General conditions of use
GENERAL CONDITIONS OF USE
www.lexception.com
Effective Date: August 1, 2022
1. OBJECT
The purpose of these terms and conditions of use is to define the terms
and conditions of use of the services offered on the site (hereinafter: the
"Services"), as well as to define the rights and obligations
of the parties in this context.
They are accessible and printable at any time by a direct link at the
bottom of the homepage of the site.
They may be supplemented, where appropriate, by conditions of use
specific to certain Services. In case of contradiction, the special conditions
prevail over these general conditions.
2. SERVICE OPERATOR
The Services are operated by L'EXCEPTION, a
simplified joint-stock company with a capital of €3,766,323, registered with
the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 534 017 280, whose
registered office is located at 12 rue Philippe de Girard, La Caserne, 75010
Paris (hereinafter “L’EXCEPTION”).
The EXCEPTION can be contacted at the following coordinates:
Postal address: 12 rue Philippe de Girard, La
Caserne, 75010 Paris
Email: contact@lexception.com
3. ACCESS TO SITE AND SERVICES
The Services are accessible, subject to the restrictions provided on the
site:
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to any natural person having full legal capacity to
engage under these terms and conditions. A natural person who does not have
full legal capacity may access the Site and the Services only with the
agreement of his legal representative;
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to any legal person acting through a natural person
having the legal capacity to contract in the name and on behalf of the legal
person.
4. ACCEPTANCE OF GENERAL CONDITIONS
Acceptance of these terms and conditions is indicated by a check box in
the registration and/or contact form. This acceptance can only be full and
complete. Any qualified membership is considered null and void. Users who do
not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions must not use the Services.
5. SITE LISTING
The use of the Services
requires the User to register on the site, by completing the form provided for
this purpose. The User must provide all information marked as mandatory. Any
incomplete registration will not be validated.
Registration automatically results in the opening of an account in the
User’s name (hereinafter: the "Account"), giving him access to
a personal space (hereinafter: the "Personal Space") which
enables it to manage its use of the Services in a form and according to the
technical means which the EXCEPTION deems most
appropriate for rendering the said Services.
The User guarantees that all the information he gives in the
registration form is accurate, up-to-date and sincere and is not tainted by any
misleading character.
He undertakes to update this information in his Personal Area in case of
modifications, so that they always correspond to the aforementioned criteria.
The User is informed and agrees that the information entered for the
purpose of creating or updating his Account constitutes proof of his identity.
The information entered by the User binds him as soon as they are validated.
The User can access his
Personal Area at any time after logging in using his login ID and password.
The User undertakes to use the Services personally and to not allow any
third party to use them on his behalf or on his behalf, except to bear full
responsibility for them.
They are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their
username and password. He must immediately contact
the EXCEPTION to the contact details mentioned in Article 2 hereof if he
notices that his Account has been used without his knowledge. It recognizes the
EXCEPTION’s right to take all appropriate measures in such cases.
6. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
The User has access to the Services described on the site, in a form and
according to the functionalities and technical means that the EXCEPTION deems most appropriate.
7. FREE SERVICES
The Services are provided free of charge.
8. DATA
The User expressly acknowledges and accepts:
(i)
that the data collected on the site and on the
computer equipment of the EXCEPTION are proof
of the reality of the operations carried out in the framework hereof;
(ii)
that these data constitute the only mode of
evidence accepted between the parties, in particular for the calculation of the
sums due to the EXCEPTION.
The User can access this data in his Personal Space.
9. OBLIGATIONS OF THE USER
Without prejudice to the other obligations set out herein, the User
undertakes to comply with the following obligations:
The User undertakes, in his
use of the Services, to respect the laws and regulations in force and not to
prejudice the rights of third parties or public order.
In particular, it shall be solely responsible for the proper completion
of all administrative, tax and/or social security formalities and all payments
of contributions, taxes or taxes of all kinds incumbent on it, where
applicable, in relation to its use of the Services. Under no circumstances may
the EXCEPTION be held liable in this respect.
The User acknowledges
having read on the site the characteristics and constraints, especially
technical, of all the Services. It is solely responsible for its use of the
Services.
The User is informed and
accepts that the implementation of the Services requires that he be connected
to the Internet and that the quality of the Services depends directly on this
connection, for which he is solely responsible.
The User is also solely
responsible for the relations he may establish with other Users and for the
information he communicates to them within the framework of the Services. It is
his duty to exercise appropriate prudence and discernment in these relations
and communications. The User also undertakes, in its exchanges with other
Users, to respect the usual rules of politeness and courtesy.
The User undertakes to make
strictly personal use of the Services. Accordingly, the Contractor shall not
assign, grant or transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder to any
third party in any manner whatsoever.
The User undertakes to
provide the EXCEPTION with all the information
necessary for the proper performance of the Services. More generally, the User
undertakes to cooperate actively with the EXCEPTION
for the proper execution of this document.
The User is solely
responsible for the content of any kind (editorial, graphic, audiovisual or
other, including the name and/or image possibly chosen by the User to identify
it on the site) that it broadcasts within the framework of the Services
(hereinafter referred to as the “Contents”).
It guarantees THE EXCEPTION that it has
all the rights and authorisations necessary for the distribution of these
Contents.
It undertakes that such Content is lawful, does not infringe public
order, good morals or the rights of third parties, does not infringe any legislative
or regulatory provision and more generally, are in no way likely to involve the
civil or criminal liability of the EXCEPTION.
The User is thus prohibited from disseminating, in particular and
without this list being exhaustive:
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Pornographic, obscene, indecent, offensive or
inappropriate content to a family audience, defamatory, abusive, violent,
racist, xenophobic or revisionist,
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Infringing Content,
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Contents that are affected by the image of a third
party,
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Content that is deceptive, misleading or proposing
or promoting illegal, fraudulent or deceptive activities,
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Content harmful to third party computer systems
(such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, etc.),
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and more generally, Content that may infringe the
rights of third parties or be harmful to third parties in any way and in any
form.
The User acknowledges that
the Services offer it an additional but not alternative solution to the means
it already uses to achieve the same objective and that this solution cannot
replace these other means.
The User must take the
necessary measures to safeguard by his own means the information he deems
necessary, of which no copy will be provided to him.
The User is informed and
accepts that the implementation of the Services requires that he be connected
to the Internet and that the quality of the Services depends directly on this
connection, for which he is solely responsible.
10. USER GUARANTEE
The User guarantees THE EXCEPTION
against any complaints, claims, actions and/or claims that the EXCEPTION may suffer as a result of the
violation, by the User of any of its obligations or warranties under these
terms and conditions.
He undertakes to indemnify THE EXCEPTION
for any damage that it may suffer and to pay him all expenses, charges and/or
convictions that it may have to bear as a result.
11. PROHIBITED CONDUCT
It is strictly prohibited
to use the Services for the following purposes:
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the carrying out of illegal, fraudulent or
infringing activities affecting the rights or security of third parties,
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breach of public order or violation of existing
laws and regulations,
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the intrusion into the computer system of a third
party or any activity likely to harm, control, interfere with, or intercept all
or part of the computer system of a third party, violating its integrity or
security,
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sending unsolicited emails and/or prospecting or
commercial solicitation,
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manipulations intended to improve the referencing
of a third-party site,
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aid or encouragement, in any form or manner, to one
or more of the acts and activities described above,
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and more generally any practice diverting the
Services for purposes other than those for which they were designed.
It is strictly forbidden
for Users to copy and/or misuse for their own or third party purposes the
concept, technologies or any other element of the EXCEPTION website.
It is also strictly
prohibited: (i) any conduct likely to interrupt, suspend, slow down or prevent
the continuity of the Services, (ii) any intrusion or attempted intrusion into
the systems of the EXCEPTION, (iii) any
misappropriation of the site’s system resources, (iv) any actions likely to
impose a disproportionate burden on the site’s infrastructures, (v) any
breaches of security and authentication measures, (vi) all acts of such a
nature as to infringe the financial, commercial or moral rights and interests
of the EXCEPTION or the users of its site, and
finally more generally (vii) any breach of these general conditions.
It is strictly forbidden to
monetize, sell or grant all or part of the access to the Services or the site,
as well as the information hosted and/or shared there.
12. SANCTIONS OF DEFAULT
In the event of a breach of any of the provisions of these General
Conditions or more generally, of the laws and regulations in force by a User, THE EXCEPTION reserves the right to take any
appropriate action and in particular to:
(i)
suspend or terminate access to or participation in
the Services of the User who committed the breach or infringement,
(ii)
delete any content posted on the site,
(iii) publish on the site
any information message that the EXCEPTION
deems useful,
(iv) notify any
authority concerned,
(v)
initiate any legal action.
13. LIABILITY AND GUARANTEE OF THE EXCEPTION
The EXCEPTION undertakes to
provide the Services diligently and according to the rules of the art, it being
specified that it weighs on it an obligation of means, to the exclusion of any
obligation of result, what the Users expressly recognize and accept.
The EXCEPTION has no knowledge
of the Content put online by Users within the framework of the Services, on
which it does not make any moderation, selection, verification or control of
any kind and in respect of which it intervenes only as a hosting provider.
Consequently, THE EXCEPTION cannot be
held responsible for the Content, whose authors are third parties, any
complaint having to be directed in the first place to the author of the Content
in question.
Content harmful to a third party may be the subject of a notification to
the EXCEPTION in accordance with the
procedures provided for in Article 6 I 5 of Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004
for confidence in the digital economy, The EXCEPTION
reserves the right to take the measures described in Article 12.
The EXCEPTION declines all
responsibility in case of possible loss of the User’s information, the latter
must save a copy of it and cannot claim any compensation in this respect.
The EXCEPTION undertakes to
carry out regular checks in order to verify the functioning and accessibility
of the site. As such, the EXCEPTION reserves
the right to temporarily interrupt access to the site for maintenance reasons.
Likewise, THE EXCEPTION cannot be held
responsible for the difficulties or momentary impossibilities of access to the
site which have as their origin circumstances which are external to it, force
majeure, or that would be due to disturbances in telecommunications networks.
The EXCEPTION does not guarantee
to Users (i) that the Services, which are constantly searched for in order to
improve their performance and progress, will be completely free from errors,
defects or defects, (ii) that the Services, being standard and not offered
solely for the benefit of a given User according to his own personal
constraints, will specifically meet his needs and expectations.
In any event, the liability
that may be incurred by THE EXCEPTION
hereunder is expressly limited to direct and proven damages suffered by the
User.
14. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Systems, software, structures, infrastructures, databases and content of
all kinds (texts, images, visuals, music, logos, brands, database, etc.)
exploited by the EXCEPTION within the site are
protected by any intellectual property rights or rights of the producers of
databases in force. All disassemblies, decompilations, decryptions,
extractions, reuse, copies and more generally, all acts of reproduction,
representation, dissemination and use of any of these elements, In whole or in
part, without the authorization of the EXCEPTION
are strictly prohibited and may be the subject of legal proceedings.
15. PERSONAL DATA
The EXCEPTION applies a privacy policy whose characteristics are
explained in the document entitled «Privacy Policy», which the User is expressly invited to read on the site.
16. PUBLICIST
The EXCEPTION reserves the right to insert on any page of the
site and in any communication to the Users any advertising or promotional
messages in a form and under conditions of which the
EXCEPTION will be the sole judge.
17. THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND SITES
The EXCEPTION may in no case be held responsible for the
technical availability of websites or mobile applications operated by third
parties (including its possible partners) to which the User would access via
the site.
The EXCEPTION does not assume any responsibility for the
content, advertisements, products and/or services available on such third-party
websites and mobile applications, which are reminded that they are governed by
their own terms of use.
The EXCEPTION is also not responsible for transactions between
the User and any advertiser, professional or merchant (including any partners)
to which the User would be directed through the site and may not in any case be
party to any disputes whatsoever with these third parties concerning in
particular the delivery of products and/or services, the guarantees,
representations and other obligations to which such third parties are bound.
18. DURATION OF SERVICES, DESINSCRIPTION
The Services are subscribed for an indefinite period.
The User may unsubscribe from the Services at any time, by sending a
request to this effect to L'EXCEPTION by
email, to the contact details mentioned in Article 2.
The unsubscribe is effective immediately. This automatically deletes the
User Account.
19. MODIFICATIONS
The EXCEPTION reserves the right to modify these general
conditions at any time.
The User will be informed of these changes by any useful means.
The User who does not accept the modified terms and conditions must
unsubscribe from the Services in accordance with the terms set out in Article
18.
Any User who uses the Services after the entry into force of the amended
Terms and Conditions is deemed to have accepted these changes.
20. TONGUE
In the event of a translation of these general conditions into one or
more languages, the language of interpretation will be the French language in
case of contradiction or dispute over the meaning of a term or provision.
21. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
These general conditions are governed by French law.
In the event of any dispute as to the validity, interpretation and/or
enforcement of these General Terms and Conditions, the parties agree that the
courts of Paris shall have exclusive jurisdiction to judge them, unless
otherwise required procedural rules.
22. ENTRY INTO FORCE
These terms and conditions came into effect on August 1, 2022.