LupinFrench
Privacy
Short version: no cookies, no advertising, no account, and nothing kept about you that you did not hand over yourself. The only thing you can hand over is what you give when you buy a book, set out below.
No cookies
This site sets no cookies at all. It does keep a few things in your browser’s local storage, which never travel to any server:
| Key | What it holds | Why |
|---|---|---|
lp.progress.v1 | Which lessons and exercises you have completed, and what you typed into the writing exercises. | So the site remembers where you left off. |
lp.blocks.v1 | Which level blocks you opened or closed on the home page. | So the list of lessons looks the way you left it. |
lp.offer.v1 | Whether you closed the note about the book at the end of lesson 5 or lesson 20. | So a note you dismissed does not come back. |
lp.theme | Whether you chose the light or the dark page, if you chose at all. | So the site does not go back to following your system on the next page. |
All of these exist only because you used the site, they are first-party, and none of them identify you or follow you across sites. Under article 22.2 of the Spanish LSSI-CE and article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, storage of this kind needs no prior consent, which is why there is no cookie banner here.
You can erase it at any time with the Erase my progress link on the home page, or by clearing this site’s data in your browser. Deleting it only loses your progress.
Server logs
The site is static files served by Cloudflare. Like any host, Cloudflare records standard access logs, which include IP addresses, for security and to keep the service running. They are kept by Cloudflare under its own privacy policy, and they are not used to build any profile of you. Nothing else is counted: there is no analytics script and no tracking pixel on this site.
Buying a book
The book sold on this site is paid for on Stripe’s own checkout page, not here. The buy button is a plain link: nothing of Stripe’s loads while you read this site, and your card never passes through it. Stripe collects your email, card, country and whatever else it needs to take the payment and charge the right VAT, sends you the receipt, and keeps all of that under its own privacy policy.
There is no account and no customer database here. After paying, Stripe sends you back to a download page whose address carries Stripe’s reference for your checkout (cs_…). Each time that page or a file is opened, this site’s server asks Stripe one question about that reference: was it paid, and for this book? It stores nothing about the answer.
| What this site sees | Why |
|---|---|
| Stripe’s reference for your checkout, in the download address. | To check with Stripe that it is a paid purchase of this book before handing over the files. Like any address, it appears in Cloudflare’s access logs. |
| Your email and the purchase, in Stripe’s dashboard. | Only looked at if you write, for example to get your download link back or to ask for a refund. |
Your card details never reach this site. The legal basis is the purchase itself (article 6(1)(b) GDPR). Stripe keeps its records for as long as the law requires it to; you can ask for anything else to be deleted by writing to contact@lupinfrench.com.
Speech
Pronunciation exercises, where there are any, use your browser’s own speech recognition, which in Chrome, Edge and Safari may send the audio to the browser maker’s servers to be transcribed. That is the browser’s behaviour, not this site’s: this site never receives or stores your voice, and the microphone is only on while you hold the record button.
Who is responsible
The controller is David Castro, who writes and runs this site, reachable at contact@lupinfrench.com. You can ask for a copy of anything held about you, its correction or its deletion, and it is done the same day with no form to fill in. You also have the right to complain to the Spanish data protection authority, the AEPD.
There is no account to delete. Unless you bought a book, nothing about you is stored on any server, so clearing your browser data removes everything this site has ever kept.
Credits
The texts of Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) are in the public domain. The pictures on this site, where there are any, are engravings from early editions, also in the public domain, credited under each one. The lessons, adaptations, translations and exercises are original work.