Privacy policy

Inist-CNRS undertakes to ensure that the collection and processing of your data, carried out from this site, complies with European and French data protection legislation. (RGPD-GDPR) (updated on July 10, 2018).

Inist-CNRS undertakes to take all necessary and appropriate precautions to ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of the data it processes.

Inist-CNRS undertakes to conduct impact studies when necessary and to inform, as soon as possible, the CNIL and the users concerned in the event of a security breach.

Inist-CNRS reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time in order to adapt it to the reality of its service offering. The online version is the one in force.

Responsible for processing

Claire François, Director of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (UAR76 INIST), is the Controller of the processing operations covered by this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

• By post: To the attention of the INIST-CNRS Treatment Manager, 2 rue Jean Zay (formerly allée du parc de Brabois) CS 10310 F-54519 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy France

Use of Cookies

What is a "cookie"?

A "cookie" is a file of limited size, usually consisting of letters and numbers, sent by the web server to the browser cookie file located on your computer's hard drive.

Types of cookies used

These cookies allow the site to function optimally. You can oppose and delete them using your browser settings, however your user experience may be degraded.

You can set your browser to notify you of the presence of cookies and offer to accept them or not. You can accept or decline cookies on a case-by-case basis or decline them once and for all. You are reminded that this setting is likely to modify your conditions of access to the site's services requiring the use of cookies.

Cookies for audience measurement

In order to adapt the site to the demands of its visitors, we measure the number of visits, the number of pages viewed as well as the activity of visitors on the site and their frequency of return.

We use for our statistics the Matomo software. Matomo respects the "Do not track" option that you can activate in your browser in order to indicate to the sites you visit that you do not wish to be tracked.

Matomo generates a cookie with a unique identifier, whose shelf life is limited to 13 months.

We also collect your IP address in order to determine the country from which you are connecting. This is immediately anonymized. The Inist cannot be traced back to a physical person.