Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes how the Hokuto Chronicles website (hokuto-chronicles.com) collects, uses, and protects your personal data, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act (loi Informatique et Libertés). Last updated: June 2026.

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Data Controller

The data controller is the publisher of the Hokuto Chronicles website, a French-language encyclopedic site dedicated to the work of Tetsuo Hara. For any questions regarding your data, you can contact them at: admin@hokuto-chronicles.com.

Data We Collect

Hokuto Chronicles limits data collection to what is strictly necessary. Depending on your use of the site, the following data may be processed:

Comments: when you leave a comment, your name, email address, and IP address are recorded at the time of publication, in order to ensure moderation and combat spam.
Traffic statistics: pages visited, referral source, and device type are measured in an aggregated or anonymized manner, without allowing personal identification.
Security data: IP addresses and login attempts may be logged in order to protect the site against intrusions and automated attacks.
Contact: if you contact us by email, the information you provide (email address, message content) is used solely to respond to you.

Purposes and Legal Bases

Publishing and moderating comments (legitimate interest).
Measuring traffic and improving site content (legitimate interest, based on anonymized statistics).
Ensuring the security and proper functioning of the site (legitimate interest).
Setting non-essential cookies (based on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time).

Cookies

A cookie is a small file stored on your device when you visit a website. Hokuto Chronicles may use the following types of cookies:

Technical cookies: necessary for the operation and performance of the site, particularly for page caching (LiteSpeed Cache).
Audience measurement cookies: used to understand site traffic (Jetpack, Burst Statistics) while respecting your privacy.
Security cookies: help protect against malicious login attempts (Wordfence).
Affiliate cookies: may be set by Amazon when you click on an affiliate link (see the following section).

You can configure your browser at any time to refuse or delete cookies. However, refusing technical cookies may degrade certain site features.

Affiliate Links

Hokuto Chronicles participates in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to earn commissions on eligible purchases made through certain links on the site, at no additional cost to you. When you click on one of these links, Amazon may set cookies and process your data according to its own privacy policy.

Tools and Service Providers

To operate, the site uses service providers that may process certain data on our behalf:

o2switch: site hosting, in France.
Automattic (Jetpack): site statistics and features.
Google (Search Console): aggregated search data, for SEO purposes.
Amazon: affiliate program.

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained as long as they remain published on the site.
Security data (IP addresses, login attempts) are retained for a short period, as needed to protect the site.
Traffic statistics are retained in an aggregated and non-identifying form.

Your Rights

In accordance with the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your data: right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, and portability. To exercise these rights, write to: admin@hokuto-chronicles.com.

You may also file a complaint with the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) if you believe that the processing of your data does not comply with regulations.

Hosting

The site is hosted by o2switch, whose servers are located in France, within the European Union.

Changes to This Policy

This privacy policy may be updated to reflect changes to the site or to regulations. The date of the last update is shown at the top of this page.

Contact

For any questions regarding this policy or the processing of your data, contact the site publisher at: admin@hokuto-chronicles.com.

AI-assisted translation This page was translated from the original French using AI, with human review. Some wording may be imperfect. Read the original French version