The Louvre Endowment Fund, which is responsible for processing your personal data, may collect, use, transfer, store or otherwise process data concerning you for statistical studies (Google Analytics).

The data stored shall only be used by the Louvre Endowment Fund for its usual activities. Data shall be stored for a period of 3 years from the date it was collected. In accordance with the amended French data privacy law of January 6, 1978, and the European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 dated April 27, 2016, you have the right to access, amend, correct, remove, contest, and transfer data concerning you. You can therefore request that information concerning you that is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous or outdated be rectified, completed, clarified, updated or deleted. You can also exercise your right to oppose and limit the processing of your data as well as your right to transfer information concerning you.

To exercise this right, send a letter to “Fonds de dotation du musée du Louvre, Palais du Louvre, 75058 Paris Cedex 01” or email to: fondsdedotation@louvre.fr. You also have a right of appeal to a national supervisory authority such as the National Commission for Data Protection and Liberties (CNIL) in the event of a breach of the applicable regulations on the protection of personal data.

General structure of the website

The general structure of this website is the exclusive property of the Louvre Endowment Fund. Any reproduction, representation in whole or in part, use, adaptation, provision or modification by any process, person or means whatsoever (particularly for sales, marketing, rental, etc.) without the express authorization of the Louvre Endowment Fund, any authors or rights holders is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Website content

The Louvre Endowment Fund is assignee of the intellectual property rights and/or holder of the necessary operating authorizations for the distribution of scientific, cultural and educational content on its website. This content includes, but is not limited to: texts, images, photographs, audio recordings, logos, and audiovisual or multimedia documents.

Any reproduction, representation in whole or in part, use, adaptation, provision or modification by any process, person or means whatsoever (particularly sales, marketing, rental, etc.) without the express authorization of the authors or their assignees is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Photo credits

Go to the website’s photo credits page.

Trademarks and logos

The trademarks of the public institution of the Musée du Louvre, including logos featuring on the website, are official trademarks that have been registered with the intellectual property offices and are protected by industrial property rights.

Any reproduction in whole or in part of these trademarks and/or logos made from elements of the website without the express permission of their owners is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of the French Intellectual Property Code.

In accordance with Articles L.321-1 and L.322-1 of the French Code on Relations between the Public and the Administration (Code des relations entre le public et l’administration), the information and calendar of events on this website are considered public information and may be used freely provided that they are not altered, their meaning is not distorted, and mention is made of their sources and the date of their last update.

Rights to the administrative public sector information are not transferred to the re-user. The re-user benefits from a personal and non-exclusive right to re-use the administrative public sector information.

Any person re-using public sector information in violation of the abovementioned provisions is liable to a fine by the Commission on Access to Administrative Documents (CADA in French), an independent body responsible for ensuring the freedom of access to administrative documents.

The Louvre Endowment Fund authorizes the use of hypertext links to its content provided that:

– deep linking is not used, i.e. pages from the « www.dotation.louvre.fr » website must not be embedded within pages on another site, they must be accessible via the opening of a new window;
– the source is mentioned and the hypertext link leads directly to the content.

The information must only be used for personal, associative or professional; all use for commercial or advertising purposes is strictly prohibited.

This authorization does not apply to websites sharing information that breaches human dignity, public order and common decency.

The Louvre Endowment Fund undertakes to ensure the information available on «www.dotation.louvre.fr » is available, accurate and up-to-date, and reserves the right to modify the content at any time without prior notification. The Louvre Endowment Fund cannot, however, guarantee the availability, accuracy, updating, and completeness of the website information. The use of information contained on this website shall remain the sole responsibility of the user.

The Louvre Endowment Fund shall not be held responsible for content accessed via hypertext links on the «www.dotation.louvre.fr » website. Links to other sites are provided to users for convenience only.