Website publisher

The Cetace.info website is a non-profit personal website, published in a non-professional capacity.

• Director of publication: Eric GARLETTI
• Nature of the site: a personal website, published in a non-professional capacity within the meaning of article 6-III-2 of Law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (LCEN)
• Contact: through the site’s contact form

In accordance with article 6-III-2 of the LCEN, the publisher’s full contact details (address, telephone) are held at the disposal of the judicial authorities by the site’s hosting provider, to whom they have been supplied.

Hosting provider

The Cetace.info website is hosted by: OVH

• SAS with share capital of €50,000,000, RCS Lille Métropole 424 761 419 00045
• APE code 2620Z, VAT no.: FR 22 424 761 419
• Registered office: 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France
• Telephone: +33 9 72 10 10 07
• Website: www.ovhcloud.com

Protection of personal data (GDPR)

This site complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) and with Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 as amended, known as the “Informatique et Libertés” Act.

• Data controller: Eric GARLETTI, director of publication
• Data collected: surname, first name, email address and message, solely when the contact form is sent; IP address and technical browsing data for security and statistical purposes
• Purposes: to reply to messages sent through the contact form, to keep the site secure, and to measure its audience in anonymised form
• Legal basis: the user’s consent (article 6-1-a of the GDPR) for the contact form; legitimate interest (article 6-1-f of the GDPR) for security and statistics
• Recipients: the data is neither transferred nor sold to third parties; it is accessible only to the site’s publisher and, where applicable, to the hosting provider in the course of its technical obligations
• Retention period: messages received through the contact form are kept for a maximum of 3 years from the last contact; technical logs are kept for a maximum of 12 months
• Transfers outside the EU: no personal data is transferred outside the European Union

Your rights: in accordance with articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, you have a right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, portability and objection in respect of your personal data. You may exercise these rights at any time using the contact form.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), the French supervisory authority: www.cnil.fr.

Cookies and trackers

The Cetace.info website uses cookies and trackers for the following purposes:

• Strictly necessary cookies: operation of the site, caching (WP Rocket), session (exempt from consent)
• Audience measurement cookies: anonymised traffic statistics, subject to the user’s prior consent where they do not qualify for the CNIL exemption

You can set your browser at any time to refuse cookies or to delete them. Every browser is configured differently: the procedure is described in your browser’s help menu, which will tell you how to change your cookie preferences.

Intellectual property

All the material appearing on the Cetace.info website (text, photographs, illustrations, logos, sounds, videos, page layouts, graphic design, source code, and so on) is protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code and belongs to its respective authors.

Consequently, any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of this material, in whole or in part and whatever the means or process used, is prohibited without the prior written authorisation of the site’s publisher.

Collecting and using the information available on the site for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. This prohibition extends in particular, without this list being exhaustive, to any editorial material appearing on the site, to the screen layouts, to the software needed to operate it, and to the logos, images, photographs and graphics of whatever kind.

Any unauthorised exploitation of the site or of any of the material it contains will be treated as constituting infringement and prosecuted in accordance with articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Credits

• Design and writing: Eric GARLETTI
• Photographs: Eric GARLETTI, unless explicitly stated otherwise
• Platform: WordPress, Zurf theme (GoodLayers)

Hyperlinks

The Cetace.info website may contain hyperlinks pointing to other websites. The site’s publisher exercises no control over those sites and accepts no responsibility for their content, their personal data protection practices or any damage arising from consulting them.

Links to Cetace.info may be created freely, provided that they do not harm the interests of the site and that they allow the reader to identify the origin and the author of the content. Use of the site’s content for commercial or advertising purposes remains prohibited without prior written agreement.

User comments and contributions

The user is not permitted to use the site to transmit, distribute or publish in any way whatsoever any content that is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive or in breach of any law whatsoever.

The comment and contribution areas, where they are enabled, must be used in a non-commercial way only. The user is not permitted, without the express agreement of the publisher, to circulate or publish any document of an advertising nature or intended to raise funds.

The publisher reserves the right to delete, move or alter at its sole discretion any message that is defamatory, abusive or obscene, that infringes trade mark or copyright law, or that is unacceptable for any reason whatsoever.

The user remains solely responsible for the content of their messages and warrants that any document they transmit is not subject to third-party copyright.

Governing law and jurisdiction

This legal notice is governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, and once any attempt to find an amicable solution has failed, the French courts alone will have jurisdiction to hear it.

Updates

This legal notice may be amended at any time. It was last updated on 22 May 2026.