Article 1 – Approval of the condition of use

Last updated on June 1, 2021.

Welcome to our website!

Dear clients,

The website www.alprocket.com (hereinafter referred to as the « website ») is operated by the company ALPROCKET, Switzerland.

In this website, the terms « we », « us » and « our » refer to ALPROCKET and its affiliates as the context requires. The terms « you » and « your » refer to any person using or accessing our website.

Accessing our website and/or using our services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accepted these Terms of Use. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, you are not authorized to use our website and must immediately terminate such use.

ALPROCKET provides content, information, and services through our website. These Terms of Use govern the use of our website.

If you are reading the English version of our Terms of Use, this is the authoritative version. Versions in other languages are translations of the French version.

When you browse our website, we may also collect personal information about you; we will use this information in accordance with the framework set out in our Privacy Policy.

ALPROCKET may periodically update these Terms of Use by posting the updated version without notice. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and other legal notices and for keeping yourself informed of any changes. Your continued use of our website and services after any changes are made is an explicit acceptance of the changes. Any registered USER will be notified by email of any changes to these Terms of Use.

Article 2 – Attitude on the website and prohibited activities

You are entitled to use our website only in accordance with Swiss law and any other laws that apply to you. You may only make lawful use of our website. Any illegal or improper use of our website will be sanctioned.

You agree that your personal data is subject to our Privacy Policy. You agree to provide accurate, reliable, and complete information, to use your real name, and not to violate any law.

You must not post links between our website and other websites that are deemed indecent or inappropriate and you must remove any links immediately if ALPROCKET so requires in its discretion.

ALPROCKET authorizes you to view and download materials for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you do not modify or create a derivative work based on these materials and you do not reproduce, publicly display, perform, distribute or use the materials for any public or commercial purpose.

Any use of the material on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. If you wish to use the material beyond the scope permitted above, you must obtain the prior consent of the relevant copyright holders or licensors of the copyright in such material, namely, ALPROCKET, its suppliers, or others.

ALPROCKET does not wish to receive confidential or protected information about you via our website. Please note that, except as required by ALPROCKET’s Privacy Policy, any information or material communicated to ALPROCKET via our website will be deemed to be non-confidential.

By providing ALPROCKET with any information or material, you grant ALPROCKET an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information, and you also grant ALPROCKET an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use any ideas, concepts or know-how disclosed by you for any purpose.

Our website may only be used for lawful purposes. In particular, our website may not be used in the following cases:

• Creating a false identity, or forging your identity,
• Create the identity of a third party,
• Attempting to use someone else’s account, for example by obtaining their access information,
• Bypass any access control or authentication,
• Disclose information that you are not authorized to disclose,
• Upload, publish, transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make publicly available on our website any personal data of USERS or any third party without the prior express consent of the person,
• Violate the intellectual property rights of others, including our own,
• Distribute or publish spam, unsolicited or mass electronic communications,
• Acting, directly or indirectly, in a manner that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, abusive, obscene, racist, sexually or ethnically discriminatory,
• Upload or post anything containing viruses, Trojan horses, malicious and malicious programs, destructive computer code, spyware designed to or capable of interrupting, destroying, or interfering with the proper working of our website or any device,
• Acting willfully to disrupt systems,
• Transmit other unwanted or unauthorized promotional or advertising material,
• Breach of any obligation of confidentiality or privacy or any business secret,
• Use any content or information on our website to compete with ALPROCKET,
• Violate these Terms of Use.

Article 3 – Messages published on the website

It is prohibited to publish or transmit any unlawful, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or blasphemous threat or information, as well as any information that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law.

ALPROCKET will cooperate with law enforcement authorities and will obey any order requesting it to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or content. If we deem it appropriate, we may take immediate and appropriate action, without prior notice, including taking appropriate measures to prevent the USER from using our website.

Article 4 – Limits of liability

The use of our website is made under the sole and entire responsibility of the USER. ALPROCKET, its officers, employees, or other representatives disclaim any liability to you and any other person with regard to the content of our website and the services provided, in particular with regard to any damages, direct or indirect material or immaterial damages, loss of data, loss of market, loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of customers, data, material or immaterial property or other, which may result, directly or indirectly, from it, even in case of negligence, fault or wrong of ALPROCKET.

Errors may occur, and ALPROCKET reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to temporarily or permanently interrupt all or part of our website, without this interruption giving the right to any compensation or recourse from any USER or third party.

The USER must undertake not to violate any legal norm or to use the services for an illicit purpose or other than that for which it is offered. In particular, you undertake not to use the services for sending spam or viruses, sending or consulting pornographic content, content damaging to the reputation or image of third parties, content violating copyrights, or any illegal content.

Although ALPROCKET strives to protect its website from viruses or malicious programs or other destructive computer code, we cannot assume any obligation, liability, or commitment, express or implied, with respect to viruses or malicious programs or such computer code. USERS must take reasonable precautions themselves before using our website or downloading any material.

Our website is in principle accessible at all times. However, ALPROCKET declines any responsibility in case of technical impossibility of connection, whether it is due to a case of force majeure, a maintenance operation, an editorial update, network interruption or breakdown, power cut, failure, misconfiguration, or misuse of the USER’s computer, or any other cause dependent or not on our will.

The pages on our website may include links to external web pages. We are not responsible for these external contents, nor do we guarantee their accuracy or completeness. The privacy policies and terms of use of these third parties may differ from ours. We include these links only because we believe they may be useful to you, but we are not responsible for them. Therefore, we recommend that you carefully read the legal notices of the third-party websites and keep you informed of any potential changes.

We do not offer any guarantee that our website will be compatible with your hardware or software equipment. The operation of our website may be subject to intentional or unintentional interruptions or disruptions and we do not guarantee the continued availability of our website.

You hereby release ALPROCKET from any and all liability and obligation, including attorneys’ fees or otherwise, in connection with your use of our website.

Article 5 – Privacy

By using our website, you agree that ALPROCKET may collect, process, and use personal data about you. The collection and processing of personal data by ALPROCKET are detailed in the Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is an essential part of these conditions. The Privacy Policy is accessible via the link Privacy Policy.

Article 6 – Data protection and security

On the protection of personal data, Swiss law states that everyone has the right to the protection of his/her private sphere and to protect against the misuse of data concerning him/her. ALPROCKET strictly observes these provisions.

By using our website and services, you provide certain personal data, including registration data and certain other information about yourself. ALPROCKET undertakes to collect and process them in accordance with the Privacy Policy. To learn more about the use and collection of data, you can consult our Privacy Policy.

This personal data is treated in the strictest confidence and is not sold or disclosed to third parties. Any possible subcontractors receive only the data necessary for the task entrusted to them and are bound by strict confidentiality requirements.

Article 7 – Transmission and non-confidential information

Any non-personal communication or material you transmit to our website, by e-mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

Anything you communicate or post on ALPROCKET website becomes the property of ALPROCKET and may be used for any purpose, including, without limitation, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting.

In addition, ALPROCKET may, in its sole discretion, use any ideas, artwork, inventions, suggestions or concepts contained in any information you submit to our website for the purpose of, without limitation, developing, manufacturing, promoting or marketing products and services, without any acknowledgment or obligation to compensate you for your contribution.

When you send us information, you warrant to us that you own the material/content provided, that it is not defamatory, and that its use by ALPROCKET will not violate any right of any third party or be in violation of any applicable law. ALPROCKET is under no obligation to use the information provided.

Article 8 – Links with other platforms

You may include a link to our website, provided that this is done in an appropriate and lawful manner and that it does not damage ALPROCKET’s reputation or reap undue benefits from association with ALPROCKET. The integration of a link must not be made in such a way as to suggest any form of a link, association, agreement, or consent by ALPROCKET. We recommend that you carefully read the legal and data protection notices of all other websites you visit. ALPROCKET reserves the right to revoke its consent to the establishment of links at any time.

Links on ALPROCKET’s websites may direct you outside of ALPROCKET’s network and systems. We are not responsible for the content of websites operated by third parties that can be accessed via our website. ALPROCKET does not assume any direct or indirect responsibility for possible damages and losses actually or allegedly caused by the use of the contents, products or services, or any other material available on the website or on third-party websites linked to it or caused by the trust placed in them. The information and services offered by these sites are entirely the responsibility of their authors. All links on this website are provided solely for your own interest and do not imply that ALPROCKET approves or recommends the content of these websites. Access to and use of such third-party sites is at the USERS’ own risk.

Article 9 – Copyright and intellectual property

Our entire website is subject to Swiss and international copyright and intellectual property law. The copyrights of the texts, images, and other elements on this website are the property of ALPROCKET, or have been incorporated with the permission of their owners and other suppliers. All reproduction rights are reserved.

Intellectual property rights include copyrights, patents, registered design, design rights, database rights, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how, or any other proprietary or industrial rights, whether registered or not.

Any copy of this content may only be used for personal, non-commercial use, mentioning copyright and related rights. Any other duplication, reproduction, or distribution is prohibited. Without the express authorization of ALPROCKET, the copying, presentation, downloading, distribution, modification, reproduction, republication, or re-transmission, in whole or in part, of texts or documents appearing on our website or the creation of works derived from these texts, documents or images are prohibited. Any use contrary to the law or to the conditions of use may, for violation of the intellectual property rights of ALPROCKET and/or third parties, give rise to civil and/or criminal legal proceedings and the payment of damages.

Article 10 – Frequency statistics

Our website uses cookies. Cookies make it possible in various ways to make your visit to our website simpler, more pleasant, and more useful. Cookies are files containing information that your web browser automatically saves on your computer’s hard disk when you visit our website.

You can deactivate the use of cookies by configuring your browser so that it does not store any cookies on your computer or so that a message appears each time you receive a new cookie. However, such deactivation may prevent the use of certain features of our website.

For more information regarding cookies, please read our Privacy Policy, Article 08.

Article 11 – Terms of payment

For services of ALPROCKET, the USER has the choice to pay by debit and credit card or bank transfer, or invoice. Payments by credit card are immediate, while invoices must be paid within 30 days. Services are available when orders are placed. All electronic payment methods are PCI DSS compliant.

Article 12 – Prohibited activities

ALPROCKET reserves the right to prohibit any act in relation to the uses of its website, that it may deem inappropriate and/or that it considers to be against the law or that is prohibited by the laws applicable to our website among others:

• Any act that would constitute a violation of data protection or any other violation of the personal rights of individuals,
• The use of our website to defame ALPROCKET, its employees or any other individual, or any act intended to bring ALPROCKET into disrepute,
• The transmission by the download of files that contain viruses that may cause damage to ALPROCKET’s property or the property of others,
• The publication or transmission on our website of unauthorized information, including, but not limited to, information that in our opinion is likely to disturb, harm, or violate ALPROCKET’s or third parties’ security systems and network, defamatory, racist, obscene, threatening, pornographic, or otherwise unlawful material.

Article 13 – Update of legal notices

Subject to the content, ALPROCKET reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to modify and update the content of the services. ALPROCKET does not assume any responsibility for the consequences resulting from such modifications and/or updates. If you continue to use the Services after such modifications come into effect, you, as a USER, are deemed to have accepted such modifications and updates.

Please check this page regularly for such changes and newly added information.

Article 14 – Contact

If you have any questions or comments regarding these Terms of Use or general questions, please contact us using our contact form. You may also use this contact form if you wish to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.

Article 15 – Jurisdiction and applicable law

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Switzerland. Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or in connection with the Terms of Use, including as to the validity, invalidity, breach, or termination thereof, shall be decided or arbitrated in accordance with these Terms of Use.

These Privacy Rules comply with the new European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but remain subject to Swiss law.

Any claim or dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use (including non-contractual disputes or claims and their interpretation) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Lausanne, Switzerland.