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Legal document

Legal notice

Version 1.0 — never in force

Archived version, replaced on 23 October 2026. See the version in force

Article 1 — Purpose

This document informs the public of the details of the publisher, the publication director and the host of the website www.recto-medias.fr (the “Site”), which gives access to the information service named “Recto” (the “Service”), in accordance with Article 1-1 of French Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy. It also sets out the intellectual property rules that apply to the Service and the sources of the data it displays.

Article 2 — Publisher

The Site is published by:

Company name: AXO-LAB
Legal form: single-shareholder simplified joint-stock company (SASU)
Share capital: 5 000 euros
Registered office: Le Point Commun, place Claude Wormser, 03000 Avermes, France
Registration: Trade and Companies Register of Cusset, under number 103 310 017
APE code: 6201Z
Intra-Community VAT number: FR28103310017
Email: contact@recto-medias.fr
Telephone: 07 66 11 56 58

Article 3 — Publication director

The publication director is Clément Pandreau, in the capacity of President of AXO-LAB. The publication director can be contacted at contact@recto-medias.fr.

Article 4 — Host

The Site and the data of the Service are hosted by:

Name: OVH SAS
Registered office: 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France
Telephone: 1007
Website: www.ovhcloud.com

The servers are located in France (OVHcloud data centre in Gravelines).

Article 5 — Intellectual property

5.1 Rights holders

The Service, and in particular its source code, name, logo, graphic charter and texts, as well as the structure and content of its database, is a work of collaboration within the meaning of Article L. 113-2 of the French Intellectual Property Code. In accordance with Article L. 113-3 of the same code, it is the joint property of Clément Pandreau, Malcolm Chevillot, Lucas Firmin and Sacha Lamour (together, the “Rights Holders”), under a co-ownership agreement concluded between them.

5.2 Operation of the Service

AXO-LAB publishes and operates the Site and the Service with the authorisation of the Rights Holders.

5.3 Prohibitions and exceptions

Any representation or reproduction, in whole or in part, of the Service or of any of its elements, made without the consent of the Rights Holders, is unlawful under Article L. 122-4 of the French Intellectual Property Code and constitutes an infringement punishable under Articles L. 335-2 et seq. of the same code.

The acts permitted by Article L. 122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code remain authorised without any need to ask the Rights Holders, in particular analyses and short quotations justified by the critical, polemical, educational, scientific or informative nature of the work in which they are incorporated, provided that the name of the author and the source are clearly stated.

5.4 Source code licence

The source code of the Service is distributed under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL), version 1.2. Any use of the source code that complies with this licence is authorised under the conditions it sets; the provisions of this clause do not apply to such uses. The licence confers no rights over the name, logo and graphic charter of the Service.

5.5 Database

The database producer’s right in the Service’s database, provided for by Articles L. 341-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code, belongs to the Rights Holders. The extraction or reuse of all or a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the content of the database is prohibited without their authorisation, under the conditions of Article L. 342-1 of the same code and subject to the exceptions provided for in its Article L. 342-3.

These provisions do not prevent the reuse of the public data displayed by the Service, which remains governed by the licences of their producers, set out in Article 6.

Article 6 — Data sources and licences

Each Fact displayed by the Service is taken from a public register, together with its source and the date on which it was consulted. The sources used, their producers and the licences under which they are reused are as follows:

Data sources, producers and licences
Source	Producer	Licence and attribution
Open data du .fr (open data on .fr domain names)	Afnic	Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab, version 1.0). Source: Afnic; date of last update shown on each Card
List of press publications and online press services (CPPAP)	French Ministry of Culture	Licence Ouverte / Open Licence version 2.0. Source: French Ministry of Culture; date of last update shown on each Card
API Recherche d’entreprises (company search API)	French Interministerial Digital Directorate (data.gouv.fr)	Licence Ouverte / Open Licence version 2.0. Source: data.gouv.fr; date of last update shown on each Card
Media ownership transparency database (EMFA) (integration coming)	Arcom	No licence stated by Arcom; reuse under the rules on public sector information (French Code of Relations between the Public and the Administration, Articles L321-1 et seq.)
Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI), certificates and transparency reports (integration coming)	Reporters Without Borders	No licence published by the JTI; reuse terms to be agreed with the JTI before integration

Article 7 — Credits

Newsreader, IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono typefaces, distributed under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1, and served from the Site’s servers.
Logo and icons: original creations of the Service.

Article 8 — Related documents

Use of the Service is governed by the general terms of use. The processing of personal data is described in the personal data protection policy and the use of trackers in the cookie policy.

Version history

Successive versions of the document
Version	Entry into force	Changes
1.3 (in force)	5 November 2026	Article 4 (Host): the Service’s database is hosted by Supabase Pte. Ltd., in an Amazon Web Services data centre located in Paris, and not on the servers of OVH SAS, which host the Site; Contact article: addition of the Site’s contact form.
1.2	30 October 2026	Article 6 (Data sources and licences): a Fact displayed may also be declared by the website concerned, and is then presented as such; addition of Arcom’s list of television and on-demand audiovisual media services of general interest, whose reuse is governed by the conditions set by Arcom on arcom.fr.
1.1	23 October 2026	Brought into line with the co-ownership and operating agreement signed on 22 October 2026: full identification of the publisher (SIRET number, contact details of the publisher and of the project), location in France of all the Service’s servers, rewrite of the Intellectual property article (ownership of the rights, licence granted to the publisher, source code not distributed under a free licence), addition of the authors’ credit and of a Contact article.
1.0	Never in force	First version.