Legal notice

The present Website is the property of TECHNIQUES TOPO, whose headquarters are located at: 10, rue Mercoeur, 75011 Paris, France.

Oversight of this publication is the responsibility of Mr. William HOUVENAGEL, under the authority vested by the company's Board of Directors.

Website hosting services are provided by OVH.

GENERAL USE CONDITIONS

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND USE RIGHTS

The contents of this Website are protected by the literary and artistic property law, the Berne Convention and the Intellectual Property Code, Tome I.
Any reproduction, other than for the private benefit of the Website user, with the specific intention of public dissemination by whatever means, is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of the site Webmaster.
Any representation, modification, publication, transmission or alteration, whether total or partial, of the site or its contents by any means and on any media support is forbidden.
Any unauthorized utilization of the site or its contents or any of the information presented would engage the site user's liability and constitute an infringement sanctioned by Articles L 335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.
These same restrictions apply to all databases potentially included on the publisher's Website that are protected under the stipulations set forth in the July 1st, 1998 Law, which incorporated into the Intellectual Property Code the March 11, 1996 European Directive relative to the legal protection of databases. As such, any database reproduction or extraction would engage site user liability.
All of the publisher's brand names as well as any logos appearing on the site are protected.
Any reproduction or representation, either total or partial, of these brand names or logos, whether on their own or integrated into other elements, without the express prior authorization of the publisher is prohibited and would engage the user's liability, as dictated in Articles L 713-2 and L 713-3 of the Intellectual Property Code.
The user agrees, at the risk of engaging his or her civil and/or criminal liability, not to use the publisher's Website for purposes of:
• transmitting by whatever means (e-mail or other) any contents including programs, codes, viruses, etc. intended to destroy or hinder Website functionalities;
• transmitting by whatever means (e-mail or other) into the interactive services proposed as part of the publisher's Website any illicit or harmful content, in particular messages that are injurious, insulting, defamatory, denigrating, degrading, racist, xenophobic, sexist, pornographic, threatening or that may incite hate or harassment in violation of applicable privacy laws, or without any connection to the topics proposed on the site;
• transmitting by whatever means any content violating the laws of intellectual or industrial property, individual rights, etc.
The publisher hereby reserves the option, within the scope of the interactive services proposed on the site, to immediately delete without prior notification any content regardless of its nature, especially any messages, texts or images, etc. that would be in transgression of applicable laws and regulations (specifically the regulations cited above).
Under the scenario where a user is seeking to make personal use of site contents (texts, images, etc.), he or she agrees to request prior written approval from the publisher by sending an e-mail message to the Webmaster at the following address: w.houvenagel@techniques-topo.com

APPLICABLE RIGHTS

The present general conditions must comply with French national legislation. The official and legally-binding language of these general conditions is French. In the event of litigation, the French court system alone will have jurisdiction.
The publisher reserves the right to modify and update, at any time, Website access as well as the present set of general conditions. All such modifications and updates will affect the user, who as a consequence must refer regularly to this heading in order to verify the current set of general conditions.

INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE WEBSITE

The documents and information disseminated by the publisher electronically on this site have been proofread multiple times; nonetheless, errors may still be contained therein. Should you observe an error in the text, please feel free to notify this site's Webmaster, to ensure expeditious rectification.
The information provided on this Website, while intended to be as accurate as possible, is in no way contractually binding and does not engage the publisher's liability. Moreover, all information is subject to revision or update without prior notice. The publisher also reserves the right, at all times and once again without prior notification, to introduce improvements and/or modifications to the site: www.techniques-topo.com
The publisher cannot be held liable for any eventual damage, whether direct or indirect, capable of resulting from the access or use of this site, or for any damage or virus that may affect operations of the user's computer or any other hardware.
In more general terms, the publisher offers absolutely no guarantee, whether express or tacit, regarding any of its site's contents.

COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS ON DATA PROTECTION AND CIVIL LIBERTIESBY THE SITE USER

With respect to personal data capable of being accessed while visiting the site, the user agrees to refrain from any collection, improper use or in general any act that may interfere with the private life or reputation of all parties involved.

EXERCISE OF RIGHTS TO ACCESS, MODIFY AND CONTEST AS PART OF ANY COMPUTER PROCESSING STEP

The site user is duly informed that:
As per Law No. 78-17 adopted on January 6, 1978 (as modified by Law No. 2004-801 dated August 6, 2004) and its application decree No. 2005-1309 of October 20, 2005 (as modified by Decree No. 2007-451 of March 25, 2007), the user has been granted the right to access, modify and contest any and all personal information held by the site pertaining to him.
For any questions or concerns, you are kindly requested to send an e-mail to the site Webmaster.

HYPERLINKS

All hyperlinks introduced as part of this site's design, directing the user to other Websites, have received express authorization beforehand.
However, since the publisher of this site has no influence over these other sites, the content of linked sites cannot be controlled. Consequently, under no circumstances shall the publisher be held liable for the content of sites accessed through this Website or for the eventual collection or transmission of personal data, placement of cookies or any other process intended for such purposes activated while visiting these linked sites.
Users of the publisher's Website may not, under any circumstances, place a hyperlink on the Internet directing traffic to the publisher's Website without the prior written approval of the publisher. Any request along these lines must be addressed to this site's Webmaster.