Privacy Policy

Data controller

The controller of data collected on topgullbeachessentials.com is LE BON SEO (SARL, Dax Trade and Companies Register 953 416 997), 10 route de Saubion, 40510 Seignosse, France. Contact: contact@topgullbeachessentials.com.

Data collected and purposes

Emails and enquiries. When you write to the site’s contact address we process your email address, your name where provided and the content of your message, for the sole purpose of answering you. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in handling enquiries addressed to us.

Comments. Where commenting is enabled, the name, email address, IP address and comment content are stored so the comment can be published and moderated. Legal basis: your consent, given when you post.

Audience measurement and server logs. The server records connection data (IP address, date and time, page viewed, browser) for security purposes and aggregated statistics. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure and working.

Retention periods

Email exchanges are kept for as long as needed to handle the request, then archived for no more than three years. Comments are kept for as long as they remain published. Server logs are kept for no more than twelve months.

Recipients

Data is neither sold nor rented. It is accessible to the publisher and to its hosting provider, o2switch (Chemin des Pardiaux, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France), acting as a processor and hosting the servers in France. Hosting involves no transfer of data outside the European Union.

Cookies

The site sets technical cookies necessary for it to work, which do not require consent. Audience-measurement cookies, or cookies set by embedded third-party content such as videos and social networks, may also be used; these are only set once you agree, and you can withdraw that agreement at any time through your browser settings.

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to and port the data concerning you. You may exercise these rights by writing to contact@topgullbeachessentials.com, stating the purpose of your request.

If our answer does not satisfy you, you may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL), 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, France — www.cnil.fr — or with the supervisory authority of your country of residence.

Last updated: August 2026.

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