Privacy Policy

Last updated: 29 September 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how PARLYA processes personal data collected through parlya.com.

  1. Data controller

The data controller is:

Marc-Antoine Kane (pen name), author and publisher of parlya.com

Paris, France
Email: contact@parlya.com

  1. Data we may collect

Depending on how you use the website, we may collect:

  • information you voluntarily provide through a contact form, newsletter registration or message, such as your name, email address, subject line and message content;
  • comment-related information, if comments are enabled, such as your name or username, email address, comment content, IP address and browser user-agent information;
  • technical information necessary for website operation and security, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, technical logs and security information;
  • cookie and tracking-related information, depending on your consent choices;
  • purchase, download or registration-related information, only where such features are available on the website.

We do not intentionally request special-category personal data, such as health data, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or information concerning a person’s sex life.

  1. Purposes and legal bases

We may process personal data for the following purposes:

a) Responding to contact requests
Legal basis: our legitimate interest in responding to received requests, or taking steps at your request before entering into a contract.

b) Managing newsletter subscriptions or PARLYA updates, where you opt in
Legal basis: consent.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting contact@parlya.com.

c) Managing comments, preventing spam and protecting website security
Legal basis: our legitimate interest in maintaining the security, integrity and proper operation of the website.

d) Measuring website audience, where enabled
Legal basis: consent for trackers that require consent, unless the audience-measurement tool meets the applicable conditions for exemption.

e) Complying with legal obligations and responding to requests from competent authorities
Legal basis: legal obligation.

  1. Recipients and service providers

Personal data may be accessible, on a need-to-know basis, to Marc-Antoine Kane and to service providers involved in operating the website, including where applicable:

  • Hostinger, for website hosting;
  • WordPress and plugins enabled on the website;
  • the email or newsletter provider actually used;
  • payment providers, if payments are available;
  • spam-prevention or security providers, if enabled;
  • analytics providers, if enabled and subject to your choices.

These providers may act as processors or independent controllers under their own terms and privacy policies.

  1. International transfers

Some technical providers or third-party services may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where applicable, PARLYA seeks to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with applicable law, such as an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism.

  1. Retention periods

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the relevant purpose:

  • contact requests: up to 3 years after the last contact, unless a longer period is required or justified;
  • newsletter data: until you withdraw consent or unsubscribe;
  • comments: for as long as the comment remains published, unless deletion is requested or retention is required by law;
  • security and technical logs: for the period strictly necessary to ensure website security and operation;
  • cookie-related data: as described in the Cookie Policy;
  • purchase or invoicing data, where applicable: for the legally required retention periods.
  1. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you may request access to, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of your personal data. You may also object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

To exercise your rights, contact:

contact@parlya.com

We may request reasonable proof of identity where necessary to protect your data.

You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL:
https://www.cnil.fr/

  1. Comments

If comments are enabled, we may collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string, to help detect spam.

An anonymised string generated from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you use that service. Automattic’s privacy policy is available at:
https://automattic.com/privacy/

Once a comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly alongside your comment.

  1. Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS data. Visitors may be able to download and extract certain technical information from published images.

  1. Embedded content from third parties

Articles or pages on this website may include embedded content from third-party websites, including videos, images, social-media posts or articles.

Embedded content behaves in the same way as if you visited the third-party website directly. Such websites may collect data, use cookies or other trackers, embed additional tracking and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including where you have an account and are logged in to that service.

  1. Security

PARLYA applies reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against loss, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure. However, no Internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

  1. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes to the website, the services used or applicable law. The date of the latest update appears at the top of this page.

Privacy policy for the “Did You Thank the AI?” app

Last updated: September 14, 2026

This policy covers the mobile app “Did You Thank the AI?” (in French, “Avez-vous dit merci à l’IA ?”), published by PARLYA. It is short, because there is little to say: the app does not collect any personal data.

The essentials

  • No account, no email, no server.
  • No personal data collected, neither by PARLYA nor by any third-party service built into the app.
  • No ads, no analytics, no trackers.
  • What the app remembers stays on your phone, and you can erase it at any time.

What is stored on your phone

To work, the app keeps a few pieces of information in its own storage space, on the device:

  • your chosen language (French or English);
  • the scenes from your last session, so the next one can offer different scenes;
  • your results history (date, profile and scores), limited to the last twelve, to show how things evolve;
  • a challenge received from a friend (their rounded scores), while you take your own turn. It is erased as soon as the comparison has been shown to you.

This information is not sent to PARLYA or to any third-party service built into the app. PARLYA has no access to it.

How to erase everything

  • In the app: Privacy screen, “Delete all my data” button. Deletion is permanent: there is no copy anywhere else.
  • Or simply uninstall the app.

Reminders

If you tap “Turn on reminders”, the app asks your phone for permission to show notifications, then schedules four reminders: after three days, one week, two weeks and one month. They are scheduled and displayed by your phone itself: no server sends them.

If you tap “Not now”, no permission is requested. You can withdraw the permission at any time in your phone’s settings.

Vibrations

The app uses light vibrations at a few moments. The related permission only allows the phone to vibrate: it gives access to no data.

Sharing and friend challenges

Nothing is shared unless you tap a share button yourself. Your phone’s share menu then opens: you choose the app and the recipient. The app does not access your contacts, your messages or your photos.

  • The image card is created on your phone, at the moment you share it.
  • The challenge link contains only your nine rounded scores: no name, no identifier, no contact details. Your friend’s phone recalculates the result itself.

Once sent, what you share is handled by the app you chose (messaging app, social network…), under its own privacy policy.

External links

The “Why PARLYA?” screen offers links to the parlya.com website, bookstores and PARLYA’s social media accounts. They open outside the app, in your browser or in the relevant app, and are covered by those services’ privacy policies. No link in the app leads to a form.

Google Play

The app is distributed through Google Play. Google processes some data related to downloading, updating and running apps, under its own privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). PARLYA only receives aggregate statistics from Google (for example, the number of installs or crashes), which do not identify users.

Children

The app collects no data, whatever the age of the person using it.

Your rights and contact

PARLYA holds no data about you through the app, so there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete. Your information is on your phone, under your control alone.

Questions: contact@parlya.com. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (https://www.cnil.fr/en), or with the authority in your country.

Changes

If a future version of the app were to handle data differently, this policy would be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top of this page changed.

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