Last updated: 3 September 2025
Total Musiques, publisher of Total Baroque Magazine, values your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights under applicable data protection laws.
1. Data Controller
Your personal data is controlled by:
Total Musiques
15 place Henri Dunant
67000 Strasbourg, France
contact@totalbaroque.com
2. Information We Collect
When you interact with Total Baroque Magazine, we may collect the following categories of information:
- Technical information: IP address, browser type, login data, browsing activity (via cookies and trackers).
- Communication data: details you provide through forms (e.g., contact form, contributions, comments).
- Subscription data: email address, first name (if provided), city, language preferences for the newsletter.
- Third-party cookie data: browsing behaviour, interests, advertising interactions.
3. How We Use Your Information
We process your data for the following purposes:
- Website functionality: to ensure the site works properly (legal basis: legitimate interest).
- Analytics and content improvement: to measure traffic and improve content (legal basis: consent for analytics cookies; legitimate interest for anonymized analysis).
- Advertising: to deliver personalized ads (legal basis: consent via cookie banner).
- Reader engagement: to manage relationships with readers (e.g., contacts, comments) (legal basis: legitimate interest).
- Newsletter: to send our newsletter (legal basis: explicit consent).
4. Data Sharing and Recipients
Your data may be shared with:
- Internal teams (editorial, technical, communications).
- Service providers (hosting, email platforms, advertising networks, analytics tools).
We do not sell or transfer your personal data to third parties.
5. Data Retention
We retain your information only as long as necessary for the purposes described:
- Contact forms / communication: up to 3 years after your last interaction.
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
- Cookies and browsing data: up to 13 months.
- Technical logs: from a few weeks to a few months, depending on security needs.
6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small data files stored by your browser (e.g., Chrome, Safari, Firefox). We use cookies to:
- Maintain user sessions (e.g., subscribers accessing reserved content without repeated logins).
- Measure audience and usage statistics (sections visited, user journey).
- Track advertising impressions, clicks, and related actions.
- Adapt the display of Total Baroque Magazine to your device settings (language, resolution, operating system).
You may configure your browser to block or delete cookies. For details, consult your browser’s Help menu.
The types of cookies we use are the following:
1 – Essential cookies
Required for the website to function properly. These cannot be disabled and are never shared with third parties.
2 – Analytics and social media cookies
Enable audience measurement (e.g., Google Analytics) and interaction with sharing features (Facebook, X/Twitter).
- Manage Facebook cookies: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/
- Manage X cookies: https://help.x.com/fr/rules-and-policies/x-cookies
3 – Advertising cookies
Managed through the Revive Ad Server platform to deliver relevant ads.
7. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access, correct, or delete your information.
- Object to processing (particularly for marketing/advertising).
- Restrict processing.
- Request data portability.
Please note: blocking cookies may prevent you from accessing certain Total Baroque Magazine content, including subscriber-only articles. By accepting cookies, you consent to the use of your personal data as described in this policy.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at: contact@totalbaroque.com
For more information on cookies and trackers, including how to manage them, you can also visit the website of the CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés).