Legal Notice

Legal information

The www.gireve.com is published by GIREVE, a simplified stock company (“société par actions simplifiée”), with a share capital of  3 001 000 euros, registered with the Companies Register of Versailles under number 794 519 645, having its principal place of business at 108-110 avenue du Général Leclerc, 7820 Viroflay, France – telephone: +33 (0)1 39 53 01 41 – email address: contact@gireve.com – EU VAT number FR63794519645.

The publication director is Mr. Eric Plaquet, the President of GIREVE.

The site is hosted by ONLINE, a company having its principal place of business at 8 rue de la ville de l’Evêque 75008 Paris France – telephone: +33 (0)1 73 50 31 75.

 

Liability

While GIREVE will strive to make every effort to provide users with a site available at all times, it cannot be held liable for the unavailability of the site, for any reason whatsoever.

Users acknowledge that they have read this legal notice and agree to comply with its terms.

Users acknowledge that they have the skills and equipment required to access and use this site and that they have checked that the computer configuration they use is virus-free and in perfect working condition.

GIREVE makes no representations or warranties that its site contains accurate and complete information or will be uninterrupted or totally secure.

While GIREVE makes every effort to provide users with information and/or tools that are available and checked, it makes no representations or warranties that it will be error-free, uninterrupted and/or free of virus or other logical infections.

The information provided by GIREVE is for information purposes only. GIREVE makes no guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the information contained on its site.

Accordingly, users agree that they use the information and tools available on the site under their own responsibility.

 

Protection of personal data

The personal data processing operations carried out from the site gireve.com have been included in the list of processing kept by the Data Protection Officer of GIREVE.

In accordance with Article 32 of the French Data Protection Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended, GIREVE informs users that it processes personal data relating to them, acting as the data controller. The data disclosed by users in the forms posted on the site are intended for the authorized personnel of GIREVE for administrative and commercial management purposes. Data marked with an asterisk are mandatory; if users fail to answer, the processing of their request may be delayed or even impossible.

Users have a right to access, inquire about, modify, rectify and erase personal data relating to them.

Users also have a right to object on legitimate grounds to the processing of data relating to them as well as a right to object to their use for direct marketing purposes.

To exercise their rights, users must send a letter, together with a copy of a signed identity document, to the following address: GIREVE 108-110 avenue du Général Leclerc, 7820 Viroflay, France or at the email address: contact@gireve.com.

Users must comply with the provisions of the French Data Protection Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended; users who violate these provisions may be subject to criminal penalties. In particular, users shall not collect or misuse personal data or otherwise act in a manner that may adversely affect the privacy or reputation of others.

GIREVE, as a controller, process the personal data of users for the following purposes:

– managing requests for information and pre-contractual exchanges with visitors to the website, and more generally managing prospects;

– managing relations with the media.

The legal basis for the processing is the consent of users. The data collected are essential for this processing and are only intended for GIREVE’s customer relationship and communication department and, where applicable, for GIREVE’s subcontractors. The data will be kept for 3 years after the last contact with users. Any user concerned by the processing has the right to be informed on, have access to, rectify, erase data, the right to restrict processing, the right to data portability, as well as the right to object to processing. Any user further has the right to give specific and general guidelines concerning the storage, erasure and communication of his or her data after his or her death. Users may exercise their rights by email to contact@gireve.com. Users are informed that they have the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés.

Intellectual Property

The www.gireve.com site, taken as a whole, as well as each and every of the individual elements composing it, including the specific programs and developments and the content containing data, texts, still or animated images, logotypes, sounds, graphics, files, are the exclusive property of GIREVE or any third-party licensors. Any total or partial representation of the site or any of the elements composing it without GIREVE’s express authorization is strictly forbidden and shall constitute an infringement punished by Articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

The databases appearing on the site are protected by Articles L. 341-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code and any extraction or re-utilization of a significant part of the content of the databases, evaluated qualitatively or quantitatively, shall be punished.

The trademarks and logotypes appearing on the site are registered trademarks of GIREVE or third parties. Any total or partial reproduction, imitation or use of these distinctive signs without express permission and in violation of the prohibitions laid down in Articles L.713-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code is prohibited.

The other distinctive signs, including company names, trade names, shop names, domain names, reproduced on the site are the property of GIREVE or third parties and any reproduction without express permission may constitute an act of infringement under Article 1382 of the French Civil Code.

 

Links

The site contains deep links placed by GIREVE to other websites.

GIREVE is not responsible for and does not endorse or accept any responsibility over the contents and use of the links proposed by third party websites.

Users may not create a deep hyperlink to this site without GIREVE’s prior written authorization.

 

Governing law

This site is governed by French law.

 

Variation

  1. GIREVE reserves the right to amend the content of this legal notice at any time without notice.
  1. Users are therefore invited to check back regularly.

 

Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are data stored in the terminal device of an Internet user; they are used by the website to send status information to the Internet user’s browser, and by the browser to send status information back to the site (e.g. session ID, language preferences or date).

Cookies allow status information to be kept, during the validity period of the relevant cookie, when a browser accesses various website pages or when it goes back on this website later.

Only the issuer of a cookie may read or modify the information contained in such cookie.

There are various types of cookies:

  • session cookies, which disappear once you leave the site;
  • persistent cookies, which remain stored in your device until the end of their lifespan or until they are deleted via your browser settings.

You are informed that cookies may be installed on your terminal device when you visit the site.

 

Why do we use cookies?

The cookies installed on the gireve.com site are exclusively intended to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means and are strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at the user’s express request.

 

What cookies do we use?

Cookies used on the site are certain third party cookies selected by GIREVE in order to achieve specified purposes.

GIREVE uses the services offered by the U.S. company Google Inc..

The data collected via the cookies are transferred and stored by Google Inc..

Google Inc. complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and thus ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data (European Commission decision 2000/520/EC of 26-07-2000).

Google Analytics helps us to measure the number of visitors and see how they use the site. These cookies are placed and read on the user’s terminal device when they access a website using Google Analytics.

The data generated by the cookies concern the following data:

  • how you interact with the site;
  • what your IP address is in order to locate the town from where you log in. This data is immediately anonymized after your town has been located and is not disclosed to GIREVE.

You can find out more about Google Analytics by visiting the page http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

 

Consent

When you browse our website, cookies will be installed and accessed to help us to analyse your browsing and measure the traffic of our website.

You have the option to manage the cookies used on the site by configuring your browser as described below.

 

How to manage cookies?

You have several options to manage cookies.

Most browsers are set by default and accept cookies, but you can choose to systematically accept or reject all cookies or only cookies from certain issuers. You may also configure your browser to accept or reject cookies on a case by case basis prior to their installation. You may also regularly delete cookies from your device terminal via your browser. Remember to set all the browsers of your different terminals (tablets, smartphones, computers).

Each browser has its own way of managing cookies and cookies settings. The configuration of each browser is described in its help menu, which will inform you of how to change their cookie settings. For example:

However, please note that setting your browser to disable cookies may restrict you from accessing certain features, pages, or areas of the site, for which we cannot be held responsible.

Please further note that if you decide to reject cookies, a refusal cookie will be installed on your device. If you delete this refusal cookie, it will no longer be possible to know that you wanted no cookie to be installed. Likewise, when you decide to accept cookies, a consent cookie is installed on your device. This is why consent cookies and refusal cookies should not be deleted from your device.