FRLegal notice and Terms of Service
Warning
Access to this website (hereinafter the "Site"), dedicated to the purchase of the ESG Ratings Premium Report and the Climate Transition Assessment Premium Report (hereinafter the "Service"), is possible subject to the User's compliance with the General Terms of Service indicated below (hereinafter the "ToS"). It is recommended to read the ToS at each visit to the Site since they may be modified at any time and without notice.
The present ToS govern access to and use of the Site and its features. They do not replace the General Terms and Conditions of Sale (hereinafter the "GCS") of the ESG Ratings and the Climate Transition Assessment Premium Reports, which shall prevail in the event of any contradiction with the present ToS.
Definitions
Client: Any legal entity under private law acting in the context of its professional activities or as a trader who visits the Site which is the subject of these ToS.
Content: All the elements constituting the information present on the Site, in particular texts, images, videos...
Information: All personal data that may be held by ETHIFINANCE for the management of the Client's account, the management of the client relationship, and for analysis and statistical purposes.
Personal information: "Information which allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies" (article 4 of law n°78-17 of 6 January 1978).
The terms "personal data", "data subject", "processor" and "sensitive data" have the meaning defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: No. 2016-679).
Products and Services: Content and offers present on the Site and made available to the Client, including in particular the EthiFinance ESG Ratings Premium Report, as defined in the corresponding GCS, accessible on the Site.
Reports : the ESG Ratings Premium Report and the Climate Transition Assessment Premium Report.
Website: https://report-for-issuers.ethifinance.com
EthiFinance website: https://www.ethifinance.com
User: User designated by the Client, connecting to the Site.
1. Presentation of the website
Owner: ETHIFINANCE, a simplified joint stock company with a share capital of 228,020 euros, having its registered office at 20 boulevard Eugène Deruelle – 69003 Lyon, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under the unique identification number 478 661 481, Siret 478 661 481 00042, Ape: 7022Z, VAT identification number: FR44478661481.
Responsible for the publication: ETHIFINANCE, represented by Mrs. Carol Sirou, in his capacity as Executive President.
Host: Scaleway
Data Protection Officer: Sora Bahmad
2. General conditions of use of the Site and the services offered
The use of the Site implies full and complete acceptance of the ToS described below. These ToS may be modified or completed at any time, and the User of the Site is therefore invited to consult them regularly.
This Site is normally accessible at any time to the User. An interruption for technical maintenance may however be decided by ETHIFINANCE, which will endeavour to inform the User in advance of the dates and times of the intervention.
The Site is updated regularly. In the same way, the legal notices may be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding on the User who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to take note of them.
ETHIFINANCE also invites its customers to consult the GCS relating to the products offered, and in particular the GCS relating to the reports, which, in the event of contradiction, take precedence over these ToS.
3. Description of the services provided
The purpose of the Site is to allow the ordering of and payment for the reports.
ETHIFINANCE endeavours to provide on the Site information as precise as possible. However, ETHIFINANCE cannot be held responsible for any omissions, inaccuracies or deficiencies in the information, whether provided by itself or by the third parties which provide it with this information.
All information on the Site is given for information purposes only and is subject to change. Moreover, the information on the Site is not exhaustive. It is given subject to modifications having been made since it was put on line.
4. Contractual limitations on technical data
The Site uses JavaScript technology.
ETHIFINANCE cannot be held responsible for any damage linked to the use of the Site. Moreover, the User of the Site commits himself/herself to access the Site by using appropriate means, not containing any virus and with up-to-date software.
The Site is hosted by a service provider in the European Union in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: n°2016¬679).
ETHIFINANCE makes its best efforts to ensure the Site has the best possible rate of accessibility. The host ensures the continuity of its service 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Nevertheless, it reserves the right to interrupt the hosting service for the shortest possible period of time, in particular for maintenance purposes, to improve its infrastructures, in the event of a failure of its infrastructures, or if the Products and Services generate traffic deemed abnormal.
ETHIFINANCE and the host cannot be held responsible in the event of malfunction of the Internet network, telephone lines, or computer and telephony equipment linked in particular to network congestion preventing access to the server.
5. Intellectual property and counterfeiting
The Site constitutes an intellectual work protected by the provisions of the Intellectual Property Code and the applicable international regulations.
The Client may not in any way reuse, transfer or exploit for its own account all or part of the elements or works of the Site.
ETHIFINANCE is the owner of the intellectual property rights on the general structure of the Site, its contents and forms (plans, layout of the elements...) and holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the Site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons and sounds.
Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the Site, whatever the means or the process used, is prohibited, except with prior written authorization of ETHIFINANCE.
Any unauthorised use of the Site or of any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code.
Prohibition of mirroring: no on-line publication of the site by a third party under another URL is permitted without the express and prior authorisation of ETHIFINANCE.
6. Limitations of liability
ETHIFINANCE acts as the publisher of the Site and is responsible for the quality and veracity of the Content it publishes.
ETHIFINANCE cannot be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage caused to the equipment of the User, at the time of the access to the Site, and resulting either from the use of a material not in accordance with the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or an incompatibility.
ETHIFINANCE cannot be held responsible for indirect damages (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the Site.
7. Personal data management
The Client is informed of the regulations concerning marketing communication, the law of 21 June 2014 for confidence in the Digital Economy, the Data Protection Act of 06 August 2004 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: n° 2016-679).
7.1 Persons responsible for the collection of personal data
For the Personal Data collected within the framework of the creation of the personal account of the User and its navigation on the Site, the person in charge for the treatment of the Personal Data is: ETHIFINANCE.
As responsible for the treatment of the data which it collects, ETHIFINANCE commits itself to respect the framework of the legal provisions in force. It is in particular up to it to establish the purposes of its data processing, to provide to its prospects and customers, starting from the collection of their consent, complete information on the processing of their personal data and to maintain a register of the processing in conformity with reality.
Whenever it processes Personal Data, ETHIFINANCE takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Data is accurate and relevant for the purposes for which ETHIFINANCE processes it.
To learn more about the processing of personal data, we invite you to read the privacy policy available on the ETHIFINANCE website.
8. Hyperlinks and Cookies
To learn more about 'Cookies', we invite you to read the 'Cookies Policy' available on the ETHIFINANCE website
9. Applicable law and jurisdiction
Any dispute in connection with the use of the Site is subject to French law.
Except in cases where the law does not allow it, exclusive jurisdiction is given to the competent courts of Paris.