TERMS OF USE

IMPORTANT

It is expressly agreed that access and use of the website www.e-learning.francemuseums.fr implies the user’s unrestricted acceptance and compliance with these terms of use. The user therefore declares having read and understood the terms of use. In the event of reservations or disputes regarding all or part of the provisions of these terms of use, the user acknowledges that he or she will no longer have the right to access the site.

1. Definitions

For the purpose of these terms of use, words, terms hereafter, if not defined elsewhere in these terms of use, shall have the meanings set forth below:
“Company”: shall mean Agence France Muséums, simplified joint stock company with a capital of 335,000.00€ having its registered office located at 20, rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, registered with the Trade and Corporations Register of Paris under identification number 499 510 451, duly represented by its chief executive officer, Hervé BARBARET.
“Cookie(s)”: means a text file that may be saved, subject to the User’s choices, in a dedicated space on the User’s terminal hard disk when consulting an online service using his or her browser software.
“Site”: shall mean the website www.e-learning.francemuseums.fr where the Company presents its activity to the Users.
“Terms of use”: shall mean all of the stipulations provided for herein, the purpose of which is to define the terms and conditions and rules of access and use of the Site, as well as the information contained therein.
“User”: shall mean a person who has access to the Site.

2. Purpose

These Terms of use govern the conditions of use of the Site by any User.

3. User’s general obligations

When using the Site, the User undertakes to comply with the laws and regulations in force, to respect the rights of third parties and comply with the provisions of these Terms of use. Each User has the obligation:

• Not to divert the purpose of the Site to commit acts punishable by law;
  
• Not to use the information on the Site directly or indirectly for commercial purposes;
  
• Not to denigrate the Site;
  
• Not to attempt to divert Internet users to another site or a competitor; and generally,
  
• To use the Site in accordance with the purpose described in these Terms of Use.

The Company reserves the right, at any time and at its sole discretion, to suspend or remove access to the Site to one or more Users and to take all measures against them, if the Company considers that such User(s) do not comply with the Terms of Use.

4. Personal data

The Company is committed to apply the obligations of the amended Statute 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, the provisions of EU Regulation 2016/679 of 25 May 2018 on data protection and the resulting ethical principles regarding the personal information that the User may be led to communicate to it in the context of its use of the Site. The privacy Policy, presented at the following address, details the terms and conditions applicable to the collection and processing of Users’ personal data on the Site: Site France Museum

5. Intellectual property

The elements contained on the Site (including photographs, images, drawings, illustrations, texts, videos, logos, trademarks, etc.) and the Site itself are protected under intellectual property law. These elements belong to the Company or are used with the agreement of their right owners. No license, nor any right other than the right to consult the Site, is granted to the Users when accessing the Site. Any reproduction, transmission, use, adaptation, modification, incorporation, translation, marketing, in whole or in part by any process and on any medium whatsoever (paper, digital, etc.) is prohibited, without the prior written authorization of the Company, under penalty of constituting an offence of counterfeiting.

6. Cookies

Cookies must be enabled in your browser in order to access this website.

6.1 Purpose of cookies issued on the Site

Two cookies are used by this site:

• The essential one is the session cookie, usually called MoodleSession. Necessary for the operation of the Site. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of user accounts, or offer Site features. The User must allow this cookie into your browser to provide continuity and maintain your sign in from page to page. When you sign out or close the browser this cookie is destroyed (in your browser and on the server).
• The other cookie is purely for convenience, usually called MOODLEID. It just remembers your username within the browser. This means when the User returns to this site the username field on the sign in page will be already filled out for the User. It is safe to refuse this cookie – the User will just have to retype your username every time you sign in.

6.2 The User’s choices regarding Cookies

The User may, at any time, set their browser to modify their choices regarding Cookies. Setting up the Internet browser is an efficient and free way to determine, upstream, the management of Cookies.

Cookies agreement: The registration of a Cookie in a terminal is essentially subject to the will of the terminal User, which the latter may express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by his navigation software.
Refusal of Cookies: If the User refuses to save Cookies in his terminal, or if the User deletes those saved there, he will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functionalities that are nevertheless necessary to navigate in certain areas of the Site. Where applicable, the Company declines all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded operation of its services resulting from the impossibility for it to record or consult the Cookies necessary for their operation and which the User will have refused or deleted. Cookies will not be kept for more than thirteen (13) months.
How to exercise the choices according to the Browser used by the User? The settings for Cookie management depend on the User’s browser. As an indication, the User may oppose the recording of Cookies by configuring his browser as follows:

For Internet Explorer:https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
For Firefox : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop
For Chrome : https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en
For Safari :https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
For Opera : https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

7. Limitations of liability

The Company commits to do its best efforts to ensure that the Site can be accessed to any time. Nevertheless, the Company declines any liability in case of difficulties to access the Site or interruption in the connection, whatever the cause. In particular, the Company reserves the right to make any changes to the Site that it deems useful, without prior notice and even if this change results in an interruption of access to the Site. The Site may contain links to third party sites. As these sites are published and managed by third parties, without any control by the Company, the Company cannot be held liable for any damage resulting from the use of or access to these sites.

8. Entry into force – Duration

These Terms of use are concluded for an indefinite period from the first access to the Site and for as long as they are applicable under the conditions specified in article 9 below.

9. Modification of the Terms of use

The Company reserves the right to modify, at any time, in full or in part, the provisions of the Terms of use. The new Terms of use shall come into force on the date of their publication on the Site, provided that the User has been informed that they have been put online. Continued use of the Site by the User thus informed, after the date of publication of the modified Terms of use will be deemed to have been made by consenting to the new version of the Terms of use.

10. Severability

Should any of the provisions of these Terms of use be declared null and void with regard to a legislative or regulatory provision in force and/or a court decision having the force of res judicata, it shall be deemed to be unwritten, but shall not affect the validity of the other provisions, which shall remain fully applicable.

11. Governing law – Jurisdiction

These Terms of use will be governed by French law. In the event of a dispute arising from the present contractual relationship, and subject to the public policy provisions applicable in terms of jurisdiction, the competent courts under the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal of Paris (France) shall have exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate any dispute arising out of these Terms of use.