PRIVACY POLICY
Regarding the GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European law developed by the European Parliament and Council. Proposed on April 14, 2016, this regulation came into effect on May 25 2018, and aims to protect the fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data of European Union (EU) citizens.
In order to meet the requirements of the GDPR and to be able to benefit from affiliate marketing business relationships (see below), and because this website generates potential revenue based on the promotion of products and services, it is essential to mention the following elements. It is recommended to carefully read this Privacy Policy to ensure your full understanding and adherence to the terms and conditions mentioned below.
About the Website
This website is a personal space managed by Olivier Robert, photographer (hereinafter referred to as the 'owner'). The blog articles are written by him. Their content is a direct reflection of his opinions. He reserves the right to express himself as he wishes, both in terms of the content and the style of writing the articles. His statements represent only his own views. Although it is not anticipated, if blog articles were to be written by third-party contributors, they would be published under the full responsibility of the owner. In such cases, the author of the text would be mentioned in the article.
Unless otherwise stated, the products and services analysed on this website have been purchased and tested by the owner. He only recommends products and services that he uses or has used. On rare occasions, he may recommend products or services that he would use and for which he is fully convinced of the potential benefit they offer to readers. In such cases, this specificity is mentioned in the article.
All opinions expressed on these pages are honest and remain those of the owner. He independently analyses these products and services with the interests of consumers as a top priority.
Commercial Partnership
In all cases, any product that has been offered to him or made available to him free of charge in exchange for his analysis will be explicitly mentioned. However, a product offered or provided does not guarantee a positive review published on this website. A review is positive only if he believes that the product or service in question deserves it. The owner only reviews products and services that he deems relevant and suitable according to his selection criteria. If it appears that he is speaking as an expert on the featured products, he only promotes items for which he is genuinely convinced, based on his experience.
The owner is not compensated in any way for his product or service reviews, or any other topics related to his travel photographer activity.
It may also happen that the owner collaborates with brands mentioned on this website. In this particular case, these articles carry a specific mention of a commercial collaboration or a similar notice.
Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided on this website, the owner cannot be held responsible if it were to be found that certain information was incorrect. Likewise, he cannot be held responsible, either directly or indirectly, for any accidents or damage resulting from the use of products or services reviewed on this website, whether or not it is due to their misuse.
Affiliate Marketing
It is important to inform readers that the owner has commercial relationships through affiliate programs with several brands, products, services, and companies that are recommended on our website. Consequently, several articles published on the blog contain affiliate links. When you click on these links and purchase a product or service, the owner may earn a potential commission. This does not result in any additional cost to you in any form. It is solely an agreement between the website owner and the companies with which they have entered into an affiliate partnership.
The money earned from the commissions through these affiliate programs helps finance the website's management and maintenance costs, support analysis and research activities, acquire new products or services for testing, and so on. A mention specifying the products offered through an affiliate program may or may not be indicated in the blog articles. It is not always mentioned.
Amazon Affiliate Program
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate Program. This affiliate marketing program aims to provide partner websites with a commission on each sale generated through a link to the amazon.fr or amazon.com websites. The commissions are defined by Amazon France and Amazon US and are available online. Consequently, as a member of the Amazon Affiliate Program, the owner may potentially earn a commission when readers make a purchase on Amazon.fr through this website.
As mentioned earlier, this commission does not represent any additional cost for the buyer. Once again, it financially contributes to keeping this website up to date and enriching its content by offering readers relevant analyses. Thank you in advance for your support!
Other Affiliate Programs
This website also participates in other affiliate programs through generic platforms. These platforms include AWIN, Commission Junction (CJ), 1TPE, and Impact. Please note that, here as well, purchases you may make on these partner websites through the links in the blog articles can generate a commission for the owner. They do not incur any extra cost for you.
Brands and Partnerships
This website collaborates with major brands in the field of photography, online services, and tourism in both Europe and US. These partner brands include FNAC, Miss Numérique, Canon, Idealo, Capture One, Luminar, Wondershare, NordVPN, FormaFly, Depositphotos, Norton Symantec, and more. This list is not exhaustive.
Advertising
Certain pages of the website have space reserved for advertising. The products displayed are those that the owner considers useful and potentially interesting for you.
This website collaborates with several companies or brands to generate advertising on its pages. These companies and/or brands may collect some data for commercial purposes. These ads are based on the interests of visitors. This means that every advertising banner potentially displays an ad that matches your criteria and preferences. To better understand and target the interests of each individual, advertising partners track the behaviour of all website visitors through the use of cookies.
Validity of Prices and Costs
Some blog posts announce prices and costs related to the items presented or the subjects discussed. These are stated for the purpose of informing the reader. The prices and costs of photographic equipment, accessories, books, transportation tickets, accommodation, entry tickets, or other items are valid as of the date of the post's publication. The author (or owner) cannot be held responsible for any changes in these prices and costs, whether they increase or decrease.
Although the author (or owner) makes an effort to keep the articles as up-to-date as possible, the information on prices and costs is subject to the pricing policies of commercial companies and the potential increase in the cost of goods and services over time. The author (or owner) is not informed of these changes. It is the reader's responsibility to do their own research to verify, if necessary, the validity of the prices and costs announced in the blog posts.
Cookie Usage Policy
This website entrusts third-party companies with the management of the advertising support displayed on its pages. Some companies use cookies to place relevant advertising banners on the pages. These cookies send information to these companies (for example, through the Google Adsense Program) such as your IP address, your ISP, the browser you use to visit the website (and all other websites), as well as the time you spend on the pages of the visited website.
A cookie is a small computer file containing an identifier and is sent by a server to a web browser. This identifier is then sent back to the server every time a web page is viewed. Cookies can be either persistent or temporary. A persistent cookie will be stored in the browser and will remain active until it expires. A temporary or session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the session, meaning when the user closes the browser. Cookies do not contain any sensitive or personal data that could identify you.
By using this website and continuing your navigation, you consent to the use of these cookies and the sharing of the data they contain with our third-party partners.
Personal Data Access
If you reside in a country within the European Economic Area (EEA), and in accordance with the current GDPR regulation specifying laws related to the protection of personal data, you have the right to access your personal data. You can at any time request its deletion or restrict its use. Therefore, if you wish to access or delete your personal data held by this website or by partner websites responsible for advertising and/or if you wish to be informed about these partner websites with which we work, you can make this request by contacting us via our contact form.
Website Hosting
This website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Your data may be stored through data storage, databases, and general applications of Wix.com. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and potentially used by this website comply with the standards set by PCI-DSS, as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by this website and its service providers.
The hosting platform also uses cookies for security, login, system efficiency, monitoring and debugging, cookie banner settings, fraud prevention, and language preferences. The duration of their cookies varies from 1 minute, 30 minutes, session duration, 3 months, and 12 months depending on their specificity.
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Photographs, Videos, Images and Texts
All photographs, videos, images, or logos presented on this website as well as all texts written by the owner are protected by copyright law. Copyright is a specific ownership right from the moment a photograph, image, video, or text is created.
Unless otherwise specified in credits under certain images, all photographs presented in galleries or used for illustrative purposes in blog articles have been taken by Olivier Robert and are protected by copyright law. The use of photographs, images, videos, or texts presented on this website is strictly prohibited. No part of the website may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, electronic, mechanical, or by any means of recording without obtaining a license or prior written agreement from the website owner.
If you wish to use the elements mentioned above, you can obtain a specific license or permission upon request from the owner. The owner reserves the right to modify, move, or replace any text, image, or graphic content on the website without prior notice.
All photographs and/or images linked to external sites (affiliate links) are the property of the respective websites to which these photographs and/or images refer. Consequently, any element that does not redirect the reader to an affiliate link is a creation of Olivier Robert and benefits from intellectual property protection. Copying or duplicating the texts or comments presented on these pages is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of intellectual property and copyright law.
Reader Comments
The 'Comments' section located at the bottom of each blog article is a space for free expression dedicated to readers. It primarily serves as a place for exchange where everyone can ask questions or share their perspective on the products and services reviewed. The owner reads all comments and responds to them as promptly as possible while respecting each individual's opinions.
Readers are asked to write comments that are relevant, courteous, polite, and respectful of others' viewpoints. The owner reserves the right to delete or modify any comment that does not adhere to these basic rules or contains offensive language or is deemed contrary to morals.
Google Analytics
This website uses the Google Analytics service to manage and analyse traffic on its pages. The data collected by the Google Analytics system does not contain any sensitive information or information that can identify visitors.
This Privacy Policy may be changed at any time by the owner without notice. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact him via the contact form.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in September 2023.