Legal Notice

Article 1 – Legal Information

This website is published by META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats, a French law firm with capital of €30,000, whose principal office is at 3 place de la Bourse, 69002 Lyon, France, registered with the Lyon Trade and Companies Registry under number 797 985 413, Telephone: +33 (0) 72 41 39 04 – (hereinafter referred to as “META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats”).

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats is admitted to the Bar of Lyon (ID number: 2185).

The Director of Publication of this Website is Matthieu Courtadon.

This Website is hosted by the company OVH.

It was created by the company PERISCOPE Créations, a French private limited company whose principal office is at 8 rue Georges Besse, 63100 Clermont-Ferrand, registered with the Clermont-Ferrand Trade and Companies Registry under number 422 233 650, Telephone: +33 (0)4 73 93 12 12

Article 2– Definitions

In the General Terms of Use, words or expressions commencing with a capital letter have the following meaning:

Website: this website, accessible notably at the following address: www.meta-legal.fr
User: any person that visits one or more pages of the Website.

Article 3 – Purpose

The General Terms of Use govern access to and use of the Website.

When Users visit the Website or send an email to META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats via a “mailto” type link available on the Website, they acknowledge that they are familiar with and unreservedly accept the General Terms of Use.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats reserves the right to modify the General Terms of Use at any time by publishing a new version of them on the Website. These modifications will enter into effect upon being published online on the Website and will therefore be enforceable against any user from then on.

The General Terms of Use govern the entire contractual relationship between META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats and the User, to the exclusion of any other agreement.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats advises any person visiting the Website to save or print these General Terms of Use, without modifying them in any way.

Article 4 – Disclaimer

The information contained on the Website may under no circumstances be likened to prospecting, a customized offer of service, or advisory services rendered in legal or tax matters, and may not therefore be used as a substitute for consulting a legal or tax expert.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats is subject only to an obligation of means concerning the information it provides to individuals who access the Website.

While we take every precaution to ensure the reliability of the information contained on the Website, META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats will not incur any liability as a result of errors or omissions, or for results that may be obtained through the use of such information.

Consequently, Users who acquire information from the Website are responsible for any use they may make of it. In particular, Users are responsible for verifying, or arranging for a lawyer of their choice to verify, whether the information thus obtained is relevant to their personal situation.

Article 5 – Contact Requests

Users may contact META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats via the various forms available on the Website.

These contact requests are, in particular, for the purpose of:

requesting contact with a lawyer;
requesting information;
requesting information about training and events organized by META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats will make every effort to respond to any contact request submitted by a User. However, META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats makes no commitment to provide a response or acknowledge receipt of the User’s request.

Lastly, Users expressly accept that the automatic recording systems of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may be used to constitute proof of the nature, content, date, and time of the information and documents they send to META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats makes no commitment to send Users one or more newsletters on a regular basis.

Article 6 – Careers

Users may contact META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats in order to submit their résumé for a position within the firm, either spontaneously or in response to a job offer or internship offer.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats will make every effort to respond to any job application in a timely manner.

Article 7 – Data Protection

We invite Users to refer to the GDPR tab on this Website.

Article 8– Intellectual Property

The Website, its content, and all elements composing it constitute property for which META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats holds all intellectual property rights and/or has obtained rights of use, in particular with regard to copyright and the laws regarding designs, databases, and trademarks.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats and the META logo are registered trademarks or trade names of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats. Users may not use the aforementioned designations, trademarks or logos appearing on this Website in any press release, advertising, or other media for promotional or marketing purposes whatsoever, in written, oral, electronic, visual, or any other form whatsoever, unless it obtains the prior written consent of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats.

The Website, as well as the software, database structures, texts, information, analyses, images, photographs, graphics, logos, sounds, and any other data contained on the Website, will remain the exclusive property of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats or, where applicable, of their respective owners with whom META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats has signed agreements for their use.

They may under no circumstances be reproduced, used, or displayed without the express written authorization of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats, under penalty of legal action. To obtain this authorization, please contact the Website’s director of publication at the following address: matthieu.courtadon@meta-legal.fr

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats grants Users a non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the Website, as well as the original intellectual works and data contained on the Website. This right consists in (i) the right to consult the original intellectual works and data contained on the Website online, and (ii) the right of reproduction consisting in the printing and/or saving of said original intellectual works and data thus consulted. This right of use is granted strictly for personal use only. All other rights are expressly reserved by META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats.

Any other use of the Website by Users, in particular for commercial purposes, is prohibited without the express written authorization of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats.

Users are, in particular, prohibited, among other things, from reproducing and/or displaying, downloading, selling, distributing, issuing, translating, adapting, exploiting, distributing, publishing, and communicating any original intellectual work or data contained on the Website, in full or in part, in any form whatsoever, for commercial reasons or otherwise, for any use other than for personal use.

Users are also prohibited from introducing any data onto the Website that would modify or be likely to modify the content or appearance of the data, presentation or organization of the Website or of the works appearing on the Website, by any processes whatsoever.

Any reference to the registered trademark of a third party visible on the Website is made solely for identification purposes and does not mean that said third party has approved this Website or its content. These Terms of Use do not grant Users the right to use the registered trademarks of third parties.

Article 9– Hypertext Links

Any hypertext link to the Website, irrespective of the type of link, must be subject to prior authorization by META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats, in paper or electronic form. To obtain this authorization, please contact the Website’s director of publication at the following address: matthieu.courtadon@meta-legal.fr

The Website may include hypertext links to other websites.

On the date of its creation, META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats ensured as far as possible that such websites and other Internet sources did not contain any content in violation of French law.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may only be held responsible for making such websites and external sources available insofar as the Internet page or source to which a hypertext link was created contained content in violation of French law at the time of its creation.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats cannot therefore accept any responsibility for content, advertising, products, and services available on or via such websites or external sources proposed after the creation of the hypertext link on its Website. It is expressly agreed that Users are responsibility for establishing proof that said hypertext link was created after the publication of such content, advertising, products, or services.

Users therefore acknowledge that META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may not be held liable for any proven or alleged damage or losses arising as a consequence of or in connection with their use or awareness of the content, advertising, products, or services available on such websites or external sources.

If, in the course of a search conducted on the Website, the result of the search directs a User to websites, pages, or forums the titles and/or content of which constitute a violation of French law, given in particular the fact that META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats cannot control the content of such external websites and sources, the User must leave the website concerned, under penalty of incurring the sanctions provided for under French law or facing legal action.

Lastly, if, despite our efforts, one of the hypertext links present on the Website directs Users to a website or Internet source whose content is or appears to a User to be in breach of the requirements of French law, the User undertakes to contact the director of publication immediately at matthieu.courtadon@meta-legal.fr and inform him of the address of the website pages concerned. META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats undertakes to study the website in question and inform the User, within a reasonable amount of time, of any action it intends to take. Users undertake not to take any legal action against META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats before receiving its response. Users also undertake only to take legal action against META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats in the event that it refuses to remove the link in question.

Article 10 – Responsibility and Liability

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats is only responsible for the context of the pages it publishes.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may not be held responsible for any damage to Users’ information systems and/or loss of data resulting from their use of the Website.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may not be held responsible for any facts other than those connected with publication of the Website. META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats in no way guarantees the availability or performance of the Website. Users may not seek to hold META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats liable on the grounds of lost earnings, lost opportunities or lost revenue. META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may only be held liable for proven misconduct and for direct and foreseeable damage caused exclusively by a breach by META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats of its obligations.

META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may not be held liable for any failure, inaccessibility or malfunction of the Website attributable to inadequate equipment, malfunctions in the services provided to User by their Internet service provider or malfunctions affecting the Internet network. The same applies for any other reasons external to META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats.

Users acknowledge, furthermore, that the nature and constraints of the Internet network do not make it possible to guarantee the availability and proper functioning of the Website. Consequently, META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats does not guarantee that the Website will function without interruption or error. It is stipulated, in this respect, that:

the Website is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in the case of a force majeure event or an event outside the control of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats,
META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may be required to temporarily interrupt access to all or part of the Website, for some or all Users, for maintenance services to ensure the proper functioning of the Website, without notice and without any such interruption entitling Users to any form of compensation.

Users will refrain from holding META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats liable for such service interruptions or functional disruptions.

As the Internet is accessible to all, and in particular to ill-intentioned individuals, Users acknowledge that META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats cannot guarantee the secrecy of correspondence exchanged by means made available to Users.

Users represent that they are informed of the intrinsic nature of the Internet, and in particular of the fact (i) that data transmission over the Internet is only relatively reliable, as such data circulate via heterogeneous networks, with diverse characteristics and capacities, which can become saturated at certain times of the day, affecting the time necessary to download or access data, (ii) that the Internet is an open network and that consequently, the information it contains is not protected against the risk of misuse, intrusion of their system, hacking of the data, programs, and files contained in their system, or contamination by computer viruses, and (iii) that they are responsible for taking all appropriate measures to protect the data, files, and programs stored in their system against contamination by viruses and attempted intrusions into their system.

This Website (including, but not limited to, its content or any part thereof) only contains general information and META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats does not provide advice or professional services via this Website. Users must consult a qualified professional advisor prior to taking any decision or measure that may affect their legal or tax situation.

This Website is provided as is and META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats makes no guarantee, either express or implied, with regard to its content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats makes no guarantee with regard to the security of or absence of errors, viruses, or malware in this Website, or with regard to compliance with quality or performance criteria.

Users use this Website at their own risk and assume the risks and responsibilities resulting from such use, including, but not limited to, the absence of services or loss of data. META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats may not be held liable for direct material or non-material damage, whether or not incurred as a consequence of direct damage or damage of any other kind generated by an action in connection with your contractual or tortious liability (including, but not limited to, misconduct or negligence on the part of the User), even if META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats was aware or should have been aware of the risk of such damage.

Some links visible on this Website may redirect Users to other websites, resources or tools made available by META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats or by third parties over which META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats has no control, including, but not limited to, by staff of META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats. Notwithstanding the foregoing, META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats makes no representations or warranties, either express or implied, with regard to these websites, resources, or tools, and links to such websites, resources, or tools must not be construed as its approval of such websites or of their content.

The waivers and limitations of liability referred to above apply to META-LEGAL Société d’Avocats as well as to its partners, associates, and employees.

The waivers and limitations of liability referred to above apply within the limits provided by French legislation.

Article 11 – Partial Invalidity

Should all or part of these Terms of Use be invalid or unenforceable before any court, they must be interpreted within the limits authorized by the governing law and produce the same effects and waivers of liability as those set out in these Terms of Use.

Should one or several provisions of the General Terms of Use be held as invalid or declared as such by application of a law or regulation or following a final ruling by a court with jurisdiction, they will be deemed unwritten, and the other provisions will remain in effect.

Article 12 – Language of the Contract

Only the French version of the General Terms of Use will be binding between the parties and may be produced in court.

Article 13 – Governing Law

The Terms of Use are subject to French law.

Article 14 – Jurisdiction

In the event of a dispute between the parties in connection with the formation, interpretation, performance, and/or end of the contract, and after an attempt to find an amicable solution, jurisdiction is expressly attributed to the competent court of Lyon, notwithstanding multiple defendants, and even in the case of urgent or preventive measures, by application for summary proceedings or by petition.

These Terms of Use were updated on 11/16/2021.