General Terms of Use

ARTICLE 1: PURPOSE

These general terms of use (hereinafter «the General Terms» or «the GTU») aim to define the conditions and procedures for using the site https://blanchicime.fr/ (hereinafter «the Site») owned by the Company BAGS (Blanchicime) (a simplified joint-stock company, whose registered office is located at 10 RUE GERMAIN SOMMEILLER, 74100 ANNEMASSE, whose SIREN identifier: 100242783) (hereinafter, «the Company» or «BAGS (Blanchicime)») and its use by any person who uses the Site or any of the services offered by the Site (hereinafter «the User»).

Access to the Site by the User signifies their acceptance of these GTU.

These General Terms are accessible at any time on the page https://blanchicime.fr/cgu

The fact that the Company does not, at any given time, invoke any of the stipulations of the GTU cannot be interpreted as a waiver of the right to subsequently invoke any of said stipulations.

ARTICLE 2: LEGAL NOTICES

The User can view the legal notices on the following page: https://blanchicime.fr/mention-legales 

ARTICLE 3: ACCESS TO SERVICES – CONTACT

1 Access to services

The Site is accessible free of charge from any location to any User with Internet access. All costs incurred by the User to access the Site (computer hardware, software, Internet connection, etc.) are their responsibility.

The Site implements all means at its disposal to ensure quality access to its services. As the obligation is one of means, the Company is not bound to achieve this result.

The Company's liability cannot be incurred due to a technical unavailability of the connection, whether due to (without the following list being exhaustive) a case of force majeure, maintenance, an update, a modification, an intervention by the host, an internal or external strike, a network failure, a power outage, as will be indicated below in Article 8.

The User acknowledges knowing the limitations and constraints inherent to the internet network and, as such, recognizes in particular the impossibility of a total guarantee of the security of data exchanges. The Company cannot be held responsible for damages resulting from the use of the Site such as data loss, intrusion, a virus, service interruption, or others.

In particular, it is the User's responsibility to take all appropriate measures to protect their own data and equipment from contamination by viruses or other forms of attacks possibly circulating via the Site, as will be indicated below.

Under no circumstances can the Company be held responsible for these risks and the prejudicial consequences, whatever their extent, for the User. In any case, a User who encounters a difficulty has the possibility of contacting the Company by email at the address: info@blanchicime.fr

2 Commercial contact

The User who wishes to contact the Company can do so by the means present on the Site, namely:

 

By choosing one of these contact methods, the User accepts that their data is collected in accordance with the «DATA PROTECTION» article below.

ARTICLE 4: SECURITY

The Company will make its best efforts to guarantee security when accessing the Site and the confidentiality of the User's information, without this commitment constituting an obligation of result.

The User undertakes more particularly and notably:

– To take all appropriate measures to protect themselves against contamination of their data, software, or hardware by viruses or intrusion attempts,

– To use the Site in accordance with its intended use, in compliance with the prescriptions mentioned in these General Terms, excluding any action likely to hinder the proper functioning of the Site and any malicious manipulation

The User expressly accepts and acknowledges that the use of the Site is carried out under their own responsibility and that they are entirely responsible for any damage or harm caused to their computer system or any terminal for accessing the Internet network and for any data loss that may result from downloading or using the Site.

ARTICLE 5: CONTENT WRITTEN BY THE USER

The User has the possibility of posting content on the Site, by commenting on articles published on it. The User who wishes to post content must indicate a pseudonym under which their content will be published.

When writing content published on the Site, the User undertakes to comply with the laws and regulations in force, as well as these General Terms, and notably the following restrictions:

– Respect the rules relating to good practices for internet users («Netiquette»)

– Not harm the proper functioning of the Site, notably:

  • Probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerabilities of the Site; ;
  • Attempting to disrupt or tamper with the technical infrastructure in a way that harms the Site; ;

– Not infringe on the rights of other Users, notably, not publish, via the Site, any illegal content, particularly that which promotes, directly or indirectly, hatred, racism, discrimination, pornography, violence, or any other attack on human dignity.

The Company checks the comment posted before its publication. It reserves the exclusive and discretionary right to refuse the publication of any comment that does not meet the requirements indicated above, without any notification or justification being necessary.

Said refusal shall not constitute damage for the User, who cannot therefore claim any compensation for this reason. The Company reserves the right to take legal action against the User when the facts justify it.

The Company's liability cannot under any circumstances be called into question due to the publication of User content that would be deemed contrary to applicable laws and regulations by a third party. Only the User may be held liable in this regard.

ARTICLE 6: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Trademarks, logos, signs and all other content of the Site are protected by the Intellectual Property Code and more specifically by copyright.

All illustrations, images and logos appearing on the Site are and remain the exclusive property of the Company or their respective owners.

In general, as indicated above, any total or partial reproduction, modification or use of the trademark, illustrations, images and logos, for any reason and on any medium whatsoever, without the express and prior consent of the Company, is strictly prohibited.

Any person who communicates, represents, reproduces, embeds, distributes or redistributes them incurs the penalties provided for in particular under the Intellectual Property Code, the Civil Code and the Commercial Code.

ARTICLE 7: PERSONAL DATA

Personal data is collected and processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy – Data Protection accessible at: https://blanchicime.fr/politique-de-confidentialite

ARTICLE 8: LIABILITY AND FORCE MAJEURE

In general, the Company cannot under any circumstances be held liable for any direct or indirect material damage suffered by the User, particularly with regard to data loss, which may result from the use of the Site, or conversely from the impossibility of using it.

The Company cannot be held liable in the event of impossibility of using the Site, particularly due to a case of force majeure.

  • The Company makes its best efforts to disseminate quality and reliable content, however the User is invited to verify any content using official external sources. In the event of conflicting information, the User may notify the Company at the email address: info@blanchicime.fr which will do its best to make any necessary modifications.

ARTICLE 9: HYPERLINKS

The Company is not responsible for the content of third-party websites to which hyperlinks present on the Site refer.

The Company's liability cannot be incurred in the event of any damage suffered by the User following their connection to a third-party site via a hyperlink.

ARTICLE 10: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Modification of the General Conditions

The Company reserves the right to make changes to these General Conditions at any time, including without prior notice. The User is invited to consult the General Conditions regularly on the Site.

Severability and nullity

If one or more stipulations of these General Conditions are held to be invalid or declared as such pursuant to a law, regulation or following a final court decision of a competent jurisdiction, the other stipulations shall retain their full force and effect.

Tolerance

The User acknowledges that the Company's tolerance of a situation does not confer any rights on them. The Company's failure to assert a right or provision does not mean that it waives it.

ARTICLE 11: APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENT JURISDICTION

French legislation applies to these Terms of Use. In the absence of an amicable resolution of a dispute arising between the parties, only the courts of the Company's registered office are competent.

ARTICLE 12: PUBLICATION BY THE USER

It is recalled that comments are public and freely accessible to all.

As such, by accepting these Terms of Use, the User expressly authorizes the Company to use their comments (for example to relay the User's comment on the Company's social networks), without this generating any financial right of any kind whatsoever for the benefit of the User, it being nevertheless specified that the Company undertakes to display the User's identifier when using their comment.