In short
No account and no cookie. Audience measurement without cookies, as aggregated statistics. No advertising, no advertising tracker, no data sold. The listings in the Spanish section present companies, never individuals.
Data controller
Grégory Payotte, publisher of Payotte (natural person), Mirabel (Quebec), Canada. Form: payotte.com/contact. Email: gregory@payotte.com.
What we process, why and for how long
| Processing | Data | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website hosting | IP address, browser, page requested, date and time (server logs) | Serving the pages and keeping the site secure | At most 6 months |
| Audience measurement (Cloudflare Web Analytics) | Page viewed, referring page, type of browser and device, country; no cookie, no identifier stored on your device | Knowing which pages are read, in aggregated figures | Aggregated statistics, with no IP address or identifier |
| Counting visits coming from our emails | Only if the link carries an src parameter: that campaign code, and your IP address | Counting one visit per person per day for each mailing | IP address automatically erased after 2 days; afterwards, only totals per mailing, per hour and per day |
| Messages you send us (form or email) | Your address, your name if given, the content of the message | Replying to you and handling your request, including a request to exercise your rights | 3 years after the last exchange |
The listings link to third-party sites (firms, registers) whose practices are not covered by this policy.
Cookies and trackers
The site sets no cookie and uses no advertising tracker. Audience measurement works without cookies or any identifier stored on your device; this is why no consent banner is shown.
Recipients and processors
GoDaddy (site hosting), Cloudflare (audience measurement, server and storage for the visit count), Resend (sending the contact form messages) and Google (the Gmail inbox that receives them). No data is sold, rented or handed over.
Data protection law (European Union and Spain)
Payotte is operated from Canada. This section is written for readers in Spain. The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, "GDPR") applies to a controller established outside the Union when its processing relates to offering services to people in the Union (Article 3(2)); Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 on the protection of personal data and the guarantee of digital rights (LOPDGDD) completes it, in particular its Article 11 on the information given to the person concerned. Payotte applies the rights listed below to readers in Spain. Whether and how these texts apply to Payotte in each situation is a legal question that this page does not settle.
Where data is processed
Payotte is operated from Canada. GoDaddy and Cloudflare process data in the United States.
Your rights
Under Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, you may ask for access to your data, its correction, its erasure, the restriction of processing, and object to processing based on Payotte's legitimate interests, by writing to gregory@payotte.com. We reply within one month at most. If you are not satisfied, you can first write to us again, and then lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, AEPD), the supervisory authority of the Member State where you live, through its online complaint form (aepd.es).