Legal information

You are connected to the web site www.chamonix-booking.com edited by Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion.

CHAMONIX MONT-BLANC PROMOTION
Grouping of economic interests, Act of 28 September 1967
Maison du Tourisme
101 place du triangle de l’amitié
74 400 Chamonix Mont-Blanc
Tel: 04 50 53 05 58
Fax: 04 50 53 44 46
E-mail : contact@chamonix-promotion.com

TVA intra-communautaire : FR 20 492651880 00014
RCS Bonneville C4 – 2006 SIRET 492 651 880 000 14 – Code NAF 741 G
Récépissé CNIL : 1260508

General Conditions of Use

Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion reserves the right to update these legal Conditions of Use at any time. Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion invites all users of its site to consult this page on each visit to become acquainted with any changes.

Acceptance of the Conditions of Use of this site

By visiting this site and/or using its services, the user agrees to respect the Conditions of Use of this site,
to respect the right of third parties, and in conformity with the applicable law.
In addition, access to some services may be restricted and/or their use subject to additional and/or specific conditions.

Purpose of this site

The aim of this web site is to propose relevant commercial offers and to update what is currently on offer in Chamonix.
It also allows, in a totally independent manner, users and tourism professionals to come into contact with one another.

Access to the site

Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion will do its best to offer permanent access to the site i.e. 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. However, access to the site may have to be suspended at any time and without notice,
notably due to: System breakdowns; failures; paralysis of the network, system and/or means of communication; maintenance and necessary corrections due to site updates or improvements to the site.

The user promises not to obstruct access to the site and/or the correct functioning of the site in any way that could damage, intercept or interfere with part or all of the site.
Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion cannot be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage due to an interruption or dysfunction of any type, to the suspension of the site and/or its services, for whatever reason, of direct or indirect damage following whatever manner of access to the site and/or its services.
The users of this site acknowledge that they have the necessary competence and means to access and use this site.
The protocols of communication used are those in use on the internet.
Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion cannot be held responsible for elements beyond its control or for damage that could eventually be sustained by the technical environment of the user, notably computers, software, network equipment and all other equipment used in accessing or using the site and/or its services. The user is reminded that the accessing or the illegal use a computer, to hinder or distort the function of such equipment, or to introduce or fraudulently modify data is an offence that may be punished by penal sanctions.

Access to the site www.chamonix-booking.com is free. The cost of internet access and the use of the telecommunications network are at the user’s expense, according to their network operators’ terms and conditions.

Site content

Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion reserves the right to modify the content of this site at any moment and without prior notice.

The user is solely responsible for his decisions and subsequent actions taken on the basis of information contained in this site, All users who wish to take advantage of one or several services presented on the site are invited to contact Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion directly for the conditions that apply to this/these offer/s.

Access to services presented on the site may be subject to restrictions with respect to certain people or in certain countries. It is the responsibility of the user to check beforehand if their situation allows them to use the services presented on this site.

Intellectual property

This site (structure, presentation and content) make up a work that is protected by French and current international legislation covering the right of authorship and in a more general manner, the intellectual property. Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion is the owner, or holder of the rights of all elements that make up this site, notably the texts, information, drawings, graphics, photos and animations, sounds including downloadable documents. All rights, in particular operating rights, reproduction and extraction rights in any format, of part or all of the information, documents and all elements which figure in the pages of this web site, as well as the rights of representation and reproduction of any kind, on any part of this web site, modification rights, adaptation or translation rights, are the exclusive property of Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion. This also covers eventual eligible parties and those, subject to pre-existing rights, of third parties having authorised digital reproduction and/or the integration of this site, by Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion, of their work whatever their nature.

All reproduction, representation, diffusion or re-diffusion, in part or in its entirety, of the contents of this site by whatever process and without the prior authorisation of Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion is forbidden and will constitute an offence sanctioned by articles L335-2 of the Code of Intellectual Property. The reproduction of the texts and pages of this web site on paper is formally forbidden without the prior written authorisation of Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion.

Copies of documents contained in this site can only be used for information and exclusively for private use on one occasion only. All other reproduction or use of copies for other ends is strictly forbidden.

The mark of the Editor of this site and of his partners, as well as the social denominations and logos that appear on this site are protected. All reproduction, in part or in their entirety of these labels or logos, taken from elements on this site without the express permission of Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion or of its eligible parties is strictly prohibited under article L713-2 of the Code of Intellectual Property.

All the elements of this site, such as texts, graphics, logos, button graphics, images and photographs, sound clips, software, database and site ergonomics are the property of Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion. French law and international Intellectual Property law protect these elements. The code, layout and assembly, in part or in its entirety of the elements of this site are the exclusive property of Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion.

Responsibility

Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion declines all guarantee or responsibility for the information, specific or general, which is given on the site. This information is provided for information only. Transactions that are carried out via the site concern the tourism professionals and the user solely.

Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion cannot under any circumstances be held responsible, for whatever reason, for the services that are subject to the user being put into contact with a third party and/or the transactions involved, or the quality of the content communicated by the service suppliers. Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion does not guarantee, nor act as guarantor for the solvency or the respect of business commitments, or the quality of the services or their conformity.

In this respect, Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion will not be, under any circumstances, held responsible as the service provider for damages, whatever their nature, subjected to the user.

Litigation

Proof

Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion can use programmes, data, documents, copies, operations or other elements (such as follow up reports or other status) of whatever nature or under a computer or electronic based format, established, received or kept directly or indirectly by Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion.

Applicable Law

The use of this site and of its services is covered under French law, to the exception of all other legislation, wherever its place of use.

Jurisdiction

In the case of litigation, and if no amicable agreement can be reached, Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion and the user will submit themselves to the appropriate French jurisdictions of explicit competence, including procedures requiring temporary decisions and involving multiple defendants.

Confidentiality Charter

The web site www.chamonix-booking.com operated by the company GIE Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion has been regularly declared to the CNIL under the number :1260508.

Use of data

The information given on the web site allows www.chamonix-booking.com to deal with and treat the orders. In accordance with article 32 of the Freedom of Information Act of 6 January 1978, information that is indispensable
to www.chamonix-booking.com in order to deal with orders is marked with an asterisk on the pages of the web site.
Other requested information, for which a reply is optional, is destined to help get to know users and to improve the services that are offered, while continually assuring security.

The web site www.chamonix-booking.com offers a free service to web users called “Information letter”. This letter contains information about Chamonix and highlights what is new and on offer at any given moment.

If no objection is made by the user, and in the conditions laid out in the Confidentiality Charter, when a purchase is made from the site www.chamonix-booking.com may send by post or electronic mail, notably in the Information Letter, details on Chamonix and current special offers that may be of interest to the user.
In accordance with the Freedom and Information Act, web users who do not wish to receive the Information Letter may cancel their subscription with a simple click of the mouse.

Right of opposition

In accordance with the Freedom and Information Act, users have the right to oppose in the following manner:

• - By writing to Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion, 101 place du Triangle de l’Amitié, 74400 Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France
• - By sending an e-mail in the “contact” box on the site www.chamonix-booking.com

To unsubscribe from the Information Letter, the right of opposition equally applies:

• -By clicking on the link situated at the bottom of the Information Letter: “If you no longer wish to receive the Information Letter, click here”. Please note that the request is only taken into account if a confirmation message is displayed. If no confirmation message is displayed, please send an e-mail to the following address: contact@chamonix-promotion.com detailing the e-mail address to be removed. This request is instantly dealt with automatically and is confirmed on an HTML page taking the address to be removed. If this page does not appear this may mean that the request has not been processed. In this case, the user is asked to use the “contact” section in the web site putting “subscription cancellation” in the title.

If the user has refused the Information letter from www.chamonix-booking.com, he may return as often as he desires, make a booking or place an order on the site with the same address, but he will no longer receive the Information Letter unless specifically requested.

The right of access, modification, correction or deletion

In accordance with the Freedom and Information Act, users have the right to access, modify, correct or delete their own information (article 38-40 of the Freedom and Information Act, 6 January 1978).

This can be done by either:

• - Writing to Chamonix Mont-Blanc Promotion, 101 place du Triangle de l’Amitié 74 400 Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France.
• - Sending an a-mail via the ‘contact’ box on the web site www.chamonix-booking.com

Cookies

Consulting the site may cause cookies to be implanted into your computer. This facilitates your visit and improves the flow of dialogue.

When you use services of consultation, selection or reservation of holidays or trips on the site, your identity and your password is recorded in the cookie. This information is encrypted and is not accessible by non-authorised access to your computer.

You may refuse the installation of the cookie onto your computer but this may hinder or restrict access to certain services on the site.

You may refuse the installation of the cookie by configuring your navigator in the following manner:

• - If you navigate the web with Internet Explorer 3 or 4 (Microsoft): Click on “display”, “options” then “advanced”.
  Among the different warnings that may appear the fourth is entitled “warn before accepting cookies” and only on Internet Explorer 4, the fifth message is entitled “always refuse cookies”.
• - If you navigate with Internet Explorer 5 (Microsoft): click on “tools”, “internet options”, “security” then “personalise the level of security”. In the rubric “cookies” choose “ask” or “deactivate” for the two proposed options.
• - If you navigate with Navigator 3 (Netscape): click on “options”, “network preference”, “protocol”. Among the different warnings that may appear the first is entitled “warn before accepting a cookie”. Your navigation software will warn you when a cookie arrives and will be able to oppose its installation.
• - If you navigate with Communicator (Netscape): click on “edition”, “preferences” and highlight “advanced”. Choose the desired option.

Marketing and communication of the site www.chamonix-booking.com

Users of the site may be contacted by www.chamonix-booking.com in the following cases:

• - The purchase of tourism products, bookings or cancellations: For all bookings, purchases, modifications or cancellations of holidays, the client will receive a confirmation by e-mail.
• - Competitions: The user can request the transmission or modification of information supplied when entering a competition. This can be done by either i) sending an e-mail requesting modification to the information provided, or ii) requesting a copy of the information stocked during the duration of the competition.
• - Request for assistance or submission of a question or suggestion: chamonix-booking.com will reply by e-mail to all users requesting assistance in order to consult their orders, how to connect to the site, or how to consult their account.
• - E-mailing: Through the web site voyages-sncf.com users may be contacted, notably when playing games and/or entering competitions, by additional commercial e-mails. These e-mails will propose selective offers to users who have voluntarily subscribed and therefore given their authorisation to receive such offers.

Protection of information

To preserve the confidence of users when organising or purchasing holidays or trips on the web site,
www.chamonix-booking.com is careful to protect the information gathered on the site. They have therefore put a security system in place to protect the data stocked on their systems.

Photos Credits

• - Monica Dalmasso
• - Mario Colonel
• - Pascal Tournaire

This site is destined for use by private individuals only. As a consequence, no professional organisation (travel agent or tour operator) can benefit from the offers and prices proposed on the web site. All reservations carried out via this web site by professionals in the tourism industry will be legally null and void.