Legal Notice & Terms of Use
1. Introduction.
Paris Wonder Sights offers its tours and visits to discover the secrets of Paris through its application, Paris W Sights. The website www.pariswsights.com provides secure online sales through SSL protocol to sell its own tours and guided visits.
In accordance with the current French law, any order placed on the website www.pariswsights.com or its affiliated sites implies full and unconditional acceptance of our Terms and Conditions, as well as those related to the selected products by the User and any other specific condition stated on the pages of Paris Wonder Sights’ website. Our Terms cover your legal rights and responsibilities when using the website www.pariswsights.com and/or its Paris W Sights application available on the Apple Store and Google Play.
2. Site Presentation.
In accordance with article 6 of Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 for confidence in the digital economy, users of the website www.pariswsights.com are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and monitoring:
Business Name: Paris Wonder Designs
SIRET Number: 451 604 284 00039
R.C.S.: 451 604 284 Nanterre
Postal Address: BAL 20 – 6, rue du 8 mai 1945 – 92340 Bourg la Reine
Owner and Creator: Edouard Gariepy
Publication Manager: Edouard Gariepy – edouard@pariswdesigns.com
The publication manager is a natural person.
Webmaster: Edouard Gariepy – edouard@pariswdesigns.com
Hosting: o2switch – 222 Boulevard Gustave Flaubert, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand – Tel: 04 44 44 60 40
3. General Terms of Use of the Site and Services Provided.
The use of the website www.pariswsights.com implies full and unconditional acceptance of the following terms of use. These terms of use may be modified or supplemented at any time, so users of the website www.pariswsights.com are invited to consult them regularly.
This site is normally accessible to users at all times. However, an interruption for technical maintenance may be decided by Paris Wonder Designs, which will endeavor to communicate the dates and times of the intervention to users in advance.
The website www.pariswsights.com is regularly updated by Edouard Gariepy. Similarly, the legal notice may be modified at any time: it is nonetheless binding on the user, who is invited to refer to it as often as possible to become aware of any changes.
Any order placed on the Paris Wonder Sights website or the Paris W Sights application implies the prior reading and acceptance of our Terms and Conditions by the User, as well as those related to the selected products. Before confirming their order on the Site, the User of the Paris Wonder Sights website will be presented with a link allowing them to read the full Terms and Conditions of Paris Wonder Sights, including the specific booking, modification, and cancellation conditions applicable to the selected products.
4. Description of the Services Provided.
The website www.pariswsights.com aims to provide information on all activities of the company.
Paris Wonder Designs strives to provide the most accurate information on the website www.pariswsights.com. However, it cannot be held responsible for any omissions, inaccuracies, or deficiencies in updates, whether caused by itself or by third-party partners who provide this information.
All information provided on the website www.pariswsights.com is for informational purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the website www.pariswsights.com is not exhaustive. It is provided subject to changes that may have been made since its publication.
5. Contractual Limitations on Technical Data.
The website uses JavaScript technology.
The website cannot be held responsible for any material damages related to its use. Additionally, the user of the website agrees to access it using up-to-date hardware that is free from viruses and with an updated browser.
6. Intellectual Property and Counterfeit.
Paris Wonder Designs is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights to use all the elements accessible on the site, including texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds, software.
Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation, in whole or in part, of the elements of the site, regardless of the means or process used, is prohibited without the prior written permission of Paris Wonder Designs.
Any unauthorized exploitation of the site or any of its elements will be considered as counterfeiting and may be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.
7. Limitations of Liability.
Paris Wonder Designs shall not be held liable for direct or indirect damages caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the website www.pariswsights.com, resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications mentioned in section 4, or from the occurrence of a bug or incompatibility.
Paris Wonder Designs shall also not be held liable for indirect damages (such as loss of market or opportunity) resulting from the use of the website www.pariswsights.com.
Interactive spaces (such as the ability to post comments on the “Blog” page) are available to users. Paris Wonder Designs reserves the right to remove, without prior notice, any content posted in these spaces that violates applicable laws in France, particularly with regard to data protection. If necessary, Paris Wonder Designs also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, especially in the event of a message that is racist, offensive, defamatory, or pornographic, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph, etc.).
These General Terms of Use are governed by French law. Any dispute relating to their interpretation and/or execution falls under the jurisdiction of the Tribunal de Paris (Paris Court of Justice).
8. Management of Personal Data.
In France, personal data is particularly protected by law no. 78-87 of January 6, 1978, law no. 2004-801 of August 6, 2004, article L. 226-13 of the Penal Code, and the European Directive of October 24, 1995.
When using the website www.pariswsights.com, the following information may be collected: the URL of the links through which the user accessed the website www.pariswsights.com, the user’s internet service provider, and the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.
In any case, Paris Wonder Designs only collects personal information about the user for the purpose of providing certain services offered by the website www.pariswsights.com. The user provides this information knowingly, particularly when entering it themselves. The user of the website www.pariswsights.com is informed of whether or not they are required to provide this information.
In accordance with the provisions of articles 38 and following of law 78-17 of January 6, 1978, relating to data processing, files, and freedoms, any user has the right to access, rectify, and oppose personal data concerning them by making a written and signed request, accompanied by a copy of their identity document with the signature of the document’s holder, and specifying the address to which the response should be sent.
No personal information of the user of the website www.pariswsights.com is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, or sold to third parties on any medium. The information collected through the online booking interface of the website www.pariswsights.com and its affiliated sites cannot be transmitted to third parties without the express consent of the user and/or for reasons unrelated to the needs of a reservation.
In the event of the acquisition of Paris Wonder Designs and its rights, the transfer of this information to the potential acquirer would be subject to the same obligation of preservation and modification of the data with regard to the user of the website www.pariswsights.com.
The databases are protected by the provisions of the law of July 1, 1998 transposing Directive 96/9 of March 11, 1996 on the legal protection of databases.
9. Security
The online booking interface of Paris Wonder Designs uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption protocol with up to 256 bits to ensure your security and provide better confidentiality.
All information transferred over the network, including your credit card number and the information entered in various forms, is systematically encrypted.
The SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption system automatically encrypts information before transmitting it over the network.
Once it arrives on our server, it will be decrypted using a unique SSL key that allows your browser to establish a connection with our website and transparently negotiate a secure communication channel. The SSL protocol, created by Let’s Encrypt, remains to this day the most widely used and one of the best solutions for securing transactions.
10. Hyperlinks and Cookies
The website www.pariswsights.com contains a number of hyperlinks to other websites, established with the authorization of Paris Wonder Designs. However, Paris Wonder Designs does not have the ability to verify the content of the visited websites and therefore assumes no responsibility in this regard.
Browsing the website www.pariswsights.com may result in the installation of cookie(s) on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file that does not allow the user’s identification but records information about a computer’s navigation on a website. The data obtained in this way aims to facilitate subsequent navigation on the website and also serve various statistical purposes.
Refusing the installation of a cookie may result in the inability to access certain services. However, the user can configure their computer as follows to refuse the installation of cookies:
Internet Explorer: Go to the Tools tab (gear icon in the top right corner) / Internet Options. Click on Privacy and choose Block all cookies. Confirm with OK.
Firefox: At the top of the browser window, click the Firefox button, then go to the Options tab. Click on the Privacy tab.
Set the Retention Rules to: Use custom settings for history. Finally, uncheck it to disable cookies.
Safari: Click on the menu icon (represented by a gear) in the top right corner of the browser. Select Preferences. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on Content settings. In the “Cookies” section, you can block cookies.
Chrome: Click on the menu icon (represented by three horizontal lines) in the top right corner of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on Preferences. In the “Privacy” tab, you can block cookies.
11. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
Any dispute relating to the use of the website www.pariswsights.com is subject to French law. Exclusive jurisdiction is granted to the competent courts of Nanterre.
12. Main Applicable Laws
Law no. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, notably amended by law no. 2004-801 of August 6, 2004, relating to information technology, files, and freedoms.
Law no. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004, on confidence in the digital economy.
13. Glossary
User: Internet user connecting to and using the aforementioned website.
Personal Information: “Information that, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly allows the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies” (Article 4 of law no. 78-17 of January 6, 1978).