Welcome to the website www.affordablehousinghub.com dedicated to Affordable housing (hereafter referred to as the “Site”)
The Site aims to identify projects and share ideas and best practices and consequently, accelerate the launch of Affordable Housing projects in countries by facilitating intermediation between the actors
In accordance with the French law, we invite you to read the following Terms and Conditions of use (hereafter referred to as the “Terms and Conditions”). These Terms and Conditions relate to the legal rights and responsibilities applicable when you use this Site.
This Site is at your disposal for personal use only, subject to the following Terms and Conditions being respected.
In accessing this Site, browsing and/or using it, you acknowledge having read, understood and accepted these Terms and Conditions, and that you undertake to comply with the relevant laws and regulations.
If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions, please do not use this Site.
The content of this legal notice may be subject to change; consequently, we invite you to consult this page on a regular basis and check the last date it was updated.
This Site is made available by LafargeHolcim, incorporated and registered in Switzerland with its registered office at Zürcherstrasse 156, 8645 Jona.
The publication director is François Perrot.
The Site content is hosted on servers belonging to LafargeHolcim.
This site is governed by French legislation relating to copyright law, trademark law and, generally, to intellectual property rights.
LafargeHolcim's brands and logos appearing on the Site are registered trademarks. Any reproduction or representation, alone or integrated into other elements, without express and prior written permission from LafargeHolcim is strictly prohibited.
The general Site structure, software, text, images*, videos, sound, expertise, animations and, more generally, all information and content appearing on the Site are governed by copyright protection law, and except if otherwise stated, are the property of LafargeHolcim.
Any representation, modification, reproduction, distortion, in whole or in part, of the Site and its content, by any method and using any medium, constitutes copyright infringement.
These Terms and Conditions do not grant any licence for using brands, logos or any element protected by copyright belonging to LafargeHolcim.
Users are also informed that LafargeHolcim has been authorized to use the brands and logos of partners (IFC, AFD, etc.) as well as copyright contents, solely for the purpose of the Affordable Housing Hub initiated by LafargeHolcim.
*Image Reference for banner on the starting page: adpated (colors made brighter, power lines removed) from Erin Williamson's photo on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/erinwilliamson/4768442867/sizes/o/
The Site is not designed to receive confidential information from you. Consequently, any information, in whatever form, you communicate on the Site will not be treated confidentially under any circumstances.
When submitting an affordable housing project on the Site in order to be added into the interactive map to find partners or promote their achievements, users will be asked specific information (location, innovative solution, financing, etc.)
Consequently, users will need to accept the following notice:
I hereby grant to LafargeHolcim the right to use, reproduce, represent, communicate and adapt the information and the documents related to my project (including photos and videos) for institutional communication, information, illustration and promotional purposes related to Affordable housing on the LinkedIn group entitled "Affordable Housing Hub" managed by LafargeHolcim, the website www.affordablehousinghub.com and any other communication mean which may be relevant to promote the hub initiated by LafargeHolcim (brochures, leaflets, catalogues, magazines, etc.)
Consequently, when you share information with us, you understand that we have the right to use, reproduce, publish, modify or communicate it.
You further understand that our agreement to publish your project does not mean that LafargeHolcim and its partners endorse the project as such.
In order to provide a better service, during your navigation of the Site, LafargeHolcim may collect personal data about you, which is processed using electronic means.
The personal data that may be collected is destined for use solely by LafargeHolcim to allow you to benefit from the services offered on the Site.
LafargeHolcim may also communicate this information to other companies within the Group, to their brokers, insurers as well as third parties or sub-contractors, but only for administration or canvassing purposes, except where you have opposed this.
In accordance with the Data Protection and Civil Liberties law of 6th January 1978, you have the right to access, modify, rectify and remove the personal data that we have collected.
More specifically, users will be asked personal data (name, surname, phone number, e-mail, etc.) only when submitting a project.
Consequently, users will be asked to accept the following notice:
Ihereby agree to the processing of my personal data provided in the form. My personal data may be stored, processed and used by LafargeHolcim, its affiliates and founding partners in relation with the hub initiated by LafargeHolcim and dedicated to Affordable Housing. I declare that my personal data is current and truthful. I undertsand that in accordance with the French Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978 relating to data processing, data files and individual liberties), I am entitled to access, modify and delete data which refer to me contacting LafargeHolcim and specifying the request at the following address: affordablehousing@lafargeholcim.com
Users of the Site are informed that information (“cookies”) may be temporarily saved on the hard disk of their computer in order to facilitate Site navigation. Users authorize these cookies. Cookies send data that is not used for identification but to record information relating to your navigation of the Site. They enable analysis to be made about users to the Site and about their visit, etc., in order to improve the quality of the Site. The user is free to refuse cookies by configuring the browser according to the methods detailed on the site http://www.cnil.fr/english. However, blocking these cookies will result in certain services being unavailable.
Special notice for American users of the www.affordablehousinghub.com:
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (C.O.P.P.A.) of 1998 provides safeguards to protect children who use the internet by regulating the online collection of personal information from children under the age of 13. According to this Act, "(...) if you operate a general audience web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children, you must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (C.O.P.P.A.)."
LafargeHolcim does not intend to collect any Personal Identification Information from children under the age of 13. However, if children under the age of 13 provide Personal Identification Information to us, their parents or legal guardian should request that we delete this information from our files by sending us an email at affordablehousing@lafargeholcim.com. We will use all reasonable efforts to delete children's information from our files.
Further information about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 may be found on the Federal Trade Commission's website (www.ftc.gov).
As a user of this Site, you acknowledge that you have the necessary skills and means to access the Site.
LafargeHolcim and its contributors undertake to do everything possible to ensure that the information on this Site is accurate and up-to-date, reserving the right to modify the content at any moment without prior warning. Nevertheless, no guarantee is provided that the information is complete.
LafargeHolcim also declines all responsibility in the event of delay, error or omission concerning the content and the use of these pages, in the event of the service being interrupted or unavailable.
You acknowledge having been informed that the Site is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in the event of a force majeure, IT problems, problems linked to the telecommunications network or other technical problems. For maintenance reasons, LafargeHolcim may interrupt access to the Site but will make all reasonable efforts to give prior warning to users. LafargeHolcim may not be held responsible for delays, problems in use, or incompatibility between the Site and files, your browser or any other method of accessing the Site.
LafargeHolcim may, under no circumstances, be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage resulting from, or consecutive to, a virus being disseminated by a third party through the Site which is susceptible to infect your IT system following your connection to the Site, use of the Site or navigation on the Site. In the same way, LafargeHolcim may not be held responsible for any damage to equipment or accessories (including, but not limited to, technical failure, disclosure of confidential documents, loss of data), nor for any indirect damage, arising from or linked to use of the Site.
Each user of the Site fully accepts that use of the content is at his/her own risk. The elements of the Site are provided "as is” with no guarantee of any sort, implicit or explicit.
The Site gives access to other sites belonging to Lafarge and its partners, which may have their own legal notices, which should be consulted and observed.
Hyperlinks to the website www.affordablehousinghub.com
Simple hyperlinks to the home page of www.affordablehousinghub.com may be set up freely as long as they are not used for commercial or advertising purposes and under the condition that the express notice "To www.affordablehousinghub.com owned by LafargeHolcim" (or any other similar or more detailed notice) is clearly pointed out on the link or next to the link.
LafargeHolcim shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for the content of the source websites. This authorization is not relevant for websites conveying unlawful, pornographic, xenophobic, subversive, immoral and offensive to human dignity content or any other content which may, to a greater extent, affect the sensitivity of many. Deep links to any document other than the home page of www.affordablehousinghub.com, notwithstanding the shape and content of these links, are prohibited unless express and prior authorization from LafargeHolcim.
Any reproduction or any use, even partial, of any element of the website www.affordablehousinghub.com, within a third party website by framing, inlining or any other similar process are strictly prohibited unless exceptional authorization from LafargeHolcim. The authorization for the setting of above-mentioned hyperlinks should be requested to the following e-mail address: affordablehousing@lafargeholcim.com. Such request should mention the URL where the hyperlinks are asked to be set up.
The access to the page incorporating the hyperlinks to the website www.affordablehousinghub.com should be free.
Hyperlinks by LafargeHolcim
This Site may contain hyperlinks to other LafargeHolcim Websites but also to external websites. Such hyperlinks are provided for your convenience only. LafargeHolcim shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for the contents, functionality and conditions of use of websites that users are able to access through these hyperlinks, these hyperlinks being established in cooperation with the concerned websites at a time Lafarge found it fitting, considering the content provided.
You acknowledge and agree that LafargeHolcim has no responsibility for the accuracy or availability of information, material or content provided by third party linked websites, or the content, performance, terms and conditions of use or the privacy policies or practices on such websites. Links to such sites do not constitute an endorsement by LafargeHolcim of such websites or the content, products, or other materials or services presented on such websites.
The Site is governed by French law. These Terms and Conditions will be interpreted according to French law. Users of the Site from countries outside of France must ensure that they respect local applicable laws.
If, for whatever reason, a competent court should consider that a clause in these Terms and Conditions is invalid, the invalidity of this clause will not in any way affect the rest of the Terms and Conditions, which will remain in force.
