Welcome to the "www.gdfsuez-globalenergy.com” website (hereinafter "the Website").
In accordance with the law, we invite you to read these conditions of use (hereinafter the "Conditions"), and any specific conditions shown on the pages of the Website, which govern your use of the "www.gdfsuez-globalenergy.com" Website.
These Conditions concern your rights and legal responsibilities which become applicable as soon as you start to use this Website.
This Website is available to you free of charge (except for Website connection costs) for your personal use, subject to respect for the Conditions defined below.
By accessing this Website, visiting and/or using it, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Conditions, and that you also undertake to comply with all laws and regulations that apply. If you do not agree to these Conditions, please do not use the Website.
You undertake to access the information shown on this Website only for personal and non commercial use.
You may only use the Website for legitimate purposes; no use or misappropriation is authorised for purposes contrary to Public Order and Morality.
The contents of this notice may be subject to change; as a result we invite you to consult it on a regular basis.
This Website is the property of GDF SUEZ, a public limited company with capital of 2.193.643.820 euros, entered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 542 107 651 and with registered office located at 22, rue du Docteur Lancereaux, 75392 Paris cedex 8.
The publication manager is Mark Bailey in his capacity as GDF SUEZ Global Energy Marketing Director.
The Website content manager is Claire Douangmala as the internet communication manager for the GDF SUEZ Global Energy brand.
The content is hosted on computer equipment from IKOULA, which has its registered office at 130, boulevard de Verdun - 92413 Courbevoie Cedex.
As a use of this Website you acknowledge that you have the skills and resources required for accessing and using the Website.
GDF SUEZ and its contributors make every effort to guarantee that the information displayed 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.). GDF SUEZ and its contributors also decline all liability (direct or indirect) in the event of delay, error or omission concerning the contents and use of these pages and in the event of stoppage or unavailability of the service.
You acknowledge that you have been informed that the Website is accessible 24/7 with the exception of cases of force majeure, computer difficulties, difficulties related to the structure of the telecommunications networks or other technical difficulties. For maintenance purposes, GDF SUEZ may shut down its Website. It will make every effort to warn users of this in advance.
GDF SUEZ is not responsible for delays, difficulty in use or incompatibility between the Website and files, your browser or any other program used for access to the Website.
GDF SUEZ may not in any case be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from or subsequent to circulation by a third party of a virus through our Website and which may infect your computer system following your connection to this Website, the use of this Website or browsing of this Website. Similarly GDF SUEZ may not be held liable for any material or accessory damage (including but not limited to technical failure, disclosure of confidential documents and data loss), or for any other indirect damage, arising during or linked to use of the Website.
Lastly, GDF SUEZ and its contributors do not give any guarantee or assume any liability, in any case, concerning the suitability, continuity, accuracy, absence of errors, veracity, timeliness, reliable and commercial nature, quality, validity and availability of the information contained on this Website. Incorrect information or omissions may be encountered due to typographical or formatting errors. If you find any errors, please let us know so that the appropriate corrections can be made.
GDF SUEZ reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify any element of the Website. In the context of its policy of updating and optimising the Website, GDF SUEZ may decide to modify these conditions.
Any dated information published on the Website is only valid for the specified date.
It is also hereby stated that secrecy of correspondence is not guaranteed on the network and that each 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.
The Website is a site that contains links to other GDF SUEZ website or those of GDF SUEZ group companies likely to have their own legal notices, which it is advisable to consult and respect.
Some services present on the Website require a username and password.
These usernames and passwords are confidential, personal, non-transferable and non-transmissible. You are responsible for their management, safekeeping and for the consequences of their use. You are responsible for taking the measures necessary for their protection and safekeeping. GDF SUEZ cannot in any case be held liable for any fraudulent use.
For security reasons, access to secure sections will be automatically invalidated after several incorrect attempts at access. GDF SUEZ reserves the right to suspend access to the Website in the event of fraudulent use or an attempt at fraudulent use of a user's password or username. In the event of suspension of access, GDF SUEZ will inform you of this.
The records made by the website's computer system at the time of connections of the user will constitute proof of any act carried out by the user on the Website, and proof of the processing of these acts.
The Website is fully governed by French legislation concerning copyright, trademark law and, generally, intellectual property.
The trademarks and logos (semi-figurative trademarks) of GDF SUEZ shown on the Website are registered trademarks. Any complete or partial reproduction or representation, alone or integrated into other elements, with prior express authorisation in writing from GDF SUEZ is strictly forbidden.
The general structure, software, texts, images, videos, sounds, know-how, animations and more generally all information and content shown on the Website, are the property of GDF SUEZ or are the subject of user or operating rights. These elements are subject to legislation protecting their copyright.
Any full or partial representation, modification, reproduction, distortion, of all or part of the Website or its contents, by any procedure whatsoever and in any medium whatsoever would constitute an infringement sanctioned by articles L 335-2ff of the Intellectual Property Code.
These Conditions do not grant you any licence for using the trademarks, logos or photographs of GDF SUEZ.
The databases shown on the Website, as applicable, are protected by the provisions concerning legal protection of databases. In this respect, GDF SUEZ expressly prohibits any re-use, reproduction or extraction of elements of these databases. Any unauthorised re-use, reproduction or extraction shall incur the user's liability.
GDF SUEZ reserves the right to delete any content immediately and without any prior formal demand: message, text, image or graphic that contravenes the laws and regulations in force and particularly the regulations specified above.
In the event that you wish to use some of the Website content (text, image, etc), you must obtain prior express authorisation in writing from GDF SUEZ, by writing to the address indicated in the § "Legal information" or by sending an e-mail to the webmaster.
As a user of this Website you are obliged to respect the legislation that applies, and particularly the provisions of the law concerning information technology, files and freedom, violation of which is punishable by penal sanctions.
In particular, you must abstain from any collection or any abusive use of the personal information to which you have access and, generally, from any act likely to harm the privacy, honour, sensitivity, brand image or reputation of any natural or legal person, especially GDF SUEZ, avoiding any mention, message or text that is defamatory, provocative, malicious, disparaging or threatening on any medium whatsoever.
In order to meet your needs and while you are browsing the Website, GDF SUEZ may collect personal information concerning you, which is processed by electronic methods (some information, which is marked with an asterisk, is mandatory).
You are responsible for checking that the information which you provide us with through the Website is accurate and complete. For correct follow-up of your requests, please inform us immediately of any modification to the information supplied.
The information collected is exclusively intended for GDF SUEZ, which is authorised by this notice, unless you are opposed to this for legitimate reasons, to store it and use it in order to inform you about its products and services.
GDF SUEZ may also send this information to other companies in its group, to its brokers, insurers and to any third parties or sub-contractors but only for the purposes of management or canvassing, unless opposed by you.
You can oppose the use of data concerning you for canvassing purposes free of charge.
To exercise your rights of access, rectification and opposition, please contact : contact.communication@gazdefrance.com.
During your visits, you are informed that a cookie may be automatically installed on your browser software. This is a data block that is not used for identification purposes but is used for recording information about your browsing of the Website. It is used for analyses of activity, audience measurements, etc to improve the quality of the Website.
The settings of your browser software allow you to be informed about the presence of a cookie and to refuse it if you wish in the following manner:
In the event of refusing cookies, some services are no longer accessible.
You have the right to access, rectify or delete your personal details sent via a cookie in the conditions stated in § "Information technology and freedoms".
The hyperlinks set up to other websites shall not incur the liability of GDF SUEZ, especially in the case of the content of these websites.
GDF SUEZ is not liable for hyperlinks that lead to this Website and prohibits anyone from setting up such a link without its prior authorisation in writing.
Any assignment or other transfer of the rights granted by these conditions is strictly forbidden.
If, for any reason whatsoever, a competent jurisdiction considered that a provision of these Conditions is invalid, the invalidity of this provision will not in any way affect the validity of the rest of the conditions, which will remain in force.
Failure by one of the parties to exercise a right or an action at law under the terms of these conditions may not be considered a waiver of such a right or such an action.
The Website is governed by French law. These Conditions will be governed by and interpreted according to French law.