LEGAL NOTICES

1. Presentation of the website.

Under Article 6 of French law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the website www.cpassocies.com are notified of the identity of the various parties involved in the production and administration of the website:

Owner: 9, rue Boissy d’Anglas, 75008 Paris Creators: Daniel Cohen and Stéphane Buyens
Publication manager: Arnaud Péricard – apericard@cpcassocies.com

The publication manager may be a natural person or legal entity. Hosting provider: Noadmin – 5 Avenue de Clichy 75017 Paris – Themecloud.io

2. General conditions of use and services offered.

Use of the website www.cpassocies.com entails full and unreserved acceptance of the general conditions of use set out below. These conditions of use may be modified or supplemented at any time, users of the website www.cpassocies.com are therefore invited to view the conditions on a regular basis.
Under normal circumstances this website may be accessed by users at all times. However, access to www.cpassocies.com may be interrupted for maintenance purposes; every effort will be made to notify users in advance of the dates and times of non-availability.

The website www.cpassocies.com is regularly updated by CPC & Associés. Similarly, the legal notices may be modified at any time and shall always apply to users, who are therefore invited to refer to them as frequently as possible.

3. Description of the services provided.

The purpose of the website www.cpassocies.com is to provide information about all the firm’s activities. CPC & Associés will make every effort to ensure that the website www.cpassocies.com contains information that is as accurate as possible. However, it may not be held liable for any omissions, inaccuracies or deficiencies whether due to its own action or that of partners which supply the relevant information.

All information contained in the website www.cpassocies.com is provided for information purposes only and is liable to change. Nor is the information contained in the website www.cpassocies.com in any way exhaustive. It is provided subject to modifications that may have been made since first being placed online.

4. Contractual limitations on technical data

The site uses JavaScript technology.

The website may not be held liable for any material damage associated with its utilisation. Furthermore, site users undertake to access the website using recent equipment free of all viruses and using the latest generation of web browser.

5. Intellectual property and infringement.

CPC & Associés is the owner of the intellectual property rights or enjoys the right to exploit all elements accessible via the site, notably text, images, graphics, logos, icons, sound and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of all or part of such elements, regardless of the means or process employed, is strictly prohibited unless prior written authorisation is obtained from: CPC & Associés.

Any unauthorised exploitation of the site or of any of its elements will be treated as constituting infringement and be pursued in accordance with Article L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitations on liability.

CPC & Associés may not be held liable for any direct or indirect material damage suffered by the user’s equipment when accessing www.cpassocies.com, or resulting from the utilisation of equipment that fails to meet the specifications set out in 4 above, or for the emergence of any bug or incompatibility.

Nor may CPC & Associés be held liable for any indirect damage (such as loss of business or opportunity) resulting from utilisation of the website www.cpassocies.com.

Interactive areas (ability to ask questions via the Contact page) are made available to users. CPC & Associés reserves the right to delete without notice any content placed in this section that may violate any applicable legislation in France, notably with regard to data protection. CPC & Associés also reserves the right to invoke the civil and/or criminal liability of the user, as applicable, notably in the event of any message being sent of a racist, offensive, defamatory or pornographic nature, regardless of the medium employed (text, photo, etc.).

7. Management of personal data.

In France, personal data is notably protected under law no. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, Article L. 226-13 of the Criminal Code and the EU Directive of 24 October 1995.

The following may be collected when using the website www.cpassocies.com: the URLs of links via which the user accesses the website www.cpassocies.com, the user’s ISP and the user’s IP address.

Regardless of the circumstances, CPC & Associés only collects the personal data of users for the purposes of certain services offered on the website www.cpassocies.com. The user provides this information in full possession of the facts, notably when it is entered by the user personally. At such a time, users of the website www.cpassocies.com are notified about whether or not provision of such information is mandatory.

In accordance with Article 38 et seq. of French law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 (the French data protection act), all users enjoy a right of access, rectification and objection with regard to their personal data, which may be exercised by forwarding a written and signed request to this effect accompanied by a copy of an identity document bearing the holder’s signature, specifying the address to which the response is to be sent.

No personal data of users of the website www.cpassocies.com will be published without the knowledge of the user in question, nor exchanged, transferred, assigned or sold to a third party via any medium. Only in the event of the takeover of CPC & Associés and the concomitant transfer of its rights shall permit the transmission of such data to the purchaser, which shall in turn be bound by the same data retention and modification obligations vis-à-vis the user as those that apply to the website www.cpassocies.com.

The site has not been declared to CNIL as it does not collect personal data.

The databases are protected under the French law of 1 July 1998 transposing Directive 96/9/EC of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

In France, personal data is notably protected under law no. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, Article L. 226-13 of the Criminal Code and the EU Directive of 24 October 1995.

The following may be collected when using the website www.cpassocies.com: the URLs of links via which the user accesses the website www.cpassocies.com, the user’s ISP and the user’s IP address.

Regardless of the circumstances, CPC & Associés only collects the personal data of users for the purposes of certain services offered on the website www.cpassocies.com. The user provides this information in full possession of the facts, notably when it is entered by the user personally. At such a time, users of the website www.cpassocies.com are notified about whether or not provision of such information is mandatory.

In accordance with Article 38 et seq. of French law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 (the French data protection act), all users enjoy a right of access, rectification and objection with regard to their personal data, which may be exercised by forwarding a written and signed request to this effect accompanied by a copy of an identity document bearing the holder’s signature, specifying the address to which the response is to be sent.

No personal data of users of the website www.cpassocies.com will be published without the knowledge of the user in question, nor exchanged, transferred, assigned or sold to a third party via any medium. Only in the event of the takeover of CPC & Associés and the concomitant transfer of its rights shall permit the transmission of such data to the purchaser, which shall in turn be bound by the same data retention and modification obligations vis-à-vis the user as those that apply to the website www.cpassocies.com.

The site has not been declared to CNIL as it does not collect personal data.

The databases are protected under the French law of 1 July 1998 transposing Directive 96/9/EC of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

8. Hypertext links and cookies.

The website www.cpassocies.com contains a certain number of hypertext links to other sites, established with authorisation from CPC & Associés. However, CPC & Associés is unable to verify the content of sites visited accordingly and rejects all liability in this regard.

Utilisation of the website www.cpassocies.com may cause cookies to be placed on the user’s device. A cookie is a small file that does not identify the user but which records information about the browsing behaviour of a computer on the site in question. The data obtained accordingly is used to facilitate subsequent visits to the site and are also designed to produce browsing data.

If you refuse the installation of cookies, you may be unable to access certain services. However, the user may configure their device as follows should they wish to refuse the installation of cookies:

In Internet Explorer: tab Tools / Internet options. Click on Privacy and select Block all cookies. To confirm press Ok.

In Netscape: tab Edit / Preferences. Click on Advanced and select Disable cookies. To confirm press Ok.

9. Applicable law and competent court.

Any dispute arising out of utilisation of the website www.cpassocies.com shall be settled in accordance with French law. Exclusive jurisdiction is assigned to the competent courts of Paris.

10. The main applicable laws.

Law no. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, notably amended by law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 (the French data protection act).

Law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy.

11. Glossary.

User: The internet user connecting to and using the aforementioned website.

Personal data: “information that enables identification of the natural person to which it applies, regardless of the manner and whether directly or indirectly” (Article 4 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).

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Founded in 2005, CPC & Associés is a boutique law firm specialising in Business Law.

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Arnaud Péricard avocat fondateur CPC & Associés

Arnaud Péricard

Founder, Lawyer Partner

Lawyer at the Paris Bar and New-York Bar, admitted in 1999
and 2001 respectively

Languages

  • French
  • English
  • Spanish

Expertise and practice areas

  • Mergers, acquisitions and joint-ventures
  • Media and new technology law
  • Sports and media law
  • Public economic law