Legal Notice & Regulatory Disclosures

1. Identification of the Publisher (Éditeur du Site)

This website is the official institutional communications portal of the cultural non-profit association:

2. Technical Web Hosting Infrastructure (Hébergement)

In compliance with Article 6, I-4 of the French Law on Confidence in the Digital Economy (LCEN), the technical hosting services for this digital portal are provisioned by:

3. Strict Non-Profit & Non-Commercial Purpose Clause

The ASSOCIATION COLLEGE ROYAL ET MILITAIRE DE THIRON-GARDAIS exists solely to serve the cultural, historical, and educational public interest. In strict adherence to our founding statutes:

• This digital portal does not operate an e-commerce storefront, merchant checkout gateway, advertising display network, or sponsored commercial placement system.
• No consumer goods, merchandise, or proprietary commercial services are sold through this website.
• All educational documents, archival finding aids, architectural research monographs, and high-resolution collections are made available to the public free of charge for non-commercial educational and research purposes.
• Any public or private grants, voluntary patronage gifts, or membership contributions received by the association are entirely allocated toward the physical conservation of the monument at 12 Rue de l'Abbaye, archival maintenance, and subsidized school tour operations.

4. Intellectual Property & Fair Non-Commercial Educational Reuse

All content appearing on this website—including but not limited to written texts, historical essays, transcribed manuscripts, curatorial summaries, graphic illustrations, photographs, architectural drawings, and vector shield emblems—constitutes original intellectual work protected under French and international copyright conventions (Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle).

In accordance with our educational mission, scholarly citation, non-commercial educational reuse, and public research dissemination are actively encouraged under the principles of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, subject to the following strict conditions:

1. Mandatory Attribution: Any reproduction, quotation, or scholarly citation must explicitly reference "Association Collège Royal et Militaire de Thiron-Gardais (RNA W284000933)" along with the permalink URL of the relevant source page.
2. Strict Non-Commercial Limitation: No portion of the texts, photographs, or research files may be incorporated into commercial publications, paywalled repositories, advertisements, or monetized digital platforms without prior written authorization from the Board of Directors.
3. Integrity of the Work: Reproductions must maintain historical accuracy and not be presented in any manner that distorts or misrepresents the historical facts or the association’s non-profit standing.

5. Hypertext Linking & External References Policy

This website may contain hypertext links pointing toward third-party websites operated by regional public institutions, heritage observatories, French academic universities, or departmental councils. These links are established solely as informational conveniences for visitors and researchers.

The ASSOCIATION COLLEGE ROYAL ET MILITAIRE DE THIRON-GARDAIS exercises no editorial control over external third-party portals and disclaims any responsibility for their content, technical accessibility, or privacy policies. Conversely, external non-profit or educational websites wishing to create a hyperlink pointing toward our portal are freely authorized to do so, provided that the link opens in a clean browser window and does not present our pages within misleading inline frames (framing techniques).

6. Limitation of Institutional Liability

While the curatorial team and editorial secretariat make every diligent effort to ensure that all historical narratives, chronological dates, visitor guidelines, and administrative documents published on this portal are accurate and up to date, the association cannot guarantee the absolute absence of inadvertent typographical errors or transient technical interruptions.

The association reserves the right to modify, amend, or update visitor schedules, exhibition rotations, and downloadable files at any time without prior notice in response to conservation imperatives or weather conditions affecting historical monuments.

7. Applicable Jurisdiction & Competent Courts

These legal notices and all matters relating to the access and use of this official institutional portal are governed exclusively by French national law. In the event of any administrative dispute or legal contestation that cannot be resolved through amicable mediation, exclusive competence is attributed to the territorially competent judicial tribunals of Chartres (Tribunal Judiciaire de Chartres), within whose jurisdiction the association's registered seat is situated.

8. Statutory Non-Profit Fiscal Status (Régime Fiscal du Mécénat)

In accordance with the provisions of Articles 200 and 238 bis of the French General Tax Code (Code Général des Impôts - CGI), the ASSOCIATION COLLEGE ROYAL ET MILITAIRE DE THIRON-GARDAIS fulfills the criteria of a non-profit organization operating in the general public interest (organisme d'intérêt général à caractère culturel et patrimonial):

• Disinterested Administration: The management of the association is strictly volunteer-led (gestion désintéressée). Board trustees and executive officers receive no financial compensation, directorship fees, or private advantages of any nature.
• Non-Lucrative Exploitation: The association does not perform commercial acts or distribute financial surpluses. Any budget reserves are exclusively retained to finance future physical restorations of the historical college site.
• Open Circle of Beneficiaries: The activities of the association are not restricted to a closed circle of private individuals, but are directed toward the broad general public without distinction of origin, nationality, or faith.

9. Digital Accessibility Compliance Standards (Référentiel RGAA)

In accordance with Article 47 of French Law No. 2005-102 of February 11, 2005 on Equal Rights and Opportunities, the association strives to ensure that its public information portal conforms to the highest accessibility standards:

• WCAG 2.1 AA & RGAA 4.1 Compliance: We maintain high typographic color contrast ratios (exceeding 4.5:1 for body copy and 3.0:1 for large display titles), fluid responsive scaling up to 200% zoom without horizontal scrolling, and accessible semantic HTML5 landmark tags (<header>, <main>, <footer>, <nav>).
• Keyboard Navigability: All navigation menus, modal windows, and interactive form controls are fully navigable via standard keyboard inputs (Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter, Escape).
• Alternative Image Text: All contextual and historical images include descriptive alt attributes providing meaningful context for visually impaired visitors using screen readers.

10. Heritage Protection Legal Framework (Code du Patrimoine)

The architectural buildings situated at 12 Rue de l'Abbaye in Thiron-Gardais fall under the protective purview of Book VI of the French Heritage Code (Code du Patrimoine). All physical conservation, exterior stone restoration, and interior alterations are conducted in close consultative dialogue with the Architecte des Bâtiments de France (ABF) and the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC Centre-Val de Loire - Conservation Régionale des Monuments Historiques).

11. Exceptions for Educational Quotation & Scholarly Research

In accordance with Article L. 122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code (Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle), academic researchers, university professors, and students are expressly authorized to reproduce brief textual quotations and excerpts from our published historical bulletins, provided that:

• The source and author are clearly and unambiguously cited (e.g., "Source: Association Collège Royal et Militaire de Thiron-Gardais, Bulletin Historique, [Year]").
• The reproduction is strictly non-commercial and undertaken for scientific, critical, polemical, or educational purposes.
• The quotation does not compete with the normal circulation of the association's original publications.

12. Statutory Transparency on Public Grants (Loi DCRA n° 2000-321)

Pursuant to Article 10 of French Law No. 2000-321 of April 12, 2000 regarding citizen rights in relation to public administrations, any association receiving annual public subsidies exceeding the regulatory threshold of €23,000 must conclude an objective-based agreement (convention d'objectifs) with the allocating public body. All public funding conventions signed between our association and the State, the Region Centre-Val de Loire, and the Department of Eure-et-Loir are freely consultable upon request at our registered administrative office.