Listing Publication Rules

Last updated: 10/11/2026

These rules set out the conditions under which listings submitted on ColocationsParis.com are published, amended or refused. They form an integral part of the Terms of Use and apply to all listings, without distinction.

1. Information relating to persons is optional

The submission forms include only a limited number of fields relating to persons, and those fields are optional: they are set by default to a neutral value, and no listing is refused on the ground that they have been left blank.

The forms include no field relating to age, family situation or professional status, neither when a listing is submitted nor in the search filters of the website. No selection based on those criteria is therefore possible on ColocationsParis.com.

2. Information about the occupants of the accommodation

Some listings include a description of the household already in place: the languages spoken there and the composition of the current occupants — a woman, a man, or a mixed household.

This information is descriptive. It is not a condition imposed on the applicant and excludes no one: it allows each person to judge for themselves whether the accommodation matches what they are looking for.

3. Preference as to sex

A preference as to the sex of the person sought may be expressed in two cases only, where it stems from the respect for private life and decency:

• a bed in a shared room, where the occupants share the same room to sleep in;
• accommodation in exchange for services, where the nature of the services expected requires it.

In every other category, no such preference is offered at submission or published. An advertiser who wishes to indicate the composition of their household does so by means of the description provided for in point 2.

4. Scale applied to listings

Level 1 — Publication. The listing is published where it makes the letting subject to no criterion prohibited by law and where, if applicable, the preference as to sex is expressed in one of the two cases set out in point 3.

Level 2 — Request for amendment. The advertiser is asked to amend the listing where its wording makes the letting subject to a prohibited criterion, in particular origin, actual or supposed membership of an ethnic group, a nation or a religion, state of health, disability, age, family situation, professional status or sexual orientation. The listing is published once amended.

Level 3 — Refusal. The listing is refused where the advertiser maintains a condition based on a prohibited criterion after the request for amendment.

Level 4 — Refusal and measure against the account. The listing is refused and the account suspended or deleted in the event of insults, racist remarks, threats, or established fraud.

These levels are applied mechanically. They involve no assessment of the appropriateness, quality or commercial interest of the listing.

5. Prior verification

Before publication, every listing is subject to a verification whose sole purpose is to prevent harm to users, and in particular housing fraud. The following elements are examined:

• the origin of the photographs, an image already published elsewhere possibly indicating that the accommodation shown is not the one described;
• the rent asked, a price markedly below the market possibly amounting to a bait technique;
• the reproduction, in whole or in part, of the content of another listing;
• any request for payment before a viewing;
• the advertiser’s identifiers, checked against the block list and against already associated accounts.

None of these elements is sufficient on its own to set a listing aside. An isolated element triggers a further check, which usually means asking the advertiser for the necessary clarifications. A listing is refused only where several elements concur, or where the advertiser does not answer the request addressed to them.

This verification concerns neither the presentation of the listing, nor the quality of its wording, nor its commercial interest.

6. Reporting

Any person, whether or not they hold an account, may report a listing using the link shown on every listing, or by writing to contact@colocationsparis.com. The report is examined and, where it is well founded, the listing is removed and the scale set out in point 4 applied to the account concerned.

7. Amendment of these rules

These rules may be amended in order to remain compliant with applicable legislation or to reflect a change in the service. The applicable version is the one published on the website at the time of consultation, the date of the last update appearing at the top of this document.