By using our website, qualite.ardeche-eau.fr, you fully accept the general terms of use specified in our legal information and our privacy policy.
Please read them carefully. They describe the ways in which we collect, use, disclose, conserve and protect your personal information.
Website publisher
Établissement Public Territorial du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche
(a closed, mixed association constituted to manage aquatic habitats, with 11 member groupings of local authorities located within the Ardèche basin)
SIRET number: 200 078 806 00011
address: 4, allée du Château – 07200 Vogüé – France
telephone: 04 75 37 82 20
The qualite.ardeche-eau.fr website is a subdomain of the www.ardeche-eau.fr site, which is itself published by the Etablissement Public Territorial du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche.
The Département de l’Ardèche provided financial support for the creation of this website.
Publication director
Pascal Bonnetain, Chairman of the Etablissement Public Territorial du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche.
Design, development and hosting
This site was created by Pixel Développement
www.pixel-developpement.com
address: 251 rue Marie Curie – ZA de l’étang – 26780 Châteauneuf du Rhône – France
telephone: 04 75 46 20 53
This site uses the WordPress content management system distributed under an open-source licence.
The site uses the Open Street Map mapping interface.
The qualite.ardeche-eau.fr site is hosted by Infomaniak (registered office: Rue Eugène-Marziano 25, 1227 Les Acacias Geneva – Switzerland – +41 22 820 35 55).
English langage version : ACS traduction (38240 Grenoble).
Credits and authorisation for the contents of the site
Copyright
In application of the national and international regulations on copyright and the French intellectual property code, none of the text, illustrations, photographs, drawings, animations or videos on this site may be used or reproduced without the express permission of the publisher and respect for the moral rights of the authors or their beneficiaries.
The logo and visual identity of the site are the property of the Etablissement Public Territorial du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche.
If you would like to reproduce or use elements contained in this site, contact the communications department at [email protected].
Photo and image credits
Photos: EPTB du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche (07200 Vogüé)
Otter mascot drawings: Alain Royer – ArDiffusion (07330 Mayres)
Period of operation, management and updates
The qualite-ardeche-eau.fr website, ” Ardèche` Inf’eau Plage “, is accessible all year round, 24 hours a day, unless maintenance operations require an interruption to site access. The information on bathing water is only administered and updated during the ” official bathing season “, from mid-June to the end of August. Outside this period, the site switches to ” out of season ” mode.
Updates and site administration are carried out by the Etablissement Public Territorial du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche.
Sources of the data published and responsibility
At the 26 river bathing spots in the Ardèche basin, the sampling points, frequencies, analysis methods, thresholds and management advice are applied in accordance with Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 concerning the management of bathing water quality and with the specific measures in the ” bathing profile ” of each site, approved by the regional health agency.
The bathing water quality data and information about beach management is published on the “Ardèche Inf’eau Plage” site to make it accessible and easy for river users to understand.
Data source
The data consists of:
– public data from the results of bathing water analyses produced by the Ardèche regional health agency;
– monitoring data on bathing water quality and management decisions by the authorities responsible for the sites (municipal councils or groups of local authorities). An agreement authorises EPTB Ardèche to receive this information, process it and communicate it, including via the “Ardèche Inf’eau Plage” website.
Responsibility
The data is not the property of the Etablissement Public Territorial du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche. Despite all the efforts taken to improve the reliability, quality and timeliness of the information published on the “Ardèche Inf’eau Plage” website, the EPTB cannot be held liable for any inaccuracies.
In particular, if there are any differences between the information displayed at the beach and the information on the qualite.ardeche-eau.fr website ” Ardèche Inf’eau Plage “, you should prioritise :
– the most recent information about water quality;
– the information displayed and represented at the beach or the lifeguard station about bathing opening and closing. EPTB Ardèche only provides management advice to the managing authorities. They have sole responsibility for managing their bathing areas in the event of degraded quality or any risk or potential danger identified and for displaying correct information to users at the sites.
This responsibility remains the competence of the managing authority and depends on the enforcement powers of the mayor in the municipality concerned.
The site https://qualite.ardeche-eau.fr/ cannot be held liable in the event of abusive, racist, defamatory or pornographic language on interactive forums. The company also reserves the right to remove any content that is contrary to its values.
Update delay, real time
The frequency of water analyses is set by the regional health agency and the “bathing profile” of each beach.
The analysis method imposed by the regulations in force requires a minimum of 24 hours between the sample being taken from the river and the results being available (the bacteria have to multiply in the incubator before they can be counted).
In addition, there may be a delay in transmission between EPTB Ardèche issuing its management advice, the managing authority taking a decision and then the decision being displayed or applied by the lifeguard, if there is one.
EPTB Ardèche cannot be held liable if an event or a degradation in water quality occurs during these intervals.
However, if you detect an error or information we might have omitted, do not hesitate to report it by email to [email protected].
Links to other websites and social media
Links connecting directly or indirectly to our website, qualite.ardeche-eau.fr, are not under our control. Consequently, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information presented on these other websites.
Using JavaScript technology, the https://qualite.ardeche-eau.fr/ website cannot be held liable for any material damage associated with its use or any other consequence of using the https://qualite.ardeche-eau.fr/, site, whether direct or indirect (bugs, incompatibility, viruses, loss of business etc.).
Accessibility
In accordance with the requirements of Decree no. 2019-768 of 24 July 2019 (published in France’s Official Journal on 25 July 2019), the site was designed to prioritise accessibility. This includes:
– writing content according to the FALC principles (easy to read and understand);
– information about bathing water quality, whether beaches are open or closed and the facilities available is always presented in three forms: an icon, a colour code and textual content;
– high colour contrast;
– button always available to translate the blue, green, red and grey colour code (the regulatory colours representing bathing water quality classes) into a letter code for people with difficulty detecting contrasting colours and people with colour blindness ;
– button always available to increase the font size for all the site’s text content.
Privacy and personal data processing
Nature of the information collected
Apart from the area reserved for tourism professionals and bathing management authorities, the qualite.ardeche-eau.fr website does not currently have facilities for leaving comments, creating personalised accounts leading to contact details or preferences being recorded, uploading images or subscribing to alerts or newsletters.
Consequently, we only collect information about you, or any other party whose details you give us, when you contact us off-line, by telephone, fax, text, email or letter, for example.
We may also collect information from the devices (including mobile phones) and applications used by you or your users to access our tools, or if you use our websites, applications or services (for example, we may collect the identification number and type of the device used, geolocation and connection information, such as statistics about the pages visited, traffic from and to other sites, the referring URL, advertising data, your IP address, your browsing history and your web log information).
When you complete forms in the area reserved for tourism professionals and bathing management authorities, the following information is collected: surname, first name, organisation, role, telephone number, email address, the organisation’s website address. These details are by nature professional or associated with the exercise of an elected official’s mandate. The data is collected and stored via a Gravity Form in the WordPress back-office of the qualite.ardeche-eau.fr site. After registering for the service, email notifications are sent via the MailerSend service.
By browsing the qualite.ardeche-eau.fr site, users also accept that cookies may be installed on their computers.
We will ask your permission before doing this.
Purposes
We may use your personal data to:
– provide the information and/or services you have requested, together with any applications or services you have ordered
– compare information to check its accuracy and corroborate it with third parties
– monitor, measure, improve and protect our content, website, applications and services
– carry out internal checks on our websites, applications, systems and services to test and improve their security and performance. Where appropriate, we will anonymise all information used for these test purposes
– provide you with the information we are obliged to give you in order to comply with our regulatory or legal obligations
Consent
If you contact us directly off-line, you voluntarily give us your contact details so that we can respond.
By ticking the mandatory consent box before submitting a form on the qualite.ardeche-eau.fr website (“By using this form, I consent to my data being stored and managed in accordance with the site’s privacy policy”), you explicitly authorise the storage and processing of your data in accordance with the site’s privacy policy.
By selecting your preferences the first time you connect to the qualite.ardeche-eau.fr site (pop-up window on the home page), you explicitly authorise us to store cookies on your device (essential cookies only) and you have the choice of whether to accept or reject other cookies.
You can change your privacy settings at any time in your browser or in our applications or services.
Processing and use of data collected off-line (purposes and objectives)
The data collected when you contact us off-line or fill in a form is processed to manage requests sent to EPTB Ardèche (receiving them, directing them to the right person, examining them, responding to them).
The data consists of the minimum information sent when you made contact, enabling us to send you an answer (email address, postal address, name, telephone number).
It is sent to either the communication department and/or the water quality and leisure department of EPTB Ardèche.
It is conserved for no more than one year, except for professional contact details, which are conserved for an unlimited period, and details associated with an electoral mandate, which are conserved for the duration of the mandate.
Processing and use of cookies, statistics and traffic data
Cookies are small text files that are transferred from our websites, applications or services and stored on your device.
The cookies we use are essential for the site to function, including the interactive map, or are designed to make the site easier to browse and give us global statistical information about site traffic.
We use:
Session cookies: Temporary cookies that identify and track users of our websites, applications or services and are deleted when you close your browser or end your session in the application or service concerned.
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Persistent cookies: Cookies that enable our websites, applications or services to “remember” you and your preferences about our websites, applications or services. These remain on your computer or device after you close your browser or end your session in the application or service.
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Strictly necessary cookies: Cookies needed for our websites, applications or services to operate correctly. For example, these cookies enable you to access secure parts of our website or remember the contents of your basket.
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Functional cookies: Cookies enabling our websites, applications or services to remember your choices (such as your user name, language or region) and offer better, more personal services. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to the font or character size and other customisable aspects of the web pages. They can also be used to provide the services you have requested. The information collected by these cookies can be made anonymous, and these cookies do not allow us to track your browsing activity on other websites.
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Performance and statistics cookies: cookies collecting information about how our visitors and users use our websites, applications and services, such as which features are most used by visitors and whether users receive error messages from different parts of the websites, applications or services. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify a visitor or a user. All the information collected by these cookies is consolidated and thus anonymous. We only use these cookies to improve the operation of our websites, applications and services.
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Cookies linked to embedded content from other sites: the articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, other articles etc.). The content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the user was visiting the other site. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools and monitor your interactions with the embedded content if you have a connected account on their website.
We keep the information collected via cookies for one year.
Other sites and social networks
If you follow a link from our websites (link to an external site or an embedded YouTube video, for example), applications or services to another site or service, this privacy policy no longer applies. We cannot accept any responsibility for the information processing practices of third-party sites or services. We encourage you to read the privacy policies on the sites or services concerned.
Communication to third parties
The EPTB du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche undertakes never to transfer information about website users to third parties in any way (sale, exchange, loan, hire, donation).
Right to access and correct your personal data
In accordance with the French data protection law (amended law 78-17 of 6 January 1978) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you can exercise your right to access, correct or remove data held about you by contacting:
EPTB du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche – Pauline Méjean (Data Protection Officer),
at the address: [email protected]
or by post at 4, allée du Château – 07200 Vogüé – France.
The EPTB du Bassin Versant de l’Ardèche undertakes to process your request within no more than one month.
For any information about personal data protection, you can consult the website of the French data protection authority (http://www.cnil.fr/).
This website is governed by French law.
Version updated in June 2022.