a. Intellectual property rights
Developing the Website involved significant investments by the L’Oréal Group. The Website and each of the elements it comprises (including but not limited to brands, images, texts, videos, software, graphics, music and sounds contained on or available through the Website) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by the L’Oréal Group. The contents of the Website cannot be reproduced, modified, transferred, distributed, republished, downloaded, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including but not limited to electronic, mechanical photocopying or recording, without the written permission of L’Oréal. Without prejudice to the foregoing, you agree that the material and content contained within or throughout the Website may not be used for commercial purposes or distributed commercially on any media whatsoever.
Your access to or use of the Website should not be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use the trademarks, tradenames, logos or service marks appearing on the Website without our prior written consent. You may not, without our prior written consent, use any of such trademarks, tradenames, logos or service marks as a hyperlink to the Website or any other website.
You may not modify, translate, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the computer systems or other technology that operate the Website or create derivative works based on the Website. For purposes of these Terms of Use, "reverse engineer" shall include the examination or analysis of the Website to determine the source code, structure, organization, internal design, algorithms or encryption devices of the Website’s underlying technology.
We may make available to you via the Website, contents that you are authorized to download ("Downloadable Content"). We grant you, for a duration permissible under the applicable laws of Malaysia, foreign laws and international treaties, a free of charge, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to use the Downloadable Content for your personal, and private use only. By downloading or using such Downloadable Content, you agree to use them in accordance with these Terms of Use.
b. Third-party rights
We hereby remind you that you shall secure all the necessary authorizations and rights from any relevant rights holders in connection with any content you may wish to post via the Website, including any and all intellectual property rights and/or literary, artistic and/or industrial property rights, and publicity rights (including the right to one’s image), to allow your quiet use of such contents. For example, you shall secure the rights in and to any contents (especially photographs) showing recent architectural items, advertising designs or apparel designs that might appear (acronyms, logos, etc.).
c. User Contents
You agree that you are responsible for any content (including, but not limited to text, photos, videos, or opinions) which you post or transmit through the Website or any space made available by us via the Website ("User Content").
By posting User Content on or via the Website, you hereby grant us, for the period permissible under Malaysia law, foreign laws and international treaties (including any subsequent supplements or amendments), a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, sub-licensable license to reproduce, display, use, copy, make clarifications to, modify (but not alter the images, words and/or opinions conveyed in the User Content), adapt, edit, distribute, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, distribute such User Content (in whole or in part), and to use the User Content for all in-house or external, corporate or financial communication purposes, advertising, and for all public relations, historical or archival purposes, of L’Oréal Group or its affiliates, its products and/or its brands, particularly on the following media:
- posting in all format, in unlimited quantity,
- the written press, unlimited number of publications,
- publishing, unlimited number of publications, particularly publishing for purposes of in-house communication, including sales force and distribution network (wholesalers, retailers, agents, etc.), events, leaflets for congresses, tradeshows, stands, Business-to-Business communication, in the professional press, for an unlimited number of publications and/or quantities;
- electronic, IT, digital, multimedia, Internet and Intranet publishing, via any websites (whatever the website and/or medium, including social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Dailymotion), unlimited number of inserts and broadcasts,
- via any advertising media (including by way of advertising at retail outlets and on the L’Oréal Group brand products (hereinafter the “Media”).
You agree that you shall have no recourse against L’Oréal or the L’Oréal Group for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your User Content by us.
You agree that social networks are platforms owned by third-parties and, accordingly, the reproduction, display, use, copying, modification, adaption, edit, distribution, translation, creation of derivative works from or of the User Content via any social networks shall be governed by the terms of use defined by those third parties. We shall not be responsible for any use of the User Content by you or any third parties in accordance with the terms of use defined by the social networks, including without limitation, in terms of the scope and duration of licensed rights, and removal of User Content. User Content posted on the social networks may also be referenced on a search engine and therefore can be accessed by an audience outside the Website.
You shall be responsible for handling any third-party claims relating to the use of the User Content in accordance with the terms of use defined by the social networks.
Further, the use of User Content may come with such anonymized information as your city, country or age, and/or, if you expressly authorized it, information allowing your identification such as your first name, or your alias.
You agree that any User Content as that you publish via the Website, is provided at your sole discretion and liability. By providing your User Content, you agree that your User Content shall not conflict with applicable legislation or accepted standards of morality, or the principles stated therein. In this regard, we reserve the C1 - Internal use right to remove at any time any User Content that may not comply with these Terms of Use, including the Code of Conduct in paragraph 3 below.
In addition, if you access User Content created by another user, you must comply with that other user’s rights and you shall, in particular, not reproduce or disseminate that user’s User Content without that user’s prior consent.
Except for any personal data which we have agreed to keep confidential, any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, plans, ideas or the like that you send to us via the Website, via email or otherwise, will be treated as being non-confidential and non-proprietary. We assume no obligation to protect such information from disclosure and will be free to reproduce, use, and distribute the information to others without restriction. We will also be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information that you send us for any purpose whatsoever including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services incorporating such information.