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TERMS OF USE
Last update: 09/06/2025
1. Scope of these terms of use
These terms of use (hereinafter the “Terms”) apply to the use of the ChatEurope platform available on www.chateurope.eu. By accessing this platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify these Terms and our Privacy Policy at any time and at our sole discretion, please review them on a regular basis as any modification thereto becomes effective upon publication on this platform.
2. Ownership of the Platform and the Content
ChatEurope is a joint project of the Project Partners (as listed in section 7 below), which has received funding from the European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology.
Except for third-party rights as referred to in section 4 below, the Project Partners are the sole owners of the ChatEurope platform, all its components, databases, and features (hereinafter the “Platform”), and of any content (text, photos, videos, audio material, still and animated graphics, multimedia content or any other content whatever its form, and all metadata associated thereto) available on the Platform (hereinafter the “Content”). The Platform (including its design, URLs and any trademarks and logos appearing thereon) and the Content are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties.
3. Permitted use of the Platform and the Content
You may only access the Platform to view the Content. You may only reproduce short extracts of Content, without any alteration, for strictly personal and private purposes, or for the purpose of illustration for teaching or scientific research, to the exclusion in each case of any commercial use, and only to the extent and as permitted by French copyright law. Any such reproductions of short extracts of Content shall maintain all intellectual property notices, including all disclaimers contained therein.
Any other use of the Platform and/or the Content, in particular (by way of example and without limitation) any reproduction, communication to the public, distribution, storage, inclusion in a database or dataset, modification, translation, creation of derivative works, decompilation, extraction of the Platform and/or the Content, in whole or in part, for any other purpose, without the Project Partners’ prior written consent, is strictly prohibited.
Except as permitted by section L. 122-5-3.II of the French Code of Intellectual Property, any access to or use (such as but not limited to reproduction, aggregation and archiving) of the Platform and/or of the Content, for any systematic or automated activities related to text and/or data scraping, mining, extraction, aggregation, analysis, exploration or harvesting, through any robot, bot, spider, scraper, engine, software, crawler, script, or any other automated device, program, technique, tool, process or method, carried out in order to create, develop, train, adapt, fine-tune, test, evaluate, modify, and/or support software, algorithms and machine learning/artificial intelligence models or tools, or for any other purpose, without the Project Partners’ prior written consent, is strictly prohibited. This provision of the Terms constitutes the Project partners’ express opposition within the meaning of articles L. 122-5-3.III. and R. 122-28 of the French Intellectual Property Code.
4. Limitations and disclaimers of warranties and liability
The Platform and the Content are provided “as is”, errors and inaccuracies in the Content available on the Platform, in particular in the Content generated with artificial intelligence tools (such as Content recommendations, translations, transcripts, subtitles, summaries, answers, etc.) and published on the Platform or provided through the chatbot available on the Platform cannot be excluded. The Project Partners disclaim to the maximum extent permitted by law any and all representations and warranties, whether express or implied, including sufficiency or fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third-party rights, warranties relating to the accuracy, reliability, correctness, timeliness or completeness of the Content published on the Platform or provided through the chatbot available on the Platform. Further, there is no warranty that the Platform and the Content will meet your needs or requirements. You are responsible for making your own verification and assessment of the Content and are solely responsible for the consequences of any decision made or transaction carried out on the basis of any Content available on the Platform. Your use of the Platform and the Content is under your sole and full responsibility.
The Project Partners hold no releases, consents, approvals, licenses or permissions from third parties such as the individuals who may appear, be depicted, mentioned or quoted in the Content, or the owners of any protected material, works, goods, brands, names, events or any other protected elements or personal data that may appear, be depicted or mentioned in the Content.
References made to third-party websites on the Platform shall by no means be construed as an approval or endorsement by the Project Partners of these websites or their content.
Some features of the Platform (such as content sharing or content embedding features or video players) are integrated into the Platform but operated by third parties. When using these features on or from the Platform, you undertake to do so in strict compliance with the terms of use applicable to such features.
The access to or the availability of the Platform and/or the Content may be totally or partially interrupted or run slowly due to causes beyond the Project Partners’ control or may be totally or partially modified, suspended, interrupted or restricted by the Project Partners at any time.
The Project Partners do not guarantee that the Platform and the Content will be provided without interruption, defect, server downtime or delay or free from errors or any breach of security due to hackings, security intrusions, bugs, viruses, malwares or other harmful components that may affect your hardware, software or data.
In no event shall the Project Partners be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or related to your access to or use of, or your impossibility to access or use, the Platform and/or the Content.
5. Indemnification
You hereby undertake to access and use the Platform, its features and the Content in strict compliance with these Terms, the applicable laws, and the terms of use applicable to any third-party features integrated into the Platform but operated by third parties.
You hereby undertake to defend, indemnify and hold the Project Partners harmless from and against all expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable legal fees and expenses), costs, losses, liabilities, damages, arising out of or in connection with any claim, demand, action, proceeding, directly or indirectly resulting from or based on a breach by you of these Terms.
6. Miscellaneous
6.1 Governing law and Jurisdiction
Any claim regarding the Content not settled amicably with the Project Partner under whose name the relevant Content was published on the Platform shall be brought before the courts of the country where such Project Partner has its headquarters and shall be resolved in accordance with the laws applicable in such country, without regard to conflict of law principles.
Any other dispute arising from these Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with French law, without regard to conflict of law principles, and the Courts of Paris (France) shall have exclusive jurisdiction notwithstanding any actions in warranty or plurality of defendants.
6.2 Severability
If one or more provisions of these Terms are held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable under any applicable law or rule, or declared invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect.
6.3 No waiver
Any failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision of these Terms or right of the Project Partners.
7. Identification of the Project Partners (jointly or separately referred to as the “Project Partner(s)”)
Editorial Partners:
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE (“AFP”)
AGENZIA NAZIONALE STAMPA ASSOCIATA – SOCIETA COOPERATIVA ("ANSA")
CENTRO PER LA COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE ("CCI/OBCT")
DEUTSCHE PRESSE AGENTUR GMBH ("DPA")
DEUTSCHE WELLE ("DW")
EDICIONES EL PAIS SL ("EL PAIS")
FRANCE MEDIAS MONDE ("FMM")
FUNDACION MALDITA.ES CONTRA LA DESINFORMACION: PERIODISMO EDUCACION INVESTIGACION Y DATOS EN NUEVOS FORMATOS ("MALDITA.ES")
GRUPA RADIOWA AGORY SP. Z 0.0. ("AGORA")
RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONALE ROMANIA SRL ("RFI ROMANIA")
Editorial Partners providing archives:
AGENTIA NATIONALA DE PRESA ("AGERPRES")
ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS PERSBUREAU ("ANP")
IT & AI Partners:
DEUTSCHE WELLE ("DW")
DRUID SA ("DRUID")
XWIKI SAS ("XWIKI SAS")
XWIKI SOFTWARE SRL ("XWIKI SRL")
Communication strategy Partners:
MEDIACONNECT ("MC")
NEWS AKTUELL GMBH ("NA")