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Legal notice and general conditions of use

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The website www.expertisefrance.fr (hereinafter “the website” or “Expertise France’s website”) is published by Expertise France, the French international development cooperation agency (hereinafter “Expertise France”), a limited liability company with a capital appropriation of EUR 828,933, registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 808 734 792, Intra-Community VAT n° FR 368 087 34 792.

Address of headquarters and contact details:

  • Address: 40, boulevard de Port-Royal – 75005 Paris, France
  • Tel.: +33 (0)1 70 82 70 82

Content management system: 

  • Drupal 11

Publishing Director:

  • Jérémie Pellet, Chief Executive Officer of Expertise France

Editorial manager and content management:

  • Expertise France’s Communications Department
  • Contact 

Hosting of expertisefrance.fr website 

  • Corporate name: Cegedim
  • Form of company: SA
  • Headquarters: 137 rue d’Aguesseau, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
  • Phone contact:  +33 1 49 09 22 00
  • Number and city of registration in the Trade and Companies Register: B 350 422 622 Nanterre
  • Company’s share capital: EUR 13,431,769.27
  • Contact: Online form

Technical and graphic design, development and technical follow-up

  • Corporate name: Klee Conseil & Intégration
  • Form of company: single-person simplified share business
  • Headquarters: Centre d’affaires La Boursidière – BP 159 – 92357 Le Plessis Robinson, France
  • Phone contact: +331 46 29 25 25
  • Number and city of registration in the Trade and Companies Register: 752 365 098 Nanterre
  • Company’s share capital: EUR 6,865,000
  • Intra-Community VAT n° FR 75 752 365 098

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Any connection to Expertise France’s website is subject to compliance with the present conditions. For the Internet user (hereinafter “the user”), simply accessing Expertise France’s website implies the acceptance of all the conditions set out below and the undertaking to respect them.

 

Presentation of the website

The purpose of the website is to provide general information about Expertise France’s activities.
Expertise France’s website has been designed with French as the working language. For your convenience, Expertise France has made certain parts of the website available in other languages, such as English.

Expertise France endeavours to guarantee the proper functioning and IT security of this website, as well as the accuracy and updating of the information disseminated on it. However, Expertise France cannot guarantee the accuracy, precision or exhaustiveness of the information available on this website.

It is the responsibility of users of the website to verify the information through other means, including by contacting Expertise France’s Communications Department.

Users should be aware of the risks related to using Internet services.

Consequently, they acknowledge and accept that:

  • They use Expertise France’s website at their own risk
  • Expertise France shall not be held liable for any interruptions and the possible consequences for any Internet user
  • Expertise France’s obligation to supply information is restricted to an obligation of means
  • Expertise France reserves the right to correct or delete, at any time and without prior notice, the general structure of the website or content
  • Expertise France cannot guarantee the exhaustiveness of information or that there has been no modification by a third party (intrusion, virus).

Consequently, Expertise France shall not be held liable:

  • For any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission concerning the information available on the website
  • For the content of third parties
  • For any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party, leading to a modification of the information made available on the website
  • More generally, for any direct or indirect damage, whatever the cause, origin, nature or consequences, subsequent to access by any person to the website, or the inability to access the website, as well as the use of the website and/or the credit attributed to any information provided directly or indirectly by the latter
  • In the event of inability to access this website and/or use services. 

Any questions concerning the present conditions of use of the website should be addressed to the webmaster of Expertise France’s website by e-mail or at the following address: Expertise France – Département Communication - 45 boulevard de Port Royal – 75005 Paris, France

Expertise France holds the full copyright for Expertise France’s website and for the services provided, except for contents whose intellectual property rights are held by third parties, especially contents or websites to which the Website links via hyperlinks. 

As such, and in accordance with the provisions of Article L.122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code, use is permitted for private purposes only, subject to different or even more restrictive provisions of the Intellectual Property Code.

Consequently, any other use constitutes an infringement and is punishable under the provisions of intellectual property law, unless prior written authorization has been obtained from Expertise France.

Therefore, you are not permitted to sell, adapt, modify, reproduce, disseminate, transfer or use in any other manner, all or part of Expertise France’s website or the services provided, in any form or by any means, on any current or future support. 

Any user that does not comply with the laws and regulations in force shall risk being taken to court by Expertise France. 

Expertise France makes every effort to preserve the quality of the content of its website.  

Should you observe or consider that part of the content on the website presents a manifestly illicit character, please report it by contacting us.

Any abusive notification may render you liable to civil or criminal sanctions.

Should you consider that part of the content harms your image, you have the right of reply by contacting us.

Your right of reply will be published within three working days from the date of receipt of your message. Any abusive notification may render you liable to civil or criminal sanctions. 

No online publication of the website by a third party is authorized under another URL without the prior express authorization by Expertise France.

As mentioned previously, Expertise France shall in no way be held liable for hypertext links established towards other websites whose intellectual property rights are held by third parties, in particular concerning the content of these websites.

 

  • Hypertext links to Expertise France’s website

Expertise France authorizes any website to establish a link to the address www.expertisefrance.fr, after giving advance notice at the following address: communication@expertisefrance.fr. 

Expertise France reserves the right, at any time, without prior notice and without giving any reason, to forbid these links. In such case, Expertise France shall inform the person concerned, who shall have 2 working days to delete the link.

Any such link must respect the applicable legal provisions and regulations. 

 

  • Hypertext links to other websites

The content to which users may be redirected via hyperlinks is the sole responsibility of those websites’ owners. 

Expertise France cannot exercise any permanent control over these sites nor assume any responsibility for their content.

The inclusion of these hypertext links does not imply that Expertise France endorses the content of these websites.

Amendments to the present general conditions of use 

Expertise France reserves the right to amend, at any time and without prior notice, the present conditions of use in order to adapt them to changes on the website and/or in its use.

 

Integrity of the contract

The present general conditions of use set out all of Expertise France’s rights and obligations.

Should one or several of the clauses of the present conditions of use be declared null and void pursuant to a law, regulation, or as a result of a definitive ruling by a competent jurisdiction, the other clauses of the general conditions shall remain binding within the limits of the said decision.

 

Laws and jurisdiction of courts

The present conditions of use and legal notice, as well as Expertise France’s website, are governed by the provisions of French law.

If an amicable settlement is not reached within a reasonable time, any disputes that may arise in the use of Expertise France’s website, or in the interpretation or application of the general conditions of use, shall be subject to the exclusive competence of the French courts.

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