Legal notice
Legal notice & privacy.
Who publishes this site, who hosts it, and what happens to your data (very little).
Publisher
This is the personal website of Adnan Saood, published in a personal capacity. It does not speak for ENSTA Paris or Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
- Publication director: Adnan Saood
- Contact: me@saood.fr
Hosting
The site is hosted by ALWAYSDATA (SARL), 91 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France. Phone: +33 1 84 16 23 40. www.alwaysdata.com
Intellectual property
Unless stated otherwise, the texts, photos and figures on this site are © Adnan Saood; please ask before reusing them. Published papers remain under their publishers' copyright, and source code is under the licence of its repository.
Privacy
Who is responsible. Adnan Saood is responsible for the personal data handled by this site. For any question, write to me@saood.fr.
No advertising, no tracking cookies. The site shows no ads, does not track you across other websites and sets no cookie that needs your consent.
What your browser keeps. If you switch language, a lang cookie remembers your choice for one year; it is only used to show pages in that language. Your browser's local storage also keeps a few display preferences (light or dark theme, interface sounds, whether the "also in French" hint was shown) and short-lived caches. Local storage never leaves your device.
Visit statistics. Page views are counted on this site's own server, without any outside analytics service. For each view it records the page, the time, the referring website, the browser and system family, the screen size category, the browser language and time zone, and how long the page stayed open. Visitors are told apart by a code computed from the IP address and browser with a random key that changes every day and is then deleted, so visits cannot be linked from one day to the next and the IP address itself is not stored. If your browser sends "Do Not Track" or "Global Privacy Control", only an anonymous page count is recorded. Statistics are deleted after 400 days.
Contact form. When you send a message, your name, email address and message are stored on this site's server so I can read and answer it. They are not shared with anyone or used for anything else. To limit spam, a one-way hash of your IP address is kept briefly to count recent messages. Messages are deleted once they are no longer needed, or sooner if you ask.
Backups. So that nothing is lost, the site's content, including contact messages, is copied regularly: a few recent copies stay on this server, and copies may also be sent to my own mailbox or kept in a private GitHub repository that only I can access.
Other services your browser contacts. Some parts of the site load from other providers, which receive your IP address as with any web request:
- program libraries from cdn.jsdelivr.net and cdnjs.cloudflare.com (and www.gstatic.com for some 3D models);
- GitHub (api.github.com), for the latest-activity tile on the homepage and the Open source page;
- YouTube thumbnails (i.ytimg.com) on the Talks page; a video player (youtube-nocookie.com or Vimeo) loads only when you press play.
Links to other sites (LinkedIn, Google Scholar, publishers…) are only followed if you click them.
Server logs. Like any web server, the host's server may keep technical access logs (IP address, date, requested page) under the host's own policy.
Legal basis. My legitimate interest in running, securing and improving the site (statistics, anti-spam), and your own request when you write to me.
Your rights. Under the GDPR you can ask to see, correct or delete data about you, or object to its use, by writing to me@saood.fr. If you are not satisfied with the answer, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).
Last updated: September 2026.