By using this Site, you acknowledge that you have been informed of this legal notice.

Definitions

Client: any natural person with legal capacity, or any legal entity, who visits the Site to which these general terms apply.

Services: the Site provides Users with an information service presenting VATEL's activities, programmes and locations.

Content: all the elements making up the information on the Site, including text, images and videos.

Client information: all personal data that may be collected via the Site, in particular through contact forms, for the purposes of handling enquiries, communication and statistics.

User: any internet user accessing or using the aforementioned site.

Personal information: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person within the meaning of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). VATEL undertakes to respect users' privacy and the confidentiality of their personal data while they browse the Site, in accordance with the Data Protection Policy.

1. Presentation of the website

Pursuant to Article 6 of French Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the website www.vatel-brussels.be are informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and maintenance.

Publisher and owner

HCI CONSULT (hereinafter "VATEL")
Private limited company (SRL)
Company / VAT number: BE 0817.939.830 (RPM Brussels)
Avenue de la Toison d'Or 80, 1060 Saint-Gilles – Belgium
Telephone: +32 2 538 00 89
E-mail : info@vatel-brussels.be
Ms Karine BENZAZON, Managing Director

Development

AUDA-DESIGN – crea@auda-design.com
696 Ch. Combe des Oiseaux, 30900 Nîmes – France

Graphic design

AUDA-DESIGN – crea@auda-design.com
696 Ch. Combe des Oiseaux, 30900 Nîmes – France

Hosting provider

OVH SAS
RCS Roubaix – Tourcoing 424 761 419 00045
APE code 6202A
VAT number: FR 22 424 761 419
Registered office: 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix – France
Telephone: 1007 or +33 9 74 53 13 23

 

2. Content and use

The Client may not in any way reuse, transfer or exploit for their own account all or part of the elements or works on the Site.

Use of the website www.vatel-brussels.be implies full and complete acceptance of the general terms of use described below. These terms of use may be amended or supplemented at any time; users of www.vatel-brussels.be are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This website is normally accessible to users at all times. However, www.vatel-brussels.be may decide to interrupt access for technical maintenance, in which case it will endeavour to inform users of the date and time of the intervention in advance.

The website www.vatel-brussels.be is updated regularly by the party responsible for www.vatel-brussels.be. Likewise, this legal notice may be amended at any time; it is nevertheless binding on users, who are invited to refer to it as often as possible.

 

3. Description of services provided

The purpose of the website www.vatel-brussels.be is to provide information about all of the company's activities.

www.vatel-brussels.be endeavours to provide information on www.vatel-brussels.be that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held liable for omissions, inaccuracies or failures to update, whether caused by itself or by third-party partners who supply it with such information.

All information on www.vatel-brussels.be is provided for guidance only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on www.vatel-brussels.be is not exhaustive and is given subject to any changes made since it was published online.

 

4. Contractual limitations on technical data

The site uses JavaScript technology.

The website cannot be held liable for material damage resulting from use of the site. Furthermore, users of the site agree to access it using recent, virus-free equipment and an up-to-date, latest-generation browser.

 

5. Intellectual property and infringement

The Site is an original work protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code and applicable international regulations.

www.vatel-brussels.be owns the intellectual property rights and holds the rights of use for all elements accessible on the website, including text, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons and sounds.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of all or part of the site's elements, by any means or process whatsoever, is prohibited without the prior written permission of www.vatel-brussels.be.

Any unauthorised use of the site or of any of the elements it contains will be considered an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with Articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

 

6. Limitation of liability

Institut Vatel acts as publisher of the site. www.vatel-brussels.be is responsible for the quality and accuracy of the Content it publishes.

Institut Vatel cannot be held liable for direct or indirect damage to the user's equipment when accessing www.vatel-brussels.be, resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications set out in section 4, or from a bug or incompatibility.

Nor can Institut Vatel be held liable for indirect damage (such as loss of business or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of www.vatel-brussels.be.

Interactive areas (the option to ask questions in the contact section) are available to users. www.vatel-brussels.be reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in these areas that breaches the legislation applicable in France, in particular data protection provisions. Where appropriate, www.vatel-brussels.be also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, notably in the case of racist, abusive, defamatory or pornographic messages, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph, etc.).

 

9. Hyperlinks and internet tags

9.1. Hyperlinks

The website www.vatel-brussels.be contains a number of hyperlinks to other sites, set up with the permission of www.vatel-brussels.be. However, www.vatel-brussels.be is unable to check the content of the sites visited in this way and therefore accepts no liability in this respect.

9.2. Tags

www.vatel-brussels.be may occasionally use internet tags (also known as action tags, single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs and one-to-one GIFs) and deploy them through a web analytics partner that may be located (and therefore store the corresponding information, including the User's IP address) in a foreign country.

These tags are placed both in online advertisements that allow internet users to access the Site and on the Site's various pages.

This technology enables www.vatel-brussels.be to assess visitors' responses to the Site and the effectiveness of its actions (for example, how many times a page is opened and which information is viewed), as well as the User's use of the Site.

The external service provider may collect information about visitors to the Site and to other websites through these tags, compile reports on Site activity for www.vatel-brussels.be, and provide other services relating to the use of the Site and the internet.

 

10. Governing law and jurisdiction

This legal notice is governed by French law.

In the event of a dispute concerning its interpretation or performance, and failing an amicable settlement, the French courts shall have sole jurisdiction, subject to mandatory legal provisions applicable to consumers.

Users are informed that they may refer to an out-of-court consumer dispute resolution service: https://consumer-redress.ec.europa.eu/index_en