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The site www.claessens.com (hereinafter the ‘Site’) is published by VERNIS CLAESSENS SA (hereinafter the ‘Company’), SA, whose registered office is Route de Crissier 4, 1030 BUSSIGNY, SWITZERLAND, IDE/UID number CHE-105.982.168, VAT number CHE-105.982.168, contact e-mail address: mail@claessens.com, contact telephone number: (+41) 21 702 07 02.

The Publication Director is: Stéphane BIERI, (+41) 021 702 07 02

The Website is hosted by Pictime Groupe, a simplified joint stock company, whose registered office is at Campus du Digital, Parc de la Haute Borne, 61 avenue de l'Harmonie 59 262 Sainghin-en-Mélantois, France, registered with the LILLE Trade and Companies Register under number 443 498 571.

By using the Website and the information contained therein, Internet users acknowledge that they have read this legal notice.

These general terms and conditions of use may be modified at any time by the Company; as soon as they are put on line, these modifications will be deemed to have been accepted by Internet users.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF THE SITE

1) SITE CONTENT

1.1 The Site is a website presenting the paints, wall coverings and related decorative products manufactured and/or marketed by the Company (hereinafter the ‘Products’) as well as the points of sale of the Products, operated directly by the Company or by distributors of the Company and also offering a colour simulator (hereinafter the ‘Service’).

The use of the Service does not require the creation of an account, it can be used online or via the free download.
The general terms and conditions of sale applicable to Products sold at points of sale are available on the Site under the heading ‘General Terms and Conditions of Sale’.

1.2 Internet users may, via the Site, subscribe to a newsletter by ticking a dedicated box and unsubscribe at any time by sending an e-mail to the following address: mail@claessens.com. Only the personal data required to send the newsletter will be collected.

They may also contact the Company to request information or make a complaint by filling in a dedicated form available in the ‘Contact’ section.

The Company is responsible for processing Internet users' data. The information collected from their agreement to receive a newsletter or from the form is necessary to process their request. Information marked with an asterisk (*) is compulsory. It is recorded and sent to authorised Company personnel. They are kept for the duration of the processing of their request.

The Site and the Company comply with the Federal Data Protection Act.
To find out more about the management of their personal data, Internet users can consult the ‘personal data’ charter available in the ‘Personal data’ section. Internet users may also write to the dedicated address: mail@claessens.com.

1.3 The creation of links to the Site (hypertext referencing, etc.) is authorised subject to :

Not to use the ‘deep linking’ technique, i.e. the pages of the Site must not appear superimposed on or integrated into the pages of another site;
The link to the Site must lead to the opening of a new window that is independently dedicated to the Site;
The link must not lead to the appearance of the Site or its referencing on sites of a polemical, pornographic or xenophobic nature, or sites that infringe the privacy or reputation of individuals or that may infringe the image of the publisher, its assigns, the Company or the Cromology Group to which it belongs.

2) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Company declines all responsibility in the event of misuse or incident linked to the use of a computer, Internet access, maintenance or malfunction of servers, telephone lines or any other technical connection; and more generally for any direct or indirect damage resulting from access to or inability to access the Site, use of the Site, information available on it and/or on other sites linked to it and, in particular, any financial or commercial loss or loss of programmes or data in the Internet user's information system.

The Company also declines all responsibility with regard to the conformity of the information available on the Site with the uses that Internet users wish to make of it. Consequently, Internet users acknowledge that they use this information under their sole responsibility.

3) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The Site is a work protected by copyright. Any reproduction and/or representation, in whole or in part, of the Site and/or the elements contained therein is prohibited and constitutes an infringement of copyright.

All elements contained on the Site (in particular software, texts, drawings, photographs, trademarks, company names, logos, products, images, whether animated or not, sounds, know-how, databases and more generally any type of data) are the exclusive property of the Company or its partners, where applicable, and are protected by copyright legislation and by all other intellectual property rights.

The name of the Site and the names of the products presented on the Site are trademarks protected by the Company and/or the companies of the Cromology Group to which the Company belongs and/or the suppliers of these companies. No licence or right other than that of consulting the Site is granted to the Internet user. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation, translation and/or transformation, in whole or in part, of the Site or any transfer to another site is prohibited and constitutes an infringement, with the exception of strictly private use for non-commercial purposes, subject to the intellectual property rights attached and the indication of the source of these elements.

4) PERSONAL USE

All elements of the Site are made available to Internet users for their personal use. It is forbidden to use the elements of the Site for commercial purposes. No element of the Site may be interpreted as granting Internet users any intellectual property rights whatsoever over the Site and/or its content. They are only granted the right to consult the Site and, if they so wish, to purchase Products or services. Internet users are authorised to copy, print, reproduce and use, without alteration, other than as authorised by the tools available on the Site, the drawings, photographs, images, texts and other documentation represented on the Site, exclusively for their personal and private use.

5) TECHNICAL OPERATION OF THE SITE - NO GUARANTEE

The Site is normally accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In the event of force majeure (as this term is defined by law), computer difficulties, difficulties linked to the structure of telecommunications networks or technical difficulties, for maintenance reasons, and without this list being exhaustive, access to all or part of the Site may be suspended, interrupted or removed at the Company's discretion, which Internet users expressly accept. The Site may also be modified or changed without notice of any kind.

Internet users acknowledge that they have the skills and resources required to access and use the Site. They acknowledge that they have checked that the computer configuration they are using contains no viruses and is in perfect working order.
Internet users may report any queries, omissions, errors or corrections by sending an e-mail to the Site's webmaster at the following address: mail@claessens.com.

6) COMPETENCE TO AWARD CONTRACTS

The content of the Site is governed by Swiss law. This applies to both substantive and formal rules, and its content will be assessed by the competent court alone. Conflict of laws rules are excluded in favour of the full and unreserved application of Swiss law.

7) PHOTO CREDITS :

hutterstock ; Istockphoto ; Getty ; Freepik ; Vernis Claessens SA