Legal mentions

1. Presentation of the site

Pursuant to Article 6 of Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the lesapprimeurs.com site are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and monitoring:

Owner: Les Apprimeurs – SAS – 3 rue de l’Arrivée 75015 Paris

Publication manager: Julie Guilleminot

Host:
Infomaniak Network SA
Rue Eugène Marziano 25 – 1227 Les Acacias / Geneva – SWITZERLAND
Tel. : +41 22 820 35 44
Email: contact@infomaniak.com
Website: https://www.infomaniak.com/

2. General conditions of use of the site and the services offered

Use of the lesapprimeurs.com site implies full and complete acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use may be amended or supplemented at any time, and users of the lesapprimeurs.com site are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This site is normally accessible to users at all times. Les Apprimeurs may, however, decide to interrupt the site for technical maintenance purposes and will endeavour to inform users of the dates and times of the intervention in advance.

The lesapprimeurs.com site is updated regularly. Similarly, the legal notices may be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding on the user, who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to read them.

3. Description of the services provided

The purpose of the lesapprimeurs.com website is to provide information about all the company’s activities.

Les Apprimeurs endeavours to provide information on the lesapprimeurs.com site that is as accurate as possible. However, Les Apprimeurs cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies or shortcomings in updating, whether these are its fault or the fault of third-party partners who provide this information.

All information on the lesapprimeurs.com site is given for information purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the lesapprimeurs.com site is not exhaustive. It is given subject to changes having been made since it was put on line.

4. Contractual limitations on technical data

The site uses JavaScript technology.

The website cannot be held responsible for any material damage related to the use of the website. Furthermore, the user of the site undertakes to access the site using recent, virus-free equipment and with a last-generation updated browser.

5. Intellectual property and counterfeiting

Les Apprimeurs is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, whatever the means or process used, is prohibited, except with the prior written permission of : Les Apprimeurs.

Any unauthorised use of the site or any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitations of liability

Les Apprimeurs may not be held liable for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the Les Apprimeurs site, resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or incompatibility.

Les Apprimeurs may not be held liable for any indirect damage (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the lesapprimeurs.com site.

Interactive areas (possibility of asking questions in the contact area) are available to users. Les Apprimeurs reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this area that contravenes the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. Where applicable, Les Apprimeurs also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, particularly in the event of messages of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic nature, whatever the medium used (text, photographs, etc.).

7. Management of personal data

In France, personal data is protected in particular by Law No. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, Law No. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, Article L. 226-13 of the Criminal Code and the European Directive of 24 October 1995.

When using the lesapprimeurs.com site, the following information may be collected: the URL of the links through which the user accessed the lesapprimeurs.com site, the user’s access provider, and the user’s Internet protocol (IP) address.

In any event, Les Apprimeurs collects personal information relating to the user only for the purpose of certain services offered by the lesapprimeurs.com site. The user provides this information with full knowledge of the facts, in particular when he/she enters it. The user of the lesapprimeurs.com site is then informed whether or not he/she is required to provide this information.

In accordance with the provisions of Articles 38 and following of Law 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms, any user has the right to access, rectify and oppose any personal data concerning him/her, by making a written and signed request, accompanied by a copy of the identity document with the signature of the holder of the document, specifying the address to which the reply should be sent.

No personal information of the user of the lesapprimeurs.com site shall be published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, assigned or sold on any medium to third parties. Only the assumption of the repurchase of Les Apprimeurs and its rights would allow the transmission of the said information to the eventual purchaser who would in turn be bound by the same obligation to preserve and modify the data with regard to the user of the lesapprimeurs.com site.

The site is not declared to the CNIL as it does not collect personal information.

The databases are protected by the provisions of the law of 1 July 1998 transposing Directive 96/9 of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

8. Hypertext links and cookies

The lesapprimeurs.com site contains a number of hypertext links to other sites, set up with the authorisation of Les Apprimeurs. However, Les Apprimeurs is not in a position to check the content of sites visited in this way, and consequently cannot accept any responsibility for them.

Browsing the lesapprimeurs.com site may result in the installation of cookies on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file which does not allow the user to be identified, but which records information relating to the navigation of a computer on a site. The data thus obtained is intended to facilitate subsequent navigation on the site, and is also intended to allow various measures of frequentation.

Refusing to install a cookie may make it impossible to access certain services. However, the user can configure his computer as follows to refuse the installation of cookies:

In Internet Explorer: Tools tab (pictogram in the shape of a cog at the top right) / Internet options. Click on Confidentiality and choose Block all cookies. Validate with Ok.

Under Firefox: at the top of the browser window, click on the Firefox button, then go to the Options tab. Click on the Privacy tab.

Set the Retention Rules to: use custom settings for history. Finally uncheck it to disable cookies.

In Safari: Click on the menu icon (symbolised by a cog) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the ‘Privacy’ section, click on ‘Content Settings’. In the ‘Cookies’ section, you can block cookies.

In Chrome: Click on the menu icon (symbolised by three horizontal lines) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on preferences. In the “Privacy” tab, you can block cookies.

9. Applicable law and jurisdiction

Any dispute relating to the use of the lesapprimeurs.com site is subject to French law. The competent courts of Paris shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

10. The main laws concerned

Law no. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, as amended by Law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 on information technology, files and freedoms.

Law n° 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 for confidence in the digital economy.

11. Glossary

User: Internet user connecting to and using the above-mentioned site.

Personal information: “information that allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or not, the identification of the physical persons to whom it applies” (article 4 of law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978).