship with you. This data is also retained for security purposes, to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, and to enable us to improve and personalise the services we provide and the information we send you:
| Purpose | Legal basis | Categories of data | Categories of data subjects | Retention period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing, engagement and events | Legitimate interests | Identity and civil status | Customers & Prospects | 3 years |
| Management of customer and prospect relationships | Legitimate interests |
Identity and civil status Personal information |
Customers & Prospects | The longer of: the duration of the contractual relationship or a fixed period of 3 years. |
| Creation, management and monitoring of Customer files | Performance of pre-contractual measures or of the contract |
Identity and civil status Personal/professional information Economic and financial information |
Customers | Duration of the contractual relationship plus the applicable limitation periods. |
| Invoicing | Performance of pre-contractual measures or of the contract |
Identity and civil status Economic and financial information |
Customers | 5 years after the calendar year in which the invoice is paid, subject to applicable accounting requirements. |
The categories of data retained vary depending on these purposes and on your own requests. This data is intended for our teams but may be transmitted to our suppliers, contractual partners and processors who participate in or contribute to these purposes (authors, publishers, administrators, IT service providers, banking or financial institutions).
Under the conditions laid down by the French Data Protection Act (Loi Informatique et Libertés) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as amended, individuals have rights of access, rectification, restriction, portability and erasure in relation to their personal data.
Data subjects also have the right, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data based on legitimate interests, as well as the right to object to direct marketing.
They also have the right to define general and specific instructions concerning how the rights referred to above are to be exercised after their death. These rights may be exercised by email at: [email protected] (with “GDPR” in the subject line), or by post to our registered office, marked “For the attention of the Data Protection Officer / GDPR”, specifying your surname, first name, email address, postal address and, where applicable, your Customer Account reference.
If the email address used to make the request differs from the address held in our records, a signed copy of your identity card or a valid passport may be required in order to verify your identity. As of the date of this Policy, the Data Protection Officer is Mr Emmanuel MARIE-CARDINE.
2. Use of Cookies
Please confirm this section with the organisation responsible for your IT and data processing. The following provisions are provided as an illustrative draft only.
This Website uses connection identifiers known as “Cookies”, which may be stored on your computer, mobile phone or tablet. The complete list of third parties that place or read Cookies on your device is available on the “Cookie Management” page accessible from the footer of the Website.
A Cookie is a small set of information, usually identified by a name, which may be sent to your browser by a website you visit. Your web browser stores it for a certain period of time and sends it back to our web server whenever you reconnect to the Website.
We may use several categories of Cookies:
Technical Cookies strictly necessary for the operation of our Website
Our Website uses Cookies that are necessary for it to function. These Cookies cannot be disabled through our Cookie Management tools, although you may configure your browser to reject all Cookies. If you do so, certain Website features may not operate correctly and your user experience may be impaired.
Audience Measurement Cookies
Our Website also uses Cookies to measure its audience. Certain Cookies may be strictly necessary for the operation and routine administration of the Website in accordance with Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act. Where the applicable statutory exemption applies, these Cookies may be placed without obtaining your prior consent.
Other audience measurement Cookies are not strictly necessary and are therefore subject to your consent when you first visit the Website. You may change your choice at any time.
Third-party Cookies used to improve the interactivity and attractiveness of the Website
Our Website uses or relies on external services to display certain content. These third-party providers may collect and use browsing data for their own purposes. The associated Cookies will only be installed with your consent where such consent is required.
You may consult the current list of these providers and their privacy policies at any time, and manage your consent to the use of Cookies (acceptance, refusal or modification) from the “Cookie Management” page located in the footer of the Website.
Managing or Deleting Cookies
You may manage the Cookies stored on your devices and choose whether to accept or reject them. Rejecting Cookies that are necessary for the proper functioning of the Website may affect its operation. You can configure your browser to notify you when Cookies are present and to allow you to accept or reject them, either individually or by default. You can also disable or delete Cookies by following the instructions provided by your browser. See, in particular: Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari.
3. Intellectual Property
The elements of our Website, including its architecture and content, are the property of MY SMART BOOK or of rights holders who have authorised their use.
This Website and its content (including trademarks, logos, editorial content and other materials) are protected by intellectual property rights, artistic property rights and related rights. Copying, reproducing, representing, modifying, translating, creating derivative works from, distributing or otherwise exploiting, in any form whatsoever, all or part of the elements comprising the Website is strictly prohibited without our prior, express and written authorisation.
In addition to rights exclusively owned by us, our Website uses texts, information, trademarks, images, illustrations, photographs, drawings, graphics, animations and other materials that may be protected by third-party rights.
By way of example, bibliographic records are obtained from the MédiaBase database, owned by and used with the authorisation of Tite-Live, a French simplified joint-stock company (Société par Actions Simplifiée) with a share capital of €101,595.80, whose registered office is located at 3 Rue Barbès, 92120 Montrouge, France, registered with the Nanterre Trade and Companies Register under number 326 836 335.
Texts that are not our own are provided with the authorisation of their authors. Where a quotation or short extract is used, the source of the text is identified. You are also required to respect these third-party rights.
Use of the Website or its content, in whole or in part, for commercial or advertising purposes is prohibited unless expressly authorised, and any infringement may incur the liability of the User.
If you purchase a digital book from this Website, that digital book is also protected by intellectual property rights. Where applicable, you will be granted a licence to use the digital book for normal use as an end user, in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in our Terms and Conditions of Sale (“Terms of Sale”): Terms and Conditions of Sale
Given the rights and interests involved, we encourage you to report in good faith any issue relating to intellectual property so that we may notify the appropriate rights holder and take any useful and necessary measures.