Legal Notice

PalmaPlan legal notice

Version of 12/10/2026.

This page says who publishes PalmaPlan, who hosts it, and whom to write to. French law requires it of any website open to the public; more simply, it is what anyone is entitled to know before trusting a tool with their work.

This is a translation of the French page, which is the reference text: PalmaPlan is published from France and its legal notice is written under French law. Where a word could be read two ways, legal/mentions-legales.md decides.

How to read this page

This is not legal advice — no lawyer was consulted. The project reads the texts, cites them by number, and separates two things that are usually blurred together:

• required — the section restates an obligation from a named text, and the text is cited;
• drafting choice — no text requires the section; it is here because a reader needs the information, or because staying silent would be misleading.

Every section carries one of the two, in italics, under its heading. Wherever our reading of a text is a choice rather than an obvious conclusion, it is said at the place the question arises.

The assumption this page is written under. PalmaPlan is a free beta, published by an individual, with no legal entity — no company, no sole-trader registration. Nothing is invoiced, nothing is sold, there is no advertising, no paid partnership, no affiliate scheme. The publisher confirmed it on 05/10/2026: PalmaPlan is published in the publisher's own name, on a non-professional basis (§1). It governs everything else: the day PalmaPlan charges for anything, this page changes, and §2 says exactly what gets added.

What was missing, and no longer is. Three values could only come from the publisher: the host's details, the declaration of the publisher's identity to that host, and a contact address that exists and is read. All three are written since 12/10/2026 (§3 and §4). While one of them was missing, this page could not be published — scripts/legal-marqueurs.test.ts refused it, and would refuse it again for any new gap: an incomplete legal page is worse than a missing one, because it looks like an answer.

1. The publisher

Required by: article 1-1 of French law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (LCEN), as amended by law no. 2024-449 of 21 May 2024 on securing and regulating the digital space, in force since 23 May 2024.

That text draws a distinction, and the two situations do not require the same things:

• A professional publisher (I of article 1-1), if a natural person, publishes their surname, given names, home address and telephone number, and the identity of the publication director. Home address, that is: a personal address on a public, indexed page.
• A non-professional publisher (II of the same article) may keep those elements private, on two cumulative conditions: publishing the host's details (name or corporate name, address, telephone number), and having given that host their personal identification details. The host is then bound to secrecy, except upon request from the judicial authority.

Failing to comply with the identification duty is a criminal offence (article 1-2 of the same law).

The regime chosen: non-professional publisher, in their own name. PalmaPlan is published by a natural person, on a non-professional basis, with no legal entity — the publisher's decision of 05/10/2026. The publisher uses the option in II of article 1-1 (formerly article 6, III, 2° of the same law, before its 2024 rewrite): their name, home address and telephone number are not published on this page. They are given to the host named in §3, which keeps them secret under the conditions the text sets. The two conditions of that option — the host published, the identity declared to it — are met since 12/10/2026: §3 carries both.

The publisher's name is not a secret for all that: the privacy policy gives it, because it must say who the controller of your data is (GDPR, article 13). What the chosen regime keeps off this page is the home address and the telephone number.

The point we are not certain about, and it decides everything else. The text does not define "on a non-professional basis". The common reading — the one we follow — is that economic consideration, however small and however indirect (a sale, a subscription, advertising, affiliate income, sponsorship), moves the publisher to the professional side. A strictly free beta, with no advertising and no sales, falls in our view under the non-professional regime. But this is not obvious: PalmaPlan is a product presented on a public website, built with the intention of one day living off it, and we found no text and no ruling deciding this precise case. It is one of the first points a legal review should cover before sign-ups open.

2. What this page does not carry, and the day it will

Drafting choice. No text requires announcing what you do not have. We write it because the absence of a company number on a legal notice is noticed, and is read badly.

PalmaPlan is not published by a company. None of the following therefore exists, and each will come here, in this place, the day it does:

• Corporate name, legal form, registered office, share capital — not applicable: no entity.
• Company registration number, trade register — not applicable: no entity.
• EU VAT number — not applicable: nothing is invoiced.
• Terms of sale — not applicable: there is no sale. The terms of use of the service are a separate document from this one.
• Consumer mediator — not applicable, and §8 says why.

3. The host

Required by: article 1-1 of the LCEN — for a non-professional publisher this is the only public identification, so it is not optional.

OVH SAS — French simplified joint-stock company, RCS Lille Métropole 424 761 419 — 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France — telephone: 1007 from France, +33 9 72 10 10 07 from abroad.

The host chosen by the publisher: a virtual private server subscribed with it, in a data centre in France, on which PalmaPlan is installed and from which palmaplan.com is served. The address above is the company's head office, not the data centre's. Name, registration and address copied from OVHcloud's legal notice; the telephone number is the one published by business directories.

The publisher's personal identification details (name, postal address, telephone) have been given to that host: they are those of the publisher's OVH customer account, checked by the publisher, under which PalmaPlan's server was ordered on 12/10/2026.

The actual situation on 12/10/2026: the site is live with this host. The service, its database and its logs are on that server. The mail the service sends goes out through a second provider, Scaleway SAS, in Paris, which also keeps the encrypted backup copies: it is not a host of the site within the meaning of this page, and the privacy policy names it, with what it processes (legal/confidentialite.en.md, § 6).

4. Contact

A drafting choice, resting on a neighbouring obligation. Article 1-1 does not require an email address from a non-professional publisher. The General Data Protection Regulation (articles 13 and 14) does require a way to contact the controller in order to exercise your rights: it is the same address, and there will only ever be one.

contact@palmaplan.com — for a question about this page, to exercise your rights over your data, to report a security problem, or to report content you believe to be unlawful. Write in French or in English.

This address exists and is read: it has been forwarded to the publisher's mailbox since 12/10/2026, and a test message sent from another address arrived the same day.

5. Intellectual property

A drafting choice, resting on the French intellectual property code (articles L111-1 and following for works, L112-2 13° for software).

What belongs to the publisher: PalmaPlan's code, its name, its logo, the texts of this site and of the documentation, the screenshots. The protection does not come from this page: it exists by the sole fact of creation. This page merely says who the author is.

What does not belong to the publisher, and never will: your schedules. The rows, the blocks, the dates, the notes, the files you attach, the comments you write remain yours. PalmaPlan stores them to give them back to you; it acquires no rights over them, grants itself no licence to use them, and does not read them to train a model or to produce a statistic. The privacy policy says this in detail, and the product behaves the way that sentence reads.

The source code is not released under an open-source licence, and it is not published anywhere: the repository is private, there is no licence file, and so no right to use or copy is granted. This is not a stance, it is the state of things: whether to open the code is an explicitly open question that has not been decided. The day it is, the licence is a file in the repository and a line here — not an announcement.

Libraries and file formats. PalmaPlan reads and writes a file format from another planning tool so that your data can come in and go out. That interoperability implies no affiliation, no partnership and no endorsement by any third party, and no third-party trademark is used to present PalmaPlan. The open-source components PalmaPlan uses remain under their own licences, which travel with the code.

6. Your personal data

Required by: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), articles 12 to 14 — but the document it requires is the privacy policy, not this page.

The controller is the publisher in §1 — the privacy policy names them —, reachable at the address in §4. Everything else — what is collected, why, for how long, with whom, and how to exercise your rights — is in the privacy policy, which is a full document rather than a paragraph: legal/confidentialite.en.md, served as-is by the product and by this site, and reachable from the footer of every page.

Three things it says are worth repeating here: your data is stored in the European Union, with two processors the policy names — OVH SAS, the host in §3, in France, and Scaleway SAS, in Paris, for mail and the encrypted backup copies —, with a single reservation, which it also states (the host's remote access from two countries recognised as adequate); and no tracker — which is why you saw no cookie banner. You may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL, 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, cnil.fr), or with the authority of the EU country where you live: that is your right, and this page does not ask you to write to us first.

7. Liability

Partly required, partly a drafting choice — the two halves are kept apart below, because they do not carry the same weight.

On the content you upload (the legal regime, which this page cannot alter). PalmaPlan stores what its users put into it: it is a hosting service within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 on digital services, applicable since 17 February 2024. On that basis the publisher is not liable for content uploaded by a user of which it has no knowledge, and must act promptly to remove manifestly unlawful content reported to it. Report it to the address in §4. Our reading, and it is one: PalmaPlan is not an "online platform" within the meaning of that regulation, because nothing in it is disseminated to the public — a schedule is visible only to individually invited people. The obligations specific to platforms therefore do not apply, in our view, while those borne by a plain hosting service do. No authority has confirmed this classification.

On the service itself (what we choose to say, because staying silent would mislead). PalmaPlan is a free beta. There is no availability commitment, no performance guarantee, no service agreement, and no obligation to keep your data beyond what the privacy policy describes. A daily backup exists and fourteen days are kept, with an encrypted copy off the server; the database is not encrypted at rest. The service may be interrupted, changed or shut down. Export what matters to you: that is what the button is for.

What we do not write, although many pages like this one do: we do not exclude our liability "to the fullest extent permitted by law". Being free erases neither fault, nor wilful misconduct, nor harm caused to people; a clause claiming otherwise would have no effect, and writing it would only create the illusion of protection.

8. Governing law, disputes, and mediation

A drafting choice resting on cited texts — and the place on this page where we must be most careful.

The governing law is French law, and PalmaPlan is published from France. This page does not claim to deprive you of the protective rules of the European Union country where you live, where those rules apply: a legal notice cannot set aside a mandatory rule.

Consumer mediation does not apply here, and we would rather write that than copy a formula that is false. Article L612-1 of the French consumer code obliges every professional to guarantee a consumer free access to a mediator for disputes arising from a contract entered into with them. Under the regime chosen in §1 — a non-professional publisher, a free service, no contract of sale — that obligation has no object: there is neither a professional within the meaning of that code, nor a consumer contract. We therefore appoint no mediator, and we do not claim to have one. The day PalmaPlan charges for anything, the obligation arises, a mediator must be chosen under agreement, and their name and website are written here.

Where our reading is a choice: we tie the absence of a mediator to the absence of professional status, not to the service being free — a professional providing a free service to a consumer could fall under the text. So it is the same uncertainty as in §1: the publisher has answered for their part (§1, on 05/10/2026), and what remains is settled by a legal review.

For everything else, write to the address in §4 first: on a one-person project, a message that gets read beats a procedure, and that is true on both sides.

9. Changes to this page

Drafting choice.

This page is versioned with PalmaPlan's code, in the file legal/mentions-legales.en.md of the repository. Every change is a dated, readable record, next to the product change that made it necessary. We do not rewrite the past.

A change of publisher, of host or of status — an entity created, a server taken out, a first euro invoiced — is reflected here in the same move, not in the following quarter. That is the rule of the legal/ folder and it holds for this document as for the others.

What changed on 12/10/2026: the host named and the publisher's identity declared to it (§3); the contact address, verified (§4); palmaplan.com going live with that host (§3), and the processors the privacy policy now names (§6, §7); the page, complete, and saying so (top of the page, §1).

What changed on 05/10/2026: the publishing regime, decided by the publisher — in their own name, on a non-professional basis, the identity declared to the host and not published (§1); the assumption at the top of this page, now confirmed; §6, which points to the privacy policy for the controller's name.

Date of this version: 12/10/2026.

Contact

contact@palmaplan.com — for this page, for your rights, to report a security problem, or to report unlawful content. Write in French or in English.