Terms of use

1. Using the site

What you read on geo-strasbourg.com honestly and in good faith describes how I work as of the day it was written. It is information, not legal, regulatory or commercial advice; acting on it outside an active engagement is something you do on your own judgement and at your own risk.

Please do not scrape the site's text in bulk, rebuild my audit method from the public pages, or republish long passages without credit. Linking to a page, or quoting a passage while clearly attributing the source, is welcome and needs no permission.

2. The contact form

Sending the form opens a conversation, not a contract: it creates no offer and no commitment on either side. It is simply a tidy way to give me the context of your case. I reply once that context is enough to say something useful. Submitting it gives you no automatic right to a particular answer, a fixed turnaround, or a service.

I may also decline a message: it might fall outside what I examine, my current availability might not allow it, or there may be another practical reason. A decline is never a judgement on your business; it usually comes down to fit and to how much time I have.

3. The shape of an engagement

A paid audit or correction engagement begins only after both of us have signed a written agreement. That agreement is where scope, deliverables, timing, fees, payment terms, confidentiality, intellectual property and dispute resolution are set out. These site terms do not stand in for it.

An engagement reads the public web evidence about your business — your own pages, your maps entry, your service pages, your public profiles, the fragments of guides and directories that mention you, in both French and German — and points to where the wording or the visible elements make you hard for an AI answer to name, place, classify or understand correctly. Every recommendation ties to something concrete and visible, never to a vague brand notion; French and German pages are checked so the two tell the same business reality; and no part of the engagement promises to control rankings or citation share. Where an instruction would cut against this way of working, the engagement is renegotiated or ended rather than bent.

4. No guaranteed result

How a business shows up in answer engines and in search depends on things no one fully controls: how the models behave, the policies of third-party platforms, the changes you choose to apply, the market, and the plain passage of time. So nothing here is promised: not a position in the results, not a citation from any model, not a recommendation, not any particular AI behaviour. What the engagement does is read the public evidence, weigh it across sources and across French and German, and name the wording and visible elements most likely to make your business easier to interpret correctly. The results stay outside my control, and the concrete, bounded expectations live in the written agreement.

5. Liability

For free use of the site, my liability is limited as far as the law allows. For paid work, it is stated and capped in the written agreement. None of this removes liability for deliberate wrongdoing, fraud, gross negligence, or anything the law forbids excluding.

6. Governing law

Use of the site is governed by the law of the place where I am established, except where consumer-protection law gives you a more favourable forum. For a paid engagement, the governing law and the competent court are fixed in the written agreement.

7. Changes to these terms

These terms are reviewed as the way I work changes, and the version in force is the one marked by the "Updated" date at the top. A change touching an engagement already under way is communicated directly to the client concerned; a change to the site alone simply appears here.

Contact

Any question about these terms reaches me at hello@geo-strasbourg.com.