French Legal Notice Generator (Mentions Légales) — LCEN Compliant

Free actor. Generate a compliant French legal notice (mentions légales) as ready-to-paste HTML and plain text, from nothing more than a SIREN or SIRET number. Company data (legal name, legal form, head-office address, SIREN/SIRET, RCS city, intra-community VAT number, publication director) is fetched automatically from the official French government registry (API Recherche d'Entreprises — INSEE/RNE data, Etalab open licence).

Every website published in France must display mentions légales under the LCEN law (Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique, 2004, as amended by the SREN law 2024). Missing legal notices expose the publisher to fines of up to €75,000 (individuals) or €375,000 (companies). This actor turns a boring compliance chore into one API call — perfect for web agencies, freelancers and no-code builders who ship many client websites.

Keywords: mentions légales générateur, legal notice generator France, LCEN compliance, mentions légales HTML, SIREN to legal notice, French website compliance, générateur mentions légales automatique, RGPD, web agency automation.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
queries	array of strings	✅	One 9-digit SIREN or 14-digit SIRET per line. One legal notice generated per identifier.
websiteUrl	string	—	Website the notice is for (shown in the title).
hostName	string	—	Hosting provider name (required by LCEN — placeholder inserted if omitted).
hostAddress	string	—	Hosting provider postal address.
hostPhone	string	—	Hosting provider phone number.
contactEmail	string	—	Publisher's public contact e-mail.
contactPhone	string	—	Publisher's public contact phone.
publicationDirector	string	—	If omitted, the president/gérant/CEO is picked from official registry data when available.
shareCapital	string	—	e.g. "10 000 €". Not in open data — placeholder inserted if omitted. Skipped for sole traders & associations.
includeExtendedSections	boolean	—	Add standard IP / GDPR / liability sections (default true).

Output

One dataset item per input, with an explicit status: found / not_found / error. Example (trimmed):

{
  "status": "found",
  "query": "356000000",
  "siren": "356000000",
  "siret": "35600000000048",
  "companyName": "La Poste",
  "legalForm": "Société anonyme (SA) à conseil d'administration",
  "headOfficeAddress": "DIRECTION GENERALE DE LA POSTE 9 RUE DU COLONEL PIERRE AVIA 75015 PARIS",
  "vatNumber": "FR44356000000",
  "publicationDirector": "Jean Dupont",
  "legalNoticeHtml": "<section class=\"legal-notice\">…</section>",
  "legalNoticeText": "Mentions légales — https://www.example.fr …",
  "missingFields": ["shareCapital"],
  "source": "API Recherche d'Entreprises (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr) — Etalab open licence",
  "generatedAt": "2026-07-04T12:00:00.000Z"
}

The missingFields array tells you exactly which optional inputs you should provide to remove the [placeholder] markers — nothing is ever silently wrong.

Use cases

• Web agencies: generate a compliant legal notice for every client site at delivery time — in bulk, from a list of SIRENs.
• No-code / automation: plug into Make, Zapier or n8n to auto-insert legal notices into new WordPress/Webflow sites.
• Compliance sweeps: pair with a legal-notice scraper to detect sites with missing or broken mentions légales, then generate the fix.
• Sole traders & associations: correct wording variants are applied automatically (no fake "share capital" for an entrepreneur individuel, RNA number for associations).

Limitations & fair use

• The share capital is not published in French open data: provide it via input or a clean placeholder is inserted.
• Companies with protected data (statut de diffusion partielle) are returned as not_found — their data cannot legally be used.
• Data source: API Recherche d'Entreprises (DINUM), open Etalab licence, rate limit respected by the actor.
• Generated notices are a solid, standard baseline but do not constitute legal advice — review before publishing, especially for regulated professions and e-commerce (CGV are a separate document).

Pricing

This actor is free. You only pay your own Apify platform usage (typically well under $0.01 per hundred notices).

More actors by this developer

Part of a French company data toolkit — they chain together nicely:

• French Legal Notices Scraper (Mentions Légales) — extract existing legal notices from any French website (audit before you fix).
• French Company Data Enricher (SIREN, Dirigeants) — full official company profiles in bulk.
• New French Companies Finder (SIRENE) — fresh leads: newly registered companies by department/NAF.
• EU VAT Number Validator (VIES) — validate any EU VAT number for invoicing compliance.
• French Collective Agreement Finder (IDCC by SIRET) — HR/payroll compliance data.
• Bulk Email Verifier & List Cleaner — clean your outreach lists.

See the full list on this developer profile.