Terms and conditions
General Terms and Conditions of Use
The website international.la-croix.com is published by Bayard, a public limited company with a Management Board and a Supervisory Board with a capital of € 16,500,000.
RCS Nanterre: 542 042 486
Intra-Community VAT code: EN 70 542 042 486
Registered office: 18 rue Barbès, 92120 Montrouge
Email address: [email protected]
Phone number: + 33 (0) 1 74 31 60 60
President and director of the publication: François Morinière
Contact details of the web host
Bayard
18 rue Barbès 92128 Montrouge Cedex
Tel: + 33 (0) 1 74 31 60 60
Bayard, Publisher of the online press service la-croix.com is a public limited company with a Management Board and Supervisory Board. The Management Board is composed of François Morinière (Chairman of the Executive Board and Director of Publication), Dominique Greiner (Managing Directors).
The Supervisory Board, which, in accordance with the law, is responsible for Exercising permanent control over the management of Bayard by the Management Board, is chaired by Hubert Chicou.
The share capital of Bayard is 93.7% Owned by the Augustinian Congregation of the Assumption.
These General Terms and Conditions of Use set out the rules for accessing "www.international.la-croix.com" Website (hereinafter the “Website”). By browsing this Website, you acknowledge, in your capacity as user, that you have read the terms and conditions thereof, unconditionally accept them and comply with them.
1 – Personal data
a – Collection and use of your personal data
Bayard Group, to which Bayard belongs, complies with the French Data Protection Act No. 78 of 6 January 1978 as amended, and Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016.
As Data Controller under the French Data Protection Act, Bayard Group is responsible for the personal data it collects.
In accordance with the provisions of the French Data Protection Act, you are informed that Bayard Group automatically processes your personal data, in particular when you log on to our Website or as part of the online forms which you complete.
You may also be asked if you would like to receive commercial offers from Bayard Group or its partners. In accordance with the French “Trust in the Digital Economy” Act No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004, you must clearly express your consent by ticking a box confirming your agreement.
The personal data collected is for Bayard Group and its subsidiaries. Your personal data may be transferred to third parties when you have granted your prior consent for the sharing and/or disclosure of personal data, including via the features offered by the Website.
In accordance with applicable legal and regulatory provisions, the processing of your data may give rise to the exercise of a right of access, a right to rectification, a right of limitation, a right of portability, a right to erasure and a right to object on legitimate grounds, with Bayard, the publisher of said Website, by sending a letter to the following address: [email protected].
For more information, please see the privacy policy of Bayard Group.
b – Use of “Cookies”
What are "Cookies"?
A cookie is a text file that stores information on your web browsing. This file, placed by a server when you visit a website, is saved on the user's hard disk and cannot either contain a virus or be executed. It is not an active file. Moreover, you can read it, delete it or change it. A cookie cannot be used to retrieve personal data from your hard disk, read your e-mail address or obtain personal information.
Why "Cookies"?
Pursuant to the Order of 24 August 2011 on the application of European directives on the protection of online privacy, a cookie cannot be stored on your computer without your prior consent (except where permitted by law). Bayard Group is consequently obliged to obtain your prior consent, which is valid for at most 13 months. Some cookies are, however, exempt from this requirement of consent:
• If the cookie is used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication, and
• If the cookie is strictly necessary in order for the provider of an online communication service explicitly required by the user to provide that service.
Changing your browser settings
In accordance with the Order of 24 August 2011 on the application of European directives on the protection of online privacy, a cookie cannot be stored on your mobile without your prior consent.
Bearing this in mind, we hereby inform you that you can change your browser settings to block cookies being stored.
Each browser manages cookies and your preferences in a different way. Use the help menu on your browser to find out how to change your cookie preferences.
· Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=fr_FR&viewlocale=fr_FR
· Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html
· Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB&hlrm=en&sjid=18317702848376121830-EU
· Internet explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Setting your preferences online using an industry platform to refuse advertising cookies altogether
The “Youronlinechoices” platform, funded by the Internet advertising industry in the form of the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) and managed in France by Interactive Advertising Bureau France, allows you to refuse or accept the Cookies used by member companies to tailor the adverts you may see on your device to your browsing information: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/.
Please note that your preferences will not stop adverts being displayed but will block technologies designed to tailor advertising to your areas of interest.
Sharing your preferences with Bayard Group
When you visit our websites and you have not consented to cookies being stored during the 13 months preceding your visit, a banner appears and asks you to consent to cookies being stored. Following your express consent, cookies are stored to enable optimal access to the website. For example, cookies make it possible to identify you and allow you to access your customer account. However, please note, that regardless of whether you accepted or refused cookies, your preference can only be recorded if you use the same browser and have not deleted your browsing history in the meantime.
! Warning! Third-party cookies
Please note that we are not responsible for the placing of third-party cookies on your computer by the social network(s) to which you belong. Social networks may place a cookie on your computer that allows you to be identified, particularly when you use a feature that allows you to give your opinion on content or a publication. Our Website includes applications linked to the various social networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Viadeo, etc.) known as "social plugins" that allow us, in particular, to offer you content recommendations. When you select a page on our Website that contains one of these plugins, your browser establishes a direct link to the servers of the social network concerned. The content of the plugin will be sent directly to your browser by said social network and integrated into the Website. To review the purpose and scope of the data collection, data processing and use by the social media platforms you have joined, along with your rights and options to change preferences to protect your privacy, please consult the General Terms and Conditions of Use of the social network concerned. If you do not want a social network to collect data about you on our Website, disconnect from said social network before visiting it.
For more information, please see Bayard Group’s privacy policy.
Opt-out2 – Intellectual property
2.1. User licence
Access to the Website entitles you to private, non-collective and non-exclusive use of the content of said Website. All networking and re-broadcasting, in form whatever, are prohibited. The right to reproduce is only for the purpose of display on a single workstation screen and is strictly reserved for your private use. If you wish to make commercial use of the information on this website, you must request our express agreement. To do this, you can contact us by clicking here.
All materials published on the Website, including but not limited to texts, photographs, graphics and icons (hereinafter "the Materials"), constitute works within the meaning of the provisions of Article L112-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code. Therefore, any representation or reproduction, in whole or in part, that may be made without the consent of their authors or assigns, is illegal. You may not consequently modify, copy, send by e-mail or in any other way, assign, download, display and, in general, exploit these Materials.
You therefore agree to:
– only download the Materials to your computer for personal, time-limited use;
– print the downloaded Materials on paper, provided that said copies are strictly limited to personal use;
– not reproduce the digital version of the Materials for press review purposes;
– not alter, modify, move, remove or replace the editorial content (text and/or reproduction) of the Materials and/or the La Croix International name and/or the name of Bayard and/or the authors of the Materials or their assigns and/or any other information relating to Bayard’s rights and/or the authors of the Materials or their assigns.
We remind you that breach of copyright of the publisher or authors of this Website constitutes an infringement offence sanctioned in France by Article L335-2 of the French Intellectual Property Code and punishable by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €300,000.
Bayard reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to modify, delete or add information to the “General Terms and Conditions of Use” of the Website, at any time, in particular in order to take into account any legal, case law, editorial and/or technical changes. The prevailing version is the version available online. You are therefore advised to regularly refer to the latest version of the General Terms and Conditions of Use.
Bayard also reserves the right to modify the features or content of the Website. It may also restrict access to certain sections of the Website, without prior notice.
Bayard may, at its sole discretion, suspend, interrupt or withdraw access to all or part of the Website for any reason whatsoever, including non-compliance with the Website’s “General Terms and Conditions of Use”. It does not warrant that the Website is error-free or that all defects will be corrected.
Bayard reserves the right to send you, personally or to all users of the Website, e-mails in order to keep you informed regarding changes, modifications or additions to the Website.
2.2. Text search
Bayard is opposed to all harvesting and text and data mining operations within the meaning of article L. 122-5-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code.
This objection covers the entire Site and the Content to which it gives access.
All harvesting and text and data mining operations targeting the Site and its Contents, including by automated data collection devices, therefore constitute acts of counterfeiting unless Bayard gives its specific, prior, written and formally expressed agreement.
As article R. 122-28 of the French Intellectual Property Code specifies that the objection referred to in III of article L. 122-5-3 may be expressed by any means, including by recourse to the general conditions of use of an Internet site or service, the absence of metadata associated with the Site, Site directories and Site Content has no effect on the exercise of the right of objection expressed by these general conditions of use.
To facilitate the reading of this right of opposition by any automated data collection device, this opposition is also expressed as follows < TDM-RESERVATION: 1>.
Bayard reserves the right to bring any action or claim necessary to prevent, stop and punish any non-compliance with the aforementioned stipulations, including legal proceedings, without prior formal notice.
3 – Limitation of liability
You are solely liable for any material or immaterial damage and harm, whether direct or indirect, if it is caused, based on or caused by your use of the Website or by any person authorised by you to use this Website. Use means any use of the Website, whether fraudulent or non-fraudulent.
As such, you waive any claim or legal action relating to such damage and harm, on the basis of Bayard’s contractual liability in its capacity as publisher of this Website or on any other basis.
Minors are allowed to register for a certain number of services offered on the Website, on the express condition that they have obtained prior permission from their parents (or the person exercising parental authority) to do so and provide the information and e-mail addresses to which any communication may be sent to them. The fact that they register means that they have obtained this prior permission. Bayard reserves the right to request written proof thereof at any time, and to carry out any checks, as well as to delete any personal account for which the minor holder does not provide said proof within five (5) days of the request, or within any other period granted thereto. Bayard will immediately delete any personal account, upon receipt of a parental request to close the personal account and delete the related content.
Bayard cautions persons with parental authority about the diversity and nature of the content available on the Internet, which may cause harm to minors. Parents are therefore encouraged to monitor their children when they log in.
The parents and any person exercising parental authority are also reminded that it is their responsibility, first, to determine which services accessible on the Website their minor child is authorised to use and, second, to monitor his/her use of these services.
Hypertext links may link to websites other than the Website. By clicking on these links, you leave the Website and end up on websites over which Bayard has no control. Therefore, the latter disclaims any liability in the event that the content of these websites infringes legal and regulatory provisions in force.
Furthermore, it is highlighted that no hypertext link may return the user to the Website without the prior express permission of the publisher of the Website. In the absence of permission, such a link is considered to constitute an offence of infringement, for which the penalties are stated above.
Bayard undertakes to use its best efforts to secure access, consultation and use of the Materials in accordance with the rules of use of the Internet. Access to the Website is possible twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week except in the event of force majeure or an event beyond the control of Bayard and subject to any breakdowns and maintenance work required for the proper operation of the Website and the Materials, which may be carried out without you having been notified in advance.
Therefore, Bayard may not be held liable in the following cases:
– Momentary interruptions lasting a few minutes to update certain files;
– Difficulties in the operation or temporary interruption of these services independently of Bayard’s wishes, particularly in the event of an interruption in electricity supply or telecommunications services;
– Temporary service interruptions required for upgrades or maintenance;
– Internet failure or malfunctions in the transmission of messages or documents;
You acknowledge that you accept the features and limitations of the Internet, and in particular acknowledge that;
–you are aware of the nature of the Internet, in particular its technical performance and response times for consulting, querying or transferring information/data;
–it is your own responsibility to provide any access codes, your username and password or, in general, any information deemed confidential;
–you are responsible for taking all necessary measures to ensure that the technical features of your computer allow you to consult the Website;
–it is your responsibility to take all appropriate measures to protect your own data and/or software from contamination by any viruses circulating through the Website;
– it is specified that downloading the Materials implies unconditional acceptance of said Materials and of these General Terms and Conditions of Use.
4 – Subscription
For any information concerning your subscription, please read the provisions of the General Terms and Conditions of Sale.
5 – Partnerships
The Website partner sections are managed directly by Bayard’s partners by rerouting to their respective websites. Therefore, the content and services offered by these partners are not governed by these “General Terms and Conditions of Use” and are offered without any warranty from Bayard.
Therefore, Bayard shall not be held liable for any reason and on any basis whatsoever in relation to the offers consulted as well as the transactions that may result therefrom.
The Website partner sections are intended to provide you with basic information from the Website and no transactions can be carried out directly there. This information cannot therefore be qualified as an offer by Bayard to provide services or products, as it is only the vector of information relating to these offers.
It is therefore your responsibility to carry out any due diligence and checks that you deem necessary before carrying out any transaction with these third parties.
6 – Advertising agency
To contact Bayard: [email protected]
10 – Application of French law
The Internet is by nature a global network, but since this Website is intended for a French audience, the rules applicable to all content and all transmission of data on and around the Website are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, the French courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.