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Legal information

In accordance with the provisions of Articles 6-III and 19 of the French Law on Confidence in the Digital Economy, we inform you that Provenceweb.fr is hosted by : Serverhouse - 11 square Jasmin, 75016 Paris - France (telephone: 0890109363)

Provenceweb.fr is published by S.A.S. Apollo Digital Investment whose registered office is at 5 avenue du Port Siboulière, 35800 Dinard (SIRET: 91221996100014)

Email : contact@provenceweb.fr

Who is Provenceweb.fr?

Provenceweb.fr was founded in 1996 and is the first tourism website dedicated to Provence. We promote tourism in Provence by informing and guiding our visitors to the most beautiful villages and the best accommodation.

Responsibilities

ProvenceWeb disclaims all responsibility for the content of the referenced sites and the links they contain.

The advertiser, the owner and/or the manager of the referenced site and/or of the proposed advertisement declare themselves responsible for the content of their website and for the content of the advertisement published on provenceweb.fr and assume the consequences.

ProvenceWeb declines all responsibility for the legality or consequences of the services offered.

As ProvenceWeb is not the designer of each of the sites, their content can change without Provenceweb being informed. Despite its vigilance, Provenceweb is unable to verify the veracity of all the advertisements published and cannot be held responsible, even partially, in the event of an advertisement proving to be fraudulent, inaccurate or obsolete.

Limits on the content of ads and websites:

All users who register on ProvenceWeb undertake to inform us of any significant change to their site, i.e.: closure of the website, change of web or email address, change of status and commercial vocation, hosting/integration of the site on a thematic portal, radical change of theme.

ProvenceWeb reserves the right to accept or refuse registrations without justification or to deregister a site at a later date (even after having accepted its registration) if its content becomes incoherent and in contradiction with the conditions specified above.

The advertiser undertakes to integrate links to Provenceweb from the moment his site presents links to partner sites competing with Provenceweb.

Copyright :

The www.provenceweb.fr site was created by Apollo Digital Investment and remains its property. The entire site is covered by French and international legislation on copyright and intellectual property. All reproduction rights are reserved, including for iconographic and photographic documents. Any reproduction of its contents, even partial, (texts, photos, logos, and all graphic elements in the broadest sense) is formally forbidden without the written authorisation of Apollo Digital Investment. Provenceweb reserves the right to take legal action for any infringement noted in accordance with the intellectual property code.

Affiliation

As an Amazon and Booking Partner, we make a profit on qualifying purchases.

Limitation of liability

Hyperlinks & external companies

This site contains information provided by external companies or hypertext links to other sites that have not been developed by Provenceweb.fr. The content made available on the site is provided for information purposes only. The existence of a link from this site to another site does not constitute validation of this site or its content. Provenceweb.fr cannot be held responsible for information, opinions and recommendations formulated by third parties.

Internet user content

Comments by Internet users are moderated a priori on the Provenceweb.fr site. Messages are the property of their author and express his or her thoughts, not those of Provenceweb.fr. Articles and comments are published under the full and entire responsibility of the Internet user. Provenceweb.fr cannot guarantee the accuracy of the content of contributions.

The tools for indexing, formatting and highlighting contributions and personalised areas for internet users are there for information purposes only. They are intended to highlight certain messages, but in no way constitute an endorsement of their content.

Use of personal data collected

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, your IP address and your browser's user agent are collected to help us detect undesirable comments.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service's confidentiality clauses are available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been validated, your profile photo will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

Newsletter

We collect the e-mail addresses of people who have subscribed to our newsletter to enable us to send them our newsletter in a personalised manner. Subscribers can easily unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the newsletter or by contacting us using the contact form.

Contact forms

The contact form is available at the following address: /f/contact/

It does not store any information in a database.

Information is only sent by email to the Provenceweb.fr contact address.

No statistics or resale is made from your personal data.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be asked to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is purely for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information if you leave another comment at a later date. These cookies expire after one year.

If you have an account and log on to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you log on, we will set a certain number of cookies to record your connection information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a connection cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you tick "Remember me", your connection cookie will be kept for a fortnight. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

By modifying or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply indicates the identifier of the article you have just modified. It expires after one day.

Analytics cookies

Google Analytics uses internal cookies to generate reports on visitors' interactions with our website. These cookies are used to store information that does not personally identify internet users. The data stored in Google Analytics is deleted within the legal period and you have the right to access, portability and deletion of this data. ga, gat and _gid are the three cookies set by Google Analytics. They record a unique encrypted identifier, which is used to generate statistical data on how visitors use the site. Under no circumstances can they be used to identify you, either during your visit or when analysing the data.

GA: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, which is an important update to Google's most widely used analysis service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a customer identifier. It is included in every page request on a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for site analysis reports. It is set to expire after 14 months.

GID: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.

GAT: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It is used to limit the flow of requests, which limits the collection of data on high-traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

You can also unsubscribe from Google Analytics:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You will find more details in the links below:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=fr

https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html?hl=fr

You can obtain more general information about Google's processing of your data and your rights here:

https://privacy.google.com/intl/fr/your-data.html

Advertising cookies

Cookies may also be used in the advertising areas of our site.

What is the point of seeing promotional offers and advertising tailored to your browsing habits? Our aim is to present you with the most relevant offers and advertising possible.

To this end, these cookies make it possible to display, in real time, the content that is best adapted to your centres of interest as deduced from your recent browsing on one or more sites in order to display offers and advertisements that are likely to be of interest to you rather than content that is of no interest to you.

Third party suppliers, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on users' previous visits to our website or other pages.

Through the use of advertising cookies, Google and its partners tailor the ads served to your visitors based on their browsing on our website and/or other websites.

You can choose to deactivate personalised advertising in the Settings for ads.

You can deactivate a third-party supplier's cookies relating to personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Cookies issued by third-party applications integrated into our site

We may include on our site computer applications from third parties which enable you to share content from our site with other people or to inform these other people of your consultation or your opinion regarding content on our site. This is particularly the case with the "Share" and "Like" buttons on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google +, etc.

We do not control the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on our site and associated with the data they hold.

We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to find out how the browsing information they may collect through these application buttons is used, particularly for advertising purposes.

These protection policies must enable you to exercise your choices with these social networks, in particular by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks.

To find out about the privacy protection policies of the above-mentioned social networks, click on the name of the social network of your choice: Facebook / Twitter

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools and track your interactions with this embedded content if you have a logged-in account on their website.

Managing your cookies

When you first visit this site, a banner informs you of the presence of these cookies and how to configure them. You can indicate your overall preference for the site.

To control the deposit of cookies via your browser and various tools :

https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser

Control your advertising preferences

https://optout.aboutads.info

You can configure your computer in the following way to refuse the installation of cookies.

Internet Explorer: Tools tab (wheel-shaped icon at top right) / Internet options. Click on Confidentiality and choose Block all cookies. Confirm with Ok.

Firefox: At the top of the browser window, click on the Firefox button, then go to the Options tab. Click on the Privacy tab. Set the Retention Rules to: use personalised settings for history. Finally, uncheck it to deactivate cookies.

On Safari: Click on the menu icon (symbolised by a cog) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the < Confidentiality > section, click on Content settings. In the < Cookies > section, you can block cookies.

In Chrome: Click on the menu icon (symbolised by three horizontal lines) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the < Confidentiality > section, click on preferences. In the < Confidentiality > tab, you can block cookies.

Use and transmission of your personal data

The forms used for the free guide containing your name (optional) and your email address enable this free guide to be sent to you in a series of emails.

The service used is MailerLite, which complies with European data protection requirements (see RGPD).

Your email address will only be used by Provenceweb.fr to send you promotional offers and blog-related content.

At no time will your data be distributed to a third party.

How long your data is stored

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This makes it possible to automatically recognise and approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (where possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Site managers can also view and modify this information.

The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can ask to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including the data you have provided to us. You may also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Transmission of your personal data

Visitors' comments may be checked using an automated service to detect undesirable comments.

Copyright and intellectual property

All material on our site is protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code. Consequently, any reproduction of these, in whole or in part, or imitation, without our express prior written consent, is prohibited.

This prohibition includes, but is not limited to, all editorial elements appearing on the site, the presentation of screens, the software required for operation, logos, images, photos and graphics of any kind.

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Provence departments

Alpes de Haute Provence
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