Terms of use

Adopte ma culotte is a web platform, accessible at the address www.adoptemaculotte.com (the “ Site ”) operated by CONNECTION SAS.

The purpose of these General Conditions of Use (the “ Conditions ” or taken as a whole, the “ Contract ”) is to define the terms and conditions governing the relations between Users and the Company. In the event of non-compliance with the terms of these Conditions, the Company reserves the right to take any measure likely to preserve its interests and in particular to ensure their execution.

The User undertakes during each of his visits to the Site to respect all of these Conditions without any reservation. Consequently, the User acknowledges having read the Conditions and agrees to be bound by these provisions. If the User accesses the Site on behalf of a company or any other legal entity, he is nevertheless personally bound by this Agreement.

Article 1 – Access to the Site

The User may be a natural or legal person.

Article 2 – Ordering items

The Site allows the User to order various items online.

The main characteristics of the articles appear on the Site. The User is required to read it before placing any order.

Ordering items on the Site implies acceptance of the general conditions of sale. These general conditions of sale are intended to govern the contractual relationship between the Company and the User who has placed an order online. They specify in particular the conditions of ordering, payment, delivery and management of possible returns of items ordered by the User.

Article 3 – Use of the Site Services

3.1 Right of access to the Site

The Company, under these Conditions, grants Users a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable limited right of access to the Services on a strictly personal basis. Any use of the Site contrary to its purpose is strictly prohibited and constitutes a breach of these provisions.

Use of the Site requires a connection and an internet browser. In order to guarantee proper functioning of the Site, it is specified that the Site is optimized for:

  • a screen resolution of 1280×768 pixels;
  • the latest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers.

All hardware and software necessary for access to the Site and use of the Services remain exclusively the responsibility of the User.

The Company reserves the right in particular to suspend or refuse access to one or more Users to the Site.

3.2 User Obligations

Users are prohibited from:

  1. to transmit, publish, distribute, record or destroy any material, in particular the contents of the Site, in violation of the laws or regulations in force concerning the collection, processing or transfer of personal information;
  2. to disseminate data, information, or content of a defamatory, insulting, obscene, offensive, violent or inciting violence nature, or of a political, racist or xenophobic nature and in general any content that would be contrary to the laws and regulations in force or good morals;
  3. to reference or create links to any content or information available from the Company's sites, unless expressly agreed in advance and in writing by the Company;
  4. to use information, content or any data present on the Site in order to offer a service considered, at the Company's sole discretion, to be competitive with the Company;
  5. to sell, exchange or monetize information, content or any data present on the Site or Service offered by the Site, without the express written consent of the Company;
  6. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to obtain the source code relating to any underlying intellectual property used to provide all or part of the Services;
  7. to use software or manual or automated devices, coding robots or other means to access, explore, extract or index any page of the Site;
  8. endanger or attempt to endanger the security of a Company website. This includes attempts to monitor, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to violate security or authentication measures without express prior authorization;
  9. to counterfeit or use the products, logos, brands or any other element protected by the intellectual property rights of the Company;
  10. to simulate the appearance or operation of the Site, for example by carrying out a mirror effect;
  11. to disrupt or disrupt, directly or indirectly, the Site, or impose a disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure or attempt to transmit or activate computer viruses through or on the Site.

Please note that violations of system or network security may lead to civil and criminal prosecution. the Company verifies the absence of such a violation and may call on the judicial authorities to prosecute, if necessary, Users who have participated in such violations.

Users undertake to use the Site fairly, in accordance with its professional purpose and the legal and regulatory provisions, these Conditions and current practices.

Article 4 - Use of the content of the Site

All content of the Site, including designs, texts, graphics, images, videos, information, logos, button icons, software, audio files and others belongs to the Company, which is the sole owner of all rights of intellectual property relating thereto.

Any representation and/or reproduction and/or partial or total exploitation of the contents and Services offered by [the Company, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written authorization of the Company, is strictly prohibited and could give rise to to legal proceedings.

Article 5 – Personal data

5.1. Data collected

In order to allow any User to take full advantage of the Services and features of the Site, the Company collects various data. Please note that by registering on the Site, the User expressly accepts that this data will be collected regardless of the country from which they connect.

This data is collected at different times and using various methods:

  • When the User places an order on the Site: name, first name, delivery address, telephone number, email address and banking details;
  • Log files and internet protocol (IP) address: The Company receives at each connection to the Site, the link of the site from which the User arrived and the one to which he goes when he leaves the Site. The Company also receives the User's internet protocol (IP) address or certain information relating to the operating system of their computer or internet browser;
  • Cookies: The Company uses cookie files which can be defined as text files likely to be recorded in a terminal when consulting an online service with browser software. A cookie file allows its issuer, among other things, during its validity period not exceeding 13 months, to recognize the terminal concerned each time this terminal accesses digital content containing cookies from the same issuer and remember its preferences ( language, currency, confidentiality preferences, etc.) or to measure and analyze visitor traffic with a view in particular to establishing statistics by the Company. It is nevertheless possible to deactivate the use of cookies by modifying the User's preferences in their internet browser. In this case, certain functionalities of the Site may no longer work.

5.2. Retention of collected data

Personal data is stored by the Company on the servers of its host, for processing in the context of the use of the Services. They are kept for as long as necessary for the provision of the Services and functions offered by the Site for a period not exceeding 36 months from their collection. At the end of this period, the data collected will be deleted by the Company and only kept as an archive for the purposes of establishing proof of a right or a contract which can be archived in accordance with the provisions of the code of commerce relating to the retention period of books and documents created during commercial activities and the consumer code relating to the conservation of contracts concluded electronically.

The User always remains the owner of the information concerning him which he transmits to the Company. It has, in accordance with Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 and the general regulation on the protection of personal data No. 2016/679 (GDPR), a right of access, rectification and deletion of data to personal nature concerning him, as well as the right to object to the communication of this data to third parties for just reasons.

The User may exercise their rights by writing to the following email address: contact@adoptemaculotte.com.

A response to the User's request will be sent to them within 30 days.

For the deletion of cookies, the User can also contact the Company by following the procedure provided specifically for this purpose on the Site.

5.3. Purposes of collecting the collected data

Personal data is collected from Users in order to (i) allow the User to take full advantage of the Services and functions offered by the Site, (ii) to prevent any fraud, (iii) for statistical purposes and (iv) sending of newsletter commercial.

The User has the possibility to unsubscribe at any time from the newsletter of the Company by completing the form provided for this purpose in said newsletter .

This data may be communicated by the Company to any third party responsible for the execution, processing and management of the Services. The Company therefore uses various subcontractors to produce commercial statistics, in particular the companies Facebook, Google or Criteo, etc.

However, in different cases, the Company may disclose or share a User's personal data to any other third parties, including:

  • with the consent of the User;
  • in order to comply with the law, regulations in force, any legal procedure, court decisions or any other case of mandatory disclosure; or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Site, its members or the public.

Article 6 – Liability

Please note that the data published by Users and the information shared by them may be captured and used by other Users or third parties. In this sense, the Company does not guarantee respect for the ownership of this data; it is the responsibility of the User to take all necessary measures to ensure that the ownership of their data is preserved.

The Company does not guarantee the uninterrupted or error-free operation of the Services, in particular, the Company cannot be held liable in the event of interruption of access to the Site due to maintenance operations, updates update or technical improvements.

In any event, the Company cannot under any circumstances be liable for indirect or unforeseeable losses or damages of the User or any third party, which includes in particular any missed gain, any unfortunate investment, inaccuracy or corruption of files. or data, image or commercial damage, loss of turnover or profit, loss of customers or loss of opportunity linked to any reason and on any basis whatsoever.

Furthermore, the Company cannot be held responsible for any delay or non-performance of this Contract justified by a case of force majeure, as defined by the case law of the French courts and tribunals.

Article 7 - Evidence agreement

The computer systems and files are authoritative in the relationship between the Company and the User.

Thus, the Company may validly produce in the context of any procedure, for the purposes of proof, data, files, programs, recordings or other elements, received, transmitted or preserved by means of the computer systems operated by the Company, on all digital media or analogues, and rely on them unless there is a manifest error.

Article 8 - Indivisibility

The fact that any provision of the Agreement is or becomes illegal or unenforceable will in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of the Agreement.

Article 9 – Dispute resolution

The conclusion, interpretation and validity of this Agreement are governed by English law, regardless of the country of origin of the User or the country from which the User accesses the Company and notwithstanding the principles of conflicts of law. laws.

In the event that a dispute relating to the validity, execution or interpretation of this Contract is brought before the civil courts, it will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts to which jurisdiction is expressly granted, even in case of summary proceedings or multiple defendants.

The User is informed that he can in any case resort to conventional mediation or any alternative method of dispute resolution (conciliation for example) in the event of a dispute.