GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF MARC LEVY'S WEBSITE – FEBRUARY 2024
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SITE.
These General Terms and Conditions of Use (hereinafter referred to as the “T&Cs”) describe the terms and conditions under which the marclevy.com site provides a service intended to provide information on Marc LEVY’s editorial activities.
marclevy.com is a website managed, edited and administered entirely by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO.
Access to this service is subject to compliance with these T&Cs. Any Internet user wishing to access it must have read these T&Cs beforehand and undertakes to fully comply with them.
DEFINITIONS
Site:
Refers to the website and the blog intended for the author.
User:
In the context of the service made available, means any person who uses the services available on marclevy.com.
Post, note, post, article:
Publication(s) that may include text, links, photos, videos, music, etc. (non-exhaustive list).
Content:
Refers to any information in any form whatsoever (data, texts, images, photos, files, etc.) placed on the site or the blog section.
Visitor, reader, internet user:
Refers to any person who consults and/or intervenes by inserting a comment on marclevy.com.
Feedback:
The purpose of comments is to make a site interactive. Thus, each visitor can comment on an article/post on the site they are visiting when it is possible and allowed.
Unique Visitor:
The IP address associated with a computer, collected during a connection to the service, and counted only once over a 24-hour period.
Service:
Refers to the services accessible via the marclevy.com website: information on the editorial activity of Marc LEVY, represented by SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO.
Webcasting:
Refers to the distribution of audio and/or video content on the internet.
Article 1: Description and purpose of the site
marclevy.com presents Marc LEVY’s editorial activity. You can use the site to find, among other things, his articles published on his blog, his news in the media and on social networks, and the presentation and purchase links of his books.
Article 2: Access to the site and acceptance of the general terms and conditions of use
By accessing and using the site, the user acknowledges that he/she meets the conditions to benefit from the status of user as defined in article 3.
The user undertakes strictly to provide true, accurate, up-to-date and complete information if requested by the website marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO. The user also undertakes not to create a false identity likely to mislead anyone. In the event that false, inaccurate, outdated or incomplete information is provided, marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO, as soon as its services become aware of it, is entitled to refuse, immediately and for the future, access to any service.
The T&Cs may be modified at any time. We therefore invite you to regularly consult marclevy.com, in the article “Terms of use” in order to always comply with the terms of use of the site.
Article 3: Conditions of access to the service
The visitor undertakes to visit the marclevy.com site as well as all other sites hosted on it only with a browser that supports JavaScript and accepts cookies.
The visitor undertakes not to take any legal action against SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO motivated by a fact arising from the non-compliance with the navigation constraint mentioned above.
Visitors to the marclevy.com site or to a site using these services acknowledge that they have the necessary skills and means to access the various sites accessible from marclevy.com. The visitor will have checked that the computer configuration of the internet connection used does not contain any viruses or that it is in perfect working order. SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO will not be responsible for the malfunction of the latter.
Anyone who leaves comments or posts as an author must comply with these Terms of Use. It is reminded that only the visitor is responsible for the content he disseminates on the internet, under no circumstances can SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO be considered responsible for the content published by a visitor.
The visitor undertakes in the use of the service not to engage in acts of any nature whatsoever that would be contrary to French law and, where applicable, the laws of the country from which he is connecting, that would infringe French public order or the rights of a third party.
3.1. – User quality
To become a user, you must have accepted these T&Cs without any reservation and be at least 18 years old.
Article 4: Responsibility of the user
You are solely responsible for your use of the site. If you are required to leave comments, you must comply with these Terms of Use. It is reminded that only the visitor is responsible for the content that he disseminates on the internet, in no case can the site marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO be considered responsible for the content published by a visitor.
All hardware and software required to access the site remain your sole responsibility. The website marclevy.com administered and published by SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO is not responsible for the protection of your own data and/or the contamination of your software by possible malicious viruses.
Article 4.1: Contentious content
The user undertakes to read the rules and limits relating to freedom of expression before any publication is published. Any disparagement, defamation, or allegation of information that is inaccurate, or intentionally truncated to change its meaning may result in legal action against the author.
The content published by the user must not be pornographic; infringe or be contrary to public order; infringe the rights to reputation, privacy of third parties and image; or be, in the strict sense of the law, disparaging or defamatory.
The content published by the user must not damage the image or reputation of any brand or any natural or legal person; Freedom of expression allows criticism as long as it is objective, well-reasoned, and based on real facts.
Content posted by the user must not undermine the security or integrity of any state or territory.
How do I report intellectual property infringements?
Visitors to the site marclevy.com will be able to report any infringement of intellectual property rights on the site, from the contact page of the site.
Please note that only the owner of the intellectual property rights (or its agent) can report an infringement of its rights. If the user believes that any materials available on the marclevy.com site infringe the intellectual property rights of a third party, the user should communicate directly with the third party.
Article 5: Our liability
We are not responsible for the content that may be contained in third-party sites to which hypertext links on the site refer. Access to the site may be interrupted or restricted at any time by a cause beyond the company’s control.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and to the extent that we are found liable for damages not covered by this section or the TOS, our liability shall be limited to direct, certain, actual and established damages.
Article 6: Intellectual property
The presentation and each of the elements, including trademarks, logos and domain names, appearing on the marclevy.com website, are protected by the laws in force on intellectual property, and belong to marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO or are subject to an authorization of use. The user undertakes not to use the tools made available by the marclevy.com site administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO for any purpose other than to provide information on Marc Levy news, to make contact or to search for books or articles. The user may not sell or make available to third parties, for a fee or free of charge, the services offered by the site marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO.
The user undertakes, in the context of his use of the service, not to engage in acts, of any nature whatsoever, which would be contrary to French law and, where applicable, to the laws of the country from which he publishes his site, which would infringe French public order, or the rights of one or more third parties.
No element of the marclevy.com site may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, uploaded, distorted, transmitted or distributed in any way whatsoever, on any medium whatsoever, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO, with the exception of use strictly for the needs of the press and subject to respect for intellectual property rights and any other property rights mentioned. Only copying for private use is permitted for your personal, private, non-commercial use.
Any total or partial representation of the site by any process whatsoever, without the express authorization of marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO is prohibited and would constitute an infringement punishable by articles L.335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code. marclevy.com administered and published by SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO reserves the right to prosecute any act of infringement of its intellectual property rights.
In particular, the following notice must appear on any authorized copy of all or part of the content of the site: “COPYRIGHT marclevy.com administered and published by SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED”. Any authorised use of the elements composing or appearing on the site must be made without distortion, modification or alteration in any way whatsoever.
By accepting the T&Cs, you acknowledge our intellectual property rights and you agree to respect them.
Article 7: Trade / Advertising
The user undertakes not to put any advertising material (in particular, but not limited to: text, image, video, link) from an advertising agency not affiliated with/or partner of marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO on the marclevy.com website.
The user undertakes not to include on the marclevy.com site, in any form whatsoever, one or more advertisements advertising or promoting, in any way whatsoever, a website or a company carrying out an activity competing with that of marclevy.com.
SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO reserves the right to insert advertising messages throughout the service. The user cannot object to this.
Article 8: Personal data
To find out more about how to process your personal data and how to manage cookies, we invite you to consult our section entitled “Data Privacy” or “Cookies”.
Article 9: Failure to comply with the terms of use
The site marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO reserves the right to suspend the service due to a breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use or any other practice that could harm the interests of the site marclevy.com as a whole, at its sole discretion, without notice and without possible dispute.
Article 10: Authorisation to broadcast
By using the marclevy.com services, the user authorises the partial or complete distribution of the content that he or she may have deposited on the marclevy.com site.
The user of the service authorises the website marclevy.com administered and published by the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO to communicate the address of its website to any organisation, website or media as part of the general promotion of their services.
Article 11: Interpretation of these terms and conditions – General provisions
The T&Cs express the entirety of the agreement between the company and the users. In the event that any term of the agreement is found to be illegal, void or unenforceable by any court or authority of any kind, the validity of the remaining provisions of the agreement shall not be affected.
Article 12: Cooperation with public authorities
SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO has the legal obligation to cooperate with the authorities that wish to carry out verifications relating to the content or identity of the users of the service, and submits to them. Users of the service declare that they are informed that the company SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO may be released from its professional secrecy under the conditions provided for in article 6 of the law of 21 June 2004, and agree to this.
SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO cannot be held responsible for any problem related to the content found on a site hosted by it. SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO is not subject to a general obligation to monitor the information it stores, nor to search for facts or circumstances that indicate illegal activities.
However, SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO is required to inform the competent public authorities of manifestly illegal activities or information of which it has become aware in the exercise of its activity.
SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES – VERSILIO is required to hold and store data that allows the identification of any person who has contributed to the creation of content on its services.
Article 13: Applicable law
The conclusion, validity, interpretation, execution, termination of the agreement and any consequences thereof shall be governed by French law.
To the extent permitted by law, any dispute relating to the conclusion, validity, interpretation, execution, termination of the agreement and its possible consequences, or relating to the use of the site, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts of Paris, including in the event of a third party claim or multiple defendants as well as for any type of procedure, whether it is in summary proceedings or on request.
