APLUSA (A+A) LEGAL NOTICE & TERMS OF USE updated May 22nd, 2023
LEGAL NOTICE
This website is published by company A+A, French société par actions simplifiée (simplified joint-stock company) with share capital of 6 385 744 Euros, whose registered office is located at 159 rue Galliéni, 92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France, registered with the Trade and Companies Registry in Nanterre under number 440 430 569, represented by its current legal representatives.
Contact: by email: contact@aplusaresearch.com – by phone (Lyon, France): +33 4 78 62 23 23
Director of Publication: Pierre Pigeon
Host: OVH Groupe SAS, 2, rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France / 09 72 10 10 07
Intracommunity VAT no.: FR11 440430569
GENERAL TERMS OF USE
RECITALS
These general terms of use govern the use of the website at the URL address https ://www.aplusaresearch.com
The aplusaresearch.com website is accessible by any person connecting to the website by using the address indicated above. It aims at presenting the AplusA group and the various services that it provides.
Any use of the aplusaresearch.com website necessarily implies unreserved acceptance of these terms of use by the user, that the latter acknowledges to have read and understood. Where these terms are not accepted, the user is asked to put an end to the browsing and to stop using the website.The use of this Site (“www.aplusaresearch.com”) is subject to certain Terms of Use which constitute a legal agreement between you and AplusA SAS (“AplusA”) and its affiliates/subsidiaries. By using this Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be legally bound by the Terms of Use and all applicable laws and regulations governing the Site. Please review the Terms of Use prior to viewing this Site. If you do not agree with the terms thereof, please do not use this Site.
1. DEFINITIONS
Terms: Refers to these general terms of use.
Content: Refers to the elements sent by the Users via the Website and in particular messages and comments.
Party/Parties: Refers, depending of the context, individually or collectively, to the User and/or the Website Owner.
Website: Refers to the aplusaresearch.com website accessible at the address: https://www.aplusaresearch.com, whose blog is accessible at the address: https ://blog.aplusaresearch.com/blog.
Website Owner: Refers to company A+A, registered with the Trade and Companies Registry in Nanterre under number 440 430 569, and any of its affiliated companies, including its subsidiaries.
User: Refers to any person using the Website.
2. INFORMATION RELATED TO THE WEBSITE
Website Owner: A+A, French société par actions simplifiée (simplified joint-stock company) with share capital of 6 385 744 Euros, whose registered office is located at 159 rue Galliéni, 92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France, registered with the Trade and Companies Registry in Nanterre under number 440 430 569, represented by its current legal representatives.
Director of the publication: Pierre Pigeon.
Host: OVH Groupe SAS, 2, rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France / 09 72 10 10 07.
3. PURPOSE
The Terms aim at defining the rights and obligations of the Website Owner and the User in relation to accessing the Website and the use made of it.
4. METHODS OF USE AND ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE
The Website enables the Users to have knowledge of the information posted by the Website Owner and to contact the Website Owner.
Access to the Website requires access by the User to a telecommunications network. This access is provided by a telecommunications operator under the User’s exclusive responsibility.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Website and each of the elements comprising it including in particular the graphic charter, data, software, texts, logos of the Website, are protected by the law on intellectual property, i.e., copyright, design law and/or trademark law.
The Website and each of the elements comprising it are the exclusive ownership of the Website Owner.
The Website Owner grants the User with a private and non-exclusive right to use the Website, in accordance with these Terms.
Any other use of the Website or one of its elements will constitute an infringement of rights and is punished as such in light of the French Intellectual Property Code, unless previously and specifically authorised by the Website Owner.
6. RULES OF CONDUCT
The User is forbidden from any conduct that may harm the image of the Website Owner and more generally any conduct that may infringe the applicable regulations.
Therefore, the User is forbidden in particular from:
- Stealing the identity of a third party or another User or claiming to be an employee or representative of the Website Owner;
- Using a username or avatar that is vulgar, aggressive, offensive or defamatory;
- Publishing offensive, hateful, racist, discriminatory, disparaging, obscene, vulgar, defamatory content on the blog or content that encourages reprehensible attitudes in light of the law;
- Publishing content on the blog that may infringe third-party rights;
- Publishing content on the blog that is unrelated to the purpose of the Website, in particular promotional content, advertisements or any commercial solicitation;
- Using hacking, spamming, fishing, flooding or any other malicious action in relation to the Website Owner and the other Users;
- Extracting all or part of the elements of the Website by any means whatsoever, in particular through automated robotic systems using techniques such as crawling, scraping, etc.
7. DATA PROTECTION
7.1. User’s personal data
The information that the Website Owner receives from the User corresponds to the information required for using the Website.
For more information regarding the processing of personal data that may be performed, please refer to our privacy policy.
7.2. Cookies and connection indicators
Certain pages of the Website may use cookies.
For more information, in particular regarding the purpose of the cookies and their conservation period, please refer to the “cookies” section of our privacy policy.
8. LINKS
The Website may contain links to other third-party websites, advertisers, services or other events or activities that are not held or controlled by the Website Owner. Such links are only provided as a convenience for the Users; they may not and must not be interpreted as a specific or implicit endorsement of these websites by the Website Owner, or of their content or any product or service proposed on them.
The Website Owner does not bear any responsibility in relation to these websites, information, documents, products or services of third parties, and the User will access them at the latter’s own risk. The Website Owner does not give any guarantee regarding the lifetime of a third-party URL or other web service.
9. UPDATE OF THE WEBSITE
The Website Owner may consider that it is necessary to update or reset certain parameters of the Website and its elements.
Therefore, the Website Owner reserves the right to develop the Website, in particular by providing new functions or by amending or removing certain existing functions.
These updates, resets, developments may temporarily prevent the User from having access to the Website and/or entail an amendment to the Website’s architecture and its elements, that the User specifically acknowledges; the Website Owner’s liability may not be incurred in this respect.
10. RESPONSIBILITY
The Website Owner is only required to respect an obligation of means in relation to providing the Website and may not be held liable for any direct or indirect loss, prejudice, damage, of any kind whatsoever, as a result of the management, use, operation, or any interruption or problem with the Website.
Indeed, the User acknowledges that the Website Owner cannot guarantee that the Website will meet with the performance requirements or that it will operate without interruption or without bugs.
If the Website Owner becomes aware of a problem or bug related to the Website or one of its elements, or if it is informed of this by a User, the Website Owner will endeavour to correct these problems or bugs.
In any event, the Website Owner will not be held liable for direct or indirect damage as a result of lack of respect by the User of these Terms, poor performance of the Website or its elements, an amendment or alteration of the Website by the User, or any damage that may be made to the Website or its elements.
In any event, the Website Owner’s liability may not exceed the total amount actually paid by the Website Owner in relation to running the Website.
Finally, the Website Owner’s liability may not be incurred if the performance of the Website is prevented due to a force majeure event, fortuitous event or external event such as in particular, without limit: natural disaster, strike, social conflicts, situations of war, earthquake, fire, explosion, intervention of governmental authorities, problems or interruption in the electricity or telecommunications network.
11. GENERAL PROVISIONS
11.1. Severability
In the event that one of the provisions of the Terms should be declared as invalid, null or inapplicable by a court or arbitrator, this provision will be amended in order to make it applicable and efficient while remaining as close as possible to the Parties’ initial intentions. If a court or arbitrator declares that the amended provision is invalid, unlawful, null or inapplicable, the validity, lawfulness and applicability of the other provisions of the Terms will not be affected by this.
11.2. Entire agreement
The Terms constitute the full, complete and exclusive agreement between the Parties regarding the use of the Website and cancel and replace any former agreement or contract, whether written or verbal, with the same subject matter.
11.3. Amendment of the Terms
The Website Owner reserves the right to amend, complete or replace the provisions of the Terms, with effect on the date of putting the new terms online on the Website, or any other means of notification.
11.4. Waiver
The fact that one of the Parties does not take advantage of a breach by the other Party of any of the obligations stipulated in the Terms, will not be interpreted for the future as a waiver of the obligation in question.
12. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
The Terms are governed by French law.
In the event of contesting the interpretation, execution and performance of any of the provisions of the Terms, the Parties grant exclusive jurisdiction to the court with jurisdiction within the Court of Appeal of the address of the Website Owner, notwithstanding several defendants or the introduction of third parties, even for urgent procedures or procedures for protective measures, summary procedures or procedures by petition.