Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 30, 2026
La Cité Internationale des Arts (hereinafter “we,” “us,” or “our”) places great importance on respecting the privacy and protecting the personal data of its users.
This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you browse our website: https://www.citeinternationaledesarts.fr/.
1. Data Controller and Hosting
The data controller is La Cité Internationale des Arts, which can be reached by mail at: 18, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris.
Our website is powered by the WordPress CMS and is hosted by: OVH SAS, 2 rue Kellermann – BP 80157 59053 ROUBAIX CEDEX 1 – France Phone: 1007
2. Personal Data Collected and Purposes
We collect and process your personal data in the following cases:
A. Newsletter Subscription
When you fill out our newsletter subscription form, we collect:
- Data Collected: Your email address (and, if applicable, your first and last name if the form requests it).
- Purpose: To send you our news, information, and offers related to La Cité Internationale des Arts.
- Legal Basis: Your explicit consent (checkbox or form submission).
- Third-party tool: Our newsletter is sent and managed via the Brevo platform (formerly Sendinblue). Brevo is a French company that complies with the GDPR. You can view their privacy policy on their website.
- B. Statistics and Audience Metrics (Google Analytics)
To improve our website and understand how users interact with our content, we use Google Analytics.
- Data Collected: Browsing data (pages visited, time spent, device type, browser) and IP address (anonymized to the extent possible).
- Purpose: To analyze traffic and visitor behavior on our website.
- Legal Basis: Your consent (obtained via our cookie banner during your first visit).
3. Data Retention Period
Your personal data is retained only for as long as is strictly necessary for the purposes for which it was collected:
- For the newsletter (Brevo): Your data is retained until you unsubscribe. An unsubscribe link is included at the bottom of every email sent. If there is no interaction on your part for 3 years, your data will be deleted.
- For audience statistics (Google Analytics): Data associated with audience measurement cookies is retained for a maximum of 14 months.
4. Sharing and Transfer of Your Data
Your personal data is primarily intended for La Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris. However, to ensure the proper functioning of the website, it is shared with our trusted service providers:
- OVH: For website hosting.
- Brevo: For hosting and managing the newsletter mailing lists.
- Google (Analytics): For traffic analysis. Data collected by Google may be transferred to servers located in the United States. Google certifies that it complies with the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure an adequate level of protection.
We do not sell, rent, or transfer your personal data to third parties for commercial purposes.
5. Use of Cookies
The website https://www.citeinternationaledesarts.fr/ uses cookies (small text files stored on your device) to:
- Website functionality (WordPress): Technical cookies essential for browsing.
- Audience analytics (Google Analytics): Cookies used to measure traffic.
When you first visit our website, a banner notifies you of these cookies and invites you to give or withhold your consent for non–essential cookies (Google Analytics). You can change your preferences at any time through your browser settings or our cookie management tool.
6. Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
In accordance with European regulations (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act, you have the following rights regarding your data:
- Right of access: You may request to know what data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification: You may request that your data be corrected if it is inaccurate.
- Right to erasure (right to be forgotten): You may request that your data be deleted.
- Right to restrict processing and to data portability.
- Right to withdraw consent: You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of our emails.
- To exercise your rights, you can contact us:
By mail: 18, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris
If, after contacting us, you believe that your rights have not been respected, you may file a complaint with the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés): www.cnil.fr.