Terms and Conditions of Use
www.Dakar.com
Last updated on 16 May 2024

LEGAL NOTICEThe official website of the Dakar is published by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), a public limited
company with share capital of €61,200,240, registered with the Nanterre Trade & Companies Register
under number 383 160 348, with its registered office located at, Bâtiment Quai Ouest 40-42 Quai duPoint du Jour, CS 90302, 92650 Boulogne-Billancourt cedex, France, represented by its CEO, Mr Yann leMoënner.
Person responsible for publication: Mr Yann le Moënner.
This website is hosted by Skale-5, an IT services company, located at 33 Avenue des Champs Elysées,
75 008 Paris, France.

Introduction
A few definitions
T&Cs: These Terms and Conditions of Use.
The Website: The official Website of the Dakar (www.dakar.com), an event organised by A.S.O.
User: A visitor browsing the official Website of the Dakar.
Personal Data and/or Data: Information enabling a person to be identified directly or indirectly(surname, first name, e-mail address, etc.).
Data Processing: Operations performed on Data (collection, storage, deletion, etc.).
Consent: Permission given by persons for the Processing of their Data.
You: the User
Us, We: A.S.O.

Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Use
The T&Cs govern the conditions for using the Website made available to Users by A.S.O. at the address
www.dakar.com

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By accessing the Website, You agree to comply with these Terms and Conditions of Use, the Privacy
Statement (viewable HERE: https://storage-aso.lequipe.fr/ASO/motorSports_dak/dakar-privacystatement.pdf) and the Cookies Policy for the Website (viewable HERE:
https://www.dakar.com/en/cookies-policy) as well as any applicable laws.

Changes to the Terms and Conditions of Use
A.S.O. may modify and update the Terms and Conditions of Use to, inter alia, take account of changes
to the Website, the services offered and any applicable regulations.
Any changes to the T&Cs shall come into force as soon as they are published in the Website.
We recommend that You check these Terms and Conditions of Use on a regular basis.
The date of the most recent update to these T&Cs is indicated at the top of this page.

I.

Object of the Website

A.S.O. makes the Website available to You to enable You to:••••••••

Follow through “My Dakar” the latest news and the history of the Dakar (route, competitors,history, sponsors, discover Saudi Arabia, our Hospitality Program, etc.) and of all the Dakar
certified events for the present civil year;
Better know the competitors and their background;Acknowledge the Dakar’s official broadcasters worldwide and to be able to watch the Dakar
wherever you are;Watch the videos and photos of the Dakar;
Subscribe to the Dakar’s newsletters;
Follow the official social media accounts of the Dakar;Access the registration area for competitors in the Dakar;
Access the official Dakar store or purchase the official video games.

You may always access the Website, as well as most of Our services, at any time, even outside theregistration period for the Dakar (determined by A.S.O. at its discretion).
We remind You that You must follow the policies of the social networks which host the official pages ofthe Dakar such as Facebook if you wish to follow the event on such networks, being specified that such
A.S.O. is not responsible for these policies.

II.

Access to the Website

Users are required to have a secured internet access, a connected device (computer, smartphone,tablet, other) and a browser to access the Website. Users are responsible for any internet access fees
and for the costs of the connected device used. .
A.S.O. shall not be liable if the pages of the Website is not displayed properly in certain browsers.

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By using or attempting to use the Website, You agree to be subject to these Terms and Conditions ofUse as well as our Privacy Statement and Cookies Policy. If, for any reason, you do not wish to agree tothe above, you must immediately cease using the Website.

III.

Confidentiality of Data

A.S.O. may collect, for various purposes, information enabling You to be identified directly or indirectly
and which are therefore Personal Data.
A.S.O. implements “technical and organisational” security measures to protect such data in compliancewith applicable regulations, especially GDPR and French Data Protection Act, called “Loi informatiques
et libertés”.
These Data are always collected directly or indirectly from You after having obtained Your consent.

Users, when required to enter their Data to access Our services, are responsible for the confidentialityof any Data that they send to Us. You must, inter alia, provide Us with accurate and up-to-date
information concerning You and must notify Us of any change to such information so that We canupdate it.

A.S.O. undertakes:
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IV.

Not to disclose to any Third Party without Your authorisation, for a fee or for free, in any form
whatsoever, the Data that You consent to send to Us via the Website.
Not to use the Data, directly or indirectly, on Our own behalf or on behalf of any Third Parties,
for any purposes other than those provided for in the T&Cs, the Privacy Statement and theCookies Policy.
To restrict the circulation of Your Data solely to those persons whose work requires them tohave access thereto.
To have put in place internally all the organizational and technical measures to which Our
personnel is bound to respect the confidential nature of the Data.
To assume liability for any disclosure of Your Data for which We are responsible.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Website contains links to Third-Party websites that are neither developed nor hosted by A.S.O.
These may include, inter alia, the official Dakar store (ETOS S.A.) and official vendors of the Dakar video
game such as Steam, Microsoft, Sony.
A.S.O. does not control these websites and is not responsible for their content, for any links contained
thereon or for any changes or updates made thereto.
The present Terms and Conditions of Use do not apply to such Third-Party websites. A.S.O. invites you
to consult their T&Cs and Privacy Policy or to contact them if You require further information.

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Intellectual Property

The Website and each of its constituent elements, including, but not limited to, texts, trademarks, logos,
sounds, music, page layout, media, icons, and all visual or audio elements generally, are protected byintellectual property rights held by A.S.O.
The Website, including all of its software, databases, exclusive information, documentation, content,
computer code, ideas, know-how and Documents (and any modifications or derivative works thereof
and any intellectual property rights and other rights relating thereto or contained thereon), including,but not limited to, the selection, compilation, order, functionality and positioning of elements, areowned by A.S.O. which exploits them and retains sole title thereto. You acknowledge that the Website
is protected by copyright, trademarks and other laws.
Certain elements of intellectual property, copyright and other rights held by A.S.O. on the Website may
also be the property of third parties who have granted A.S.O. a right of use.
Except for cases specifically authorised by law, any reproduction, communication to the public,modification, broadcast, adaptation, translation and/or transformation in whole or in part, anyintegration in other elements or transfer to a third-party website, platform or software, of all or part ofthe elements of intellectual property, without the prior express written consent of A.S.O., is strictlyprohibited.
Any technical modification to the Website by a User, by any process whatsoever, is strictly prohibited.
Users may not claim any intellectual property rights over any of the protected elements solely based on
having been granted authorisation to access and use such elements by A.S.O.
Any violation of these provisions shall constitute infringement, unfair competition or commercial freeriding within the meaning of the French Intellectual Property Code and shall subject infringers to thecivil and criminal penalties laid down in the French legislation.

VI.

User code of conduct

Users are required to have internet access and a connected device to access the Website. Users are
responsible for any costs incurred for internet access.
Users undertake to only use equipment and software that is secure, including through use of a computer
security suite, and that is free of viruses or any defect, error, bug or any malfunction likely to lead to anyinterruption, malfunction or any impairment of the security of the Website.
When using the Website, Users agree not to perform, or permit anyone else directly or indirectly toperform, the following operations:••

Downloading, posting, sending by e-mail, transmitting or making available any content on theWebsite that You do not have the right to make available under any law or contractual or
fiduciary relationship (such as exclusive and confidential information obtained or disclosed
within the context of a work or contractual relationship or under non-disclosure agreements);
Providing information that includes non-public personal or identifying data about anotherperson without the person's explicit consent;

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Downloading, posting, sending by e-mail, transmitting or making available any content that
infringes a patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or any other intellectual property right;
Limiting or preventing use of the Website by any other User by, including but not limited to,“hacking” and altering any part of the Website;
Accessing or attempting to access parts of the Website for which A.S.O. has not granted you
permission, bypassing or attempting to bypass any security mechanisms or password protection
on the Website or accessing or attempting to access the Website by any means other than those
provided and authorised by A.S.O.;
Modifying any software intended for the Website in any manner or form whatsoever or using
modified versions of the software, including but not limited to, for the purposes of gaining
unauthorised access to the Website;
Using the Website, its services and/or its content for unlawful purposes;
Asserting or implying that A.S.O. supports any information or statement made on the Website
without the prior consent of A.S.O.;
Impersonating any real or imaginary person or entity, including an employee or representativeof A.S.O.;
Falsifying or manipulating login credentials in order to conceal the origin of any User content
entered on the Website;
Transmitting via the Website or entering on the Website any information of an illegal,
fraudulent, threatening, abusive, malicious, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, hateful, vulgar
or shocking nature or that contravenes the intellectual property rights or other rights of A.S.O.,
or those of a third party, or transmitting via the Website or entering on the Website any
important non-public information about companies without permission, any trade secrets of athird party, or any advertising, solicitation, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment
opportunities or any other unsolicited commercial communication;
Using the Website to in any way harm any minors or protected adults;
Engaging in spamming or phishing;Transmitting any software or other content containing a virus, computer worm, Trojan, bug,software bomb, or other element of a destructive nature;
Modifying, adapting, licensing, translating, selling, reverse engineering, decompiling or
disassembling any part of the Website;
Removing any copyright or trademark notice or any notice of any other proprietary right on theWebsite;“Stalking” or harassing other people;
Creating a link to any page on the Website without prior written authorisation;
Using any robot, digital agent, offline reader, website extraction/search tool or any othermanual or automated mechanism or process enabling the extraction, indexing or scanning ofData, or enabling, in any way whatsoever, the navigation structure or layout of the Website to
be reproduced or bypassed without the express written authorisation of A.S.O.;
Collecting or assembling information on other Users without their express consent;
Undertaking any action exposing or likely to expose the Website, A.S.O.’s infrastructure or thatof its third-party suppliers, to an unreasonable or disproportionate load of Data, information orrequests (as judged by A.S.O.);

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Disclosing, transferring, selling or renting, with or without consideration, the Data that Youaccess;Providing information that is incorrect or incomplete or that may cause harm to A.S.O. or to athird party.

Users shall, generally, refrain from entering any information, file or comment on the Website that may
cause harm to A.S.O. or any other User, including through use of insults or language of an abusive,
immoral, illegal, vulgar, shocking, fraudulent, threatening, malicious, defamatory, discriminatory,hateful, obscene or pornographic nature, or that is contrary to public order or public morality, or place
any links to websites, applications, texts or other media containing such information or comments.
Any breach of the User code of conduct shall constitute a serious breach of the T&Cs.

VII. Penalties
In case of any use of the Website in breach of these T&Cs, the Privacy Statement, the Cookies Policy, or
any other policy, rule or directive applicable to the Website, A.S.O. reserves the right to:••Block or remove the access to the Website, as well as cancel any registration or application
made on the Website;
Take legal action before the competent French civil or criminal courts against the User and/or
the person on behalf of whom the User is acting.

VIII. Protection of Personal Data
A.S.O. processes the data of Users to:•••Provide You with access to the Website;
Enable You to subscribe to the newsletter;
Enable Us to improve the Website, including by analysing traffic on the Website.

Users acknowledge and accept that A.S.O. may access, store and disclose their Data if required by lawor where A.S.O. considers, in good faith, that any such measure is reasonably necessary to comply withany laws, rules, regulations or legal proceedings; to ensure compliance with the T&Cs; to respond tocomplaints; to respond to customer service requests; or to protect the rights, property and personalsafety of A.S.O. personnel and of its Users.
For further information about the Processing of Data entered on the Website, including storage
periods, transfers of Data and Your rights, please consult Our Privacy Statement, viewable HERE:
https://storage-aso.lequipe.fr/ASO/motorSports_dak/dakar-privacy-statement.pdf, and Our Cookies
Policy, viewable HERE: https://www.dakar.com/en/cookies-policy).

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IX.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, You acknowledge and expressly agree that neither A.S.O., its affiliatedcompanies, shareholders, licensors, suppliers, advertisers or sponsors, nor their respective
administrators, directors, employees, advisers, agents or other representatives, shall not now or in the
future be legally or financially liable to You or any third party for any consequential loss (including, but
not limited to, any harm relating to loss of business, loss of data or loss of earnings), resulting in any way
whatsoever from the Website and/or the information contained thereon.
Without restricting the scope of the above, to the extent permitted by law, You acknowledge andexpressly agree that A.S.O. assumes no liability, of any type whatsoever, for:••••Any failure by any other User of the Website to comply with the code of conduct and, generally,to the T&Cs;
Any interruption or termination of communications from or to the Website due to a problemwith the User's internet connection;
Any bugs, viruses, computer worms, Trojans, faults, software bombs or any other element of a
destructive nature that may be transmitted on or via the Website by a third party;
Any errors, inaccuracies or omissions in the information, or any harm or loss, of any typewhatsoever, arising from the use of any information entered on the Website.

Users acknowledge that A.S.O. is unable to guarantee uninterrupted or continuous access to the service
and that A.S.O. shall not be liable, under any circumstances, in case of:•••••

Force majeure;Interruption to the User’s internet connection;
Fault attributable to the User of the Website caused by misuse of services;Non-compliance with the T&Cs by the User;Entering incorrect information or failure to update Data.

The use by Users of any technical process, such as robots or automated requests, use of which arecontrary to the T&Cs, shall also be deemed a fault.
A.S.O. shall not be liable for any harm caused by a User or third party where such harm is the result ofmisuse of the services, non-compliance with a Contract or non-compliance with the T&Cs.

X.

Resolution of disputes

The present Terms and Conditions of Use are subject to French law.
Any dispute arising from the application of these Terms and Conditions of Use that cannot first be
resolved by amicable means shall be submitted to the courts within the jurisdiction of the Court ofAppeal (“Cour d’Appel”) of Nanterre.

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XI.

Miscellaneous

A.S.O. may assign its rights and obligations under these T&Cs.
You therefore consent in advance to A.S.O. being able to transfer or assign its obligations under theseT&Cs to a third party or another legal entity of the group to which A.S.O. belongs.
The contract shall automatically continue, without the requirement for any formalities, between You
and the entity benefiting from the transfer or assignment.
You are not permitted to assign Your rights or obligations arising from the T&Cs. Any assignment incontravention of the present T&Cs shall be null and void.
Rights and obligations arising from these T&Cs may continue after ceasing to use the Website. Any suchrights and obligations shall remain in force even after the termination or expiration of the T&Cs.
The French-language versions of the Terms and Conditions of Use, the Privacy Statement (availableHERE: https://storage-aso.lequipe.fr/ASO/motorSports_dak/dakar-privacy-statement.pdf) and theCookies Policy (available HERE: https://www.dakar.com/en/cookies-policy) govern Your use of theWebsite and, in case of any conflict with a translated version, the French-language version shallprevail.

XII. Contact
Any questions relating to these Terms and Conditions of Use may be sent by letter to:
DATA PROTECTION OFFICERA.S.O.
40 – 42 Quai du Point du Jour,
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
FranceOr by e-mail to the address dpoaso@aso.fr

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