Terms of use

1. Access to the site

Welcome to the website of TAATU.

The société anonyme (limited liability company) TAATU (hereinafter referred to as "TAATU S.A." or "Us” or “We") attaches great importance to the fact that all persons accessing or using this site with or without the authorisation of TAATU S.A., regardless of whether or not they are registered users of this site (hereinafter referred to as the "User" or "You"), have the best possible time while using the website www.taatu.com (hereinafter referred to as the "Site" or the "Website") and that they are fully aware of the respective legal rights and obligations.

For this reason, we have drawn up the present general conditions of use (hereinafter referred to as the "Conditions of Use") which are designed to govern your use of the Site. Please read this document carefully (and save it) before using this Site, as these Conditions of Use affect your rights and obligations.

If you do not agree with any of the present Conditions of Use, please do not use this Site, as by using it you shall be deemed to have irrevocably agreed to the present Conditions.

Certain areas of this Site may be subject to additional general conditions which you must read carefully and which will also be deemed to have been irrevocably accepted from the moment you use the Site. Unless otherwise expressly stated, none of these conditions shall modify or replace the present Conditions of Use concerning any use of this site.

Please note that these Conditions of Use may be revised and updated at any time without notice. You should visit this page regularly to review the current Conditions of Use, since your continued use of the Site will be deemed as irrevocable acceptance of any revisions. The present Conditions of Use were last updated in December 2005.

If you are under 18 years of age, you must ask your parents or guardians to explain to you all the terms or expressions used below. You must together check your decision to agree to all the Conditions of Use stipulated below. If you do not have the consent of a parent or a legal guardian to use the Website, you are not authorised to have access thereto.

2. Right of use and registration

2.1. Service

TAATU S.A. provides its Users with a wide range of on-line services including, in particular, communication tools, forums, commercial services and personalised content (hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Service(s)"). Unless otherwise expressly stated, any new feature that improves or increases one or more existing Services or any new Service launched by TAATU S.A. will be subject to the present Conditions of Use.

To use the Service, you must have access to the Internet, either directly or via systems which have access to the content provided on the Internet, it being understood that any related costs shall be borne by you. In addition, you will need to provide all the necessary equipment, in particular a computer, a modem or any other access devices, to connect to the Internet.

The User is responsible for any use which is made of the Service, even if he offers third parties the possibility of using the Service via his connection, in which case the User guarantees that such third parties are familiar with the Conditions of Use and comply therewith.

The User shall not prevent in any way whatsoever the availability or the use of the Service for or by other Users or to influence them in a negative way.

The User shall comply with the legislation in force when he transmits data via the Service.

The User shall not commit any act of computer piracy or hacking against the system of TAATU S.A. or of its suppliers, or against any other system.

The User shall always log off from the session in the prescribed manner. Any costs or damage resulting from incorrect logging off from a session shall be borne entirely by him.

TAATU S.A. may not under any circumstances be held liable for any damage that the User may incur as a result of a visit to questionable websites such as, for example, gambling or pornographic sites. In particular, we shall not be held liable for Internet connections that the User, whether aware of this or not, may make to pay sites.

2.2. Right of use

TAATU S.A. grants you a licence that is limited, non-exclusive and revocable for use of this Website for your entertainment, your information, your education and your communication on an individual basis, in accordance with all the provisions of the present Conditions of Use.

This Website contains documents and other elements relating to TAATU S.A., its products and its services, as well as other similar elements issued by our commercial partners, licensors and licensees and other third parties (referred to collectively as the “Content”).

The Content can take the form of information, text, data, images, graphics, button icons, trademarks, deposited or otherwise, illustrations, photographs, audio clips, music, sound, films, videos, software applications or other forms and formats currently known or that may be invented at a later date.

2.3. Registration

At the time of your registration on this site, you must make sure that the compulsory data that you provide are accurate and complete. Please inform TAATU S.A. of any change of address or any other changes by updating your personal data on the present Site as promptly as possible. You must choose a password and a user name when you register to use the present Site. This password is strictly confidential and must not be disclosed to third parties. You bear total responsibility for the use of your password and for all orders that are placed, even without your knowledge, using this password. If you know or suspect that a third party knows or uses your password, you must inform TAATU S.A. as promptly as possible (support.fr@taatu.com - This e-mail is protected against spambots. Please activate Javascript to see it). TAATU S.A. may change the password and user name if it deems this to be necessary in the interest of the User or if they are against the established legitimate interests of third parties.

3. Services and discussion forums

3.1. General

When you use the Service, and in particular the Discussion Areas and Forums, it is forbidden in particular:

to send unsolicited messages.
to defame, abuse, harass, stalk or threaten anyone or otherwise violate the rights of others (in particular, the rights of the person including the right to privacy).
Harm minor users in any way.
Publish, post, upload to a server, distribute or disseminate any topic, name, material or information that is inappropriate, insulting to religious or ethical beliefs, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful or that infringes any right, in particular intellectual property rights.
Upload, post, send by e-mail or otherwise transmit to a server files that contain software applications or other material protected by intellectual property rights (or by the rights of the person including the right to privacy), unless you hold or exercise lawful control of such rights or you have received all the necessary authorisations.
Download/upload, copy, distribute or transform any audiovisual work for which you do not have copyright (in particular, the right to reproduce the work or to authorise the reproduction thereof, to authorise the adaptation or translation thereof, to authorise the rental or loan thereof or to communicate it to the public by any process whatsoever).
Use the Service for data warehousing (i.e. using any web space made available to you for the storage of large files which are linked only from other sites).
Upload, post, send by e-mail or otherwise transmit to a server files that contain viruses, corrupted files or any other similar software application or program that may damage the functioning of another computer.
Advertise or offer to sell any goods, services or other elements protected by intellectual property rights for commercial purposes.
Upload, post, send by e-mail or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional materials (in particular, engage in activities involving spam, junk mail, chain letters, competitions, pyramid schemes or any other form of solicitation).
Upload, post, send by e-mail or otherwise transmit any file that is sent by a user of other Forums when you know (or should know) that this distribution is unlawful.
Falsify or delete any mention relating to the author, any legal mention or any other mention of property rights or of the origin or source of the software application or of any other material contained in a file that is uploaded to a server.
Restrict or prevent the use of the Forums by any other user.
Violate, intentionally or otherwise, any national or international laws or regulations in force and, in particular, Netiquette and any other rules having force of law.

By posting messages, uploading files to a server, entering data or engaging in any other form of communication via this Site, you authorise TAATU S.A. to:

check, use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, disseminate publicly, represent, reproduce, publish, sublicense, transfer or sell this communication or create derivative works thereof.
sublicense to third parties the unlimited right to exercise any of the abovementioned rights which are granted. The abovementioned rights include the right to use in any country any property right to this communication, including, in particular, the rights relating to copyright, trademarks or patents.

3.2. Communication areas

This Website contains areas for discussion, information groups, forums, communities and/or other messaging or communication systems (collectively referred to as “Communication Area(s)”). If you participate in a Communication Area on this website, you agree to comply with our Conditions of Use set out below.

Without prejudice to our obligations under the terms of the laws on data protection and in particular our Privacy Policy, we must insist that everything that you send to the Site via a Communication Area is sent over the Internet and that, consequently, it is technically impossible to protect all confidentiality with regard to this type of transmission.

You recognise that all Communication Areas constitute public communication and not private communication. Consequently, your communication can be read by other persons, without you being informed. Always be very vigilant when you communicate in a community any personal identification information concerning yourself or your children. We cannot guarantee the security of the information that you communicate on line. Consequently, you disclose such information at your own risk.

TAATU S.A. reserves the right at all times to prevent your access to one or all of these Communication Areas, without notification and for any reason whatsoever. TAATU S.A. is not responsible for monitoring the Communication Areas. TAATU S.A. shall be entitled, at any time and unilaterally, to edit, refuse to post or remove all or some documents or information. In addition, TAATU S.A. may disclose any information to comply with any laws or regulations in force or to obey any legal or administrative injunctions or to comply with its legal notices.

In the case of instant messages which disappear when the session is closed, TAATU S.A. can intervene only on the basis of complaints via the help system.

3.3. Documents published or supplied; monitoring of communication

For the documents that you publish or supply to TAATU S.A. (hereinafter referred to as a "Sent Item"), you authorise TAATU S.A. to use, copy, distribute, transmit, post publicly, present publicly, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Sent Item, within the framework of the Services, and to sublicense these rights, to the extent permitted by the applicable regulations. The Sent Item may also concern musical, audiovisual or other works.

We reserve the right to remove your Sent Item at any time. For each Sent Item, you declare that you have all the rights required to grant the authorisations stipulated in the present article. To the maximum extent authorised by the applicable regulations, we reserve the right to monitor your electronic messages or other electronic communication and to communicate this information if it is deemed necessary in order to ensure that you comply with the terms of these Conditions of Use and to protect the rights, the goods and the interests of TAATU S.A. or more generally of any third party.

3.4. Discussion forums

3.4.1. Use of the Forums

The Users shall be solely responsible for the content of their messages on the discussion forums (hereinafter referred to as the "Forums"). We are not responsible for the content or opinions posted or sent by the users on a Forum. You bear responsibility for the messages sent under your user name and for the use of the information provided in the Forums at your own risk. We reserve the right to remove or make modifications to the content of any Forum at any time and for any reason whatsoever, although we do not have any obligation to do so.

When you take part in a Forum, never presume that the people are actually who they claim to be, that they know what they say they know or that they are linked to what they say they are linked in a chat room or any other area where the content is written by the Users. Information obtained on a Forum may not be reliable, and it is not advisable to trust it, in particular to negotiate or make decisions as regards purchasing, based in whole or to a great extent on information that you cannot check. We may not be held liable for the content or accuracy of any information, and will not be liable for any purchases or other decisions whatsoever made on the basis of such information.

3.4.2. Moderation of the Forums

We have chosen to moderate a posteriori some of these services to make them more lively.

This means that all users must comply in full with the basic rules outlined below and in particular articles 3.1., 3.2. and 3.3.

The moderator will remove immediately, and on request, any and all forbidden messages, i.e.:

messages that are insulting, defamatory, racist, homophobic, illegal, etc.
messages that include names, addresses or telephone numbers, etc.
messages that are unintelligible, written entirely in capital letters or totally off the subject, etc.
advertising or promotional messages, etc.

This list is not exhaustive.

TAATU S.A. may take the initiative, without giving prior notice, to remove, in whole or in part, any content disseminated on its forums without any other justification.

Anyone can directly contact a moderator using the interface designed for this purpose to report any shocking messages or messages that do not comply with these rules.

4. Paying services and products

4.1 General

The present Internet site may offer products and services on line for sale. To buy such products or services, you must be at least 18 years of age or have obtained the prior authorisation of a parent or your guardian.

As regards the products and services presented on this Site, please note that we shall do our utmost to display them as accurately as possible. However, the colours, dimensions and details that you see on your computer screen will vary according to your equipment, so that we cannot guarantee that your computer hardware will show our products and services in precise detail.

TAATU S.A. reserves the right to modify and improve its services as and when it deems necessary or useful.

Moreover, we reserve the right to discontinue definitively a service or all of the services offered on this Site.

4.2. Price and terms of payment

Users may access the paying services only on condition that units have first been put in their account (hereinafter referred to as "TAT(s)"). TATs will be deducted from the account as and when they are used.

TATs are paid for by one of the means offered.

You acknowledge that you are the holder of the bank card, account or telephone line/subscription that will be used to pay for your TATs.

Users can acquire TATs either by SMS or by IVR (paying number) (IVR stands for Interactive Voice Response. This is a system that allows users to extract data easily and to carry out specific tasks through a fixed or mobile telephone).

Payments by credit cards are made by Paypal. The choice of this mode of payment implies acceptance of the conditions specific to this financial intermediary that can be consulted on the website www.paypal.com.

TAATU S.A. can refuse any payment when it is evidently fraudulent.

TAATU S.A. reserves the right to change its prices at any time. However, the products or services will be invoiced on the basis of the prices and conditions in force at the time when the orders were recorded.

4.3. Cancellation

Any User can terminate his use of the Services by requesting that his account be closed at any time and without giving reasons. This request shall be deemed to have been made on the working day following our receipt of the request to close the account concerned. Where appropriate, this request shall not entail the refunding of unused TATs.

Without prejudice to the other provisions of the present rules, in the event of a serious breach of the rules by the User, we reserve the right to cancel the account of the User without notice or formal demand. This cancellation shall have the same effects as when decided by the User.

This cancellation shall take place without prejudice to any of the damages that could be claimed by TAATU S.A. from the User or his successors in title and legal representatives to compensate for the damage incurred as a result of such breaches.

The User will be informed by electronic mail of the cancellation or the confirmation of the cancellation of his account. The data relating to the User will be destroyed at his request or upon expiry of the legal periods starting from the cancellation of the User’s account.

4.4. Right of withdrawal

Under the terms of the law of 14 July 1991 on trade practices and consumer information and protection, any natural or legal person who acquires or uses products or services solely for non-professional purposes (hereinafter referred to as “the Consumer”) shall be entitled to notify the vendor that he has decided not to make the purchase, without penalties and without giving the reason, within 7 working days from the subscription of the Service or the delivery of the material goods.

The products shall imperatively be returned to us in perfect condition for resale, in their original condition (packaging, accessories and instructions) and duly sealed, and with a copy of the invoice or delivery note. Any product that is incomplete, spoiled or damaged or of which the original packaging has deteriorated will not be refunded or exchanged. Under the terms of article 80, §4, 1° of the law on trade practices and consumer information and protection, the right of withdrawal may no longer be exercised if the performance of the Services has begun.

4.5. Exoneration and limitation of liability

Without prejudice to the more restrictive clauses of article 6, it is expressly agreed between the parties that TAATU S.A. is subject, for any of the obligations placed upon it within the framework of the present Conditions of Use, only to an obligation as to means.

The User is solely responsible for the use that he makes of the services offered by TAATU S.A. Consequently, the User undertakes to assume responsibility for any claims and/or proceedings whatever the form and nature brought against TAATU S.A. and which are connected directly or indirectly with the use of the Services.

We do not under any circumstances accept liability for the limits of the Internet and in particular:

its technical performance and response times to consult, query or transfer the data;
data circulating on the Internet which are not necessarily protected, in particular against any possible misuse;
any information deemed confidential by the User is communicated at his own risk;
the User must take all the necessary measures to protect his own data and/or software applications from contamination by any viruses on the Internet;
the data circulating on the Internet may be regulated in terms of use or be protected by property rights.

The User is therefore responsible for the use of the data which he consults, queries and transfers on the Internet and for the use of the services offered by TAATU S.A. whose liability may not be engaged in any way whatsoever.

TAATU S.A. does not under any circumstances accept any liability for the disappearance, loss and deterioration and in particular for any damage that may alter the User’s equipment.

The liability of TAATU S.A. may not be engaged in the event of non-compliance with the legislation of the country where the Services are downloaded/uploaded.

TAATU S.A. may not be held liable for any malfunction and/or any interruption in the availability of the purchase offers which are not attributable to it. The User accepts the provisional suspension of access to the purchase forms.

In any event, the liability of TAATU S.A. is limited to the price of the product or service ordered by the User if the latter has not been able to completely download the program on line or gain access thereto, provided the User is able to furnish proof thereof.

5. Purchases using TATs

TAATU S.A. offers a commercial service with free participation.

The role of TAATU S.A. is not that of an auction company. On the contrary, the Site merely provides on-line support to enable users to sell the items that they have acquired on the Site exclusively to another User in return for TATs. We do not auction the goods that are offered for sale nor do we intervene in any transactions between purchasers and vendors. Consequently, TAATU S.A. does not exercise any control over the veracity or the accuracy of the items offered on line, the ability of the vendors to sell said goods or the ability of the purchasers to pay for said goods. TAATU S.A. can ensure only that the vendor or the purchaser will conclude the transaction. We can ensure only that the vendor or the purchaser will conclude the transaction.

Since We do not intervene in any transactions between purchasers and vendors, you discharge us from any liability in the event of any disputes between different users for any complaints and any present or future damage, assumed or otherwise, established or otherwise, occurring directly or indirectly arising from these complaints.

6. Copyright and intellectual property

The content of the site, and in particular, but not exclusively, the text, trademarks, data, source codes, logos, graphics, photographs, videos, sound, music, layout, design, know-how, technologies, products and processes, is the property of TAATU S.A. or is used with the authorisation of the owners and for this reason is protected by their copyright, trademark, patent and any other intellectual or industrial property right which they enjoy according to the laws in force.

This site is constructed and maintained according to the authorisation conditions agreed with the Belgian copyright company SABAM.

TAATU S.A. grants to users the personal, specific and non-exclusive right to use the Site. The reproduction, copying, sale or use for purposes other than those mentioned above as well as the modification, dissemination or use with or without a commercial purpose constitutes infringement of copyright, which is punishable by law, unless prior written authorisation has been given by TAATU S.A.

You also acknowledge that you are aware that the content included in sponsored advertising and the information that is presented to you via the Service or by advertisers are protected by copyright, trademark rights, patent rights or any other rights recognised by the legislation in force. Unless expressly authorised for this purpose by TAATU S.A. or by the advertiser, you undertake not to modify, rent, borrow, sell, distribute or create derivative works based in whole or in part on the Service.

The user shall not forge headings or manipulate them in any other way whatsoever in order to disguise the origin of the content via the Service. Unless authorisation is given, any use of works other than individual and private reproduction and consultation is prohibited.

We reserve the right to take all the measures that we deem adequate to prevent or to terminate any violation of our copyright or of the copyright of third parties, it being understood that we may not be held liable for such measures.

7. Copyright

Users undertake to respect the copyrights in force. This applies in particular to the use of existing material (text, images, sound clips, videos, etc.). In any case, it is advisable to mention the sources used. This is also the case for material produced by the participants such as interviews, images, sound clips and videos.

In the event that it is necessary to request authorisation directly from the holders of the copyright, any related correspondence must be kept. TAATU S.A. reserves the right to request it for verification. Non-compliance with the copyright shall automatically lead to the exclusion of the User concerned.

8. Exclusion of guarantees and limitation of liability

8.1. Exclusion of guarantees

The information disseminated on this site comes from trusted sources. In spite of the care taken to develop this Website as regards the accuracy of the information provided therein, we cannot guarantee that such information is complete, accurate and/or up-to-date. Moreover, the information, products and services included on this site may contain technical inaccuracies or typing errors. The liability of TAATU S.A. cannot be invoked for any damage whatsoever that results from the possibly inadequate, inaccurate, obsolete or incomplete nature of the information disseminated on this site.

To the extent permitted by the applicable law, we exclude all guarantees, whether explicit or implicit, including, without excluding others, the implicit guarantees of trade quality, adaptation to a particular use and absence of counterfeiting.

We do not guarantee that the functions contained on this site will be available, uninterrupted or without error, that the defects will be corrected or that the Site or the server that makes them available is free of viruses or other harmful components.

We do not guarantee or make any statement concerning the use or the results of the use of the documents, information, software applications, installations, services or other contents of the Site as regards their correctness, their accuracy, their reliability or other, unless this was done in a fraudulent manner.

TAATU S.A. does not give any guarantee that your use of the documents, information, software applications, installations, services or other contents of the Site or of the Services does not violate the rights of third parties and we do not assume any liability for errors or omissions in such documents, information, software applications, installations, services or other contents.

If the applicable law does not provide a means of excluding some or all of the above implicit guarantees, the exclusions above shall apply only insofar as the applicable law permits.

8.2. Limitation of guarantee

TAATU S.A. does not assume any liability for any loss or damage whatsoever (direct, indirect, by way of penalty, real, immaterial, accidental or other damage) resulting from any use or inability to use the Site or the Services as well as the documents, information, software applications, installations, services or other contents, whatever the reason for which liability is claimed and even if we have been informed of the possibility of such loss or damage. Without limitation, you bear the entire cost of any servicing, repair or correction in the event that any such loss or damage may occur.

If the applicable law does not permit all or part of the above limitation of liability to apply to you, the limitations will apply to you only to the extent permitted by the applicable law.

Subject to the above stipulations, if we are held liable within the framework of your use of the Site or the Services, the amount of compensation that you can claim is limited to any amounts that you may have paid to access the Site.

8.3. Suspension and interruption of your access to the Services

TAATU S.A. is entitled to end all or part of the access right corresponding to your account and your password, and even to remove your account and password, for any reason and without prior notice, in particular if we legitimately believe that you have violated or acted in contravention of the present Conditions of Use and/or any legal regulations in force.

We may not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from the cancellation of your access to the website, for any reason whatsoever.

9. Compensation

Without limiting the other rights and recourse at our disposal under the terms of any other provision of the present Conditions of Use, you undertake to compensate TAATU S.A., its officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors and affiliated companies for any and all complaints, claims, debts, costs or expenses, including reasonable lawyer’s fees, resulting from your breach of any of the abovementioned provisions, declarations or guarantees and/or from your placement or transmission of any content on our servers and/or from any and all use of your account.

10. Hypertext links to and from this site

Links to this Site are subject to prior authorisation by TAATU S.A.

Our Site may provide you with links to other sites or other sources. We do not control these sites and may not therefore be held liable for the content, advertising, products, services or any other material available from these third-party sites.

We may not be held liable for any proven or alleged damage or loss resulting from or in connection with the use or with the fact of having trusted the content of the third-party sites or the goods and services available on such third-party sites.

The User is responsible and he shall bear all the risks connected with the use that he makes of the content of the Site, in particular when he trusts the appropriateness, usefulness or completeness of such contents.

If a link takes the user to a site that contains unlawful content, in violation of Belgian law, he shall interrupt his consultation of the site concerned, otherwise he shall incur the penalties stipulated by Belgian legislation or court proceedings shall be instituted against him. We invite you in this case to inform us immediately as well as the competent authorities.

11. General rules as regards storage

You acknowledge that TAATU S.A. may impose general rules and limits as regards the use of the Service, and in particular, without this list being exhaustive: (a) to set a maximum number of days during which e-mail messages, messages posted in the Forums or any other uploaded Content will be stored; (b) to set a maximum number of e-mails which can be sent and received by an account on the Service; (c) to set a maximum size for e-mails that can be sent and received by an account on the Service; (d) to set a maximum memory space which will be allocated to you on our servers; (e) to set a maximum number of times that you can access a Service in a given period (as well as the maximum duration of each access); (f) to set a maximum use of band-width.

You acknowledge that we provide you with no guarantee for the deletion or failure to store any message, any communication or any other content disseminated or transmitted via the Service.

You also acknowledge that we will be free to remove any account that remains unused for a certain period of time.

12. Software licences

You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any software application that must be used in relation to the present Site (hereinafter referred to as “Software applications”) may contain confidential information protected by the intellectual property laws in force or any other law.

TAATU S.A. grants you a personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the Software applications on one single computer, it being understood that it is forbidden for you (and that you cannot grant said authorisation to others) to copy, modify, create a derivative work, reverse engineer or assemble or in any other way attempt to find the source code (with the exception of cases stipulated by law), sell, allocate, sublicense or transfer in any way whatsoever any right relating to the Software applications. You undertake not to modify the Software applications in any way and not to use modified versions of the Software applications and in particular (without this list being exhaustive) with a view to gaining unauthorised access to the website. You agree not to access the website by any means other than through the interface which is supplied to you by TAATU S.A. for this purpose.

The software applications made available for downloading material from this Website are the subject of a license subject to the conditions of the license contract which is applicable to them. Any guarantees relating to the software applications shall apply only under the terms of the applicable license contract. TAATU S.A. does not give any guarantee of any kind whatsoever, explicit or implicit, in particular that the software applications are of marketable quality, are appropriate for a particular use or can be used without violating the rights of a third party.

13. Protection of personal data

The protection of your privacy is important to us. In order to best protect it, we provide you with a document explaining our rules as regards the collection of information on line and the way in which your information is collected and used on this site. For more information, please consult our Privacy Policy which forms an integral part of the present Conditions of Use.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites operated by third parties.

14. Competitions and prizes to be won

We may organise on this Website competitions, free lotteries to win prizes and promotions. Conditions in addition to the present Conditions of Use shall therefore be applicable and available at the time of said competitions, lotteries and promotions.

15. Interruption of services

TAATU S.A. will take all reasonable means at its disposal to ensure that Users have access to the Services offered on its site.

We cannot be held liable for any machine failure, line or power cut, theft, hacking, system error or any other event beyond reasonable control and which makes the services offered on the site inaccessible or faulty.

You acknowledge that we can interrupt without notice access to the site or to a part of the site to ensure the maintenance thereof or to make improvements thereto, in the event of force majeure, in the event of a risk of abuse or fraud or in the event of the occurrence of an event beyond our control without any obligation or compensation whatsoever following the interruption of access.

Nevertheless, we will endeavour to inform Users within a reasonable period of any interruptions.

16. Banners, advertisements and promotions

We reserve the right to place banners, advertisements, promotions and other similar content in any place on the Site and in the newsletter. Interactions, exchanges of correspondence and commercial transactions between you and any advertiser or any other third party contacted on the Site or through the latter are only between you and the third party in question (in particular, questions related to the content of the advertisements of the third party, payments, terms of delivery, guarantees, etc.). TAATU S.A. waives any liability in this regard.

17. Operator of the site

The present Site is operated by the société anonyme (limited liability company) TAATU, hereinafter referred to by the term “TAATU” or “We” or “Us”, with registered office at 490, Chaussée de Louvain, 1380 Lasne (Belgium), registered with the Banque Carrefour des Entreprises (Bank for Enterprises) under number 0871.688.619. E-mail: support.fr@taatu.com. This e-mail is protected against spambots. Please activate Javascript to see it.

18. Applicable law and competent courts

The present Conditions of Use are governed by and shall be interpreted in conformity with Belgian law. The courts of Nivelles (Belgium) shall have jurisdiction to rule on any and all disputes that may arise between parties in relation to the performance of the present rules. However, this exclusivity shall not apply to legal action taken by TAATU S.A.

19. Miscellaneous

19.1. The fact that we do not exercise or delay in exercising any of the rights that we hold under the terms of the present Conditions of Use or of the law may not constitute or be interpreted as a waiver of the related rights.

19.2. If any of the present Conditions of Use is or becomes null or void, it shall be deemed not to have been written but shall not result in any of the other articles of the present Conditions of Use becoming null or void. You undertake to do your utmost to agree with us on the replacement of any article that has become null or void by a new article that maintains the technical and economic equilibrium of the present Conditions of Use.

19.3. You are not authorised to alienate, grant a sublicence for or transfer in any other way your rights arising from the present Conditions of Use. We can freely transfer all or part of our rights and obligations under the terms of the contract binding us with you to a third party in the event of a merger, acquisition of shareholding, acquisition or total or partial transfer of our assets or our business, or any other similar transactions.

19.4. We may not be held liable for any nonfulfilment of our obligations under the terms of the present Conditions of Use resulting from events that are beyond our control and/or resulting from a case of force majeure. Cases of force majeure include, in particular, in addition to cases recognised by jurisprudence, any and all natural catastrophes, any and all acts of war, breaches of public order, epidemics, fires, floods and other disasters, any and all government measures, any and all strikes and lock-outs, as well as any and all electrical and technical problems external to the parties that prevent communication.

19.5. In the event that one or more arrangements set out in the Conditions of Use are considered as illegal, inopposable or inapplicable by a court decision, the other stipulations in the Conditions of Use shall remain in force, provided that the general scheme of the contract has not been drastically changed.

19.6. You agree that the rights and obligations arising from the present Conditions of Use as well as all the documents which are incorporated therein by reference may be freely and ipso jure transferred by TAATU S.A. to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition.

19.7. The titles of the different articles appearing in the present Conditions of Use are purely indicative and do not necessarily determine the content of the articles to which they refer.

19.8. Our tolerance of any violation of the present Conditions of Use by a user or a third party shall not affect in any way any of our rights and actions with regard to any similar and/or subsequent violation.

19.9. The parties accept electronic means of proof (email, backup, etc.).

19.10. The present Conditions of Use, accompanied by the documents incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement concluded between the parties.