Terms of Service

Any connection to this site is subject to compliance with these conditions. For the Internet user (hereinafter referred to as the user), simple access to this site constitutes acceptance of all the conditions described below and commitment to respect them.

Presentation of the site

The purpose of this site is to organize and present our events. This site contains information on conferences organized by AFD, such as the date, location, speakers, programs, registration procedures, etc.

Warning and liability

The AFD, which owns this site, strives to ensure the proper functioning and IT security of said site as well as the accuracy and updating of the information disseminated there. However, AFD cannot guarantee the accuracy, precision or completeness of the information available on this site.

It is also up to users of the site to verify the information by other means, including by contacting the AFD communications department.

The user is aware of the risks associated with the use of internet services.
Therefore, he recognizes and accepts:

  • use this site at your own risk;
  • that the AFD cannot be held responsible for interruptions and the consequences which may result for any Internet user;
  • that the AFD's obligation to supply is limited to an obligation of means;
  • that AFD reserves the right to correct or delete, at any time and without notice, the general structure of the site or the content;
  • that AFD cannot, however, guarantee its completeness or the absence of modification by a third party (intrusion, virus).

Thus, AFD declines all responsibility:

  • for any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission relating to information available on the site;
  • for any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party leading to a modification of the information made available on the site;
  • and more generally for any damage, direct or indirect, whatever the causes, origins, nature or consequences, caused due to anyone's access to the site or the inability to access it, same as the use of the site and/or the credit given to any information coming directly or indirectly from the latter;
  • in the event of it being impossible to access this site and/or use the services.

For any questions relating to these conditions of use of the site, you can write to the administrator of this site using this form or to the following address:

Agence Française de Développement
Direction Innovation, Stratégie et Recherche de l’AFD
5 Rue Roland Barthes
75 598 PARIS Cedex 12

Intellectual property rights

AFD holds all the copyright on this site as well as on the services offered by this site, excluding content for which the intellectual property rights are held by third parties and in particular content or sites to which this site points by means of hyperlinks.

As such and in accordance in particular with the provisions of article L.122-5 of the intellectual property code, only use is permitted for private use subject to different, or even more restrictive, provisions of the intellectual property code. Intellectual property.

Consequently, any other use constitutes an infringement and is punishable under the provisions of intellectual property law, unless prior written authorization is obtained from the AFD.

The user is therefore prohibited, apart from this use, from copying, modifying, distributing, transmitting, broadcasting, representing, reproducing, publishing, granting in the form of a license, transferring or exploiting in any other way the contents present on the XX site.

Limitations

You cannot:

  • use the Services in any manner that violates or misappropriates any person's rights, assemble, compile, decompile, translate or attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of the models, algorithms and systems of the Services.
  • except as permitted by the AFD, use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or results from the Services, including scraping, data harvesting or web data extraction;
  • indicate that the outputs of the Services were generated by humans
  • Communicate personal data relating to children under 15, etc.

Reporting abuse

AFD strives to preserve the quality of the content of this site.

If you notice or believe that the content published on this site is clearly illegal, report it by completing this form.

Any abusive notification exposes you to civil or criminal sanctions.

Right of reply

If you believe that content harms your image, you can exercise a right of reply by completing this form.

Your right to reply will be communicated within three working days of receipt of your message.

Any abusive notification exposes you to civil or criminal sanctions.

Prohibition of mirroring

No posting of the site by a third party under another URL is authorized without express prior authorization from AFD.

Hypertext links

As has been said, the AFD is not responsible for the content shared on the site for which it does not hold the intellectual property rights and in particular for the content or sites to which the XX site links through links. hyperlinks.

Links pointing to AFD

The AFD authorizes any website to establish a link pointing to the address of this site after prior information has been provided to the following address:

Agence Française de Développement
Direction Innovation, Stratégie et Recherche de l’AFD
5 Rue Roland Barthes
75 598 PARIS Cedex 12

AFD reserves the right, at any time, without notice and without having to justify its decision, to prohibit these links. In this case, AFD will inform the person concerned who will have 2 working days to end the link.

Any link of this type must strictly comply with the legal and regulatory provisions in force.

AFD cannot be held responsible for links established from another site to this site.

Links pointing to third party sites
The contents to which the user may be directed by means of hyperlinks are the sole responsibility of the owners of these web spaces.

AFD cannot exercise any permanent control over these sites nor assume any responsibility for their content.

The inclusion of these links does not mean that AFD approves the elements contained on these sites.

The user who does not comply with the laws and regulations in force may be prosecuted in court by the AFD.

Modifications of these general conditions of use

AFD reserves the right to modify, at any time and without notice, these conditions of use in order to adapt them to changes to the site and/or its operation.

Integrity of the contract

These general conditions of use express all of the rights and obligations of AFD.

If one or more of the clauses of these general conditions of use are declared void, deemed unwritten or excluded in application of a law, a regulation or following a final decision rendered by a competent court, the other clauses of the general conditions would retain their binding force within the limits of said decision.

Applicable law and competent courts

These general conditions of use as well as this site are governed by the provisions of French law.

If an amicable solution cannot be found within a reasonable time, any dispute which may arise in the context of the use of this site, or in the interpretation and application of the general conditions of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts.