Privacy policy
Last updated: 07/10/2026. This is a translation; the French version prevails.
This privacy policy informs users of the Les Gîtes de Marie website (Au P'tit Charivari, a gîte with a private sauna and hammam in the Mille Étangs area, and Le Chalet de Christine), available at https://mcgites.fr, of how their personal data is collected and processed.
It applies to visitors to the website, to people using the contact or booking request form, and to guests making a booking with Marie CLÉMENT.
1. Data controller
The controller of the personal data processed through this website and the holiday rental activity is:
- Ms Marie CLÉMENT
- Address: 34 Grande rue, 70200 Moffans-et-Vacheresse, France
- Email: clementmarie90350@gmail.com
- Phone: +33 6 33 32 89 54
- SIRET: 850 706 581 00020
The controller ensures compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act (loi Informatique et Libertés).
2. Personal data collected
Depending on the services used on the website, the data that may be collected includes:
- surname and first name;
- email address;
- phone number;
- postal address;
- requested dates of stay;
- number of people in the party;
- information needed to manage the booking;
- information you choose to share in a message or contact request;
- data needed for invoicing and payment;
- technical data about your browsing on the website;
- IP address, where needed for the operation, security or audience measurement of the website;
- information about your cookie and tracker preferences.
No personal data is collected without the knowledge of the people concerned.
3. Purposes of processing
Personal data may be used for the following purposes:
a) Answering contact requests
When you use the contact form or send a message to the host, your data is used to:
- answer your request;
- send you the information requested;
- follow up on our exchanges.
b) Managing requests and bookings
When you make a booking request or a booking, your data may be used to:
- process the request;
- check availability;
- draw up and manage the rental contract;
- communicate with you before, during and after your stay;
- organise your arrival and departure;
- issue the necessary invoices and receipts;
- manage payments;
- handle any cancellations, changes or complaints.
c) Complying with legal obligations
Some data may be processed where necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation applying to holiday rentals, in particular regarding:
- accounting and tax;
- invoicing;
- document retention;
- reporting or collecting certain information where regulations require it;
- tourist tax, where applicable.
d) Ensuring the security and operation of the website
Some technical data may be processed in order to:
- keep the website secure;
- prevent fraud or attack attempts;
- keep it running properly;
- compile technical statistics where permitted.
e) Outdoor cameras
Outdoor cameras film the surroundings of the accommodation, for the safety of people and property:
- at Le Chalet de Christine, a camera films arrivals (gate and front door);
- at Au P'tit Charivari, an outdoor camera films the entrance and the owners' area; the part of the garden reserved for guests and the accommodation itself are out of view.
No camera films the inside of the accommodation. The footage is viewed only by Ms Marie CLÉMENT, in the event of an incident, and is kept for 30 days at most, unless legal proceedings are under way.
4. Legal bases for processing
Depending on its purpose, the processing of personal data is based on one or more of the following legal grounds:
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Answering contact requests | Pre-contractual measures / legitimate interest, depending on the context |
| Managing a booking | Performance of the contract or pre-contractual measures |
| Invoicing and accounting | Compliance with a legal obligation |
| Managing the tourist tax | Compliance with a legal obligation, where applicable |
| Website security | Legitimate interest |
| Outdoor cameras | Legitimate interest (safety of people and property) |
| Strictly necessary cookies | Technical necessity / rules applying to trackers |
| Non-essential cookies | Consent |
| Marketing | Consent where required |
Where consent is the legal basis for processing, it may be withdrawn at any time.
5. Mandatory or optional data
Fields marked as mandatory in the forms are needed to process the request concerned.
If mandatory information is not provided, Ms Marie CLÉMENT may be unable to answer the request, make a booking or properly perform the contract.
Optional information helps improve the quality of our exchanges and of the service provided.
6. Recipients of the data
Within the limits of their respective roles, personal data is intended for:
- Ms Marie CLÉMENT;
- the people managing the gîte, where necessary;
- technical service providers involved in running the website;
- the booking platforms (Airbnb and Gîtes de France);
- service providers involved in managing bookings or payments, where necessary;
- public bodies or authorities where the law requires disclosure.
Data is never sold or rented to third parties.
7. Service providers and processors
To run the website and the rental activity, we may use technical service providers acting on our behalf, in particular for:
- website hosting;
- IT maintenance;
- booking management;
- online payment;
- sending emails;
- backup and security;
- audience measurement.
Where these providers process personal data on our behalf, they are bound by the applicable data protection obligations.
8. Transfers outside the European Union
Some of the service providers we use may process data outside the European Union.
Where such transfers take place, we make sure they are governed in accordance with the GDPR, in particular through an adequacy decision or appropriate safeguards where necessary.
9. Retention period
Personal data is kept no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed, subject to legal retention obligations. As a guide:
- Contact requests without a booking: 2 years from the last contact;
- Outdoor camera footage: 30 days at most, unless legal proceedings are under way;
- Booking data: for as long as needed to manage the booking and the contractual relationship, then for the applicable legal periods;
- Invoicing and accounting data: for the period required by the applicable legal obligations;
- Data used for marketing: until consent is withdrawn and, where relevant, for the period allowed by the regulations;
- Cookie consent data: for the period set by the cookie management mechanism used on the website.
The exact periods depend on the nature of the processing and the applicable legal obligations.
10. Your rights
Under the applicable data protection rules, you have the following rights, depending on the circumstances:
- the right of access to your personal data;
- the right to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected;
- the right to have your data erased, under the conditions set by the regulations;
- the right to restrict processing;
- the right to object to certain processing;
- the right to data portability, where this right applies;
- the right to withdraw your consent where processing is based on it.
You can exercise your rights by contacting us: clementmarie90350@gmail.com.
We may ask for proof of identity where necessary to avoid disclosing data to an unauthorised person.
11. Right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL
If, after contacting us, you believe that your rights have not been respected or that your data is not being processed in accordance with the regulations, you may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL).
CNIL, 3 Place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, France.
You can also visit the CNIL website (opens in a new tab) for up-to-date information on how to lodge a complaint.
12. Cookies and other trackers
The website may use cookies or other trackers.
Cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work may be used without consent where they fall under the exemptions provided by the regulations.
Other cookies or trackers, in particular those used for certain audience measurement, personalisation or advertising, are only used once consent has been obtained, where it is required.
Where consent is required:
- users must be able to accept or refuse the cookies concerned;
- refusing must be as easy as accepting;
- consent must be given through a positive action;
- users must be able to withdraw their consent at any time.
The CNIL recommends in particular that users be able to change their choices later through a mechanism available on the website.
On this website: no cookies are set: no statistics, no advertising. Only the map of the surroundings displays OpenStreetMap base maps, loaded from their servers when it appears, without cookies. No cookie management tool is therefore needed. The links to Gîtes de France, Airbnb, Instagram, Facebook and Google open those websites, which apply their own cookie rules.
13. Links to third-party websites
The website may contain links to websites or services run by third parties, in particular booking platforms, social networks, tourist offices or partners.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party websites. We invite you to read their own privacy policies before sharing any personal data with them.
14. Security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or unauthorised access.
However, no electronic transmission or storage system can guarantee absolute security.
15. Minors
The website and the rental activity are not intended to knowingly collect personal data from minors without the involvement or authorisation of their legal guardian where this is required.
16. Updates to this policy
This privacy policy may be updated to reflect changes in legislation, regulations, case law or technology, as well as changes to the website and our services.
The date of the last update is shown at the top of this page.