Legal notice

Definitions

Customer: any professional or natural person with legal capacity within the meaning of Articles 1123 et seq. of the French Civil Code, or legal entity, who visits the Website covered by these general terms and conditions.

Services and Benefits: ALTOS BRIDGE LLC makes available to Customers:

Content: All elements constituting the information present on the Website, including text – images – videos.

Customer information: Hereinafter referred to as “Information”, corresponding to all personal data that may be held by Vaquela for managing your account, managing customer relations and for analysis and statistical purposes.

Vaquela is the trading name of the company ALTOS BRIDGE LLC.

User: Internet user connecting to and using the aforementioned website.

Personal information: “Information that allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies” (Article 4 of French Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978).

The terms “personal data”, “data subject”, “processor” and “sensitive data” have the meaning defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: No. 2016-679).

1. Presentation of the website.

Pursuant to Article 6 of French Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the website vaquela.com are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and maintenance:

Website publisher
The website vaquela.com is published by ALTOS BRIDGE LLC.
Legal form: LLC
Address: 1603 CAPITOL AVE STE 413 E239 CHEYENNE, WY 82001
Publication manager: ALTOS BRIDGE LLC — contact@vaquela.com - +33 7 56 80 21 52

Hosting provider: Shopify International Limited (a company incorporated under Irish law, Shopify’s main establishment for GDPR purposes) and its parent company Shopify Inc., 151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2L8, Canada — tel.: +1 888-746-7439.

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

The Website constitutes an intellectual work protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code and applicable International Regulations. The Customer may not in any way reuse, transfer or exploit for their own account all or part of the Website’s elements or works.

Use of the website vaquela.com implies full and complete acceptance of the general terms and conditions of use described below. These terms of use may be amended or supplemented at any time; users of the website vaquela.com are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This website is normally accessible to users at all times. However, Vaquela may decide to interrupt access for technical maintenance and will then endeavour to inform users beforehand of the dates and times of the work. The website vaquela.com is regularly updated by ALTOS BRIDGE LLC, the publication manager. Similarly, the legal notice may be amended at any time: it nevertheless remains binding on the user, who is invited to refer to it as often as possible to remain informed.

3. Description of the services provided.

The purpose of the website vaquela.com is to provide information concerning all of Vaquela’s activities. Vaquela endeavours to provide information on the website vaquela.com that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies or failures to update information, whether caused by itself or by third-party partners who provide this information.

All information provided on the website vaquela.com is for information purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information appearing on the website vaquela.com is not exhaustive. It is provided subject to changes having been made since its publication online.

4. Contractual limitations concerning technical data.

The website uses JavaScript technology. The website cannot be held responsible for material damage related to its use. Furthermore, the website user undertakes to access the website using recent equipment that contains no viruses and an up-to-date, latest-generation browser. The website vaquela.com and the data may be hosted and processed on infrastructure located outside the European Union, particularly in Canada and the United States. These transfers are governed by the European Commission’s adequacy decision concerning Canada and, where applicable, by the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) adopted by the European Commission, in accordance with the GDPR (No. 2016-679).

The objective is to provide a service that ensures the highest level of accessibility. The hosting provider ensures continuity of its service 24 hours a day, every day of the year. It nevertheless reserves the right to interrupt the hosting service for the shortest possible periods, particularly for maintenance, improvements to its infrastructure, infrastructure failures or if the Services and Benefits generate traffic considered abnormal.

Vaquela and the hosting provider cannot be held responsible in the event of a malfunction of the Internet network, telephone lines or computer and telephone equipment, particularly due to network congestion preventing access to the server.

5. Intellectual property and infringement.

Vaquela holds the rights to use all elements accessible on the website, including text, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons and sounds. Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of all or part of the website’s elements, regardless of the means or process used, is prohibited without prior written authorisation from Vaquela.

Any unauthorised use of the website or any of the elements it contains will be considered an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of Articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitations of liability.

Vaquela acts as the website publisher. Vaquela is responsible for the quality and accuracy of the content it publishes.

Vaquela cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the website vaquela.com and resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in section 4, or from the occurrence of a bug or incompatibility.

Vaquela also cannot be held responsible for indirect damage (such as loss of business or loss of opportunity) resulting from use of the website vaquela.com. Interactive spaces (the ability to ask questions in the contact area) are available to users. Vaquela reserves the right to delete, without prior formal notice, any content posted in this space that contravenes the legislation applicable in France, particularly provisions relating to data protection. Where applicable, Vaquela also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, particularly in the event of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic message, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph, etc.).

Personal data and cookies

The processing of your personal data and the use of cookies are described in detail in our Privacy Policy, accessible at any time on the website. The data controller is ALTOS BRIDGE LLC (Vaquela), which can be contacted at contact@vaquela.com.

10. Applicable law and jurisdiction.

Any dispute relating to the use of the website vaquela.com is subject to French law. French courts have jurisdiction, without prejudice to the consumer’s right to bring proceedings, at their discretion, before the courts of their place of residence.