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Privacy policy

Last modified: 10 December 2023

We are committed to respecting your privacy. Contact us if you have any questions or concerns about the use of your personal data, and we will be glad to help.

By using this site or our services, you accept the handling of your personal data as described in this document.

Definitions

Personal data – any information relating to a natural person.

Processing – any operation or set of operations performed on one or more items of personal data.

Data subject – a natural person whose data is processed.

Child – a natural person who is a minor.

Data protection principles

We undertake to respect the following principles regarding the protection of your data:

  • The handling of your data is lawful, fair and transparent. Our data processing activities comply with the laws in force. We always consider your rights before processing your personal data. We can give you information about the processing of your data on request.
  • The processing of your personal data is limited: it only applies to the purposes for which the data was explicitly intended.
  • The processing of your data is minimal: we only collect the information we strictly need.
  • The processing of your data is limited in time. We will not keep your data longer than necessary.
  • We do everything we can to ensure this data is accurate.
  • We do everything we can to guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of this data.

Your rights regarding this data

The data subject has the following rights:

  • The right to be informed: you have the right to be informed when your personal data is collected, how it is collected, why and by whom.
  • The right of access: you have the right to access the data concerning you. This includes the right to request and obtain a copy of that data.
  • The right to rectification: you have the right to request the rectification or deletion of personal data that is incomplete or incorrect.
  • The right to erasure: you have the right, in certain circumstances, to request the complete deletion of your personal data from any database in our possession.
  • The right to restriction: in certain circumstances, you have the right to request restrictions on the use of your personal data.
  • The right to object: this means that in certain circumstances, you have the right to object to the use of your personal data, for example for direct marketing purposes.
  • The right to object to automated processing: you have the right to object to the automated processing of your data, including profiling. You can object to the automated processing of your data. You can exercise this right as soon as the profiling of your data produces effects that may affect you.
  • The right to data portability: you have the right to obtain your personal data in a machine-readable format or, where possible, to have it transferred directly from one processor to another (transfer from one computer to another).
  • The right to lodge a complaint: if your right of access is refused, we will tell you why. If you are not satisfied with the way we handle your request, please contact us.
  • The right to turn to a higher authority: you are entitled to call on a higher authority to handle any kind of dispute concerning your personal data.
  • The right to withdraw your consent: you can withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time.

The data we collect

Data you have given us

This may be your email address, your name, your billing address, your home address, etc. Most of this information is needed to deliver a product or service to you, or to improve your experience with us. We save the information you give us when placing an order or using a service, to make our site easier for you to use (for example, your name or an email address).

Information collected automatically

This includes information automatically recorded by a cookie or another session management tool. For example, the contents of your shopping basket, your IP address, your order history (if any), etc. This information is collected to improve your experience as a customer. When you use our services or view the content of our site, some of your activity may be recorded.

Information from our partners

We obtain information from our trusted partners, with confirmation that they have the right to share this information with us. This may be information you gave them directly or that they collected about you on a lawful basis. You will find the list of our partners here.

Public information

We may collect information about you if it is public and accessible.

How we use your personal data

We use your personal data to:

  • Provide you with certain services. This includes, for example, creating your account, providing certain products or services you have requested, providing promotional items you have requested, and communicating about certain products or services. It also includes communicating about products or services you have subscribed to
  • Improve your experience as a customer or user
  • Comply with a legal obligation or a contract
  • Personalise your account, in the members' area

We use your personal data on a lawful basis and/or with your consent

For the performance of a contract or the fulfilment of certain contractual obligations, we use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Identifying you;
  • Providing you with a service or sending/offering you a product
  • Communicating with you about sales or billing issues;

Based on the interests you have expressed, we use your personal data to:

  • Offer you personalised offers (from us and/or from our carefully selected partners)
  • Manage or analyse our customer base (purchase history and behaviour), in order to improve the quality, variety and availability of our products or services
  • Create customer satisfaction questionnaires

Unless you tell us otherwise, we will offer you products or services similar to your order history or browsing habits, in pursuit of our legitimate interests.

With your consent, we use your personal data to:

  • Send you our newsletter or occasional promotions (for our services and/or those of our carefully selected partners)
  • Provide you with other products or services for which we have asked for your consent

We also process your personal data to fulfil legal obligations and/or in accordance with the laws in force. We reserve the right to anonymise the personal data collected and to use such data. We will only use data outside this privacy policy if it is fully anonymised. Our backups will hold your billing information and any other information collected about you for as long as necessary for accounting purposes or any other legal obligation, in line with the time limits set by the laws in force.

We may use your personal data for other purposes not mentioned here, but compatible with the original purpose for which the data was collected. To do so, we will make sure that:

  • The link between the purpose, the context and the nature of the personal data is appropriate for the intended processing,
  • The intended processing does not harm your interests or your rights
  • The integrity and security of the data are guaranteed during this processing.

This document serves to inform you of any change in the processing of your personal data.

Chrome extension

This section specifically concerns the Nova Mind Web Clipper Chrome extension.

Data collected by the extension

The Nova Mind Web Clipper extension may collect the following data when you explicitly activate it:

  • Page URL and title — of the page you choose to capture
  • Selected text — only when you manually select and capture content
  • Full page content — only when you use the “Capture this page” or “Summarise” features
  • Authentication token — stored locally in Chrome storage to keep you signed in to your Nova Mind account

What we do NOT collect

  • We do not collect your browsing history
  • We do not read page content passively or in the background
  • We do not track the websites you visit
  • We do not share your captured content with third parties

Use of data

The data collected by the extension is used exclusively to:

  • Save the captured content in your personal Nova Mind workspace
  • Generate AI-assisted summaries and social media posts from the content you have explicitly selected
  • Keep your authenticated session with Nova Mind

Data transmission

All data is transmitted securely (HTTPS) to our backend infrastructure powered by Supabase, hosted on servers located in the European Union. No data is sent to any third party.

Local storage

The extension stores your authentication token locally through Chrome's storage API. This data never leaves your device, except to authenticate you with the Nova Mind servers.

Justification of permissions

Data retention

Captured content is kept in your Nova Mind account until you choose to delete it. Authentication tokens are cleared when you sign out or uninstall the extension.

Last updated: February 2026

Who can access your personal data

We do not share your personal data with outsiders. In some cases, some of your personal data may be transferred to our trusted partners, solely to provide services or improve your customer experience. We share our data with:

Our data processing partners:

  • Mailchimp

Our business partners:

  • Netlify

We only work with partners able to ensure proper processing and the security of your personal data. We only disclose your personal data to third parties or official bodies when we are legally required to do so. We may disclose your personal data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there is a legal basis for doing so.

How we secure your personal data

We do everything we can to ensure the security of your personal data. We use secure means of communication and transfer (such as HTTPS). We use anonymisation and pseudonymisation whenever possible. We monitor our systems to detect possible vulnerabilities and attacks. All our computers are equipped with up-to-date antivirus software.

Although we do everything we can, it is impossible to guarantee total and absolute security. However, we undertake to contact the competent authorities in the event of a security breach. We will also inform you of the discovery of any security breach, in your best interests. We do everything we can to prevent any kind of security breach and to assist the competent authorities should such a breach be discovered.

If you have an account on one of our systems, note that you must keep your username and password secret at all times.

Children

We do not intend to knowingly collect information about minors. Our services and products are not aimed at children.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and other similar technologies to analyse our customers' behaviour, administer our website, track users' movements on screen, and collect certain information about users. This is done to personalise and improve your experience with us.

A cookie is a small text file saved on your computer. Cookies store information needed for a website to work properly. Only we can access the cookies created by our site. You can control your cookies through your web browser. Choosing to disable cookies may affect some features of the site.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary cookies: these cookies are needed for you to use important features of our site, such as signing in to your account. These cookies do not collect personal information.
  • Functional cookies: these cookies provide features that make our services more convenient and easier to use, and improve your user experience. For example, they can remember your name and email address in comment forms, so you do not have to enter this information again the next time you comment on a post.
  • Analytics cookies: these cookies are used to record user behaviour and the performance of our sites or services
  • Advertising cookies: these cookies are used to deliver ads that are relevant to you, based on your interests. They also limit the number of times you see an ad. They are usually placed on the site by advertising networks, with the website operator's permission. These cookies remember that you have visited certain sites, and this information is shared with other organisations, such as advertising agencies. These cookies may be linked to certain features of the site.

You can remove the cookies stored on your computer through your web browser. You can also control third-party cookies through platforms such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, you can visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our site. Google has its own privacy policies, which you can read here. If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics tracking, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page. The add-on offered by Google will let you disable Google Analytics on all the sites you visit.

Contact us

Charles Annoni, 10 rue de la table ronde, 14000 Caen – +33 9 72 66 30 68

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to change our privacy policies. The last change was made on 10 December 2023.

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