Legal Notice

ARTICLE 1 – LEGAL NOTICE

Site Publication Director

Mrs. Florence POTIER

Site Editor

ECHELLE CANADA Inc.,

1179 Autoroute 440 Ouest, Laval (QUEBEC) QC H7L3W3 Canada,

Registered in the Quebec Enterprise Register under number 117 0502 877,

E-mail: [email protected]

Contact phone number: +14384918334

Site design

The Site is designed for ECHELLE CANADA, a company registered in the Quebec Enterprise Register under number 117 0502 877, with its head office at 1179 Autoroute 440 Ouest, Laval (QUEBEC) QC H7L3W3, Canada.

The site was designed for ECHELLE CANADA and produced by the company HEGYD, whose head office is located at 9 rue James Watt 49 070 Beaucouzé - France, registered in the Angers Trade and Companies Register under number 500 942 966.

VAT number: FR53500942966

Realization - Credits

The Site is updated by ECHELLE CANADA.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

Site access

ECHELLE CANADA reserves the right to suspend, interrupt or limit access to all or part of the Site without prior notice. ECHELLE CANADA reserves the right to modify the terms and conditions of use of the Site as well as the legal notice at any time and without prior notice.

Personal data

In accordance with current Canadian laws and regulations, and with its Personal Data Protection Policy, ECHELLE CANADA collects and processes personal data of

Internet users when a quote is requested or in the context of contact services. This data is collected and processed for the purposes of managing commercial relations, improving product quality, responding more effectively to customer expectations, compiling sales statistics and/or prospecting purposes, and promoting new products and commercial offers from stores. The data is retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.

Your personal data may be processed by authorized personnel of ECHELLE CANADA and GROUPE ECHELLE INTERNATIONALE, stores in the L’ECHELLE EUROPEENNE network, and partners or service providers of ECHELLE CANADA and GROUPE ECHELLE INTERNATIONALE.

If these recipients are required to process your data outside Canada, the transfers will be carried out in compliance with the Regulations.

In accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in force since April 13, 2000, you may, at any time, request access to your personal information and, if necessary, lodge a complaint, under the conditions set out in the Regulations.

You have the right to modify or withdraw, at any time, the consents you have granted to us for the processing of your personal data.

You also have the right to request the rectification of your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete, or to have it updated.

Your personal data may be stored or deleted after your death in accordance with the Regulations. You have the right to instruct ECHELLE CANADA to convey this data to a third party designated by you.

Also, in the event of a breach of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint, either directly with our Service Department, whose contact details are given in the following paragraph, or with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

How to exercise your rights:

You may exercise your rights at any time by writing to: ECHELLE CANADA Inc, 1179 Autoroute 440 Ouest, Laval (QUEBEC) QC H7L3W3 Canada or by email at : [email protected].

Proprietary rights

All content (logos, trademarks, photos, text, video, sound, etc.) available on the Site is and shall remain the exclusive property of ECHELLE CANADA and/or its partners. The Internet user is therefore not authorized to reproduce, represent or market this content except in cases provided for by law or expressly authorized by their owner.

In any event, the Internet user may not make any secondary use of the Site’s content, whether in return for payment or free of charge. For the creation of a hypertext link to the Site, the Internet user must first contact ECHELLE CANADA at the following address to obtain the necessary authorization: ECHELLE CANADA, 1179 Autoroute 440 Ouest, Laval (QUEBEC) QC H7L3W3, Canada or by email at the following address: [email protected].

Failure to comply with this prohibition may constitute an infringement of intellectual property rights or a violation of personal rights, and may therefore render the Internet user liable, and could lead to criminal proceedings.

Links to other sites

Links may be provided from the Site to third-party sites, or the Site may unwittingly be linked to other sites via hypertext links. These websites are independent. ECHELLE CANADA does not edit or control these sites. Links to other sites do not constitute an endorsement or partnership between ECHELLE CANADA and such websites. Therefore, ECHELLE CANADA cannot be held responsible for the content, products, advertising or any other materials or services presented on these sites. Furthermore, these sites are subject to their own terms of use.

Applicable law

The Site is governed by the applicable laws and regulations in the Province of Quebec and in Canada. These terms and conditions and legal notice are governed by Canadian law. In the event of a dispute, and failing amicable agreement, the dispute will be brought before the courts in the jurisdiction of Echelle Canada’s head office, notwithstanding multiple defendants or third-party proceedings.