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Terms of use

Please read carefully the following terms of use which apply to all visitors of the website https://library.axavp.com/ (the “Website”).

 

ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF USE

When accessing to and using the Website, you accept in full these terms of use, including the attached Privacy Notice.

AXA Venture Partners reserves the right to add to, modify or remove and more generally update at any time, all or part of these terms of use. AXA Venture Partners will inform each visitor of the Website (a «User») about the modifications made to the present terms of use.

If the User does not respect these terms of use, AXA Venture Partners will be entitled to take all appropriate actions, including suspending or withdrawing the User’s right to access to the Website. If AXA Venture Partners does not immediately react, this does not mean that AXA Venture Partners waives its rights to act subsequently.

 

ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE

The Website is an internal information website published in English, solely intended for AXA Group employees, officers and directors around the world.

The information contained on the Website is given strictly for informative purposes and does not entail any legal commitment or implicit or explicit contractual agreement on the part of AXA Venture Partners, which also reserves the right to modify its characteristics at any time.

AXA Venture Partners is not a registered investment adviser and does not provide investment advice or recommendations. Similarly, the publications made available on the Website do not offer investment advice and nothing in them should be construed as investment advice. The information and publications contained on the Website are not, and should not be read as, an offer or recommendation to buy or sell or a solicitation of an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any securities.  The information and publications contained on the Website are not, and should not be seen as, a recommendation to use any particular investment strategy.

Access to any products and services presented on the Website may be subject to legal or regulatory restrictions for certain persons or in certain countries. None of the products and/or services will be supplied by AXA Venture Partners or any entity of the AXA Group (« AXA Group ») to a person if the law applicable to him/her prohibits it. However, it is up to all persons concerned to check beforehand with their advisors that their legal and tax status permits them to subscribe to the products and/or services presented on the Website if available. AXA Venture Partners declines all responsibility in case of violation of these restrictions by any person.

Access to the Website is free of charge. However, the costs of access and use of the telecommunications network shall be borne by the User, according to the terms stipulated by his/her Internet access provider and his/her telecom operator.

 

USER ACCOUNT

The use of the Website requires the creation of a User account which will be validated by the administrator of the Website prior to any use of the Website provided all conditions (including being an AXA Group employee, officer or director) are met. 

The User has the entire responsibility of maintaining the confidentiality of his/her account information, especially his/her password and of all the operations carried out with the account. He/she is responsible for his/her own activity carried out using his/her account or through it. He/she shall not use the same password for third-party applications.

The User is not allowed to use the account of any other person without such account holder’s permission.

The User undertakes to immediately notify AXA Venture Partners in case of non-authorised use of his/her account or of his/her password or any breach of security. He/she may be held responsible for the damages suffered by AXA Venture Partners or any other User due to the use, caused by his/her own intent or negligence, of his/her AXA login, his/her password or his/her account, by another person.

 

PRIVACY NOTICE

For any further information concerning the processing of Personal Data realised by the Website, please refer to the Privacy notice.

 

HYPERTEXT LINKS

The creation of hypertext links to the Website is subject to the explicit prior approval of AXA Venture Partners.

The Website can contain hypertext links to other sites. The existence of hypertext links between the Website and third-party sites means in no way that AXA Venture Partners approves the content of that site or the use which may be made, and may not, under any circumstances, incur AXA Venture Partners’s responsibility. The User visits the other sites at his/her own risks and under his/her responsibility.

AXA does not accept any responsibility for any third-party website linked to or from this website.

It is to be recalled that delays, omissions or inaccuracies are liable to occur because of the electronic transmission system.

 

COPYRIGHT LAW

All the elements of the Website, individually and as a whole, are governed by applicable legislation on intellectual property, including but not limited to copyright law and trademark law. The same applies to the form of the Website (tree view, layout, design, conviviality…), as well as to its content (logos, texts, images, illustrations, music, sounds…). Except for the contents owned by a third party and labelled as “External” on the Website (the “External Content”), the elements of the Website are the exclusive property of the AXA Group or are licensed to the AXA Group, and the AXA Group is the sole authorized user of such elements.

Any other complete or partial reproduction, representation or communication of the pages, the data and any other element constituting the Website (other than the External Content) by a User, by any process and on any support, as well as their modification, is prohibited, with the exception of prior and written authorization of AXA Venture Partners. Any other complete or partial reproduction, representation or communication of the External Content by a User, by any process and on any support, as well as their modification, shall comply with the intellectual property rights of the relevant third party as governed by applicable legislation.

“AXA” is a registered trademark. The trademarks, service marks and logos appearing on the Website are the property of the AXA Group. It is strictly forbidden to use or reproduce the name “AXA” and/or its logos, used alone or combined, in any capacity whatsoever, without AXA Venture Partners’s prior written agreement. 

The non-compliance with such prohibition constitutes an infringement which can result in civil and criminal liability.

 

USE OF THE WEBSITE

The User may use the Website to view all information made available on the Website and download   documents where this option is made available. In addition, some identified Users specifically authorized by the administrator of the Website will also be entitled to contribute information and documents to the Website. Any other use of the Website is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to the restrictions described below.

The User may not use the Website or its content for an improper purpose or a purpose forbidden by 

these terms of use, nor encourage any illegal activity, or other activity violating AXA Venture Partners’s rights or third parties’ rights. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the User may not use the Website or its content in violation of AXA Venture Partners’s, AXA Group’s or third parties’ intellectual property rights. 

The User is not allowed to use mechanisms, programs, algorithms or other automatic methods to access, obtain, copy or supervise any part of the Website, nor reproduce or bypass the navigation structure or the presentation of the Website in order to obtain data, documents or information. The User can only extract and/or re-use data, documents or information from the Website when this has been expressly authorized.

The User must not attempt to access unlawfully to any section or functionality of the Website, nor to any other system or connected network to the Website, nor to the services proposed on the Website, by hacking or using any other illegitimate means.

The User must not try to analyse or test the vulnerability of the Website or any connected network to the Website, nor violate the security and authentication measures put in place by the Website or the networks connected to the Website. The User is not authorized to question or trace information about other Users, especially all Users’ accounts which are not his/her own, or set up at his/her initiative, nor to exploit the Website or the services or the information made available on the Website, in any manner, for the purpose of revealing such information, especially personal identification information or the information other than his/her own information, as they appear on the Website.

The User agrees to take no action imposing an undue or unreasonable burden on the Website’s infrastructure, or systems or AXA Venture Partners’s networks, or any network connected to the Website or to AXA Venture Partners.

The User agrees not to use any mechanism or software to interfere or try to interfere with the proper function of the Website or with any transaction conducted on the Website or with any use of the Website by any other person.

The User must not try to infringe the headers or manipulate the identifying information in any manner, to mask the origin of the message or of an information sent to AXA Venture Partners using the Website, or a service offered by the Website. The User must not claim to be or represent someone else, nor pretend to be another natural or legal person.

AXA Venture Partners reserves the right at any time to modify or suspend temporarily or permanently the use of this Website and may not be held responsible for these changes, suspension or interruptions. Also, AXA Venture Partners declines all responsibility for the dysfunctions or interruptions during the use of the Website due to power failure, defection on telephone lines and/or internet or any other damaging event out of its control.

 

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

AXA Venture Partners may not be held responsible for events out of its control and the potential damages suffered by the technical environment of the User and notably his/her computers, software, network equipment or any other material to use the Website and/or information contained in it.

The confidentiality of correspondence is not guaranteed on the network and it is up to each User in particular to take all appropriate steps to protect his/her own data and/or software against contamination by any viruses circulating on the Internet.

The User agrees to compensate and release AXA Venture Partners from all responsibility regarding losses or complaints from third parties due to or in relation to the use made by such User of the Website.

 

COOKIES

Cookies are used on the Website in order to constantly improve the Website and to respond effectively to consumers expectations.

All information about cookies and disabling of cookies is available in the Cookies Policy.

 

ABSENCE OF GUARANTEE

AXA Venture Partners endeavours to keep this Website up to date. However, AXA Venture Partners guarantees neither the accuracy nor the completeness of any information presented.

Besides, to the extent permitted by applicable law, AXA Venture Partners may in no case be held responsible for any indirect or consequential damages, for whatever cause, origins, natures or consequences, resulting from a visit to the Website or associated with such a visit, particularly, and without limitation, for any loss of profits, interruption of activities or loss of software or data.

 

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The Website and its content are governed by French law subject to provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement by virtue of the law applicable to the User. All disputes in relation to the Website shall be subject to French courts.