Terms of Use
Preamble
Last modification of these conditions: March 26, 2024.
The website eurocodes-tools.com is an online platform that allows you to use structural calculation software, share your results, and participate in discussions with other users. To use the calculation software or participate in discussions, the user must create a free account.
Optimax structures reserves the right to perform any update of the site and software at any time and without notice.
If you do not understand the terms of use or if you do not wish to fully and unconditionally accept them, do not use the features provided on the website www.eurocodes-tools.com.
The terms of use are regularly updated. You will be invited to read and accept them each time you log in by checking the acceptance box.
Creation of a business and user account
The legal basis for processing is what legally authorizes its implementation, what gives a company the right to process personal data.
In our case, the legal basis for processing is ‘the performance of a contract’ corresponding to the creation of your free personal account
The data collected is: email, name, first name, telephone, company name, VAT number, postal address of the company, content of questions and answers on the discussion forum (subject to availability – not guaranteed).
They may be directly communicated to the following recipients only:
- people who are part of your company,
- people with whom you share calculation projects,
- people with whom you share discussions on the forum,
- people who visit the discussion pages on which you have participated (your name and first name, as well as the content of the discussions on the forum).
Roles of administrator and user within a company
The first user automatically assumes the role of administrator with the following rights and obligations in their company:
- purchase of credit points
- promote another user to the role of administrator
- demote an administrator to the level of user
- exclude users from the company (dismissal, resignation, etc.)
- access the studies, pre-studies of users
- access the purchase invoices
- invite new users to their company via the invitation link
The standard user benefits from all the business features of the site except the purchase of credit points, they consume the credit points purchased by the administrator of their company.
Access management
For security reasons in case of an attack, the password entered during the creation of your account is encrypted before being saved. In case of forgetting your password, we are therefore not able to read it in our databases and send it back to you. A password renewal procedure is therefore used if you request it.
Visiting the forum discussion pages is not exclusively reserved for registered users, so robots may browse the pages (for example for indexing purposes). Your data present on the forum is therefore likely to appear in search engine results.
As part of these terms of use, you also agree to receive information emails from Eurocodes-Tools.com.
This data is kept for a period of 3 years at the end of the month following the last connection to your account. After this period, your account will be deleted and your conversations on the forum will be anonymous.
“We may use non-personal information provided to extract statistics and present reports publicly.
Consult the website cnil.fr for more information on your rights.
Forum rules (subject to availability)
The forum is made available to you free of charge.
Questions should be posted in the appropriate category among those offered to avoid any deletion.
It goes without saying that exchanges should be courteous and free of vulgarity.
The syntax used must be correctly spelled (as much as possible) and understandable by all (no abbreviations).
When you submit reactions or suggestions related to our Platform, we have the right to use them without soliciting your authorization
The forum pages are publicly visible, so it is important not to communicate any sensitive data that could identify you, such as: telephone numbers, email or postal addresses, URLs of websites or social networks, bank details, passwords.
The webmaster reserves the right to ban from the forum any person who does not respect these rules with or without prior warning.
Copyright
All elements (including computer code, text, videos, images, etc.) published on eurocodes-tools.com are guaranteed by the copyright of Optimax Structures. Any reproduction, distribution, transmission, storage, reading, sharing of content, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, is prohibited outside the planned functionalities, except with the prior written authorization of Optimax Structures (see also the Terms and Conditions of Sale of SAS Optimax Structures paragraph 8).
Limitation of warranty
If our Platform is temporarily unavailable or cannot process data for technical reasons, Optimax Structures will quickly correct the problem, except in cases of force majeure. Users are required to inform Optimax Structures of any defects of which they are aware.
The software available on eurocodes-tools.com can only be used to study technical solutions at the pre-project stage. Due to the complexity of the calculations used, this software is intended solely for users who can have a precise idea of their capabilities, their limits, and their suitability for the various practical applications for which they are used.
The user is responsible for their use, and this is at their own risk. The results should under no circumstances be used for design or construction purposes, unless verified and approved by a professional structural engineer who is insured.
No rights are granted to the user of this software, except the possibility of using them.
The use of this software does not confer any warranty to the benefit of the user who waives any direct or indirect recourse in case of damage that may result from errors in the software, calculation errors, incorrect or inappropriate use.
WE MAKE NO COMMITMENT REGARDING THE CONTENT OF THE PLATFORM, THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OFFERED BY THE PLATFORM, THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY OR SUITABILITY TO YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE PLATFORM AS IS.
OPTIMAX STRUCTURES, ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY IN CASE OF LOSS OF PROFIT, REVENUE OR DATA, OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.
THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF OPTIMAX STRUCTURES, ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIM UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT THAT YOU HAVE PAID US TO USE THE SOFTWARE.
If you use our Platform on behalf of a company, it must accept these terms of use. It must also release the company Optimax Structures, its manager and guarantee them against any claim, lawsuit or legal action resulting from or related to its use or following a breach of these Terms of Use, including any liability and financial burden resulting from claims, losses or damage found, lawsuits filed and judgments rendered, and legal and attorney fees related thereto.
The user or their company, at their expense, will defend, insure and hold the company Optimax Structures harmless from any harm or damage incurred in the context of any lawsuit or procedure initiated by a third party against the company Optimax Structures (including attorney’s fees and expenses).
Never make anyone believe, in any way, that the company Optimax Structures guarantees the accuracy of the information, you would expose yourself to legal action.
About these terms of use
These conditions take precedence over any statement by Optimax Structures on any commercial medium (brochures, website, etc.) in case of conflict of interpretation.
These Terms of Use govern your relationship with Optimax Structures. They do not create rights for third party beneficiaries.
If you do not comply with these Terms of Use and we do not take immediate action on this, this does not mean that we waive our rights (for example, to take action later).
If it turns out that a particular condition is not applicable, this will have no impact on the other conditions of these Terms of Use.