Privacy policy

Last updated: 14 October 2026

Who is responsible

This site is published by Jean Paul Quentin, entrepreneur individuel, trading as Solva Web Design. Full details, including the postal address, are on the legal notice. For anything about your data, write to info@solvawebdesign.com.

What is collected

The only personal data this site collects is what you type into the contact form: your name, your email address and your message, plus the name of your business, your current website and how you would prefer to pay, if you give them. You do not have to provide any of it, but I need at least a name, an email address and a message to reply.

There are no cookies on this site, no analytics, no advertising, and no embedded content from other companies. The fonts and the scripts are served from this site’s own address, so opening a page sends nothing about you to anyone else.

Why, and on what basis

Your details are used to answer your message and, if we go on to work together, to carry out that work. Answering your message rests on my legitimate interest in replying to enquiries about my services. Carrying out the work rests on the contract between us. Nothing is used for marketing, and nothing is sold or passed on beyond the services named on this page.

Who handles it

• Netlify hosts this site and receives contact form submissions on my behalf. Like any host, it keeps server logs, which include IP addresses, for a short period for security.
• Microsoft hosts my email (Microsoft 365), so the emails we exchange pass through it.

Netlify also passes every submission to Akismet, run by Automattic, Inc. in the United States, which checks it for spam before I see it.

Apart from these, nobody else receives what you send through the form.

Transfers outside the EU

Netlify and Automattic are both based in the United States. For data that leaves the European Economic Area, I rely on the safeguards Netlify offers under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

How long it is kept

Messages are kept for as long as needed to deal with your request and for a reasonable period afterwards in case you get back in touch, normally no longer than two years. Ask, and they are deleted sooner.

If you become a client

To run our contract, invoice you and take your payments, I keep your business details (name, address, SIREN or VAT number), the name and contact details of the person I deal with, and our emails. This rests on the contract between us and, for invoices, on French accounting law.

On the monthly plan and the €70-a-month edits option, you sign the direct-debit mandate on the secure page of my payment provider, currently GoCardless SAS, which collects the payments on my behalf and handles your bank details under its own privacy policy. When French e-invoicing rules require it, invoices also go through an approved e-invoicing platform.

Invoices are kept for 10 years, as French accounting law requires. Our emails are kept for 5 years after the contract ends, in case a question about it comes up later.

Your rights

You can ask what data I hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, object to or restrict how it is used, and receive what you gave me in a portable format. There is no automated decision-making or profiling.

To use any of these rights, email info@solvawebdesign.com. If you are not satisfied with the answer, you can complain to the French data protection authority, the CNIL, at cnil.fr.

Changes

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