Privacy Policy

Last updated: 21 August 2026

This policy explains how JAYAN FILMS collects, uses, stores and protects the personal data processed through the website builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com.

1. Data controller

JAYAN FILMS determines the purposes and means of the processing carried out on builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com and acts as data controller in this respect.

2. Scope of this policy

The website builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com presents the activities, films, articles and research of JAYAN FILMS in English and Spanish. It also includes a shop through which digital products may be purchased.

External Spreadshop store

BAM clothing and merchandise are offered through an external store operated technically and commercially by Spreadshop, a service of the Spread Group.

When you leave builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com to make a purchase in that external store, all data processing relating to the order, payment, manufacturing, delivery, customer service, returns and refunds is carried out by Spreadshop in accordance with its own terms and its own privacy policy.

This policy concerns only the processing carried out under the responsibility of JAYAN FILMS on builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com.

Other websites operated by JAYAN FILMS

JAYAN FILMS also operates the French-language website bam-investigations.com, which has its own privacy policy. Personal data collected on one website is not merged with data collected on the other.

3. Data collected, purposes and legal bases

3.1 Browsing and operation of the website

When you browse the website, certain technical information may be processed:

• IP address;
• date and time of connection;
• pages viewed;
• browser type, device and operating system;
• technical logs and error information;
• cookies and technical identifiers necessary for the website to function.

This data is used to ensure the operation, security, availability and administration of the website, to prevent misuse and to resolve technical incidents.

Legal basis: the legitimate interest of JAYAN FILMS in ensuring the security and proper functioning of its website, and the performance of the services requested by the user.

3.2 Contact form and enquiries sent to JAYAN FILMS

When you use the contact form or write to us directly, we may process:

• your name;
• your e-mail address;
• the subject of your enquiry;
• the content of your message;
• any documents or information you choose to send us.

This data is used solely to receive, review and handle your enquiry, to follow it up and to keep a record of the exchange where necessary.

Legal basis: the legitimate interest of JAYAN FILMS in responding to enquiries, or pre-contractual measures where your message concerns a product or service you are considering purchasing.

Fields marked as mandatory are required in order to process your enquiry. Without them, we may be unable to reply.

3.3 Creation and management of a customer account

When you create an account on the website, we may process the following information:

• first name and surname;
• e-mail address;
• account identifier;
• billing address;
• telephone number, where provided;
• order and download history;
• account preferences.

Passwords are stored in a protected form and are not accessible in plain text by JAYAN FILMS.

Legal basis: performance of the contract and provision of the functionality requested by the account holder.

3.4 Orders placed on builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com

When you purchase digital content on this website, we may process:

• first name and surname;
• e-mail address;
• billing address;
• telephone number, where provided;
• products ordered, quantities, prices and order date;
• order and payment status;
• information relating to refunds and complaints;
• information required to issue invoices and maintain accounting records.

This information is necessary in order to process the order, collect payment, issue supporting documents, provide access to the digital content and deliver customer support.

Legal bases: performance of the contract concluded with the customer, and compliance with the legal, accounting and tax obligations of JAYAN FILMS.

3.5 Payments

Payments are processed by a specialised payment provider, Stripe.

Full bank card details, including the complete card number and security code, are entered directly within the secure environment of the payment provider. JAYAN FILMS does not receive and does not store this full payment card data.

JAYAN FILMS receives only the information necessary to monitor the transaction, such as payment status, amount, date, a transaction identifier and, where applicable, partial information about the means of payment.

Legal basis: performance of the contract, prevention of fraud and compliance with legal obligations.

3.6 Newsletter and e-mail communications

Where you subscribe to the BAM newsletter, we may process:

• your first name and surname, where requested;
• your e-mail address;
• the date and evidence of your subscription;
• your subscription and unsubscription choices;
• certain data relating to deliverability or to interaction with messages, depending on your choices and the configuration of the service.

Subscription management and message delivery may be carried out using the Brevo platform.

Legal basis: your consent. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of each message, or by writing to contact@bam-investigations.com.

E-mails strictly necessary for the performance of an order, the creation of an account, security or the follow-up of a service are not advertising communications and may be sent on the basis of the performance of the contract or of legitimate interest.

3.7 Comments, Gravatar and spam prevention

Where the comment function is available, the data entered in the comment form, together with the IP address and the browser user agent, may be collected in order to publish and moderate the comment and to detect unwanted messages.

An anonymised string created from your e-mail address may be sent to the Gravatar service in order to check whether you use that service. Once a comment is approved, the associated profile picture may be displayed publicly.

Comments may also be analysed using an automated spam detection service such as Akismet.

Legal basis: the legitimate interest of JAYAN FILMS in ensuring moderation, security and protection of the website against misuse.

3.8 Security, fraud prevention and form protection

In order to protect the website, its accounts, its forms and its transactions, JAYAN FILMS may process technical information such as IP address, login attempts, user agent, security logs and behaviour liable to indicate misuse.

This processing may be carried out using security, anti-spam, firewall or form protection tools, including Wordfence, Akismet and Google reCAPTCHA.

Legal basis: the legitimate interest of JAYAN FILMS in protecting its website, its users, its customers and its information systems.

3.9 Audience measurement and Google services

Subject to your consent, the website may use services provided by Google in order to:

• measure traffic to and use of the website;
• measure conversions relating to advertising campaigns;
• display or measure YouTube video content.

Non-essential cookies and trackers associated with these purposes are only placed or read after you have given your consent.

Legal basis: consent.

3.10 Embedded content and links to third-party services

Certain pages may contain videos, images, maps, social media buttons or other embedded content originating from third-party services. Such content may allow the third party concerned to receive technical information and, if you are logged in to its service, to link your visit to your account.

Where such content requires non-essential trackers, it is only activated after you have given your consent.

4. Cookies and consent management

The website uses cookies and other trackers necessary for its operation and, subject to your consent, trackers for audience measurement, advertising, preferences or third-party content.

On your first visit, a consent management interface allows you to accept or refuse the categories of non-essential trackers. Refusal remains possible without preventing access to functionality that does not require those trackers.

You may change or withdraw your consent at any time using the consent management tool available on the website.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before that withdrawal.

5. Recipients of the data

Depending on the purpose concerned, data may be accessible to:

• the managers and authorised staff of JAYAN FILMS;
• the hosting provider and the providers responsible for website maintenance;
• the payment provider, Stripe;
• Brevo, for the management of e-mails and the newsletter;
• security, firewall, anti-spam and fraud prevention providers;
• Google, for services activated with your consent or necessary for security;
• advisers, accountants and providers subject to a duty of confidentiality;
• administrative, judicial or tax authorities where required by law.

JAYAN FILMS does not sell the personal data of its users or customers.

6. Transfers of data outside the European Economic Area

Some providers, or companies belonging to their groups, may be established outside the European Economic Area or may process data outside that area.

Where such transfers take place, they are based on a mechanism authorised by the applicable regulation, in particular an adequacy decision, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where applicable, standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission, or any other appropriate safeguard.

Information relating to transfers carried out by each provider is set out in that provider’s own privacy policy.

7. Retention periods

JAYAN FILMS retains data for a limited period, appropriate to each purpose:

• Orders, invoices and accounting records: for the duration of the commercial relationship, then ten years in accordance with accounting obligations.
• Customer account: until deleted at your request or after an extended period of inactivity, subject to information which must be archived in order to comply with a legal obligation or to defend a legal claim.
• Contact enquiries: for the time necessary to handle the enquiry, then for a maximum of three years from the last exchange, unless a specific need or legal obligation applies.
• Newsletter and marketing: until you withdraw your consent or, in the absence of interaction, for a maximum of three years from the last contact.
• Evidence of consent and opt-out lists: for the period necessary to demonstrate compliance with your choices and to avoid sending further unwanted communications.
• Comments: for the period during which the relevant content is published, unless deletion is requested or retention is necessary for moderation or the defence of a legal claim.
• Technical and security logs: for the period necessary to detect and handle incidents, generally no more than twelve months, unless an incident or obligation justifies longer retention.
• Cookie choices: in principle for six months, after which a new choice may be requested.

At the end of these periods, data is deleted, anonymised or placed in intermediate archiving where a legal obligation or the defence of the rights of JAYAN FILMS so justifies.

8. Your rights

Depending on the processing concerned and its legal basis, you may exercise the following rights:

• right of access to your data;
• right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data;
• right to erasure;
• right to restriction of processing;
• right to object, in particular to direct marketing;
• right to data portability where the conditions are met;
• right to withdraw your consent at any time;
• right to give directions concerning the fate of your data after your death, in accordance with French law.

To exercise your rights or to ask a question about the use of your data, you may write to:

In order to protect your data, JAYAN FILMS may request additional information to verify your identity where this is necessary.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés: www.cnil.fr. If you reside in another Member State of the European Union, you may also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your country of residence.

9. Automated decision-making and profiling

JAYAN FILMS does not take decisions producing legal effects, or significantly affecting a person, based solely on fully automated processing.

Certain security, payment, spam detection or fraud prevention tools may nevertheless automatically analyse technical signals in order to identify unusual behaviour.

10. Data security

JAYAN FILMS implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration, disclosure or destruction.

These measures include, as required:

• encryption of communications using the HTTPS protocol;
• restriction of access to authorised persons only;
• protection of accounts and administrative access;
• updating of the website and its components;
• backup, firewall and abuse detection systems;
• securing of payments through specialised providers.

Despite the precautions taken, no information system can guarantee absolute security. In the event of a breach likely to create a risk to individuals, JAYAN FILMS will take the measures provided for by the applicable regulation.

11. Privacy policies of the main providers

• Google: privacy policy
• Brevo: privacy policy
• Stripe: privacy policy
• Automattic, Gravatar and Akismet: privacy policy
• Wordfence: privacy policy
• CookieYes: privacy policy

12. Changes to this policy

JAYAN FILMS may amend this policy in order to take account of changes to the website, its services, its providers or the applicable regulation.

The date shown at the top of this page corresponds to the most recent update. Where a significant change is made, additional information may be displayed on the website or sent to the persons concerned where necessary.