The questions we get

No, and that matters. By Right is published by ODERSA, a French non-profit association. It has no connection with the institutions of the European Union, it does not represent them, and it uses neither their visual identity nor their emblem.

The official sources, on the other hand, really are official: every extract quoted points to EUR-Lex or to Your Europe, and the link is on the page. We invite you to open them: that is exactly why they are there.

No. This site gives general information about the European baseline, in the form of teaching cases. It does not examine your file, and it knows neither your contract, nor your country, nor the exact facts of your case.

For a real case, the right doors are the competent national body, the European Consumer Centre in your country, a consumer association, or a legal professional. They are named and linked at the end of every situation.

Because a sentence that is true in Spain can be false in Estonia, and this site is read from all 27 countries. So we teach only the common baseline: Regulations, which apply identically, and the minimum guaranteed by Directives.

Your country may well do better. That is good news, and it is not ours to tell: we could only do it properly for one country at a time. The page on the principle explains the mechanics in detail.

Every page that states a right carries a dated stamp: “Law as verified on …”. It is a validity date, not a decoration: it says that every quoted text, every amount and every redress link was re-read against the official source on that date.

The site's corpus is fully reviewed every six months, because regulations get amended and official pages move. The stamp is only re-inked after a real re-verification, never out of habit.

Between two reviews, the official text always prevails: every citation links to EUR-Lex or Your Europe, and the version in force when you read is what counts.

No, and there is no account to create. No form, no address to leave, no password.

Your progress, your chosen language and your display preferences are written in your browser's local storage, on your device. They go nowhere, and the “erase my local data” button in the settings panel removes all of them at once.

Because there is nothing to consent to. The site uses no tracker, no browser-side analytics, and makes no request to any other server. Local storage only holds preferences you asked for, which is exempt from consent.

You can check it in thirty seconds: open your browser's network inspector, reload the page, and look at the list of domains contacted.

Offline: yes, once the page has been visited. The site installs like an app and replays the situations without a connection.

Without JavaScript: the content stays whole, but elsewhere. Only the PLAYED version needs JavaScript; a situation's page keeps its opening scene, and each item of the file has a page of its own, linked from there: the written walkthrough, the sheet to print and the official redress steps read as they are.

Yes, including commercially, on the single condition that you credit the author. The content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, and the data is published as JSON so it can be reused directly.

The “For teachers” page offers a lesson plan, and the Licence page gives the exact attribution wording.