GENERAL USER CONDITIONS FOR THE SITE SOLDES BY PARIS
These user conditions apply to the website SOLDES BY PARIS for which the addresses are www.soldesbyparistouch.com and www.soldesbyparistouch.fr hereafter known as “the Site”. This Site belongs to the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre.
BY USING THIS SITE, YOU ACCEPT THE USER CONDITIONS FOR THIS SITE DEFINED HEREAFTER. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO ACCEPT THESE CONDITIONS, WE ASK THAT YOU DO NOT USE THIS SITE
Applicable law
The present Site is subject to French law. The entirety of its contents, its offers, and its services are governed by French regulations in effect. Any interpretation, contestation or claim concerning this Site will be handled by the French courts.
The Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre opened this Site for the Soldes By Paris event, so as to inform professionals (Parisian merchants) and the general public (tourists and visitors to Paris) about the operations of this event.
Any commercial exploitation, even partial of the contents of this Site, including or not its data, will not be allowed without the express written consent of the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre.
Intellectual Property rights
All the information contained in this Site is protected intellectual property laws in effect. Any unauthorised reproduction, partial or complete, will not be allowed without the express written consent of the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre.
The Soldes By Paris event name and its logo are, unless otherwise stated, registered trademarks of the Parisian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Parimage SA. Any unauthorised reproduction, use or modification without the express written consent of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Parimage SA shall constitute forgery and will be actionable.
All graphics, images, texts, sonorous or non-sonorous animations, logos, brands, and product names represented on this Site are protected by intellectual property laws and are, depending on each case, the property of the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre, the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Parimage SA, or third parties having authorised the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre to represent them on the Site. Hence any download, reproduction, representation, adaptation, translation and/or transformation, partial or complete, or transfer to another Site or any other source (paper, digital application, film, etc...) is strictly forbidden.
Site Publisher
This Site is published and offered by the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre, an association governed by the law of 1901, whose headquarters are located at 25 rue des Pyramides, 75001 Paris.
Publication Director: Mrs. Marie – Christine RABBOT
Editing Manager : Sofia Toulali
Telephone : +33 (0)1 49 52 53 68
Hosting
Société Supergazol, 5 rue de Charonne 75011 Paris, 01 43 14 47 79.
Responsibility
We cannot guarantee proper, uninterrupted, error-free functioning of the Site.
We are responsible purely for providing the means for functioning and for a continuous service. We will not be held accountable for direct or indirect prejudices resulting from use of our Site, whatever the cause; in particular we will not be responsible for alteration or fraudulent changes to the given information of the Site and/or accidental transmission by means of virus. Furthermore, we will not be responsible for events in the case of force majeure, technical problems and errors concerning material, programs and software or the internet network eventually leading to the suspension or cessation of the service.
Respect for your privacy
The Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre takes seriously the privacy and the protection of the personal information of anyone who accesses the Site.
Certain nominative information is collected on this Site. Personal information refers to “information, under any form, that contains, directly or indirectly, the identification of individuals to whom it applies”. It includes:
- surname, given name;
- email address,
You are asked for this information via a form if you wish to contact us, and it serves solely to help us answer your questions. Use of your personal information
Use of your personal information
The collection and processing of your personal information is carried out in accordance with French law (law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978) and European guidelines on the protection of personal information (Dir 2002/58 12 July 2002 and Dir 95/46 of 24 October 1995). In accordance with French law, you have the right to access, rectify or oppose the collected nominative information applying to you. This right can be exercised by choosing to send an email addressed to: Marlène Teixier, 55 rue d’Amsterdam 75008 Paris In accordance with French law, this information will be divulged by the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre to any individual, legal or administrative entity entitled to demand it.
Hyperlinks
Our Site may contain hyperlinks directing you toward other sites. If you visit one of these other sites, we advise you to check their policy, notably regarding the protection of personal information. We take no responsibility for any other Site to which you may have access through our Site, nor are we responsible for any content, functionality or access to these Sites, nor any policies or practices of other companies.
Prior agreement must be obtained from the Parisian Office of Tourism and Convention Centre before creating any created to the Soldes By Paris Site.
Soldes By Paris Diary blog
In the Soldes By Paris Diary blog heading, once they have identified themselves and created a username, internet users can leave personal comments related to the ongoing event.
Message contents
The internet user agrees to refrain from posting messages which are:
Use of this blog shall not be abusive or dishonest.
Responsibilities of the Publisher
The Site Publisher will moderate comments prior to posting them on the Soldes By Paris Diary blog.
Nonetheless, we do not guarantee the accuracy, truthfulness or official value of any message.
Messages are the property of their author and express their thoughts only, not those of the Site Publisher.
Any message violating the aforementioned rules, laws and codes of conduct, is the sole responsibility of its author.
The term 'moderation' does not imply that the Site Publisher has total control over the messages posted on the blog agenda.
Any internet user who feels that a posted message is reprehensible is asked to contact us immediately by email. So as to optimise the Site's content, the Site Publisher, without any notification, is authorised to delete, modify, or move any blog message that may be deemed prejudicial to the Diary blog.
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21/12/07 - 02/01/08
"Soldes By Paris" competition
CONSOLIDATED STRENGTHENED RULES BY ENDORSEMENT
of December 21st, 2007
The Paris Office du Tourisme et des Congres, (hereinafter "the Organiser") an association governed by the law of 1901, whose registered head office is located 25 rue des Pyramides, 75001 Paris, is organising a campaign entitled Soldes By Paris (hereinafter referred to as the Operation) to take place from January 9 2008 to January 20 2008 inclusive, with the aim of highlighting and drawing media attention to the winter sales in Paris in order to raise the general public's awareness of the advantages of the city at this time of year. To this end, the Organiser is organising a free competition with no purchase necessary, entitled "Jeu Soldes by Paris" to take place from December 21 2007 to January 2 2008 inclusive. It is expressly stated that no purchase is necessary for participation.
The competition will be accessible only through the Operation website in the Competition section at the following URL:www.soldesbyparistouch.com
The competition will take place from 21/12/2007 to midnight on 2/01/2008 inclusive (GMT + 2 being deemed valid). The date and time of receipt of the record of registration of the entrant on the dedicated computer server for the competition, hosted by the service provider chosen by the Organiser will be legally binding.
The forum of this game is the Operation website only.
4.1 This competition is open only to persons residing in Germany and England who qualify as adults in their country and who have a valid e-mail address, excluding employees of the Organiser and any company which has taken part in the organisation of the competition and their family members.
4.2 To enter the competition, entrants must, before the closing date of the competition:
log onto the website www.soldesbyparistouch.com
answer the quiz (personality test) "What kind of Parisian are you?"
complete the registration form for the prize draws on the website. Entrants must enter their name, date of birth and e-mail address.
to record their registration for the prize draws, entrants must accept the contents of the rules by ticking the relevant box.
No other form of entry (e.g. postal entries) will be taken into account.
4.3 Only one entry per person and per household is permitted (same name and address or same e-mail address or same IP address) for the entire duration of the competition. If it is found that an entrant has sent several entry forms for the same person or the same household, these will be deemed to be null and void.
The Organiser reserves the right to check that the information supplied by entrants is accurate.
Competition entries will be cancelled if they are incorrect, incomplete, forged or made in breach of these rules.
Entry to this competition and ticking the box stating acceptance of these rules on registration entails unreserved acceptance of these rules. Non-compliance with these rules will cause immediate and total disqualification from entry to the competition.
Entrants undertake not to engage or have others engage directly or indirectly in any entry procedure which is not in strict compliance with the principles of the competition and these rules.
The Organiser also reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who corrupts the workings of the competition or website or contravenes the official rules of the competition. The Organiser reserves the right to take legal action against any person attempting to perpetrate fraud or otherwise disrupt the normal progress this competition.
The Organiser reserves the right to proceed with any verification concerning compliance with the present article and all the rules, in particular with a view to disqualifying any entrant who has committed any abuse or attempted fraud in any way. The Organiser is however entitled not to proceed with systematic verification of all entries received and restrict any such verification to forms submitted by potential winners.
The Organiser reserves the right to extend, curtail, alter or cancel the present competition due to events beyond their control. If for any reason, this competition were not to function according to plan, for example due to a computer virus, bug, intervention or unauthorised external intrusion on the computing system, fraud, technical failure or any other circumstance beyond their control which corrupts or otherwise affects the management, safety, fairness or normal progress of the competition and/or the designation and status of winners, the Organiser reserves the discretionary right to cancel, alter or suspend the competition or to end it without notice, and cannot be held liable in this respect by entrants.
It is agreed that the data contained in the Organiser's IT systems will constitute the definitive evidence in any dispute as to the identity data of entrants, connection to the site, entry during the competition period, any winnings and the information derived from computer processing relating to the competition organised by the Organiser.
Two prize draws on January 3nd 2007 carried out by the bailiff holding the competition rules, will designate the 6 competition winners.
The first prize draw will designate 3 winners from among the German internet users who have answered the "What sort of Parisian would you be?" quiz and correctly filled in the entry form.
The second prize draw will designate 3 winners from among the English internet users who have answered the "What sort of Parisian would you be?" quiz and correctly filled in the entry form.
Except where prohibited by the law, the winners hereby give prior permission for their surnames, first names, town and county of residence to be used for advertising purposes on any media relating to the competition; this use will not endow them with any rights other than the right to the prize won.
The competition prizes are as follows:
- 3 return train trips from Germany (return train trip from a international station) to Paris, in second class, for one person, with a unitary value of 100 Euros.
- 3 return train trips from London to Paris by Eurostar, in second class, for one person, with a unitary value of £67.73, (according to the exchange rate on 07/12/2007).
All costs which are not specifically mentioned above as being included in the prize shall be borne by the winner, including but not limited to the following: putting up, travel by the winner from their place of residence to the station of their departure by train for Paris, health insurance, travel insurance and personal expenditure.
The following conditions apply to the prize:
- the departure for Paris (from either England or Germany) will take place on January 12 2008 in the morning and the return on Sunday January 13 2008 in the evening.
Winners will be informed directly of their prize by telephone or e-mail within a period of 2 days following the prize draws.
Winners will be informed of the arrangements for them to collect their prize in this e-mail.
The train tickets will be sent to winners by Chronopost by 08/01 2008 at the latest.
If winners do not reply within within 2 days of receipt of the e-mail and/or if the details are invalid, false or erroneous, the prize will be attributed to an replacement winner drawn by the bailiff.
Prizes are personal to the winner and may not be passed on to another person. Winners are not entitled to request an exchange for another prize, money or goods or a service of the same market value. Prizes are non-transferable and may not be combined with any other promotional offer.
In the event of force majeure events or other circumstances beyond their control, the Organiser may be obliged to alter the nature of the prize at stake during the course of the operation and replace it with another prize of at least equal value. This prize may on no account give rise to an exchange or refund. As a result, no claims of any nature will be replied to.
Internet connection costs relating to entry to the competition are refunded at a fixed rate of 3 minutes of connection at the historic operator's off-peak rate, upon written request to the following address:
Office du Tourisme et des Congres,
"Jeu Soldes by Paris"
25 rue des Pyramides,
75001 Paris,
France
Limited to one entry per person for the entire competition. Each application should contain a single refund request, for a single entrant (one refund request per envelope). The corresponding postage costs will also be refunded (at the second class rate in force) on express request made at the same time as the request for refund of connection costs (which must be accompanied by the surname, first name and address of the entrant, the name of the competition, full banking details (RIB) and the itemised bill from their Internet service provider). In order to be taken into account, all requests must be made in writing and arrive within 30 days of the competition closing date, as confirmed by the postmark.
Costs relating to photocopies of proof of expenditure are refunded on request at the rate of 0.15 euro cents per sheet, if specified along with the request for refund of connection costs.
Refunds will be carried out by bank transfer, sent within 60 days of receipt of the request, after checking the legitimacy of the request and the compliance of the information in the letter requesting refund with the information recorded on the entry form submitted on the website.
Entrants who do not pay internet charges according to the number of connections they make (users with a fixed-sum subscription, cable and broadband users, etc.) are not entitled to a refund.
The personal information collected during the course of this competition is processed in compliance with the European Directive 95/46/CE on the protection of personal data. Entrants are informed that personal data recorded during the course of this competition is required for their entry to be taken into account.
All competition entrants have the right to access, alter, correct and remove their personal data. Any request must be sent to DDB Live, "Jeu Soldes By Paris", 55 rue d'Amsterdam, 75008 Paris.
This data will be used by the organising company and/or its partners for commercial use provided that the entrants have given their prior consent by ticking the relevant box on the form. It may be transferred, rented out and used by third parties. Entrants may choose to opt out of such use in a hardcopy letter posted to the aforementioned address.
The liability of the Organiser is strictly limited to issuing prizes which have been effectively and validly won.
The Organiser may not be held liable for any malfunctioning relating to the Internet network itself or any intrusion, attempted intrusion or fraud giving rise to failure in the administration, security, fairness, integrity or management of the competition. The organiser may not be held liable for any errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, loss of any e-mail and more generally for the loss of any data due to any such event.
The Organiser may not be held responsible for congestion on the Internet network, the quality of internet users' equipment, or the quality of their means of access which may have repercussions on the length of time taken to forward answers or the length of connection time necessary to enter the competition. The Organiser will not therefore be liable for entries where the entry forms are not recorded or are incomplete or impossible to verify.
By entering this competition and as governed by law, each entrant accepts and undertakes to take sole responsibility for guaranteeing and compensating the Organiser, its subsidiaries and parent companies, employees and local communication agencies for the present purposes, for any damage or loss caused or incurred by the entrant by entering this competition or accepting and using the prize, excluding cases provided for by applicable law.
The rules of this game have been published in French, English and German.
In the event of disagreement as to their interpretation, the French version shall prevail.
These rules are governed by French law. Entry to this competition and ticking the box stating acceptance of these rules on registration entails unreserved acceptance of these rules. Any difficulties of interpretation of these rules and any disputes will be decided under the final authority of the organisers or the Paris tribunals (France) under French law, which has sole competency.
Office du Tourisme et des Congrès,
« Jeu Soldes By Paris »
25 rue des Pyramides,
75001 Paris,
FRANCE
These rules may be consulted and printed in Germany and England on the www.soldesbyparistouch.com website for the entire duration of the competition.
A written copy of the rules will be sent free of charge to any person requesting them. This request must be sent, by hardcopy letter only, to the following address:
DDB Live, "Jeu Soldes By Paris" 55 rue d¡¯Amsterdam, 75008 Paris, France.
Costs incurred by entrants in order to obtain these rules will be refunded, at their written request enclosed with the original request, at the current second class postage rate.
The full rules have been lodged with Maitre Sandrine Manceau, bailiff, at 130 rue Saint Charles, 75015 Paris, France.
