Legal notice

Site publisher

Yes, even a site that mostly talks about Lego, Civilization and mistreated badminton shuttlecocks needs a page like this one. French law insists, and we respect the law (most of the time).

This site is published by Matthieu Sarter (myself, unsurprisingly), strictly as an individual — it is not a professional or commercial site. For that, there's ISAC Informatique (new tab), which has its own logo, its own gravitas, and its own legal notice (probably longer than this one).

Good news for my inbox: the law doesn’t require me to display my contact details as a private individual. If someone really insists on reaching me, there’s an address hiding in plain sight: in this site’s hostname, replace a dot with an @. Which one? There are two, and I’m not telling. But it’s common sense. Otherwise, heads or tails, and good luck.

Hosting

Hosted by myself, in my homelab, with a little help from OVH to pretend I run a real infrastructure. Depending on my mood, the site may also end up genuinely hosted at OVH instead of in my homelab.

Server

• Host: Matthieu Sarter

Reverse proxy

• Provider: OVH SAS, share capital €10,000,000
• Address: 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France
• Phone: +33 9 72 10 10 07
• Website: https://www.ovh.com/ (new tab)

Intellectual property

Here's where we break with tradition: instead of the usual "all rights reserved, no reproduction of any kind," every bit of content on this site (text, logo, layout) is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) (new tab).

In plain terms: help yourself, copy it, adapt it, reuse it — commercially too — as long as you credit me somewhere. That's the whole deal. No form to fill in, no email to send, no lawyer to consult.

Personal data

This site doesn't collect any personal data by itself. No form, no audience-measurement tool, no tracking cookie: I have neither the desire, the time, nor the budget to play Big Brother. Only your language and theme preferences are remembered in your browser, where they stay nice and cozy, like a Lego brick at the bottom of a couch: nobody's coming to fetch them.

Like (almost) every website, my infrastructure (server and reverse proxy) records your IP address in its logs. That's just the ABC of web hosting, not misplaced curiosity. I only read them when something smells fishy (intrusion attempt, suspicious activity), and they're wiped before they get a chance to become historical archives.

Applicable law

French law, French courts. If we ever end up in front of a judge because of this site, it'll at least be over a dispute worth a good headline. In the meantime, a friendly email almost always does the trick (and costs less than a lawsuit).