Terms and conditions

Who are we ?

This website (http://www.renaissancenumerique.org) and its subdomains (the “Website”) are published and owned by Renaissance Numérique (hereafter referred to as “Renaissance Numérique” or “our entity”), a non-profit association under the 1 July 1901 French law, listed in the National Register of Associations (Registre National des Associations) under the number W751173489, registered to the Paris Police Prefecture, and whose head office is located at “Le Tank media – 32 rue Alexandre Dumas, 75011 Paris, France”. It is represented by its President and Director of publications of content accessible on the Website, Mr. Nicolas Vanbremeersch. 

This Website is hosted in a platform operated by the service provider OVH SAS, whose head office is located at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France. 

Purpose

The purpose of these Terms and conditions is to define the conditions of access and use of the Website by all internet users (hereafter referred to as “User”, “You”, “Your”). The purpose of the Website is to present the activity of Renaissance Numérique and to inform the Users on subjects related to digital society. 

The use of the Website is governed by the Terms and conditions in effect at the time You access to the Website. Its use implies the full acceptance of the Terms and conditions by the User. The Terms and conditions form a contract between Renaissance Numérique and the User, each User agreeing to comply with their provisions. 

Conditions for Access to the Website

The equipment (computers, tablets, softwares, apps, etc.) and means of telecommunications that allow for access to the Website are the sole responsibility of the User, as are the communication fees incurred by their use. 

Every User may access the Website, provided it is exclusively used for personal, associative or professional purposes; all use of the Website for commercial or publicity purposes is expressly prohibited unless previously authorised by Renaissance Numérique.

Obligations of the User

The User agrees to comply with the law and regulations applicable when he/she accesses and/or uses the Website. In particular, the User agrees not to compromise or violate the security of Renaissance Numérique’s information systems nor of its potential service providers, nor to hinder their usual mode of operation or make fraudulent use of them. The User also agrees not to interfere with the functioning of the Website in any way, nor to restrict the access and use of the Website by third parties. 

Furthermore, it is the User’s sole responsibility to make sure the publication of any content on the Website, or from it, does not constitute: 

  • an infringement of the intellectual property rights of Renaissance Numérique or of any third parties (copyright, brands, etc.); 
  • an infringement to the individual rights of any third party (violation of privacy, insults, defamation, etc.) 
  • content manifestly illicit or offensive to the general public (for example, hate speech, provocation to discrimination, negationist content, etc.).

Any breach of the aforementioned obligations may result in the refusal of access to the Website, without prejudice to potential legal proceedings initiated by Renaissance Numérique or a third party. 

Intellectual Property

The text, logos, distinct signs, brands, videos, interfaces, databases, graphics, page layouts, illustrations, photographs, documentation, and other elements on the Website or constituting it may be protected by intellectual property rights and are the property of Renaissance Numérique and/or their respective rightful owners. Any copying, adaptation, translation, representation or modification of all or part of the Website or its content, in any way and on any medium, is strictly prohibited without prior written consent by Renaissance Numérique. Otherwise, any such action may constitute infringement or unfair competition subject to consequent legal proceedings. 

Content – Links

Our entity reserves the right to modify the content of the Website at any moment without prior warning. Any link to the Website must be previously authorised in writing by our entity.

Moreover, the Website may contain hyperlinked text directed towards third party sites, or third party content publishers where appropriate, for example those of partner institutions or associations. Thus, Renaissance Numérique cannot be held responsible by the information, opinions, recommendations or any other service available on or from these third party sites. 

In addition, it is the User’s sole responsibility to navigate on third party sites visited following the use of hyperlinked text, including when such a link is available on the Website. Renaissance Numérique cannot be held responsible for the presence of computer viruses on third party sites. 

Exclusion of liability

Renaissance Numérique may only be held responsible for a fault of its own that has been definitively ruled by the competent and final court. 

In any case, our entity cannot be held responsible for any damages, direct or indirect, material or immaterial, loss of programs or data, that may result from the existence, modification, consultation, or use of the Website or part of it, or from other sites that would be linked to it. 

Renaissance Numérique strives to ensure the accuracy, exhaustiveness, and update of information published on the Website. Renaissance Numérique cannot, however, guarantee its accuracy, exhaustiveness, veracity or adequacy to any specific use. In addition, Renaissance Numérique declines any responsibility in the case of an error, or omission when it comes to the content of the pages of the Website and of their use by the Users. 

Renaissance Numérique strives, when possible, to ensure the accessibility of the Website at any given moment. 

Nevertheless, the use of the Website may be temporarily interrupted for any independent motive or outside Renaissance Numérique’s will, including in cases of force majeure, and for the maintenance, update, or technical improvements of the Website, including developing its content and/or its presentation. 

Renaissance Numérique may not be held responsible for the malfunctioning, lack of access, or bad conditions for use of the Website, nor for the temporary or permanent interruption of the Website, for any reason whatsoever. Renaissance Numérique may not be held responsible for any damage caused to the Users by the unavailability, inaccessibility or interruption of the Website.

The Terms and conditions clearly state all the obligations and responsibilities Renaissance Numérique is subject to, which therefore may not be held responsible by any other warranty, implicit or explicit, in relation to the User. 

Termination

Without prejudice to the rest of provisions in the Terms and conditions, Renaissance Numérique reserves the right, without prior warning or compensation, to suspend the full or partial availability of the Website, notably the full or partial access to the Website and/or to consider the Terms and conditions rightfully and effectively terminated. 

Personal Data Protection

In regards to the Terms and conditions, the term “Personal Data” is defined as all information relating to a directly or indirectly identified or identifiable natural person, especially in reference to an identification number or to one or multiple elements specific to such person, in accordance to article 4 of the Regulation (EU) 2016-679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of personal data (the “GDPR”). 

In the framework of the access and use of the Website by any User, Renaissance Numérique may collect and process, as the Controller, his/her Personal Data. This Personal Data constitutes of the following: 

  • Name and last name: the User’s name and last name are not collected unless they are voluntarily transmitted by the User through the contact form. They are processed to provide the information or services associated with the entry into contact with Renaissance Numérique.
  • Email Address: The User’s email address may be collected through the contact form or in order to send information about Renaissance Numérique’s news and activities. The User may, at any given moment, refuse the sending of newsletters through the respective link in the newsletter or by sending a message. The email address will then be removed from Renaissance Numérique’s distribution list. 
  • Navigation Data on this Website, as detailed below in the “Cookies” section. All collected data relative to the use of the Website, and through other cookies where appropriate as explained below, is used by Renaissance Numérique with the purpose of improving the Website and the functionalities of the Website, excluding all commercial use. 

The processing of the User’s Personal Data is governed by the GDPR and by the modified French Law 78-17 of 6 January 1978 (hereinafter the “Loi Informatique et Libertés”). 

The Personal Data is intended for use by Renaissance Numérique’s authorised personnel who, by virtue of their duties, need to access to Personal Data for the purposes of processing and, where applicable, by public bodies in order to meet legal obligations, by court officials, by judicial officers, and by Renaissance Numérique’s service providers and subcontractors located within the European Union, for the purpose of providing the Website, in particular to host it.

The User, subject to providing proof of identity to Renaissance Numérique, has the right to access, rectify, oppose and delete his or her Personal Data processed by Renaissance Numérique, by sending his or her request by certified mail with acknowledgment of receipt to the following address: Renaissance Numérique, 32 Rue Alexandre Dumas, 75011, Paris, France or by email to the following address [contact@renaissancenumerique.org]

Subject to an express request to the above-mentioned address and to the provision of a proof of identity to Renaissance Numérique, the User also has the right to receive his or her Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, in order to transmit them to another data controller.

The User has the option of providing Renaissance Numérique with instructions concerning the processing of his/her Personal Data after his/her death.

The User may also lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority:

Renaissance Numérique agrees, in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and the aforementioned Loi Informatique et Libertés, to keep the Personal Data collected only for no longer than is necessary for the provision of the services available on the Website, for the performance of the Terms and conditions and the purposes described therein. The Personal Data is then destroyed or deleted.

Renaissance Numérique agrees to implement all appropriate technical, organisational and structural measures to preserve the confidentiality, security and integrity of the Personal Data and in particular to prevent any accidental or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or access to said Personal Data.

Cookies

Renaissance Numérique collects and stores certain User navigation data in order to provide and improve the Website and Services and for statistical purposes. This information may be collected by means of cookies.

A “cookie” is a small text file saved on the browser of your terminal through your web browser, subject to the choices you have expressed concerning cookies and which you can modify at any moment in accordance with this section. When a cookie is stored in the browser of your terminal, it can only be read by the sender. Thus, if this cookie is issued and operated by a third party, Renaissance Numérique does not intervene in the management of this cookie. 

When using the Website and/or its features, the following cookies may be placed on the terminal equipment or any other device used by the User to access the Website:

  • Navigation cookies : From the first access, these cookies allow the Website to function correctly and help the User to view the content on his/her terminal, by recognising the language used by his/her navigation software or his/her terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) and the country from which he/she is connecting. Browser cookies are technical cookies, necessary for the functioning of the Website. These cookies do not require the User’s prior consent to be set on the browser of his or her terminal.
  • Traffic measurement cookies : These cookies are used to produce statistical analyses of the User’s browsing habits on the Website. The results of these analyses are processed in aggregate form, for statistical purposes only. In any case, Renaissance Numérique only has aggregate statistics on traffic, which does not allow for the individualisation of a terminal or browser, nor of a User. 
  • The following cookies are likely to be deposited by the issuers listed in the table below, for the following purposes and storage periods:
Issuer Cookie Purpose Storage period
Polylang pll_language [Technical/ Functional] [12 months]
Youtube YSC [Marketing] [Duration of the user session]
Youtube VISITOR [Marketing] [ 6 months]
Youtube PREF [Marketing] [ 24 months]

Most of web browsers are configured to accept, control or possibly deactivate cookies through their configuration parameters. By deactivating browser cookies, the proper functioning of the Website may be compromised and/or the services offered may be limited.

In regards to the management of cookies and the User’s choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the browser’s help menu, which will show how to modify the cookie configuration.

Depending on the browser, the User has the following options: to accept or reject Cookies of any origin or of a given origin, or to program the display of a message requesting the User’s agreement each time a Cookie is set on the Terminal.

To express or reconsider their choices, the User, Member or Partner may refer to the help menu or to the dedicated section of their browser. 

For more information (in French): http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/conseils-aux-internautes/ 

Applicable Law – Dispute Resolution

The Terms and conditions are governed, interpreted and applied in accordance with French law, the language of interpretation of the Terms and Conditions being French.

Any dispute relating to the execution, validity, interpretation or performance of the Terms and conditions, as well as any dispute relating to the Website, which has not been resolved amicably, shall be governed exclusively by French law, to the exclusion of rules and treaties relating to conflicts of law. The courts within the jurisdiction of the Paris Court of Appeal shall have sole jurisdiction.

The User may also refer the matter to the consumer mediator for an amicable settlement of the dispute.

Modification of the Terms and conditions

Renaissance Numérique reserves the right to modify, at any time and without prior notice, all or part of the Terms and conditions. It is the User’s responsibility to acknowledge the latest version of the Terms and conditions each time he/she visits the Website. In any event, access to and browsing of the Website implies the User’s unreserved acceptance of the latest version of the Terms and Conditions.

The Terms and conditions were last updated on 4 May 2022 and replace the Terms and conditions previously available on the Website.

Miscellaneous

The document reproducing the Terms and conditions is stored on a durable medium in the form of an image under conditions of security usually recognised as reliable. The User may at any time make an electronic copy or a paper printout of the Terms and conditions. In this respect, the Terms and conditions are considered as proof of communication and of an agreement between the User and Renaissance Numérique. The User acknowledges that the evidential value of this document cannot be called into question by the simple fact of its form, notably electronic.

If any part of the Terms and conditions should be declared illegal, invalid or inapplicable for any reason whatsoever, the term or terms in question shall be declared non-existent and the remaining terms shall retain all their force and scope and shall continue to be applicable. The terms declared non-existent will be deemed to be replaced by terms that most closely resemble the content of the cancelled clause and the original intention of Renaissance Numérique.