Use of your personal data: borrowing documents

Why do we process your data and on what basis?
As part of its public service mission, the University and its libraries collect information relating to your identity, your contact details and your user category. This information is collected for two purposes only:

  • Serving you: the libraries lend you documents on a strictly personal basis. We need to identify and contact you in order to keep you informed of document return dates, to claim overdue documents, to report misplaced personal items, and so on.
  • Report on library activity and improve our services to you. We publish anonymized usage statistics by user category (student, teacher-researcher, administrative staff, external user) to evaluate and develop our services, particularly with regard to the purchase of printed and electronic documentation.
Personal data are collected when you register in one of the UGA libraries, or come from the Université Grenoble Alpes directory for students, staff and teacher-researchers.
 
Who has access to your data?
Only authorized and trained library staff have access to your data for management purposes. They access it via a professional library tool and secure authentication.
 
How long do we keep your data?
Information relating to your activities in the libraries (loans, reservations, document requests, purchase requests, etc.) is anonymized 4 months after the return of the document or after the request you made in Beluga.
Information relating to your identity, contact details and category is kept :
  • For students: for the duration of your studies, to enable you to use all library services without any formalities.
  • For teachers-researchers and administrative staff: for the duration of your activity at the university, to enable you to use all library services without any formalities.
  • For outsiders: maximum one year after the end of your library registration.
As a general rule, the accounts of people who are no longer registered at the university or no longer using library services (external) are deleted at the end of each academic year, after extraction of usage statistics enabling libraries to report on their activity.
 
What are your rights?
In accordance with the requirements of the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data, you have the right to access, rectify, oppose and delete your data; namely:
  • A right of access
  • A right of rectification
  • The right to erasure or the right to be forgotten
  • The right to restrict processing
  • A right to object to processing
To exercise your rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer at Université Grenoble Alpes:
dpo@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Domaine universitaire
31, rue des mathématiques
38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères

If, after contacting us, you feel that your "Data Protection" rights have not been respected, you may submit a complaint to the CNIL.
Published August 29, 2025
Updated September 1, 2025