Terms of use

Terms of use

Please read this Terms of Use carefully before using Marin’s International website, as they affect your legal rights and obligations.

As used in these Terms of Use (“Terms”), the term “this Website” means this website and all pages and content within this website, including without limitation, all screens, documents, communications, files, text, graphics , elements, designs, logos, images, icons and all other data or information made available by or through the Website (unless otherwise specified herein).

Information about Us

Thank you for visiting the Website that is operated by Marin’s International, a company registered in Paris, France under company number 399.540.210 and with a share capital of € 646.400,00.

Our main trading address is: 62 Boulevard Davout, 75020 Paris (France)
To contact us, please e-mail: contact@marins.net
To contact us by phone: + 33 (0)1 56 93 35 50
The Director of Publication is: Jean-Michel GAFFE
The site is hosted by: OVH – www.ovh.com

Use and Acceptance

Marin’s International and its subsidiaries (collectively “Marin’s ”/” we”/ “us”/ “our”) provides you with access to this Website, and the services provided by and through this Website (the “Service” or “Services”) subject to these Terms. Please read these Terms carefully. By accessing or using this Website (including without limitation, merely browsing, this Website) or any Service or Services, you agree without restriction to be bound by these Terms and signify your agreement to, and acceptance of, all of their provisions. If you are using this Website on behalf of your employer, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to accept these Terms on your employer’s behalf. If you do not agree to follow and be bound by these Terms, please do not access or use materials from this Website, and do not use this Website.

Nature of Information

This Website is presented on an “as is,” “as available,” and “with all faults” basis, without any warranty whatsoever, whether express or implied. You have no assurance, and Marin’s makes no representations warranties or guarantees, that any part of this Website or any information presented in this Website is reliable, accurate, suitable, timely, useful or complete. This website is provided for your information only. It is comprehensive and is subject at any time to revision and/or change and/or cancellation and/or modification and/or alteration without any notice whatsoever. Under no circumstance will Marin’s be liable or responsible to you for any errors or omissions in any information contained in this Website. MARIN’S HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, OF ANY TYPE, KIND, NATURE OR DESCRIPTION WHATSOEVER, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED AND INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, WITH REGARD TO ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS WEBSITE.

No Liability

If you choose to use this Website or any of the Services, you must do so at your own risk. Under no circumstance will Marin’s be liable to you or any third party for, and you hereby knowingly and voluntarily release Marin’s from, any claim relating to, any loss or damage that you might directly or indirectly suffer (including, without limitation, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, lost profits, and damages resulting from lost data or business interruption, loss of business opportunity or reputation), or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: (a) your use of this Website or any Service, (b) your inability to use this Website or any Service, irrespective of the cause of that inability, (c) any delay in or interruption of your use of this Website or any Service, irrespective of the cause of that delay or interruption, (d) any corruption of any data that is transmitted by you to Marin’s via this Website, transmitted by Marin’s to you via this Website, or transmitted by Marin’s to you by any method whatsoever, (e) your reliance upon any information presented in this Website, (f) your use of any website to which this Website may be linked, your use of any service provided by and through any such website, your reliance upon any information presented in any such website, or your purchase of any product by way of any such website, (g) the transmission of any virus, worm or other corruptive, contaminating or destructive property or device from this Website to any computer that you may use to access or communicate with this Website, (h) any intentional or unintentional disclosure or publication of any information transmitted by you to Marin’s by way of this Website or in connection with any Services, or (i) any other act, omission, matter or thing whatsoever having to do with this Website or any Service.

Links

Marin’s may include or post links (e.g. “hyperlinks”) in this Website to other websites that are not owned or controlled by Marin’s. Marin’s is not responsible for the content of such linked websites or any of the products or services offered or provided by or through such linked websites, including information related to Marin’s products or services, and you should not consider the posting of any such link as an endorsement by Marin’s of the linked website. Marin’s makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or reliability of any information presented in any linked website or any product or service offered by and through any linked website. Users access such websites at their own risk.

Further Restrictions on Your use of this Website

You will use this Website only for lawful purposes. In connection with your use of this Website or any Services, you will not engage in any conduct that, in any manner, inhibits or interferes with the ability of any other user to use this Website or the use of any Services including, without limitation, (i) pretending to be Marin’s or an agent or employee of Marin’s, (ii) misrepresenting your affiliation with Marin’s, (iii) defacing of any portion of this Website, (iv) mirroring this Website or any URL or other identifier connected with this Website, (v) collecting, manipulating or storing data about other users of the Website, or (vi) engaging in any so-called “spamming” activity (including without limitation the transmission of spam, bulk or unsolicited email or other message delivery). You will not communicate with, on or through this Website in any unlawful, harmful, offensive, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, profane, pornographic, sexually explicit, vulgar, bigoted or otherwise objectionable manner, including, without limitation, any manner that encourages activity that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or violate any law. Your use of this Website and any Service is at the pleasure of Marin’s, and Marin’s may terminate your right to use this Website or any Service at any time and for any reason, in its sole and absolute discretion and without notice to you.

Your Feedback, Comments, Suggestions, Ideas, And Any Communications Made through the “Contact Us” Portion of this Website

Any information you submit to Marin’s through or in connection with this Website is non-confidential and non-proprietary. Marin’s cannot guarantee, and is not responsible for, delivery or receipt of any such information that you submit through email or through this Website. If you communicate or transmit any ideas, information, concepts, techniques, know-how or materials to Marin’s through this Website (including by using the “Contact Us” or email portions of this Website), you hereby grant Marin’s a perpetual, unconditional, unrestricted, irrevocable, fully paid and royalty free license to use and exploit the same in any manner and for any purpose, without any right to compensation from Marin’s and free of all moral, intellectual property , proprietary, trade secret, and other rights.

Intellectual Property Rights

All of the intellectual property relating to this Website, including without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, patents, and other rights in and to the content of this Website, belongs to Marin’s. In no event and under no circumstances will any rights or interests in or to any of such intellectual property transfer to you.

Except as otherwise indicated as to particular content of this Website, this Website is the copyrighted property of Marin’s and is protected by copyright laws, state copyright laws and international treaties. All such rights are reserved. None of the content of this Website may be copied or disseminated by you in any manner.

You will not reverse engineer, remove, disassemble, decompile, modify, reproduce, mirror, frame, republish, transcribe, store in a retrieval system or transfer or translate into any electronic, mechanical, computer, photographic, recordation or other media, any portion of this Website, including without limitation, any structure, text, images, graphics, designs, algorithms, object code , source code or creative works. For the avoidance of doubt, you will also not use any “deep-link,” “page-scrape,” “robot,” “spider,” or other automatic device program, algorithm or methodology, to access, copy, acquire or monitor any portion of this Website.

If you use any content or intellectual property relating to this Website that is not allowed under these Terms, you are violating these Terms, and may be violating copyright, trademark, and other laws. In the event that such use and violation occur, in Marin’s’ sole discretion, your permission to use this Website may be revoked without limiting Marin’s’ other rights in any manner.

Privacy Protection

Marin’s understands that the security of your personal information is an important concern. This Privacy Statement (together with our Term of Use and any other documents referred to in it) provides you with information about how Marin’s and its subsidiaries may collect, use, store, and share the information both personal and non-personal, that may be collected through the use of our Websites. Personal data collected during visits to this Website is processed and handled by Marin’s in accordance with applicable data protection law, including the GDPR and the Privacy Policy posted on our Website. As noted above, this Website may include links to other websites. Marin’s has no responsibility or liability for or relating to the privacy policies or practices of any other website, or the manner in which any data is collected or handled by any other website.

Processing and Collection of Data

When you visit this Website, Marin’s servers and equipment may automatically record the following personal information and data: websites from which you visit this Website, the name of your internet service provider, the websites you visit, the date and length of your visit, and any personal or identifying information you send Marin’s through the “Contact Us” or similar situations in which you have chosen to provide the information to Marin’s.

When you visit this Website, Marin’s servers and equipment may automatically record technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We may collect and use this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see section “Information about use of cookies” below for further details.

The type of personal data Marin’s may collect and use includes identity data (including name), contact data (including email address and telephone number), country, location, language preference, employment data (including job description), transaction data (details of products and services you have purchased or are interested in purchasing from us) and any other personal data you provide to use via the “Contact Us”.

Storing Your Personal Data

As Marin’s operate internationally, your Personal Data may be stored and processed outside the European Union, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in the European Union.

In case, your Personal Data is transferred outside the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your Personal Data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Data by the European Commission;
• We have guaranteed an adequate level of data protection by way of European Commission approved standard contractual clauses which give Personal Data the same protection it has in the EEA.
• We may transfer Personal Data to US-based service providers, only if they have subscribed a legal framework that requires them to provide similar protection to Personal Data shared between the EEA and the USA.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism we used when transferring your Personal Data out of the EEA.

Data Retention

We only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Information About Use of Cookies

(a) Our Use of Cookie

Like most Websites, this Website contains cookies and similar technologies including web beacons, active components, and third-party tracking tools to provide users an efficient experience in using the Website.

A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your computer or mobile device by your browser. It is a tool that stores information about website visits, recognizes you and your preferences each time you visit the Website, and ensure website functionality and enables us to provide the service which our customers request.

A cookie file could contain information such as the links you click on from this Website, the search term you use, the date and time you access this Website, which pages you visit on this Website, any internet address of websites from which you linked directly to this Website, the name of the domain from which you access the internet, and the type of web browser software you use but the only personal data a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.

By using this Website you accept the use of these cookies. If your browser settings are set up as “Do Not Track”, we will not use cookies and tracking technologies.

(b) Purposes of Cookies

Marin’s may use cookies for a variety of purposes, including providing you the Service you have requested, to enhance your online experience, for example, by viewing preferences from a previous use of this Website, for when you later return to the Website. In particular, the use of cookies falls into four categories.

– Strictly necessary cookies: these are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features. Without these cookies, the Services you have asked for cannot be provided. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.

– Performance cookies: these cookies are used to improve how this Website works and to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. They collect information about how users use this Website, for instance which pages are visited most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

– Functionality cookies: these cookies allow us to remember what choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

– Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They remember that you have visited the Website and this information may be shared with other organizations, e.g. advertisers. Our use of cookies may change over time but will generally fall into the above categories. Please visit this page regularly so that you are aware of any changes.

(c) Manage the cookie used

You can find more information under the following link: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

You may control and block the cookies used by the Website by modifying the settings in your browser or on your device that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser or device settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.

Most modern browsers allow you to manage cookies saved on your computer:

Google Chrome

To amend the cookies settings:

1. Click on the chrome menu.
2. Select settings.
3. Click + Show advanced settings at the bottom of the page
4. Under the Privacy section click the Content settings button
5. In the Cookies section you are able to change the settings, such as allow cookies, remove all cookies, block third party cookies.

Further, more detailed instructions are available here: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647

Internet explorer 8,9 and 10

1. Select the Tools menu (ALT-X)
2. Select Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy tab
4. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings.
5. For more specialised settings click on the Advanced button, check the Override cookie handling checkbox and modify the settings to suit your requirements.

Further instruction are available here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cooki…

Mozilla Firefox

1. Select Options
2. Click the Privacy tab

To clear cookies, select the remove individual cookies link.
To amend the cookie settings, change the Firefox will dropdown in the History section to Use custom settings for history.

Further instructions are available here: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-p…

Safari

1. Choose Safari settings menu
2. Select Preferences
3. Click the Privacy tab.
4. In the Block cookies section, specify whether the browser should accept or reject cookies from websites.
5. If you want to see which websites store cookies on your computer, click Details.

If you set Safari to block cookies, you may need to temporarily accept cookies to open a page. Repeat the above steps, selecting Never in the “Block cookies” section. When you’re done with the page, block cookies again, and then remove the page’s cookies.

Further details are available here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Other browsers

With new devices being created all the time, including tablets and phones it is not possible to list every browser for every device. The best advice is to consult the manufactures website for further instructions regarding cookies.

Security

Marin’s uses technical and organizational security measures to protect the data it obtains through this Website against loss, destruction, manipulation, unauthorized disclosure and access by unauthorized persons. However, the nature of the internet is such that Marin’s does not, and cannot, guarantee the safety of any information, including without limitation, personally identifiable information, submitted to or through this Website, or collected on this Website via the internet.

Children

Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), Marin’s will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of thirteen (13) without requiring parental consent. Any person who uses this Website or provides their personal information to Marin’s through this web site represents that they are thirteen (13) years of age or older.

International Use/Export

This Website can be accessed from countries around the World and may contain references to products or Services that may never be available in your country. This Website is controlled, operated, and administered by Marin’s from its offices and/or divisions both within the United States of America and one or more other countries. Marin’s makes no representation that the Website or the Services are appropriate or available for use at other locations outside of the United States of America, and access to the Website from territories where the Website or its contents are illegal is prohibited. By using this Website, including without limitation, any Service, product or download that Marin’s may make available to you, you represent and certify such use or transaction is in compliance with all import and export laws of the United States of America and your country. If you choose to access the Website, you are solely responsible for complying with applicable law.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Your use of this Website or any Services, and these Terms, will be governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, without regard to the laws of any jurisdiction that concern conflicts of laws. Any dispute relating to your use of this Website or any Service or the interpretation or enforcement of these Terms will be brought and resolved in state or federal courts located in the State of Wisconsin. You consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts in the State of Wisconsin.

Severability

If for any reason any provision of these Terms is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision or such part thereof as may be unenforceable or invalid will be deemed severed from these Terms, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will be carried out with the same force and effect as if the severed provision or part thereof had not been a part of these Terms.

No Waiver

No waiver of any of these Terms will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of any of these Terms or any other term, condition, policy, or rule included in this Website. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by Marin’s.

Hold Harmless

You agree to indemnify and hold Marin’s, its successors, assigns, affiliates, parent or subsidiary entities, and its past, present or future officers, managers, directors, governors, shareholders, partners, members, managers, employees, representatives, agents, and insurers, harmless, from and against claims, losses, costs, damages and liability resulting from your use of this Website or your violation of these Terms or any other term, condition, policy, or rule included in this Website.

No Advice

Marin’s is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other similar advice or professional services. If legal or other professional advice is required, you should seek the services of a competent professional.

Headings

Paragraph or section headings have been used in these Terms for convenience purposes only. They are not a part of the provisions to which they relate and they will not limit the scope of the provisions to which they relate.

Modification of Content or Terms

Marin’s may add content to this Website, delete content from this Website or modify any of the content of this Website at any time and for any reason without notice to you or any other person.

Marin’s may add, modify or amend these Terms at any time and for any reason without notice to you or any other person. Any additions, modifications or amendments to these Terms will be effective immediately upon posting to this Website. You must review these Terms each time you enter this Website. By viewing content on this Website or using this Website, you accept the most recent version of these Terms.

You accept and agree to all other rules and policies related to this Website. You may also be subject to additional terms that may apply when you access certain areas or materials on this Website, by using certain Services, or by following a link from this Website.

Invitation

Subject to these Terms, Marin’s invites you to explore and enjoy this Website.