The website https://south-africa.edf.com is the property of Electricité de France, a public limited company:

  • with share capital of 2,084,365,041 euros
  • entered in the Paris Register of Commerce and Companies under number 552 081 317
  • Intra-community VAT: VAT EU FR 03552081317

and whose registered office is located at: 
22-30, avenue de Wagram 
75008 Paris, FRANCE 
Phone: 33 (0)1 40 42 22 22

The publishing director of the EDF South Africa website is Mrs Beatrice Buffon, in his capacity as Group Senior Executive Vice-President in charge of the International Division The Internet system of the website https://south-africa.edf.com was designed by Razorfish, located at: 94 Avenue Gambetta, 75020 Paris, FRANCE.

The EDF Group portal is hosted on the IT equipment of the EDF company - DSP, 32 avenue Pablo Picasso, 92000 Nanterre, FRANCE.

General terms and condition of use

The user acknowledges that he/she has read these General Terms and Conditions of Use and agrees to comply with them. EDF reserves the right to amend this notice at any time. The user therefore agrees to consult it on a regular basis.

In the event that you access to the website https://south-africa.edf.com from a country other than France, you agree to also comply with applicable local legislation.

Portal contents

The website https://south-africa.edf.com is a showcase of the activities of the EDF Group in South Africa in the renewable energy, services and nuclear sectors. It gives access to other websites of EDF or companies in the EDF Group, which may have their own terms and conditions, which must be consulted and followed. The companies of the EDF Group each have their own legal existence and an independent legal personality.

The information provided on the website https://south-africa.edf.com is for information purposes only. EDF is unable to guarantee that the information published on the website is accurate, complete or current. It cannot exempt the user from further appropriate analysis.

Therefore, EDF cannot be held liable for errors, omissions or a lack of availability of information and services. Consequently, the user accepts that he/she is solely responsible when using this information. EDF cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damage which may result from the access to or use of the website https://south-africa.edf.com, including but not limited to inaccessibility, loss of data, and/or virus presence on the site.

Responsability

Therefore, EDF cannot be held liable for errors, omissions or a lack of availability of information and services. Consequently, the user accepts that he/she is solely responsible when using this information. EDF cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damage which may result from the access to or use of the website https://south-africa.edf.com including but not limited to inaccessibility, loss of data, and/or virus presence on the site.

Information technology ans civil liberties

In accordance with Regulation no. 2016/679, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the amended Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, files and civil liberties, the personal data collected on the EDF Group portal are reported to the EDF Data Protection Officer (DPO). They are solely for internal use by EDF.

Personal data collected on EDF’s website may be collected for different purposes, depending on the website pages and the collection forms involved.

These are mainly:

  • Private customer spaces, companies or communities: information requests management and contract management
  • EDF space recruits: applications management 
  • Other dedicated areas (shareholders, investors, journalists, suppliers, etc.): contacts and information requests management

Data are kept for the entirety of the relationship with you and up to 3 years afterwards at most, depending on the nature of the relationship in question.

Data thus collected will not be sold, exchanged or leased. In the event that you do not provide this information, EDF may not be able to process the corresponding files.

In accordance with the above, you have a right of objection, access, rectification, erasure, restriction and portability for the data pertaining to you.

These rights may be exercised with the Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Data protection officer (DPO)

EDF has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) responsible for ensuring the protection of personal data and compliance with the law within the company. You may contact the DPO for any information or to exercise your rights at the following address:

EDF 
Délégué à la protection des données 
Tour EDF - 20 place de la Défense 
92050 Paris La Défense Cedex, FRANCE 
or by email at informatique-et-libertes@edf.fr 
Finally, you may contact the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL).

Cookies

During your visits, you are informed that a cookie may be automatically installed on your browser. It is a block of data that is not used for identification purposes but that is used to record information about your browsing on the website. It enables analyses of visitor numbers and audience measurement, among other things, in order to improve the quality of the website.

See “Cookies” notice.

Intellectuel property

The trademarks and logos (semi-figurative trademarks) of EDF and EDF Group companies appearing on the websites are registered trademarks. Any total or partial reproduction or representation, whether separate or included with other items, without the prior express written consent of EDF or the EDF Group companies involved, is strictly prohibited. The general structure, software, texts, images, videos, sounds, know-how and activities, and more generally all the information and content contained in the EDF Group portal, are the property of EDF or are subject to a right of use. These items are subject to legislation that protects copyrights.

Any total or partial representation, modification, reproduction or distortion of all or part of the website or its content, by any process whatsoever, and on any medium whatsoever, constitutes an infringement punishable by Articles L 335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Any databases shown in the website https://south-africa.edf.com are protected by the provisions of the French law of 1 July 1998 transposing the European directive of 11 March 1996 on legal protection of databases into the French Intellectual Property Code. In this regard, EDF expressly prohibits any re-use, reproduction or extraction of items from such databases. Unauthorised re-use, reproduction or extraction renders the user liable.

EDF reserves the right to erase any content without delay and without prior notification: message, text, image or graphic that violates the laws and regulations in force, particularly the aforementioned regulations.

In the event that you wish to use any of the website content (text, image, etc.), you must obtain prior express written consent from EDF by writing to the address contact-rsa@edf.fr.

Links

The links to external websites on the website https://south-africa.edf.com have been the subject of prior express consent.

However, as EDF is not the publisher of these websites, it cannot control their content. Therefore, EDF may not be held liable, under any circumstances, for the content of the websites accessible in this manner, or for any collection and transmission of personal data, installation of cookies or any other process with the same purpose carried out by these websites.

You may not set up a hyperlink to the EDF Group portal without the prior express written consent of EDF. Requests must be sent to the address contact-rsa@edf.fr.

Applicable law

The law applicable to the website https://south-africa.edf.com is French law. Most of the online content and services on website https://south-africa.edf.com is available in English. In the event of any dispute, the English text will prevail.