Privacy Policy

The controller responsible for processing personal data collected through this Site is the editorial team of France Travel Guide. To exercise your rights or ask questions, contact us at: [email protected].

We may collect the following categories of data:

• Contact form data: name, email and message voluntarily submitted by the visitor (processed via Web3Forms for delivery to our institutional email).
• Browsing data: IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, time spent and referrer.
• Cookies and similar technologies: identifiers stored on the user's device for analytics, functional and advertising purposes.
• Advertising data: information collected by third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense, to display personalised or contextual ads.

We use the data collected to:

• Ensure the technical operation and security of the Site;
• Analyse audience metrics and editorial performance (Google Analytics or similar);
• Display relevant ads through Google AdSense and partner networks;
• Comply with legal obligations and respond to requests from competent authorities.

This Site uses third-party advertising cookies, including Google AdSense, operated by Google LLC. Google and its partners may use cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on previous visits to our Site or other websites.

Users can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

For more information on how Google uses data, see the Google Privacy Policy and Google advertising terms.

Personal data processing is based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent (Art. 7, I, LGPD / Art. 6, 1, a, GDPR) — for non-essential cookies;
• Legitimate interest (Art. 7, IX, LGPD / Art. 6, 1, f, GDPR) — for audience analysis;
• Compliance with legal obligation (Art. 7, II, LGPD) — when required by law.

We may share data with service providers essential to the operation of the Site, including Cloudflare (hosting), Google (AdSense and Analytics) and performance monitoring tools. We do not sell personal data to third parties.

Data is retained for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this policy or as required by law. Anonymised analytics data may be retained indefinitely.

Under the LGPD and GDPR, you have the right to:

• Confirm the existence of processing and access your data;
• Correct incomplete, inaccurate or outdated data;
• Request anonymisation, blocking or deletion of unnecessary data;
• Withdraw consent at any time;
• Request data portability;
• Object to processing based on legitimate interest;
• Lodge a complaint with the ANPD (Brazil) or the competent data protection authority (EU).

We adopt appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect data against unauthorised access, loss or destruction, including HTTPS/TLS connections, secure Cloudflare hosting and data minimisation practices.

Data may be processed on servers located outside Brazil and the European Union (e.g. United States), with adequate contractual safeguards as required by the LGPD (Art. 33) and GDPR (Chapter V).

We reserve the right to update this Policy at any time. Significant changes will be communicated through a prominent notice on the Site. We recommend reviewing this page periodically.

Privacy enquiries: [email protected]