The Council

Legal notice

Last updated: 29 August 2026.

Publisher

The Council is published by EICA, a simplified joint-stock company (société par actions simplifiée, SAS), registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register on 18 January 2023.

SIREN: 948 146 154. SIRET (registered office): 948 146 154 00018. VAT number: FR95948146154. RCS: 948 146 154 R.C.S. Paris. Also entered on the RNE.

Publication director: Theo Granowsky.

Host

The site is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, United States.

Intellectual property

All text, portraits, marks, and graphic elements of The Council are protected. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited.

Advisor names refer to public-domain authors. The Council is not affiliated with their estates, museums, or institutions.

Personal data

Sessions are private. Nobody reads them. Nothing you write or say is published, sold, or used to train a model. If you speak, the recording is turned into text and discarded; only the text is kept.

An account may be created through Clerk in order to keep your sessions. An email address given to The Council is used to reach you about your account or your session — including a letter from the Chair the morning after a verdict — and for nothing else.

Product analytics (pages visited, buttons used, not the text of a session) are processed in the EU by PostHog. Session recordings are off. Transcripts are not sent there.

Under the GDPR, you may ask the publisher, EICA, for access to, correction of, or deletion of your data.