Legal notice

The “Renault Group Developer Portal” website is published by:

Renault s.a.s., a simplified joint-stock company with share capital of EUR 533,941,113, whose registered office is located at 122-122 bis avenue du Général Leclerc, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France, registered with the Nanterre Trade and Companies Register under number 780 129 987 (hereinafter “RENAULT”).

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General Terms of Use

The purpose of these General Terms of Use (hereinafter the “GTU”) is to define the terms and conditions governing the use of the “Renault.fr” website. Access to and use of the website imply the User’s full and unconditional acceptance of the GTU.

1 - Definitions

For the purposes hereof:

“Website” means the “Renault.fr” website, published by RENAULT, which provides access to the Elements. The Website includes the Content, software, programs, tools (including programming and browsing tools), databases, operating systems, documentation and all other components thereof, as well as any updates and new versions that RENAULT may make available.

“Content” means, without limitation, the structure of the Website, editorial content, drawings, illustrations, images, photographs, graphic guidelines, trademarks, logos, acronyms, company names, audiovisual works, multimedia works, visual content, audio and sound content, and any other content available on the Website.

“Elements” means the various features and information made available on the Website.

“User” means an adult natural person browsing the Website for their own needs, in a strictly personal or commercial context, without any direct or indirect profit-making purpose, whether or not they own a Vehicle.

“Vehicle” means any RENAULT-brand vehicle.

2 - Purpose of the Website

The purpose of the Website is to enable Users to:

• discover the resources, tools, and information made available by RENAULT to design, develop, and test applications intended for Renault Group vehicle infotainment systems;
• access technical documentation, development guidelines, and requirements applicable to the development of Android Automotive applications for Renault Group vehicles;
• access, according to their profile and the permissions granted to them, certain development and testing resources, including vehicle properties, programming interfaces (APIs), and emulators;
• contact RENAULT to obtain information, support, or explore partnership opportunities that provide access to additional features and resources;
• within the framework of a partnership agreement with RENAULT, develop and test applications in accordance with the applicable contractual terms and the technical, security, quality, and user experience requirements defined by RENAULT;
• obtain the information necessary for the submission, review, and, where applicable, deployment of applications in Renault Group vehicles.

This list is not exhaustive and may be amended by RENAULT at any time without RENAULT incurring any liability in this respect.

RENAULT reserves the right to amend, at any time and without prior notice, the information available on the Website, in particular information relating to the technical characteristics and equipment of the models presented.

3 - Access to the Website

The Website is accessible via the Internet at: https://developer.renaultgroup.com ↗ Access to certain Elements of the Website requires the User to create an account in accordance with the terms and procedures provided at the time the account is created.

4 - Licence to Use the Website

RENAULT grants the User a personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-assignable, non-transferable and royalty-free right to use the Website, the Content and its Elements. This licence is granted solely for the User’s own needs, excluding any commercial or profit-making exploitation of all or part of the Content and/or Elements. The User acquires no rights in the Website, the Content and/or the Elements other than those expressly granted herein.

5 - User Obligations

The User undertakes to use the Website in accordance with national and international laws and regulations. In particular, the User undertakes to:

• read and comply with these GTU;
• not reproduce, even temporarily and/or partially, the Website and/or its Content by any means or in any form;
• not access and/or use the software components of the Website;
• not use software or processes intended to copy the Content and/or likely to disrupt the proper operation of the Website;
• not adapt, modify, translate, transcribe, compile, decompile, assemble or disassemble all or part of the Website, the Elements and/or the Content;
• not export the Website and/or merge it with other computer programs;
• inform RENAULT if the User becomes aware of any hacking and/or unlawful or non-contractual use of the Website and/or its Content;
• not manipulate the Website or introduce any virus or malicious code likely to cause IT and/or functional failures affecting the proper operation of the Website or any Elements accessible through it;
• not obstruct the proper operation of the Website by any means whatsoever;
• not use the Website to display, download or transmit any unlawful, harmful or otherwise inappropriate content.

As the User is solely responsible for their use of the Website, the User acknowledges that RENAULT shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect loss, including material or non-material loss, loss of data or programs, or financial loss resulting from access to or use of the Website, or from the interruption, suspension or modification of the Website or any of its Elements.

Furthermore, when the User completes forms online, the User undertakes to ensure that their comments:

• relate to the purpose of the form being completed;
• do not undermine the purpose of the survey and do not contain unlawful, violent, vulgar, obscene, insulting, defamatory, hateful or otherwise inappropriate material;
• do not harm the brand image or, more generally, the interests of the Renault Group. If any of the above restrictions is breached, Renault reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to suspend the processing of the User’s request and to take any action available under applicable law.

6 - Website Availability

RENAULT shall use its best efforts to secure access to, browsing of and use of the Website.

The Website is continuously accessible, except in cases of force majeure or events beyond RENAULT’s control, and subject to any outages and maintenance operations required for the proper operation of the Website.

7 - Liability and Warranty

7.1 Use of the Website

Within the limits permitted by applicable laws and regulations, RENAULT accepts no liability for the User’s use of the Website and provides no express or implied warranty regarding the availability, speed or performance of the Website. In particular, access to the Website may be temporarily and periodically suspended for technical reasons. Where applicable, the technical teams shall use their best efforts to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

As RENAULT reserves the right to amend the information available on the Website at any time and without prior notice, neither RENAULT, the members of its distribution network nor its subsidiaries may be held liable on this basis.

The User accesses and uses the Website at their own risk. The User is responsible for taking all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software stored on their telephone and computer equipment against any damage or compromise.

In all circumstances, RENAULT shall be released from any liability:

• if the User fails to comply with these GTU;
• if the Website malfunctions due to an intentional or unintentional cause attributable to the User or to a third party, malicious conduct, software, the User’s smartphone/tablet, an interface, or any other product or equipment of the User;
• in the event of a malfunction and/or failure of the User’s IT and/or communications network, regardless of the cause.

RENAULT does not warrant that the Website is free from errors or anomalies, or that it cannot be compromised or attacked, including by viruses, which may cause malfunctions, interruptions, failures, or loss of data or information.

8 - Personal Data

When using this Website, your personal data is processed under the conditions described in Renault’s Personal Data Protection Policy, available here ↗.

9 - Intellectual and Industrial Property

The Website and its Content are protected by intellectual and/or industrial property rights.

The photographs, texts, slogans, drawings, images, animated sequences with or without sound, and all works incorporated into the Website are owned by RENAULT or by third parties that have assigned their rights to RENAULT or authorised RENAULT to use them.

The Vehicle models and all documentation presented on the Website are protected by copyright and by Articles L. 511-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code relating to the protection of registered designs.

The RENAULT name, the names of Vehicles in the RENAULT range and the related products and services, slogans and logos accompanying these trademarks are, unless otherwise stated, registered trademarks of RENAULT or other Renault Group companies.

Other trademarks that may be mentioned are used by RENAULT either with the authorisation of their owners or solely as an indication of products or services offered by RENAULT.

Reproduction of the Content on paper or digital media is authorised provided that it is strictly reserved for personal use, excluding any advertising, commercial and/or information-related use, and complies with Article L. 122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Except as provided above, the reproduction, imitation, use or affixing, by any process and on any medium, of all or part of the Content without the prior authorisation of RENAULT or the relevant rights holder(s) constitutes an infringement punishable by four years’ imprisonment and a fine of EUR 400,000.

10 - Governing Law

The Website and these GTU are governed by French law.

Any dispute concerning the interpretation and/or performance of these GTU shall first be subject to an attempt at amicable settlement.

If no amicable settlement is reached, the dispute shall be submitted to the courts within the jurisdiction of the Paris Court of Appeal, to which the parties grant exclusive jurisdiction, notwithstanding multiple defendants or third-party claims.

11 - Updates to the GTU

RENAULT reserves the right to amend and update these GTU at any time, without prior notice or prior information to Users. Where applicable, amendments and updates shall be binding on the User as soon as they are published on the Website. The User is responsible for consulting the GTU in force each time they access the Website.

12 - Miscellaneous Provisions

12.1 No Waiver

A party’s failure to rely on any provision of these GTU shall not be interpreted as a temporary or permanent waiver of the benefit of that provision, which shall remain in force.

12.2 Invalidity of a Provision

If one or more provisions of these GTU are declared invalid, void or unwritten as a result of applicable regulations, a legal development or a final decision of a competent court, the remaining provisions shall retain their full force and effect. The parties undertake to implement, as soon as possible, a valid replacement provision whose effect is as close as possible to the intent of these GTU.

12.3 Force Majeure

In addition to the events customarily recognised as force majeure by French case law, the following are expressly considered force majeure events: severe weather, governmental and legal restrictions and changes, computer failures and telecommunications outages, failure of RENAULT servers, and any other event beyond RENAULT’s reasonable control.