Legal Notice

In accordance with the provisions of French law n° 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 on Confidence in the Digital Economy (LCEN) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – EU 2016/679), we provide the following information to users and visitors of the website icibiarritz.com.

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1. Publisher

The website icibiarritz.com is published by:

EGREGORE SAS
Simplified joint-stock company (Société par actions simplifiée) with a share capital of €5,000.00
Registered office: 5 rue Monhaut – 64200 Biarritz, France
SIRET: 850 987 892 00021
RCS Bayonne
President: Stéphane Coccalemen
Contact email: contact@icibiarritz.com

2. Publication Director

The publication director is Stéphane Coccalemen, acting as President of EGREGORE SAS.

3. Hosting

The website icibiarritz.com is hosted by:

Scaleway SAS
8 rue de la Ville l’Évêque – 75008 Paris – France
www.scaleway.com

4. Nature and Purpose of the Site – Editorial Independence Statement

icibiarritz.com is an independent information and media platform with an editorial, cultural, and tourism vocation, dedicated to the city of Biarritz and its surrounding territory. It is not a commercial directory, a professional listing service, or a paid referencing platform.

The site operates as an online news publication, covering local news, heritage, events, and the economic, cultural, and sporting actors of the Basque Country. As such, it benefits from the freedom of the press guaranteed by the French law of July 29, 1881, and by Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

No establishment, institution, or organisation mentioned on this site is a commercial partner of EGREGORE SAS, unless expressly stated otherwise. The presence of any establishment in our content does not constitute a commercial endorsement or an implied contractual relationship.

The site is editorially independent from any tourist office, public authority, professional association, or trade body. All published content is subject solely to the editorial judgement of the EGREGORE SAS editorial team.

5. Intellectual Property and Copyright

All content published on icibiarritz.com — including texts, articles, photographs, illustrations, infographics, videos, logos, graphic design, site structure, and source code — constitutes original works protected under the French Intellectual Property Code and applicable international copyright conventions.

These contents are the exclusive property of EGREGORE SAS or their respective authors, who have granted EGREGORE SAS the necessary broadcasting rights.

5.1 Prohibition of Reproduction

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, or adaptation, in whole or in part, of any element of the site, by any means or process, is strictly prohibited without prior written authorisation from EGREGORE SAS, under penalty of legal proceedings for copyright infringement under French law.

This prohibition applies in particular to:

• Any reproduction, even partial, of articles or texts published on the site, including paraphrased versions;
• The use of original photographs produced or commissioned by EGREGORE SAS;
• The reproduction of the editorial structure, site architecture, or content organisation;
• Any automated data harvesting or scraping, including for the purpose of training artificial intelligence models.

5.2 Hyperlinks

Any hyperlink pointing to a page of icibiarritz.com must clearly and legibly identify the source site. The creation of links using framing techniques, hidden embedding, or any other technique likely to create confusion regarding the origin of content is strictly prohibited.

EGREGORE SAS reserves the right to demand the removal of any link it deems prejudicial to its image, reputation, or commercial interests.

6. Protection Against Unfair Competition

EGREGORE SAS hereby states that any attempt to destabilise, disparage, or free-ride on the reputation of icibiarritz.com may constitute an act of unfair competition under Articles 1240 and 1241 of the French Civil Code, and may engage the civil and, where applicable, criminal liability of its author.

The following behaviours are expressly targeted:

• Disparagement: any public statement that is false, inaccurate, or misleading and intended to harm the reputation of icibiarritz.com, its content, its team, or its management;
• Parasitism: any unauthorised appropriation of the notoriety, editorial work, or audience developed by icibiarritz.com for one’s own commercial benefit;
• Disorganisation: any attempt to divert the public from the site through unfair means, particularly by spreading false information about its nature or independence;
• Abuse of dominant position: any pressure exerted by an institutional or professional actor to compel the site to alter, withdraw, or qualify its editorial content outside of a formal legal procedure.

EGREGORE SAS reserves the right to take any legal action necessary to protect its rights, including emergency injunctive relief, and to claim full compensation for all damages suffered, including commercial, reputational, and moral harm.

7. Right of Reply and Rectification

In accordance with applicable French law, any individual or legal entity named or referred to in content published on icibiarritz.com has the right to submit a reply.

Requests must be submitted in writing to contact@icibiarritz.com, specifying:

• The full identity of the applicant;
• The URL of the article concerned;
• The specific passage that is the subject of the request;
• The text of the desired reply, limited to the length of the impugned extract.

EGREGORE SAS undertakes to process any legitimate request within a reasonable timeframe. Any manifestly abusive, vexatious, or illegitimately coercive request will be rejected.

The submission of a right of reply does not suspend or condition the publication of the content in question.

8. Editorial Responsibility and Accuracy

Information published on icibiarritz.com is prepared with the utmost care and updated regularly. However, EGREGORE SAS cannot be held liable for any inaccuracies, omissions, or delays in updates, and reserves the right to modify site content at any time without notice.

The site may contain links to third-party websites. EGREGORE SAS does not control these sites and disclaims all responsibility for their content, practices, or privacy policies.

Any factual error reported in good faith will be reviewed by the editorial team, which retains the sole and sovereign right to decide whether or not to make a correction, in accordance with journalistic ethics.

9. Personal Data and GDPR

EGREGORE SAS processes personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – EU 2016/679) and applicable French data protection law.

Data collected (contact form, newsletter, comments) is used solely for the purposes for which it was collected and is not sold or transferred to third parties for commercial purposes.

In accordance with Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right of access to your data;
• Right to rectification;
• Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”);
• Right to restriction of processing;
• Right to data portability;
• Right to object.

These rights may be exercised by email at contact@icibiarritz.com or by post to the registered office. If you are not satisfied with the response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (CNIL in France: www.cnil.fr).

10. Cookies

The website icibiarritz.com may use cookies for audience analytics and user experience improvement purposes. No intrusive advertising cookies are placed without prior user consent.

Users may configure their browser at any time to refuse cookies or to be notified when they are placed, without affecting access to the site’s editorial content.

11. Mediation and Dispute Resolution

EGREGORE SAS adheres to the principle of prior mediation before any legal proceedings. In the event of a dispute, the parties agree to seek an amicable solution before resorting to the courts.

Failing amicable resolution, any dispute relating to the website icibiarritz.com shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Bayonne, France.

12. Applicable Law

This website and this legal notice are governed by French law. Any translation of this notice into another language is provided for informational purposes only; in the event of any inconsistency, the French version shall prevail.

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Last updated: March 2025