Privacy

This page describes what the site actually does in its current state. It must be updated at the same time as any new analytics tool or any new form.

What the site collects today

No account, no comments, no advertising tracker. One analytics tool is active, described under “Analytics” below.

Site search runs entirely in your browser: your query is never sent to a server.

Contact form

Your name, email address and message are relayed by email to the editorial desk and are not stored anywhere. The legal basis is your consent, given by ticking the box before sending. We use the address only to reply to you.

Analytics

The site uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how its pages are used: page views, heatmaps (where people click, how far they scroll) and anonymised session replay. The tool sets cookies (_clck and _clsk) and sends this data to Microsoft, which acts as a processor and may process it outside the European Union.

• Purpose: audience measurement and usability improvement. No resale, no advertising targeting.
• Cookies set: _clck (kept about one year) and _clsk (about one day). Details on the Cookies page.
• Opting out: Clarity honours your browser's “Do Not Track” signal, and you can block these cookies in your browser settings or with an extension.

Third-party services called by the pages

• Fonts: self-hosted. No request to Google Fonts.
• Maps: the lake map is a local vector drawing. No third-party tiles, no cookie. The “get directions” links open Google Maps in a new tab, and only when you choose to click them.
• Home page video: served from our own domain, not from YouTube or Vimeo.
• Weather: the temperature shown at the top of the home page comes from a request your browser makes to Open-Meteo, a European service with no account and no cookie. That request sends the latitude and longitude of Annecy — never your own position — and your IP address, as any web request does. No identifier, no tracker. If the call fails, the page simply shows the date without a temperature.

Trip-planning assistant

The Plan your trip page uses two third-party services to build your itinerary: a language model (DeepSeek) for reasoning and a web-search engine (Tavily) to find real places. For a free preview, no data is stored on our servers: everything is sent, processed, then discarded. For a paid itinerary, a limited retention applies — see “Trip-planner payment” below.

• Legal basis: your voluntary decision to use this page.
• Processor — generation: DeepSeek. Your travel profile and conversation history are sent to its servers (outside the EU) to generate the itinerary.
• Processor — web search: Tavily. Each search query from the planner is routed through Tavily's servers (United States); only the text query is sent, no identity data.
• Data involved: the text you type in the chat and your answers to the four starting questions (who's travelling, duration, style, lodging area).

Trip-planner payment

Previewing the itinerary is free. Unlocking the full itinerary (€5) goes through Stripe, which hosts the payment page itself: it never displays inside an iframe on annecyvibes.com. The site therefore sets no Stripe cookie, and this does not require a new cookie-consent banner.

• Processor: Stripe, which handles the payment and collects the email address used for the receipt; a transfer of this data outside the European Union is possible.
• Retention: the unlocked itinerary and its associated email are kept for up to 30 days in a Cloudflare database (KV), to allow resuming it from the link sent by email, then automatically deleted.
• Legal basis: performance of the paid service you ordered (contract).

Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, erase and object to the processing of your data. To exercise it, write to the contact address given in the legal notice. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL).