General conditions of adhesion and use of the CarAchat.com site

As a virtual commercial forum, CarAchat.com, hereafter called CarAchat, presents on Internet the offers of vehicles dealers, private salesmen, suppliers of spare parts and accessories, companies of financing and leasing, insurances and other provisions of services in the sector of the market of the car.

While adhering to CarAchat, the user, that it is advertiser or interested, formally recognizes the validity of the general conditions of adhesion and use herewith.
All the advertisers approve the whole of these General Conditions by signing their purchase order, or by validating their registration as a professional on Internet. They guarantee the sincerity of their declarations.

1. Free Membership

The services suggested by CarAchat (advertisements of vehicles with photographs on Internet) are free for the private salesmen / advertisers (private individuals). This offer remains the same one for the dealers and the professionals, provided that they do not make simultaneously appear more than 15 advertisements.
The dealers are held to indicate their professional statute. CarAchat reserves the right to limit the free use constantly.

2. Paying Adhesion

The professionals (dealers) have the possibility of placing until 300 advertisements on CarAchat and can accede to other services (specified in the respective contract between CarAchat and the professional) on the basis of tariff into force suggested by CarAchat. Possible expenses of countable transactions occurring abroad are then the responsibility of the professional concerned. Are also regarded as professionals all the subsidiary companies, points of sale or sites of sale. In this case, a separate inscription is necessary.

3. Price

CarAchat reserves the right to modify the prices of its services. If our prices are modified, they come into effect from the moment when they are meant for the first time at the user.

4. Guarantee

CarAchat places at the disposal of the users the technical means and conditions which allow the transmission of data (advertisements), but does not intercede in the operations of purchase or of sale of vehicles.
CarAchat does not guarantee in no case the concluding of sale contracts with the dealers, the second-hand vehicles or the batches of second-hand vehicles being proposed by the dealers, and CarAchat does not interced in the choice or description of the aforesaid vehicles. You recognize that the information placed at your disposal on the CarAchat site is neither complete, nor exhaustive and it belongs to you to check the aforementioned information before their implementation, and this in particular before the concluding of any sale contract of a vehicle.

CarAchat will not be able in no case to be held for person in charge in that capacity. CarAchat will not be held either for person in charge in the event of no conclusion for sale, not payment of the price or lack of delivery of the possibly sold second-hand vehicles.
Moreover, CarAchat does not guarantee the solvency and the good faith of the purchaser, nor his capacity to buy the second-hand vehicle.
Consequently, you recognize that CarAchat could not be blamed for the diffusion of the information and the services suggested on the site, and you accept that the use of this information and services will be done under your only and whole responsibility, control and authority.

Moreover you recognize that CarAchat does not intercede neither in the conclusion of the possible sale contracts nor in the delivery of the vehicles or the determination of the price.
CarAchat could not be engaged, directly or indirectly in the transactions which obey the general rules of the Civil code (art 1641 and art follows.)

5. Data processing and Freedoms.

The user agrees so that his data are memorized electronically in accordance with "data-processing and freedoms" laws in force in France.
In accordance with the Data-processing and Freedoms laws, art. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, the private individuals advertisers have a right of access and of correction of the data with regard to them which appear in our files. Except opposition of their share, by mail with the service customers, these data could be used by third parties.

6. The respect of the laws and payments

You are informed that the set of laws and payments in force are applicable on Internet. For this reason, when you use the services offered on the CarAchat site and that you browse on the site CarAchat it belongs to you to respect the whole applicable regulations.

CarAchat, and in certain cases its partners, are owners of the entire rights of ownership intellectual and industrial relating to the contents of the CarAchat site.

For this reason, it is pointed out to you that any mention relating to the existence of rights could not be removed and that all reproduction, total or partial, unauthorized would constitute an act of counterfeit.

Moreover, it is prohibited to you to carry out an extraction qualitatively or quantitatively substantial of the data bases put on line on the CarAchat site, or to use these data bases within an abnormal framework.

CarAchat reserves faculty to remove immediately and without setting in preliminary residence all contents some nature that they are, and in particular any message, any photography or graph which would contravene the laws and payments in force.

In the same way, the set of the laws and payments apply to the time of your participation in the interactive services suggested on the CarAchat site.

CarAchat can refuse advertisements, modify them or erase them completely; it can terminate the contract for serious reasons without having to respect a time and to durably prohibit adhesion with certain advertisers, in particular when the member has broke the present General Conditions or does not respect the system in another manner, or is long in regulating its credits with CarAchat

7. The hyperlinks

The installation of a hyperlink towards CarAchat requires a preliminary authorization of CarAchat. You must consequently contact our webmaster. CarAchat can not in no case be responsible for the contents, information, the products and the services offered on the sites which make the subject of a hyperlink starting from the CarAchat site.

8. Passwords and login

You are responsible for the guard of the login and passwords which are allotted to you by CarAchat. It rests with to you to implement measures of precaution and safety necessary to the protection of your password and your login.

In the event of loss or of theft of your password and/or your login, or if you take note of the use of your login and password by an unauthorized third, you must immediately contact us (contact the webmaster). CarAchat will not be able in no case to be held responsible for fraudulent use of your login and password by a third.

9. Your personal data

In accordance with the Data-processing law, with the files and freedoms n°78-17 of January 6, 1978, we inform you that your answers to the questions which are asked to you in the headings of the CarAchat site are obligatory in order to allow the supply of the services which interest you and which are offered to you through CarAchat site.

They are exclusively intended for CarAchat, with exception of information that you will communicate to us like the requests for matter of insurance estimates and financing, which will be also communicated to our partners for this purpose.
You lay out a right of access and correction relative with all information concerning you on request, by sending a mail to the following address : info@carachat.com.

10. Safety

You recognize that Internet has technical specificities which implies the impossibility for CarAchat.com to guarantee the absolute continuity of access to the service and the response times, as well as safety in the transmission of the data.

11. General measures

CarAchat reserves faculty to modify the provisions of these general conditions. If our conditions are modified, they come into effect from the moment when they are meant for the first time at the user.

Continuously to use the CarAchat site and to browse, you accept the modifications which would have thus intervened.

If one or more of the provisions of these general conditions were invalidated for some cause that is the other provisions will keep all their force and their range. In the event of difficulty of interpretation between one of the titles and the clauses to which they are referred, the litigious title will be declared non-existent.

The present general conditions are controlled by the French law, the rules of substance and the rules of form.

12. Litigations:

In the event of litigation, the responsibility express is allocated to the Jurisdictions of Strasbourg, notwithstanding pluralities of defenders.

Haguenau, August the 7th, 2002