This legal notice is the English translation of the French original. In case of inconsistency, the French version (
/fr/mentions-legales/) prevails.
Site publisher#
NIM-HQ, société par actions simplifiée (SAS). SIREN 843 913 427 — RCS Nîmes. Registered office: L’Alphatis Bâtiment C, 55 allée de l’Argentine, 30900 Nîmes, France. Email: contact [at] sovereignty-gap.eu.
Publication director#
Nicolas Martinez, President of NIM-HQ (under French LCEN art. 6 III).
Hosting#
Technical hosting: Scaleway SAS, 8 rue de la Ville l’Évêque, 75008 Paris, France — www.scaleway.com. Infrastructure and data stored in France.
Managed services: NimeOps SARL (SIREN 808 427 991, RCS Nîmes), Immeuble Alphatis Bâtiment C, 55 allée de l’Argentine, 30900 Nîmes — nimeops.com.
Application orchestration relies on LayerOps, a French cross-cloud platform that guarantees infrastructure reversibility and portability at any time. The underlying hosting provider may evolve over time — Scaleway today, another provider tomorrow if necessary — but an explicit promise is held: only European providers free of extraterritoriality risk (CLOUD Act, FISA 702, equivalents) will be used.
Intellectual property#
The editorial content of the site (manifesto, dossier) is published under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 licence. The site’s source code is published under a free licence — see the public repository for details. The “sovereignty gap” graphic mark and the associated chain motif are also released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Personal data#
The processing of personal data (declarants, update subscribers) is detailed in the privacy policy.
Cookies and audience measurement#
The site uses a self-hosted audience measurement tool (Matomo) on the publisher’s infrastructure, configured in consent-exempt mode under CNIL ruling no. 2020-091. Concretely:
- IP address anonymised (last two octets stripped before processing);
- strictly statistical purpose — no profiling, no resale, no cross-referencing with other processing;
- audience-measurement cookie set under the site’s domain only, maximum duration 13 months;
- no third-party cookies, no data transfer outside the European Union;
- browser Do Not Track setting respected by default.
Reporting#
For any request relating to content published on this site (factual correction, right of reply, report of manifestly unlawful content): contact [at] sovereignty-gap.eu.