Statutory Legal Notice & Regulatory Disclosures

1. Organization Identification (Éditeur du Site)

2. Editorial & Publication Responsibility (Direction de la Publication)

Director of Publication (Directeur de la Publication):
Dr. Jean-Pierre Valadier, in his official capacity as President of the Board of Directors of Association 1381.

Editorial Supervision (Responsable de la Rédaction):
Hélène Rousseau, in her official capacity as Secretary General of Association 1381.

3. Web Hosting Infrastructure (Hébergement du Site)

This digital platform is hosted within a high-security European cloud infrastructure complying with ISO/IEC 27001 standards and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR - EU 2016/679):

Host Operator: Scaleway SAS / Google Cloud Platform France
Corporate Address: 8 rue de la Ville l'Évêque, 75008 Paris, France
Physical Data Center Location: Paris Region (Zone eu-west-3, France)
Host Contact: https://www.scaleway.com/en/contact/

4. Statutory Non-Commercial & General Interest Status

Association 1381 is officially recognized as an organization of general interest (organisme d'intérêt général à caractère culturel et éducatif) under Articles 200 and 238 bis of the French General Tax Code (Code Général des Impôts).

The association does not conduct commercial operations, does not sell products or fine art pieces, and maintains a strictly disinterested administration (gestion désintéressée). All elected members of the Board of Directors perform their governance duties strictly on an unremunerated, voluntary basis. All membership dues, voluntary contributions, and public subsidies received by Association 1381 are exclusively and completely reinvested in financing community art supplies, facility heating, educational equipment maintenance, and barrier-free public workshops.

5. Intellectual Property & Open Commons Licensing

All original texts, organizational documents, architectural guides, pedagogical curricula, and photographic documentation published on this website are the intellectual property of Association 1381 or their respective credited authors.

In accordance with our commitment to popular education, pedagogical manuals and educational toolkits are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), unless explicitly indicated otherwise. Any commercial exploitation, resale, or proprietary enclosure of these educational resources is strictly forbidden without the prior written authorization of Association 1381.

6. Limitation of Liability & External Hyperlinks

Association 1381 undertakes every reasonable effort to ensure that information published on this platform is accurate, up-to-date, and verified. However, the association cannot guarantee the complete absence of typographical errors, temporary server interruptions, or inadvertent omissions.

This website may contain hyperlinks leading to third-party public institutional portals (such as the Prefecture of Eure-et-Loir, the City of Chartres, or the French Ministry of Culture). Association 1381 exercises no operational control over external websites and disclaims all liability regarding their contents, privacy practices, or technical availability.

7. Applicable Law & Territorial Jurisdiction

These legal mentions, the use of this website, and all institutional operations of Association 1381 are governed exclusively by French substantive law. In the event of any dispute concerning the interpretation or execution of these provisions that cannot be resolved amicably, exclusive jurisdiction is conferred upon the competent civil courts within the territorial jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal of Versailles (Tribunal Judiciaire de Chartres).

8. Digital Accessibility Compliance (RGAA)

Association 1381 is dedicated to digital equality. This website has been designed in conformity with the General Framework for Accessibility Improvement (Référentiel Général d'Amélioration de l'Accessibilité - RGAA version 4.1) and WCAG 2.1 level AA standards.

Key accessibility implementations include high-contrast semantic typography, programmatic skip navigation links, comprehensive alternative text (alt attributes) for visual elements, keyboard-accessible navigation menus, and the complete elimination of flashing or motion-sickness-inducing animations. If you encounter any accessibility barrier on our platform, please notify our accessibility officer at accessibilite@association1381.org.

9. Archival Preservation & Patrimonial Mandate

In accordance with the French Heritage Code (Code du Patrimoine, Livre II - Archives), digital publications, exhibition catalogs, and community historical photographic databases compiled by Association 1381 are deposited with the Departmental Archives of Eure-et-Loir (Archives Départementales d'Eure-et-Loir) and the French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France - BnF) under legal deposit regulations for digital materials.