Disclaimer and Privacy Policy

DISCLAIMER

While information contained within the website is periodically updated, no guarantee can be given that the information provided is entirely up-to-date. Contacts details, tariffs, opening hours, all change from time to time. Any information that will correct any such errors is welcomed.

The materials contained on this website are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter. France-travel-guide.net cannot accept any responsibility for any loss or injury that may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.

Permission is given for the downloading and temporary storage of one or more of these pages for the purpose of viewing on a personal computer. The contents of this site are protected by copyright under international conventions and, apart from the permission stated, the reproduction, permanent storage, or re-transmission of the contents of this site is prohibited without the prior written consent of the proprietor, Terry Marsh.

Some links within this website may lead to other websites, including those operated and maintained by third parties. France-travel-guide.net includes these links in good faith and solely as a convenience, and the presence of such a link does not imply a responsibility for the linked site or an endorsement of the linked site, its operator, or its contents (exceptions may apply).

This website and its contents are provided "As is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

Reproduction, distribution, republication, and/or retransmission of material contained within this website are prohibited unless the prior written permission of France-travel-guide.net has been obtained.

PRIVACY POLICY

At france-travel-guide.net we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognise that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use france-travel-guide.net, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

france-travel-guide.net strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that france-travel-guide.net stores on your computer, which your browser provides to france-travel-guide.net each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

france-travel-guide.net uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

france-travel-guide.net uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on... https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Third Party Ads Disclosure
I receive compensation from third party advertisements. Third party means that someone pays a company to place ads on this site and I am paid directly by that company, not by the company who purchased the ad. I do screen these ads to make sure that the content is suitable for the website (I keep certain Google Adsense ads blocked). These ads are clearly identified. At present (August 2018) the companies who place the ads and from whom I receive compensation are:

1. Google Adsense

We use third-party advertising companies  to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalised ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalised ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Refusing Cookies
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse france-travel-guide.net's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Social media
You’ll notice on this website there are links to Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube.

When you click on them or leave a comment, your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit and information about how you use the social site.

Should you wish to prevent those platforms from collecting data, please view their individual policies by using the following links: 

·         Facebook
·         Facebook to change settings
·         Google+ and YouTube 
·         Pinterest
·         Twitter

Facebook: to prevent Facebook collecting your data, you should log out of your Facebook account while using this site.

One way to prevent social media sites from collecting data on your activities on our site is to log out of any session you might have opened with them before using our site.

Google+: Google+ and +1 Google requires that you as user gives consent to the storing and accessing of cookies and other information on the user's device where such activity occurs in connection with the operation of a Google+ button and obtaining such consent is required by law. If you use our website or the Google+ or +1 buttons, you consent to such storing and accessing.

YouTube: Where this site uses YouTube to embed videos we choose the no-cookie version. YouTube will not place cookies till you click the video.

Personally Identifiable Information
france-travel-guide.net may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service.
• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalise your user experience.
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
• To improve our site.
• To improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

france-travel-guide.net may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. 

france-travel-guide.net also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

france-travel-guide.net contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection
This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information
If we sell france-travel-guide.net, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click on this link. 

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link. 

Updates and Effective Date
france-travel-guide.net reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Affiliate or Associate Disclosure
I also am an Affiliate/Associate of the programs listed below. I receive a commission when someone accesses one of these merchants via an affiliate banner or link on my website and purchases a product. There is no additional cost to you the purchaser.

The affiliate services platforms we use are Amazon.

By clicking on a product or service link, you can see if you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below.

Amazon Privacy Policy

Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to france-travel-guide.net's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: August 2018