The website www.culture.gouv.fr is published by the Ministry of Culture.
Ministry of Culture
182 rue Saint-Honoré
75033 Paris Cedex 01
Director of publication: Evelyne Laquit, Information and Communication Officer.
Editorial animation and updates of the site are provided by all departments and departments of the Ministry, under the guidance of the Delegation for Information and Communication (SG/DICOM).
The site is hosted by the Digital Department (SG/SNUM).
Site management and maintenance
Corporate Secretariat – Information and Communication Delegation (SG/DICOM)
Project Director: Dorian Bardavid
Project manager: Victor Puntonet
Executive Editor: Paul-Henri Doro
Artistic direction: Emmanuel Boutier
General Secretariat – Digital Services (SG/SNUM)
Director of Information Systems: Romain Delassus
System Administrator: Rudy Simoné
Development and maintenance of the site
Almavia CX
Graphic design
Rezo Zero
Statistics tool
Eulerian
Machine translation tool
Reverso
I - Legal notice
1. Publisher
«Culture.gouv.fr» is published by the Ministry of Culture.
2. Accommodation
«Culture.gouv.fr» is hosted by the services of the Ministry of Culture.
3. Publication Director
Evelyne Laquit, Information and Communication Officer of the Ministry of Culture
4. Address
Ministry of Culture
General secretariat
182, rue Saint-Honoré, 75033 Paris, Cedex 01
5. Definitions
«The website» means the site «Culture.gouv.fr».
«Partners» means public institutions under supervision, local authorities and any third-party contributor.
II - General terms of use
The portal «Culture.gouv.fr» constitutes the public legal offer of the Ministry of Culture.
It gathers all the information on the cultural policies defined by the Minister of Culture, the news and the agenda of the Minister, the functioning and actions led by the Ministry of Culture and its partners. It makes the wealth of digitized cultural heritage accessible to the greatest number of people throughout the country. It is the single point of access to cultural data and content that the Ministry of Culture, its public institutions under supervision and its partners produce and/or hold.
Any person who accesses the website, one of the editorial offers or associated services accepts and undertakes to comply, without restriction or reservation, with these general conditions of use in force.
1. Purpose
The purpose of these Terms of Use is to define the terms of access and reuse of the content and data on the website.
2. Warning
The applicable General Conditions of Use are those whose current version is accessible online on the portal at http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Mentions-legales and on the date of the user’s login.
The Ministry of Culture currently audits the legal notices of its publications and reserves the right to make substantial or non-substantial changes, at any time and without notice, to these Terms of Use, to comply with the recommendations of the report on the opening and sharing of public cultural data published in January 2014. Therefore, it is recommended that users regularly refer to these Terms of Use to stay informed of their possible evolution. All files allowing free and open reuse of the cultural content and public data of the Ministry of Culture will eventually be downloadable in a dedicated space on the website and on the government platform data.gouv.fr.
3. Access to administrative documents and reuse of public information
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 24 of Law No. 78-753 of 17 July 1978 on various measures to improve relations between the administration and the public and various administrative, social and fiscal provisions and Article 42 of Decree No. 2005-1755 of 30 December 2005 on freedom of access to administrative documents and reuse of public information.
4. Intellectual Property and Reuse
4.1 General structure of the website
The general structure of the website is the exclusive property of the Ministry of Culture. It is made available under the terms of the license CC-BY-SA 3.0 FR
4.2 Marks
The trademarks of the Ministry of Culture and its partners as well as the logos appearing on the site are registered trademarks and are, as such, protected by an industrial property right.
Any total or partial reproduction of these trademarks or logos made from the elements of the site without the express authorization of the administration is therefore strictly prohibited and constitutes an infringement offence within the meaning of the Intellectual Property Code.
4.3 Cultural content and public data
4.3.1 Cultural content and data produced by the Ministry of Culture
a) Text
The texts available on the website are scientific, cultural and educational content developed by the Ministry of Culture. They are made available under the terms of the license CC-BY-SA 3.0 FR
b) Images / Hyperimages
Images and hyperimages include photographs, screenshots and illustrations.
Subject to the intellectual property rights of third parties, images and hyperimages that are the exclusive property of the Ministry of Culture are made available under the terms of the license CC-BY-SA 3.0 FR
Images that have entered the public domain are indicated as such by the affixing of the public domain mark.
For hyperimages with a hyperlink, see section 4.4.
c) Multimedia
The contents of the Documentation section are the exclusive property of the Ministry of Culture.
As such, any reproduction, total or partial representation, use, adaptation, provision or modification of such data and content, by any process, by any person and by any means, without the express permission of the Ministry of Culture, any authors or their successors, is strictly prohibited and constitutes an infringement offence within the meaning of the Intellectual Property Code.
Only use for strictly personal or educational purposes is permitted, subject to obtaining prior express authorization from the Ministry of Culture.
d) Metadata
Metadata includes records, abbreviated records and thesaurus available on the website. They are made available under the terms of the open license.
e) Other public data (statistics, economic, etc.)
Public data held or produced by the Ministry of Culture not covered by the preceding articles shall be made available by default under the terms of the open licence.
Credit the public cultural content and data of the website under an open licence:
Users who wish to reuse the content and data thus made available must indicate:
the title associated with the content or data;
the name of the author;
name and link to source (when author name is unavailable, name and link to source is sufficient);
an indication of the licence under which the content or data was made available.
4.3.2 Cultural content and data produced by partners of the Ministry of Culture and listed on the website
The partners' terms and conditions of use apply to all cultural content and data that they produce or hold and that are accessible on the Ministry’s Websites.
4.4 Hyperlinks
The Ministry’s Websites may provide deep hyperlinks to third-party websites and references to other websites. These links or references do not constitute an endorsement or validation of their contents. The Publisher of the Ministry’s Websites shall in no event be liable for the content of such websites, and shall not be liable for any damage or prejudice arising therefrom. The fact of proposing deep hyperlinks to other sites provided to users only for convenience does not give rise to any obligation of any kind whatsoever at the expense of the Publisher of the Websites of the Ministry which has no means of monitoring and surveillance of the referenced site as well as its evolutions and updates.
The creation of hypertext links towards the Websites of the Ministry is free provided that it does not affect the material or moral interests of the Ministry of Culture and does not create confusion about the source of the services and/ or content.
5. Personal Data
Personal data protection and cookie policy
6. Website Content Comments and Moderations
All content available and accessible on the website is not open to comments. Comments can be moderated a priori. However, the publisher of the website reserves the right, without prior justification, not to publish, moderate, edit or delete comments.
7. Liability and Erratum
The information displayed on the website is for information purposes only. It can be modified at any time and without notice.
The Ministry of Culture cannot be held liable for direct and indirect, predictable and unpredictable damages such as loss of profits or profits, loss of data, loss of equipment and repair costs, recovery or reproduction resulting from the use and/or inability to use the services and contents of the site.
Despite the care and control of the editorial team of the website, unintentional errors or omissions may remain on the site. If you wish to send us your comments or complaints, you can contact the editorial staff at the following address:
webmaster[at]culture.gouv.fr
8. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
These general terms of use are entirely subject to French law. The user of the website acknowledges the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Paris.