Terms of Use

Welcome to the showcase website for the European project THyGA (hereinafter referred to as “The Website”), a project led by ENGIE SA, GERG, DGC, GAS.BE, Electrolux, BDR Thermea, GWI, DVGW-EBI & CEA.

In accordance with the law, please read these terms of use (hereinafter referred to as “the Terms”), and any special terms stated on the pages of the Website that govern your use of the THyGA Website. These Terms cover your rights and legal responsibilities that apply as soon as you use the Website.

The Website is available to you free of charge (excluding Internet connection charges) for your personal use, subject to compliance with the Terms set out below.

By accessing, visiting or using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms, and that you undertake to comply with all relevant laws and regulations. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the present Website.

You undertake to access the information provided on the Website exclusively for personal, non-commercial use.

You may use the Website for legitimate purposes only; it may not be used or misappropriated for purposes contrary to Public Order and Morality.

The contents of the present Terms may be subject to change; as a result, please consult them regularly.

The Website is published by ENGIE SA, a public limited company with a capital 2,435,285,011 euros, registered in the Nanterre Trade and Companies Register under number 542107651, with its head office located at 1 place Samuel de Champlain, 92400 Courbevoie,France. Telephone number:  +33-1- 4422-0000. Contact : contact_thyga@engie.com

Ms. Adeline Duterque is the publishing director of the Website.

The Website is hosted by the company IKOULA: 175-177 Rue d’Aguesseau, 92100 BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France. Telephone number: +33-1-8401-0250. Contact: ikoula@ikoula.com.

Waiver and Limitation of Liability 

As a user of the Website, you accept that you have the necessary skills and means to access and use the Website. 

ENGIE and its contributors make every effort to ensure that the information provided on the Website is accurate and up to date, reserving the right to modify the content at any time and without prior notice. However, they cannot guarantee that this information is complete, or that it has not been modified by a third party (hacking, virus, etc.). ENGIE and its contributors accept no direct or indirect liability in the event of delay, error or omission with regard to the contents and use of the Website’s pages, even in the event of the service being interrupted or unavailable.

You agree that you have been informed that the Website is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in the event of force majeure, problems related to the telecommunications network structure, or other technical difficulties. ENGIE may shut down its Website for maintenance purposes. In this case, it will make every effort to notify users in advance. ENGIE is not responsible for delays, operating problems or incompatibility between the present Website and files, your browser or any other program used for access to the Website.

ENGIE may under no circumstances be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from or subsequent to third-party distribution of a virus by means of the Website, which may infect your computer system following connection to this Website, use of the Website, or browsing on the Website. Likewise, ENGIE may not be held liable for any material or consequential damage (including but not limited to technical failure, disclosure of confidential documents and data loss), or for any other indirect damage, arising from or associated with the use of the Website.

ENGIE makes every possible effort to ensure that the information provided on the Website is accurate and up-to-date, and reserves the right to correct the contents at any time and without prior notice. However, ENGIE and its contributors make no undertaking and assume no liability, under any circumstances whatsoever, with regard to the relevance, continuity, accuracy, absence of errors, veracity, timeliness, fair and commercial nature, quality, validity and availability of the information contained in this Website. Each Internet user shall be fully responsible for the risks incurred by giving credence to this information. Incorrect information or omissions may be encountered arising from typographical or formatting errors. If you find any such errors, please inform us so that we can make the relevant corrections.

The information on the Website is provided “as seen”, without guarantee of any kind, whether implied or explicit. 

ENGIE reserves the right to modify any content of the Website at its sole discretion. Pursuant to its policy of updating and improving the Website, ENGIE may decide to modify the presentTerms. 

Any dated information published on the Website is valid exclusively for the specified date.

Users are also reminded that the confidentiality of correspondence cannot be guaranteed on the network and that every Internet user is responsible for taking all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software from contamination by any viruses that may be circulating on the Internet.

Intellectual Property

The Website is fully subject to French law on copyright, trademarks and, in general, on intellectual property. 

The trademarks and logos (semi-figurative trademarks) of ENGIE and its partners shown on the Website are registered trademarks. Any full or partial reproduction or representation, alone or in company with other elements, without the prior express written authorization of ENGIE or of the concerned partner is strictly forbidden.

The general structure, software, texts, images, videos, sounds, know-how, animations, and more generally all information and content shown on the Website, are the property of ENGIE and/or its partners or are subject to rights of use or exploitation. These elements are subject to copyright law.

Any full or partial representation, modification, reproduction, distortion, of all or part of the Website or its contents, by any procedure whatsoever and in any medium whatsoever, constitutes an infringement sanctioned by articles L 335-2, and subsequent articles, of Intellectual Property Code.

The present Terms do not grant you any license for the use of trademarks, logos or photographs belonging to ENGIE or its partners. 

If you wish to use some of the Website content (text, image, etc.), you must obtain prior express written authorization from ENGIE or the concerned partner, by writing to the following email address:
contact_thyga@engie.com.

Hyperlinks

ENGIE may not be held liable for hyperlinks to other websites, and particularly for the content of those websites.

ENGIE is not liable for hyperlinks from other sites to the present Website.

Governing Law and Competent Jurisdiction

If one of the parties does not exercise its rights or recourse to any legal action within the present Terms, this shall not be interpreted as the party renouncing the exercise of that right or that action.

The Website is governed by French Law. The present Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with French law. In the case of a disagreement, the Parties shall endeavor to find an amicable solution before any referral procedure. If an amicable settlement is not found, the relevant jurisdictions for hearing the case will be the materially and territorially competent French courts.

If, for any reason whatsoever, a competent court were to rule that a provision of the present Terms is invalid, the invalidity of that provision will not in any way affect the validity of the remaining Terms, which will remain in force.