LEGAL NOTICE

Summary

Pursuant to Article 6 of Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004, regarding confidence in the digital economy, users of the website https://www.ufe-experts.fr are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and monitoring:
• Owner: Union Française des Experts en objets d’art (UFE) – 7 BIS, VILLA SEURAT 75014 PARIS
• Publication Manager: Sylvie Buisson and the UFE Board – contact@ufe-experts.fr
• Webmaster: Khammileon Designs – contact@khammileondesigns.com

• Hosting Provider: OVH – 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix 1007
• Data Protection Officer: Sylvie Buisson – sylvie.buisson@ufe-experts.fr

The website constitutes an intellectual work protected by the provisions of the Intellectual Property Code and applicable international regulations. The Client may not in any way reuse, transfer, or exploit for their own account all or part of the elements or works of the site.
The use of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr implies full and complete acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use may be modified or supplemented at any time; users of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This website is normally accessible to users at all times. However, an interruption for technical maintenance may be decided by https://www.ufe-experts.fr, which will then endeavor to communicate the dates and times of the intervention to users in advance.
The website https://www.ufe-experts.fr is updated regularly. Similarly, the legal notice may be modified at any time: it is nevertheless binding on the user, who is invited to refer to it as often as possible to review it.

The website constitutes an intellectual work protected by the provisions of the Intellectual Property Code and applicable international regulations. The Client may not in any way reuse, transfer, or exploit for their own account all or part of the elements or works of the site.
The use of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr implies full and complete acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use may be modified or supplemented at any time; users of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This website is normally accessible to users at all times. However, an interruption for technical maintenance may be decided by https://www.ufe-experts.fr, which will then endeavor to communicate the dates and times of the intervention to users in advance.
The website https://www.ufe-experts.fr is updated regularly. Similarly, the legal notice may be modified at any time: it is nevertheless binding on the user, who is invited to refer to it as often as possible to review it.

The site uses JavaScript technology. It cannot be held responsible for material damage related to its use. The site user agrees to access it using recent equipment, containing no viruses, and with an up-to-date, latest-generation browser.
The site https://www.ufe-experts.fr is hosted by a provider within the European Union in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016-679 (GDPR).
The objective is to provide a service that ensures the best accessibility rate. The host ensures the continuity of its service 24 hours a day, every day of the year. It nevertheless reserves the right to interrupt the hosting service for the shortest possible durations, notably for maintenance, infrastructure improvement, infrastructure failure, or if the services and benefits generate traffic deemed abnormal.
https://www.ufe-experts.fr and the host cannot be held responsible in the event of a malfunction of the Internet network, telephone lines, or computer and telephony equipment, particularly related to network congestion preventing access to the server.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr owns the intellectual property rights and holds the usage rights for all elements accessible on the website, including text, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons, and sounds. Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, or adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, regardless of the means or process used, is prohibited without the prior written authorization of: https://www.ufe-experts.fr.
Any unauthorized exploitation of the site or any of the elements it contains will be considered an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of Articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr acts as the publisher of the site. It is responsible for the quality and veracity of the content it publishes.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the Site and resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or incompatibility.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr also cannot be held responsible for indirect damages (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr.

Interactive spaces (with the possibility to ask questions in the contact area) are available to users. https://www.ufe-experts.fr reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this space that contravenes applicable legislation in France, particularly provisions relating to data protection.
If necessary, https://www.ufe-experts.fr also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, particularly in the event of messages of a racist, discriminatory, insulting, defamatory, or pornographic nature, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph, video, etc.).

The client is informed of the regulations concerning marketing communication, the Law of June 21, 2014, for confidence in the digital economy, the Data Protection Act of August 6, 2004, as well as the GDPR.

For personal data collected as part of the creation of the User’s personal account and their navigation on the site, the person responsible for processing personal data is: Union Française des Experts en objets d’art. https://www.ufe-experts.fr is represented by Sylvie Buisson, its legal representative.

As the person responsible for processing the data it collects, https://www.ufe-experts.fr undertakes to respect the framework of the legal provisions in force. It is notably its responsibility to establish the purposes of its data processing, to provide its prospects and clients, based on the collection of their consents, with complete information on the processing of their personal data, and to maintain a record of processing that reflects reality.
Whenever https://www.ufe-experts.fr processes personal data, the site takes all reasonable measures to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the personal data with regard to the purposes for which https://www.ufe-experts.fr processes them.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr is likely to process all or part of the collected data and, in particular:
• connection and site usage data, billing, order history, etc., to enable navigation on the Site, management and traceability of the services and benefits ordered by the user,
• computer equipment used for navigation, IP address, password (hashed), to prevent and fight against computer fraud (spamming, hacking, etc.),
• connection and usage data, to improve navigation on the Site,
• email address, to conduct optional satisfaction surveys on https://www.ufe-experts.fr,
• phone number, email address, to conduct communication campaigns (SMS, email).

https://www.ufe-experts.fr does not market users’ personal data; they are therefore only used out of necessity or for statistical and analytical purposes.

In accordance with current European regulations, users of https://www.ufe-experts.fr have the following rights:
• right of access (Article 15 GDPR) and rectification (Article 16 GDPR), updating, completeness of user data, right to block or erase personal user data (Article 17 GDPR), when they are inaccurate, incomplete, equivocal, outdated, or whose collection, use, communication, or storage is prohibited,
• right to withdraw consent at any time (Article 13-2c GDPR),
• right to limit the processing of user data (Article 18 GDPR),
• right to object to the processing of user data (Article 21 GDPR),
• right to the portability of data provided by users, when this data is subject to automated processing based on their consent or on a contract (Article 20 GDPR)
• right to define the fate of user data after their death and to choose to whom https://www.ufe-experts.fr should communicate (or not) their data to a third party they have previously designated.

As soon as https://www.ufe-experts.fr becomes aware of the death of a user and in the absence of instructions from them, the site undertakes to destroy their data, unless its conservation proves necessary for evidentiary purposes or to meet a legal obligation.

If the user wishes to know how https://www.ufe-experts.fr uses their personal data, ask to rectify them, or objects to their processing, they can contact https://www.ufe-experts.fr in writing at the following address:
• Union Française des Experts – Sylvie Buisson, 84 boulevard de Rochechouart, 75018 Paris.

In this case, the user must indicate the personal data they would like https://www.ufe-experts.fr to correct, update, or delete, by identifying themselves precisely with a copy of an identity document (ID card or passport).
Requests for the deletion of personal data will be subject to the obligations imposed on https://www.ufe-experts.fr by law, particularly regarding the conservation or archiving of documents. Finally, users of https://www.ufe-experts.fr can file a complaint with the supervisory authorities, notably the CNIL (https://www.cnil.fr/en/complaints).

https://www.ufe-experts.fr refrains from processing, hosting, or transferring the Information collected on its clients to a country located outside the European Union or recognized as « not adequate » by the European Commission without informing the client beforehand. However, https://www.ufe-experts.fr remains free to choose its technical and commercial subcontractors provided they present sufficient guarantees with regard to the requirements of the GDPR.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr undertakes to take all necessary precautions to preserve the security of the Information and notably that it is not communicated to unauthorized persons. However, if an incident impacting the integrity or confidentiality of the client’s information is brought to the attention of https://www.ufe-experts.fr, the site must inform the client as soon as possible and communicate the corrective measures taken.
Furthermore, https://www.ufe-experts.fr does not collect any « sensitive data ».

The user’s personal data may be processed by subsidiaries of https://www.ufe-experts.fr and subcontractors (service providers), exclusively to achieve the purposes of the policy set out in this text.
Within the limits of their respective attributions and for the purposes mentioned above, the main persons likely to have access to the data of users of https://www.ufe-experts.fr are primarily the members of the Board.

Regardless of the efforts made, no method of transmission over the Internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot, therefore, guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a security breach, we will notify the affected users so they can take appropriate measures. Our incident notification procedures take into account our legal obligations, whether at the national or European level. We are committed to fully informing our clients of all matters relating to the security of their account and providing them with all the information necessary to help them meet their own regulatory reporting obligations.

No personal information of the user of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, assigned, or sold on any medium to third parties. Only the hypothesis of the buyout of https://www.ufe-experts.fr and its rights would allow the transmission of said information to the potential purchaser, who would in turn be bound by the same obligation of conservation and modification of data vis-à-vis the user of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr.

To ensure the security and confidentiality of personal data, https://www.ufe-experts.fr uses networks protected by standard devices such as: firewalls, pseudonymization, encryption, and passwords.

When processing personal data, https://www.ufe-experts.fr takes all reasonable measures aimed at protecting it against any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

The site https://www.ufe-experts.fr contains hypertext links to other sites, set up with the authorization of https://www.ufe-experts.fr. However, https://www.ufe-experts.fr does not have the possibility to verify the content of the sites thus visited and will therefore assume no responsibility for this fact.
Unless the user decides to disable cookies, they accept that the site may use them.

The user can, at any time, disable these cookies free of charge using the deactivation options offered and recalled below, knowing that this may reduce or prevent accessibility to all or part of the services offered by the site.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr is likely to process the user’s information concerning their visit to the site, such as the pages consulted and searches performed. This information allows https://www.ufe-experts.fr to improve the content of the site and the user’s navigation. This work can be done using cookies.

According to the CNIL definition, a cookie is “a sequence of information, generally small and identified by a name, which can be transmitted to your browser by a website you connect to. Your web browser will keep it for a certain period and send it back to the web server each time you reconnect to it. Cookies have multiple uses: they can be used to memorize your customer ID with a merchant site, the current contents of your shopping cart, an identifier allowing your navigation to be tracked for statistical or advertising purposes, etc.”

As cookies facilitate navigation and/or the provision of services offered by the site, the user can configure their browser to allow them to decide whether or not they wish to accept them so that cookies are recorded in the terminal or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their issuer.
The user can also configure their browser software so that the acceptance or refusal of cookies is offered to them occasionally, before a cookie is likely to be recorded in their terminal. https://www.ufe-experts.fr informs the user that, in this case, the functionalities of their browser software may not all be available.

If the User refuses the recording of cookies in their terminal or browser, or if the user deletes those recorded there, they are informed that their navigation and experience on the site may be limited. This could also be the case when https://www.ufe-experts.fr or one of its providers cannot recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by the terminal, the language and display settings, or the country from which the terminal appears to be connected to the Internet.

If necessary, https://www.ufe-experts.fr declines all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded functioning of the site and any services offered by https://www.ufe-experts.fr, resulting from the user’s refusal of cookies or the impossibility for https://www.ufe-experts.fr to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation due to the user’s choice.
For the management of cookies and user choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the browser’s help menu, which will allow the User to know how they can modify their wishes regarding cookies.

At any time, the user can choose to express and modify their wishes regarding cookies. https://www.ufe-experts.fr may also use the services of external providers to help it collect and process the information described in this section.

Finally, by clicking on the icons dedicated to the social networks Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn appearing on https://www.ufe-experts.fr or in its mobile application, and if the user has accepted the deposit of cookies by continuing their navigation on the website or mobile application of https://www.ufe-experts.fr, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn may also deposit cookies on your terminals (computer, tablet, mobile phone).

These types of cookies are only deposited on your terminals if you consent to them by continuing your navigation on the Website or the mobile application of https://www.ufe-experts.fr. At any time, the user can nevertheless withdraw their consent for https://www.ufe-experts.fr to deposit this type of cookies.

https://www.ufe-experts.fr may occasionally employ Internet tags (also known as “tags”, action tags, single-pixel GIFs, transparent GIFs, invisible GIFs, and one-to-one GIFs) and deploy them through a web analytics specialist partner likely to be located (and therefore store the corresponding information, including the user’s IP address) in a foreign country.

These tags are placed both in online advertisements allowing internet users to access the site, and on the various pages of the site.
This technology allows https://www.ufe-experts.fr to evaluate visitors’ responses to the site and the effectiveness of its actions (for example, the number of times a page is opened and the information consulted), as well as the use of this site by the user.

The external provider may eventually collect information on visitors to the site and other websites through these tags, compile reports on site activity for https://www.ufe-experts.fr, and provide other services related to the use of the site and the Internet.

Any dispute in connection with the use of the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr is subject to French law. Except in cases where the law does not allow it, exclusive jurisdiction is attributed to the competent courts of Paris.

  • Some definitions

  • Client: any professional or natural person capable within the meaning of Articles 1123 and following of the Civil Code, or legal entity, who visits the Site subject to these general conditions. 

  • Content: all elements constituting the information present on the Site, notably texts, images, sounds, and videos.
  • Client Information: referred to as “information”, this corresponds to all personal data likely to be held by https://www.ufe-experts.fr for account management, customer relationship management, and for analytical and statistical purposes.
  • Personal Information: “Information that allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies” (Article 4 of Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978).
  • GDPR: Regulation No. 2016/679, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is the reference text of the European Union regarding the protection of personal data. Adopted by the European Parliament on April 14, 2016, its provisions have been directly applicable since May 25, 2018, in all 28 member states of the Union.
  • Site: this term refers to the website of the Union Française des Experts en objets d’art (UFE), https://www.ufe-experts.fr
  • User: internet user connecting to and using the site https://www.ufe-experts.fr.

The terms “personal data”, “data subject”, “processor” and “sensitive data” have the meanings defined by the GDPR.