Legal notice

Address of headquarters and contact details:

• Address: 5 rue Roland Barthes, 75 598 PARIS Cedex 12, France
• Tel.: +33 1 53 44 31 31  
• Fax: +33 1 44 87 99 39

Content management system: 

• Drupal 11

Publishing Director:

• Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer of the Agence française de développement

Editorial manager and content management:

• Mathilde Schneider, Deputy Director of AFD’s Communication Department 

Content management: 

• AFD’s Communication Department

Hosting of afd.fr website 

• Corporate name: Cegedim
• Form of company: SA
• Headquarters: 137 rue d’Aguesseau, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
• Phone contact:  +33 1 49 09 22 00
• Number and city of registration in the Trade and Companies Register: B 350 422 622 Nanterre
• Company’s share capital: EUR 13 431 769, 27 

Contact : Online form

AFD welcomes you on its institutional website: the website which presents its mandates, its operation, its financing and its achievements. 
Any connection to AFD’s website is subject to compliance with the present conditions. For the Internet user (hereinafter “the user”), simply accessing AFD’s website implies the acceptance of all the conditions set out below and the undertaking to respect them.

Presentation of the website

The purpose of AFD’s website is to provide general information about the companies of AFD Group. AFD’s website comprises the websites and mini-sites accessible by the URL address: www.afd.fr.
AFD’s website has been designed with French as the working language. For your convenience, AFD has made certain parts of the website available in other languages, including English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Disclaimer and responsibility 

The AFD, which owns the Site, strives to ensure the proper functioning and computer security of the said site as well as the accuracy and updating of the information disseminated on it. However, AFD cannot guarantee the accuracy, precision or exhaustiveness of the information available on the Site.

It is also up to the users of the Site to verify the information by other means, including contacting AFD’s Communication department, via the form or at the postal address mentioned below.

The user is aware of the risks associated with using internet services.

Therefore, he acknowledges and accepts:

• to use the Site at their own risk;
• that AFD cannot be held responsible for access interruptions and the consequences that may ensue for any user internet user;
• that AFD’s obligation to provide is limited to an obligation of means;
• that AFD reserves the right to correct or delete, at any time and without prior notice, the general structure of the Site or its contents;
• that AFD cannot however guarantee the completeness or the absence of modification by a third party (intrusion, virus).

Thus, AFD declines all responsibility:

• for any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission concerning information available on the Site;
• for any damages resulting from a fraudulent intrusion by a third party that has resulted in an unauthorized modification of the information made available on the Site;
• and more generally for any damage, direct or indirect, whatever the causes, origins, nature or consequences, caused due to anyone’s access to the Site or the impossibility of accessing it, as well as the use of the site and/or the credit given to any information coming directly or indirectly from it;
• in case of impossibility of access to this Site and/or use of the associated services.

For any questions regarding these terms of use of the Site, you can write to the administrator of the AFD site using this form or at the following address:

Access the form

Agence Française de Développement, 

Département de la communication – Division communication institutionnelle, digitale et éditoriale

5 Rue Roland Barthes, 

75 598 PARIS Cedex 12

Intellectual property rights

AFD holds all copyright on the Site and on the services offered by the Site, with the exception of content for which intellectual property rights are held by third parties and in particular content or sites to which the Site points via hyperlinks. 

In this regard, and in accordance with the provisions of article L.122-5 of the intellectual property code, only private use is permitted subject to different or even more restrictive provisions of the intellectual property code. 

Consequently, any other use constitutes infringement and is sanctioned under the provisions of intellectual property law, unless prior written authorization from AFD.

It is thus forbidden for the user, apart from this use, to copy, modify, distribute, transmit, broadcast, represent, reproduce, publish, grant in the form of a license, transfer or otherwise exploit the contents present on the Site. 

The user who does not comply with the laws and regulations in force is liable to be sued by AFD. 

Reporting abuse

AFD strives to preserve the quality of the Site’s content.

If you notice or believe that the content published on the Site is manifestly illegal, report it by filling out this form.

Any abusive notification exposes you to civil or criminal penalties.

AFD is not subject to any general obligation to oversee or search for illegal content. However, AFD makes every effort to preserve the quality of the content of AFD’s website.  

Should you observe or consider that part of the content on AFD’s website presents a manifestly illicit character, please report it by filling in this for.

Any abusive notification may render you liable to civil or criminal sanctions.

Right of reply

Should you consider that part of the content harms your image, you have the right of reply by filling in this form.

Your right of reply will be published within three working days from the date of receipt of your message. Any abusive notification may render you liable to civil or criminal sanctions. 

Prohibition of mirroring

No posting of the Site by a third party under another URL is permitted without the express and prior authorization of AFD.

Hypertext links

As stated above, AFD is not responsible for the content published on the Site for which it does not hold the intellectual property rights and in particular the content or sites to which the Site links.

• Links pointing to AFD
  
  AFD authorizes any website to establish a link pointing to the address www.afd.fr after prior information provided at the following address: (to complete)
  
  AFD reserves the right, at any time, without prior notice and without having to justify its decision, to prohibit these links. In this case, AFD will inform the publisher of the site concerned who will have 2 working days to terminate the link.
  
  Any link of this type must comply with the legal and regulatory provisions in force.

   

• Hypertext links pointing to third-party sites 
  
  The contents to which the user can be directed by means of hyperlinks are the sole responsibility of the owners of these web spaces.
  
  Indeed, AFD cannot exercise any permanent control over these sites nor assume any responsibility for their content. 
  
  The insertion of these links does not mean that AFD approves the content contained on these sites. 
  
  The user who does not comply with the laws and regulations in force is liable to be sued by AFD.

Changes to these general terms of use

AFD reserves the right to modify, at any time and without prior notice, these terms of use in order to adapt them to changes in the Site and/or its operation.

Integrity of the contract

These general terms of use express the entirety of AFD’s rights and obligations.

If one or more of the clauses of these general terms and conditions of use should be declared void, deemed unwritten or set aside pursuant to a law, regulation or following a final decision rendered by a competent court, the other clauses of the general conditions would retain their binding force within the limits of said decision.

Applicable law and competent courts

These general conditions of use and the Site are governed by the provisions of French law.

Failing to find an amicable solution within a reasonable period of time, any dispute that may arise in connection with the use of the Site, or in the interpretation and application of the general conditions of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts.

The French Development Bank (Agence française de développement-AFD), processes personal data in the context of its activities. PROPARCO, FISEA and SOGEFOM are also entities of the AFD group and also process personal data in the context of their own activities. 

The AFD gives the utmost importance to the protection of your personal data. 

The objective of this information notice is to help you understand the processing activities carried out on your personal data. 

This information notice applies to all processing activities carried out under the responsibility of one of the entities of the AFD group.

When you register on our website to receive our newsletters, the data you enter in the registration form is processed as part of the management of our information offer.

The purposes pursued are therefore as follows:

• Management of newsletter subscriptions
• Management of email newsletters
• Development of statistics relating to the services offered

• Ad hoc surveys to improve our information services

   

• The legal basis for processing is the performance of a task carried out in the public interest (or in the exercise of official authority) vested in AFD, pursuant to Article 6.1.e of the European General Data Protection Regulation.

The information presented as mandatory in the registration form is necessary to send you newsletters and meet your expectations as part of your registration process. The non-mandatory information allows us on the one hand to produce statistical indicators on the audience of our newsletter and, on the other hand, to specifically inform you about conferences and workshops organized in your country of residence.

We also collect data relating to your interaction with our emails (email open rate, clicks) in order to compile statistics on the quality of our communication. The treatment does not involve automated decision-making.

We keep your email address and the information collected via the registration form for the duration of your registration.

Are recipients of the data:

• the authorized staff, in charge of external communication activities;
• the authorized staff at our involved providers, if applicable.
• To manage and send our newsletters, we use the services of DoList, whose servers are located in France. 

Your rights resulting from the European regulations on data protection are guaranteed in accordance with the GDPR. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.

You can access the data concerning you, rectify them, request their erasure or exercise your right to limit the processing of your data. To exercise your rights, or for any question related to your personal data, you can contact our Privacy Officer of the AFD group:

Complete the online form

• By mail : Agence française de développement - Délégué à la protection des données, 5, rue Roland Barthes – 75598 Paris Cedex 12 | France.

If, after contacting us, you consider that your "Data Protection" rights are not being respected, you can submit a complaint to the CNIL.

GDPR :

Your privacy is important to us 

The information collected about you is processed under the responsibility of AFD, whose purpose is to manage subscriptions to our newsletters "Monde en commun", "Savoirs AFD", "Rencontres du développement".

 The legal basis for processing is the performance of a public interest mission by AFD.

The information presented as mandatory in the registration form is necessary to send you newsletters and meet your expectations as part of your registration process. The non-mandatory information allows us, on the one hand, to produce statistical indicators on the audience of our newsletter and, on the other hand, to specifically inform you about conferences and workshops organized in your country of residence.

We also collect data relating to your interaction with our newsletter (email opening rate, clicks) in order to apply our rules regarding the retention period (this one is understood until the date of the end of your subscription) and to perform statistics. 

You may, under the conditions defined by the applicable regulations, access your data or request their erasure. You also have a right to object, a right of rectification, a right to limit the processing of your data and a right to data portability. 

To exercise these rights or for any questions about the processing of your data, you can contact the DPO (Data Protection Officer) of the AFD group, by electronic means: informatique.libertes@afd.fr or via the form accessible here.

If you believe, after contacting the DPO and obtaining its response, that your rights are not being respected, you can submit a complaint to the CNIL.

For more information on the processing of collected data click on the link.

The communication team