1. Who we are and how to contact us

www.ancienslycee.co.uk is a site operated by Association des Anciens Du Lycée Français Charles De Gaulle de Londres (we/us/ours). Our trading address is at 35 Cromwell Road, London SW7 2DG. We are an unincorporated association.
To contact us, please email contact@ancienslycee.co.uk or telephone us on 0207 584 6322.
Our Privacy and Cookies Policy will also apply to your use of our site. It sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, and provides information about the cookies on our site. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
We may also issue an acceptable use policy, which, once published on our site, will apply to your use of this site.
If you purchase goods from our site, our terms and conditions of supply will apply to any such purchase (see paragraphs 22 to Error ! Reference source not found. below).

2. By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
Please read these terms of use carefully before using our site. They tell you who we are, how we will provide services to you, how you or we may change or end a contract between us, out liability to you and other important information.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

3. Age restrictions

This site is not designed to be used by children under the age of 16. By using this site, you affirm that you are 16 years or older.
As some of the content made available on this site may be user generated, the content may not be suitable for minors. If you are a minor, you should consult your parents and obtain their consent for your use of this site. You may not use this site without a consent from your parents.

4. Changes to these terms and to our site

We amend these terms from time to time, and we may update and change our site from time to time.
We are not obliged to update any content that may be out of date. We do not guarantee that our site or content on it will be free from errors or omissions. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

5. We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

6. You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at contact@ancienslycee.co.uk.

7. How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

8. Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

9. We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

10. Bulletin boards, chat rooms and user generated content

This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms (interactive services). This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service providers on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us on contact@ancienslycee.co.uk.
The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

11. Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out at paragraph 12 of these terms. We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out at paragraph 12 of these terms.
You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable and sub-licensable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display (including your name, voice and/or photo), and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by us on this site and across other media, and to promote our site and service.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

12. Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you upload to our site and/or when you make contact with other users on our site (contributions).
You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must :

• Be accurate (where they state facts).
• Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
• Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not :

• Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
• Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Promote sexually explicit material.
• Promote violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Promote any illegal activity.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
• Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

13. Prohibited uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use out site :
(a) In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
(b) In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
(c) For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
(d) To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards, set out at paragraph 12 of these terms.
(e) To transmit, or arrange for someone to send, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
(f) To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
(g) To attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site.
(h) To attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching any of the provisions in points (f) to (h) above, you could commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
You also agree :

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of these terms.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt :
  any part of our site ;
  any equipment or network on which our site is stored ;
  any software used in the provision of our site ; or
  any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

14. We are not responsible for viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

15. Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out at paragraph 12 of these terms.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact contact@ancienslycee.co.uk.

16. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Our liability in respect of the supply of any products or tickets to you is set out in our terms and conditions of supply (see paragraph Error ! Reference source not found. below).
Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption or loss of business opportunity.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your devices (including, but not limited to, your hardware, software and data) are not damaged by your use of the site. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

17. Complaints
If you are unhappy with our site, or any other matter, please contact us on contact@ancienslycee.co.uk. We will respond to your complaint as quickly as possible and will use out best efforts to find a satisfactory solution.

18. Which Country’s laws apply to any dispute

Please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

19. Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms through your use of our site. When a breach of these terms has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with paragraph 3 (age restrictions), 6 (security of your account), 7 (your use of material on our site) and 13 (prohibited uses) constitutes a material breach of these terms and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions :

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
• The responses set out above are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
  We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms.

20. Our Trade Marks

“ASSOCIATION DES ANCIENS DU LYCÉE FRANÇAIS CHARLES DE GAULLE DE LONDRES” is a trade mark owned by Association des Anciens Du Lycée Français Charles De Gaulle de Londres. You are not permitted to use it without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under paragraph 7 of these terms.

21. Events

We reserve the right to make changes to any event(s) that we advertise on our site (but not the overall content), for example to timings, venue and/or speakers.
You may ask to change the date that you are attending if the same event(s) is scheduled for another date, and we may agree to this in our absolute discretion.
If you have any specific requirements, for example dietary requirements or accessibility requirements, it is your responsibility to notify us at least 7 working days in advance of the event(s). We cannot be held responsible if you have not notified us or you have not notified us within the time period set out in this clause. We will use our reasonable endeavours to accommodate any specific requirements that you have notified to us but cannot guarantee that we will be able to fulfil the request. We will contact you if we cannot fulfil the request.
We may photograph, videotape, or film you whilst attending the event(s). If you do not wish to be photographed, videotaped or filmed, please let us know at the time. Where you are happy to be photographed, videotaped or filmed you also give us consent to use your image in any form of media, including the internet. You also agree to waive any and all right to notification, compensation, inspection or approval in relation to the aforementioned photographs, videotapes, films or images.

Cancellation of events
If you cannot attend, you may, subject to our consent, transfer your booking to another person. If you cannot attend an event and are unable to transfer your booking to another person, you may cancel your attendance at an event at any time up to 24 hours before the event is scheduled by contacting us. We will confirm your cancellation in writing to you. We may refund the fees that you have paid for the event – see paragraph 24 below for more details.
We may need to cancel an event for any reason, including because of an event outside our control, such as strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks. If we cancel the event, we will contact you as soon as reasonably possible to notify you. We will use our reasonable endeavours to reschedule the event. You are entitled to a full refund if we cancel the event and cannot reschedule the event or if you cannot attend the rescheduled event.
TERMS OF SUPPLY
Paragraphs 21 to Error ! Reference source not found. apply in addition to the above terms and conditions if you are making payment online through the site.

22. Terms of supply of products and tickets

We may offer certain products for purchase via our site for instance books, dvds and other similar merchandise (our products). We may also offer tickets to events organised by us or third parties for sale on our site.
All purchases made by you through our site are subject to the terms and conditions in paragraphs 22 to Error ! Reference source not found. inclusive (terms of supply).

23. Our contract with you

Our acceptance of your order will take place when we email you to accept it, at which point a contract will come into existence between you and us.
If we are unable to accept your order, we will inform you of this and will not charge you for the product or ticket. This might be because the product is out of stock, because of unexpected limits on our resources which we could not reasonably plan for, or if the tickets to your selected event have sold out.
Once we have received your payment we will confirm our acceptance of your order by sending an email to the email address you provide in your order form.

24. Right to end your contract with us
24.1 Products

For most products bought online you have a legal right to change your mind within 14 days and receive a refund. These rights, under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, are explained in more detail in these terms. This right applies to any products bought on our site.
If a product you bought is faulty or misdescribed you may have a legal right to end the contract (or to get the product repaired or replaced or a service re-performed or to get some or all of your money back).
If you end the contract for any reason after products have been dispatched to you or you have received them, you must return them to us. If you are exercising your right to change your mind you must send off the product within 14 days of telling us you wish to end the contract.
If you have any questions or complaints about the product or wish to cancel your contract with us, please contact us at [02075846322] or write to us at [contact@ancienslycee.co.uk or Association des Anciens du Lycé Français Charles de Gaulle de Londres, 35 Cromwell Road, London SW7 2DG].
We will pay the costs of return if the products are faulty or misdescribed. However, if you are exercising your right to change your mind you will be required to bear the cost of return.
We will refund you the price you paid for the products including delivery costs, by the method you used for payment. Your refund will be made within 14 days from the date on which we receive the product back from you. However, if you are exercising your right to cancel your contract with us, we may make deductions from the price, if the product is returned to us in a condition that reduces the value of the product.

24.2 Events
If you cancel your attendance at an event, we are not legally required to provide refunds if the booking is in respect of a reserved space.
The policy in respect of events may vary depending on the event. Please refer to the event site on our website for further information.