Legal notice

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UPS in Space

332 allée Huguette Delavault

Maison des Étudiants et des Personnels — building U5

2nd floor, door 222

31400 Toulouse, France

Registered association governed by the French law of 1 July 1901.

SIREN: 839 804 895, SIRET of the registered office: 839 804 895 00010

Director of publication: Jean Kellens, chair, in his capacity as legal representative of the association.

Contact: Write to the chair

The Observatoire Jocelyn Bell de Toulouse site, operated by UPS in Space, uses the WordPress content management system with the Avada theme by ThemeFusion.

Publisher: UPS in Space

Design and graphic creation, development and integration: UPS in Space

Content: UPS in Space

Editorial contact: Write to the association

Hosting: o2switch

o2switch, SAS with capital of €100,000, chemin des Pardiaux, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Telephone: +33 4 44 44 60 40. SIRET 510 909 807 00024, RCS Clermont-Ferrand.

The whole of this site falls under French and international copyright and intellectual property law. All reproduction rights are reserved, including for downloadable documents and for pictorial and photographic representations.

Copies for private, non-commercial use are permitted subject to the intellectual property rights mentioned. Our logos (UPS in Space, Thea and the Jocelyn Bell Observatory in Toulouse) may be used in the context of UPS in Space taking part in events or being cited in press articles. Such use is in accordance with our brand guidelines and under the control of UPS in Space. Using our logos in order to harm the association, or outside the terms above, is prohibited. Anyone in breach is liable to legal proceedings.

Reproduction of the pages of this site is permitted under the following conditions:

  • Distribution free of charge;
  • Respect for the integrity of the documents reproduced (no modification or alteration of any kind);
  • Citing obs-jbt.upsinspace.com as the source and stating that reproduction rights are reserved and strictly limited.

Reproducing this site, in whole or in part, on an electronic medium is permitted for private use, subject to adding the source (obs-jbt.upsinspace.com) clearly and legibly, together with the words “Rights reserved”. Any information used will be for personal, association or professional purposes only, thereby excluding commercial and advertising purposes. Making all or part of the site available on a server is prohibited.

Notices to cite: © UPS in Space. As regards the observatory: © Observatoire Jocelyn Bell de Toulouse / UPS in Space.

Credits: photographs, UPS in Space, unless otherwise stated beside the image. Images of people are published with the permission of the people concerned, or of their legal representatives for minors; any request for removal is dealt with without delay. Partner logos: the property of their respective holders, used with their permission.

The Observatoire Jocelyn Bell de Toulouse site permits a hypertext link pointing to its content, provided the information is used for personal, association or professional purposes.

Any use for commercial or advertising purposes is excluded.

Please note that this permission does not apply to websites carrying content that is polemical, pornographic, xenophobic or that may more broadly offend general sensibilities. For other uses, please consult us at the following address: Write to the association

Some hypertext links take you away from the site. These target sites are not under the control of UPS in Space. We are therefore not responsible for their content, for the links they contain or for the changes or updates made to them. The risks of using those sites are entirely the user’s.

Membership, donations and paid registrations go through HelloAsso, which takes the payments, issues the receipts and applies its own terms and conditions.

For an invoiced service, outreach, an appearance or a partnership, the terms are agreed in the quotation, before anything takes place. Write to us through the contact form.

This site is subject to French law. In the event of a dispute, an amicable solution will be sought before any legal action; failing that, the French courts have jurisdiction.

Personal data

The data controller is UPS in Space, whose details appear in the legal information above.

UPS in Space undertakes that the processing of personal data carried out from its website complies with the regulations on the protection of personal data, including French Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, data files and civil liberties, known as the “informatique et libertés” Act, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation.

Information relating to a natural person identified, directly or indirectly, whether by reference to a name, an identification number, location data or to one or more factors specific to their physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity, is regarded as “personal data”.

Accordingly, any operation, whether automated or carried out by our teams, on personal data is regarded as “processing”. This includes in particular access, collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation, alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure, alignment, restriction, erasure and destruction of any personal data.

  • Message sent through a form: to reply to you. The processing rests on your request itself.
  • Membership: to keep the register of members and to meet the association’s accounting obligations.
  • Application or project proposal: to consider the request, for the duration of the campaign concerned.
  • Language cookie: to show you the site again in the language you chose. It is strictly necessary and does not require your consent.
  • Answer to the consent bar: so as not to ask you again on every page, and to keep a record of your choice.
  • Protection against robots: the host’s o2s-chl technical cookie, set when it checks that a visit is not automated. It is strictly necessary and does not require your consent.
  • Audience measurement: visitor statistics, through Google Analytics 4, only with your consent. Processing is based on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act).

This site sets no advertising tracker, and no information is passed to an advertiser.

Audience measurement through Google Analytics 4: this tool, published by Google Ireland Ltd, is used to compile visitor statistics. It loads and sets its cookies only after you consent, in the bar; you can withdraw that consent at any time from the same bar, through the “Privacy choices” button. Its cookies, _ga and _ga_*, last 13 months at most. Google keeps the data collected for 14 months. It may be transferred to the United States, a transfer governed by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Google signals are turned off.

Three cookies are set: pll_language, which keeps your choice of language so that the site is shown to you in the same language on your next visit, kept for one year; privacy_embeds, which keeps your answer to the consent bar, kept for six months and set only once you have answered; and o2s-chl, the host’s technical cookie, set when it checks that a visit is not a robot. The first and the last are strictly necessary to the running of the site and do not require your consent. Only with your consent, Google Analytics adds its _ga and _ga_* cookies, described in the paragraph on audience measurement.

The outside services that may be called on: the YouTube video on the Observatory page, the meteoblue forecasts on the planning page, the views from the pic du Midi cameras, served by Viewsurf and Skaping, and the HelloAsso membership and donation forms. None of them loads until you ask for it: each is allowed service by service from the consent bar. As long as you do not ask for them, no information is passed to them.

What your consent entails: as soon as you allow YouTube, Google receives your IP address and may set its own cookies. The HelloAsso forms load only on computers and tablets; once loaded, they set trackers from HelloAsso and its partners (among others, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Bing and Clarity, Facebook, Criteo), some forty advertising and audience-measurement services in all. On phones, two buttons open the HelloAsso page, and nothing is loaded on this site. These services may process that data outside the European Union, under their own policies. You can change your mind at any time from the bar.

Protection against robots: the forms on this site are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that you are not an automated program. It loads with the page, before any consent, because it protects the very form you are about to fill in. It sets no cookie and serves no advertising; your IP address is passed to Cloudflare for the length of that check.

The site itself is hosted in France, with o2switch, and the messages sent through the forms do not leave it.

  • o2switch, in France: hosting of the site and delivery of the messages sent through the forms.
  • HelloAsso, in France: membership, donations and paid registrations. Its membership and donation forms are displayed on this site and load only with your consent; its own policy applies to them.
  • Google: only if you allow a YouTube video. Google then receives your IP address and may process that data outside the European Union, under its own policy.
  • Cloudflare: protection of the forms against robots (Turnstile), for which Cloudflare receives your IP address for the length of the check.
  • Google Analytics, published by Google Ireland Ltd: audience measurement, only with your consent. The data may be transferred to the United States, under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
  • meteoblue, in Switzerland, Viewsurf and Skaping, in France: forecasts and views from the pic du Midi cameras, only if you allow them. They then receive your IP address.
  • Open-Meteo: forecast data cited as a source, under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Our servers read it: your browser does not call this service.

No other recipient. The data is neither sold, nor passed on, nor used for advertising.

  • Message sent through a form, and its copy recorded on the site: 24 months at most.
  • Application or project proposal received through a form on this site: 24 months at most. Application filed on the portal: under the portal’s privacy policy.
  • Membership: as long as the association’s accounting obligations require.
  • Language cookie: one year, measured in the server’s response header.
  • Answer to the consent bar: six months, a theme setting.
  • The host’s technical cookie (o2s-chl): the length the host sets for its check.
  • Google Analytics cookies (_ga and _ga_*): 13 months at most. Audience measurement data at Google: 14 months.

The processing of personal data carried out on the Observatoire Jocelyn Bell de Toulouse website gives users the following rights:

  • Right to information;
  • Right of access to the data;
  • Right to rectification of the data;
  • Right to erasure of the data;
  • Right to restriction of processing;
  • Right to data portability;
  • Right to object to processing;
  • Right to set instructions on the storage, erasure and disclosure of your data after your death (Article 85 of the French Data Protection Act);
  • Right to withdraw your consent at any time, from the bar (“Privacy choices”).

To exercise your rights, you may contact us at Write to the association.

Should you not receive an answer to your request within a reasonable time, you may lodge a complaint with the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés.

UPS in Space points out that the public availability of personal data on its sites in no way entitles anyone to collect or use that data, whatever the purpose.

The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés can be reached through its website or by post: 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, France.

Accessibility

This statement covers both of the association’s sites: www.upsinspace.com and obs-jbt.upsinspace.com, the site of the Jocelyn Bell Observatory in Toulouse. Both share the same theme, the same visual identity and the same test benches.

  • Text contrast. Measured on the pages as they are served, in both modes, across all thirty-four pages of the association’s site and the fifty of the observatory’s, in the two rendering engines that produced a record, Chromium and WebKit, each at four screen widths. Firefox was not measured: it does not render without a graphical interface on the machine that runs the benches. No combination below the AA threshold (4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for large text).
  • Keyboard navigation. The first forty interactive elements of a page were stepped through with the tab key. Every one of them shows a visible focus indicator.
  • Headings and structure. One first-level heading per page, across the whole site, and a heading hierarchy with no skipped level, with one exception : the events block on the association’s home page puts a fourth-level heading under a second-level one. That markup comes from the calendar plugin.
  • Image descriptions. Every meaningful image carries a text description, checked page by page.
  • Touch targets. Links and buttons measure at least 24 pixels in both dimensions, measured at four screen widths, with one exception : the Linktree icon in the association’s social bar measures 16 × 24. On the observatory’s site, the same icon is a square tile and passes the threshold. The main targets, navigation links and buttons, exceed 44 pixels.
  • Language and page titles. The document language is declared, and passages written in a language other than the page’s carry their own language marker. Each page carries a distinct title that describes it.
  • Form fields. Every field carries a label. One caveat : the group of checkboxes in the consent bar is not wrapped in a field group, markup produced by the theme.

These checks are automated and replayed whenever either site changes, so that a regression shows up instead of settling in. Last run on the observatory’s site on 22 August 2026: thirty-eight pages, in both languages and both modes, that is seventy-six readings. The single discrepancy found was fixed the same day. Since then the observatory’s sitemap carries fifty pages. All published pages were measured on 28 October 2026, including those that are not listed in the sitemap.

  • No full RGAA audit. The 106 criteria of the framework have not been gone through one by one. The points above have been measured; the others have not, which does not mean they fail.
  • Screen reader reading. The site has not yet been gone through end to end with a screen reader by somebody who uses one every day. That is the check we miss most, and no automated measurement replaces it.
  • Documents to download. The PDF documents announced, the teaching pack and the press pack, are not published yet. The substance of each will appear as text in the page, the PDF coming as a printable addition.
  • English version. The site is translated into English, pages, menus and forms included. This translation has not yet been reviewed by a native English speaker : where the two versions differ, the French version prevails.
  • Third-party content. Videos hosted by outside services only load with your consent. Their player and their subtitles are the concern of that service, over which the association has no control.

If a page is not accessible to you, tell us : it is the surest way to make this site better. Describe what you were looking for, which page it was and what stopped you, through the contact form. We reply and, if we cannot fix it straight away, we send you the information you asked for by another means.

Means of redress. If a report goes without a satisfactory answer, you may refer the matter to the French Défenseur des droits, through its online form, by post free of charge (Défenseur des droits, Libre réponse 71120, 75342 Paris CEDEX 07) or by contacting the delegate for your department.

Statement drawn up on 21 August 2026 and updated on 28 October 2026, on the basis of the measurements described above. It will be updated whenever either site changes materially.