Legal notice & regulatory information

What the law requires us to state

1. Preamble

This legal notice applies to the whole of the website accessible at quintessenceprovence.fr (hereinafter “the Site”), as well as to the weekly letter associated with it. Use of the Site implies full and unreserved acceptance of these terms. They may be amended at any time; the version that applies is the one online on the day of consultation. The user is invited to consult them regularly.

2. Definitions

“Site” refers to all the pages accessible under the domain name quintessenceprovence.fr. “Publisher” refers to the legal entity identified in article 6 hereof. “User” refers to any person who accesses the Site. “Keeper” refers to a user holding an account, admitted into the circle of readers of the letter. “Content” refers to the texts, photographs, maps, graphic and audio elements published on the Site.

3. Access to the Site

The Site is accessible free of charge to any user with internet access. Connection and equipment costs remain the user’s responsibility. The Publisher employs reasonable means to ensure continuous access to the Site, without being bound by any obligation of result: access may be suspended, limited or interrupted at any time, in particular for reasons of maintenance, updating or any other technical ground, without the Publisher’s liability being incurred. Certain sections of the Site (the Map, the entries for the places, the keepers’ space) are reserved for account holders.

4. Intellectual property

All the Content of the Site — the texts of the letters, the accounts and descriptions of the places, the written approach directions, the photographs, the maps, the visual identity, the seal — is protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code. Any reproduction, representation, distribution, extraction or reuse, in whole or in part, of the Content, by any means whatsoever, without prior written authorisation, is prohibited and constitutes an infringement sanctioned by articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code. This prohibition covers in particular the reuse of the descriptions of places and of the itineraries, including when reworded, for commercial or editorial purposes. The locations entrusted to the keepers are entrusted on a strictly personal basis.

5. Liability

The information published on the Site is given for guidance only and without any guarantee of accuracy, completeness or currency; it may in particular change with the seasons, with municipal orders and with the state of the paths. Visiting the places described is done under the sole responsibility of the user, who alone remains the judge of their abilities, their equipment and the conditions of the day. The Publisher recalls that certain places demand caution (unsupervised bathing, steep paths, the mistral — the cold north wind of Provence) and invites everyone to read the recommendations specific to each place before setting out. Any hypertext links to third-party sites do not engage the Publisher as to their content.

6. Identification of the publisher and the host

The Site is published by ELON, a société par actions simplifiée à associé unique (simplified joint-stock company with a sole shareholder) with a capital of 500 euros, whose registered office is Allée des Amandiers, 13114 Puyloubier, registered with the Aix-en-Provence Trade and Companies Register under number 931 699 607. The publication director is the company’s president, Nicolas Hullmann. The Publisher may be reached by electronic mail at lettre@quintessenceprovence.fr, which is the primary means of contact for any question relating to the Site.

The Site is hosted by Hostinger International Ltd, 61 Lordou Vironos Street, 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus.

7. Personal data

The house engages in no resale of data, no third-party advertising, no behavioural statistics. It keeps only what you entrust to it: your candidacy presentation, your keeper account (email, first name, portrait if you fill it in), your words in the margin, your marked visits. This data serves only to keep the letter and the Map alive — never sold, never shared. Consent to being put in touch (keeper’s portrait) is optional, timestamped, and revocable with a word.

Your rights: access, rectification, erasure, objection and portability — an email to lettre@quintessenceprovence.fr is enough, and the reply comes from a person, not a robot. You may also refer the matter to the CNIL (cnil.fr), the French data protection authority. Leaving the house erases your account and your data on simple request. The data is kept for the lifetime of the account, then deleted; candidacies that are not admitted are kept for twelve months at most.

8. Cookies and audience measurement

The Site places cookies strictly necessary to its functioning: qp_porte (the key of the season, 90 days) · qp_entre (ease of entry, 90 days) · WordPress connection cookies (your keeper account, session) · qp_langue (your language, 1 year) · qp_feuillets (the pace of the places, 40 days) · qp_src (the origin of your first visit, 90 days) · qp_info_cookies (hides the note about cookies, 13 months).

Two further placements are made only with your agreement, given in the note about cookies: qp_fonds (the display of the map backgrounds, 1 year — to withdraw here: withdraw my agreement) and qp_pixel (your choice on the Meta audience measurement, 6 months). The Meta audience measurement — the “pixel” — is never activated without your explicit agreement; until you have said yes, no signal is sent and no tracker is placed. You may withdraw this agreement at any time here: withdraw my agreement.

9. Sub-processors

Within the meaning of the GDPR, the Publisher uses the following sub-processors: Hostinger (hosting of the site, sending of the emails and of the Thursday letter) · Anthropic (writing and translation of editorial content — no visitor data is transmitted to it) · OpenStreetMap (map backgrounds: your IP address reaches its servers if you choose to display the Map) · Meta (audience measurement by pixel, only if you have accepted it in the note about cookies).

10. Applicable law

These terms are governed by French law. The service being provided free of charge, any dispute relating to its use shall fall, in the absence of an amicable resolution — which will always be sought first of all through a simple exchange of electronic mail —, to the competent courts under the conditions of ordinary law.

11. Contact

For any question relating to the Site, to the letter, to your data or to this legal notice: lettre@quintessenceprovence.fr.

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