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5.1 User Accounts

Access to the Websites is free and not subject to prior registration.

Nevertheless, some services provided on the Websites (such as the sending of newsletters) may be subject to prior registration by the User, his/her identification and the use of a User Account.

When creating his/her User Account, the User will be asked to select a user ID and associated password, which are strictly personal and confidential. The User shall be presented with a registration form for providing France Médias Monde with certain personal information which is compulsory or optional according to the notes on the form. If the User does not provide the information identified as compulsory, the creation of the User Account cannot be validated.

This personal data is collected directly from the User in order to allow them to be easily identified during the next connections and to have additional services and/or access. This personal data is stored with the User’s consent and shall be subject to processing as defined in Article 10 of these GTU. They are stored from the date on which the User Account is created and for the entire duration that the Services are used. After the date of unsubscription by France Médias Monde due to the User's inactivity or at the User's request to delete the Account, data is kept for a period of 13 months maximum.

5.1.1 Protection of Minors

In the event that the User is a minor private individual, he or she hereby declares and acknowledges having obtained the prior authorisation of their parents or of the person or persons with parental authority over him or her to browse the Websites. The person or persons with parental authority act as guarantor(s) of compliance with all of the provisions in these GTU when the minor User is using the Websites.

Parents (or those with parental authority) are invited to supervise the use made of the Services by their children (those in their charge) and to keep in mind that the Services are intended to appeal to a wide audience and that in their capacity of legal guardian, it is the parents’ responsibility to determine what Website is or is not suitable for their child(ren) and to supervise their use thereof. For further information on filtering, particularly in order to protect minors, France Médias Monde advises parents to contact their Internet service provider and refer to the following page: https://www.education.gouv.fr/cid141/la-protection-des-mineurs-sur-internet.html

It is specified that minors are not allowed to create a User Account.

5.1.2 User IDs for Third-party Services

User IDs for third-party services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google + and LinkedIn may have to be used in order to access some functions and services.

The User must log on with user IDs specific to these different third-party services for all social network functions involving interaction with said third-party services.

The creation and use of these accounts and the personal data provided by the User to these third-party services are governed by the terms of use and the personal data protection policy specific to each third-party service, releasing France Médias Monde from any liability in this respect.

5.2 Contribution Spaces

5.2.1

Users have the opportunity to comment on the Content posted on the Websites (hereinafter “the Comments”) and/or to post texts, videos, sounds, images and/or photographs (hereinafter the “User Content”). These Comments and User Comments can be seen by any Internet user visiting the Websites.

France Médias Monde does not carry out any checks a priori of the User Content and/or Comments posted by the Users, who remain liable for the content of the Comments and/or User Content they have produced.

Under no circumstances may France Médias Monde be held liable for the basis of Comments and/or User Content posted online by a User who does not hold the rights required for such a posting.

Any User who posts Comments and/or User Content on the Websites expressly authorises France Médias Monde to store, reproduce and represent said Comments and/or User Content free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis, for the entire duration of the intellectual property rights upon their publication.

It is specified that for technical reasons, certain User Content may be reformatted in accordance with the provisions of Article 7.3 of these GTU (especially the font, size and spelling). No substantive changes shall be made to the Comments and/or User Content without the express prior written consent of the User who is the author of said User Content.

5.2.2

The User undertakes not to post User Content and Comments on the Websites which do not comply with current legislation in France, and in particular which:

• are contrary to public order and common decency
• violate another person’s privacy
• constitute an infringement of the confidentiality of journalists' sources
• violate professional confidentiality
• allude to racial, religious and ethnic origin, physical features or a person’s disability, unless these references are relevant to the understanding of the information
• contribute to the dissemination of a work protected by the Intellectual Property Code without having the required prior authorisations
• constitute an insult, a vilification, a denigration, a violation of a person’s honour, reputation and dignity, an incitement to racial hatred or an act of unfair competition
• constitute a violation of a victim's dignity
• compromise the identity of victims of assault or sexual assault, unless the person has given his/her written consent
• enable the dissemination of information concerning the identity or enabling the identification of a minor
• encourage the committing of crimes and/or offences inciting the use of banned substances or inciting suicide
• defend certain crimes, particularly murder, rape, war crimes and crimes against humanity
• are of a racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, revisionist, obscene or pornographic, or paedophilic nature

Furthermore, the Users undertake to write Comments and/or User Content which:

• are relevant to and connected with the topic being commented on or concerned
• are easy for everyone to read and understand, avoiding overuse of abbreviations and “SMS language”
• avoid the overuse of capital letters which may be perceived as aggressive
• are not spam or floods (repeatedly posting the same message).

5.3 Moderation of Contribution Spaces

France Médias Monde may, at its sole discretion, decide to delete any Comment and/or User Content after it is posted on the Websites should said Comment and/or User Content fail to comply with the provisions in Article 5.2.2 and, more generally, contravene the provisions of current French legislation.

6.1 Website Elements and Content

The elements contained on the Websites, such as text, sounds, images, videos, music, software programmes, databases, logos, trademarks and other reproduced elements are reserved and protected under intellectual property law (in particular copyright, related rights and trademark law). These protected elements are the property of France Médias Monde and/or its partners.

Under the rules relating to intellectual property, any reproduction (including by downloading, printing, etc.) or representation, in whole or in part, adaptation, translation, transformation and/or transfer to another website of one or more of the aforementioned elements is prohibited without prior written authorisation from France Médias Monde and/or the rights holders. Any unauthorised use of any of these elements constitutes an infringement of copyright and could result in civil and/or criminal prosecution and the payment of damages.

France Médias Monde grants the User non-transferable, free, non-exclusive, personal and private authorisation to use the Services and the Websites solely for personal and private use, in strict accordance with the terms of use laid down in these GTU.

6.2 Trademarks

The trademarks of France Médias Monde and of its partners, including the logos on the Websites, are registered trademarks and as such protected by industrial property law (Article L 713-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code). The use of these trademarks or logos is prohibited, unless prior, express authorisation has been given by their owners. Any unauthorised use of a protected trademark or logo constitutes a copyright infringement and may be subject to prosecution before the competent courts.

6.3 User Contributions

Each User guarantees to France Médias Monde that he/she has the necessary user rights for posting Comments and/or User Content on the Websites.

As a result, all Users transfer to France Médias Monde the right to reproduce, represent, copy, modify, reformat, re-publish, communicate, distribute, adapt and generally use all or part of the Comments and/or User Content on the Websites and/or on pages of France Médias Monde's social networks, as well as on its versions regardless of how they are accessed, free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis, for the entire period during which the intellectual property rights possibly relating to his/her Comments and/or User Content are legally protected.

These rights are transferred throughout the world for all uses on all media and by any dissemination processes currently known or unknown.

The User expressly acknowledges and accepts that some Comments and/or User Content may be reformatted for technical reasons only; the User hereby assigns the necessary adaptation rights. Subject to compliance with the terms of Article 5.2, no substantive changes shall be made to the Comments and/or User Content without the User’s express prior consent.

The User expressly acknowledges and accepts that no use of Comments and/or User Content by France Médias Monde under these Terms of Use shall give rise to any financial compensation.

7.1 Simple hyperlinks and deep hyperlinks

A simple hyperlink is defined as a link which only gives access to the homepage of one of the Websites.

A deep hyperlink is defined as a link which gives access to a specific page on one of the Websites without going through its homepage.

Any creation by a User of hyperlinks to one of the Websites implies that the User has obtained the necessary authorisations from the rights holders for public communication of the Content concerned and, where applicable, has paid any related remuneration.

It is stated that France Médias Monde is completely independent of the websites that have a hyperlink created on them and is not responsible for the editorial line or content published on those websites.

7.2 Player

The Video-Player and/or Audio-Player embedded in a third-party website provide access to the video and/or audio Content of one of the Websites by making it appear in a frame on the said third-party website or by providing direct access to one or more items of Content.

Any embedded Video-Player and/or Audio-Player is prohibited without the prior written authorization of France Médias Monde.

7.3 Hyperlinks from the Websites

Hyperlinks contained on the Websites may lead to other third-party websites. Users are solely responsible for their visits to such third-party websites. France Médias Monde cannot be held liable for having provided the User with this hyperlink and the content on such third-party websites. Under no circumstances may the User hold France Médias Monde liable for direct or indirect damage suffered as a result of using a third-party website accessible from the Websites.

9.1 Accessibility of the Websites and Services

The Websites and the Services are accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. France Médias Monde shall do its utmost to guarantee the accessibility of the Websites and Services. However, France Médias Monde shall not be held liable for the risk of disruption or malfunctioning related to the connection, maintenance operations, editorial updating, network and/or information system congestion, intrusion by unauthorised third parties and contamination by any viruses circulating on said networks and services, internal or external strikes, improper configuration or use of the computer by the User or any other cause within or beyond its control.

France Médias Monde may not be held liable if the disruption or deterioration of the quality of the Websites and Services is due to the occurrence of a case of force majeure. A case of force majeure is considered to be any force majeure event or fortuitous event as defined by current French legislation and the case law of the French Court of Cassation.

9.2 Editorial Content

France Médias Monde undertakes to do everything possible to guarantee the truthfulness and accuracy of the information available on all of the Websites, but may not be held liable for its inaccuracy, nor for the use and interpretation made of it by the User.

Therefore, France Médias Monde shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage, ancillary or incidental, resulting from the use of the Websites or any information obtained from the Websites.

France Médias Monde reserves the right to make improvements and/or modifications to the Websites and its Services at any time without prior notice.

In general, the User holds France Médias Monde harmless against any appeals or actions by any person and their possible financial consequences, based on or resulting directly or indirectly from his or her actions, or arising from the use of the Websites by the User as well as any alleged breach of the GTU or current regulatory provisions and indemnifies France Médias Monde in respect of any appeals including litigation that may result.