Legal notices
Presentation of the website
Pursuant to Article 6 of Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and monitoring:
Owner: Administration of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty – 139, rue de Bercy 75572 Paris Cedex 12 – France
Publication manager: Clara Chappaz, Director of Mission French Tech – frenchtech@finances.gouv.fr
The person responsible for publication is an individual or a legal entity.
Design: La Netscouade
Production and hosting: Actimage
General terms and conditions of use of the website and the services offered
Use of the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website implies full acceptance of the general conditions of use set out below. These conditions of use may be amended or supplemented at any time, and users of the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website are therefore advised to consult them regularly.
This website is normally accessible to users at all times. However, the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty may decide to interrupt the site for technical maintenance purposes, in which case it will endeavour to inform users of the dates and times of the intervention in advance.
The https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website is regularly updated by Clara Chappaz, Director of Mission French Tech. Similarly, the legal notices may be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding on the user, who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to review them.
Description of services provided
The purpose of the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website is to provide information about all of the company’s activities.
The Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty endeavours to provide information on the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website that is as accurate as possible. However, it may not be held liable for any omissions, inaccuracies or failures to update such information, whether due to its own fault or to the fault of third-party partners supplying such information.
All information provided on the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website is given for information purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information provided on the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website is not exhaustive. It is subject to any changes that may have been made since it was put online.
Contractual limitations on technical data
The website uses JavaScript technology.
The website cannot be held responsible for any material damage linked to the use of the site. In addition, users of the site undertake to access the site using recent, virus-free equipment and with an up-to-date, latest-generation browser.
Intellectual property and counterfeiting
The Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty is the owner of the intellectual property rights and holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the website, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons and sounds.
Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, whatever the means or process used, is prohibited, except with the prior written authorisation of: the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty.
Any unauthorised use of the site or of any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.
Limitations of liability
The Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty may not be held liable for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website, and resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or incompatibility.
The Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty may also not be held liable for indirect damage (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website.
Interactive areas (possibility to ask questions in the contact area) are available to users. The Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this area that contravenes the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. Where applicable, the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, particularly in the event of messages of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic nature, regardless of the medium used (text, photographs, etc.).
Applicable law and jurisdiction
Any dispute relating to the use of the https://www.lafrenchtech.gouv.fr/ website is subject to French law. The competent courts of Paris have exclusive jurisdiction.
The main laws concerned
Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended by Law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 relating to information technology, files and civil liberties.
Law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy.
Glossary
User: Internet user connecting to and using the aforementioned site.
Personal information: “information which enables, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies” (article 4 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).