Legal Notice

 

Users of the website www.alexgrapov.com are hereby informed of the following legal notice. By connecting to and browsing the website, the user fully and unreservedly accepts this legal notice.

 

1. Information about the Publisher

 

The site is published by Mr. Alex Grapov, whose headquarters are located at 3, Route d'Airmont 2950, Courgenay.

 

Alex Grapov can be contacted by email at alexgrapov@gmail.com and by phone at +1 (801) 652-8655

 

2. Information about the Host

 

The website is hosted by Wix.com Inc., headquartered at 500 Terry A François Blvd San Francisco, CA 94158, USA, with the phone number +1 415-639-9034.

 

Terms of Use

 

ARTICLE 1 - PURPOSE

 

Alex Grapov, located at 3, Route d'Airmont 2950, Courgenay, is the publisher of the web and mobile site accessible at the URL www.alexgrapov.com.

 

These Terms of Use define the conditions for accessing and using the services offered on the site by users. They complement the general terms of sale governing sales and the general terms of service for services provided between Alex Grapov and the users, and must be accepted by the user, who is presumed to know and accept all the Terms of Use by the sole act of connecting to the site and using its services, regardless of the digital devices used.

 

ARTICLE 2 - SCOPE

 

These Terms of Use apply, without restriction or reservation, to the use of the site and the services made available to users by the publisher. They are accessible at any time on the site and will prevail, if applicable, over any other version or any other contradictory document.

 

These Terms of Use may be subject to subsequent modifications, with the applicable version being the one in effect on the site at the date of connection to any of the services by the user, which the user acknowledges and accepts without restriction, committing to refer to them systematically during each connection.

 

Modifications to these Terms of Use are binding on users of the site from the moment they are put online.

 

ARTICLE 3 - REGISTRATION AND ACCESS TO THE SITE

 

The use of the site is free for users (excluding potential connection costs charged by the operator) and without obligation to purchase. Only the purchase of products or services on the site is chargeable, according to the conditions provided in the general terms of sale and the general terms of service.

 

To access certain functionalities of the site and benefit from certain services offered on the site, the user must create a personal account. By registering, the user guarantees to provide accurate and up-to-date information regarding their identity and contact details. They undertake in particular to provide an email address they own. The publisher reserves the right to refuse a registration or suspend or close an account if there are doubts about this information. The user undertakes to immediately inform the publisher of any unauthorized use of their account and any breach of the confidentiality and security of their identification means by contacting: alexgrapov@gmail.com.

 

The user remains free at any time to modify the personal data provided during registration. Upon validating the account creation form, the user receives an email inviting them to click on a link to confirm their registration. Access to the account can be done by entering the username or email address and the associated access code or password, the confidentiality of which the user alone is responsible. The use of the site following registration is valid for an indefinite period. The publisher reserves the right to terminate it at any time, by email, with reasonable notice. In the event of non-compliance with the Terms of Use by a registered user, their personal account may be temporarily or permanently deactivated immediately and without notice, without prejudice to the other rights of the publisher. The publisher also reserves the right to delete any article or comment brought to their attention that clearly violates the rules mentioned in the Terms of Use or that is reported by third parties.

 

The user is informed that free access to the content and services of the site is financed by advertising revenue displayed on these spaces. They therefore accept the display of advertising on the site.

 

ARTICLE 4 - USER COMMITMENTS

 

The user uses the site and its services at their own risk and under their entire responsibility. The publisher cannot guarantee that the site and its services will not be interrupted. The publisher cannot be held responsible in case of temporary unavailability of the site and services due to site maintenance, server maintenance, or the occurrence of events beyond their control and due to force majeure. The publisher will inform the user in advance of the unavailability if the event causing the unavailability is foreseeable.

 

The content and any other data displayed on the site are not intended to constitute advice on which a purchasing decision could be based by the user. The publisher disclaims all responsibility for the reliance placed by any user of the site on these data and information, or by anyone who may be informed of this content. The user should in no case consider that the content or other information presented on the site is accurate or up-to-date but should verify all such information independently.

 

The user agrees not to incorporate or distribute on the site any document, content, information, file, or any other data in any form that could restrict, slow down, disorganize, prevent, or interrupt the proper functioning and normal use of the site, the computer and/or telecommunication equipment of the publisher, the publisher's service providers and partners, and other users of the site.

 

In particular, the user agrees:

- not to use any malicious software (including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, dialers, spyware, etc.)

- not to distribute any spam and more generally not to use any technique of mass and/or automated messaging

- not to use any crawling or web scraping techniques, and more generally no technique allowing to copy or download content from the site massively. Using such a technique would be considered an act of infringement violating the intellectual property rights of the publisher as recalled in the "Intellectual Property" section of these Terms of Use.

 

ARTICLE 5 - PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

 

The user is informed that the site publisher, as data controller, may collect personal data through or via the site, or through any other means of exchange and/or communication.

 

This section on personal data processing describes the personal data that the site publisher may collect concerning the user (and more generally concerning any contact of the site publisher) and how it processes them (e.g., collection, processing, and use of personal data).

 

This section also specifies the rights that the user (and more generally any contact of the site publisher) has over their personal data under applicable legal and regulatory provisions.

 

The publisher commits to ensuring the security of the personal data it holds for identification, administrative, accounting, and technical service management purposes, particularly in accordance with the applicable legal framework:

 

- Managing and tracking its relationships, including commercial relationships, with its customers and more generally its contacts (including users):

  - such processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the publisher to manage and track its relationships,

  - retention in an active database for three years from the request, the end of the commercial relationship, or from the last contact from the user, or more generally from the concerned contact (online request, email, postal mail, phone call, click in an email sent by the publisher, etc.), then retention in archive form for six years.

 

- Managing and tracking its relationships, including commercial relationships, with its suppliers, service providers, and partners:

  - such processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the publisher to manage and track its relationships, including commercial relationships, with its suppliers, service providers, and partners,

  - retention in an active database for the duration of the relationship, then retention in archive form for six years.

 

- Performing, managing, and tracking general and analytical accounting operations:

  - such processing is based on the compliance with legal and regulatory obligations applicable to the publisher, and failing that, on the legitimate interests pursued by the publisher;

  - retention in an active database for a maximum of three years after the end of the relationship, then retention in archive form until the expiration of a ten-year period.

 

- Managing and tracking events organized by the publisher:

  - such processing is implemented based on the legitimate interests of the publisher to ensure the organization, management, and tracking of events it proposes or in which one or more of its members participate(s);

  - retention according to the stipulations mentioned above concerning the management and tracking of the publisher's relationships with its customers, and more generally contacts (including users).

 

The personal data concerning the user (or more generally any contact of the publisher) are collected directly from them or possibly through the organization they belong to, any third party who could communicate such data to the publisher, or through so-called "public" information sources.

 

The data collected in this context may include the identity of the user (or more generally the contact), their contact details, professional life, or their educational background.

 

The processing of information communicated by the user complies with legal requirements for personal data protection, with the information system used ensuring optimal protection of this data.

 

The personal data processed by the publisher is, in principle, only intended for the publisher's personnel, associates, and collaborators, and if strictly necessary, to partners and service providers who may intervene within the scope of achieving or pursuing the above-mentioned purposes (e.g., providers responsible for site development and maintenance, publishers and/or hosts and/or providers responsible for the websites, social networks, applications, and/or tools, including IT tools used by the publisher, providers responsible for the publisher's office and IT resources, or communication operations, accounting firm, externalized standard, participants in events organized by the publisher, etc.).

 

The user has, under national and European regulations in force, the right of permanent access, modification, rectification, deletion, objection, portability, and limitation of processing concerning information about them.

 

The user can exercise their rights at any time, with the publisher, when the latter is the data controller, 

electronically by sending an email to the following address: alexgrapov@gmail.com

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ARTICLE 6 - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

 

The content of the site and the use of its services are the property of the publisher and its partners and are protected by intellectual property laws. The publisher is the exclusive owner or has the rights to all intellectual property on the site and various content published by the publisher.

 

Any total or partial reproduction of this content is strictly prohibited and may constitute an infringement.

 

The publisher grants the user a license conferring a simple right of private, non-collective, and non-exclusive use of the content published by the publisher. This usage right includes the right to reproduce for the following purposes only: storage for display on a single workstation screen (on any medium including mobile devices), and reproduction in a single copy for making a backup or a printout (using the "print" function).

 

Apart from the functions offered by the publisher on the site that allow sharing content on social networks or sending it by email to a close person, any networking, rebroadcasting, in any form whatsoever, even partially, is prohibited.

 

Any commercialization, in any form whatsoever, of any or all of the site's content, is prohibited. The user is forbidden, unless expressly and prior authorized by the publisher, to reproduce and use the trademarks and logos appearing on the site, which are registered.

 

Any use other than those expressly authorized or prohibited by the preceding stipulations is subject to the express and prior authorization of the publisher.

 

For any information and request for reproduction on electronic and/or paper media, the user may send their request to the following email address: alexgrapov@gmail.com.

 

Any violation of this clause will be considered as an infringement and/or an act of unfair competition and may result in civil and/or criminal prosecution in accordance with the law.

 

ARTICLE 7 - EVIDENCE AGREEMENT, RETENTION, AND ARCHIVING

 

Computerized files stored in systems in accordance with current legal provisions will be considered as proof of communications of emails, submission of registration forms, downloads of content, publication of content, and posting of comments. The archiving of registration forms is carried out on a medium that ensures faithful and durable storage for the period required by current legal provisions, including Decree No. 2011-219 of February 25, 2011, on the retention and communication of data allowing the identification of any person who contributed to the creation of online content.

 

ARTICLE 8 - RESPONSIBILITIES

 

It is specified that the publisher cannot be held liable for any damage resulting from the use of the site by users, nor for the limitations of the internet, particularly its technical performance impacting response times for consulting, querying, or transferring data, or in case of network congestion.

 

The publisher cannot be held liable for indirect damages resulting from the use of the site or in the event of temporary or total unavailability of all or part of access to services, response time issues, and generally, any performance defect.

 

The publisher's liability cannot be sought in case of fraudulent or abusive use of the account due to voluntary or accidental disclosure to anyone of the user's account password.

 

The publisher gives no guarantee regarding the conditions of broadcasting, quality of broadcasting, and transmission of site accessibility.

 

ARTICLE 9 - HYPERTEXT LINKS

 

Users of the site cannot set up a link to the site without the express and prior authorization of the publisher. Such links cannot engage the responsibility of the publisher.

 

The publisher reserves the right to set up links on its site giving access to web pages other than those of its site. The publisher cannot be held responsible for the existence of such links regarding the content, advertisements, products, or services available on these external sites, which the user acknowledges and accepts.

 

ARTICLE 10 - APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENT COURT

 

These Terms of Use and the operations resulting from them are governed by French law. They are written in English. In the event they are translated into one or more languages, only the English text will be considered authoritative in the event of a dispute.

 

All disputes to which these Terms of Use may give rise, concerning their validity, interpretation, execution, termination, consequences, and subsequent effects will be submitted to the competent courts under common law conditions.

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