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Legal notice
Last updated: 3 September 2026.
This page is an English translation of the legal notice (mentions légales) of a French company, which is governed by French law. The French version is the one that applies.
Site publisher
The www.acupofwords.com website is published by Selea, a société à responsabilité limitée with a share capital of 5 000 €, registered with the trade and companies register of Mâcon under number 521 778 787.
a Cup of Words is the trading name under which Selea carries on its translation business, for companies and private clients alike. The company was set up on 16 April 2010 under the name Purple Digital, transferred from the trade register of Nanterre to that of Mâcon on 5 February 2013, and took the name Selea in 2020. It trades under the names Purple Digital, Purpl and a Cup of Words. It is the same legal entity, trading without interruption since 2010.
- Registered office
- 1 route de la Mondasse, 71250 La Vineuse sur Fregande, France
- Date of incorporation
- 16 April 2010
- SIRET
- 521 778 787 00023
- Intra-EU VAT number
- FR 37 521 778 787
- Publication director
- Silvia Vannier-Feranec, Managing Director
- Design & development
- Alexandre Vannier
- Contact
- silvia@acupofwords.com
Hosting
The site is hosted by Netlify, Inc., 512 2nd Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107, États-Unis. The pages are served from Netlify's delivery network, whose European servers serve visitors in France.
Intellectual property
All the content of this site (text, illustrations, photographs, logo and graphic elements) is the property of Selea or of its partners, and is protected by copyright. Any reproduction or representation, in whole or in part, without prior written permission, is prohibited.
The testimonials published on this site appear with the agreement of their authors, in the language in which they were written. The brands and logos of the clients and partners mentioned remain the property of their respective owners.
Personal data
The data you enter in the contact form is processed by Selea, the controller, on the basis of your consent, and is used solely to answer your enquiry. It is neither sold, nor assigned, nor passed on to third parties for commercial purposes.
The details (data collected, retention periods, processors, and the separate regime that applies to the documents you send for translation) are set out in the privacy policy, which is the reference text.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation and the French Data Protection Act, you have a right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection and data portability in respect of your data. You may exercise it through the contact form on this site. You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority, 3 place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, cnil.fr.
Cookies and audience measurement
The pages of this site set no cookies, whether for advertising, audience measurement or social networks. That is why no consent banner is shown to you.
Traffic is measured with Umami Cloud, a service published by the American company Umami Software, Inc., of which we use the European region: traffic data is processed and stored on servers located in the European Union. It is a cookie-free analytics tool that records no identifier, no full IP address and no browser fingerprint, and therefore cannot recognise you from one visit to the next. No data is shared with advertising networks.
No other third-party resource is loaded by the pages of this site: the fonts, the images and the content are served from the domain itself.
External links
This site links to third-party sites, in particular the ProZ.com professional profile, the Google business listing and the Selea website. We have no control over their content and cannot be held responsible for what is published there, nor for the use made of your data there.
Liability
The information published on this site is given for guidance and updated regularly. The rates shown apply to the services described and under the conditions stated; only the quote is binding. Selea cannot be held liable for damage resulting from a temporary unavailability of the site.
Accessibility
This site is designed to aim for level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1): measured contrasts, keyboard navigation, heading structure, text alternatives, and respect for the system preference for reduced motion. It has not been the subject of a conformity audit by a third party. If you have difficulty reaching any content, report it through the contact form: we will deal with it.
Credits
Design, copy and development: Selea.
Fonts: Nova Round, Source Serif 4 and IBM Plex Sans, hosted on our own servers under the SIL Open Font License.
All the photographs come from Unsplash: the neon sign is by Alexandra Tsal, the letterpress type by Laura Olsen, the engraved mug on the home page by Nathan Lemon, and the “BEGIN.” mug on the sworn translation page by Danielle MacInnes. The portrait of Silvia Vannier-Feranec belongs to her.
The three fonts this site serves are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which requires its text to accompany the files it is redistributed with. The links below save that text, as .txt files.
- Nova Round · wmk69
- Source Serif 4 · Source Serif 4 Project Authors, Adobe
- IBM Plex Sans · IBM Corp.