Privacy

Summary

This page describes the general data and privacy practices for sylebel.net and its associated services, notably the forum.

The site does not sell personal data. Some data may however be stored, processed, or retained in order to operate the site, ensure security, maintain continuity of exchanges, provide translation, support moderation, enable scientific archiving, and preserve evidence of priority for contributions.

Voluntarily provided data

Messages, content, profile information, public links, contact requests, or other information voluntarily submitted through the site, the forum, or the contact form may be stored in order to process requests, maintain continuity of exchanges, and allow the associated services to function normally.

When a user publishes a message in a public section or enters information in their public profile, those elements may be visible to other users or visitors, depending on forum settings and applicable access permissions.

Forum (phpBB)

The sylebel.net forum uses phpBB, a third-party forum software. As part of its operation, the forum may store information related to accounts, sessions, user preferences, published messages, private messages when that feature is used, and operations necessary for security, diagnostics, and maintenance.

Images uploaded and inserted directly into the body of a private message remain accessible to anyone who has their URL, unlike images added as attachments, whose access depends on private messaging permissions.

During registration, the forum may notably retain a username, an email address, a password protected by hashing or one-way encryption, as well as profile information voluntarily provided by the user.

Messages published on the forum may remain visible in order to preserve continuity of scientific and community discussions. When deletion, correction, or anonymization is requested, the request may be assessed according to the nature of the data involved, the publication context, technical constraints, site security, and the need to preserve the coherence of public exchanges.

Scientific archiving on Zenodo

Exchanges in the scientific section of the forum may be archived on Zenodo through an automated, scheduled procedure. Any author who has published approved content in an eligible scientific topic has the right to request a deposit from that topic, without additional authorization or membership in a particular group. Administrators and the relevant moderators may also request a deposit. Each version is a complete snapshot of the scientific section of the forum at the time it is prepared. It may therefore include public topics for which no specific request has been submitted.

Archived information may include message content, publication dates, public usernames, identifiers needed to cite contributions, attachments, and certain public profile elements useful for identifying authors or ensuring scientific traceability. These elements may include a professional page, a website, an ORCID identifier, a publication reference, a DOI, an X/Twitter account, or a YouTube channel made public by the user.

Private or protected forums, unapproved content, and hidden profile fields are excluded. Topics temporarily hidden at their author’s request as part of the deposit procedure may nevertheless be archived when they satisfy the required checks. This hiding takes place after their initial publication on the forum; it does not constitute confidential publication before appearing on the forum.

Deposits may be retained long term and receive persistent identifiers. Withdrawing a deposit request, or subsequently modifying or deleting content on the forum, does not automatically remove information from a version already published on Zenodo.

Translation, moderation, and automated assistance

Some forum content may be processed by automated or semi-automated systems, notably for translation, moderation assistance, contribution qualification, abuse detection, security, or improvement of the site’s multilingual readability.

These processes may involve published content, metadata necessary for forum operation, the language of the message, discussion context, or elements useful for security and continuity of service. Automated processing is not used to sell personal data.

Contact form and administrative exchanges

Messages sent through the contact form or as part of an administrative exchange may be retained in order to answer the request, document follow-up, prevent abuse, and maintain continuity of exchanges.

Limiting or filtering mechanisms may be used to reduce spam, abuse, automated submissions, or uses incompatible with normal operation of the service.

Cookies and local storage

Cookies and/or browser local storage may be used to:

• maintain sessions and preferences, for example theme or language;
• ensure security, including abuse protection and session features;
• improve user experience, for example remembering certain choices;
• allow the forum and associated pages to function normally.

Browsers allow cookies and site data to be deleted at any time via settings. Deleting this data may however affect certain features, including login, preferences, or forum navigation.

Technical logs

Technical logs may be generated by hosting, the site, the forum, and web services. Depending on the case, these logs may include an IP address, a timestamp, a visited page, a technical error, a security action, or information necessary for diagnostics.

These logs are used mainly for security, abuse prevention, diagnostics, maintenance, and proper operation of the site.

Sharing with third parties

No personal data is sold. Data may however be processed by technical service providers strictly necessary for the operation of the site and its associated services, for example hosting, content delivery, security, translation tools, or services used for scientific archiving.

When external links or persistent identifiers are used, for example to Zenodo, ORCID, DOI, X/Twitter, YouTube, or other platforms, the privacy policies of those third-party services may also apply.

Data retention

Data is retained for as long as necessary for the purposes described: site operation, security, continuity of exchanges, administrative follow-up, moderation, translation, scientific archiving, evidence of priority, and compliance with applicable obligations.

Some public data, notably messages published in scientific sections and information included in Zenodo deposits, may be retained durably because of their archival, citation, and scientific traceability function.

Access, correction, deletion

Requests regarding access, correction, deletion, or anonymization of data may be submitted via: Contact us.

Some requests may require reasonable verification of the requester’s identity in order to prevent a third party from requesting the modification or deletion of data that does not concern them.

When data has already been included in a public scientific archive or in a deposit with a persistent identifier, complete deletion may not be technically or scientifically possible. In such cases, correction, partial anonymization, or a corrective note may be considered depending on the context.

External links

This site may contain links to external websites. The privacy policies of those third-party sites apply and may differ from those described here.

Updates

This page may be updated to reflect changes to the site, the forum, archiving procedures, technical tools, or applicable obligations.