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Privacy
policy
Last updated: 30 August 2026. This document sets out what data we collect, for what purposes, for how long, and how to exercise your rights. This is a translation for information; the French version prevails.
1. Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is All Blue World, [to be completed: company name and address of the European entity]. For any question about your data: contact@allblueworld.net.
2. What we collect and why
| Processing | Data | Legal basis | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact form | Name, email, subject, message | Your consent | 3 years after the last exchange |
| “100 authors” application | Identity, contact details, country, publishing history, title, genre, synopsis, statement of intent, biography, manuscript or extract | Your consent and pre-contractual steps | 2 years after the committee’s answer, unless the editorial relationship continues |
| Job application | Identity, contact details, role applied for, preferred city, availability, link, message, CV and attachments | Your consent and pre-contractual steps | 2 years |
| Newsletter | Email, language, open statistics | Your consent | Until you withdraw consent, and 3 years after the last interaction |
| Audience measurement | Pages viewed, traffic source, aggregated technical data | Your consent (cookies) | Cookies: 13 months. Data: 14 months |
| Display preferences | Language, accessibility settings, cookie choices | Legitimate interest (running the website) | Local storage in your browser, 12 months |
Any field not marked with an asterisk is optional.
3. What happens to manuscripts
The texts you entrust to us are read only by the members of the reading committee and the editors concerned. They are neither published, nor passed to third parties, nor used to train an artificial intelligence system. Submitting a text transfers no rights: you remain its author and rights holder.
You can ask at any time for your file and the associated document to be deleted by writing to contact@allblueworld.net. Deletion takes place within thirty days.
4. Who has access to your data
Your data is accessible to the All Blue World teams who need it, and to our processors:
- Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France): sending emails, managing contacts and the newsletter. Data hosted in the European Union.
- IONOS (France and Germany): website hosting and temporary storage of uploaded files.
- Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited): audience measurement, only if you have accepted it. Data may be processed in the United States, under the Data Privacy Framework to which Google adheres. Ad targeting and sharing with other Google services are disabled.
We neither sell nor rent your data. No transfer outside the European Union takes place without appropriate contractual safeguards.
5. Cookies and trackers
On your first visit, a banner lets you accept, refuse or choose category by category. Nothing is stored before your choice, apart from what is strictly necessary.
Necessary, always active
Storage of your cookie choice, language and accessibility settings, and form security. These items are stored locally in your browser and never transmitted.
Audience measurement, subject to consent
Google Analytics 4, to see which pages are read, by how many people and from which countries. Google truncates your IP address before any record is kept, and the site sends nothing that could identify you. The script loads only once you have accepted: until you click, no request reaches Google. Cookies kept thirteen months, traffic data fourteen months.
Delivery, subject to consent
Measurement of our campaigns and personalisation of content.
6. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object and to data portability, as well as the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out beforehand.
To exercise them: contact@allblueworld.net. We reply within one month. Proof of identity may be requested if there is reasonable doubt about your identity.
You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (France) or with the supervisory authority of your country of residence.
7. Security
The site is served over HTTPS. Uploaded files are stored in a directory that is not reachable from the web and deleted once processed. Access to inboxes and to the contact management tool is protected by two-factor authentication.
8. Minors
Our forms are intended for adults. An author who is a minor must apply with the written consent of their legal guardian, attached to the application.
9. Changes
This policy may be updated. The date at the top of the page prevails; in the event of a substantial change, we inform the people concerned by email.