What Jow's terms say

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• Third-party cookies are used for statistics

  "In order to adapt our Platform to your requests and needs, we measure the number of visits, the number of page views and your activity on our Platform and your frequency of return, thanks in particular to the Google Tag Manager and Facebook Pixel tools. The Google Analytics tool we use generates cookies as described on Google's official website:"

• You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting

  "The term "cookie" covers in particular: HTTP cookies; "flash" cookies; The result of the fingerprinting calculation in the case of "fingerprinting" (calculation of a unique identifier of the machine based on elements of its configuration for tracking purposes); Invisible pixels or "web bugs"; Any other identifier generated by software or an operating system, for example."

• Your personal data may be disclosed to comply with government requests without notice to you

  "Where applicable, the courts concerned, mediators, public accountants, auditors, lawyers, bailiffs, collection companies, police or gendarmerie authorities in the event of theft or judicial request, relief."

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• Instructions are provided on how to submit a copyright claim

  "If you consider that any content appearing on the JOW Platform infringes your intellectual property rights as recognized by French legislation, you can tell us by:"

• Invalidity of any portion of the Terms of Service does not entail invalidity of its remainder

  "If any of the provisions of these Terms are declared void under any existing legislative or regulatory provision and/or a court decision having authority from the res judicata, it shall be deemed unwritten but shall not affect the validity of the other clauses which shall remain fully applicable."

• Failure to enforce any provision of the Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver of such provision

  "The fact that one of the Parties has not required the application of any clause of these GTC, whether permanently or temporarily, may in no case be considered as a waiver of the said clause."

• You agree not to use the service for illegal purposes

  "To not divert the purpose of the Platform to commit crimes, offences or contraventions punishable by the Criminal Code or any other law;"

• There is a date of the last update of the agreements

  "March 19, 2025 version (v7_20250319)"

• Blocking first-party cookies may limit your ability to use the service

  "As indicated beforehand, by choosing to block our technical and functional cookies, You may see the navigation on our Platform and/or the use of some of its features altered."

• First-party cookies are used

  "These so-called “functional” cookies allow our Platform to function optimally and improve your navigation."

• This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation

  "In addition to the persons specifically indicated as “Data Recipients” within the explanatory table of purposes, the main people who may have access to your personal data are: The service providers responsible for the management of the Platform;"

• Third parties are involved in operating the service

  "For the sake of transparency, here is the list of providers that Jow uses:"

• The court of law governing the terms is in location X

  The court of law governing the terms is in France

  "THESE TOU AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE USER AND JOW ARE GOVERNED BY FRENCH LAW."

• This service is only available for use individually and non-commercially

  "THE USE OF THE PLATFORM IS DESTINED EXCLUSIVELY TO CONSUMERS AND IS RESERVED FOR NON-PROFESSIONAL USE. AS SUCH, JOW FORMALLY PROHIBITS THE USE OF THE PLATFORM, OR ANY OF ITS FUNCTIONALITIES BY PROFESSIONALS, IN PARTICULAR FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THEIR BRANDS, REVENUES OR PRODUCTS THROUGH A USER ACCOUNT."

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• You aren’t forced into binding arbitration in case of disputes

  "Since mediation is not mandatory, each Party may withdraw from the process at any time."

• The court of law governing the terms is in a jurisdiction that is friendlier to user privacy protection

  The court of law governing the terms is in a jurisdiction that is friendlier to user privacy protection (France)

  "THESE TOU AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE USER AND JOW ARE GOVERNED BY FRENCH LAW."

• Information is provided about how your personal data is collected

  "How do we collect your data?"

• This service provides a list of third parties involved in its operation

  "For the sake of transparency, here is the list of providers that Jow uses:"

• Your data is processed and stored in a country that is friendlier to user privacy protection

  Your data is processed and stored in a country that is friendlier to user privacy protection (E.U.)

  "Jow does not intend to transfer your personal data outside the European Union in the context of the processing for which it is responsible. In the event that Jow should do so, he will inform You by indicating the measures taken to control this transfer and ensure that the confidentiality of your personal data is respected."

• You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data

  In accordance with applicable regulations, You have the following rights: Right of access (GDPR Article 15), rectification (GDPR Article 16), updating, completeness of your data; Right of locking or erasure of your personal data (GDPR Article 17), where it is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated or whose collection, use, communication or preservation is prohibited;"

• You can limit how your information is used by third parties and the service

  "Right to restriction of the processing of your data (GDPR Art. 18)"

• A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data

  "For any question relating to the management and use of your personal data, You can either contact Jow: By using the chat tool; By email at: [email protected]"

• The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users

  "More formally, this means that we are committed to respecting both French law (the law 'Informatique et Libertés') and European regulation (the 'GDPR')."

• Information is provided about security practices

  "Jow and its eventual subcontractors undertake to implement all technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of its processing of personal data and the confidentiality of your data, in application of the Data Protection Act and the GDPR. As such, Jow takes the necessary precautions, in view of the nature of your data and the risks presented by its data processing, to preserve the security of the data and, in particular, to prevent them from being distorted, damaged, or that unauthorized third parties have access to it (physical protection of premises, authentication process of Internet users with personal and secure access via confidential logins and passwords, logging of connections, encryption of certain data, etc.)."

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• You authorise the service to charge a credit card supplied on re-occurring basis

  "Any paid subscription to which the User has subscribed to is automatically renewed after its expiry date until the User terminates it as indicated below."

• You are prohibited from posting content which promotes violence or politically or religiously extremist values

  "Inciting the commission of an offence, crime or act of terrorism or promoting war crimes or crimes against humanity;"

• You agree not to submit libelous, harassing or threatening content

  "Threatening a person or group of people;"

• If you are the target of a copyright claim, your content and/or your account may be removed

  If you are the target of a copyright claim, your content may be removed

  "JOW reserves the right to remove, without prior notice, any content that may infringe upon the intellectual property rights of third parties that have been imported or shared on the Platform."

• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for the activities on your account

  "Apart from the actions relating to the Mandate entrusted to JOW, the User will be solely responsible for the use of his Merchant Identifiers or the actions made through his Account. In no case can JOW be held responsible in case of theft of the identity of a User. Any access and action made from a User’s Account will be presumed to be performed by that User."

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• You can set guidelines for the use of your personal information after your death

  "Right to define the fate of your data after your death and to choose that we communicate (or not) your data to a third party that You have previously designated. In the event of death and in the absence of instructions on your part, we undertake to destroy your data, unless its retention is necessary for probationary purposes or to meet a legal obligation."

• You can retrieve an archive of your data

  "Right to portability of the data You have provided to us, when your data is subject to automated processing based on your consent or on a contract (GDPR Article 20);"