Legal notice and general conditions of use for Proparco’s website

Address of headquarters and contact details:

• Address: 151 rue Saint-Honoré – 75001 Paris, France
• Tel.: +33 1 53 44 37 37  
• Fax: +33 1 53 44 38 38

CNIL registration n°:

• Request for opinion n° 1006154 registered on 04 September 2004
• Tacit opinion n° 044684 of 30 June 2004

Content management system: 

• Drupal 8

Editorial manager and content management:

• Laurence Rouget-Le-Clech, Communication manager of PROPARCO’s Communication Unit

Publishing director:

• Françoise Lombard

Content management: 

• PROPARCO’s Communication Unit

Hosting of afd.fr website 

• Corporate name: Alter Way Hébergement
• Form of company: Joint-stock company
• Headquarters: 1 rue Royale, Bat D - 227, les Bureaux de la colline, 92210 SAINT CLOUD, France
• Phone contact:  +33 1 41 16 34 95
• Number and city of registration in the Trade and Companies Register: NANTERRE 423 995 224
• Company’s share capital: EUR 812,801
• Intra-Community VAT n°: FR 46 423 995 224 

Design, graphic design, development and technical follow-up 

• Corporate name: Adiméo
• Form of company: Limited liability company
• Headquarters: 218 avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 PARIS, France
• Phone contact:  +33 1 42 01 34 05
• Number and city of registration in the Trade and Companies Register: PARIS B 480 980 358
• Company’s share capital: EUR 100,000 Intra-Community VAT n°: FR 29 480 980 358

Proparco welcomes you on its institutional website: the website which presents its mandates, its operation, its financing and its achievements. 

Any connection to Proparco’s website is subject to compliance with the present conditions. For the Internet user (hereinafter “the user”), simply accessing Proparco’s website implies the acceptance of all the conditions set out below and the undertaking to respect them.

Presentation of the website

The purpose of Proparco’s website is to provide general information about Proparco by the URL address: www.proparco.fr.
Proparco’s website has been designed with French as the working language. For your convenience, Proparco has made certain parts of the website available in other languages, including English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Proparco endeavors to guarantee the proper functioning and IT security of this website, as well as the accuracy and updating of the information disseminated on it. However, Proparco cannot guarantee the accuracy, precision or exhaustiveness of the information available on this website.

The tweets which may appear on Proparco’s website are the sole responsibility of their authors, in accordance with the general conditions of Twitter.

The content which may appear on Proparco’s website from Private Sector and Development, platform for debates on development coordinated by AFD Group, are the sole responsibility of their authors. Furthermore, these blogs are governed by their own general conditions of use. It is your responsibility to read them when you access the blogs. 

It is the responsibility of users of the website to verify the information through other means, including by contacting Proparco’s Communication Department.

Users should be aware of the risks related to using Internet services.

Consequently, they acknowledge and accept that:

• They use Proparco’s website at their own risk
• Proparco shall not be held liable for any interruptions and the possible consequences for any Internet user
• Proparco’s obligation to supply information is restricted to an obligation of means
• Proparco reserves the right to correct or delete, at any time and without prior notice, the general structure of the website or content
• Proparco cannot guarantee the exhaustiveness of information or that there has been no modification by a third party (intrusion, virus).

Consequently, Proparco shall not be held liable:

• For any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission concerning the information available on the website
• For the content of tweets, which are the sole responsibility of their authors
• For the content of the blog Private Sector and Development, which is also the sole responsibility of their authors
• For any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party, leading to a modification of the information made available on the website
• More generally, for any direct or indirect damage, whatever the cause, origin, nature or consequences, subsequent to access by any person to the website, or the inability to access the website, as well as the use of the website and/or the credit attributed to any information provided directly or indirectly by the latter
• In the event of inability to access this website and/or use services. 

Any questions concerning the present conditions of use of the website should be addressed to the webmaster of Proparco’s website at the following address, or by using this form.

Proparco, 

Cellule Communication

151, rue Saint-Honoré, 

75001 Paris

Intellectual property rights

Proparco holds the full copyright for Proparco’s website and for the services provided. Consequently, you are not permitted to sell, adapt, modify, reproduce, disseminate, transfer or use in any other manner, all or part of Proparco’s website or the services provided, in any form or by any means, on any current or future support. 
Any user that does not comply with the laws and regulations in force shall risk being taken to court by Proparco. 

Reporting abuse

Proparco is not subject to any general obligation to oversee or search for illegal content. However, Proparco makes every effort to preserve the quality of the content of Proparco’s website.  
Should you observe or consider that part of the content on AFD’s website presents a manifestly illicit character, please report it by filling in this form.

Any abusive notification may render you liable to civil or criminal sanctions.

Right of reply

Should you consider that part of the content harms your image, you have the right of reply by filling in this form.

Your right of reply will be published within three working days from the date of receipt of your message. Any abusive notification may render you liable to civil or criminal sanctions. 
Mirroring forbidden

No online publication of the website by a third party is authorized under another URL without the prior express authorization by Proparco.

Hypertext links

1. Proparco authorizes any website to establish a link to the address www.proparco.fr, after giving advance notice at the following address:
2. Any such link must respect the applicable legal provisions and regulations. Proparco shall in no way be held liable for links established from another website to Proparco’s website.
3. Proparco reserves the right, at any time, without prior notice and without giving any reason, to forbid these links. In such case, Proparco shall inform the person concerned, who shall have 2 working days to delete the link.
4. Proparco shall in no way be held liable for hypertext links established towards other websites, in particular concerning the content of these websites.

Amendments to the present general conditions of use 

Proparco reserves the right to amend, at any time and without prior notice, the present conditions of use in order to adapt them to changes on the website and/or in its use.

Integrity of the contract

Should one or several of the clauses of the present conditions of use be declared null and void pursuant to a law, regulation, or as a result of a definitive ruling by a competent jurisdiction, the other clauses of the general conditions shall remain binding within the limits of the said decision.

Laws and jurisdiction of courts

The present conditions of use and legal notice, as well as Proparco’s website, are governed by the provisions of French law.
If an amicable settlement is not reached within a reasonable time, any disputes that may arise in the use of Proparco’s website, or in the interpretation or application of the general conditions of use, shall be subject to the exclusive competence of the French courts.

The Proparco website collects personal data. We attach the utmost importance to the protection and confidentiality of data protection. The purpose of this information is to help you understand how we process your personal data.

When you register on our website to receive our newsletters, the data you enter in the registration form is to be processed for the purpose of the management of our information services.

The details of the purposes pursued are therefore as follows:

- Management of newsletter subscriptions

- Management of electronic newsletters

- Development of statistics relating to the services offered

- Occasional surveys to improve our information services

The legal basis for the processing of your data is the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

The information presented as mandatory in the registration form is required in order to send you newsletters and meet your expectations as part of your registration process. Non-mandatory information allows us, on the one hand, to produce statistical indicators on the audience for our newsletters and, on the other hand, to inform you specifically about conferences and workshops organized in your country of residence.

The recipients of the data are:

- authorized staff, in charge of external communication activities

- authorized personnel from our service providers involved, if applicable.

To manage and send our newsletters, we use the services of MailChimp, whose servers are located in the United States. However, your rights under European data protection regulations are guaranteed by the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. For more information, please contact us at the email address below.

You can access your data, rectify it, request its erasure or exercise your right to limit the processing of your data. To exercise your rights, or for any question relating to your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer:

• By email to the following address: libertes@afd.fr
• Oneline : Access the online form
• By post to the following address: Agence française de développement - Data Protection Officer, 5, rue Roland Barthes - 75598 Paris Cedex 12 | France.

If you feel, after contacting us, that your “Data Protection” rights have not been respected, you can file a complaint with the CNIL.