TERMS & POLICIES

Article 1 : General Information

The following pages of the Youna.co site, as well as the information and services offered via this site belong and are managed by Your Event Manager.
Your Event Manager is a company registered in France under Reims B 829 222 231, its VAT number is FR49829222231 and whose head office is located at 29 rue Céré- 51100 Reims. The references below to “Youna.co'' are to Your Event Manager. These terms of use and privacy policy apply to your use of www.youna.co ("site"). We offer a service whereby users of the webite ("MICE Bookers") can search and book meeting spaces, social activities, shuttles, virtual services, hotel rooms, food, drinks and equipment directly with the operators of this space (“MICE Sellers”).
The site offers MICE Bookers the opportunity to obtain the best quality / price ratio as well as personalized service while allowing said MICE Sellers to obtain fair remuneration for their services. The site allows MICE Bookers to save time by booking instantly, while centralizing their expenses.
The site also aims to facilitate sales optimization and better market visibility for registered MICE Sellers through the provision of new customer sources and an automated sales process.

Youna is neither the owner of the premises and services, nor a travel provider, nor an event agency; it does not qualify as a supplier either. Youna is independent, it does not belong to any logistics operator or MICE Sellers group.

Modification of Terms and Conditions
Youna.co reserves the right, at any time, to modify the current Terms and Conditions and Website functionalities, or to discontinue Services temporarily or permanently. The change will take immediate effect after publishing the updated Terms and Conditions online, that any User acknowledges having previously consulted.

Article 2 : Definitions Of Used Terms

The definitions and rules of interpretation set out in this section apply to these Terms of Use.
"MICE": "Meetings, Incentives, Conferencing, Exhibitions" is a type of project in which large groups organize events for their employees and / or their clients such as "meetings, conventions, seminars, teambuildings, conventions and progarmmes of gratification or motivation

"."TEAMBUILDING": refers to events or activities of cohesion or activity animation offered by suppliers MICE THIRD PARTY

"INCENTIVE": refers to bonus or incentive programs offered by MICE suppliers

"RP HOSPITALITY": refers to public relations and customer loyalty operations offered by MICE suppliers

"User": the users registered on the Site, indiscriminately MICE Buyerss or MICE Sellers. Users are the only decision makers of the realization of a Reservation on the Site.

"Buyer, MICE Booker": a natural or legal person registered (MICE Buyers or final customer) on the Site in order to reserve a service of MICE Services
"Seller, MICE Seller": Seller (or MICE Provider) of Services on the Site.

"ACCOUNT": refers to the space allocated to each USER of the SITE when registering. This personal space is accessible by entering the IDENTIFIERS of the USER.

"Account": the interfaces of the Users of the Site. There are 2 types of Accounts: the Buyer Account and the Seller Account.

"Service": means all services offered by MICE Sellers on the platform of Youna.co to USERS through the SITE.

"GENERAL CONDITIONS OF USE (or TOS)": means the present contractual conditions made available on the SITE to frame the use of the SITE by any USER.

"SPECIAL CONDITIONS / GENERAL TERMS OF SERVICE (or CP / CGS)" means the contractual terms and conditions governing the provision of SERVICES by Youna.co to MICE Providers.

"USER DATA": means billing data or other information that has been entered by the USER or Youna, on behalf of the USER, for the purpose of using the SERVICES.

"Quotation": refers to the quote sent to the attention of a MICE Buyer by a SERVICE PROVIDER. The QUOTATION includes the essential elements of the requested SERVICE and the price of each SERVICE, as well as, if necessary, the description and the price of the ASSOCIATED SERVICES ordered in addition by the MICE Buyer.

"PRODUCT SHEET": refers to the page specific to each SERVICE PROVIDER BENEFIT, dedicated to the presentation of services offered to USERS. Thus, a SERVICE PROVIDER can have several SHEETS

"IDENTIFIERS": refers to the USER DATA entered when creating an ACCOUNT, to validate the REGISTRATION of a USER.

"Youna" owned by YourEventManager simplified joint-stock company with a capital of € 18,000, registered under number 829 222 231 RCS REIMS, whose registered office is at 29 rue Ceres 51100 Reims

"LOCATION": means, without limitation, the room, the restaurant, the hotel or the coworking space temporarily rented by the SERVICE PROVIDER to a MICE Buyer
"MICE Sellers,": refers to any professional who offers reservations for activities, places, shuttles or virtual events to MICE Bookers.

“MICE Bookers:” refers to any professional who makes a request to book a venue, shuttles, activities or virtual events from MICE Sellers.

“EXTRA SERVICES”: refers to hospitality services in addition to the main booking that may be offered by a MICE Seller to a MICE Booker on top of the main service.

“PROVISIONS”: refers to the places, activities, virtual events, and shuttles offered by MICE Sellers and reserved by MICE Bookers.

"PARTIES" means together the USER on the one hand and Youna on the other hand.

"SERVICE PROVIDER": refers to any professional, natural or legal person, including the owner and / or operator of a PLACE, referenced on the SITE, in order to offer his SERVICES to the MICE Buyers.
"MICE Providers, MICE Sellers" means any professional who offers ACTIVITIES to MICE Buyers.

"SERVICE": refers to any service offered by a SERVICE PROVIDER referenced on the SITE of a PLACE and other services.

"ASSOCIATED SERVICES": refers to hospitality and hospitality services, free or paid, which may be offered by a SERVICE PROVIDER to an ORGANIZER in addition to the main BENEFIT.
"RESERVATION": refers to the reservation of a BENEFIT of a SERVICE PROVIDER performed by an ORGANIZER via the SITE, after accepting a QUOTE.

"SERVICE" means the set of services offered by Youna to USERS through the SITE.

"SITE" means the website www.Youna.co, created and published by YourEventManager.co. The SITE includes all the web pages, SERVICES and features offered to USERS.

"Your Event Manager SAS": the company publishing the services present on the site www.Youna.co.
"Site or Youna.co": the site www.Youna.co and its services.

Article 3 : Role Of Youna

The SITE offers an professional online intermediate service whereby MICE Sellers can offer their SERVICES to MICE Buyers.
It is specified that Youna acts only as the online platform operator for MICE services.
All the indications with respect to their presentation and to the proposed services are established by the MICE Sellers, without intervention of Youna. Youna can not therefore be responsible for the pre-contractual information provided by the MICE Sellers. Youna is only hosting this information for which it does not have the quality of publisher and is not responsible for this contents. Youna does not interfere with the contracts between the MICE Sellers and the MICE Buyers and / or third parties, and therefore can not be considered a party to this contract. Youna is not an event agency.
Furthermore, it is specified that the Terms and Conditions do not in any way give the USERS the status of employee, agent, agent or representative of YourEventManager.co.

Article 4 :Contact Information Of The Website Hosting

Amazon Web Services France. LLC, P.O. Box 81226. Seattle, WA 98108-1226 http://aws.amazon.com Telephone: (206) 266-4064.

ARTICLE 5 : CONDITIONS OF USERS' REGISTRATION

5-1 Registration Conditions
Registration on the Website is completely free of charge for both MICE Buyers and MICE Sellers. Upon registration confirmation, the User is registered on the Website. However, there are certain conditions in order to register :
Only adults can register on the Website. All registration applications must be made on forms provided for this purpose. The User agrees to provide accurate, up-to-date, and complete information about their identity, the company's identity, and any other information requested on the different forms.

The transmission of these documents is done either on the Site. No Seller registration will be validated if the requested documents are not submitted. All validation of registration is at the discretion of Youna who reserves the right to accept or refuse it. The User is not allowed to create or use other Accounts than the one initially created, whether under his own identity or that of third parties, it is strictly forbidden for MICE Sellers to use multiple Accounts for use. Any derogation of this rule must be the subject of an explicit request from the User and an express and specific authorization from Youna. The creation or use of new Accounts under its own identity or that of third parties without having requested and obtained the authorization of Youna, may result in the immediate suspension of the User's Accounts and all associated services.

The registration on the website provides irrevocable data by the User to Youna for exploitation of information transmitted through the Site. If the User acts and uses the Site on behalf of or in the name of a legal entity, the User declares that he is duly authorized to bind this legal person to these General Terms and Conditions. He is deemed to bind the legal person he represents. The User is responsible for the protection of his password and undertakes not to reveal it to third parties. He is responsible for any activity or action on his Account, whether or not he has authorized such activities or actions. He must immediately report to Youna any unauthorized use of his Account. Express acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

Registration method

The registrations on the website are made by informing the email of the interested party who chooses his password. This information must be confirmed for registration. By creating his Account and ticking the box "I accept the General Conditions of Use" of the Site and the proposed Service, the interested party undertakes to respect these General Conditions and gives his consent of use to Youna with respect to his personal data under the conditions described in Article 8 below. Consequently, if the interested party does not accept any of the conditions appearing in these General Conditions, he must not check the box of acceptance of the General Conditions. The full and unreserved acceptance of the Conditions of Use constitutes one of the conditions of Youna's service offer.

5-2 Terms of Use
The Website www.Youna.co is a marketplace platform. Your Event Manager SAS interfere, at any time, with the reservations made, the destinations, the schedules and any other parameters. Any performed Service must first be subject to a Request for Reservation on the Site. However, it is reminded that Youna is a third party to the relationship between the Users of the Site, and can not have any obligation in respect of the execution by them of their respective obligations under the Reservations.

5-2-1 General
By using the services offered by the Site, Users must understand and comply with these conditions:
Quotation Request must be issued with accurate and complete information and may be modified or supplemented at any time:
The User is solely responsible for the use of all the available services through the Site, and more generally any use made from his Account. The User is the sole judge of the completeness and usefulness for him (or her) of the consulted contents.
The user therefore undertakes to use the services of the Site carefully and to bear the risks arising therefrom. The User agrees to comply with implementation, in any case, by Youna under the law in force.
MICE Sellers commit to update their data via their respective Profiles. They guarantee that all their services comply with the regulations in force.
Such registration does not constitute an endorsement, certification or guarantee by Youna in relation to Seller, including its reliability. On the other hand, this information is useful when a Buyer makes his own decisions when he wishes to book through the Site.

On the other hand, the Users admit that they are strictly forbidden to:
mislead other Users by usurping the name or the registered company name of the Site or of the third party without their consent. They do not have the right to collect personal data fraudulently nor use the Site as vehicle of advertising not solicited (spam, junk mail);
try to poll, to scan or to test the vulnerability of any system or network of Youna or to evade any safety measures or measures of authentication; use, show, copy or reproduce the Site or any individual element of the Site, the name of Youna, everything (e) mark, logo or other exclusive information of Youna, or layout and concept of everything (e) page or form (e) on a page of the Site without the written consent of Youna;
recover systematically data or other contents to the Site to create directly or indirectly, in the only one either several downloadings, a collection, a compilation, a database, a directory or other similar regrouping, manually, with the aid of robots or in another way;
use software, apparatus, scripts or other means or techniques manual or automated to achieve, to "withdraw ", to "go through " or to "sweep " any Web page or other services, contained on the Site; copy, stock or achieve in quite another way information expressed on the Site, for aims not allowed hereby;
undermine or harm the Site, including notably by using viruses, robots of cancellation, horses of Troy, malevolent codes, attacks by requests Ping, attacks by denial of service, usurpations of address IP or of packets, falsified routings or information of electronic address or methods or similar technologies; invite an User to use services or the third party Websites of YourEventManager.co, without the prior agreement in written of YourEventManager.co; post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any Content that: (i) infringes, misuses or violates any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral right or other proprietary right intellectual property, the right to the image or privacy of a third party; (ii) violates or encourages any conduct that would violate any applicable law or regulation or result in civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false or misleading;
(iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) incites discrimination, fanaticism, racism, hatred, harassment or abuse against an individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or threatening acts against any other person; (vii) promotes the activities or use of illegal or dangerous substances; bypass the Site. In order to ensure the security and the good progress of the transactions, it is STRICTLY forbidden to the Users to exchange before Reservation, information which would allow in one way or another a contact and a direct communication such as an address email, a company name, a telephone number, a mobile phone and fax, a website, or any other information likely to allow direct contact.
The User shall be responsible, with respect to Youna and the third parties, for any damages, direct or indirect, of any nature whatsoever, caused by content or any other element communicated, transmitted or diffused by the user. 'User on the Site or through the services he offers, as well as any breach of this contract. Accordingly, the User agrees to guarantee Youna and its leaders, against any recourse and any conviction on this account.
Any infringement found will be investigated. The Site reserves the right to temporarily suspend a User's account and / or delete it permanently without notice, and deny access to all or part of the Service. Youna has the right to investigate and prosecute any breach of the above conditions, to the extent permitted by law.

Article 6 : How To Use The Services

6-1 Services for MICE Buyers

6-1-1 Consultation on informations
Once logged in his ACCOUNT, the MICE Buyer has the possibility to consult the information relating to each SERVICE, via each PRODUCT.
As part of a service reservation request, the MICE Booker can search according to different criteria, namely Location, type of service, capacity, type of LOCATION, price, type of internet access , fittings, location, ..
The ORGANIZER also has the possibility of consulting the PRODUCT SHEET by directly indicating the name of the MICE Seller
The ORGANIZER also has the possibility to consult the PRODUCT SHEET by directly indicating the name of the MICE Seller.

6-1-2 Booking
In order to get a reservation for a PLACE and other MICE services, the MICE Booker provides information on the WEBSITE relating to the location of the service, the configuration of the room and the format of the event for places and hotels such as: Half-day Seminar, Full Day Seminar, Residential Twin Seminar, Single Residential Seminar, Single room rental (s), Twin group accommodation, Single group accommodation, Gala dinner, Cocktail party , Networking Breakfast, Business or team lunch and Business or team dinner and according to the number of participants. MICE Bookers also provides information on the desired availability.
If necessary, Youna suggests to the MICE Booker to specify his/her requirements.
When the MICE Booker agrees to be geolocated, services close to him/her may be offered.
Based on the information transmitted by the MICE Booker, Youna automatically calculates the total amount of the reservation. Then a reservation request is sent by Youna to MICE Sellers. The latter can accept it or refuse it. Subsequently, upon acceptance by MICE Sellers of the reservation request, an invoice is sent to MICE Bookers.

When the booking is available on his ACCOUNT, the ORGANIZER will be notified by email and will be able to communicate directly with the MICE Seller via online messaging.
Before making any reservations, the MICE Booker will have access to the General Conditions or the General Conditions of Services of YOUR EVENT MANAGER.

6-1-3 Reservation of services
The QUOTE accepted by the MICE Buyer can be considered as agreement of the MICE Buyer and the MICE Seller and if necessary is applicable to indicate the date, Price and conditions in the QUOTE. It constitutes a firm and definitive contract between the MICE Buyer and the MICE Seller.
Before signing the QUOTE, the ORGANIZER will have access to the General Conditions or the General Conditions of Services of the MICE Seller.

6-1-4 Reservation of additional services
As part of the organization of its event, the MICE Buyer has the possibility to book the Services as well with the MICE Seller.

Article 7: Conditions Of Application

In case of contradictions in the terms of the quotation or order form signed by the MICE Booker and those of the present general conditions of use, the provisions of the quotation or order form shall prevail.
In case of specific contractual provisions different from the present general conditions of use, the special conditions will prevail.

Article 8: Terms Of Evolution

YourEventManager reserves the right to modify the articles of the general conditions of use at any time.
Any new version comes into force on the day following its publication on https://youna.co website and will be applicable to any new proposal or any amendment of contract issued after the date of publication.

Article 9: Payment

9.1 MICE Bookers
Payment will be made by credit card or bank transfers only.
The payment of 40% of the total amount, is made at the time of booking. The receipt of payment will confirm the order.
For payments less than 30 days before the date of service or product delivery, the full amount will be charged regardless of the payment method. The 60% balance of the total amount is made 30 days before the start of the service or product delivery.
Failure of MICE Booker to pay the balance within the time limit, may result in the cancellation of the order. MICE Booker shall be liable to pay cancellation fees.
The customer communicates his bank details as a guarantee of the reservation - except under special conditions or rates - by credit or private bank card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc.) clearly indicating in the area provided for this purpose (secure entry by SSL encryption), the card number, without spaces between digits, as well its validity date (it is specified that the bank card used must be valid on the day of the event) and the visual cryptogram as part of a prepayment. He must come to the establishment with the bank card that allowed him to guarantee the reservation or to make the prepayment. The establishment and / or the service provider may also ask him to present an identity document for the purpose of preventing bank card fraud.

9.1.2 Service Fees

Youna may charge fees to Mice Bookers in consideration for the use of the Youna Platform. 

Any applicable Service Fees (including any applicable Taxes) will be displayed to a Mice Booker prior to booking a Listing. 

Youna reserves the right to change the Service Fees at any time, and will provide Members adequate notice of any fee changes before they become effective. Such fee changes will not affect any bookings made prior to the effective date of the fee change.

You are responsible for paying any Service Fees that you owe to Youna. The applicable Service Fees (including any applicable Taxes) are collected by Stripe. 

Any Guest Fees are included in the Total Fees collected by Stripe. Except as otherwise provided on the Youna Platform, Service Fees are non-refundable.

Users are prohibited to defraud the Youna service fee.

Article 10: Cancellation

Any request to cancel your order must be made in writing on our CONTACT form

Table 1 - Youna cancellation conditions:

The cancellation generates cancellation fees at expense of MICE Booker and the fees vary depending on the date of cancellation and the type of services. The rules concerning the cancellation deadline differ according to the Mice Sellers, these will be specified at the time of booking. Any request for cancellation of order must be made in written to YourEventManager at CONTACT
MICE Booker will receive by return, by e-mail, for acceptance of the cancellation request and the relavant fees.

After acceptance of the cancellation and the payment of the relevant fees MICE Booker will receive by e-mail a confirmation of cancellation. In the absence of e-mail confirmation sent by YourEventManager, the cancellation has not been taken into account. MICE Booker shall make sure in all cases whether to receive the e-mail confirmation.

Article 11: Privacy And Cookies

Shared Data on the MICE Buyer: The MICE Sellers receive all data related to the Posted Services and reservations.
Data Collected on the MICE Seller:
ID and contact information such as name, password, phone, website, email and all messages. Dates and times of access to Youna.co. Offers from MICE Sellers, Services and Notifications settings and reviews / reviews of bookings.

Shared Data on the MICE Seller: All data related to the MICE Seller's contact details, companies, and billing data are shared with the MICE Buyer. Data from MICE Sellers and MICE Buyers shared with external partners:
In the context of its developments, YourEventManager.co uses statistical analysis solutions such as Google Analytics and Search Console which can collect data that Users share while using the website. Your Event Manager also uses a CRM; Hubspot which can also collect data on users.
To optimize invoicing, YOUR EVENT MANAGER uses QUICKBOOKS, where certain financial data from users are collected.
Regarding social networks: the posted Services can be shared with the consent of the User.

Users of the Site are informed that their IP addresses are likely to be communicated to the police authorities, the independent administrative authorities or the jurisdictional authorities within the powers conferred on them by the legislation.
It is also noted that YourEventManager.co does not rent or sell any personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
For the better functioning and the efficiency of its services, and particularly in order to allow the User not to need to identify at each access to the services, except the first access, YourEventManager.co uses cookies.

11-1 Other services
Youna.co website may contain links to third party websites, applications and service resources. These third party websites are subject to a different privacy policy. Youna will not be responsible for these services in any way.

11-2: General conditions of Google Maps:
Youna is required to use Google Maps services and therefore your use of Google Maps is subject to the additional terms and conditions of Google Maps.
Article 11-3: Data protection: GDPR law
Youna affirms to respect the GDPR law and to respect the criteria below:
The right of access (article 15 RGPD) and rectification (article 16 RGPD), update, completeness of USER data
The right to block or erase data (Article 17 of the GDPR), when it is inaccurate, incomplete, equivocal, out of date, or whose collection, use, communication or storage is prohibited;
The right to withdraw consent at any time (article 13-2c RGPD)
The right to limit the processing of USERS 'data (article 18 RGPD)
The right to the portability of data that users have provided, when this data is subject to automated processing based on their consent or on a contract (Article 20 GDPR);
The right to object to data processing (Article 21 GDPR);
The right to define the fate of USERS 'data after their death and to choose to whom the controller must communicate (or not) their data to a third party that they have previously designated.
When you use our services, or when you browse our website, YOUR EVENT MANAGER collects several categories of data.
You will find below the different categories of data:
Information you provide to us: via the reservation form when you make a request, download the guest pass, create a customer account or when you exchange with our team through instant messaging, company concierge, by phone, by email or via the information request forms. This personal information is for example data allowing your identification, your e-mail address, your date of birth or your bank details.
When you complete the Youna registration form, we may need to collect your personal data that you provide: name, first name, company name, bank identities, Siret number, address, etc.
When you communicate with our service online, or by email, or telephone with our teams, we may need to collect the data exchanged.
In addition, we collect data from your various bookings, such as the pages you have visited, the places and other services you have booked, your activity on Youna, and the information you provide us to book online. 

The USER can consult Youna's privacy policy at any time, accessible at the following address: https://www.Youna.co/politique-confidentialite.

Article 12: Intellectual Property Rights

The "Youna.co" Website is the intellectual property of its publisher and is also a trademark of INPI. The information contained on the Site can only be reproduced by its Users for personal purposes. Any reproduction or total or partial representation, by any process whatsoever, of the Site, logos, images, etc., is prohibited without the permission of the publisher of this Site.
Users of the Site shall not reproduce, copy, sell or resell, or exploit for any commercial purpose, all or part of the Service, any use of the Service or any right of access to the Service unless authorized by the publisher. The non-respect of these prohibitions constitutes an act of forgery engaging its civil and penal liability.

Article 13: Exclusion Of Liabilities (Technic, Civil, Services And Contents)

13-1 Exclusion of technical liabilities
The Site will not be liable in case it could no longer for any reason be online, or would be slowed down due to a server problem, maintenance, hardware or software upgrade, emergency repair , hacking or any circumstances beyond his control.
The service provided by the publisher is an exclusively technical service for connecting Users. As such, it may contain errors, as they recognize and accept.

Youna.co can not be held responsible for any material or immaterial damage, direct or indirect, in particular the commercial or financial loss or the damage of exploitation. Youna.co does not exercise any control of any nature whatsoever on the nature or the characteristics of the data which could pass through the host, thus assumes no responsibility in this respect. Youna.co therefore excludes all liability for the data produced and consulted by the Users on the Site, and for any damage or prejudice that may be caused by their use. Likewise, it is up to the User to take all necessary measures to protect his data and software against intrusions, computer viruses or possible circumvention by third parties, using or from the services of Youna.co .

Youna.co disclaims all liabilities for the compatibility, reliability, and operation of any software other than those developed by itself.

13-2 Exclusion of liabilities of services and contents
The responsibility on the information published on the Site belongs to their authors who are the users of the Site, MICE Buyers or MICE Sellers. The Site can not guarantee that Offers will be sent in response to the Services. The Site does not guarantee the availability of the offers which MICE Sellers make: when Offers are made to it, the Buyer must choose one and reserve it as soon as possible.
The Site can in no way be held responsible for the transaction, or the implemented services and the security of the MICE Services. Youna.co disclaims all liabilities for the information transmitted by its Users. They are solely responsible for the information on the Site.
The reservation resulting exclusively from the agreement between the Seller and the Buyer, the Users of the Service act under their sole and entire responsibility. As such, Youna shall not bear responsibility on the actual conduct of the Service defined by the Buyer and the Seller on any basis whatsoever, the service offered on the platform of YourEventManager.co being an intermediation service.
The responsibility of Youna.co can not be engaged in particular because of a disaster which would occur from reasons such as the communication by the Buyer of erroneous information concerning his Service and its details; the cancellation of the Service by the Seller or the Buyer; the fraudulent behavior or fault of the Seller or the Buyer during, before, or after the Service.

In particular, no liability can be accepted with respect to Youna.co in case of fraudulent use of payment instruments by the Buyer. In this case, no guarantee of payment from the Seller will be provided by Youna.co. Youna.co is not responsible for the contents entered on the Site by Users. This is particularly the case for MICE Seller Profiles and Offers, and the Services posted by MICE Sellers. However, as soon as it is reported to Youna.co that content would infringe the rights of third parties, Youna.co will do its utmost to remove the content in question from the Site without delay.
The hypertext links that may be set up within the framework of this Site towards other sites, or present resources on the Internet, can not engage the responsibility of the publisher of the Site, in particular because of the proposed services or information by these sites. Any hypertext link to another page than the home page of the Site is subject to the prior written permission of Youna.co.

Article 14: Force Majeure

Is a force majeure or fortuitous case, any external, unforeseeable and irresistible event within the meaning of article 1148 of the Civil Code, independent from the will of the Company and impeding the realization of services sold, including acts of public authorities, hostilities, wars, riots, acts of the prince, natural disasters, fires, floods, exceptional bad weather, total or partial strikes impeding the proper functioning of the Company or of one of its suppliers, subcontractors or carriers as well as the damage, failures or delays of one or several providers, blocking telecommunications, blocking Internet, failure of hardware broadcasting service, interruption of transport, energy supply, raw materials, etc..
The PARTIES will not be deemed to have breached their obligations if they are prevented from performing all or part of them as a result of force majeure, provided that the failing PARTY informs the other PARTY, by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt, within five (5) calendar days of the occurrence of the event and justifies the force majeure circumstances, including in particular in the event of an attack by computer hackers, unavailability of materials, supplies, spare parts, personal equipment or other; and interruption, suspension, reduction or disruption of electricity or other interruptions or interruptions of electronic communications networks.
The failing PARTY will make best efforts to limit the effects of the case of force majeure, and find any suitable solution to resume the performance of its obligations as soon as possible.
If the performance of one or more of the obligations of either PARTY is postponed due to the occurrence of an event of force majeure, the execution of the obligations will be suspended until the disappearance of said event.

Article 15: Competent / Applicable Law

In the event of any disputes arising in connection with the sales made by the Company and to the application or interpretation of these general conditions of sale, and failing amicable settlement, the matter should be referred to the sole Commercial Court of Paris which shall have jurisdiction. Only French law is applicable.