Privacy Policy

Web Usage Statistics

To measure the usage of the service, some data are automatically gathered about the visitors using the IPOL web site:

• web page visited and IP address
  have to be provided by the browser as part of the HTTP protocol and are required the consultation of any web site;
• previous web page and browser and operating system versions
  are usually automatically provided by the browser;
• date and time
  are automatically collected and kept with the previous data as logs by any web server software as part of its normal operation, for security and debugging purposes;
• browser settings (screen size, plug-ins)
  are also collected by our statistics tool.

A tracking cookie is used to count returning visitors during 6 months. You can set your browser to refuse it.

All this information is aggregated and processed to produce anonymous usage statistics reports. The collected data are kept on the IPOL servers for a maximum period of one year. This data collection has been declared to the CNIL, reference number 1407691.

You have a right to access, modify, correct or delete your personal data (French law "Informatique et Libertés", 6 January 1978). For all requests, please contact Nicolas Limare.

Demonstration Data

All files uploaded to the on line demonstrations and the files produced by these demonstrations are kept on the IPOL servers, for the evaluation of the algorithms' performance and the investigation of their failure cases.

Some restrictions apply on ?which images are considered suitable for upload to IPOL. Users can choose whether they want these images to be publicly accessible or not.

The public archives are not moderated. Any image can be removed from the public archives a posteriori upon request by email.

These uploaded data are kept on IPOL servers.