Protected Access for Name-Change and Civil Status Acts
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This rule makes sure certain individual civil-status and nationality decisions are published in a way that prevents search engines from indexing them. In practice, the records remain available on Légifrance, but only through protected access, which limits public search visibility and helps protect privacy. It mainly affects people whose name-change, civil-status, or nationality acts are published, along with anyone who uses official legal databases. Public bodies must publish these acts under privacy-safe conditions, and users should not expect them to appear in normal web search results.
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Key Changes
- Certain civil-status and nationality acts cannot be published in a search-engine-indexed form.
- The records stay available on Légifrance through protected access.
- Public authorities must use publication methods that protect privacy and limit online discoverability.
Obligations
What this law requires
Public authorities publishing individual acts relating to a person's civil status or nationality must do so only under conditions that ensure the acts are not indexed by search engines.
Individual acts relating to the civil status or nationality of persons may be published in the Journal officiel de la République française only if they are made available in a privacy-protective manner that prevents search-engine indexing.
The relevant acts must be made accessible on Légifrance through 'Accès protégé' rather than through unrestricted public indexing.