Welcome on to the application Style My Hair, dedicated to try on a total look - cut, color and styling – via our virtual makeover tool, and powered by L’Oréal Professionnel (hereinafter the "Application").
Please read carefully these Terms of Use which govern the use of this Application. (hereinafter the “Terms of Use”). By using this Application, you agree to these Terms of Use without reserve.
You are currently connected to the Application made available by L’Oréal Professionnel.
Company Name: L’Oréal (UK) Limited acting through its trading division L’Oréal Professionnel, a private limited company registered in England and Wales (hereinafter “L’Oréal Professionnel” or “We” or “Us”).
You can contact L’Oréal (UK) Limited by writing to the following address: L’Oréal (UK) Limited, 255 Hammersmith Road, London W6 8AZ or phoning us on +44 (0) 208 762 4000. E-mail: [email protected].
Hosted by: Ocito, a simplified joint-stock company, with capital of 68 175 EUR, having its registered offices at 28 Rue de Châteaudun in Paris, registered with the Paris Registry of Trade and Companies under number 442 144 663. Telephone Number: +33 (0)1 53 43 08 321.
1. ACCESS TO THE APPLICATION
a. Who can use it?
To access and use this Application you need to be an adult. If you are a minor, your parents' prior authorization shall be required.
b. How to download and access it?
The Application shall be delivered solely via electronic download from Apple Store or Android Store (hereinafter the "Platform"). You may download from the Platform (i) a copy of the Application; and (ii) install it on the device as per the instructions provided during the installation and/or posted on the Platform.
You may freely download and use the Application, without being required to sign in or create an account.
Access to the Application and/or certain sections thereof may require the use of PIN codes. In such case it is up to you to take the necessary steps to keep such codes secret. You may naturally change them at any time. However, the number of attempts to access the Application and/or certain section thereof may be limited in order to prevent any fraudulent use of such codes. Please inform Us of any fraudulent use that you may become aware of. In the event of any breach of the rules set forth under these Terms of Use, We reserve the right to suspend your access.
c. On what device?
The installation and use of the Application require a compatible device with an Internet connection.
The following operating systems are compatible: iOS and Android.
You shall bear exclusive liability for any operation related to the required device, as well as any telecommunication expenses incurred in connection with the installation of, access to and downloading of, the Application.
Your operator may charge you additional expenses for accessing the Internet from a mobile phone or tablet. We shall bear no liability for any network or roaming costs in connection with the Application updates.
d. At what price?
We hereby grant you a free license to use the Application.
You shall bear any further expenses for accessing and using the Internet.
Although We endeavor to keep the Application accessible at all times, We cannot guarantee said access to you under all circumstances (maintenance, update, force majeure event or other reason beyond our control).
2. USE
a. License
The Application is hereby licensed, not sold, to you.
As of the effective date of these Terms of Use, subject to compliance with the terms hereof, We hereby grant you on a non-exclusive, revocable and non-transferable license to use the Application, during the period of use of the Application, unlimited in time.
b. Applicable requirements
In connection with your use of the Application, you hereby agree not to:
(a) Duplicate, copy or use the Application for any purposes other than as expressly authorized under these Terms of Use;
(b) Attempt (or encourage or support others’ attempts) to reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Application, except for purposes of interoperability, as defined by law;
(c) Adapt, correct, update or alter the Application in any way;
(d) Create any derivative work based on all or any part of the Application;
(e) Disclose or publish the results of performance tests on the Application without our prior written consent;
(f) lease or sublicense the Application to any third party;
(g) Mask, remove or alter any notice or reference to our proprietary rights;
(h) Correct any error, anomaly, bug or other malfunction or failure affecting the Application;
(i) Download the Application if you are in a country We have expressly excluded;
(j) Use the Application and/or publish any contents via the Application depicting any third parties and/or works protected under intellectual property rights, without the prior express consent of the right holder(s). You may publish advertising or promotional contents for any products and/or services competing with the L’Oréal group trademarks after obtaining the prior express consent of the relevant right holders. Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, you shall bear sole liability for all such contents as you may publish via the Application.
3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
a. Intellectual property rights
Developing this Application involved significant investments. The Application and each of the elements it comprises (i.e., brands, images, texts, videos, etc.) are protected by intellectual property rights. No use, reproduction or representation of the Application (in whole or in part), on any media whatsoever, for any other purposes, including, but not limited to, commercial purposes, shall be authorized.
We may make available to you via this Application additional content that you are authorized to download (hereinafter the "Downloadable Content"). We grant you, for purposes relating to the Purpose only, free of charge, a non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the Downloadable Content. You recognize and accept that such Downloadable Content is subject to intellectual property rights and/or other rights of ownership and is only made available in conformity with the Purpose.
We make an Application available to you which enables you to edit a picture (especially in order to virtually test an haircolor or an hairstyle), you hereby acknowledge and agree that such Application shall be only for your own private use in compliance with its intended purpose. You shall not be authorized to make any such use of this Application as may be detrimental to the honor, repute or rights of any third parties as described below.
b. Third-party rights
We hereby remind you that you shall secure all the necessary authorizations and rights from any relevant rightsholders in connection with any content you may wish to post via the Application, in particular any and all pictures of customers you (as a hairdresser) may have taken in your hair salon, 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
We may make available via this Application a space dedicated to user contents, such as text, photos, videos, opinions, etc. (hereinafter "User Content").
By posting User Content via the Application, you hereby grant Us a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide perpetual license to reproduce, display, use, copy, modify, adapt, edit, distribute, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, distribute such User Content (in whole or in part).
Said use shall be authorized for all in-house or external, corporate or financial communication purposes, advertising, and for all public relations, historical or archival purposes, by L’Oréal UK Limited and any affiliate companies in the L’Oréal group, 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...; B-to-B 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 brand products of L’Oréal UK Limited and any affiliate companies in the L’Oréal group (hereinafter the “Media”).
You are hereby informed that said social networks are platforms owned by third-parties and, accordingly, the circulation and use of User Content via said social networks shall be governed by thee terms of use defined by said third parties. Therefore We shall not be held responsible for any use of the content by Us 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 Content. You shall be responsible for handling any third-party claims relating to the use of the Content in accordance with the terms of use defined by the social networks.
In addition, We hereby remind you that any Content may be referenced on a search engine and therefore to be accessed by an audience outside the Application.
This authorization gives Us the possibility to adapt your Content as initially fixed and/or make any such clarification to the User Content as We may consider useful, provided that the User Content shall not alter your image or words.
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.
Any such User Content as you may publish via this Application shall be chosen by you and under your sole liability. However, We would like to remind you that User Content shall not conflict with applicable legislation or accepted standards of morality, or the principles stated herein. In this regard, We reserve the right to remove at any time any such User Content as may not comply with these Terms of Use, including the Code of Conduct.
In addition, if you access User Content created by another user, you shall be required to comply with said user’s rights and you shall, in particular, not reproduce or disseminate said Content published via other media without the relevant user’s prior consent.
4. CODE OF CONDUCT
We support the values of tolerance and respect of others.
For this reason, by using this Application, you agree not to:
• Convey any racist, violent, xenophobic, malicious, rude, obscene or unlawful comments;
• Disseminate any content that may be harmful, defamatory, unauthorized, malicious or infringing on privacy or publicity rights, inciting violence, racial or ethnic hatred or qualify as gross indecency or incitement to commit certain crimes or offences;
• Use the Application for political, propaganda or proselytizing purposes;
• Publish any content advertising or promoting any products and/or services competing with the brand(s) displayed on the Application;
• Divert the Application from its intended purpose, including by using it as a dating service;
• Disseminate any information that may directly or indirectly allow the nominal and specific identification of an individual without prior and express consent, such as their last name, postal address, email address, telephone number;
• Disseminate any information or content that may be upsetting for the youngest;
• Intimidate or harass others;
• Conduct illegal activities, including that may infringe anyone’s rights in and to any software, trademarks, photographs, images, texts, videos, etc.;
• Disseminate content (including photographs and videos) portraying minors.
If you become aware of any such User Content as may condone crimes against humanity, incite racial hatred and/or violence, or relate to child pornography, you shall immediately notify Us at the following email address [email protected] or by sending a detailed letter to the following address: L’Oréal (UK) Limited, 255 Hammersmith Road, London W6 8AZ, specifying in your email/letter the date on which you discovered said content, your identity, the URL, description of the disputed content and the user ID of the author thereof.
5. INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE APPLICATION
a. General provisions
Furthermore, We hereby remind you that inaccuracies and omissions may appear in the information available on this Application, particularly due to third parties. We hereby undertake to remove inaccuracies or to complete such information on the Application as soon as possible.
b. Information on the products and services
The products and services presented to you on this Application are not offered for sale but a general presentation of the range of the products and services that We distribute in the country where this Application is available.
c. Advice and diagnostic tools
The advice provided on this Application and/or the diagnostic tools that may be made available are merely simulations intended for obtaining expert cosmetics advice.
The information they deliver are for strictly indicative purposes and shall in no event replace a medical diagnosis or clinical consultation, nor be substituted for a medical treatment.
Accordingly, We cannot guaranty your entire satisfaction with the advice that results from the use of such tools and assume no liability for any use you may make thereof.
For any further information or in the event of doubt, We recommend that you consult a professional.
d. Hypertext links
The hypertext links included on the Application may lead you to websites published by third parties and the content of which We do cannot control. Accordingly, to the extent that said hypertext links were included on this Application for the sole purpose of facilitating your browsing experience of the Internet, looking up any third-party websites shall be your own decision and your sole liability.
6. PERSONAL DATA
You may give personal data related to you, particularly when you: (i) fill in your Hair Profile; (ii) declare a salon visit; (iii) sign in; (iv) save favorites products & articles; (v) send Us an e-mail; (v) respond to a poll or study.
All personal data collected in the Application are solely stored on your phone and are not sent to L’Oréal or one of its partners.
We may have access to pseudonymised data you gave in the list above to send push notifications relevant to you. We will however only send you marketing communications where you have provided your consent, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
For any further information on the processing of your personal data, please look up our privacy policy here.
To delete any data, user should uninstall the app from its phone.
7. AMENDMENT TO THE APPLICATION AND THE TERMS OF USE
We may amend the contents and information included on the Application as well these Terms of Use, particularly for purposes of compliance with any new applicable legislation and/or regulations and/or to improve the Application.
Any amendment shall be notified to you via the Application before becoming effective under these Terms of Use. Unless the amendment requires your express approval, your continued use of the Application shall be deemed as your acceptance of the new Terms of Use.
8. CREDITS
L’Oréal, a S.A. company, with capital of EUR 112 371 148,20 EUROS, having its registered offices at 14 rue Royale in 75008 Paris, registered with the Paris Registry of Trade and Companies under number 632 012 100, email address: [email protected], telephone number: 0140200000.
9. DISCLAIMER
We shall use our best efforts to maintain access to the Application and Downloadable Content at all times. However, We cannot guarantee the permanent availability and accessibility of the Application. Indeed, we may be required to momentarily suspend access to all or part of the Application, particularly for technical maintenance purposes.
It is hereby further specified that the Internet and IT or telecommunication networks are not error-free and that interruptions and failures can occur. We cannot provide any guarantee in this regard and shall not therefore be held liable for any damage that may relate to the use of the Internet and IT or telecommunication networks, including, without limitation:
- Poor transmission and/or reception of any data and/or information via the Internet;
- Any external intrusions or computer viruses;
- Any defaulting reception equipment or communication networks; and
- Any such Internet malfunction as may hinder the proper operation of the Application.
Lastly, our liability shall be limited to direct damage, excluding any other damage or loss whatsoever. More specifically, any indirect damage relating, without limitation, to any loss of profit, revenue or goodwill.
10. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTES
These Terms of Use and our relationship with the user shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Any proceedings in connection with or related to this Application or any dispute as to the validity, interpretation and/or performance of these terms of use shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of England and Wales.