Legal disclaimer

1. Presentation

Pursuant to Article 6 of french Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 for confidence in the digital economy, users of the site www.surf-community.com are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its implementation and monitoring:

Owner : Surf-community.com – 13016 Marseille – SIRET N°891 599 342 00013
Creator: Michaël AUGER
Publication manager: Michaël AUGER
Technical manager: Michaël AUGER
Hosting : OVH – 2 rue Kellermann – 59100 Roubaix

2. General conditions of use of the site and the services offered

Use of the site www.surf-community.com implies full and complete acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use may be modified or supplemented at any time, and users of the site www.surf-community.com are therefore invited to consult them on a regular basis.

This site is normally accessible to users at all times. However, an interruption for technical maintenance may be decided by Surf-community.com, which will then endeavour to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention.

The site www.surf-community.com is regularly updated by Michaël. In the same way, the legal notices can be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding on the user who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to take note of them.

3. Description of services provided

The site www.surf-community.com aims to provide information about all the company’s activities.

Surf-community.com endeavours to provide on the site www.surf-community.com information that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies and shortcomings in updating, whether caused by itself or by the third party partners who provide it with this information.

All the information on the website www.surf-community.com is given as an indication and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the site www.surf-community.com is not exhaustive. It is given subject to modifications that have been made since it was put online.

4. Contractual limitations on technical data

The website cannot be held responsible for any material damage related to the use of the site. Furthermore, the user of the site undertakes to access the site using recent, virus-free equipment and with a latest-generation, up-to-date browser.

5. Intellectual property and counterfeiting

Surf-community.com is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds, software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, regardless of the means or process used, is prohibited without the prior written permission of : Surf-community.com .

Any unauthorised use of the site or of any of the elements it contains will be considered as an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of french articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitations of liability

Surf-community.com cannot be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the www.surf-community.com website, and resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or incompatibility.

Surf-community.com can also not be held responsible for indirect damages (such as loss of business or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the site www.surf-community.com.

Interactive spaces (possibility to ask questions in the contact area) are available to users. Surf-community.com reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content deposited in this space that contravenes the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. If necessary, Surf-community.com also reserves the possibility of calling into question the civil and/or criminal liability of the user, in particular in the event of a message of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic nature, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph, etc.).

7. Affiliation

Surf-community.com participates in the Amazon US Partner Programme, an affiliate programme designed to enable sites to earn revenue by linking to Amazon.com.

Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

8. Management of personal data

In France, personal data is protected by law n° 78-87 of 6 January 1978, law n° 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, article L. 226-13 of the Penal Code and the European Directive of 24 October 1995.

When using the Surf-community.com website, the following may be collected: the URL of the links through which the user accessed the Surf-community.com website, the user’s access provider, the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.

In any case Surf-community.com only collects personal information relating to the user for the need of certain services offered by the Surf-community.com website. The user provides this information with full knowledge of the facts, especially when he enters it himself. It is then specified to the user of the Surf-community.com website whether or not he is obliged to provide this information.

In accordance with the provisions of articles 38 and following of the law 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, files and liberties, any user has the right to access, rectify and oppose personal data concerning him/her, by making a written and signed request, accompanied by a copy of the identity document with the signature of the holder of the document, specifying the address to which the reply should be sent.

No personal information of the user of the Surf-community.com website is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold on any medium whatsoever to third parties. Only if Surf-community.com and its rights were to be bought back would it be possible to pass on this information to the potential buyer, who would in turn be bound by the same obligation to keep and modify the data with regard to the user of the Surf-community.com website.

The site is not declared to the CNIL because it does not collect personal information.

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

9. Hyperlinks and cookies

The Surf-community.com site contains a certain number of hypertext links to other sites, set up with the authorisation of Surf-community.com. However, Surf-community.com not able to verify the content of the sites thus visited, and therefore does not assume any responsibility for this fact.

Browsing on the Surf-community.com website is likely to cause the installation of cookie(s) on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file, which does not allow the identification of the user, but which records information relating to the navigation of a computer on a site. The data obtained in this way is intended to facilitate subsequent navigation on the site, and is also intended to enable various measures of frequentation.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Refusal to install a cookie may result in the inability to access certain services. However, the user can configure his computer in the following way to refuse the installation of cookies :

• Internet Explorer: tool tab (gear icon in the top right-hand corner) / internet options. Click on Confidentiality and choose Block all cookies. Validate on Ok.
• Firefox: at the top of the browser window, click on the Firefox button, then go to the Options tab. Click on the Privacy tab. Set the Retention Rules to: use custom settings for history. Finally uncheck it to disable cookies.
• Safari: Click on the menu pictogram (symbolised by a cog) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on Content Settings. In the “Cookies” section, you can block cookies..
• Chrome: Click on the menu icon (symbolised by three horizontal lines) in the top right-hand corner of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on Preferences. In the “Privacy” tab, you can block cookies.

10. Applicable law and jurisdiction

Any dispute in connection with the use of the Surf-community.com website is subject to French law. The courts of Paris have exclusive juridiction.

11. The main laws concerned

Law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978, notably modified by law n° 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 relating to information technology, files and liberties.

Law n° 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 for confidence in the digital economy.

12. Glossary

User: Internet user connecting, using the above-mentioned site.

Personal information: “information which allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies” (article 4 of the law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978).