Legal Notice

Publisher

Agence centrale des organismes de Sécurité sociale (Acoss)
36 rue de Valmy - 93108 Montreuil Cedex - France
+33 1 77 93 65 00

Publication Director

Yann-Gaël Amghar, Managing Director of Acoss.

Web Host

The Acoss and URSSAF network's national centers IT System Department.

Legal representative in Internet field and subfield and on line services

Yann-Gaël Amghar, Managing Director of Acoss.

Communication director

Estelle Denize

Purpose

This legal information concerns the urssaf.fr Internet domain, including its services and the messaging system, whose URL is of the www.xxx.urssaf.fr style.

This legal information aims to set out the terms under which Urssaf makes its urssaf.fr portal site and Internet services available to Internet uses and the conditions under which Internet users access and use the site. All connections to the urssaf.fr site are subject to compliance with this legal information, which Urssaf reserves the right to change or update at any time. By accessing and using the urssaf.fr site, you agree to comply with this legal information. If you do not agree with the clauses set out below, we recommend that you do not use the urssaf.fr site.

Accessing the portal site and its services

You may access the site and its services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in cases of ‘force majeure’ or an event beyond Urssaf’s control, and subject to any breakdowns or maintenance jobs that are required to ensure that the service and the equipment remain in good working order. Urssaf grants the Internet user, who accepts it, the right to connect up one or more workstations to its website. The service is accessed via the Internet user’s computer(s) connected to a telecommunication network providing access to the urssaf.fr site. The communication protocols used are those that are in use on the Internet network. The right to access and use the Urssaf website is non-exclusive and non-transferable.

Use of cookies

Urssaf uses Google Analytics audience measurement cookies: these cookies are used to measure the number of visits, the number of pages viewed, the activity of visitors to the site and how frequently they return.

The data that is collected is kept by Acoss for 13 months and is not passed on to third parties or used in any other way.

If you do not wish to accept cookies, you may change your browser settings or delete the cookies already recorded. To find out how to refuse or delete these "Cookies" or to be warned in a message that you are about to receive them, please see you Internet browser Help page.

To deactivate cookies click here.

Creating links

The creation of links directing users to a page on this site must meet the following cumulative conditions:

  • a prior written declaration, sent by email to contact@acoss.fr, giving details of the individual making the request, the site concerned and the hypertext link that the individual wishes to create;
  • Only hypertext links to the overall homepage or to the homepage of one of the 7 spaces are authorized.
  • The link must appear under the following title: "Tfe, an Urssaf service",
  • The site directing a link towards tfe.urssaf.fr carries out an activity or disseminates information, images and other media in compliance with public order and decency and, in general, with French law.
  • The tfe.urssaf.fr portal opens in another window or as a replacement for the window that is already open. The portal must in no circumstances be opened from a "frame" or any other screen-reducing system.
  • As the portal site is dynamic, it is not technically possible for a page to constitute a permanent link. Therefore, no link other than the link to the homepage may be used as a permanent link.

Intellectual property law

The urssaf.fr site and some of its content is covered by intellectual property law and particularly articles L.112-2 and following and L.341-1 of the intellectual property regulations.

All reproduction, representation, use, handover or modification, by any process whatsoever, of all or part of the site or all or part of the various documents containing literary or artistic copyright, without having obtained prior authorization from Acoss and the authors concerned or their beneficiaries, is strictly prohibited and constitutes an act of forgery (article L.335-2 and following of the intellectual property regulations).

Only use for strictly personal purposes is authorized.

Where intellectual works are in the public domain, the wording of the title of the work, the name of its author and the place in which it is kept must be used correctly and associated with the work.

It is prohibited to use a registered trademark used on the urssaf.fr site or any other medium.

Re-use of public information

You may re-use the public information contained on the tfe.urssaf.fr site, except where third parties hold the intellectual property rights.

In accordance with Act no. 78-753 of 17 July 1978 relating to the improvement of relations between the administration and the public and various administrative, social and tax provisions, the re-use of the public information contained on the urssaf.fr site is conditional on obtaining a re-use licence.

All re-use of public information is subject to the condition that this information is not altered, that its meaning is not denatured, that its sources and the date of its last update are shown, and that the following wording “this information is available free on the tfe.urssaf.fr portal” is displayed if the information is re-used for commercial purposes.

The re-use of public information containing information of a personal nature is subject to compliance with the provisions of Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, relating to computers, files and individual liberties.

Anyone who re-uses public information in violation of the above prescriptions is liable to a fine imposed by the Commission for Access to Administrative Documents (CADA), the amount of which is defined in article 18 of Act no. 78-753 of 17 July 1978, which states:

“The maximum amount of the fine is equal to that which is defined in article 131-13 of the Penal Code for Class 5 offences where public information has been re-used for non-commercial purposes in ignorance […] of the conditions of re-use provided for by a licence issued to this effect or in violation of the obligation to obtain a licence.
Where public information has been re-used for non-commercial purposes in ignorance of the conditions of re-use provided for by a licence issued to this effect or in violation of the obligation to obtain a licence, the amount of the fine is in proportion to the seriousness of the violation committed and the benefits gained from this violation.” It being specified that “the amount of the fine imposed as a punishment for a first violation may not exceed 150,000 Euros. If the violation is repeated within five years of the date on which the previously-imposed sanction became final, it may not exceed 300,000 Euros or, if it concerns a company, 5 % of ex-VAT earnings for the last full financial year, up to a limit of 300,000 Euros”.
“The maximum amount of the fine is equal to that which is defined in article 131-13 of the Penal Code for Class 5 offences where public information has been re-used for non-commercial purposes in ignorance […] of the conditions of re-use provided for by a licence issued to this effect or in violation of the obligation to obtain a licence.
Where public information has been re-used for non-commercial purposes in ignorance of the conditions of re-use provided for by a licence issued to this effect or in violation of the obligation to obtain a licence, the amount of the fine is in proportion to the seriousness of the violation committed and the benefits gained from this violation.” It being specified that “the amount of the fine imposed as a punishment for a first violation may not exceed 150,000 Euros. If the violation is repeated within five years of the date on which the previously-imposed sanction became final, it may not exceed 300,000 Euros or, if it concerns a company, 5 % of ex-VAT earnings for the last full financial year, up to a limit of 300,000 Euros”.

Limitation of liability

The documents, information and services shown on urssaf.fr are provided on an “as is” basis, with no express or tacit guarantee of any sort whatsoever. Urssaf reserves the right to modify or correct the content of its site at any time, without notice.

Urssaf may not be held liable for any contamination of Internet users’ computer hardware as a result of the propagation of a virus or other computer infections. It is the responsibility of the user of this site to take all appropriate precautions to protect his own data and/or software against contamination by viruses circulating on the Internet. In no circumstances may Urssaf, its employees or the third parties mentioned on the site be held liable in respect of a contractual liability or criminal liability action or any other action, direct or indirect prejudice, incidental or related, or of any type whatsoever or of any financial loss resulting from the use of its site or any information obtained on the site.

The tfe.urssaf.fr site may contain links to partner sites of Urssaf or third parties. Urssaf has no control over these sites and therefore bears no liability relating to the availability of these sites, their content or the advertising, products and/or services available on or via these sites. Urssaf therefore declines all liability for any direct or indirect damage that may arise following the Internet user’s access to or use of the partner site, the non-compliance of the content and services with any regulations or any violation of third-party rights. Urssaf declines all liability concerning the information, hardware and software of the sites linked by a hypertext link to the urssaf.fr site.

Competent court

Any disputes relating to this legal information will be referred to the administrative court in Montreuil and will be governed and examined in accordance with French law, independent of the rules relating to conflicting legislation. By using the tfe.urssaf.fr site, you expressly agree to the application of these jurisdiction clauses. If any one of the provisions of this legal information is judged to be illegal, null and void or inapplicable for any reason whatsoever, it will be considered as not forming part of this legal information and will not affect the validity of the other provisions.

We hope that you will enjoy using the urssaf.fr domain and welcome any comments that you might have.