The beginnings of provence-guide.net

The Provence-guide.net site aims to make people discover Provence in the broad sense, the markets are the approach of the moment, there are currently about 800 listed in the six departments of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur. Gradually the offer will be extended to hikes, recipes and interesting sites to visit , but it's a matter of years: in the south, ideas are allowed to mature over time. This does not prevent the markets from being updated regularly and the author of the site, André M. Winter , being open to any new proposal to make corrections to the new centennial or new photos.

There is a story behind this database of Provençal markets: André grew up in Cavalaire and often returns to the region. His wife Alex loves markets and we always had incomplete lists. We lacked information when moving between departments. So we moved from the paper list to spreadsheet software and as that was not enough with the timetables and the differences between summer and winter, we moved to a database that we put online in 2011, starting with the Var département. Then little by little all the departments of PACA followed.

Provence-guide.net has no commercial vocation except for the few advertisements displayed here and there to contribute to the hosting costs of the server. The content of the site, the aggregation of information and the layout are protected by copyright. The photos are all reproduced with the consent of the authors if these photos were not originally free. This does not authorize anyone to reuse them for any purpose. Free photos, those under Creative Commons license or similar are all referenced with their author's name and the same license as the original applies to reproductions on this site.

The authors and contributors

These people regularly contribute to the content of the website:

Besides these help us a multitude of friends on the spot in Provence by their indications and by accommodating us.

Many photographers, whether private or professional, have offered their photos and we thank them very much. The sources are indicated on each photo.

A multitude of municipalities and tourist offices are actively involved in maintaining this site up to date. A big thank you to these people committed to the region!

Since the availability of the function to leave comments in 2017, many users also provide valuable information that helps us to improve the informative offer.

Provence-guide.net user data

Here is explained the use of your data under provence-guide.net to comply with the "Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive" and the "General Data Protection Regulation".

The plain version

which is enough but which is not authoritative

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The long version of the processing of personal data

authoritative and better explained

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Comments

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"Semi-automated" means that the recording of data on the server is automated but that the posting of this information is controlled by the managers of the provence-guide.net site (therefore by humans). No comments posted are made public immediately. The managers of the provence-guide.net site reserve the right, among other things, to refuse comments (such as spam), to modify the content (such as line breaks or spelling problems), to delete comments (for example duplicates or when a page is removed), to defer the publication of comments.

An email address is also required to: 1. verify your authenticity, 2. automatically notify you by email of the publication and in case of replies to your comment, 3. contact you directly and privately in case of non-public questions (rare cases). Your email address will never be publicly visible. E-mail replies will always come from an e-mail address of the type nom@provence-guide.net.

A later modification of the texts and the procedure by the user is not foreseen. Upon express request by email to info@provence-guide.net, modifications and deletions are possible within a few days.

The data (name, website, email, comment and the page where this comment was posted) is stored in a secure database on a dedicated server responding only to requests under provence-guide.net. This means that your information is not and cannot be used elsewhere. Subscriptions and mass messages (newsletter) are not planned. This could only be the case during major changes to these rules and in the unlikely event of the sale of the domain name. Technically, the data transferred between the browser and the server circulates in an encrypted manner.

Contact and legal notices

The domain name and content of the provence-guide.net site, the dedicated server and the database managing the comments all belong to André M. Winter. External analysis and advertising services are also used under its name. An IT company is registered under his name and domiciled at Schiessstand 4/1, A6091 Götzens, Austria, Europe.

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