Hermes Media

Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 8, 2026.

This Privacy Policy explains how Hermes Media collects, uses and protects personal data through two services:

Where this policy says “Hermes Media Publisher” or “the app”, it refers to that application specifically.

1. Who is responsible for your data

The data controller is Hermes Media, an independent editorial project published from France. Contact: contact@hermesmedia.org. This policy is governed by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and French law.

2. Data collected by the website

The website does not offer accounts, comments or checkout, and asks for personal information in one place only: the Hermes Panel application form (see below). When a page loads, our hosting and security providers process technical data needed to deliver and protect the site: IP address, browser and device type, requested page and time of access.

Hermes Panel applications

When you apply to the Hermes Panel, we collect the information you enter: title, first and last name, date of birth, email address, country of residence, TikTok handle and audience range, any other profile you choose to add, links to your videos, the content types you select and your message, together with the date of the application and your consents. We use it only to assess your application, to contact you about it and, if you are accepted, to open your panelist space and to credit you by your TikTok handle on the videos we publish. The legal basis is your consent and the steps taken at your request before an agreement (GDPR art. 6(1)(a) and (b)). Applications that are not accepted are deleted 12 months after our answer; panelist data is kept while you take part in the Panel and deleted within 30 days of your leaving it. The Panel is open only to people aged 18 or over; applications from younger people are deleted without being reviewed.

3. Data collected by Hermes Media Publisher

Hermes Media Publisher is used only by account holders who choose to connect their TikTok account through TikTok’s official authorisation screen (TikTok Login Kit). When you connect, and only with your explicit consent on that screen, Hermes Media Publisher receives:

Hermes Media Publisher does not access your messages, followers, following list, likes, comments, viewing history, contacts or any content you did not choose to publish through the app.

4. How Hermes Media Publisher uses that data

Nothing is published without an explicit action from the account holder. TikTok data is never used for advertising, profiling, analytics resale or any purpose other than the publishing workflow described above.

5. Legal basis

Data processed by Hermes Media Publisher is processed on the basis of your consent, given on TikTok’s authorisation screen, and to perform the service you request (GDPR art. 6(1)(a) and (b)). Technical data processed by the website relies on our legitimate interest in delivering and securing it (art. 6(1)(f)).

6. Storage, security and retention

Access and refresh tokens are stored in an encrypted secrets store and are never displayed, logged or shared. Profile information is kept only while your account is connected. When you disconnect, or on request, tokens and profile data are deleted within 30 days. Videos you publish remain on TikTok under TikTok’s own terms; Hermes Media keeps only a publication record (date, video identifier, status) for editorial bookkeeping.

7. Sharing and processors

Hermes Media does not sell, rent or trade personal data. Data is shared only with TikTok, to perform the publication you request, and with technical providers acting on our instructions to host and run the service (website hosting and content delivery, encrypted storage, media storage). Some of these providers may process data outside the European Union under appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

8. How to disconnect Hermes Media Publisher and delete your data

You can revoke Hermes Media Publisher’s access at any time in the TikTok app: Profile › Menu › Settings and privacy › Security › Manage app permissions, then remove Hermes Media Publisher. Revocation stops all access immediately. To also request deletion of any data we hold, email contact@hermesmedia.org from the address linked to your request; we answer within 30 days.

9. Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict and port your data, to object to its processing and to withdraw consent at any time. Write to contact@hermesmedia.org. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (cnil.fr).

10. Cookies and advertising on the website

Hermes Media may use Google AdSense to display advertising on the website. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to deliver and measure ads where permitted; see how Google uses information from partner sites. Advertising cookies that require consent run only after the appropriate choices are presented. Hermes Media Publisher itself sets no advertising cookies.

11. Third-party services

Your use of TikTok remains governed by the TikTok Terms of Service and the TikTok Privacy Policy. Links to Instagram, YouTube or other sites lead to services with their own privacy policies.

12. Children

The website is not directed at children under 16, and Hermes Media Publisher may only be used by adults (18 or over) who are authorised to publish to the connected account.

13. Changes

We will update the date at the top of this page whenever this policy changes. Material changes affecting Hermes Media Publisher users will be shown in the app before they take effect.

14. Contact

Hermes Media — contact@hermesmedia.org — Terms of Service.