Terms of use

Use of the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com website 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 https://www.fountaine-pajot.com website are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This site is normally accessible to users at all times. However, https://www.fountaine-pajot.com may decide to interrupt it for technical maintenance, in which case it will endeavour to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention.

The https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site is regularly updated by Fountaine Pajot. Similarly, the legal notices may be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding on the user, who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to read them.

1. Description of the services provided

The purpose of the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site is to provide a general presentation of the range, products and services of the Fountaine Pajot Group’s brands. Consequently, Fountaine Pajot shall not be liable for any inaccuracy and/or omission of one or more pieces of information posted on this site.

The information disseminated on the site (texts, graphics, photos, etc.) is of a purely general and informative nature and is given for information purposes only. Despite all our vigilance, this site cannot constitute a contractual document and cannot be used as a basis for legal action.

To obtain precise and updated information, in particular on prices, availability, characteristics, content and variants of the various products and services appearing on this site, we recommend that you contact the dealer of your choice.

In fact, the Fountaine Pajot Group has entrusted the distribution of its products and services to a network of dealers, independent merchants, who are the only ones authorized to provide precise and up-to-date information on the characteristics and prices of the products and services they market.

Fountaine Pajot pursues a policy of permanent development of the products and services of its network and reserves the right to modify, without prior notice or public information, the related information, and in particular that relating to the characteristics and prices of the products presented, without this engaging its responsibility.

As Fountaine Pajot cannot present all or part of the offer presented on this site, we recommend that you contact the dealer of your choice to obtain additional and individualized information.

The information appearing on this site corresponds to the last update of the various pages of the site when it was put online. Changes may have been made since the last update. We therefore recommend that you contact the dealer of your choice to find out about the latest developments.

Fountaine Pajot cannot guarantee the reliability and completeness of the information made available to Internet users on its site.

2. Contractual limitations on technical data

The site uses JavaScript technology.

The website may not be held liable for material damage related to the use of the site. In addition, the user of the site undertakes to access the site using recent, virus-free equipment and with a latest-generation, up-to-date browser.

3. Intellectual property and counterfeits

Fountaine Pajot is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights to use all the elements accessible on the site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds, software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, whatever the means or process used, is prohibited without the prior written authorization of Fountaine Pajot.

Any unauthorized use of the site or of any of the elements it contains shall be deemed to constitute an infringement and shall be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code.

4. Limitations of liability

Fountaine Pajot may not be held liable for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the Fountaine Pajot site, 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.

Fountaine Pajot may also not be held liable for indirect damage (such as loss of business or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site.

Interactive areas (possibility of asking questions in the contact area) are available to users. Fountaine Pajot reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this space that contravenes the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. Where appropriate, Fountaine Pajot also reserves the right to hold the user liable under civil and/or criminal law, in particular in the event of a message of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic nature, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph, etc.).

5. Management of personal data

In France, personal data is notably protected by law n° 78-87 of January 6, 1978, law n° 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 https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site, the following may be collected: the URL of the links through which the user accessed the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site, the user’s access provider, the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.

In any event, Fountaine Pajot shall only collect personal information relating to the user for the purpose of certain services offered by the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site. The user provides this information with full knowledge of the facts, particularly when he or she enters it himself or herself. It is then specified to the user of the site https://www.fountaine-pajot.com the obligation or not to provide this information.

In accordance with the provisions of Articles 38 and following of Law 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, data files and liberties, all users have the right to access, rectify and oppose personal data concerning them, by making their request in writing and signed, accompanied by a copy of the identity document with the signature of the holder of the document, specifying the address to which the reply should be sent (See “Privacy Policy” page, section “data processing”).

No personal information of the user of https://www.fountaine-pajot.com is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold in any medium whatsoever to third parties. Only in the event of the purchase of Fountaine Pajot and its rights would it be possible to transmit the said information to the potential purchaser, who would in turn be bound by the same obligation to preserve and modify the data with regard to the user of the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site.

The site is not declared to the CNIL because it does not collect sensitive personal information.

The databases are protected by the provisions of the Act of 1 July 1998 transposing Directive 96/9 of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

6. Hypertext links and cookies

The https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site contains a certain number of hypertext links to other sites, set up with the authorization of Fountaine Pajot. However, Fountaine Pajot is not in a position to verify the content of the sites thus visited, and consequently shall not assume any liability for this fact.

Browsing the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com site may result in the installation of cookie(s) on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file, which does not allow identification of the user, but which records information relating to the navigation of a computer on a site. The data obtained in this way is intended to facilitate subsequent navigation on the site, and is also intended to allow various measures of frequentation.

Refusal to install a cookie may make it impossible to access certain services. However, the user can configure his computer in the following way to refuse the installation of cookies:
Under Internet Explorer: tool tab / internet options. Click on Confidentiality and choose Block all cookies. Validate on Ok.
Under Netscape: edit tab / preferences. Click on Advanced and choose Deactivate

7. Applicable law and jurisdiction

Any dispute relating to the use of the https://www.fountaine-pajot.com website is subject to French law. Exclusive jurisdiction is given to the competent courts of Paris.

8. The main laws concerned

Law n° 78-87 of January 6, 1978, notably modified by law n° 2004-801 of August 6, 2004 relating to data processing, files and liberties.

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

9. Lexico

User: Internet user connecting, using the above-mentioned site.

Personal information: “information that allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to which it applies” (Article 4 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).