The website is published by Agence Française de Développement (hereinafter “AFD”), a public establishment with a capital appropriation of EUR 2,807,998,856, registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number B 775 665 599, Intra-Community VAT n° FR 80 775 665 599.

Legal notice

Address of headquarters and contact details

5 rue Roland Barthes, 75 598 PARIS Cedex 12
Téléphone : +33 (0)1 53 44 31 31

CNIL registration

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

Content management system

SPIP, système de publication pour l’Internet partagé (www.spip.net)

Editorial manager

Pierre-Arnaud Barthel, chef de projet, Département transition territoriale, Division développement urbain, aménagement et logement.

Content management:

Département transition territoriale.

Hosting

OVH
2 rue Kellermann - 59100 Roubaix - France
https://www.ovh.com/fr/

Design, graphic design, development and technical follow-up

Anne-Charlotte de Lavergne : www.ancharlotte.com
Philippe Laura : www.ideclik.fr

General conditions of use of the website

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

Disclaimer and responsibility

AFD 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, AFD cannot guarantee the accuracy, precision or exhaustiveness of the information available on this website.

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

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

Consequently, they acknowledge and accept that:

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

Consequently, AFD 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 blogs “iD4D – Ideas for Development” and “Private Sector and Development”, which are 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 AFD’s website at the following address, or by using this form.

Agence Française de Développement,
Direction de la Stratégie, des Partenariats et de la Communication - Pôle Institutionnel et Editorial,
5 Rue Roland Barthes,
75 598 PARIS Cedex 12

Intellectual property rights

AFD holds the full copyright for AFD’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 AFD’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 AFD.

Reporting abuse

AFD is not subject to any general obligation to oversee or search for illegal content. However, AFD makes every effort to preserve the quality of the content of AFD’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 AFD.

Hypertext links

• AFD authorizes any website to establish a link to the address www.afd.fr, after giving advance notice at the following address:
• Any such link must respect the applicable legal provisions and regulations. AFD shall in no way be held liable for links established from another website to AFD’s website.
• AFD reserves the right, at any time, without prior notice and without giving any reason, to forbid these links. In such case, AFD shall inform the person concerned, who shall have 2 working days to delete the link.
• AFD 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

AFD 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 AFD’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 AFD’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.

Personnal data

AFD’s website may be required to collect personal data concerning its users. Indeed, this collection allows a response to be given to questions or complaints directly addressed to AFD.

The data collected are intended solely for AFD’s own use. The only persons who may access them are those acting under its authority and instructions, including subcontractors (in particular website hosts and maintenance companies) in the performance of their tasks. Any subcontractors who become aware of this personal data on this occasion shall be subject to an obligation of confidentiality. They shall in particular refrain from using all or part of this personal data on their own account or from transferring them to third parties.

No personal data collected from the website is disclosed or transferred to third parties for commercial purposes. The data collected may, however, be transferred to other AFD Group companies.

Declaration to the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL)

In accordance with the provisions of Act n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978 and the subsequent laws on Information Technology, Files and Civil Liberties, the automatic processing of personal data is subject to a declaration to the CNIL.

Cookies

When you consult the afd.fr website, information concerning the navigation of your terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) on our website may be recorded in text files called “Cookies”, which are installed on your terminal, subject to your choices concerning Cookies, which you can change at any time. Only the issuer of a Cookie may read or modify information contained in it.

Right to access, rectify, delete and object

In accordance with articles 32 and the following of the amended French Act n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on Information Technology, Files and Civil Liberties, persons whose personal data are collected, directly or indirectly via cookies, benefit from a right to access, rectify, delete or object to these data for legitimate reasons. These rights may be exercised by sending a letter to: AFD, Département de la Communication, 5 Rue Roland Barthes, 75 598 PARIS Cedex 12.