Legal Notice and Privacy Policy

1. Identity and Contact Details

Website name: Gunter’s Fables
URL: https://www.guntersfables.org/
Owner: Blue Education
Publisher: Blue Education
Email address: a.rihs@live.fr
Related site: www.theblueeconomy.org
Host: Vercel Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, United States. The site is served from the Frankfurt region (Germany).

2. General Terms of Use

Use of the site https://www.guntersfables.org/ implies full and unreserved acceptance of the general terms of use described below. These terms may be modified or supplemented at any time. Users are therefore encouraged to review them regularly.

The site is normally accessible to users 24/7, except in the event of scheduled or unscheduled interruption for maintenance or due to force majeure. Should the site become inaccessible, we undertake to do our utmost to restore access to the service.

3. Content and Limitation of Liability

The information and documents presented on the site are provided for general information only, with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, or timeliness. Despite every effort to provide reliable information, Blue Education cannot be held liable for:

Errors or omissions in the site’s content
Direct or indirect damages resulting from access to or use of the site
Malfunctions, interruptions, or computer viruses that may affect browsing
The use of information contained on the site

4. Intellectual Property

All elements of the site https://www.guntersfables.org/ (structure, text, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds, software, animations, etc.) are protected by copyright, trademark law, and, more generally, by intellectual property rights.

Unless otherwise stated, these elements remain the exclusive property of Blue Education and/or their respective authors. Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, or adaptation, in whole or in part, of the site’s elements, by any means or process whatsoever, is strictly prohibited without prior written authorisation.

Any unauthorised use of the site or its content will be considered an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

5. Hyperlinks

Outgoing links: the site https://www.guntersfables.org/ may contain links to other websites. Blue Education exercises no control over these sites and disclaims all liability for their content, availability, legality, or any damage that visiting them might cause.

Incoming links: Blue Education authorises the creation of hyperlinks to any page of the site https://www.guntersfables.org/, provided that such links:

Open a new browser window or tab
Are presented unambiguously
Do not suggest any endorsement or partnership without prior authorisation
Are not embedded within a frame (framing)
Do not use techniques to conceal the actual URL (cloaking)

Blue Education reserves the right to request the removal of any link that does not comply with these conditions or that is deemed detrimental to its image.

6. Protection of Personal Data (GDPR)

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR - EU 2016/679) and the amended French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978, the site https://www.guntersfables.org/ may collect and process certain personal data. Blue Education undertakes to ensure that this collection and processing comply with the applicable legal framework.

The data that may be collected includes, in particular:

Identification data (first name, last name, email address)
Connection data (IP address, logs)
Browsing data (cookieless audience measurement)
Data relating to any transactions

This information is collected on the basis of your consent, the performance of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation, or our legitimate interest.

Purposes of the processing. The data collected may be used to:

Enable navigation on the site
Manage product orders and deliveries
Send the newsletter to subscribers, via our email provider Resend and the Blue Education CRM
Process requests submitted via the educational kit form
Compile traffic statistics
Improve the site and prevent fraud
Respond to your contact requests

Retention period: data is kept for a limited period, proportionate to the purposes for which it was collected, and in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements.

Data recipients: the data collected is intended for Blue Education. Depending on the form used and the journey followed, it may be shared with our processors: Resend (newsletter delivery), the Blue Education CRM (managing subscriber contacts), Supabase (storing educational kit requests), PostHog (audience measurement), and Shopify (basket, order, and payment), as well as with our hosting provider, strictly within the scope of carrying out their duties. We do not sell or rent your data to third parties.

Basket and payment: the shop runs on Shopify, which acts as a processor. The items you add to your basket are recorded by Shopify, and the order is completed on the Shopify checkout of the Blue Education shop (blue-education.org), where delivery and payment details are entered.

Rights of individuals. In accordance with applicable regulations, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of access
Right of rectification
Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
Right to restriction of processing
Right to data portability
Right to object
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing
Right to set guidelines on what happens to your data after your death

To exercise these rights, you may send a written and signed request, accompanied by a copy of an identity document, to the following email address: a.rihs@live.fr. If you encounter any difficulty regarding the management of your data, you may file a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr), the French data protection authority.

Cookies and audience measurement: the site https://www.guntersfables.org/ does not use tracking cookies or advertising trackers. Traffic is measured with PostHog, hosted in the European Union (eu.i.posthog.com), without any cookie or identifier placed on your device, without session recording, and without any individual profile: measurement data is kept in memory only, for the duration of your visit. Alongside the pages viewed, five events are recorded anonymously: newsletter sign-up, educational kit request, contact form submission, add to basket, and checkout start.

7. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This legal notice and privacy policy are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, the French courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

8. Changes

Blue Education reserves the right to modify this legal notice at any time. Users are encouraged to review it regularly.

9. Credits

For any questions regarding this legal notice and privacy policy, you can contact us at: a.rihs@live.fr