— Legal notice

Legal notice

Last updated: June 30, 2026

⚠ Template pending legal review. This document is a technical starting point. The company details (legal name, registration, capital, registered office, publication director, exact host) must be completed and the whole reviewed by legal counsel before official publication. The French version is the legally authoritative one.

1. Site publisher

bantou — an integration platform for sovereign AI solutions for Africa.

Legal name: [to be completed — e.g. bantou SAS]
Legal form: [to be completed]
Share capital: [to be completed]
Trade register / Registration: [to be completed]
Registered office: [to be completed]
VAT number: [to be completed]
Publication director: [to be completed]
Contact: contact@bantou.ai

2. Hosting

The site bantou.ai is hosted on infrastructure located in Europe (Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany), with an application deployment whose eKYC business data is operated from West Africa.

Infrastructure host: Hetzner Online GmbH — Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany — hetzner.com
eKYC business data: [to be completed — exact region, African cloud operator]

3. Intellectual property

All content published on bantou.ai (text, images, code, logo, visual identity) is protected by copyright. Any reproduction or representation, in whole or in part, without prior written authorization is prohibited.

The trademarks, logos and trade names mentioned (SAP, Odoo, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, BCEAO, UEMOA, CEMAC) are the property of their respective owners.

4. Liability

The demonstrations (live POCs) accessible via the subdomains ekyc.bantou.ai, ekyc-dashboard.bantou.ai, capture.ekyc.bantou.ai are provided for demonstration and experimental purposes. They do not constitute a commercially operated production service and may not be used to process real identity data without a dedicated contract.

5. Hyperlinks

The site may contain links to third-party sites. bantou.ai exercises no control over these sites and disclaims any liability for their content.

6. Governing law

This legal notice is governed by French law. Any dispute relating to its interpretation or performance falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the publisher's registered office, subject to applicable public-policy rules for consumers.