The Turgenev Library in Paris does not collect personal data about visitors to its website, with the exception of information that you yourself provide to us via contact forms, by sending us messages by e-mail, by leaving comments on this website, by subscribing to the newsletter and in other similar situations. We do not disclose this information to third parties, pass it on to external services, or publish it.
Information about your visits to this website
The website may record your first visit and subsequent visits using data fragments (cookies), the retention period of which is determined by your browser settings (usually found in the ‘Privacy’ section of the settings).
The information about your visit to the website does not allow you to be personally identified and mainly includes data about the pages viewed, the browser used and the IP address. This information is recorded in the site’s logs and operated by the site’s extensions and plugins, in order to be used in aggregate form, so that we can evaluate page traffic or visits to the site from different countries and understand our readership better.
Certain digital tools (extensions and plugins) that ensure the functioning and maintenance of the website may transmit information about your visit to third-party developers who are unable to identify you personally. However, they may merge this information with other data relating to your use of the web, particularly if you are identified on third-party websites, including email services, search engines, payment platforms, online shops, etc. This allows these websites to determine your user profile more accurately in terms of your age, gender, professional, cultural or other activities.
Comments and spam protection
By leaving comments on the website pages, you are communicating messages to other visitors that will be available on the website for an indefinite period of time.
The website retains the metadata of your comment, which is not made public: the email address you provided, your IP address, and your browser user agent. We do not share this information with third parties. This data allows the site’s digital mechanisms to automatically determine and approve your subsequent comments, without queuing them for approval. In order to determine whether you have already left comments, the site’s management mechanism may record an anonymised string generated from your email address (hash).
User comments are checked by an automatic spam detection service. In order to detect and block spam, it stores metadata in the form of cookies for one year. You can view the service’s privacy policy by clicking on the link below the comment form.
Viewing embedded content and accessing external sites
If you watch a YouTube video embedded in a page on this site, read excerpts from Facebook, Instagram and other social networks on the site’s pages, or view fragments from external resources embedded in the site, these may collect data about you as if you had visited the sites where they are originally hosted. If you have a user account on these sites and are logged in, they may collect information from your browser, use cookies, implement additional tracking, and collect your user information, as well as record your interaction with the embedded content.
By accessing external resources via links placed on the pages of this site, including Facebook, YouTube, Telegram, Instagram, other communication platforms and websites, your visits are subject to their privacy policies.
Logging in on this website
If you have logged into your account on the website, a temporary cookie will be used for technical purposes. It does not contain any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, several cookies containing your login details and display settings are also generated. Identification cookies are stored for two days, while those containing your display settings are stored for one year. If you select the ‘Remember me’ option, your login details will be stored for two weeks. When you log out, the identification cookies are deleted.
Summary
Personal data associated with your comments, event registrations, and other actions that involve the disclosure of personal information are protected by European laws and privacy agreements. They might become available to third parties in the case of developer errors in the software we used to create the site, attempted hacking, and some other circumstances beyond our control and totally contrary to our intentions.
Please be aware that optimal privacy and anonymity on the Internet can only be achieved by intentionally configuring commonly used software, in combination with additional tools and your conscious measures in the field of digital security.