Legal Information and Terms of Use
Last updated: October 2026.
This page sets out the legal information for the website nice-property-finder.com: publisher, terms of use, protection of your personal data, cookies, mediation and complaints.
Contents: Publisher · Regulated activity · Hosting · Terms of use · Personal data · Cookies · Mediation and complaints · Reporting content
Website publisher
The website nice-property-finder.com is published by VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, a French single-shareholder simplified joint-stock company (“société par actions simplifiée à associé unique”, SASU) with a share capital of €1,000.
- Registered office: 7 rue Auguste Gal, 06300 Nice, France. This is an administrative address with no public reception: meetings are arranged by appointment.
- Registration: Nice Trade and Companies Register (RCS Nice) 109 944 496 — SIRET 109 944 496 00016 — APE code 68.31Z
- Telephone: +33 6 69 07 20 11
- Email:
- President: Marc VAN DEN BROECK
- Publication director: Marc VAN DEN BROECK
Regulated activity
VDB IMMOBILIER NICE carries out real estate transaction activities governed by French Law No. 70-9 of 2 January 1970 (known as the “loi Hoguet”) and its implementing Decree No. 72-678 of 20 July 1972.
- Professional licence (carte professionnelle) “Transactions sur immeubles et fonds de commerce” No. CPI 0605 2026 000 000 144, issued on 7 October 2026 by the Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI Nice-Côte d’Azur), 20 boulevard Carabacel, 06005 Nice Cedex 1, France.
- No holding of funds: the company may not receive or hold any funds, securities or valuables. It therefore has no financial guarantee, which is not required in this case.
- Professional liability insurance: MMA IARD Assurances Mutuelles and MMA IARD SA, 160 rue Henri Champion, 72030 Le Mans Cedex 9, France, policy No. 103 165 800. Territorial coverage: France.
- Professional rules: Law No. 70-9 of 2 January 1970, Decree No. 72-678 of 20 July 1972 and the code of ethics for real estate professionals (Decree No. 2015-1090 of 28 August 2015), available in French on www.legifrance.gouv.fr.
- Fees: the fee scale is available on the Property Search Fees page.
- Consumer mediation: Société Médiation Professionnelle, see Mediation and complaints below.
Hosting
The website is hosted by o2switch, a French SAS with a share capital of €100,000, Chemin des Pardiaux, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Telephone: +33 4 44 44 60 40. SIRET 510 909 807 00032. Website: www.o2switch.fr.
Terms of use
Purpose
These terms apply to any use of the website nice-property-finder.com, published by VDB IMMOBILIER NICE (see Website publisher). By using the website, you accept these terms.
A free information website
The website is free to consult. No account or registration is required.
The website presents the property search services of VDB IMMOBILIER NICE for English-speaking buyers looking for a property in Nice and on the French Riviera. It also lets you send us a search request or a message. These requests are free and without obligation: they are neither a mandate, nor a contract, nor an order.
A real estate assignment (search for or sale of a property) can only start once a written mandate has been signed, as required by French Law No. 70-9 of 2 January 1970. The mandate then sets out the assignment, its length and the fees, which remain within the limits of the fee scale.
Prices and market information are indicative
The prices, price ranges and trends shown are indicative. They are neither a property valuation by a certified expert, nor a guarantee of a sale or purchase price, nor legal, tax or financial advice.
Before any important decision (purchase, financing, tax return), we recommend that you check this information and, where necessary, consult a professional who will review your situation.
If you notice an error, please report it to : we will check it and correct it if confirmed.
Intellectual property and photographs
The texts, photographs, graphics, logos and layout of the website are protected by copyright. Unless stated otherwise, the texts, graphics, logos and layout belong to VDB IMMOBILIER NICE. The photographs come from VDB IMMOBILIER NICE or from third parties who have authorised their use: each remains the property of its author.
You may quote short extracts provided you state the source and link to the page. Any other reproduction requires our prior written consent and, for a third-party photograph, that of its author.
If a photograph shows you or something you would like removed, please write to : we will review your request promptly.
Links to other websites
The website contains links to other websites, including other websites of VDB IMMOBILIER NICE. We choose these links carefully, but we do not control the content of third-party websites, which is the responsibility of their publishers.
Availability and liability
We do our best to keep the website available and its information accurate. However, the website may be interrupted, in particular for maintenance, and errors may remain despite our checks.
VDB IMMOBILIER NICE is liable for damage caused by its fault, under the ordinary rules of French law. It cannot be held liable for a decision taken solely on the basis of the general and indicative information on the website, without verification or personalised advice. These terms do not deprive consumers of their statutory rights.
Changes to this page
These terms and this information may change, in particular if a tool is added to or removed from the website. The applicable version is the one online when you visit the website; the date of the last update is shown at the top of the page.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by French law. If you encounter any difficulty, please contact us first at . If you are a consumer, you may then refer the matter free of charge to the consumer mediator (see Mediation and complaints). Failing agreement, the dispute may be brought before the competent court under the ordinary rules of French law.
Protection of personal data
This section explains which personal data are processed when you use the website nice-property-finder.com, why, for how long, and how to exercise your rights.
Who is responsible for your data?
VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, SASU with a share capital of €1,000, 7 rue Auguste Gal, 06300 Nice, France, RCS Nice 109 944 496, represented by its President, Marc VAN DEN BROECK.
Contact for any question about your data: , or by post to the registered office.
Which data, and for what purpose?
You can browse the website without creating an account and without giving us any data. We only receive your contact details if you send them to us.
| Situation | Data | Purpose | Legal basis | Retention period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online questionnaire (Typeform form) | Contact details and answers to the questionnaire (for example search criteria, budget, project) | Answer your request and contact you again | Pre-contractual steps taken at your request | 3 years after our last exchange initiated by you |
| Direct email or telephone call | Contact details, content of the exchange | Answer your request | Pre-contractual steps or legitimate interest in replying | 3 years after our last exchange initiated by you |
| Technical logs and hosting security | IP address, date and time, page requested, browser | Security and proper functioning of the website, prevention of abuse | Legitimate interest | Period set by our host o2switch |
Your requests do not commit you to anything: they are neither a mandate nor a contract. If you then entrust a mandate to VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, you will receive an information notice specific to mandates: it describes the processing related to the mandate, viewings, invoicing and anti-money laundering obligations.
We do not use your data for fully automated decision-making. We do not sell or rent them.
Who receives your data?
Your data are intended for VDB IMMOBILIER NICE. They are only disclosed to a third party with your consent or where required by law (for example to a competent authority).
We use the following technical services:
- o2switch (Clermont-Ferrand, France): website hosting;
- Google (Gmail): receiving and sending emails addressed to ;
- Typeform SL (Barcelona, Spain): online questionnaires;
- Wordfence (Defiant Inc., United States): protection of the website against attacks, which analyses in particular the IP address of connections.
Google, Typeform and Wordfence, or their own processors, may process data outside the European Union, in particular in the United States, under the safeguards described in their privacy policies. You may ask us for details at .
Content embedded from other websites
Some fonts are loaded from Google servers (Google Fonts), which then receive your IP address.
Links to other websites (for example other websites of VDB IMMOBILIER NICE) take you away from this website: the privacy policy of the website visited then applies.
Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction and portability of your data, as well as the right to object at any time, in particular to direct marketing. Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time, without affecting what was done before.
To exercise these rights, write to or to VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, 7 rue Auguste Gal, 06300 Nice, France. We reply within one month. We may ask you for proof of identity if we have reasonable doubts about your identity.
If you consider that your rights are not respected, you may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).
If you live in France and do not wish to receive telephone marketing calls, you can register free of charge on the Bloctel opt-out list (www.bloctel.gouv.fr).
Security
We restrict access to your data to the persons who need it, that is the company’s director. We require appropriate security guarantees from our service providers.
Cookies and other trackers
A cookie, or tracker, is a small file stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. Some are essential for the website to work. Others, such as audience measurement cookies, require your prior consent.
Cookies used on nice-property-finder.com
As of the date of the last update of this page, the website does not use any audience measurement, advertising or social media cookies. No consent banner is therefore displayed. If such a tool is added, this page will be updated and your consent will be requested before any cookie is stored.
| Cookie | Issuer | Purpose | Duration | Your consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_*, wp-settings-*, wfwaf-authcookie-* | nice-property-finder.com | Login to the administration area, for website managers only (none stored for ordinary visitors) | Session to 1 year | Not required (essential) |
Content from other websites
Fonts loaded from other websites are described above, under Content embedded from other websites.
The request buttons open Typeform questionnaires on the Typeform website. No Typeform cookie is stored on nice-property-finder.com; Typeform’s rules apply once its form is open.
Managing your choices
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The website remains available, but some features may no longer work.
Find out more
- CNIL, “Cookies et autres traceurs” (in French): www.cnil.fr
- Contact:
Mediation and complaints
Making a complaint
If you encounter any difficulty with VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, please write to us first:
- by email: ;
- by post: VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, 7 rue Auguste Gal, 06300 Nice, France.
Please state your contact details, the subject of your complaint and, where applicable, the reference of your mandate. We will reply in writing within one month at most.
Disputes — consumer mediation
In the event of a dispute between the client and VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, they will endeavour to settle it amicably: the client sends a written complaint to VDB IMMOBILIER NICE, using the contact details above.
Failing an amicable agreement, or if the professional has not replied within a reasonable period of one (1) month, the client who is a consumer within the meaning of Article L. 612-2 of the French Consumer Code may, if the disagreement persists, refer the matter free of charge to the competent mediator listed by the French Commission for the Evaluation and Control of Consumer Mediation (Commission d’évaluation et de contrôle de la médiation de la consommation) under Article L. 615-1 of the French Consumer Code, namely:
Société Médiation Professionnelle — www.mediateur-consommation-smp.fr — Alteritae, 5 rue Salvaing, 12000 Rodez, France
Mediation is free and optional. The mediator cannot be contacted before a written complaint has been sent to us. Mediation does not deprive you of the right to go to court.
Reporting content and right of reply
To report an error or content that you consider unlawful, write to , stating the address of the page concerned.
Any person named or designated on the website has a right of reply. It is exercised with the publication director, at the registered office or by email, within three months of the content concerned being made available.