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  1. 1. Presentation of rte-france.com

    The rte-france.com website is the property of RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité, a limited company governed by a Management Board and a Supervisory Board, listed in the Nanterre Trade and Business Register under the number 444 619 258, having its registered offices at :

    1, terrasse Bellini
    TSA 41000
    92919 LA DEFENSE Cedex

    Publication Director : Laurence Mugniery, RTE communication and public affairs Director.

    Design and development : Ogilvy (www.decouvrir.ogilvy.fr/).

    Maintenance and updates : Acte Média (www.actemedia.com)

    Hosting : Risc Group (www.risc-group.com).

    This site is optimized for the following configuration :

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    rte-france.com can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in the event of force majeure, computer issues, problems with telecommunications networks or technical difficulties.

    RTE may suspend access to the site for maintenance, in which case it shall make every effort to inform users beforehand.

    RTE cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damage sustained as a result of accessing or using the website, including inaccessibility, data loss, deterioration, destruction or infection by viruses which could affect the user\'s hardware, and/or the presence of viruses on the website.

    The cost of accessing and browsing the website at rte-france.com is exclusively borne by the user.

    Any user who accesses rte-france.com from a location outside France undertakes to comply with local legislation.

  2. 2. Using information taken from the website

    RTE makes every effort to ensure that the information and/or tools provided to users are available and verified, but cannot be held liable for any errors or omissions, or for the unavailability of information or services.

    All information or documents contained onrte-france.com together with all the elements created for the site, either remain the property of RTE or are covered by a right of use, exploitation or reproduction. These elements are subject to legislation protecting authorship rights. Consequently, no licence or any other right is granted to any party under intellectual property rights, with the exception of the right to consult information.

    Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, transmission, misrepresentation of the site or its content, either total or partial and by any procedure or on any media, is strictly prohibited.

    The user shall be held liable for any unauthorized exploitation of the site or its content or the information disclosed thereupon. Furthermore, any such unauthorized exploitation shall constitute an act of counterfeiting prohibited by Articles L 335-2 and following of the French Intellectual Property Code.

    This also applies to any databases appearing on rte-france.com which are protected by Articles L. 341-1 to L. 343-4 of the French Intellectual Property Code. As such, the user shall be held liable for any reproduction or extraction.

    The user acknowledges that such information is used exclusively at his own risk and liability.

    The user undertakes not to use the rte-france.com website to transmit, by any means whatsoever (email or other), any content including programmes, codes or viruses intended to destroy or disrupt the functions of the website. The user may be held criminally or civilly liable for any breach of this commitment.

    RTE reserves the right, concerning its interactive services, to delete immediately and without prior notice, any content of any kind, and notably any message, text, image or graphic, which contravenes the laws and regulations in force and notably the regulations described above.

    If the user wishes to use site content (text, image, etc.), he undertakes to request prior written authorization from RTE, by writing to the address indicated in Article 3 or by sending an email to webmestre

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  3. 3. Freedom of Information

    In accordance with Law n°78-17 of 6 January 1978, amended by Law n° 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, concerning information technology, files and freedoms, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has officially approved the automated processing of personal data on the www.rte-france.com website.

    The user is hereby informed that he has a right to access, rectify and delete any data concerning him, which can be exercised by writing to :

    RTE
    Direction de la Communication et des Affaires publiques
    1, terrasse Bellini
    TSA 41000
    92919 LA DEFENSE Cedex.

    Any personal information the user may volunteer using forms found on this website are intended solely for the use of RTE and its subsidiaries. Such information may be used to respond to requests made by the user, provided he has supplied the data needed to process his request.

    In accordance with Article 38 of Law n° 78-17 dated 6 January 1978, amended by Law n° 2004-801 dated 6 August 2004, the user is entitled to oppose any such transfer or processing of data concerning him/her, by writing to the address indicated above.

  4. 4. Compliance with legislation

    RTE informs users of the rte-france.com website that all laws and regulations currently in force apply to the Internet.

    Users of rte-france.com are required to comply with the provisions of the Law of 6 January 1978 concerning information technology, files and freedoms. Any breach of this legislation is considered a criminal offence.

    Users must also refrain from collecting or misusing the personal data they access, and must in general refrain from any behaviour likely to impair the private life or reputation of persons.

  5. 5. Links to and from the RTE website

    The rte-france.com website is a portal for accessing other sites which may or may not belong to RTE or companies owned by RTE, and which may have their own legal information and disclaimers.

    Express prior authorization has been obtained for all the hypertext links to other sites or Internet resources, which are found on rte-france.com However, since RTE does not publish these sites, it is unable to verify their content. RTE is therefore not responsible for the content of external sites accessed in this way, or any collection and transmission of personal data, installation of cookies or any other process intended to achieve the same ends, which may be carried out by these sites.

    Users of and visitors to rte-france.com may under no circumstances insert any hyperlinks that lead to rte-france.com without first obtaining RTE's written authorization. Any request to use such hyperlinks must be sent to webmestre.

  6. 6. Amendment to legal notice

    RTE reserves the right to amend the present legal information at any time. The user therefore undertakes to consult it regularly.

  7. 7. Applicable law

    In the event of any dispute, French law shall apply.

  8. 8. Jurisdiction

    In the event of any dispute, the PARIS Court of Appeal (France) shall have sole jurisdiction.

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