General Terms and Conditions

1. Definitions

The following definitions apply throughout these T&Cs:

  • T&Cs: means these general terms and conditions of use of the Site.
  • Intellectual Property Rights: means all rights, whether registered or not, including patents and patent applications, trademarks and trademark applications, designs and models, copyright, including copyright applicable to software, neighbouring rights including producers' rights and performers' rights, sui generis rights, including database producers' rights, and other related rights including rights applicable to domain names, corporate names, trade names and signs, rights relating to know-how and trade secrets, manufacturing secrets or any equivalent form of protection existing anywhere in the world.
  • Form: means the contact form available on the Site which the User may complete if they wish to be contacted by Parallel.
  • Parallel: means Kiosk, a simplified joint-stock company whose registered office is located at 3 boulevard de Sébastopol, 75001 Paris, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 980 428 072.
  • Site: means Parallel's website accessible at https://www.beparallel.com/fr/ and its sub-domains.
  • Solution: means the software solution developed by Parallel, designed to assist healthcare facilities in performing and automating the medical coding of hospital stays using artificial intelligence.
  • User: means any person consulting or browsing the Site.

Unless the context requires otherwise, definitions in the singular include the plural, and vice versa.

2. Purpose of the T&Cs

The purpose of the T&Cs is to govern the rights and obligations of Users in relation to their browsing of the Site and their use of the Form.

The T&Cs do not govern the use of the Solution.

3. Acceptance and amendment of the T&Cs

By browsing any page of the Site, each User is deemed to have duly read and accepted the T&Cs, as in force at the time of browsing, without any reservation.

Should the User disagree with all or part of the T&Cs, they undertake not to browse the Site and not to use the Form.

Parallel reserves the right to amend the T&Cs, in particular for legal or technological reasons, at its sole discretion.

4. Parallel's undertakings

4.1 Availability of the Site

Parallel undertakes to make the Site available to Users and to use reasonable efforts to ensure its accessibility and proper functioning.

In this respect, Parallel undertakes to make the Site available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in cases of force majeure or unforeseeable and insurmountable behaviour by a third party, and subject to any failures and/or maintenance work required for its proper functioning.

The User is informed of, and accepts, that due to the specific characteristics of the Internet and telecommunications networks, Parallel cannot guarantee permanent availability of the Site and that access to the Site may be reduced or impossible for periods of varying length. In the event of a malfunction or anomaly, Parallel will restore the situation as soon as possible.

4.2 Content of the Site

Parallel makes available information relating to its business and its service offerings.

As far as possible, Parallel endeavours to provide reliable and error-free information but cannot guarantee the accuracy of each item of information available on the Site, which the User understands and accepts.

5. User's undertakings

The User undertakes to use the Site in accordance with its intended purpose and to refrain from any behaviour likely to prevent its proper functioning.

In particular, the User undertakes to:

  • use the Form only for the purposes for which it exists, namely to be contacted by Parallel in order to receive information about the Solution and the services provided by Parallel;
  • provide accurate data in the Form;
  • not complete the Form several times with the same data;
  • not reproduce or use the content of the Site for commercial purposes or in order to compete, directly or indirectly, with Parallel;
  • use the information and any tools available on the Site under their sole responsibility.

Users are informed of, and accept, that the following are strictly prohibited:

  • any behaviour likely to interrupt, suspend, slow down or prevent the continuity of the Site;
  • any breach of the security and authentication measures of the Site and/or of Parallel's digital infrastructure;
  • any intrusion into, copying of and/or misappropriation of the Site or of Parallel's digital infrastructure;
  • any act likely to seriously harm Parallel's financial, commercial or moral rights and interests.

More generally, the User undertakes to comply with the laws and regulations in force, not to breach public order, public morals or the rights of third parties, and not to infringe any legislative or regulatory provision.

6. Intellectual property

The Site and all of the elements composing it, including but not limited to the texts and other content appearing in the sections of the Site, the Parallel trademark, the software, databases and content of any nature, are protected by the Intellectual Property Rights in force and remain the exclusive property of Parallel.

The T&Cs and/or the use of the Site do not effect any transfer of intellectual property rights, and the User is in no case authorised to reproduce, extract or use in any way the data, information or content of the Site.

7. Personal data

Parallel attaches great importance to respect for privacy and the protection of personal data. By completing the Form, the User understands and accepts that the personal data entered will be processed for commercial prospecting purposes.

For more information, the User may consult the privacy policy available at the following address: Personal Data Policy.

8. Complaints

For any question or complaint relating to the Site, the User may contact Parallel at the following address: contact@beparallel.com.

9. Governing law and competent jurisdiction

The T&Cs are governed by and interpreted in accordance with French law.

Users acting in a professional capacity undertake to submit any dispute or claim relating to the validity, interpretation, performance and/or termination of the T&Cs to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Paris Economic Activities Court (Tribunal des activités économiques de Paris).

Pursuant to article R. 631-3 of the French Consumer Code, Users acting as consumers may bring proceedings, at their choice, before one of the courts with territorial jurisdiction under the Code of Civil Procedure, or before the court of the place where they lived at the time the contract was concluded or the harmful event occurred.