Privacy policy.
This notice explains what personal data Château de Mirande collects, why, and what you can do about it. It applies to this website and to enquiries and bookings you make with us.
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1. Who we are
For the purposes of data-protection law, the controller of your personal data is Château de Mirande, of 1511 Route de Lugny, 71260 Montbellet, France (RCS Mâcon 840 505 143 00015). You can reach us at contact@chateaumirande.com or +33 7 68 82 57 47.
2. What we collect, and when
We only collect personal data when you give it to us, and only what is needed to answer you:
- Enquiry and booking details — when you write to us by email or through the contact form: your name, email address, telephone number (if you provide one), the dates and details of your stay or event, and anything else you choose to tell us in your message.
- Correspondence — the messages we exchange with you about your enquiry, stay or event.
The website itself sets no analytics cookies and does not track visitors. We do not run advertising. We do not collect data from people who simply browse the site.
3. Why we use it, and our legal basis
- To answer your enquiry and arrange your stay or event — on the basis of taking steps at your request and performing our contract with you.
- To meet our accounting, tax and other legal obligations once a booking is made.
4. Cookies and tracking
This website does not use analytics, advertising or social-media tracking cookies. The only data your browser sends us is the request for each page, kept briefly in our hosting provider's standard server logs for security and diagnostic purposes.
5. Who we share it with
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for marketing. We share it only with the small number of service providers we use to run the business:
- our website host, which serves these pages to your browser;
- our email provider, through which we send and receive correspondence;
- where applicable, a payment processor for deposits and final payments.
We may also disclose data where French or EU law requires us to.
6. How long we keep it
We keep enquiries for as long as needed to answer them and to follow up. Booking records are kept for the period required by French commercial and tax law (currently ten years for accounting documents). After that, your data is deleted or anonymised.
7. Where your data is held
Your data is held within the European Economic Area. If any future service provider requires a transfer outside the EEA, we will ensure that an appropriate legal safeguard (such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses) is in place.
8. Your rights under the GDPR
You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. You may withdraw any consent you've given at any time, without that affecting processing already done. To exercise any of these, write to us at contact@chateaumirande.com — we'll respond within one month.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the French supervisory authority, the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).
9. Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time. The current version is always the one published here, with its date shown above.
10. Contact
Questions about your privacy or this notice? Write to contact@chateaumirande.com or use our contact page.
This notice was written to reflect what the new static site actually does — no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no newsletter. Two things to confirm before publishing: (1) the last updated date once you go live; (2) whether the section on payment processors needs naming a specific provider (for example Stripe or a bank gateway) once your booking flow is final. If you later add analytics, a booking widget or any third-party tool, this notice will need a paragraph for it. Have a French data-protection lawyer review it once it's complete — this is a working draft, not legal advice.