Legal notice and privacy policy
What this site keeps, why, for how long, and how to have it erased. In plain words.
Who is responsible
The site thealignedshift.media is published by Audrey Benichou, an individual.
Address: Cesta Cirila Kosmaca 51 A, 1211, Slovenia.
Contact: hello@thealignedshift.media
Publication director: Audrey Benichou.
The Aligned Shift is not yet a company: the site is published in a personal capacity.
Hosting
The site is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany.
Your personal data
The person responsible for the processing is Audrey Benichou, reachable at hello@thealignedshift.media.
What is kept, and why
| What you do | What is kept | Why | For how long |
|---|---|---|---|
| You subscribe to a letter | your email address | to send you the texts we publish | until you unsubscribe |
| You ask for a free resource | your email address, the date, the record of your consent, and a fingerprint of your IP address | to send you the resource, and to be able to prove your consent | until you erase it, which takes one click in the message you receive |
| You write a message | your email address and your message | to answer you | for the length of the correspondence |
The assistant and the salon, on pause
Since 13 November 2026, the site assistant and the conversation space are on pause. While it lasts, no question, no message and no IP address is processed, recorded or sent to any provider. For a question, write to hello@thealignedshift.media.
On what basis
Your consent for the letters and the free resources (article 6.1.a of the European data protection regulation). The legitimate interest in answering a message you send us, for correspondence.
Who sees this data
Nobody other than the editor. No sale, no rental, no sharing for advertising purposes. Three providers intervene, only for what they need: Hetzner to host the site (Germany), LWS to host the house mailboxes (France), and Substack for the magazines (United States).
One transfer outside the European Union: magazine subscribers, their addresses, and the subscription forms built into this site are processed by Substack Inc., in the United States. That transfer relies on the safeguards provided by the European regulation, in particular the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission.
The server log
Like any server, ours keeps a record of visits: IP address, page requested, date. It runs for a few days to a few weeks, then fades. This trace serves only the security of the site, it never contains your email address. And our free-resource records keep only an anonymous fingerprint of your IP address, never the address itself.
Audience measurement
Visits are counted by a tool installed on our own server, not by a third party. No cookie, no tracker, no profile. It notes the page, the date, the referring site, and a technical fingerprint that changes every day. Never your email address, and nothing kept about you from one day to the next.
Your rights
Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, and withdrawal of your consent at any time. One written request is enough, to hello@thealignedshift.media, and the answer arrives within a month. The steps are described on the delete your data page. Free-resource requests can also be erased without writing: every message sent contains a link that deletes the recorded address.
If the answer does not suit you, you can refer the matter to the competent supervisory authority: the Informacijski pooblaščenec in Slovenia, or the CNIL in France.
What this site does not do
- No advertising cookie, no third-party tracker, no third-party audience measurement.
- No sale, no transfer of data for commercial purposes.
- No profiling, no targeted advertising.
Substack readers and subscription forms apply their own rules when you open them or sign up: their privacy policy is theirs, on their domain.
The texts
The texts published on this site and in Correspondences are protected by copyright. For any reuse, write to hello@thealignedshift.media before publishing.
The identity of the publisher, the host and the legal details are also on the legal notice page, in French.
Last updated: 13 November 2026. What changed that day: the site assistant and the salon are on pause, and the audience measurement is named.