PRIVACY POLICY
Effective 01/06/2026
ARTICLE 1 — DATA CONTROLLER
The data controller for personal data collected on https://lumipost.app is:
Droid FACTORY, EURL — Share capital €1,000
Registered with the Toulouse Trade and Companies Register under number B 912 234 150
13 rue Sainte Ursule, 31000 Toulouse, France
Contact: contact@lumipost.app
ARTICLE 2 — DATA COLLECTED
In connection with your use of LumiPost, we collect the following data:
Identity data: full name, email address.
Authentication data: hashed password (bcrypt), one-time OTP codes (not stored after verification).
Profile data: monitoring keywords, sector, curation mandate, schedule preferences.
Billing data: payment information processed exclusively by Stripe (we do not store your card details).
Usage data: articles viewed, saved, AI scores, login activity.
Technical data: IP address at login (retained for a limited period for security purposes).
ARTICLE 3 — PURPOSES OF PROCESSING
Your data is processed for the following purposes:
Service delivery: authentication, generation of personalised news feeds, AI relevance scoring.
Subscription management: payment processing, access management based on subscribed plan (Starter or Pro).
Security: prevention of unauthorised access, connection rate limiting.
Service improvement: aggregated and anonymised usage analysis via PostHog (analytics).
Communication: sending OTP codes by email, subscription-related notifications.
ARTICLE 4 — LEGAL BASIS
Processing is based on the following legal grounds under the GDPR (EU Regulation 2016/679):
Performance of a contract (Art. 6.1.b): processing necessary to deliver the subscribed service.
Legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f): platform security, fraud prevention, service improvement.
Legal obligation (Art. 6.1.c): retention of billing data in accordance with French accounting requirements.
ARTICLE 5 — RETENTION PERIODS
Account data: retained for the duration of the active subscription, then 3 years after termination for legal purposes.
Billing data: 10 years in accordance with accounting obligations (French Commercial Code).
Login logs and OTPs: maximum 90 days.
Usage data (feeds, scores): retained for the duration of the subscription, deleted within 30 days of account closure.
Upon expiry of these periods, your data is permanently deleted or irreversibly anonymised.
ARTICLE 6 — YOUR RIGHTS
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights over your personal data:
Right of access: obtain a copy of the data held about you.
Right to rectification: correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
Right to erasure: request deletion of your data ('right to be forgotten').
Right to restriction: limit processing in certain circumstances.
Right to data portability: receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Right to object: object to processing based on legitimate interest.
To exercise these rights, contact us at the address below. We respond within 30 days. You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr) or your local supervisory authority.
ARTICLE 7 — COOKIES AND TRACKERS
LumiPost uses cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Session cookie (lumi_session): HttpOnly cookie essential for authentication. Duration: 7 days. No consent required (strictly necessary).
Analytics (PostHog): anonymised audience measurement hosted on PostHog's European servers (eu.i.posthog.com). No personally identifiable data is transmitted.
LumiPost does not use any advertising or third-party tracking cookies.
You may configure your browser to refuse cookies. Refusing the analytics cookie does not affect the functioning of the service.
ARTICLE 8 — SUB-PROCESSORS AND TRANSFERS
LumiPost uses the following sub-processors, all subject to contractual guarantees compliant with the GDPR:
Supabase Inc. (database, EU hosting) — https://supabase.com/privacy
Mistral AI SAS (AI article processing, France) — https://mistral.ai/privacy
Stripe Inc. (payments, Privacy Shield / SCCs) — https://stripe.com/privacy
PostHog Inc. (analytics, EU servers) — https://posthog.com/privacy
Webshare Inc. (collection proxies) — https://www.webshare.io/privacy-policy
No data is transferred outside the EU without appropriate safeguards (standard contractual clauses or adequacy decision).