LEGAL NOTICES

In accordance with the provisions of French law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users and visitors (hereinafter referred to as the ‘User’) to the Institut de Français website (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Site’) are hereby informed of the present legal notice.

Connection to and browsing of the Site by the User implies full and unreserved acceptance of these legal notices.

They can be accessed on the Site under the heading “Legal information”.

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Site

SAS Institut de Français

23 Avenue Général Leclerc

06230 Villefranche sur Mer

Tel : 04 93 01 88 44 

Mail : [email protected]

Website : www.institutdefrancais.com

N° Siret : 302 307 046

Intra-Community VAT number : FR56302307046

Bank Guarantee : Société Générale

Website Publication manager : Institut de Français

Photo credit : Institut de Français

Host

Planethoster

Publisher

AWT SAS

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

This site and all its content, including but not limited to texts, trademarks, logos, graphics, videos, audio clips, photographs, layout and other distinctive signs are the property of the Institut de Français or of third parties who have granted the Institut de Français a right of use. This material is protected by intellectual property rights in accordance with the French Intellectual Property Code. Any modification, representation or reproduction, in whole or in part, for any purpose other than private use is strictly forbidden, unless express prior authorisation has been granted by the Institut de Français. This prohibition applies regardless of the medium, the method of reproduction, representation and/or modification and for any length of time.

3. USE OF THE SITE

The use of any document from the site is authorised solely for information purposes and for private use. Any use for other purposes is expressly prohibited.

You are authorised to download, display or print the content of the site solely for personal, non-commercial use, remembering and reproducing any notice of intellectual property rights included in the information or any other material you download.

The site has been designed to work with the most common browsers: Chrome, Internet Explorer (PC / Mac), Firefox (PC / Mac), Safari (Mac).

4. PERSONAL DATA

The Site ensures that the User’s personal data is collected and processed with due respect for privacy in accordance with Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on Data Processing, Data Files and Individual Liberties and in compliance with the applicable regulations on the processing of personal data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (hereinafter ‘RGPD’).

Certain personal information may be requested from you in order to be able to identify you, respond to your requests, provide you with personalised offers and services, improve the site and listen to you.

Collection of personal data:

This information, known as personal data, is that which directly or indirectly enables you to be identified, such as your surname, first name, postal address, IP address, telephone number and email address.

You will be asked to provide this personal data in the following cases:

Registration form, which allows you to register directly online
Subscription to the newsletter, which will keep you regularly informed of events and offers from the Institut de Français
Your messages sent via the ‘Contact’ and ‘Brochure’ sections.

Use and transmission:

Personal data is collected on the registration or contact form for the purposes of contacting the user to respond to their requests, inform them and enable them to benefit from offers and advantages on the products and services offered by the Institut de Français.

The data collected is appropriate, useful, necessary and limited to the strict minimum.

Your personal data will never be communicated to third parties for commercial purposes.

The data linked to the various forms on the Institut de Français website is kept for the periods indicated in the Confidentiality Policy, which is accessible on the website.

Right of access and rectification:

The Institut de Français is responsible for processing your personal data. The information collected is processed electronically for the purpose of managing your registration. The recipients of the data are our administrative and accounting department.

You have the right to access, rectify and object on legitimate grounds to data concerning you, as well as the right to define directives concerning the fate of this data after your death.

You also have the right to request a restriction on processing, the right to be forgotten and digitally erased, and the right to portability of your data. These rights can be exercised directly by clicking on ‘Contact’ to fill in the form, or by e-mail: [email protected]

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et Libertés (CNIL).

5. LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The site provides access to sites belonging to our partners, via hypertext links or by integrating content from our partners’ sites into our site.

Although the choice of links to external Internet sites has been the subject of particular care and vigilance, the company declines all responsibility for the content of these sites, their legality, accuracy or function, and cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of them by users.

The creation of hyperlinks to our site is prohibited without the prior written consent of the company.

6. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

Users use the site at their own risk. Under no circumstances may the Institut de Français or any other entity of the company be held liable for direct or indirect damage (material loss, loss of data, financial loss, etc.) resulting from access to or use of this site or any site linked to it.

The Institut de Français accepts no responsibility for any damage or viruses that may affect your computer or hardware, in particular as a result of accessing or using the site, downloading elements from the site or unlawful interventions in computer systems.

The Institut de Français cannot be held responsible in any way for the content of the information on this site or for the consequences that may result from its use or interpretation.

The Institut de Français undertakes to make every effort to ensure that the site is accessible to Internet users at all times. However, in the event of the site being unavailable, the company cannot be held responsible, whatever the cause.

Any errors, out-of-date information or inaccessible pages may be reported to [email protected].

7. UPDATE

As the content of the site is subject to change, the company reserves the right to modify and update all or part of the information on the site at any time.