Legal notices

General terms of use of the website and the services offered.

The use of the website www.aquavitex.com implies full acceptance of the general terms of use described below. These terms of use may be modified or supplemented at any time. Users of the www.aquavitex.com website are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This website is normally accessible to users at all times. However, AFI Distribution may decide to interrupt the website for technical maintenance purposes. In this case, AFI Distribution will endeavour to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention.

The website www.aquavitex.com is regularly updated by Mr Jean-Philippe AUNIS. Similarly, the legal notices may 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.

Description of the services provided.

The purpose of the www.aquavitex.com website is to provide information about all the company’s activities.

AFI Distribution endeavours to provide information on the www.aquavitex.com website that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for any omissions, inaccuracies or shortcomings in the updating, whether caused by itself or by third-party partners who provide it with this information.

All information on the www.aquavitex.com website is given for information purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the www.aquavitex.com website is not exhaustive. They are given subject to changes having been made since they were put online.

Intellectual property and counterfeiting.

AFI Distribution is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the website, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the website, whatever the means or the process used, is prohibited, except with the prior written authorization of : AFI Distribution.

Any unauthorised use of the website or of any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 and the folloing ones of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Limitations of liability.

AFI Distribution cannot be held responsible for direct and indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the website www.aquavitex.com and resulting either from the use of equipment or from the appearance of a bug or incompatibility.

AFI Distribution cannot be held responsible for indirect damage (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the www.aquavitex.com website.

Interactive areas (possibility to ask questions in the contact area) are available to users. AFI Distribution reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this area that contravenes the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. Where necessary, AFI Distribution also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, particularly in the event of messages of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic nature, regardless of the medium used (text, photographs, etc).

Personal data management.

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

When using the www.aquavitex.com website, the following information may be collected: the URL of the links through which the user accessed the www.aquavitex.com website, the user’s access provider, the user’s Internet protocol (IP) address.

In any case, AFI Distribution only collects personal information about the user for the purpose of certain services offered by the www.aquavitex.com website. The user provides this information with full knowledge of the facts, particularly when they enter it. It is then specified to the user of the www.aquavitex.com website whether or not they are required to provide this information.

In accordance with the provisions of articles 38 and following of the law 78-17 of January 6th 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, any user has a right of access, rectification and opposition to personal data concerning them, 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 user’s personal information of the www.aquavitex.com website is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold on any medium to third parties. Only the hypothesis of the purchase of AFI Distribution and its rights would allow the transmission of the aforementioned information to the eventual purchaser who would in turn be held to the same obligation of conservation and modification of the data with respect to the user of the www.aquavitex.com website.

The above-mentioned website is declared to the CNIL (the French Information Commissioner’s Office) under the number 1761334.

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

Hyperlinks and cookies.

Thewww.aquavitex.comwebsite contains a number of hyperlinks to other websites, set up with the permission of AFI Distribution. However, AFI Distribution does not have the possibility of checking the content of the websites thus visited, and consequently will not assume any responsibility for this fact.

Browsing the www.aquavitex.com website may cause cookies to be installed on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file, which does not allow the user’s identification, but which records information about the navigation of a computer on a website. The data thus obtained is intented to facilitate subsequent browsing on the website, and also enable various measures of frequentation.

Refusing to install a cookie may make it impossible to access certain services. However, the user can set up their computer in the following way to refuse the installation of cookies:

In Internet Explorer: Tools tab (cog-shaped icon at the top right) / Internet options. Click on Privacy and choose Block all cookies. Confirm with Ok.

In 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 Retention Rules to: use custom settings for history. Finally, uncheck it to disable cookies.

In Safari: Click on the menu icon (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.

In Chrome: Click on the menu icon (symbolised by three horizontal lines) at the top right 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.

Applicable law and jurisdiction.

Any dispute relating to the use of the www.aquavitex.com website is subject to French law. Exclusive jurisdiction is given to the competent courts of Paris.

The main laws involved.

Law no. 78-17 of January 6th 1978, notably modified by law no. 2004-801 of August 6th 2004 on information technology, files and freedoms.

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

Glossary

User: Internet user connecting to and 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 law n° 78-17 of January 6th 1978).