Official Legal Notice, Statutory Matrix & Privacy Policy (RGPD)

1. Complete Institutional Identity Matrix

This official website is published by and represents the legal personality of the non-profit organization described below:

2. Strict Non-Profit & Non-Commercial Policy Declaration

In accordance with Article 1 of our constituent statutes and the French Tax Instruction of December 18, 2006 (BOI-IS-CHAMP-10-50-10-20), the Association de Sauvegarde de l'Église Saint-Hilaire de Norgeat is administered under conditions of disinterested management (gestion désintéressée):

• Absence of Lucrative Purpose: The association does not conduct commercial trading, sale of goods, paid consultancy, or profit-generating retail operations. The website contains zero e-commerce functionality, subscription paywalls, or third-party advertising banners.
• Total Disinterestedness of Officers: Members of the Board of Directors perform their governance, conservation, and administrative duties strictly free of charge. No officer receives any salary, stipend, dividend, percentage, or indirect benefit of any kind.
• Sole Allocation of Financial Resources: All funds collected through voluntary donations, statutory membership fees, and public cultural subsidies are allocated 100% to our conservation projects, archival investigations, educational workshops, and insurance expenses. In the event of statutory dissolution, all remaining assets must be transferred to a public body or partner non-profit heritage entity designated by the General Assembly, with zero distribution to individual members.

3. Web Hosting Infrastructure & Technical Service Providers

This official web platform is deployed on cloud hosting infrastructure adhering to European data protection standards and modern environmental energy-efficiency protocols:

4. Privacy Policy & Data Protection Framework (RGPD / GDPR)

The Association de Sauvegarde de l'Église Saint-Hilaire de Norgeat treats the privacy of citizens, members, and visitors with utmost seriousness. In compliance with European Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and the amended French Law n° 78-17 of January 6, 1978 on Information Technology and Civil Liberties:

Data Controller Identity

The data controller is the Association de Sauvegarde de l'Église Saint-Hilaire de Norgeat, represented by its President, Claire Duval. Contact: contact@patrimoinenorgeat.com.

Purposes and Legal Grounds for Data Processing

Personal information collected through our contact forms, volunteer applications, and membership declarations (such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and postal addresses) is processed exclusively on the following legal bases:

• Legitimate Associative Interest (Article 6.1.f GDPR): Answering civic inquiries, sharing historical documentation, coordinating volunteer schedules, and organizing free public tours.
• Statutory Contractual Necessity (Article 6.1.b GDPR): Managing official associative membership rolls, convening members to the Annual General Assembly, and recording democratic voting proxy mandates.
• Legal Obligation (Article 6.1.c GDPR): Issuing official tax deduction receipts (CERFA n° 11580*04) to voluntary donors as required by the French General Tax Code.

Zero Commercial Monetization & No Third-Party Transfers

The association pledges formally that personal information will never be sold, leased, traded, monetized, or transferred to any commercial third party, advertising agency, or data broker. Data is accessible solely to authorized board members (Secretary and Treasurer) bound by statutory confidentiality.

Data Retention Durations

• General Inquiries: Contact form correspondence is retained for a maximum of twenty-four (24) months following the resolution of the inquiry.
• Active Member Records: Maintained for the duration of statutory membership plus three (3) years following resignation or cessation of adhesion.
• Fiscal Donation Ledgers: In accordance with French fiscal regulations (Article L. 102 B of the Book of Fiscal Procedures), donation ledgers and CERFA duplicate receipts are preserved for six (6) years.

Individual Rights of Data Subjects

Under Articles 15 through 22 of the GDPR, you possess the right to access your stored personal data, request rectification of inaccurate records, request erasure (right to be forgotten), or object to processing. To exercise these rights, submit a written request accompanied by proof of identity to contact@patrimoinenorgeat.com or by post to VILLAGE DE NORGEAT, 430 ROUTE DE PIJOL, 09400 MIGLOS, France. If you believe your rights have not been respected, you have the statutory right to file a complaint with the French National Commission on Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL – Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, 3 Place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris • www.cnil.fr).

Cookies and Tracking Policy

This website uses zero advertising, commercial profiling, or third-party behavioral cookies. The only cookies utilized are strictly necessary technical session cookies that facilitate secure form transmissions and cache validation. In accordance with CNIL guidelines, this platform is exempt from mandatory cookie banner consent prompts.

5. Limitation of Liability & Hypertext Links Policy

The information presented on this portal is compiled with rigorous historical and technical care by the members of our association. However, historical research is an evolving science, and architectural diagnostics represent expert evaluations at a given point in time. The association cannot be held liable for typographical inaccuracies, inadvertent omissions, or temporary technical server interruptions.

This website may contain hypertext links pointing to third-party public resources (such as the official portal of the Commune of Miglos, the Departmental Archives of Ariège, the French Ministry of Culture, or regional naturalist conservancies). These external links are provided exclusively for public informational convenience. The association exercises no editorial control over third-party domains and accepts no responsibility for external content or privacy practices.

Digital Accessibility Statement (RGAA Compliance)

In accordance with the French General Accessibility Guidelines for Public Administrations (RGAA version 4.1) and European Directive (EU) 2016/2102, our association strives to make this information portal accessible to all citizens, including individuals with visual, auditory, cognitive, or motor impairments.

Our web architecture incorporates high-contrast color pairings conforming to WCAG 2.1 AA standards, responsive fluid scaling across all mobile and desktop viewports, standardized semantic HTML5 hierarchy (single h1 per page, sequential h2 and h3 structure), descriptive text alternatives (alt tags) for all non-decorative image assets, and accessible minimum touch targets (44×44 pixels) across all interactive navigation controls. If you encounter any accessibility barrier while browsing, please alert our technical secretariat at contact@patrimoinenorgeat.com.

5. Intellectual Property, Open Access Rights & Photography Attribution

All textual monographs, architectural diagrams, elevation plans, and historical transcripts created by the Association de Sauvegarde de l'Église Saint-Hilaire de Norgeat are made available for non-commercial educational and scientific use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Photographs and visual assets depicting the Church of Saint-Hilaire de Norgeat and the village territory were produced during associative conservation campaigns and historical surveys. External scholars and publications are welcome to reproduce these assets provided prominent attribution is given: "Document / Photo: Association de Sauvegarde de l'Église Saint-Hilaire de Norgeat (Loi 1901) • www.patrimoinenorgeat.com".