Last updated: 22 September 2026.
Wakademy is me, Gauthier Aubé. I am the only person responsible for what happens to your data, on the website as well as in the Wakatoo app. My full contact details are on the Legal notice page, and you can write to me at any time at contact@wakademy.com.
This page says what I collect, why, who I pass it on to and how long I keep it. Plainly, with no empty formulas.
What I collect, and why
On the wakademy.online website
- Your account: first name, email address, password (never in plain text, always encrypted). Without it, there is no access to the courses.
- Your progress: the courses you are enrolled in, the lessons you have watched, your comments under the lessons.
- Your purchases: what you bought and when. The payment itself goes straight to Stripe: your card number never passes through the site and I never see it.
- Emails sent: date, recipient, subject and delivery status, so that a lost email can be traced. Never their content. Kept for 90 days.
- Traffic: measured on my own server, without a cookie. Your IP address and browser are turned into a non-reversible fingerprint that changes every day; it cannot identify you from one day to the next. Kept for 90 days. Google Analytics is added to this, but only if you accept it (see Cookies).
- The forum: if you write there, an account is created from your first name and your email address.
- Workshops: if you book a place, what is needed to organise the workshop and to keep you informed.
In the Wakatoo app
Wakatoo is a practice app, and a small community. It therefore records more than the website does — all of it related to your didgeridoo practice.
- Your account: the same as on the website, or created with Apple, Google or Facebook. In that case I receive the account identifier and the name you put there, nothing else.
- Your practice: progress, level, exercises, rhythms you create, quests you complete.
- Your profile: picture, the instruments you own, makers, a favourite video, and up to six photos.
- Community life: what you share, who you follow and who follows you, the feedback you give, your notifications.
- Your town, and only if you say yes. The app asks you explicitly (“Do you live in …?”). Until you say yes, you appear nowhere on the members map. It is never a real-time position: it is the town you entered yourself.
- Your video searches made inside the app, kept for 12 months and then erased (a YouTube API rule), and erased along with your account.
Every part of your profile has its own visibility setting in the app, and you can remove yourself entirely from discovery by other members.
What I do not do
- No advertising, no advertising pixel, no profiling for advertising purposes.
- Your data is never sold, rented or traded.
- I do not import your address book and I do not go looking for anything on your social networks.
- I ask for no sensitive data: health, origins, political, religious or trade union opinions, private life.
Who your data is passed on to
Only to the providers that keep the service running, and only for that:
- Infomaniak (Switzerland) — hosting of the website and the database.
- Stripe — payments. Your card details go straight to them.
- Kit (formerly ConvertKit, United States) — sending the emails and sequences you sign up for.
- Vimeo (United States) — hosting of the course videos.
- YouTube (United States) — the public videos embedded in articles, in no-cookie mode and loaded only if you click them.
- Google Analytics (United States) — audience measurement, only with your consent.
- Google Drive (United States) — weekly backups of the site.
- Firebase / Google Cloud (United States) — accounts and data for the Wakatoo app.
- Akismet / Automattic (United States) — spam filtering for blog comments.
- The forum runs on a server I rent (DigitalOcean); your account is recreated there from your first name and your email address.
Nothing leaves beyond this list — unless the law or a court decision requires it.
Transfers outside the European Union
The site is hosted in Switzerland, which has an adequacy decision from the European Commission. Several of the providers above are established in the United States: those transfers rely on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses or on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.
Cookies
The cookies Wakademy places
The site places two kinds of cookies, and no others.
- Necessary cookies, placed without asking because the site cannot work without them: they keep you signed in to your account, remember the language of the page and secure payments (Stripe). They do nothing else.
- One audience measurement cookie (Google Analytics), placed only if you accept it. It tells us how many people read each page. There is no advertising on this site, no advertising pixel, and your data is never sold to anyone.
Your choice, and how to change it
On your first visit, a banner asks whether you accept audience measurement. Until you answer, no measurement cookie is placed; if you decline, none ever is, and the site works exactly the same.
Your answer is kept for six months, in a cookie named “wk-cookies”. After that, you are asked again. You can change your mind at any time, here or through the “Cookies” link at the bottom of every page:
You can also delete or block cookies from your browser settings.
Cookie retention period
In line with the CNIL’s recommendations, the audience measurement cookie is kept for a maximum of thirteen months after it is first placed, and its lifetime is not extended with each visit. Necessary cookies last for your visit, or for as long as your session if you asked to stay signed in.
How long your data is kept
- Account, progress, profile: for as long as your account exists.
- Invoices: ten years, as accounting law requires. They outlive the deletion of your account — that is the only exception.
- Email history (without content) and traffic measurement: 90 days.
- Video searches in the app: 12 months.
- Cookies: see the section above.
Deleting your account
Three ways, as you prefer:
- in your student area, on the My profile page, right at the bottom;
- from the Wakatoo app;
- or by writing to me at contact@wakademy.com.
Everything goes: account, progress, profile, photos, shares, follows, notifications, on the website as well as in the app. Only your invoices remain, anonymised, because accounting law requires it.
Your rights
At any time you can ask for access to your data, its correction, its erasure, its portability, or object to a processing operation. Write to me at contact@wakademy.com: I answer within one month.
If my answer does not satisfy you, you can lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL, at cnil.fr.
Security
The site is served over HTTPS, passwords are stored encrypted and I never see your card details. If a breach were nonetheless to affect your data, I would inform you as soon as possible, tell you what happened and what I am doing about it, and notify the CNIL within the required time.
Changes to this policy
This page may change, in particular if a provider changes. The date of the last update is shown at the top. See also the terms of sale and the GDPR page.