Terms of service

General terms of use of the website and the services offered

Using the louise-vintage.com website means that you fully accept the general terms of use set out below. These terms may be changed or supplemented at any time, so users of louise-vintage.com are invited to read them regularly.

The site is normally accessible to users at all times. Louise Vintage may, however, interrupt it for technical maintenance, and will then try to tell users the dates and times of the work in advance.

The louise-vintage.com website is updated regularly by Louise Vintage. The legal notice may also be changed at any time: it applies to users regardless, and they are invited to refer to it as often as possible.

1. Description of the services provided

The purpose of louise-vintage.com is to provide information about all of the company's activities.

Louise Vintage strives to provide information that is as accurate as possible on louise-vintage.com. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies or delays in updates, whether they are its own or those of the third-party partners who supply this information.

All information on louise-vintage.com is given for guidance only and may change. The information on the site is not exhaustive and is subject to any changes made since it was published.

2. Contractual limits on technical data

The website cannot be held responsible for any material damage linked to its use. Users also undertake to access the site using up-to-date equipment free of viruses, and a recent, up-to-date browser.

3. Intellectual property and counterfeiting

Louise Vintage owns the intellectual property rights, or holds the rights of use, to all elements accessible on the site, in particular text, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of all or part of the site's elements, by any means or process, is prohibited without the prior written permission of Louise Vintage.

Any unauthorised use of the site or of any of its elements will be considered counterfeiting and prosecuted in accordance with articles L.335-2 and following of the French Intellectual Property Code.

4. Limitation of liability

Louise Vintage cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damage to the user's equipment when accessing louise-vintage.com, whether it results from the use of unsuitable equipment or from a bug or incompatibility.

Louise Vintage also cannot be held responsible for indirect damage (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of louise-vintage.com.

Interactive areas (the contact form, comments on blog articles, product ratings) are available to users. Louise Vintage reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted there that breaches the law applicable in France, in particular the rules on data protection. Where appropriate, Louise Vintage may also hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, in particular for any racist, abusive, defamatory or pornographic message, whatever the medium (text, photograph, etc.).

5. Personal data management

In France, personal data is protected in particular by law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, article L. 226-13 of the Criminal Code and the European Directive of 24 October 1995.

When you use louise-vintage.com, the following may be collected: the URL of the links through which you reached the site, your internet service provider, and your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

In any case, Louise Vintage only collects personal information about the user where needed for certain services offered on louise-vintage.com. Users provide this information knowingly, in particular when they enter it themselves. Users are then told whether or not they are required to provide it.

Under articles 38 and following of law 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, data files and civil liberties, every user has the right to access, correct and object to personal data concerning them, by sending a written and signed request, with a copy of an identity document bearing the holder's signature, stating the address to which the reply should be sent.

No personal information about users of louise-vintage.com is published without their knowledge, exchanged, transferred, assigned or sold to third parties on any medium. Only if Louise Vintage and its rights were sold could this information be passed to the buyer, who would in turn be bound by the same obligation to keep and amend the data with regard to the user.

Databases are protected by the law of 1 July 1998 transposing directive 96/9 of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

6. Hyperlinks and cookies

louise-vintage.com contains a number of hyperlinks to other sites, set up with the permission of Louise Vintage. However, Louise Vintage cannot check the content of the sites visited in this way, and therefore accepts no responsibility for them.

Browsing louise-vintage.com may cause cookies to be installed on the user's computer. A cookie is a small file that does not identify the user but records information about a computer's browsing on a site. The data collected is intended to make later browsing easier and to allow various measures of site traffic.

Refusing a cookie may make it impossible to access some services. Users can refuse cookies through their browser settings (Privacy or Cookies section).

7. Governing law and jurisdiction

Any dispute relating to the use of louise-vintage.com is governed by French law. The competent courts of Paris have jurisdiction. This does not affect the mandatory consumer protection rights you have under the law of your country of residence.

8. Main laws concerned

Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended in particular by law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, on information technology, data files and civil liberties.

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

9. Glossary

User: an internet user who connects to and uses the site.

Personal information: "information that allows, in any form, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies" (article 4 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).