Legal Information

1. Website Information

Pursuant to Article 6 of French Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the website www.technistyle.com are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and management:

Owner: Technistyle – SAS inscrite au RCS de Nanterre sous le n° 9206340800062, 146 boulevard de la République, 92210 Saint-Cloud.

Publication Director: Marie Chazalon – ma.chazalon@technistyle.com

Webmaster: To be completed

Hosting Provider: OVH – 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France.

Credits: the legal notice was generated and provided by Subdelirium, a website creation company in Bordeaux.

2. General Terms of Use of the Website and Services

Use of the website www.technistyle.com implies full and complete acceptance of the terms of use described below. These terms of use may be amended or supplemented at any time. Users of the website www.technistyle.com are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This website is normally accessible to users at all times. Technistyle may, however, decide to interrupt access for technical maintenance and will endeavour to inform users in advance of the dates and times of such maintenance.

Le site www.technistyle.com is regularly updated by Marie Chazalon. Likewise, the legal notice may be amended at any time. It remains binding on users, who are encouraged to consult it as often as possible.

3. Description of Services Provided

Le site www.technistyle.com is intended to provide information about all of the company’s activities.

Technistyle endeavours to provide on the website www.technistyle.com information that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held liable for omissions, inaccuracies or deficiencies in updates, whether caused by Technistyle or by third-party partners providing such information.

All information provided on the website www.technistyle.com is provided for information purposes only and may change. Furthermore, the information available on the website www.technistyle.com is not exhaustive and is subject to changes made since it was published online.

4. Contractual Limitations Regarding Technical Data

The website cannot be held liable for any material damage resulting from its use.

In addition, users agree to access the website using up-to-date equipment free from viruses and a latest-generation browser that is regularly updated.

5. Intellectual Property and Infringement

Technistyle owns the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use for all elements available on the website, including texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of all or part of the website’s content, by any means or process whatsoever, is prohibited without Technistyle’s prior written authorisation.

Any unauthorised use of the website or any of its content will be considered an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with Articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitation of Liability

Technistyle cannot be held liable for direct or indirect damage caused to users’ equipment when accessing the website www.technistyle.com, resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications set out in Section 4 or from the occurrence of a bug or incompatibility.

Technistyle cannot be held liable for indirect damages, such as loss of business or loss of opportunity, resulting from use of the website www.technistyle.com.

Interactive areas, including the option to ask questions through the contact section, are available to users.

Technistyle reserves the right to remove, without prior notice, any content posted in these areas that breaches applicable French legislation, particularly provisions relating to data protection.

Where applicable, Technistyle also reserves the right to hold users civilly and/or criminally liable, particularly in the event of racist, abusive, defamatory or pornographic messages, regardless of the medium used.

7. Personal Data Management

In France, personal data is protected in particular by Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, Law No. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, Article L.226-13 of the French Criminal Code and the European Directive of 24 October 1995.

When using the website www.technistyle.com, the following information may be collected:

the URL of the links through which the user accessed the website;
the user’s Internet service provider;
the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.

In any event, Technistyle only collects users’ personal information for the purposes of certain services offered by the website www.technistyle.com.

Users provide this information knowingly, particularly when entering it themselves. Users of the website www.technistyle.com are informed whether providing such information is mandatory.

In accordance with Articles 38 et seq. of French Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, data files and civil liberties, every user has the right to access, rectify and object to the processing of their personal data.

Requests must be made in writing and signed, accompanied by a copy of an identity document bearing the holder’s signature and specifying the address to which the response should be sent.

No personal information relating to users of the website www.technistyle.com is published without their knowledge, exchanged, transferred, assigned or sold to third parties by any means.

Only the acquisition of Technistyle and its rights could result in this information being transferred to a prospective purchaser, who would in turn be bound by the same obligations regarding the storage and modification of data relating to users of the website www.technistyle.com.

Databases are protected by the provisions of the French Law of 1 July 1998 implementing Directive 96/9 of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

8. Hyperlinks and Cookies

Le site www.technistyle.com contains a number of hyperlinks to other websites, included with Technistyle’s authorisation.

However, Technistyle is unable to verify the content of the websites visited through these links and therefore accepts no liability in this regard.

Browsing the website www.technistyle.com may result in cookies being installed on the user’s computer.

A cookie is a small file that does not directly identify the user but records information relating to a computer’s browsing activity on a website.

The data obtained is intended to facilitate subsequent browsing and to enable various audience measurement functions.

Refusing to install cookies may prevent access to certain services.

Users can configure their browser to refuse cookies.

9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Any dispute relating to the use of the website www.technistyle.com is governed by French law.

Exclusive jurisdiction is granted to the competent courts of Paris.

10. Main Applicable Laws

Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended in particular by Law No. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 relating to information technology, data files and civil liberties.

Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy.

11. Glossary

User: an Internet user connecting to and using the aforementioned website.

Personal information: information that enables, in any form whatsoever, the direct or indirect identification of the individuals to whom it relates.

Privacy

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, your IP address and your browser’s user agent string are collected to help us detect spam.

An anonymised string created from your email address, also known as a hash, may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it.

Once your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

When uploading images to the website, we recommend avoiding images containing EXIF GPS location data.

Visitors to the website may download and extract location data from these images.

Cookies

When you leave a comment on our website, you may be offered the option of saving your name, email address and website in cookies.

These cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information again when leaving another comment. They expire after one year.

When you visit the login page, a temporary cookie is created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies.

This cookie contains no personal data and is automatically deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, several cookies are set to save your login information and display preferences.

If you select “Remember Me”, your login cookie will be retained for two weeks.

When you log out of your account, the login cookie is deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie is stored in your browser.

This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you have just edited and expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images or articles.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools and monitor your interactions with embedded content, particularly if you have an account and are logged in to their website.

Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data

When you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

This allows us to recognise and automatically approve subsequent comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, where applicable, we also store the personal information provided in their profile.

All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username.

Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

Your Rights Regarding Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments on the website, you can request an exported file containing the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.

This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Visitor comments may be checked using an automated spam detection service.

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