Privacy notice
This is a one-person measurement practice. When you ask about AI-visibility measurement, a short message reaches one inbox — mine. There is no newsletter pipeline, no CRM seat being filled, and no sales team passing your details around. Below is exactly what arrives, what I do with it, and how to take it back.
Who runs this site
aivisibilityfrance.com is operated by Lucien Varlet, who builds repeatable measurements of how AI answer engines name, cite and describe a business. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and equivalent French law, I am the data controller for everything described on this page. To ask a privacy question or exercise a right, write to hello@aivisibilityfrance.com.
What the form sends me
A measurement enquiry usually carries a few practical fields, and nothing more:
- Your name and email — so I can reply and address you correctly.
- An optional second contact route (phone, LinkedIn, Signal) if email is not how you prefer to work.
- The measurement context you choose to share: business category, location, site languages, the engines you care about, and the competitors or answer pattern you want measured. Only name and email are required; the rest is yours to give or withhold.
These details serve one job: to answer your enquiry and, if we work together, to run the measurement you asked for. Nothing is sold, no profile is assembled, and nothing is mined beyond our exchange. Logged with the message are its timestamp and a salted SHA-256 hash of your IP address, which is what keeps the form free of automated abuse. The raw IP is never stored, and no browser fingerprint or device signature is collected.
What I deliberately avoid
- No tracking cookies — the audience analytics here is cookie-free and stores no per-visitor identifier.
- No retargeting pixels, no marketing-automation tags, no ad-network beacons anywhere on the site.
- No automated profiling and no automated decision that produces a legal effect for you.
- No sale or trade of personal data to commercial partners — that is simply not how this practice operates.
The legal grounds
Enquiry messages are processed under GDPR art. 6(1)(b), as steps taken at your request ahead of a possible engagement. The abuse-protection IP hash relies on GDPR art. 6(1)(f), the legitimate interest of keeping the form usable. Any payment-result data is processed on the contractual basis.
Retention windows
- Enquiry and measurement messages: held through the engagement and 24 months after, so the measurement record stays auditable, then deleted. Enquiries that never become work are deleted after 12 months.
- Payment records: retained as long as French tax and accounting law requires (typically 5–6 years), then deleted.
- IP hashes: kept 90 days for abuse protection, then deleted.
- Email correspondence: kept while we work together, or 24 months after our last exchange, whichever is later.
The rights you keep
Under GDPR and equivalent law you may ask to access your data, correct it, erase it, port it elsewhere, restrict its use, or object to it. Write to hello@aivisibilityfrance.com and I will answer within 30 days. If you believe something has gone wrong, you can lodge a complaint with the French supervisory authority, the CNIL.
Where the data is hosted
The infrastructure behind this site is located in European Union (Germany). Should any additional processor (email provider) operate outside the European Union, that transfer is covered by standard contractual clauses and the safeguards each provider publishes.
Updates to this notice
I revise this notice whenever my handling of data changes in a way that matters. The "Updated" date above marks the current version. For a significant change, I flag it on the home page for 30 days so returning readers can see it.