Euronews/Africanews
By using the website “www.euronews.com”, any of its sub-domains, “www.africanews.com” or our mobile application, you agree to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use our websites nor our mobile application. You may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided that:
you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices;
you make no modifications to the materials;
you do not use the materials in a manner that suggests an association with any of our products, services, or brands;
you do not download quantities of materials to a database that can be used to avoid future downloads from this website. For purposes of these terms, the use of any such material on any other website or computer environment is prohibited.
The Euronews’ and Africanews’ websites and our mobile application contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, photos, video, graphics, music, sound and software.
The entire contents of Euronews’ and Africanews’ websites and our mobile application are copyrighted under the French copyright law. You may not modify, publish, translate, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part.
You may download copyrighted material for your personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under French copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of Euronews and Africanews and the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made.
You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on Euronews, Africanews or our mobile application any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission.
Any unlawful use of the website can result in legal action.
The “Feedback” means the message board, or e-mail function offered as part of this Site. If you participate in the Feedback, you must not:
defame, abuse, harass or threaten others;
make any bigoted, hateful, or racially offensive statements;
infringe human rights;
advocate illegal activity or discuss illegal activities with the intent to commit them;
post or distribute any material that infringes and/or violates any right of a third party or any law;
post or distribute any vulgar, obscene, discourteous, or indecent language or images;
infringe copyright;
advertise or sell to or solicit others;
use the Feedback for commercial purposes of any kind;
post or distribute any software or other materials that contain a virus or other harmful component;
post material or make statements that do not generally pertain to the designated topic or theme of any chat room or bulletin board.
We reserve the right to remove or edit content from the Forum at any time and for any reason.
By submitting any materials to the Feedback, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such materials expressly granted) us a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and display, create derivative works from and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe.
Information obtained in the Feedback may not be reliable. We cannot be responsible for the content or accuracy of any information, and shall not be responsible for any trading or investment decisions made based on such information.
If you are under 16, please get a parent’s or guardian’s permission before taking part in any Euronews’, Africanews’ discussion. Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).
Euronews’, Africanews’ or our mobile app’s content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Euronews’, Africanews’ or our mobile app’s, it’s products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided “as is” and on an “is available” basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
We cannot ensure that you will be satisfied with any products or services that you purchase from a third-party site that links to or from the website or third-party content on our sites. We do not endorse any of the merchandise, nor have we taken any steps to confirm the accuracy or reliability of, any of the information contained in such third-party sites or content.
1) Euronews undertakes to do its utmost to guarantee the truthfulness and accuracy of the information available on all the Sites and on our mobile application. However, Euronews and Africanews cannot be held responsible for the inaccuracy thereof, nor for the use or interpretation thereof by Users.
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the sites, our mobile application or materials or functions on our sites and application, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
2) Websites and our mobile application also provide access to Partner Services, via clickable advertising elements (banners, videos, etc.) or via hypertext links integrated into various sections of the Websites and our mobile application and referring to sites, content and services published by said partners.
The User acknowledges that these Partner Services are totally independent of Euronews and Africanews. Consequently, any use of the Partner Services via the Sites and our mobile application will be subject exclusively to the conditions of use and/or sale specific to each Partner Service as well as to their personal data protection policy.
Euronews and Africanews may not be held liable for the content accessible, for all offers, information consulted or transactions carried out on the Partner Services. Similarly, Euronews and Africanews offers no guarantee as to the terms and conditions of application of the regulations in force by the publishers of the Partner Services, who are solely responsible for them.
3) The Sites, application and Services are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Euronews and Africanews will use their best efforts to guarantee accessibility to the Sites, application and Services but Euronews and Africanews may not be held liable due to risks of interruption or malfunction related to connection, maintenance operations, editorial updates, congestion of networks and/or computer systems, intrusion by unauthorized third parties and contamination by any viruses circulating on said networks and services, internal or external strikes, incorrect configuration or use of the User’s computer, or any other cause whether or not dependent on the User’s will.
Euronews and Africanews shall not be held liable in case of interruption or deterioration in the quality of the Sites, application and Services is due to the occurrence of a case of force majeure. Any event of force majeure or fortuitous event, as defined by current French legislation, is considered to be a case of force majeure.
4) Users may comment on Content posted on the Sites or application (hereinafter referred to as “Comments”), and/or upload texts, videos, sounds, images and/or photographs (hereinafter referred to as “User Content”). These Comments and User Content may be viewed by any Internet user visiting the Sites and our mobile application.
Euronews and Africanews does not carry out any a priori control of the User Content and/or Comments posted online by Users, who thus remain responsible for the content of the Comments and/or User Content of which they are the authors.
Under no circumstances may Euronews or Africanews be held liable on the basis of Comments and/or User Content that may have been posted online by a User who does not hold the necessary rights for such posting.
Any User who posts Comments and/or User Content on the Sites or on our application expressly authorizes Euronews, free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis, to retain, reproduce and represent said Comments and/or User Content on the Sites or on our application for the entire duration of the intellectual property rights as of their publication.
5) Euronews and Africanews are not responsible for consequences of children under 16 years old’s access to the websites nor to the mobile application as they are not authorized to access it without their parents’ consent.
The holder(s) of parental authority is (are) responsible for compliance with all the provisions of these terms and conditions when using the Sites or the mobile application by the person under 16 years old’s User.
Parents (or holders of parental authority) are invited to monitor their children’s Use of the Services and to bear in mind that the Services are intended to reach a wide audience and that, in their capacity as legal guardians, it is the parents’ responsibility to determine which Web site is or is not appropriate for their child(ren) and to monitor their Use thereof.
Access to the Sites or to the mobile app is free and does not require prior registration.
However, certain services offered on the Sites (such as the sending of newsletters) may require prior registration, identification and use of a User Account.
When creating a User Account, the User will be asked to choose a personal identifier and potentially an associated password, which are strictly personal and confidential. A registration form will be submitted to the User so that he/she may provide Euronews and Africanews with certain mandatory or optional personal information as indicated on the form. If the User fails to provide the information mentioned as mandatory, the User Account will not be validated.
This personal data is collected directly from the User to enable him/her to be easily identified on future connections, and to provide additional services and/or access. This personal data is stored with the User’s consent and will be processed as defined in paragraph F of these terms and conditions. It is retained from the date of creation of the User Account and for the entire period of use of the Services. The User data is kept for a maximum period of two years after the user’s last connection or it can be delete within a month on a request for deletion of the Account or by the User himself.
Euronews and Africanews invite their User to consult their Policy on the Protection of Personal Data and Respect for Privacy accessible via the following link: Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy via the following link: CMP.
These policies explain the origin and nature of the data collected by Euronews and Africanews during the User’s browsing and/or use of the services offered on the Euronews Sites and applications, the purposes of their collection and the rights the User has over this data in accordance with the regulations on the Protection of Personal Data applicable in France and Europe.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
Your access to the Sites or to the application may be terminated immediately without notice from us if in our sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of these terms. Upon termination, you must cease use of the Site and destroy all materials obtained from such site and all copies thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise.
These terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of France.
For Euronews
Corporate name: Euronews
Corporate form: Public limited liability company (Société Anonyme)
Address: 56, quai Rambaud, 69002 Lyon, France
Share capital: 986 700 €
Email address: accueil@euronews.com
Phone number: (+33) 4 28 67 00 00
Registration number within the Companies Register (RCS): 387 858 046
Intracommunity VAT number: FR 77 387 858 046
Publication Director: Claus Strunz
Web hosting company: Amazon Web Services Inc. 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, 1855 Neu dorf-Weimershof Luxembourg
Our Data are stored: in Ireland.
For Africanews :
Corporate name: Africanews
Corporate form: Société par actions simplifiées represented by Euronews
Address: 56, quai Rambaud, 69002 Lyon, France
Share capital: 163. 933 €
Email address: accueil@africanews.com
Phone number: (+33) 4 28 67 00 00
Registration number within the Companies Register (RCS): 907 756 860
Publication Director: Claus Strunz
Web hosting company: Amazon Web Services Inc. 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, 1855 Neu dorf-Weimershof Luxembourg
Our Data are stored: in Ireland.
Privacy Policy – Euronews
At Euronews, we are committed to protecting your personal data. This policy explains how we collect, use, share, store, and secure it, as well as your rights under the various applicable data protection laws.
This privacy policy applies to anyone who uses Euronews’ services available online, including the Euronews website, programs, and/or software applications that allow you to access, watch, and/or listen to Euronews content on your device (hereinafter referred to as the “Site”).
By using our Site or services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions of Use.
We may update this policy at any time to reflect legal or technical changes. We encourage you to review it regularly.
Personal Data
Any information that allows you to be identified directly or indirectly (e.g., name, email address, IP address, browsing history, etc.).
Data Processing
Any operation performed on personal data (collection, storage, use, transmission, deletion, etc.).
Data Controller
The entity (e.g., Euronews) that determines the purposes (“why”) and the means (“how”) of data processing.
Processor
A service provider that processes data on behalf of a data controller, following its instructions (e.g., hosting provider, email platform, etc.).
Legitimate Interest
A legal basis allowing an organization to process your data if it is necessary for its business activities and does not infringe on your rights.
Consent
Your clear and freely given agreement for a specific processing activity (e.g., accepting cookies, receiving a newsletter, etc.).
Cookies
Small files placed on your device during browsing, which can store information (preferences, advertising ID, etc.).
Profiling
Automated processing of your data to analyze or predict certain aspects of your behavior or preferences.
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
The person responsible for GDPR compliance within an organization, and your point of contact for exercising your rights.
Data Protection Law
Refers to the set of regulations applicable to the protection of personal data, including in particular Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), French Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 as amended (“Informatique et Libertés” law), Directive 2002/58/EC of 12 July 2002 (“ePrivacy Directive”), as well as any other relevant legislation, regulation or international standard in force aimed at protecting personal data and privacy, such as national or regional laws adopted outside the European Union, notably in countries where the company operates or targets individuals.
Site
Euronews services available online, including the Euronews website, programs, and/or software applications that allow you to access, watch, and/or listen to Euronews content on your device.
Supervisory Authority
An independent public body responsible for ensuring compliance with data protection rules (e.g., CNIL in France).
The controller of your personal data is Euronews SA, whose registered office is located at 56 Quai Rambaud, 69002 Lyon, France. This means that we determine the purposes (the objectives) and the means (the tools) of the data processing carried out on this Site.
For any questions, you can contact our DPO (Data Protection Officer) at:dataprotection@euronews.com
Postal address: Legal Department, 56 Quai Rambaud, 69002 Lyon, France
Depending on the services used and your consent, we may collect:
We use your data for different purposes, depending on the services you use and the choices you have made:
Cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies for several reasons:
You can change your preferences at any time via ourConsent Management Platform (CMP). For more details, see our Cookie Policy.
Account creation
To access Euronews services (receive newsletters, join an event, post comments, etc.), we may ask you to create an account. Some information is collected to comply with regulations in your country of residence, to protect minors, or to personalize your experience.
At any time, you may access your account to update or delete your information.
Technical internal identifier
Euronews has created an internal technical identifier to improve the user experience, in particular consent management across our domains. With your consent, this identifier may also be used for content and advertising personalization.
External identifiers
Euronews may enter into agreements with external identity management providers such as Liveramp and ID5. If you give your explicit consent, we may use these identifiers to show you targeted advertising on our Site. In this context, your identifiers will only be shared with our contracted providers under agreements guaranteeing data protection in compliance with applicable regulations.
Newsletters
When you subscribe to our newsletters, you consent to the use of your email address to receive them. To prevent fraudulent subscriptions, we use a double opt-in procedure: you will receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription.
Newsletters may be personalized based on your behavioral data on the Site and/or mobile app, if you have consented to the use of cookies for this purpose in our CMP.
Targeted advertising
Free access to Euronews content is funded by advertising revenues on the Site and app.
If you have consented, the ads you see may be personalized using cookies or similar technologies.
These data mainly serve to build an advertising profile to deliver ads tailored to your interests.
Cookies for advertising purposes are only placed with your consent.
Refusing targeted advertising does not mean you will no longer see ads on the Site, but they will not be personalized based on your personal data.
Article comments
We allow you to comment on our articles. We use a third-party provider with whom you must create an account. If you consent, your personal data (name, email address, browsing and connection data) are collected by our provider, who acts as an independent controller.
Please note this provider is located outside the European Economic Area. Euronews has signed a data protection agreement and the new Standard Contractual Clauses of June 4, 2021 adopted by the European Commission with this provider.
Euronews has access to all data relating to the use of the commenting service to understand user reactions to our articles and may moderate comments.
We use the service provider Vuukle. You can view theirPrivacy Policy.
Comment Moderation Policy
Core principles
Prohibited content
The following are not allowed:
Euronews reserves the right not to publish comments that fall into these categories.
Reporting and handling
Right to appeal
Transparency of decisions
Sanctions
Social Media
Share buttons for Facebook, X (Twitter), WhatsApp, LinkedIn, etc. trigger data collection by these platforms once clicked.
These platforms act under their own responsibility. We invite you to consult their privacy policies.
Videos
We use several video players, including YouTube (Google), Dailymotion, and JW Player:
These platforms are independent data controllers. Euronews only receives aggregated statistics, which are used for performance measurement purposes, based on our legitimate interest.
Direct Marketing
Your data may be shared with:
When these recipients are located outside the European Economic Area, we implement appropriate legal safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, to ensure an adequate level of protection for your Data.
We only keep your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Cookies
Your Account
Newsletters
If we notice that you are not opening any of our newsletters, we reserve the right to send you a reminder email to find out your intentions.
Comments
Surveys and questionnaires
Account login
After that, the data is deleted or anonymised in an irreversible manner.
You have the right to:
To exercise your rights:dataprotection@euronews.com
Euronews SA – Legal Department, 56 Quai Rambaud, 69002 Lyon, France
We will respond within one month (three months in the case of complex requests).
If you are a California resident, you may:
Contact:dataprotection@euronews.com
In accordance with French law, you may send us instructions regarding the processing of your personal data after your death. In this case, these instructions will be carried out at the request of the person responsible for their execution.
If you believe that your rights regarding the protection of your personal data have not been respected after contacting us atdataprotection@euronews.com, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority in your country of residence, work or the place where the alleged infringement occurred.
For your convenience, here is a list of supervisory authorities in the European Union:
If you reside outside the European Union, you may also contact the competent data protection authority in your country or region, for example:
This list is not exhaustive. For other regions, please consult the competent local data protection authority.