Abstract: A method of providing a digital data item to a user, the user having registered on a server so that user information has been stored in a User Information Database, an application also having been associated with a user terminal by encoding a unique identifier of the user terminal in the application, the unique identifier also having been stored in the User Information Database, the method including the steps of: receiving a request for the digital data item from the application on the user terminal; checking the authorisation of the application to obtain the digital data item by querying the User Information Database; and if authorised, transmitting the digital data item to the user terminal.