Legal Notice

1. Website Publisher

The website homeselect.paris is published by:

• Company name: HOME SELECT - VOTRE CHASSEUR IMMOBILIER
• Legal form: SAS (Simplified Joint-Stock Company, equivalent to a limited liability company) with a share capital of 1 000,00 €
• Registered office: 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France
• Phone: +33 1 78 76 78 10
• Email: contact@homeselect.paris
• Publication Director: Jean Mascla, President
• SIRET No.: 531 223 931 00068
• Trade Register (RCS): Paris 531 223 931
• EU VAT No.: FR23531223931
• NAF Code: 6831Z (Real estate agencies)
• Founded: 2011

Home Select is a property hunting firm founded in 2011 by Jean Mascla. The company employs 16 property hunters (chasseurs immobiliers) specializing in Paris and the Île-de-France region (all 20 Paris arrondissements and 46 surrounding municipalities). Since its founding, Home Select has assisted over 1,200 clients in their property search.

2. Regulated Activity

Home Select operates as a property hunter (chasseur immobilier), searching for properties on behalf of buyers. This is a regulated profession governed by the following French legislation:

• Law No. 70-9 of January 2, 1970 (Hoguet Law), regulating real estate transactions and property-related activities
• Decree No. 72-678 of July 20, 1972, implementing the Hoguet Law
• Law No. 2014-366 of March 24, 2014 (ALUR Law), strengthening transparency and continuing education requirements for real estate professionals
• Decree No. 2015-1090 of August 28, 2015, establishing the code of ethics for real estate professionals

Professional License

• Type: Real estate transaction license (Carte professionnelle de transaction)
• Number: CPI 7501 2018 000 028 939
• Issued by: Préfecture de Paris (Paris Île-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
• Authorized activities: Real estate transactions (purchasing on behalf of buyer clients)

Financial Guarantee

In accordance with Article 3 of the Hoguet Law and Article 3 of Decree No. 72-678, Home Select is exempt from the financial guarantee requirement. The firm does not hold any funds, securities, or valuables on behalf of its clients. Fees are paid directly at the notary's office upon signing the deed of sale.

Professional Liability Insurance

• Insurer: Suffren Assurances Associés
• Coverage: Professional liability insurance covering all real estate transaction activities carried out by Home Select and its agents

Professional Obligations

• Search mandate: Under Article 6 of the Hoguet Law, Home Select acts exclusively on the basis of a written, numbered search mandate registered in the mandate register
• Success-based fees: Fees are only due upon successful completion of the transaction (signing of the notarial deed), in accordance with Article 6(3) of the Hoguet Law
• Continuing education: Each professional completes 42 hours of continuing education over 3 years (14h/year), as required by Decree No. 2016-173 of February 18, 2016 (ALUR Law)
• Code of ethics: Home Select adheres to the real estate professionals' code of ethics (Decree No. 2015-1090), including obligations of ethics, transparency, client interest protection, and confidentiality
• Anti-money laundering: As a real estate professional covered by Article L.561-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code, Home Select is subject to Tracfin vigilance and reporting obligations for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing

Professional Membership

Home Select is a member of the FCI (Fédération des Chasseurs Immobiliers), a professional organization representing property hunters operating in France in compliance with the Hoguet Law.

3. Hosting Provider

The website homeselect.paris is hosted by:

• Company name: Vercel Inc.
• Address: 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, United States
• Website: vercel.com
• Infrastructure: Global Edge Network (CDN) with points of presence in Europe (Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam)
• Certification: SOC 2 Type II, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certified

The site is deployed as a static application (SSG, Static Site Generation) on Vercel's Edge Network. Form data is processed via serverless functions hosted in the Europe region (eu-west-1).

4. Intellectual Property

All content on the homeselect.paris website is protected under French intellectual property law (Articles L.111-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code) and trademark law.

Protected content

• Texts: articles, descriptions, market analyses, case studies, neighborhood guides
• Photographs: team portraits, property photos, Paris neighborhood photos. Any use, reproduction, or distribution of photographs is prohibited without written consent
• Logo and visual identity: the name "Home Select", the logo, and the entire brand guidelines are the exclusive property of Home Select
• Database: price-per-square-meter data, market trends, and neighborhood analyses constitute a protected database under Articles L.341-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code
• Architecture and source code: the site structure, navigation, and source code are protected

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, or adaptation of all or part of the site elements, by any means or process, is prohibited without prior written authorization from Home Select. Any unauthorized use of the site or any of its elements shall be considered an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with Articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

5. Personal Data

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) and French Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended (Data Protection Act), you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access (Article 15 GDPR)
• Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
• Right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR)
• Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
• Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
• Right to object (Article 21 GDPR)

To exercise these rights or for any questions about your data processing, contact us by email at contact@homeselect.paris or by mail at our registered office. We will respond within one month, in accordance with Article 12 of the GDPR.

For more information about how we collect, process, store, and secure your data, please see our privacy policy.

You may also file a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL), 3 Place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, or via www.cnil.fr.

6. Cookies and Trackers

In accordance with Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act and CNIL guidelines of September 17, 2020 on cookies and trackers, the homeselect.paris website uses cookies subject to your prior consent.

Consent principle

No analytics or advertising cookies are set before you have expressed your choice via the consent banner. Your choice is stored for 13 months. You can change your preferences at any time via the "Manage cookies" link in the website footer.

Cookies used

For more information, see our privacy policy (Section 9: Cookies).

7. Live Chat

The homeselect.paris website includes a live chat service provided by:

• Provider: Crisp SAS, a French company
• Registered office: 2 Boulevard de Launay, 44100 Nantes, France
• Data hosting: France (datacenters located in France)
• Compliance: GDPR-compliant, data hosted exclusively within the European Union

Chat conversations are used solely to answer your questions and improve our service. Conversation data is retained in accordance with our privacy policy.

8. Hyperlinks

The homeselect.paris website may contain hyperlinks to other websites (property portals, institutional sites, partners). Home Select has no control over the content of these third-party sites and disclaims any responsibility for their content, data protection practices, or availability.

Creating hyperlinks to homeselect.paris is permitted, provided that framing techniques are not used and that the image of Home Select is not harmed.

9. Liability

Home Select endeavors to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of information published on the site. However, Home Select cannot guarantee the completeness or absence of errors in published content.

Information relating to property prices, market trends, and neighborhood analyses is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute a property valuation within the meaning of the French Charter of Real Estate Valuation. For a precise estimate, we recommend scheduling a personalized consultation with one of our property hunters.

Home Select shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect damages resulting from access to or use of the information on the site, including in the event of temporary service interruption for maintenance or updates.

10. Consumer Mediation

In accordance with Articles L.612-1 and R.612-1 of the French Consumer Code, any consumer has the right to use a consumer mediator free of charge for the amicable resolution of a dispute with a professional.

The mediator designated for Home Select is:

• Organization: GIE IMMOMEDIATEURS
• Address: 55 avenue Marceau, 75116 Paris
• Trade Register: 818 344 780
• Website: https://www.conso.immomediateurs.com

Procedure: Before contacting the mediator, you must first attempt to resolve the dispute directly with Home Select via a written complaint (email to contact@homeselect.paris or letter to our registered office). If no satisfactory response is provided within two months, you may then contact the mediator.

European platform: In accordance with EU Regulation No. 524/2013, you may also submit your complaint on the European Online Dispute Resolution platform: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr

11. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

This legal notice is governed by French law.

In the event of a dispute relating to the interpretation or performance of this notice, and failing amicable resolution, the courts of Paris (Tribunal judiciaire de Paris, Parvis du Tribunal de Paris, 75017 Paris) shall have exclusive jurisdiction, unless a different mandatory jurisdiction applies in favor of the consumer (Article R.631-3 of the French Consumer Code).

12. Credits

• Website design and development: Home Select
• Photography: Home Select and partner photographers (all rights reserved)
• Icons: Phosphor Icons (MIT License)
• Typefaces: Source Serif 4 (Adobe, SIL Open Font License) and Jost (Owen Earl, SIL Open Font License)
• Mapping: Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause License), OpenStreetMap base maps (ODbL License)
• Real estate data: Home Select estimates based on DVF data (Demandes de Valeurs Foncières, public database of the French tax authority DGFiP), market listings, and field feedback from our 16 property hunters