TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE |
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
AND CONDITIONS
Upon accessing the website, the user agrees to abide by these terms and conditions. These
conditions may be modified at any time by the Publisher without prior notice. Users are
therefore recommended to read it regularly. If you are not able to abide by any of the
condtions set forth below, you should cease using this website and its services.
2. PERSONAL DATA -
CONFIDENTIALITY
This site uses the NedStat service to provide
anonymous statistical data. Please refer to their own Privacy
Policy. When posting in the site forums, your IP address will be logged. Your email
address will be supplied with your post if you choose to provide it. The site forum uses
cookies to manage user accounts of members and visitors. These cookies are not used
to track users outside of the website . The publishers of this site will never release any
information about our users at any time to any third parties.
3. USER'S UNDERTAKING
3.1
The user undertakes to use the website and its services for strictly personal,
non-commercial purposes.
3.2
The user is responsible for any content (information, software data, images, sound,
messages, etc.) uploaded, displayed or transmitted. Consequently, the user shall refrain
from transmitting any content that might constitute, without being limited thereto,
incitation to hatred, violence, racism, discrimination, crimes and offences, attacks on
privacy, slander or libel, or that may infringe intellectual property rights or any other
rights of third parties, or that might mislead other users or violate any of these terms
and conditions, or any law or national or international regulations, or more generally
that might obstruct or disturb the smooth functioning of the webite. It is forbidden to
transmit any information containing viruses, or any other content disruptive to the
websites or to third parties, or more generally likely to infringe applicable laws, or
interfere with the use or enjoyment of the website by any other user.
3.3
The user undertakes to guarantee and indemnify the Publisher against any damage or claim
by any party that may arise out of the sending, circulation or transmission of content by
the user or unauthorised use of the website or failure to respect the provisions of these
terms and conditions.
4.
PUBLISHER'S RIGHTS AND LIMITATION OF RESPONSIBILITY
4.1
The Publisher reserves the right at any time to interrupt or suspend all or part of the
services, or modify, supplement or improve the existing services to enhance or improve the
ease of use without prior notice or obligation to provide any compensation. Furthermore,
the Publisher may terminate the right of access in whole or in part, delete any account
and/or password and withdraw any content broadcast by any user for whatever reason the
Publisher sees fit without prior notification.
4.2
The Publisher does not guarantee the conformity of the website to a specific use or need,
nor its functioning free from interruptions, errors, disturbances, viruses or defects of
any kind, cases of force majeure, vicarious liability, nor the truthfulness, reliability
or accuracy of the information placed online or the quality of the services, or conformity
of the services to the user's needs.
4.3
The Publisher may not be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage resulting from
the use or inaccessibility of the website and its services, especially the default in
performance of the website and/or software, lost, corrupted data or fraudulent access
thereto, defects in user installations, accidental virus transmission, harmful third party
behaviour or actions, loss of profit or data, nor for any direct or indirect damage
suffered by any third party as a result of any infringement of their private rights by any
content supplied by the users.
4.4
The website contains links to other sites published by providers other than the
Publisher.. These sites are run by third parties, totally distinctly and independently
from the Publisher. Having no control whatsoever over the activities, products or services
on offer on said sites, the Publisher may in no way be held responsible for their content.
Any transactions, correspondence, or operations on third party sites are the sole
responsibility of the publishers of the sites concerned.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
5.1
The Publisher enjoys intellectual property rights or rights of use or distribution
relative to the material contained on the site, including, but without being limited
thereto, domain names, trademarks and logos, graphics and illustrations, images and
photographs, articles & editorial content.
5.2
The user shall refrain from copying, duplicating, extracting, digitising or disassembling
onto any medium enabling the reconstitution in part or in whole of the website files,
altering, selling, republishing, transmitting, distributing on-line or directly or
indirectly exploiting for commercial purposes, all or part of the intangible elements of
the website, services or any right of access to the website.
5.3
The user undertakes to only use the elements of intangible property of the Publisher for
private, non-collective and non-exclusive purposes, including the right to copy and store
one single copy for mirrored backup or paper printing. This right is individual,
non-transferable and reserved for exclusive usage by the user. Unauthorised use of the
said elements shall subject the infringing party to the civil and criminal penalties
provided by law.
6. APPLICABLE LAW
The present general terms and conditions shall be governed and interpreted under the laws
of England and Wales.
7. MISCELLANEOUS
The Publisher reserves the right to subcontract or assign to a third party the rights and
obligations arising from this agreement.
The Publisher's tolerance of a user's non respect of any of the obligations in these terms
and conditions, or its non-application of any legal action to which it is entitled
thereunder, may in no way be interpreted as a waiver of its rights.
Should any of the provisions of the terms and conditions be considered unlawful under a
present or future law or statute, or by a decision of court, the said provision shall be
deemed unwritten and all the remaining provisions of the Charter shall remain in full
force and effect between the parties.