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The present General Terms of Use determine the rules for accessing the URL of the website (hereinafter "the Site"). By browsing this Site, you acknowledge, in your capacity as a user, that you are aware of the terms, accept them without reservation and comply with them.

Personal information

Collection and use of your personal data

Faith and Light international complies with the French Data Protection Act n°78 of 6 January 1978 as amended, as well as with Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016.

As a Data Controller within the meaning of the "Informatique et Libertés" law, Faith and Light international is responsible for the personal data it collects.

In accordance with the provisions of the "Data Protection" law, you are informed that Faith and Light international carries out automated processing of your personal data, in particular when you connect to our Site or in the context of the online forms filled in by you.

In accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions, the processing of your data may give rise to the exercise of a right of access, a right of rectification, a right of limitation, a right of portability, a right of deletion as well as a right of opposition for legitimate reasons, with Faith and Light international, editor of the said Site, by sending a letter to the following address: 3 rue du Laos 75015 Paris.

Implementation of "Cookies"

 

What are the "Cookies"?
A cookie is a text file that records information about your Internet browsing. This file is placed on the user's hard disk by the server site during a consultation and cannot contain a virus or be executed. It is not active. Moreover, you can read, delete or modify it. A cookie cannot be used to retrieve personal data from your hard drive, read your e-mail address or obtain personal information.

Why "Cookies"?

In accordance with the Ordinance of 24 August 2011 on the application of the European directives on the protection of privacy on the Internet, a cookie cannot be placed on your computer (except for legal exceptions) without your prior consent. Faith and Light international is therefore obliged to seek your prior consent, which is valid for a maximum of 13 months. However, some cookies are exempted from the collection of this consent:

- If the sole purpose of the cookie is to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means;

- If the cookie is strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at the express request of the user.

Browser settings

In accordance with the Ordinance of 24 August 2011 on the application of European directives on the protection of privacy on the Internet, a cookie cannot be placed on your mobile phone without your prior consent.

In this context, we inform you that you can set your browser to refuse the implementation of cookies.

Each browser has a different configuration for managing cookies and your choices. This is described in the help menu of your browser, which will tell you how to change your cookie preferences.

Make your choices known to Faith and Light International

When you connect to our website, and you have not accepted the deposit of cookies in the 13 months preceding your visit, a banner appears and asks you to agree to the deposit of cookies. With your express consent, cookies are deposited to allow optimal access to the site. For example, cookies allow you to identify yourself and access your account. Please note, however, that whether you accept or refuse the deposit of cookies, your choice can only be recorded if you use the same browser and if you have not deleted your browsing history in the meantime.

! Warning! Third party cookies

We draw your attention to the fact that we are not responsible for the implementation by the social network(s) to which you belong of third-party cookies on your computer. The social networks are likely to place a cookie on your computer, which allows you to be identified, in particular when you use a function allowing you to give your opinion on a content or a publication. Our Site includes applications linked to the various social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Viadeo, etc.) known as "social plugins" which allow us to recommend content to you. When you select a page on our Site containing one of these plugins, your browser establishes a direct link to the servers of the social network concerned. The content of the plugin will be directly transmitted to your browser by the social network and integrated into the Site. To find out about the purpose and scope of the data collection, processing and use of the data by the social network(s) to which you belong, as well as your rights and possibilities for changing the settings for the protection of your privacy, please consult the General Terms of Use of the social network concerned. If you do not want a social network to collect data about you on our Site, please log out of that social network before visiting it.

Right of use licence

Access to the Site grants you a private, non-collective and non-exclusive right to use the content of the Site. Any networking or redistribution, in whatever form, is prohibited.

The right to reproduce is only for the purpose of representation on a single screen and is strictly reserved for your private use. If you wish to make commercial use of the information on this site, you should seek our express agreement.

All materials published on the Site, including but not limited to texts, photographs, computer graphics, icons (hereinafter "Materials"), constitute works within the meaning of Article L112-1 of the Intellectual Property Code. Consequently, any representation or reproduction, in whole or in part, that could be made without the consent of their authors or their beneficiaries, is illegal. You may not therefore modify, copy, transmit by e-mail or in any other way, transfer, download, display and, in general, exploit these Materials.

You therefore agree to :

  • download the Materials onto your computer only for your own personal, time-limited use
     
  • not to print out the downloaded Materials on paper unless such copies are strictly limited to personal use; - not to reproduce the digital version of the Materials for press review purposes
  •  not to alter, modify, move, remove or replace the editorial content (text and/or reproduction) of the Materials and/or the name of Faith and Light International and/or the authors of the Materials or their successors in title and/or any other information relating to the rights of Faith and Light International and/or the authors of the Materials or their successors in title.
  • We remind you that the violation of one of the copyrights of the editor or the authors of this Site constitutes an offence of counterfeiting punishable in France by the article L335-2 of the Code of the Intellectual Property and liable to three years of imprisonment and 300 000 euros of fine.

Faith and Light International reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to modify, delete or add to the "Terms and Conditions of Use" of the Site, at any time, in order to take into account any legal, jurisprudential, editorial and/or technical evolution. The version that prevails is the one that is accessible online. You are therefore advised to refer regularly to the latest version of these General Conditions of Use.

Faith and Light International also reserves the right to modify the characteristics or content of the Site. It may also restrict access to the Site to certain sections without prior notice.

Faith and Light International may, at its sole discretion, suspend, interrupt or terminate access to all or part of the Site for any reason whatsoever, including, without limitation, failure to comply with the Site's "General Terms of Use". It does not guarantee that the Site is without errors or that all imperfections will be corrected.

Faith and Light International reserves the right to send e-mails to you personally or to all users of the Site to keep you informed of changes, modifications or additions to the Site.

Limitation of liability

You are solely responsible for any direct or indirect, material or immaterial damage or harm caused by, based on or originating from the use of the Site by you or any person authorised by you to use the Site. By use, it should be understood any use of the Site whatsoever, whether fraudulent or not.

As such, you waive any claim or legal action relating to such damages on the basis of the contractual liability of Faith and Light International as the publisher of this Site or on any other basis.

Hypertext links may lead to other sites than the Site. By clicking on these links, you leave the Site and thus end up on sites over which Faith and Light International has no control. Consequently, Faith and Light International declines all responsibility in the event that the content of these sites contravenes the legal and regulatory provisions in force.

Faith and Light International undertakes to make its best efforts to secure access, consultation and use of the Materials in accordance with the rules of use of the Internet. Access to the Site is possible twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, except in the event of force majeure or an event beyond the control of Faith and Light International, and subject to any breakdowns and maintenance operations necessary for the proper functioning of the Site and the Materials, which may be carried out without prior notice to you.

Consequently, Faith and Light International cannot be held responsible in the following cases :

  • Temporary interruptions lasting a few minutes for the updating of certain files;
  • Operating difficulties or momentary interruption of these services beyond the control of Faith and Light International, in particular in case of interruption of electricity or telecommunication services;
  • Temporary interruptions of services necessary for their evolution or maintenance;
  • Failure or malfunction of the Internet network in the transmission of messages or documents;

You declare that you accept the characteristics and limits of the Internet, and in particular acknowledge :

  • that you are aware of the nature of the Internet, in particular its technical performance and the response times for consulting, querying or transferring information/data;
  • that the communication of your access codes, and more specifically your login and password, or in general any information deemed confidential, is done under your own responsibility;
  • that it is your responsibility to take all necessary measures to ensure that the technical characteristics of your computer allow you to consult the Site;
  • that it is your responsibility to take all appropriate measures to protect your own data and/or software from contamination by any viruses circulating on the Site;
  • it is specified that downloading the Materials implies unreserved acceptance of the said Materials and of these General Conditions of Use.

Application of French law

As the Internet is by nature a global network, the rules applicable to all content and all data transmissions on and around the Site are determined by French law. In the event of a dispute, the French courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.