Legal Notices

notices lost and found

You are on the legal mentions page of the site lost-found.org
This site offers an independent service to report the loss of one or several item(s) online on the platform lost-found.org


In no case does this site manage a service of collection or management of lost items in one or more public place(s) or in one or more private places.


If you wish to contact a particular lost and found office, please go directly to their official website, by calling them via their official phone number or directly by visiting their offices.

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The consultation of the site lost-found.org is subject to the full acceptance and compliance by the users of the following terms of use.


The general terms of service apply in addition to the terms of service of the lost and found reporting service available on the Website.
The user agrees to make personal and non-commercial use of the information contained on the Site.

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Website content

There are several platforms on the Internet for reporting lost items. The Internet user is free to use the platform(s) of his choice.

Management and processing of personal data

The Internet user may be required to provide certain personal data when reporting one or more lost items on the Site.
In this case, it is advisable for the Internet user to consult the general terms and conditions of the lost item reporting service accessible on the Site and which will be sent to him/her at the time of his/her report to find out how his/her personal data will be processed, in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, as amended, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, known as the “RGPD.”

Cookies

A cookie is a text file deposited on the hard disk of Internet users by the server of the website visited by them.
However, a cookie does not allow the user to be identified.
It creates a random number that records information.

Some features of our online reporting service are associated with the stripe.com secure payment platform.
The stripe.com platform requires the use of cookies for the transmission of information, as our online reporting service is linked to this platform, we ask you to give your consent to the deposit of all the cookies necessary for the proper functioning of our online reporting service on your Internet browser.

The Site implements one type of cookie: cookies whose sole purpose is to transmit information to the security provider Stripe.com.

This website does not use cookies for advertising or statistical purposes.

Users can disable the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on their Internet browser.

For the Mozilla Firefox Internet browser:

Click on the “Tool” menu and then “Options”.
Click on the “Privacy” icon.
Locate the “Cookie” menu and select the appropriate options.
For the Internet browser Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Click on the “Tools” menu, then “Internet Options”.
Click on the “Confidentiality” tab.
Select the desired level with the cursor.
For the Google Chrome Internet browser:

Click on the Chrome menu in the browser toolbar.
Select “Settings”.
Click on “Show advanced settings”.
In the “Privacy” section, click the “Content Settings” button.
In the “Cookies” section, change the following settings: “Block cookies by default”.
For the Safari Internet browser:

Choose the “Safari General Settings” menu, then “Security.”
Select “Refuse to accept cookies”.
The total deactivation of cookies on an Internet browser may cause display problems or even inaccessibility of our entire lost and found reporting service.

We have set up a dedicated page to inform Internet users about the presence of cookies on our platform, to access this page click here.

Intellectual property

The contents (texts, images, visuals, etc.) published by the Company on the Site are protected by intellectual property rights.

Any reproduction, representation, distribution and use of any of these elements, including disassembling, decompiling, decrypting, extracting, downloading, reusing, copying, in whole or in part, without the authorization of the Company are strictly prohibited.

Hypertext links

The hypertext links set up within the framework of the present Site towards other sites present on the Internet network, cannot engage the responsibility of the Company as regards their contents or the links they contain, as well as their conditions of exploitation, in particular the management of personal data.
The possible presence of hypertext links on the Site does not create a solidarity of responsibility between the Company and the owners of the other sites, as for the contents of the sites on which the Internet user is redirected.
Only the responsibility of the said sites can be engaged.

Exemption from liability

The Company undertakes to make its best efforts to ensure that the Site is accessible at all times.
Nevertheless, the Company declines all responsibility in the event of difficulty in accessing its Site or interruptions in the connection, whatever the causes.
The Company shall not be held responsible for the quality of service of the hosting provider Gandi.net or the online payment provider Stripe.com
In particular, the Company reserves the right to proceed with any modification of the Website that it deems useful, and this without prior notice, even if access to the Website is consequently interrupted. Moreover, the Company shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage, including inaccessibility to the Site, loss of data, deterioration, destruction or viruses that may affect the Internet user’s computer equipment, and/or the presence of viruses on its Site.

Applicable law

The content of this Site is governed by French law.

Privacy policy / RGPD
This website offers its visitors a form to report the loss of one or more items.

By transmitting a form accessible via the home page of the site (www.lost-found.org) to the publishing company of this Internet site, each individual declares and guarantees to have taken prior knowledge of the present legal information, of the rules applicable to the protection of personal data and of the conditions of use of the reporting service, and to accept the terms and conditions presented below without any reservation.

The e-mail address, postal address, first name & last name as well as the postal address of the Internet users using the lost and found reporting service are personal information that may be collected and processed by the company publishing this website.
This personal information collected allows us to contact the owner of a lost item if the said item is found.

The personal information collected is automatically deleted after a period of one year without any action required from the visitors who have reported the loss of one or more items via the form available on the homepage of the site lost-found.org.

The personal information collected and processed by the person in charge of processing Personal Data is not transferred or rented to third parties.

Each individual who has sent one or more e-mails has the right to ask the person responsible for processing Personal Data:
Information about the processing of his/her personal data
The transmission of a copy of his/her personal data.
The rectification, updating, addition or deletion of his/her personal information.

We do our best to accompany you as best as possible following the loss of your personal belongings!

Thank you for all your feedback received by e-mail !