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Privacy policy
This page is a translation. In case of discrepancy, the French version prevails.
Last updated: 27 September 2026
1. Data controller
The controller of the personal data collected in the Thalivia intrathecal community is Thalensis SAS, a French simplified joint-stock company (société par actions simplifiée), registered office 1 rue Aimée Antignac, 35000 Rennes, France, SIREN 989 242 458, represented by Charles Dupoiron, President.
Contact for any question relating to your data: contact@thalivia.care.
Thalensis SAS has not appointed a data protection officer.
2. Data processed and purposes
Creation and management of your account
- Data
- Name, email address, login identifier, specialty, country, language, role in the community, date of acceptance of the terms of use
- Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
- Performance of the terms of use you accept (Art. 6(1)(b))
Inviting a colleague
- Data
- Email address and language of the invited person, identity of the inviter
- Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
- Legitimate interest of the inviter and of Thalensis in making the community known to healthcare professionals (Art. 6(1)(f))
Public invitation request and moderation decision
- Data
- Last name, first name, professional email, specialty, institution, language, request status, decision, date and moderator identity, and any link to an invitation
- Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
- Legitimate interest of Thalensis in reviewing requests for access to the community (Art. 6(1)(f))
Publishing and exchanges
- Data
- Discussions, replies, reports, and their date
- Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
- Performance of the terms of use (Art. 6(1)(b))
Notification emails
- Data
- Email address, language, notification preference
- Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
- Performance of the terms of use (Art. 6(1)(b)). You can unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every email
In-app notifications
- Data
- Events relating to the discussions you take part in
- Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
- Performance of the terms of use (Art. 6(1)(b))
Moderation and security
- Data
- History of content changes, moderation actions, technical connection logs
- Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
- Legitimate interest in ensuring the security of the service and compliance with the charter (Art. 6(1)(f))
If your request is accepted, the specialty you entered is suggested when you first sign in, as is the name you entered if your Thalivia account does not provide one. You can correct them before confirming your profile. Your institution is used only to review the request and is not shown to members.
Health data. The community is not intended to process patients' health data. The confidentiality charter prohibits any data that would identify a patient, directly or indirectly. Any content containing such data is removed or redacted by the moderation team.
3. Recipients and processors
Your data is accessible to community members for what you publish (name, specialty, content), and to the moderation team for all content.
Thalensis SAS uses the following processors:
Clever Cloud
- Role
- Hosting of the application and database, certified Health Data Hosting provider (HDS)
- Location
- France
Clever Cloud, host of login.thalivia.care
- Role
- Authentication service (Keycloak)
- Location
- France
MailPace
- Role
- Email delivery
- Location
- European Union
No data is sold or used for advertising purposes.
4. Transfers outside the European Union
No data is transferred outside the European Union.
5. Retention periods
Account
For as long as you take part, then deleted within three months of your account deletion request. Deleted after three years without login.
Published content
For the lifetime of the community. If your account is deleted, your content is deleted.
Invitations
Valid for fourteen days. Invitations not accepted are deleted after expiry.
Invitation requests, including decisions
Fourteen days from sending the request, then deletion at the next pruning run (within one minute in normal operation). An invitation created from it follows its own retention period.
In-app notifications
Three months after they are read, and at most twelve months after they are created.
6. Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection and data portability. You can edit your profile yourself within the community. To exercise your other rights, write to contact@thalivia.care. You will receive a response within one month.
You may at any time lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, France, www.cnil.fr.
7. Security
Data is hosted in France by an HDS-certified host and encrypted in transit. Access to the community requires authentication and an invitation. Notification emails contain no clinical content, only a neutral title and a link.
8. Changes
This policy may be updated. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the page.