Terms & Conditions L'Etape by Le Tour de France
Last update March
12, 2021.
Legal Notice
The Website “L'Etape by Le Tour de France” is owned by
Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) a Limited Company (Ltd.) having a share
capital of 61 200 240 € registered in the Commercial Register (RCS) of Nanterre
under the number 383 160 348, having its Headquarters at Boulogne-Billancourt,
40 – 42 Quai du Point du Jour, France, represented by his Chief Executive
Officer (CEO), Mr. Yann le Moënner.
Publication Director: Mr. Yann le Moënner.
The Website is hosted by Skale-5, a facilities management Company having its 33
avenue des Champs Elysées, 75 008 Paris, France.
Preamble
Definitions
T&C: These Terms & Conditions. The T&C are to be considered
as an agreement between the Users and A.S.O.
The Website: The official Website “www.letapebyletourdefrance.com”,
an event organized by A.S.O.
User: The person surfing on the website.
Personal Data : means any information related to an identified or
identifiable natural person (Data subject).
Data Processing : means any operation or set of operations which is performed
on personal data or on a set of personal data, whether or not by automated
means (collection, storage, recording, erasure, etc.).
Consent : means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguois
indication of the data subject’s whishes by which he or she signifies agreement
of to the processing of the Personal Data related to him or her.
Acknowledgment of the Terms & Conditions
These T&C govern the conditions under which the website must be used.
When You surf on the Website, You agree with these T&C, its Privacy Notice
and Cookie policy , and with any other policy, regulation, sport rules, statement or any
applicable Law the Website is compliant with.
As A.S.O. cannot verify Your age, You are presumed to be a legal adult or to
have been authorized by a parent or any legal representative to use it. In the
event this were not the case, or if You do not agree with the T&C, You must
immediately stop using the Website.
Modification of the Terms & Conditions
A.S.O. can modify and update these T&C at any time, to take into
consideration the developments of the Website, of Our services, or the
evolution of the Applicable law.
Any modification will come into force at the publication of the new T&C on
the Website.
We recomend You to check these T&C as often as possible.
You can check on the top of this document the last date these T&C have been
updated.
I. Purposes of the Website
You can access the Website to:
• Follow news about L'Etape by Le Tour de France,
its history, and the last, current and further editions (race, competitors,
history, partners, …) ;
• Follow Us on Our official Pages in the Social Medias;
II. Access to the Website
To use the Website, Users must have the necessary devices and a Network
connection. All the expenses incurred in obtaining the necessary equipment and
devices will remain User’s own responsibility and will not be refunded by
A.S.O.
To use the Website, Users must use an Internet browser. A.S.O. shall not be
held liable or responsible of any default or failure of display caused by Your
Internet browser.
When You use or try to use the Website, You agree with these T&C and the
Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy. if You do not agree with the T&C, You
must immediately stop using the Website.
III. Data confidentiality
A.S.O. does not collect any personal data from this Site except for cookies. To
know everything about their deposit and how You can consent to them, We invite
you to read our Privacy Notice & Cookie policy ,.
IV. Third Parties links
We inform You that third parties links are used in the Website and send You to
third parties websites owned and hosted by different companies (for example,
the official Web shop of the race). A.S.O. shall not be held liable or
responsible for the content, links, modifications or updates of these third
parties websites.
The fact that We implement these third parties links on the Website does not
mean that We give Our approval about these Websites topics or content.
These T&C do not apply to third parties websites. We recommend You consult
their T&C and Privacy Policy or contact them for further information.
V. IP Rights and Copyright
The Website in its whole with each one of its parts is protected by IP rights
owned by A.S.O, in particular but not limited to, its texts, trademarks, logo,
design, sound, music, layouts, supports, icons, and any visual or acoustic
items.
A.S.O. preserves the ownership of the Website which is protected by copyright,
trademark law and any IP law. The Website in its whole includes its softwares,
Data bases, exclusive information, contents, code, concepts, “savoir-faire”,
documentation (and all modification or derivative works, all IP and
copyrights), and in particular but not limited to, the selection, compilation,
classification, feature-rich functionalities and their layout.
Some intellectual property elements, copyrights or others rights held by A.S.O.
might be property of third parties which granted A.S.O. a right of use.
Except the cases restrictively authorized by law, it is absolutely forbidden to
make, without A.S.O. express authorization, be it full or partial, a copy,
representation, modification, broadcast, adaptation, translation and/or limited
or full change, integration to others parts or transfer to another website,
platform or third party software, of the parts of the Website held by A.S.O. IP
rights.
It is also strictly forbidden for a User to perform a technical modification of
the Website by whatsoever process.
Users of the Website are not entitled to claim any, full or partial, IP rights
on the Website based on the access A.S.O. has granted to them.
Any violation of these terms constitute a counterfeit, an act of unfair
competition, or an act of free riding as stated by IP French Code and refers
the infringers to civil sanctions and criminal punishments as provided by
French law.
VI. User’s Behavior
To use the Website, the User must have the necessary devices and a Network
connection. All the expenses incurred in obtaining the necessary equipment and
devices will remain User’s own responsibility and will not be refunded by
A.S.O.
When the User uses the Website, he or she commits himself or herself to use
only secured devices, equipment and softwares, protected by a Total Security
Suite, free of virus, irregularity, bug, or a system malfunction which may
result in the disturbance, breakdown, malfunction or the decrease of the
security of the Website.
The User undertakes to prevent the following actions to be carried out when
using the Website, directly or indirectly, by himself or by anyone else:
• Breaking law, contractual relations or fiduciary
relationships by downloading, uploading, posting, sending by email, disclosing
or making available the content of the Website (i.e. exclusive or confidential
information obtained or published in the scope of working relationships or through
non disclosure agreements) ;
• Providing, with no prior Data Subject’s consent, Personal
data or private informations ;
• Downloading, posting, sending by email, disclosing or
making available any content which would infringe or counterfeit copyrights,
trademarks, disclose trade secrets, harm creator royalties, etc.
• Hacking or modifying totally or partially the Website in
order to limit or prevent a User from accessing it ;
• Endeavor the access to some parts of the Website You have
not been allowed to by A.S.O., by using other means that the ones You have been
authorized to like circumventing or trying to circumvent security measures,
passwords protection, etc.;
• Modifying a software made for the Website or use modified
versions;
• Trying to enter the Website by modifying a software
necessary for the Website to function properly, or by using an altered version
of the Website ;
• Using the Website, its services or its content for illegal
purposes ;
• Asserting or insinuating, without A.S.O.’s prior consent,
that A.S.O. endorses an information or statement appearing in the Website ;
• Misuse the identity of a real or fake person or Entity, or
of an A.S.O. employee or representative;
• Forge or manipulate a login to hide the origin of User’s
content ;
• Using the Website to:
o spread any information or communication which could be
considered as illegal, fraudulent, threatening, outrageous, slanderous,
obscene, pornographic, hateful, vulgar or offensive, or which infringes A.S.O.
or a Third Party copyright ;
o publish any private information concerning mainly trade
secrets, advertising, lobbying, chain letters, investment opportunities, or any
unsolicited commercial communication;
• Affecting or harming children by the use of the Website ;
• Do spamming or phishing ;
• Threaten the security of the Website by introducing a
software containing a virus, a computer worm, a trojan, a botnet, a logical
bomb;
• Taking to bits the Website modifying and adapting it, using
a reverse engineering process, or granting, translating or selling a
sub-licence of the Website;
• Remove copyright and trademark notices from the Website ;
• Chase or harass someone else ;
• Create a link to the Website without A.S.O. prior consent ;
• Using a robot, digital agent, offline messaging program,
extract software with manual or automated means in order to extract, index,
explore Data, reproduce or alter content or Website browsing without A.S.O.
prior consent;
• Gather or collect Users ‘ informations without their prior
consent ;
• Loading large amounts of Data and excessive requests aimed
at imposing disproportionate efforts to A.S.O. or to A.S.O. Providers
infrastructures ;
• Allowing unauthorised third parties to access Personal Data
due to their misconduct, negligence, or reckesness ;
• Disclose, lend, hire or sell Your login and password to a
third party ;
• Release, transfer, sell or hire the Personnal Data You can
access to, whether for reward or free of charge;
• Registering inaccurate or incomplete data and information
which could harm either A.S.O. or third parties.
Generally speaking, Users undertakes to avoid registering into the Website any
information or comment which could harm A.S.O.or any third party, mainly by
writing insults, unethical, illegal, vulgar, offensive, outrageous, fraudulent,
threatening, slanderous, discriminating, lews, hateful, pornographic, comments
which are contrary to public order or honor, or sending links to websites,
applications, texts or any other support containing them.
Failing to comply with User’s Behavior code will be considered a serious breach
of the current Terms & Conditions.
VII. Penalties
In the event of use of the Site that does not comply with these T&Cs, the
Privacy Notice, or any other policy, rule or directive applicable to the Site,
A.S.O. reserves the right to bring proceedings before the competent French
civil or criminal courts against the User and/or the person on whose behalf the
User acts.
VIII. Liability
To the extent permitted by law, You acknowledge and agree that neither A.S.O.
nor its subsidiaries, shareholders, grantors, suppliers, advertisers or
sponsors, their managers, executives, employees, conselors, agents or any other
representative can be held accountable or responsible to You or to any Third
Party of indirect damages (including but not limited to damages for loss of
business, data breach or loss of benefits), resulting whatsoever from the
Website or from the information herein contained.
To the extent permitted by law and without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, You acknowledge and expressly agree that A.S.O. accepts no
responsibility or liability regarding:
• The default by another User of the Website to committing to
the T&C and to User’s behaviour;
• The Website breakdown or shut down caused by an issue with
Your Network connection ;
• The transmission by a Third Party to the Website of bugs,
viruses, worms, trojans, defaults, logical bombs or any other harmful
component;
• Damages or losses of any nature caused by the introduction
of errors, inaccurancies or information insufficient into the Website ;
Users acknowledges that A.S.O. cannot grant a continued access or service and
that in any case A.S.O. can be held responsible, in particular in the event of
:
• Force majeure ;
• Any network breakdown ;
• An error caused by the misuse of services by an User of the
Website ;
• The violation of the T&C by the User;
• The registration of inaccurate data or the nonexistence of
data updating.
The implementation of any technical process by the User, like robots or
automatic requests which violates the T&C will be considered as a
misconduct.
A.S.O. shall not be held liable or responsible of any damage caused to the User
by another User or by a Third party, when the damage results form the misuse of
services, the violation of the T&C and of the Privacy Notice.
IX. Dispute resolution
This T&C are governed by French Law.
Any dispute resulting from the application of this Terms and Conditions and
which cannot be concluded by friendly settlement shall be brought before the
competent court or jurisdiction of Nanterre Court of Appeal.
X. Miscellaneous
Under these T&C, A.S.O. may assign its rights and obligations.
Subsequently, You give Your prior agreement to A.S.O. to transfer its
obligations to a third party or to another legal entity of the same group of
entities A.S.O. is part of. The Contract between You and the new entity (these
T&C) will continue automatically, with no need of any kind of formal
dealings.
You are not allowed to transfer your rights or obligations resulting from these
T&C. Any transfer which would violate these T&C would be null and void.
Rights and obligations resulting from these T&C can survive the withdrawal
of Website use. These rights and obligations will survive the termination or
expiration of the T&C.
The French version of the Terms and Conditions and of the Privacy Notice govern
Your use of the Website. In the event of conflicts with other translated
versions, the French version shall prevail.
XI. Contact
If you want to introduce a claim relative to these Terms and Conditions, We
invite You to send us a mail to the following address:
DATA PROTECTION OFFICER AMAURY
A.S.O.
40 – 42 Quai du Point du Jour,
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Or to send an e-mail to DPO@amaury.com
