Vacances Scolaires is a specialized informational website dedicated to providing official French school holiday calendars for multiple years (2025-2027), covering metropolitan zones A, B, C, Corse, and overseas territories. The site targets parents, students, and educators seeking authoritative and up-to-date holiday schedules, offering downloadable PDFs and iCal files for easy integration into personal calendars. The business model relies primarily on advertising revenue and affiliate marketing partnerships. Technically, the site employs modern web technologies including Bootstrap 5, jQuery, FontAwesome, and Google Fonts, hosted on a reputable French hosting provider (o2switch). It integrates Google Adsense for monetization and Matomo for analytics, with a cookie consent mechanism ensuring GDPR compliance. Security posture is generally good with HTTPS enforced and basic protections, though minor backend PHP warnings and lack of explicit security headers suggest areas for improvement. The domain is newly registered in late 2023, consistent with the site's focus on future school years, and WHOIS data shows no suspicious patterns. Overall, the website is professional, trustworthy, and well-optimized for its niche audience.
Scanned ·
NIS2 and GDPR posture
GDPR outside view
65/ 100 · Medium
Checks completed
7of 7
NIS2 Art. 21(2)
a(a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
b(b) Incident handling: One indicator
c(c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
d(d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
e(e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
f(f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
g(g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
h(h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
i(i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
j(j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside
Partly checked
One indicator
Not visible from outside
This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.
GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.
Priority findings
6 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
GDPR outside view
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
High
No Cookie Policy found
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.
High
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Forces HTTPS connections
What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
This scan found 23 issues across 6 checks. Monitoring re-runs those checks daily, emails you when something material changes and records each fix, so you can show progress.
Daily monitoring
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TLS certificates and expiry
DNS records
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Security headers
GDPR and NIS2 posture
Exposed services
Third-party trackers
Security score drift
Email alerts on material changes and an exportable JSON history of every change.
Prices incl. 21% VAT. Secure checkout by Mollie; sold by SEQ SIA, Latvia.
Results by check
Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
How this score is calculated
The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.
Counted in this score
SSL/TLS
72
Security headers
15
Email security
85
DNS health
75
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
65
Average
69
Not counted
NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.
Findings that cap the score at 49
Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.
The certificate is not trusted by browsers
The website is not served over HTTPS
A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
The page loads a script from a compromised source
The domain registration has expired
SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain
Partial scans
When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.
Risk levels
Critical0–25
High26–49
Medium50–75
Low76–100
Breach exposure
Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.
Dark web exposure
Add-on
Leaked records that mention vacances-scolaires.com, from OffSeq Breach.
No leaked records found
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
The website occupies a niche market providing official school holiday information in France, a service with steady demand from families and educational institutions. Its competitive advantage lies in comprehensive, official data presentation combined with user-friendly downloadable formats and search tools. Revenue streams include advertising via Google Adsense and affiliate marketing through Effiliation. The site demonstrates growth potential by expanding calendar years and regional coverage. Partnerships with analytics and affiliate providers enhance operational insights and monetization. The absence of social media presence suggests a focus on organic search traffic and direct user engagement. Strategic observations include the need to address backend code warnings and enhance security headers to maintain user trust and compliance.
Security posture
The website demonstrates a moderate to good security maturity level with HTTPS enabled and cookie consent implemented, reflecting GDPR awareness. However, the presence of PHP warnings in the HTML source indicates potential information leakage risks and backend code quality issues. The lack of explicit security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options reduces defense-in-depth. No incident response or security policy information is publicly available, which could impact transparency. No vulnerabilities or malware indicators were detected in the provided content. Overall, the site should prioritize fixing backend warnings, implementing comprehensive security headers, and publishing security policies to enhance its security posture and user confidence.
Recommendations
Fix all backend PHP warnings to prevent information leakage and improve code quality.
Implement and verify security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options.
Publish a clear security policy and incident response contact information to improve transparency.
Regularly audit third-party scripts and dependencies for vulnerabilities and update them accordingly.
Enhance accessibility features and mobile optimization to improve user experience and compliance.
Site observations
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Business
Company
Vacances Scolaires
Description
Site providing official French school holiday calendars for zones A, B, C, Corse and Outre-Mer for years 2025, 2026, and 2027, including public holidays and downloadable calendar formats.
Key services
Official school holiday calendars, Downloadable PDF calendars, iCal calendar files, Searchable zone and department info, Public holiday listings
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent
Technology
Stack
Bootstrap 5.3.3, jQuery 3.5.1, FontAwesome 6, Google Fonts, Google Adsense, Matomo Analytics
Frameworks
Bootstrap
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good
Security
Observed score
75/100
Good practices seen
HTTPS enforced
No exposed sensitive data in HTML
Consent mechanism for cookies and tracking
Analytics and tracking
Services
Matomo
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good
Advertising
Ad networks
Google Adsense
Tracking pixels
Matomo
Transparency
basic
Site quality
Design
good
User experience
good
Content relevance
good
Navigation
good
Professionalism
good
Trustworthiness
high
Key observations
Website provides comprehensive and up-to-date official school holiday calendars for France.
Good use of structured data (JSON-LD) for SEO and rich snippets.
Clear navigation with dropdown menus and search functionality.
Cookie consent mechanism implemented with detailed user options.
Advertising is present but not intrusive; uses Google Adsense and affiliate marketing.
Some minor backend PHP warnings visible in HTML source which should be addressed.
No explicit security policy or incident response information found.
Contact email is provided but no phone number or physical address found.
No social media links detected in the provided content.
No security.txt or vulnerability disclosure page found.
Technical notes
Notes
The website uses a modern and widely supported technology stack including Bootstrap 5.3.3 for responsive design, jQuery 3.5.1 for DOM manipulation, FontAwesome 6 for icons, and Google Fonts for typography. Hosting is provided by o2switch, a reputable French hosting provider. Performance is moderate with asynchronous loading of ads and analytics scripts. SEO is well addressed with comprehensive meta tags, Open Graph data, and JSON-LD structured data for website, organization, and FAQ schema. Minor technical debt is evident from PHP warnings in the HTML source, which should be resolved to avoid potential operational risks. The site is mobile optimized and accessible at a basic level but could benefit from enhanced accessibility features. Overall, the technical infrastructure supports the business goals effectively but requires maintenance to address backend issues.
Standards and sources
Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.
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