Terms of use
This document covers use of the site answerenginefrance.com and the synthesis-case contact channel of Atelier Syntheclair. The site is informational: it publishes research notes on how answer engines select, attribute and synthesise final answers about French businesses. The lab sells no visibility services, no advertising and no brand diagnostics.
1. Use of the site
What is published on answerenginefrance.com reflects, in good faith, the lab's observations at the time of publication. Each note describes visible synthesis behaviour under stated conditions — it is not legal, regulatory or commercial advice, and it is not a verdict on any company, source or engine. Decisions you base on the site's content remain at your own risk.
Industrial harvesting of the site's content is not permitted, nor is republishing long extracts without attribution. Linking and quoting with a stated source is, as a rule, fine.
2. Synthesis-case form
Sending a synthesis case is not an offer, a contract or a promise from either side. It is simply a structured way to share a visible answer, the query behind it, the business category and the mismatch you saw. Atelier Syntheclair reads a case when the visible answer allows a methodological reading. The submission on its own creates no right to a particular reply, a response time or a piece of research.
A case may be set aside if its subject falls outside the lab's scope, if current capacity does not allow it, or if it cannot be examined from a visible answer. Setting a case aside is not a judgement on your business.
3. Liability
For use of the site, liability is limited to the fullest extent the applicable law allows. The lab's materials describe synthesis behaviour in answer engines, which turns on factors no one fully controls: engine updates, third-party platform policy, browsing access, citation rules and time. No guarantee is given about how an answer engine will name, soften, borrow from or erase any business. Liability is not excluded for wilful misconduct, fraud, gross negligence, or any other case the law does not allow to be excluded.
4. Applicable law and jurisdiction
French law applies, with jurisdiction of the courts at the operator's place of residence, unless consumer-protection legislation imposes a different jurisdiction in the user's favour.
5. Changes to these terms
These terms are revised as the working model evolves. The "Updated" date at the top marks the version in force. Changes that concern only the site are reflected here.
Contact
Questions about these terms: hello@answerenginefrance.com.