Legal notice

1. Site publisher

• Site name: The Blue Economy
• Address: https://www.theblueeconomy.org
• Publisher: BLUE EDUCATION, a French simplified joint-stock company, société par actions simplifiée
• Share capital: 1,000 euros
• Registered on: 31 January 2022
• SIREN: 909 787 236
• SIRET: 909 787 236 00019
• NAF code: 5811Z, book publishing
• Registered office: 14 passage de la Moutarde, 01510 Virieu-le-Grand, France
• Email: contact@blue-education.org
• Telephone: +33 6 84 29 05 29

2. Publication director

Publication is directed by the legal representative of BLUE EDUCATION. Any request regarding the content of this site may be sent to contact@blue-education.org.

3. Hosting

The site is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, United States. Pages are served from the Frankfurt region, in Germany.

4. Terms of use

Using this site implies full acceptance of the terms set out below. These terms may be amended or supplemented at any time, and readers are invited to review them regularly.

The site is normally accessible at all times, except during scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, or in the event of force majeure. Should the site become unavailable, Blue Education does everything it can to restore access.

5. Information and limitation of liability

The information and documents published on this site are provided for guidance only. They are not exhaustive and cannot engage the liability of the publisher.

Blue Education cannot be held liable for:

• errors or omissions in the content of the site
• direct or indirect damage arising from accessing or using the site
• malfunctions, interruptions or computer viruses that may affect browsing
• the use made of the information published here

6. Intellectual property

All elements of the site, including its structure, texts, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds, software and animations, are protected by copyright, trademark law and, more generally, by intellectual property rights.

Unless stated otherwise, these elements remain the exclusive property of Blue Education or of their respective authors. Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation, in whole or in part, by any means whatsoever, is prohibited without prior written authorisation.

Any unauthorised use of the site or of its content constitutes an infringement, prosecuted under articles L.335-2 and following of the French intellectual property code.

The trademarks and logos reproduced on the site are registered by the companies that own them.

7. Hyperlinks

Outbound links: the site points to other websites. Blue Education exercises no control over those sites and declines all liability regarding their content, their availability and their relevance.

Inbound links: Blue Education permits links to any page of this site, provided that such links:

• open in a new window or a new tab
• are presented unambiguously
• suggest no endorsement or partnership without prior authorisation
• are not embedded in a frame, a technique known as framing
• do not conceal the real URL of the page

Blue Education reserves the right to request the removal of any link that does not comply with these conditions, or that it deems damaging to its image.

8. Reader contributions

The Blue Economy wiki welcomes contributions from readers: corrections, additions, reports, questions and sources. Submitted content remains under the responsibility of its author, who bears full legal responsibility for it.

Every contribution is reviewed before publication. Blue Education reserves the right to refuse or withdraw, without notice, any contribution that breaches applicable law or the editorial line of the site.

9. Shop

The books and products presented in the shop are sold by Blue Education. The cart is handled by Shopify, and the order is completed on the Shopify checkout of the Blue Education shop, where delivery and payment details are entered.

10. Personal data

The personal data processing carried out by this site, covering audience measurement, the newsletter, wiki contributions and the shop, is described in detail in the privacy policy.

11. Governing law

This legal notice is governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, the French courts have sole jurisdiction.

12. Credits

© Blue Education. All rights reserved.

For any question regarding this legal notice: contact@blue-education.org.