EUROPAGES SA, a limited liability company operating under French law with a share capital of 2 800,000 Euros, registered at Nanterre, no. B338 631 930, whose registered address is 127 avenue Charles de Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine 92200 (hereinafter referred to as EUROPAGES), is the publisher of the www.europages.com site and all its translated versions (hereinafter referred to as the Europages Site).
This site comprises a range of services including the Europages Companies Directory, Europages Buy & Sell, Europages Public Procurement, Europages My Account and the Business Resources.
Last update: november 22, 2006
The User acknowledges and accepts the Conditions for the Use of the Business Resources as set forth herebelow:

I. BUSINESS RESOURCES

I.1 Purpose

The Business Resources heading offers free of charge a range of services and information online accessible from the Directory, Public Procurement, Buy & Sell and My Account.  EUROPAGES thus enables the User to contact the partners listed therein.

I.2 EUROPAGES' positioning

I.2.1 Limited liability

• In no event shall EUROPAGES be held responsible for the establishment, execution or termination of any relations established between the User and one or several partners listed in the Business Resources.
• EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for the consequences of the use of inaccurate information, or of the omission of information on the part of its partners.
• EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for any damage, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the Business Resources for any reason whatsoever.

EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for any malfunction of the Business Resources resulting from an incompatible operation using any other product, software or hardware, or for any loss or damage to data.

I.2.2 Suspension of access to the Business Resources

EUROPAGES may suspend access to the Business Resources and/or to all of the Europages Site of any User that may infringe the Conditions of Use and more generally any legislation and/or regulation that may be applicable. Such suspension shall not imply the liability of EUROPAGES, without prejudice to its other rights to take legal action, and shall be notified by email.
In such an event, EUROPAGES shall make no reimbursement, either full or partial, if the User has subscribed to a Bonus Pack and/or taken out a paying subscription.

I.3 Obligations of the User

I.3.1 Conditions linked to the use of the Directory Search Bar

The User shall refrain from using the Business Resources associated with the Europages Search Bar available in the Directory through automated methods, "metaspiders", "crawlers" or any other means.
By installing the Search Bar, the User accepts that EUROPAGES may freely supplement, modify or delete all or part of the Business Resources it supplies.

I.3.2 Restrictions regarding the use of Europages website and the Business Resources.

The User hereby undertakes to refrain from hindering the smooth operation of the Europages Site in any manner whatsoever.
More specifically, it shall ensure the throughput is not unduly overloaded and/or that no elements shall be transmitted that may be likely to damage, intercept and/or interfere with all or part of the Europages Site.

The User shall not:
• proceed with any decompilation, reverse engineering or disassembly of the Directory and the services associated therewith or attempt to discover their source code;
• alter or disrupt the functioning, communication or any other operation of the Directory and the services associated therewith during the use thereof;
• duplicate, reproduce, copy, modify or create any product derived from the Directory and the services associated therewith.

Top of page II. GLOBAL PROVISIONS COVERING ALL SERVICES OF THE EUROPAGES SITE

II.1 Intellectual property rights

Europages and its logo are registered trade marks. They are the exclusive property of EUROPAGES.
All editorial elements and contents of the Europages Site (notably trade marks, texts, graphics, logos, animations, etc.) are the exclusive property of EUROPAGES, with the exception of elements contributed by EUROPAGES' partners or other sites accessible via the Europages Site.
All rights of reproduction or representation of the Europages Site are reserved for all countries and for all media, present and/or future.
The User acknowledges that the downloading of addresses and information from the Europages Site for the purposes of constituting a database is prohibited.

II 2 Copyright

In accordance with Act n° 98-536 of July 1 1998 transposing into the French Intellectual Property Code the European Directive n° 96/9/EC of March 11 1996 concerning the legal protection of databases, EUROPAGES is producer and owner of all or part of the databases making up the Europages Site with the exception of elements contributed by EUROPAGES' partners or other sites accessible from the Europages Site.
With regard to the database making up the Europages Site, the User hereby acknowledges that the data comprised therein is legally protected and, in accordance with the legal provision cited hereabove, shall refrain from:

• extracting, reusing, storing, representing, reproducing or stocking, directly or indirectly, in any medium whatsoever, by any means and in any form whatsoever, all or any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the contents of the databases on the Europages Site;
• proceeding with the extraction or repeated and systematic reuse of qualitatively or quantitatively non-substantial parts of the contents of the databases on the Europages Site to which it may obtain access

when such operations manifestly go beyond the normal conditions of use. Any attempt at fraudulent extraction shall be deemed to constitute infringement of copyright.

II.3 Use of links to sites external to the Europages Site

Certain pages on the Europages Site contain links to external Internet sites having no partnership with EUROPAGES.
As EUROPAGES is unable to monitor all the contents of the Internet sites linked to the Europages Site, the User hereby acknowledges that EUROPAGES shall not be held responsible for any products, services and/or information available on and/or from such Internet sites.
EUROPAGES hereby encourages its Users to read the policy on the protection of private data of each Internet site they consult.

II.4 User's comments

EUROPAGES shall provide the User with the opportunity to make comments and suggestions concerning Public Procurement.
The information they contain may be used freely by EUROPAGES, with no financial consideration for the User concerned.

II.5 Security

EUROPAGES applies a set of measures designed to limit the risks connected with intrusion, piracy and the introduction of viruses into its servers and/or the Europages Site.
EUROPAGES is unable to offer an absolute guarantee of security, in so far as the Internet is an open network, by nature sensitive to such risks. The User of Europages Site hereby declares it is aware of said risks and accepts them.
In no event shall the liability of EUROPAGES be invoked for any injury and/or direct or indirect damage suffered by the User resulting from any interruption or malfunction, from the suspension and/or termination of the Europages Site.

II.6 Equipment and connection charges

It shall be incumbent upon the User to install the appropriate equipment so as to be able to connect to the Europages Site (and thus access the Business Resources).
All costs relating to equipment, connection and transmission necessary for the use of the Europages Site shall be borne exclusively by the User
Furthermore, it shall be incumbent upon the User to take the appropriate measures to protect its own data and/or software stored on its computing equipment against any loss or damage. The User shall be solely responsible for the connection.

II.7 Application and duration of validity of the Conditions of Use

The present Conditions of Use shall apply to the User immediately on connection to the Europages Site.
They shall prevail over all previous Conditions of Use and may be amended at any time by EUROPAGES.
In such an event, the amendments shall be effective as soon as they are posted online.

II.8 Jurisdiction

In the event of major difficulty or dispute between the User and EUROPAGES, the Parties hereto hereby agree to seek an amicable settlement.
Should this fail, any such dispute shall be submitted to the Nanterre Commercial Court.
The present Conditions of Use shall be subject to French law.
Should the present Conditions of Use be translated, the French version shall prevail over all others. Top of page