Terms of Use
Last update: October 27, 2024
You must read and accept these terms of use before using the Regards Hybrides Collection (hereinafter, “Regards Hybrides Collection”) operated by Mandoline Hybride (hereinafter, “Mandoline Hybride”).
For any questions concerning these terms of use, please write to us at info@regardshybrides.com.
1. Acceptance
By subscribing to the Regards Hybrides Collection, you agree to comply with this subscription policy and all laws applicable to such use (hereinafter, the “Terms of Use”). You acknowledge and accept that the Terms of Use may be amended over time under the provisions set out below, and you are invited to review them regularly.
2. Amendment to the Terms of Use
Mandoline Hybride reserves the right to amend each of the Terms of Use clauses. Such an amendment will take effect automatically subject to 30 days prior notice to Regards Hybrides Collection subscribers containing (1) the amended clause, (2) the previous version of this clause, and (3) the effective date of the amendment.
If the amendment results in an increase in the subscriber’s obligation or a reduction in the obligations of Regards Hybrides, you may refuse this amendment by canceling your subscription.
3. Individual subscription
3.1 Definition
An individual subscription is a personal subscription that gives (1) one person access to the Regards Hybrides Collection. This subscription is reserved for the personal and private use of the individual subscriber.
3.2 Period
The term of the individual subscription is one (1) year from the date of payment (the “Initial Period”).
3.3 Permitted use
The content viewed via your individual subscription is for your personal and private use only. Mandoline Hybride hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, time-limited license to personally view the content viewed, and under no circumstances to view it publicly, using digital media and compatible devices.
3.4 Minimum age
The minimum age for subscribing to the Regards Hybrides Collection is 16. Please note that some works contain content for a more mature audience (some works contain partial nudity, while others deal with difficult themes such as grief, death, anxiety, loneliness or illness, etc.).
3.5 Access
Access to the Regards Hybrides Collection as part of an individual subscription is via an individual account, requiring an email address and password.
3.6 Cancellation
You may terminate your individual subscription to the Regards Hybride Collection at any time. You will continue to have access to the content available through the subscription until the end of the paid billing period. Your individual subscription can be managed via your account settings. To cancel your individual subscription, go to the “My account” page and click on “Cancel my subscription”.
3.7 Billing
3.7.1 Billing period
Unless you cancel your subscription, you will be billed for your individual subscription to the Regards Hybrides Collection at the end of the Initial Term and any renewal of your individual subscription. The end date of your individual subscription is shown on the “My account” page.
3.7.2 Refund
All sales are final and cannot be exchanged or refunded.
3.7.3 Automatic renewal
Your individual subscription to the Regards Hybride Collection will be renewed automatically at the end of the Initial Term and annually thereafter, unless you decide to end it earlier. To manage your individual subscription and update your billing information, visit the “My Account” page.
3.7.4 Payment methods
Payments can be made by credit card, Google Pay or Apple Pay through the platform used by Mandoline Hybride. You can change your payment information at any time from your account page.
4. Institutional subscription
4.1 Definition
An institutional subscription is a type of subscription reserved for organizations, such as libraries, associations, universities, companies or non-profit organizations, allowing access to the Regards Hybrides Collection for a group of members, subscribers, public or employees (users).
To obtain access to the Collection Regards Hybrides by means of an institutional subscription, you must be a member of an institution with which the Collection Regards Hybrides has concluded an institutional license. Login and activation details will be sent to you directly by your institution.
4.2 Duration
The duration of the institutional subscription varies from one institutional license to another.
4.3 Permitted use
4.3.1 The content available via your institutional subscription is intended exclusively for your personal and private use. Mandoline Hybride hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable, revocable and time-limited license to personally view, and under no circumstances to publicly view, using digital media and compatible devices, the content available.
4.3.2 Exception clause: In a school setting, the teacher may use his or her institutional subscription to distribute the content in class to his or her students, provided that the number of students does not exceed the user limit stipulated in the institutional license.
4.4 Minimum age
4.4.1 The minimum age for subscribing to the Regards Hybrides Collection is 16. Please note that some works contain content for a more mature audience (some works contain partial nudity, while others deal with difficult themes such as grief, death, anxiety, loneliness or illness, etc.).
4.4.2 Exception clause: In a school setting, teachers are responsible for the use of the Regards Hybrides Collection in their classrooms. If the teacher has the necessary parental authorizations, they may distribute the Regards Hybrides Collection to an audience of under-16s, although under-16s cannot subscribe individually. Mandoline Hybride accepts no liability in this respect.
4.5 Access and activation code
Access to the Regards Hybrides Collection as part of an institutional subscription is via an individual account, requiring an email address and password. When you log in for the first time, you'll also need the private URL associated with your institution, as well as the current activation code. The private URL and activation code will be sent to you directly by your institution.
In the case of access via a proxy server, the private URL and activation code will not be required
4.6 Renewal
Any renewal of an institutional subscription will be subject to a new institutional license agreed in writing between the institution and Mandoline Hybride.
4.7 Cancellation
Once your institutional subscription has been activated, you cannot terminate it. You will continue to have access to the content available via the institutionnal subscription until the end of the period agreed by license with the institution, unless you completely delete your account.
4.8 Billing & reimbursement
4.8.1 Unless otherwise specified, institutional subscriptions to the Regards Hybrides Collection are invoiced directly to the institution according to the agreed institutional license and the current price list;
4.8.2 All sales are final and cannot be exchanged or refunded.
5. General Terms and Conditions
5.1. Email address, password and account access
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your email address and password, which are for your personal use only.
You are responsible for updating your account information, including your email address, to enable Mandoline Hybride to send you any notices or communications.
If you have lost your password, use the reset option on the Login page and make sure you have access to the e-mail address you use to log in to the Regards Hybrides Collection. You'll receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password.
5.2 Content availability
The content of the Regards Hybrides Collection may vary, depending in particular on the availability of rights to certain content. Mandoline Hybride may, at its sole discretion, add or remove content.
5.3 Content viewing
Content viewing requires an Internet connection and uses bandwidth that are at your sole expense.
Accessing the Regards Hybrides Collection or downloading the distributed works is impossible without an Internet connection.
Viewing quality may vary from one device to another and is based on different factors, including your location, your available bandwidth and the speed of your Internet connection. Therefore, Mandoline Hybride offers no guarantee regarding the quality of content viewing using your device.
5.4 Continuous improvement
The characteristics and features offered via the subscription to the Regards Hybrides Collection may be upgraded continually to improve the service provided to subscribers.
5.5 Number of devices and single viewing
The subscription to the Regards Hybrides Collection is limited to one (1) device per viewing.
5.6 Account Deletion
You may delete your account permanently at any time, which will automatically terminate any associated active subscription, as well as deleting your data in accordance with our current Privacy and Personal Information Protection Policy. To delete your account, go to the “My account” page, then click on “Delete account”.
5.7 Termination
In the event of non-compliance with the Terms of Use, Mandoline Hybride reserves the right to suspend your access or terminate your subscription immediately without any other notice or wait period.
5.8 Misuse
Mandoline Hybride reserves the right to refuse access to the Regards Hybrides Collection to anyone who misuses the service.
In particular, but without limitation, you may not do any of the following:
a) Use reverse engineering or disassemble any code or software on or of the Regards Hybrides Collection;
b) Violate or attempt to violate the security of the Regards Hybrides Collection by any unauthorized access, circumventing the encryption or any other security tool, exploitation of the data or interference with any host, user or network;
c) Download, archive, reproduce, distribute, modify, post, publish, concede, create derivative works, sell or use the content of the Regards Hybrides Collection.
6. Intellectual property
The trademarks and logos used or displayed on the Regards Hybrides Collection are trademarks used or registered by Mandoline Hybride or third parties. You may not use the trademarks appearing in the Regards Hybrides Collection without the written permission of Mandoline Hybride.
The Regards Hybrides Collection and any material posted, transmitted or distributed via the Regards Hybrides Collection are subject to intellectual property rights held by Mandoline Hybride, its partners, contributors and other holders of the rights to said materials or are used based on authorizations or licences limiting and protecting their distribution.
You hereby agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise impact any security-related mechanism and feature of the Regards Hybrides Collection, as well as any mechanism and any feature designed to impede or prevent the use or copying of the Regards Hybrides Collection and any material posted, transmitted or distributed via the Regards Hybrides Collection or serving to apply usage limitations to the Regards Hybrides Collection or any material posted, transmitted or distributed via the Collection.
7. Hyperlinks and external websites
Mandoline Hybride and its partners, their officers, directors, employees, suppliers, contributors or representatives offer no guarantee and are in no way responsible for the content of external websites to which the Regards Hybrides Collection creates hyperlinks. You are responsible for complying with the Terms of Use governing these external sites, including those explicitly stated on them. By using the Regards Hybrides Collection, you expressly and irrevocably release Mandoline Hybride, its partners and their officers, directors, employees, contributors or representatives from any liability resulting from your use of any hyperlink and any third-party website.
8. Limitation of liability
You navigate and use the Regards Hybrides Collection and its features at your own risk. Mandoline Hybrides offers no guarantee and makes no representations to the user or anyone regarding the products and services acquired through the Regards Hybrides Collection or its features, content, operation or performance.
Mandoline Hybride makes every reasonable effort to ensure that the Regards Hybrides Collection is free of errors. However, it declines any liability for errors in the Regards Hybrides Collection. Mandoline Hybride’s affiliated companies, officers, employees and representatives cannot be held liable for any damage related directly or indirectly to the use of the Regards Hybrides Collection. The Regards Hybrides Collection and the information it contains are not subject to any implicit or explicit guarantee.
If Mandoline Hybride is found liable to a user of the Regards Hybrides Collection, this liability shall be limited to the value of the current subscription.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Mandoline Hybride, its affiliated companies and their respective directors, employees, representatives, licensors or their respective successors and assigns decline any liability for the acts, omissions or conduct of any third party users of the Regards Hybrides Collection and the features and of any advertiser or sponsor of the Regards Hybrides Collection (hereinafter, “third-party users”) and shall not be liable for any harm, loss, damage (including special, indirect or consequential damage) or expenses arising in any way from 1) the acts, omissions or conduct of a third-party user, and 2) the use of or inability to use any software, content, goods or services on a website or offered through any site linked to the Regards Hybrides Collection.
9. Declarations
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Mandoline Hybride, its representatives, affiliates and their respective directors, employees, agents, licensors or their respective successors and assigns from and against any claim or dispute brought against them arising out of your use of the Regards Hybrides Collection or any material published, transmitted or distributed through it or your breach of any of these Terms of Use.
You solemnly affirm that you are fully able and competent to accept the clauses, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations and warranties set out in these Terms of Use and to enforce and comply with the Terms of Use.
10. Final Clauses
10.1 Applicable laws
These Terms of Use are subject to the laws of the province of Québec and federal laws applicable in this province governing their interpretation, enforcement and application regardless of any provision concerning conflict of laws. The parties agree to recognize the sole jurisdiction of the competent courts of the judicial district of Montréal.
10.2 Severability
Each of the clauses of these Terms of Use are severable from the others. Any decision of a competent court or other judicial body declaring one of the clauses or part thereof invalid, unlawful, null and void or unenforceable shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in force unless this decision serves to render meaningless the Terms of Use.
10.3 Confidentiality
For Mandoline Hybrides, the security and protection of your personal information are vital. Therefore, we have established a protection of privacy and personal information policy to address any possible questions and ensure the security of your personal information.
For a detailed response to your questions concerning the security and protection of your personal information, please consult our Privacy and Personal Information Protection Policy.
As applicable, we will send you information on your account electronically only, such as emails to the address you provided when you subscribed.
10.4 Assignment
We may assign or transfer our agreement with you, including the related rights and obligations, at any time, and you agree to cooperate with us in connection with such an assignment or transfer.