Legal Notice

Purpose of the website

The Comité Régional de Tourisme (Regional Tourist Board) is in charge of promoting tourism in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in France and overseas. Regional Tourist Boards are in charge of providing French and international tourists with regional tourism information in the form of publications, websites and multimedia material. Other missions such as economic monitoring of the tourism sector, the regional tourism scheme and organisation of travel professionals and tourism-related sectors and jobs are also developed at various levels.

This website is the property of the website Publisher. It is made available to users subject to their unconditional acceptance of the terms, conditions and warnings contained herein. The legal representative of the website Publisher is the Comité Régional de Tourisme.

Privacy policy

As the organisation in charge of website data processing in the framework of the “Loi Informatique et Libertés” French data protection act n° 78-17 of January 6^th, 1978, amended in 2004, the Comité Régional de Tourisme Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is responsible for the personal data it collects. This data is collected to allow you, as a customer, potential customer or simple user of our services, to receive personalized data, manage your requests, put forward adapted commercial offers and, if applicable, allow you to benefit from offers from our partners. This data also allows us to administrate and improve our marketing activities and services to our customers. When your personal data is collected, you are informed of the obligatory or optional character of the information requested in order to benefit from a service and the consequences of failure to provide such information. You are also informed how the Comité Régional de Tourisme Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur intends to use your data, of your right to access, rectify, oppose or delete your data, and provided with information regarding data portability and processing limits.

Data protection

The personal data collected on this website is protected by the “Loi Informatique et Libertés” French data protection act n° 78-17 of January 6^th, 1978, amended in 2004.

You have the right to access, rectify, oppose or delete this data by contacting the Comité Régional de Tourisme Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur via email or the contact form.

Collected information

We collect your personal data, name and address (and email address), as well as other pertinent information indicated on the forms featured on the website.

Use of your personal information

We use your personal data to respond to your requests in the framework of our activity and commercial relationships.

The Comité Régional de Tourisme Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur does not hold files for resale to web marketing firms.

Data storage

Your personal data is stored for 13 months from the date of our last contact (you can request deletion of your data using the website contact form).

Terms of use and cookie policy

Social media sharing cookies allow social media users to share content found on this website.

Traffic data and cookie files stored on your computer are solely intended to allow us to analyse traffic to our website pages in order to improve our content. Data relative to visitor browsing behaviour is not used nominatively; it is used to compile statistics on the most and least-visited pages, most popular click paths, activity levels per day and time and main client and server errors. If you deactivate cookies, the website will behave identically but you will be unable to use the social media sharing functions.

You may accept or refuse website cookies. Whatever your choice, you may at any time choose to deactivate or reactivate cookies via the cookies acceptance/refusal banner.

Your browser can also be configured to notify you of cookies stored in your computer and request you to accept or refuse them. You can accept or refuse cookies on a case-by-case basis or systematically.

You may configure your browser as follows to refuse cookie installation:

• For Internet Explorer: Click the Tools tab (cogwheel in top right-hand corner) / Internet options. Click on Confidentiality and select Block all cookies. Press Ok.
• For Firefox: click on the Firefox button at the top of the browser, then the Options tab. Click on Privacy. Set to Use custom settings for history and uncheck to deactivate cookies.
• For Safari: Click the cogwheel in the top right-hand corner. Select Settings and Display advanced settings. In the Privacy section, click Content settings. You can block cookies in the “Cookies” section.
• For Chrome: Click the 3 horizontal lines in the top right-hand corner. Select Settings and Display advanced settings. In the Privacy section, click Preferences. You can block cookies in the “Privacy” section.

Cookies used

The following types of information may be automatically collected and stored during your visit:

• Domain name and Internet Protocol (IP) address used to access our website.
• Internet browser type and operating system used to access our website.
• Hardware (computer, tablet, smartphone) used to access our website.
• The date of your visit to our website.
• The geographical area from which you accessed our website.
• Pages visited.
• The website from which you connected to our website.
• The search engine used to connect you to our website and keyword(s) used for your search.
• Browsing cookies, which are intended to allow us to optimize the website’s user-friendliness and user experience. Data relative to user browsing is not nominative. If you deactivate these cookies, you may restrict the use of certain website functionalities.
• Google Analytics cookies, which are intended to allow us to analyse traffic to our pages in order to improve their content. Data relative to visitor browsing behaviour is not used nominatively but is used to compile statistics on the most and least-visited pages, most popular click paths, activity levels per day and time and main client and server errors.
• Google Tag Manager cookies, which are used to manage “advertising” tags in the framework of retargeting campaigns.
• Social media cookies, which are intended to allow social media users to share content found on this website. If you deactivate cookies, this functionality will also be deactivated.

Personal data safety

The Comité Régional de Tourisme Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur uses all technical means to guarantee the safety of your personal data and prevent its loss or improper use.