Application and modification of the terms and conditions of use
The website www.guilleminavocats.com (hereinafter the « Website ») is published by the law firm Guillemin Avocats, SELAS, registered under the following number “SIREN” 983 638 867, and located at 5 avenue de Messine, 75008 – Paris, France.
By accessing and browsing the Website of the law firm Guillemin Avocats, the user acknowledges having read these terms and conditions of use and agrees to abide by them. If not, he is invited to interrupt all browsing on the Website.
Any user of the Website notably guarantees that he has the sufficient legal capacity to accept the present terms and conditions of use. If not, he is invited to immediately interrupt all browsing on the Website.
The law firm Guillemin Avocats has the right to modify the terms and conditions of use herein at any time, especially in order to comply with any change of legal or technical nature or in its digital communication. That is why the users shall regularly revert to the terms and conditions of use herein. The law firm Guillemin Avocats will nevertheless expressly inform its users of any substantial modification brought to the herein terms and conditions of use of the Website.
Intellectual Property
The user acknowledges that the Website of the law firm Guillemin Avocats, as well as all its content, including all data, corporate names, domain names, information, illustrations, photographs, videos, fonts, trademarks, logos, images, graphics, designs, sounds, graphs, databases and software are the exclusive property of the law firm Guillemin Avocats on any territory or are licensed by third parties in order to operate its Website.
Access and/or browsing by the user of the Website neither imply in any way the transfer or sale, in whole or in part, of the intellectual property rights of the law firm Guillemin Avocats or of any third party having licensed them to the law firm, nor involve any authorization to the user to use, reproduce, represent, modify or operate them, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, for any reason and on any format, and on any territories.
As a consequence, unless the law firm Guillemin Avocats gives its express authorization relating thereto, any reproduction, representation, modification, adaptation, decompilation, in whole or in part, combination with other elements, substantial extraction, any exploitation whatsoever of the pages, data and any other contents of the Website, by any means or on any format, is forbidden on all territories and is likely to infringe the intellectual property rights of the law firm Guillemin Avocats notably as protected by the French Intellectual Property Code, and /or to constitute an act of unfair competition or parasitism notably pursuant to article 1240 of the French Civil Code.
Yet, the law firm Guillemin Avocats may exceptionally authorize its users to download PDF documents and expressly indicates whether this document is provided for such purposes on the Website.
In that case, the law firm Guillemin Avocats grants its user a license to download said content for strictly private purposes, or even to circulate it under its exclusive responsibility, provided that he does not modify its substance and form, and that he refrains from any association, direct or indirect, with any third-party’s content that may be detrimental to the interests of the law firm Guillemin Avocats.
Personal data and cookies
The law firm Guillemin Avocats is very careful about the protection of the personal data of its clients, prospects, partners, candidates and all users of its Website.
As a consequence, it fulfills all obligations it is subject to as the processor or controller of personal data, pursuant to all laws and regulations applicable thereto and to the use of cookies on the Website.
For further details, clients, prospects, partners, candidates and all users of the Website are invited to take a look at the data protection policy available on the Website, by clicking on the following link: www.guilleminavocats.com/en/privacy-policy.
Website user’s liability
The user commits himself to use the Website in respect of the rights and interests of the law firm Guillemin Avocats, any third party, the public order and moral standards without interfering with its proper working and, in any events, under his exclusive liability.
Before any access to the Website, the user commits himself to take all necessary measures to the protection of his own data and/or his software against any potential virus or malware.
The liability of the law firm Guillemin Avocats
The law firm Guillemin Avocats does its best efforts for the Website to be available to its users 24/24h and 7 /7 days.
Nevertheless, the user is informed that the Internet network, computers and telecommunication system may dysfunction or be interrupted and that technical maintenance operations limiting access to the Website may occur.
The law firm Guillemin Avocats shall not be held liable, either for any temporary or permanent unavailability of the Website, whether it is being caused by itself or by any external circumstance, or for any damage that could result therefrom for its user.
The law firm Guillemin Avocats also does its best efforts to provide and disseminate on its Website information and documents that are not only accurate, verified and updated, but also free of any virus or bugs.
The user is nevertheless informed that these information and documents are only provided for information purposes and neither the law firm Guillemin Avocats, nor any of its members, shall bear any responsibility therefrom, for any reason. The law firm Guillemin Avocats also reserves the discretionary right to modify and/or delete them from the Website at any time.
The law firm Guillemin Avocats shall not in any case be held responsible for any indirect and/or unpredictable damage caused by the access and/or browsing on the Website to the Client or any third party, including any financial or commercial damage, loss of profits, planned savings, goodwill, data, attractiveness or reputation.
Hypertext links
The law firm Guillemin Avocats may set up hypertext links on its Website, directing to other contents available on the Internet.
Pursuant to its ethical obligations, it ensures that all third-party’s websites comply with the essential principles of the profession of lawyers. If it is not, the law firm Guillemin Avocats reserves the discretionary right to delete any hypertext links directing to all inappropriate content and/or contrary to its ethical principles.
The user is nevertheless informed that these third-party’s contents are independent from the law firm Guillemin Avocats which neither publishes nor control their content. These hypertext links are provided for information purposes only and do not imply validation or full acceptance of the law firm Guillemin Avocats of its contents, authors, editors, etc.
Miscellaneous
If any of the provisions of these terms and conditions of use is declared null and void, in whole or in part, the other provisions, rights and obligations herein shall remain in full force and effect.
The fact that the law firm Guillemin Avocats refrains from demanding the performance of a provision of the present terms and conditions of use shall not be interpreted as a renunciation to invoke, in the future, the so said non-performance in whole or in part.
In case of any doubt, difference of interpretation or contradiction, the French version of the present terms and conditions of use also available on the Website shall prevail on the English version herein.
Applicable law and jurisdiction
Subject to any applicable mandatory laws, the present terms and conditions of use of the Website of the law firm Guillemin Avocats shall be subject to French law.
Subject to any applicable mandatory laws, any litigation linked to their validity, interpretation and performance are exclusively subject to the competent courts under the jurisdiction of the Paris Court of Appeal.
