The User acknowledges and accepts the Conditions for the Use of the Business Resources as set forth herebelow:
I Purpose
The Business Resources section offers free of charge a range of online services and information accessible from the Directory, Public Procurement, Buy & Sell and My EUROPAGES.
EUROPAGES thus enables the User to contact the partners listed therein.
II Obligations of the User
II.1 Conditions linked to the use of the Directory Search Bar
The User shall refrain from using the Business Resources associated with the Europages Search Bar available in the Companies Directory through automated methods, "metaspiders", "crawlers" or any other means.
By installing the Search Bar, the User accepts that EUROPAGES may freely supplement, modify or delete all or part of the Business Resources it supplies.
II.2 Restrictions regarding the use of the site www.europages.com and the Business Resources
The User hereby undertakes to refrain from hindering the smooth operation of the site
www.europages.com in any manner whatsoever.
More specifically, it shall ensure the throughput is not unduly overloaded and/or that no elements shall be transmitted that may be likely to damage, intercept and/or interfere with all or part of the site
www.europages.com.
The User shall not:
proceed with any decompilation, reverse engineering or disassembly of Business Resources and the services associated therewith or attempt to discover their source code;
alter or disrupt the functioning, communication or any other operation of the Directory and the services associated therewith during the use thereof;
duplicate, reproduce, copy, modify or create any product derived from the Directory and the services associated therewith.
III EUROPAGES' position
III.1 Suspension of access to the Business Resources
EUROPAGES may suspend the access to Business Resources, and/or to all of the site
www.europages.com, of any user infringing the terms of use and more generally any legislation and/or regulation that may be applicable;
Such suspension shall not imply the liability of EUROPAGES, without prejudice to its other rights to take legal action, and shall be notified by email.
In such an event, EUROPAGES shall make no reimbursement, either full or partial, if the User has subscribed to a Bonus Pack and/or taken out a paying subscription.
III.2 Limited liability
Under no circumstances shall EUROPAGES be held responsible for the establishment, execution or termination of any relations established between the User and one or more partners listed in the Business Resources.
EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for the consequences of the use of inaccurate information, or of the omission of information on the part of its partners.
EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for any damage, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the Business Resources for any reason whatsoever.
EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for any malfunction of the Business Resources resulting from an incompatible operation using any other product, software or hardware, or for any loss or damage to data.
IV GLOBAL PROVISIONS COVERING ALL SERVICES OF THE EUROPAGES SITE
IV.1 Equipment and connection charges
It shall be incumbent upon the User to install the appropriate equipment so as to be able to connect to the site
www.europages.com (and thus access the Business Resources).
All costs relating to equipment, connection and transmission necessary for the use of the site
www.europages.com shall be borne exclusively by the User.
Furthermore, it shall be incumbent upon the User to take the appropriate measures to protect its own data and/or software stored on its computing equipment against any loss or damage.
The User shall be solely responsible for the connection.
IV.2 Jurisdiction
In the event of major difficulty or dispute between the user and EUROPAGES, the Parties hereby agree to seek an amicable settlement.
Should this fail, any such dispute shall be submitted to the Nanterre Commercial Court.
The present Conditions of Use shall be subject to French law.
Should the present Terms of Use be translated, the French version shall prevail over all others.
IV.3 User comments
EUROPAGES shall provide the User with the opportunity to make comments and suggestions concerning the site
www.europages.com The information they contain may be used freely by EUROPAGES, with no financial consideration for the User concerned.
IV.4 Intellectual property rights
EUROPAGES and its logo are registered trademarks.
They are the exclusive property of EUROPAGES.
All editorial elements and contents of the site
www.europages.com (notably trademarks, texts, graphics, logos, animations, etc.) are the exclusive property of EUROPAGES, with the exception of elements contributed by EUROPAGES' partners or other sites accessible via the site
www.europages.com.
All rights of reproduction or representation of the site
www.europages.com are reserved for all countries and for all media, present and/or future.
The User acknowledges that the downloading of addresses and information from the Companies Directory and services associated therewith or with any part of the site
www.europages.com, for the purposes of constituting a database is prohibited.
IV.5 Security
EUROPAGES applies a set of measures designed to limit the risks connected with intrusion, piracy and the introduction of viruses into its servers and/or the site
www.europages.com.
EUROPAGES is unable to offer an absolute guarantee of security, in so far as the Internet is an open network, by nature sensitive to such risks.
The User of the site
www.europages.com hereby declares that it is aware of said risks and accepts them.
Under no circumstances shall the liability of EUROPAGES be invoked for any injury and/or direct or indirect damage suffered by the User resulting from any interruption or malfunction, from the suspension and/or termination of the site
www.europages.com.
IV.6 Copyright
In accordance with Act no. 98-536 of July 1st 1998 transposing into the French Intellectual Property Code the European Directive no. 96/9/EC of March 11th 1996 concerning the legal protection of databases, EUROPAGES is producer and owner of all or part of the databases making up the Companies Directory, with the exception of elements contributed by EUROPAGES' partners or other sites accessible from the site
www.europages.com.
With regard to the database making up the Directory and the services associated therewith, the User acknowledges that the data comprised therein is legally protected and, in accordance with the legal provision cited hereabove, shall refrain from:
• extracting, reusing, storing, representing, reproducing or stocking, directly or indirectly, in any medium whatsoever, by any means and in any form whatsoever, all or any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the contents of the databases on the Companies Directory and any associated services,
• systematically and repeatedly extracting or reusing any qualitatively or quantitatively non-substantial part of the contents of the databases on the Companies Directory and any associated services, that are accessed during operations that obviously go beyond the normal terms of use of a directory.
Any attempt at fraudulent extraction shall be deemed to constitute infringement of copyright.
IV.7 Use of links to sites external to the site www.europages.com
Certain pages on the site
www.europages.com contain links to external Internet pages having no partnership with EUROPAGES.
As EUROPAGES is unable to monitor all the content of the Internet sites linked to the site
www.europages.com, the User hereby acknowledges that EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for any products, services and/or information available on and/or from such Internet sites.
EUROPAGES strongly recommends that its Users read the policy on the protection of private data of each Internet site they consult.
IV.8 Application date and duration of validity of the conditions of use
The present terms of use shall apply to the user upon connection to the site
www.europages.com.
They shall prevail over all previous Terms of Use and may be amended at any time by EUROPAGES.
In such an event, the amendments shall be effective as soon as they are posted online.
