Legal Notice

Under article 6 of French Act No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the Empreinte D’effluves website are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its production and upkeep:

• Site owner: Empreinte D’effluves – Société par Actions Simplifiée Unipersonnelle (SASU)
• Registered office: 60 RUE FRANCOIS IER 75008 PARIS
• SIRET number: 97794815700028
• Trade register (RCS) number: 977 948 157 R.C.S. Paris
• VAT identification number: FR40977948157
• Publication director: Empreinte D’effluves contact@empreintedeffluves.com
• Site development: Ziben – www.ziben.fr
• Site design: Ghislain Auzillon – www.ghislainauzillon.com
• Host: Hostinger, Kaunas, Lithuania Hostinger, UAB Jonavos g. 60C, 44192

Use of the Empreinte D’effluves website implies full and unreserved acceptance of the terms of use set out below. These terms of use may be amended or supplemented at any time, and users of the Empreinte D’effluves website are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This site is normally accessible to users at all times. Empreinte D’effluves may nevertheless decide to interrupt it for technical maintenance, and will then endeavour to inform users beforehand of the dates and times of the work.

The Empreinte D’effluves website is updated regularly by Empreinte D’effluves. In the same way, this legal notice may be amended at any time: it is nonetheless binding on the user, who is invited to refer to it as often as possible in order to stay informed.

The purpose of the Empreinte D’effluves website is to provide information about all of the company’s activities.

Empreinte D’effluves endeavours to provide information on the Empreinte D’effluves website that is as accurate as possible. It cannot, however, be held liable for omissions, inaccuracies or shortcomings in updating, whether caused by itself or by the third-party partners that supply it with this information.

All information given on the Empreinte D’effluves website is provided for guidance only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information appearing on the Empreinte D’effluves website is not exhaustive. It is given subject to any changes made since it was published online.

The site uses JavaScript technology.

The website cannot be held liable for material damage connected with the use of the site. In addition, users of the site undertake to access the site using recent equipment, free of viruses, and with an up-to-date latest-generation browser

Empreinte D’effluves owns the intellectual property rights, or holds the usage rights, in all the elements accessible on the site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, whatever the means or process used, is prohibited without the prior written authorisation of: Empreinte D’effluves.

Any unauthorised use of the site or of any of the elements it contains will be deemed to constitute infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Empreinte D’effluves cannot be held liable for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the Empreinte D’effluves website, resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications set out in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or an incompatibility.

Empreinte D’effluves likewise cannot be held liable for indirect damage (such as, for example, loss of market or loss of opportunity) arising from use of the Empreinte D’effluves website.

Interactive areas (the ability to ask questions in the contact area) are made available to users. Empreinte D’effluves reserves the right to remove, without prior notice, any content posted in this area that breaches the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions on data protection. Where applicable, Empreinte D’effluves also reserves the right to pursue the civil and/or criminal liability of the user, in particular in the case of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic message, whatever the medium used (text, photograph, and so on).

In France, personal data is protected in particular by Act No. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, Act No. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, article L. 226-13 of the French Criminal Code and the European Directive of 24 October 1995.

When the Empreinte D’effluves website is used, the following may be gathered: the URL of the links through which the user accessed the Empreinte D’effluves website, the user’s internet service provider, and the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.

In any event, Empreinte D’effluves collects personal information relating to the user only as required for certain services offered by the Empreinte D’effluves website. The user provides this information knowingly, in particular when entering it themselves. Users of the Empreinte D’effluves website are then told whether or not they are obliged to provide this information.

In accordance with articles 38 et seq. of Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, data files and civil liberties, every user has a right of access to, rectification of and objection to personal data concerning them, by making a written and signed request, accompanied by a copy of an identity document bearing the holder’s signature, and stating the address to which the reply should be sent.

No personal information about users of the Empreinte D’effluves website is published without their knowledge, exchanged, transferred, assigned or sold on any medium to third parties. Only in the event of the acquisition of Empreinte D’effluves and its rights would such information be passed to the potential acquirer, who would in turn be bound by the same obligation to store and amend data in respect of users of the Empreinte D’effluves website.

The site is not registered with the CNIL because it does not exploit personal data as stated on this page

Databases are protected by the provisions of the Act of 1 July 1998 transposing Directive 96/9 of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

The Empreinte D’effluves website contains a number of hyperlinks to other sites, set up with the authorisation of Empreinte D’effluves. However, Empreinte D’effluves has no way of checking the content of the sites thus visited, and accordingly accepts no liability in this respect.

Browsing the Empreinte D’effluves website may cause cookies to be installed on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file which does not allow the user to be identified, but which records information about a computer’s browsing on a site. The data thus obtained is intended to make subsequent browsing on the site easier, and is also intended to support various traffic measurements.

Refusing to install a cookie may make it impossible to access certain services. Users may nevertheless configure their computer as follows in order to refuse the installation of cookies:

• In Internet Explorer: tools tab (cog-shaped icon at the top right) / internet options. Click on Privacy and choose Block all cookies. Confirm with Ok.
• In Firefox: at the top of the browser window, click the Firefox button, then go to the Options tab. Click the Privacy tab. Set the History rules to: use custom settings for history. Finally, untick it to disable cookies.
• In Safari: click the menu icon at the top right of the browser (shown as a cog). Select Settings. Click Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click Content settings. In the “Cookies” section, you can block cookies.
• In Chrome: click the menu icon at the top right of the browser (shown as three horizontal lines). Select Settings. Click Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click preferences. In the “Privacy” tab, you can block cookies.

Any dispute connected with the use of the site …. is subject to French law. Exclusive jurisdiction is granted to the competent courts of Paris.

Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended in particular by Act No. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 on information technology, data files and civil liberties.

Act No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy.

User: an internet user connecting to and using the aforementioned site.

Personal information: « information which, in any form whatsoever, allows the natural persons to whom it applies to be identified, whether directly or otherwise » (article 4 of Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).