Privacy Policy for Toile Vide

Last Updated: September 10, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Toile Vide (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you use our website, toilevide.net (the “Site”).

We are committed to protecting your privacy. As an artistic portfolio and blog, we have a minimal data footprint. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Information We Collect

Since our Site does not feature user accounts, comments, or a shop, the information we collect is minimal and focused on understanding how visitors interact with our content.

a) Automatically Collected Information (Usage Data):
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing actions. This may include:

  • Your IP address (anonymized by our analytics tools)
  • Browser type and version
  • Pages you visit on our site and time spent on those pages
  • The time and date of your visit
  • The referring website (how you found our Site)
  • Other standard diagnostic data

This information is collected via cookies and similar tracking technologies. For more details, please see the “Cookies” section below.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the automatically collected information for the following purposes:

  • To analyze Site traffic and user trends using Google Analytics. This helps us understand which artworks and content resonate with our audience, allowing for better business and content planning.
  • To maintain and improve our Site’s functionality and user experience.
  • To monitor and prevent technical issues and ensure security.

All data used for analytics is aggregated and anonymized; it cannot be used to identify you as an individual.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

Our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above is our legitimate business interests: to analyze and improve our Site, our content, and our audience’s experience without affecting your fundamental rights and freedoms.

4. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties.

We share anonymized, aggregated usage data with the following trusted third-party service providers to help us analyze how our Site is used:

  • Google Analytics: A web analytics service provided by Google that helps us understand how visitors engage with our Site.
  • MonsterInsights: A WordPress plugin that facilitates the connection between our Site and Google Analytics.
  • All In One SEO (AIO SEO): A WordPress plugin that helps us optimize our Site for search engines.

These third parties have access to your Usage Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Where your data is sent:
As part of our Site’s operation, anonymized usage data is processed by the services listed above. Visitor comments are not a feature of our Site, so no data is sent to automated spam detection services.

5. Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored on secure servers provided by our hosting provider, Hosting.com. Hosting.com upholds rigorous, industry-leading security standards to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

We aim to be transparent about our minimal data practices. You have the following rights:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request information about the limited data we hold.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase any minimal personal data we might hold about you.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your usage data.

Suggested text from WordPress (included for completeness):
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Please note: As we do not have user accounts or comments, these specific scenarios do not apply. However, if you have any concerns about your privacy on our Site, you can still contact us using the details below.

7. Cookies

We use cookies solely through Google Analytics (via MonsterInsights) to collect the anonymized usage data described above. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site in the same way.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us at:
support@toilevide.net