Privacy policy

Data controller

Daniel Nicolaevsky, 98, avenue Maurice Thorez, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France, hello@nicolaevsky.com.

Contact forms

  • Data: first name, last name, email, subject and message.

  • Purpose: to reply to your enquiry.

  • Legal basis: legitimate interest in answering messages.

  • Retention: 3 years after the last exchange, as recommended by the CNIL.

Newsletter

  • Data: email, and name if you give it.

  • Purpose: to send you the monthly newsletter.

  • Legal basis: consent.

  • Retention: until you unsubscribe.

Browsing the website

  • Data: technical browsing data (IP address, device, pages viewed).

  • Purpose: audience measurement and website security.

  • Legal basis: legitimate interest for essential cookies, consent for the others.

  • Retention: as set by Squarespace.

Your data is never sold or rented. It is not used for automated decision-making or profiling.

Recipients

Only Daniel Nicolaevsky has access to messages and to the subscriber list. The website, forms, newsletter and analytics are provided by Squarespace (Squarespace Ireland Limited and its parent company Squarespace, Inc., in the United States), which processes this data on the publisher's behalf.

Transfers outside the European Union

Squarespace may process data in the United States. These transfers are covered by the safeguards required by the GDPR, as described in Squarespace's privacy policy.

Cookies and embedded content

On your first visit, a banner lets you accept, refuse or choose non-essential cookies. They stay blocked until you make a choice. You can change your mind at any time through the cookie preferences link at the bottom of the page.

Some pages embed content from third-party services: YouTube videos (Google), a Sketchfab 3D model and Google Fonts typefaces. When this content loads, these services may receive your IP address and set their own cookies, under their own policies.

Your rights

You can access your data, have it corrected or erased, restrict its processing, object to it, and ask to receive it in a common format. You can withdraw your consent to the newsletter at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email.

To exercise these rights: hello@nicolaevsky.com. You will receive a reply within one month. If you believe your rights have not been respected, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (cnil.fr).

Required fields

In the forms, fields marked "required" are needed to reply to you or to sign you up. Without them, the form cannot be sent.

See also the legal notice.

The French version of this policy is the reference text. Last updated: 8 November 2026