25.1. Nature of the Agency's obligations. The parties expressly describe the obligations of the Agency as follows.
The Agency is bound by an obligation to achieve results with respect to the compliance of deliverables with the scope defined in the perimeter schedule and with the signed specifications.
It is bound by an obligation of enhanced means for all the rest, including the availability of the Site, the delays in intervention, security, natural referencing and commercial performance, the realization of which depends on factors that it does not fully control.
25.2. Principle of responsibility. The responsibility of the Agency may be incurred only in the event of proven fault, under the conditions and within the limits of this Article. The Parties recognise that these stipulations organise a distribution of the risks associated with the performance of the services, in particular in return for the agreed prices.
25.3. First floor, repair in kind in case of data loss. In the event of loss of data or content from the Site attributable to the Agency, the Agency undertakes, as a matter of priority, to restore or reconstruct the Site from the last available backup and the content made available by the Customer, within the following time limits from the date of the written notification of the incident:
| Situation | Commitment | Deadline |
|---|
| Usable backup available | Full restoration | 3 business days |
| No usable backup | Temporary website, essential pages, contact details and contact form put online | 5 business days |
| No usable backup | Complete reconstruction from data locked under the contract | 2 months |
The Customer undertakes to cooperate in good faith in this reconstruction, in particular by providing without delay the necessary content and information.
This obligation to rebuild constitutes the Agency's primary obligation in the event of data loss attributable to the Agency. It shall not be subject to any limitations other than those of 25.5 and 25.6, applicable only in the event of failure or impossibility of reconstruction within the agreed time limit.
25.4. Service repair options. In the event of failure of the repair in kind, due to technical impossibility duly justified or by exceeding the contractual period, the Agency shall notify the Customer, in writing, of an alternative proposal consisting, at the choice of the Customer:
the creation of a new site of equivalent functional and technical scope, on the basis of an updated specification by mutual agreement; or the granting of a benefit asset equal to the tax-free price of the initial creation of the Site, attributable without limitation of duration on all the services of the catalogue in force, and freely transferable to the recipient of the Client's activity upon written notification.
The Customer has 15 calendar days from the receipt of this notification to make his choice known in writing. In the absence of a response, he is deemed to have refused these options, without limiting his right to compensation capped on 25.5.
When the Customer accepts one of these options, the parties expressly declare in writing that the full implementation of the chosen option permanently extinguishes, in the amount of its amount, any claim for the loss of data concerned, without prejudice to the application of 25.5 in case of failure of this option attributable to the Agency.
25.5. Second floor, specific compensation in case of failure of reconstruction. If, despite the reasonable diligences of the Agency, the reconstruction proves impossible, in particular in case of irreversible corruption of the backups, or is not carried out within the time limits of 25.3, the Customer can claim a specific compensation for the loss of data.
This compensation shall be capped, in all cases and in all cases, for loss of data, to the amounts without taxes actually paid by the Customer in respect of the Site, including advance payment and commissioning costs, without being able to be less than half of the price cash without taxes of the Site as it appears in the applicable catalogue, or to exceed that cash price.
Where the creation of the Site has not been invoiced by the Agency, this limit shall be set at EUR 1,500 excluding taxes.
This subceiling applies only to data losses directly attributable to the Agency for versioning and maintenance services.
25.6. Third floor, general ceiling. For any other breach, the liability of the Agency, in all cases and in all cases, shall be limited to the direct injury actually suffered, but not exceeding, for all damage in respect of the same event, the greater of:
the total of the tax-free amounts actually paid by the Customer in respect of the services concerned during the 12 months preceding the operative event; an amount of EUR 1 000 excluding taxes.
This ceiling applies by operative act and constitutes the maximum limit of cumulative compensation payable in respect of all claims relating to that act.
25.7. Exclusion of indirect harm. Subject to 25.8, indirect damages such as loss of operation, loss of turnover, loss of customers, loss of order, loss of profits and damage to image or reputation are excluded from any compensation.
The Parties recognise that this exclusion, together with the ceilings of 25.5 and 25.6, does not deprive the Agency of its essential obligation, particularly in view of the reconstruction commitment of 25.3.
25.8. Heavy or dolosive fault. The limitations and exclusions of 25.5, 25.6 and 25.7 shall not apply in the event of gross or wilful misconduct by the Agency, i.e. in the event of conduct of extreme gravity, limiting to dol and denoting the Agency's inability to perform the contractual task it has accepted, or in the event of deliberate refusal to perform its obligations.
In these circumstances, the Agency cannot rely on any ceiling or exclusion. The obligation of reconstruction of 25.3 remains, without hindering the right of the Customer to also request full reparation of his damage.
25.9. Other exclusions. The Agency is not liable for damages resulting from the use of the Site or the content by the Customer in violation of the applicable contract or regulations, or incidents
attributable to third parties listed in the Technical Annex or to causes outside its scope of action as defined in the contract.
25.10. No guarantee of results. The Agency does not guarantee any results in natural referencing, traffic or commercial performance. The commitments concern the quality of configuration and execution, never on a volume.
25.11. Insurance. The Agency declares that it has taken out professional liability insurance. The valid certificate shall be communicated to the Customer upon request.