Terms of use
Welcome to the showcase website of the European project PLATOON (hereinafter the “Website”), a project coordinated by ENGIE SA, with the following partners:
ENGIE
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
INSTITUT MIHAJLO PUPIN
GIROA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA
SISTEPLANT SL
SAMPOL INGENIERIA Y OBRAS S.A.
TECHNISCHE INFORMATIONSBIBLIOTHEK (TIB)
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
ROMA CAPITALE
POSTE ITALIANE – SOCIETA PER AZIONI
MANDAT INTERNATIONAL ALIAS FONDATION POUR LA COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE
FUNDINGBOX ACCELERATOR SP ZOO
INDRA SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION SL
COMSENSUS, KOMUNIKACIJE IN SENZORIKA, DOO
CLUSTER DE ENERGIA
UDG ALLIANCE
In accordance with the law, we invite you to read these terms of use (hereinafter the “Terms”), and any special terms stated on the pages of the Website, governing your use of the Website. These Terms cover your rights and legal responsibilities, and become applicable as soon as you start to use this Website.
This Website is available to you free of charge (except for Internet connection costs) for your personal use, subject to compliance with the Terms set out below. .
By accessing, visiting and/or using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms, and that you undertake to comply with all relevant laws and regulations. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use this Website.
You may only use the Website for legitimate purposes. It may not be used or misappropriated for purposes contrary to Public Order and Morality.
The content of these Terms of use may change. We therefore advise you to read them regularly.
The Website is published by ENGIE SA, a public limited company with a capital of 2,435,285,011 euros, registered with the Nanterre Trade and Companies Registry under number 542 107 651, whose head office is located at 1 place Samuel de Champlain 92400 Courbevoie – France. Telephone: +33 (0)1 44 22 00 00.
The Website’s publication director is Mrs. Adeline DUTERQUE.
The Website is hosted by the company IKOULA 175-177 Rue d’Aguesseau 92100 BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT- France. Telephone: +33 (0) 1 84 01 02 50 Contact: ikoula@ikoula.com.
Limitation of liability and guarantees
As a user of the Website, you acknowledge that you have the necessary skills and means to access and use this Website.
ENGIE and its contributors make every effort to ensure that the information provided on this Website is accurate and up-to-date, reserving the right to modify the content at any time and without notice. However, they cannot guarantee that this information is complete, or that it has not been modified by a third party (hacking, virus, etc.). ENGIE and its contributors also accept not liability (direct or indirect) in the event of delay, error or omission with regard to the contents and use of these pages and in the event of the service being interrupted or unavailable.
You agree that you have been informed that the Website is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in the event of force majeure, server problems, problems caused by the telecommunications network infrastructures or other technical difficulties. ENGIE may occasionally shut down its Website for maintenance purposes. In this case, it will make very effort to notify users in advance. ENGIE is not responsible for delays, operating problems or incompatibility between the Website and files, your browser or any other program used for access to the Website.
ENGIE may under no circumstances be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from or subsequent to third-party distribution of a virus by means of our Website, which may infect your computer system following connection to this Website, use of this Website or browsing on this Website. Likewise, ENGIE may not be held liable for any material or consequential damage (including but not limited to technical failure, disclosure of confidential documents and data loss), or for any other indirect damage, arising from or associated with the use of the Website.
ENGIE makes every possible effort to ensure that the information provided on the Website is accurate and up-to-date, and reserves the right to correct the content at any time and without prior notice. However, ENGIE and its contributors make no undertaking and assume no liability, under any circumstances whatsoever, with regard to the relevance, continuity, accuracy, absence of errors, veracity, timeliness, fair and commercial nature, quality, validity and availability of the information contained in this Website. Each Website user shall be fully responsible for the risks incurred by giving credence to this information. Incorrect information or omissions may be encountered arising from typographical or formatting errors. If you find any such errors, please inform us so that we can make the relevant corrections.
The information on the Website is provided “as seen”, without guarantee of any kind, whether implied or explicit.
ENGIE reserves the right to modify any content of the Website at its sole discretion. Pursuant to its policy of updating and improving the Website, ENGIE may decide to modify these Terms. Any dated information published on the Website is valid exclusively for the specified date.
Il est rappelé également que le secret des correspondances n’est pas garanti sur le réseau et qu’il appartient à chaque utilisateur d’Internet de prendre toutes les mesures appropriées de façon à protéger ses propres données et/ou logiciels de la contamination d’éventuels virus circulant sur Internet.
Any dated information that is published on the Website is only valid for the specified date only.
Users are also reminded that the confidentiality of correspondence cannot be guaranteed on the network and that every Internet user is responsible for taking all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software from contamination by any viruses that may be circulating on the Internet.
Intellectual property
The Website is governed in its entirety by French legislation and international conventions relating to copyright, trademark law and intellectual property in general.
The brands and logos (semi-figurative brands) belonging to ENGIE or its partners appearing on the Website are registered trademarks. The general structure, software, texts, images, videos, sounds, know-how, animations, database and more generally all the information and content appearing on the Website are the property of ENGIE or its partners, or are subject to a right of use or exploitation
The present Conditions do not grant you any license or right to use all or part of the Site. Any representation, modification, reproduction, denaturation, total or partial, of all or part of the Website or its contents, by any process whatsoever, and on any medium whatsoever may constitute an infringement punishable under civil or criminal law.
If you wish to use some of the Website content (text, image, etc), you must obtain prior express written authorization from ENGIE, by writing to the address platoon-site@engie.com
Hyperlinks
ENGIE may not be held liable for hyperlinks to other websites, and particularly for the content of those websites.
ENGIE is not liable for hyperlinks from other sites to this Website.
Applicable law and competent court
The failure of ENGIE or the User (hereinafter “the Parties”) to exercise any right or take any legal action under these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or action.
The Website is governed by French law. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with French law. In the event of a dispute, the Parties must, prior to any referral, find an amicable solution. In the absence of an amicable solution, the competent courts to hear the dispute will be the French courts with material and territorial jurisdiction.
If, for any reason whatsoever, a competent court were to consider a provision of these Terms and Conditions to be invalid, the invalidity of this provision shall in no way affect the validity of the rest of the Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in force.