Privacy Policy
The Abbey of Notre-Dame
de Fontgombault, located at 1, L’Abbaye, F-36220 FONTGOMBAULT, as the data controller, attaches great importance to the protection and respect of your privacy.
This policy aims to inform you, in accordance with Regulation No. 2016-679 of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter referred to as the “Regulation”), of our practices concerning the collection, use, and sharing of information that you may provide to us through our website abbaye-fontgombault.fr (hereinafter referred to as the “site”).
This policy aims to inform you about the categories of personal data we may collect or hold about you, how we use them, who the recipients are and with whom we share them, how long we retain them, how we protect them, and finally, your rights regarding your personal data.
1. The Data We Collect
By using the site, you may provide us with information, some of which is capable of identifying you and therefore constitutes personal data (hereinafter referred to as “Data”). This is particularly the case when you contact us or register for events and training courses.
This information notably includes the following data:
- Contact-related Data: refers to the data you provide when making a contact request by filling out the form.
- Browsing Data: refers to the data we collect during your navigation on the Site, such as the date, time of connection and/or navigation, browser type, browser language, and IP address.
If you connect to our services using the social network features made available to you, we will have access to certain Data (including your first name, last name, photograph, email address, and number of Facebook friends) from your account on the social network concerned, in accordance with the general terms of use of that social network. We may also collect some of your Data when you interact with features of these social networks, such as the “Like” features.
2. How Do We Use the Data We Collect?
We use the Data we collect to be able to contact you following your request made via the contact form. This processing is based on the following legal basis: consent (the person has consented to the processing of their data).
When collecting Data, you will be informed if certain Data must be provided or if it is optional. Data identified by an asterisk in the collection form are mandatory. Otherwise, the fulfillment of your request may be restricted.
3. Who Are the Recipients of the Data We Collect and Why Do We Transmit This Data to Them?
3.1 Data Processed by the Abbey
- The collected Data is intended for us in our capacity as data controller.
- The departments responsible for processing your Data to contact you and to take into account registrations, organize events and training, and process reservations are the marketing department, as well as the training and events department.
3.2 Data Transferred to Authorities and/or Public Bodies
4. How Long Do We Retain Your Data?
Your Data will not be retained beyond the period strictly necessary for the purposes pursued as set out in this policy and in accordance with the Regulation and applicable laws.
In this regard, Data used for the purpose of contacting you is retained for 3 months.
When retention periods expire, your Data is erased or anonymized so that it can be used without infringing your rights. Nevertheless, your Data may be archived beyond the foreseen periods for the purposes of investigating, establishing, and prosecuting criminal offenses, solely to allow, as needed, the provision of your Data to the judicial authority.
Archiving implies that your Data will no longer be accessible online but will be extracted and stored on an autonomous and secure medium.
5. Is Your Data Transferred, How and Where?
Your Data is not transferred outside the territory of the European Union.
6. How Is Your Data Protected?
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized access or the alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction of your Data.
7. What Are Your Rights Regarding Your Data?
In accordance with applicable laws and regulations concerning personal data protection, you benefit from a number of rights related to your Data, namely:
- A right of access and information: you have the right to be informed in a concise, transparent, intelligible, and easily accessible manner about how your Data is processed. You also have the right to obtain (i) confirmation that Data concerning you is being processed and, if applicable (ii) to access this Data and obtain a copy thereof.
- A right to rectification: you have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate Data concerning you. You also have the right to complete incomplete Data concerning you by providing a supplementary statement. In the event of exercising this right, we undertake to communicate any rectification to all recipients of your Data.
- A right to erasure: in certain cases, you have the right to obtain the erasure of your Data. However, this is not an absolute right, and we may retain this Data for legal or legitimate reasons.
- A right to restriction of processing: in certain cases, you have the right to obtain the restriction of processing of your Data.
- A right to data portability: you have the right to receive your Data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, for your personal use or to transmit it to a third party of your choice. This right applies only when the processing of your Data is based on your consent, on a contract, and when this processing is carried out by automated means.
- A right to object to processing: you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your Data for processing based on our legitimate interest, a mission of public interest, and for commercial prospecting purposes. This is not an absolute right, and we may refuse your objection request for legal or legitimate reasons.
- The right to withdraw your consent at any time: you can withdraw your consent to the processing of your Data when the processing is based on your consent. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent carried out before this withdrawal.
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: you have the right to contact your data protection authority to complain about our personal data protection practices. – The right to give instructions concerning the fate of your data after your death: you have the right to give us instructions concerning the use of your Data after your death.
To exercise these rights, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at the following address: Château de Brocéliande SAS,
517 BROCELIANDE, 35380 PAIMPONT
Please note that we may require proof of your identity for the exercise of these rights.
8. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may occasionally modify this policy, particularly to comply with any regulatory, jurisprudential, editorial, or technical developments. In such cases, we will change the “last updated” date and indicate the date on which the changes were made. When necessary, particularly but not exclusively in the event of a substantial modification or a specific event requiring the modification of this policy, we will inform you and/or seek your agreement. We advise you to consult this page regularly to be aware of any modifications or updates made to our policy.
9. Contact
For any questions regarding this policy or for any request related to your Data, you can contact us by:
- sending an email to our data protection officer at the following address: contact@abbaye-fontgombault.fr
- sending a letter to the following address: Abbaye Notre-Dame
1, L’Abbaye
F-36220 FONTGOMBAULT.
Version updated on October 2, 2026