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These terms govern the use of www.parousiagroup.com and of the regional sites operated on the same codebase: westafrica, eastafrica, europe, americas, middleeast and apac.parousiagroup.com. They are published by Parousia Group, whose full identification, hosting arrangements and contact point are set out in the legal notice.

Using the site means accepting them. No box is presented for that acceptance: the site collects no consent in order to display a public page, and a checkbox that nobody reads adds a formality rather than an agreement. A person who does not accept these terms should not use the site.

The site is an institutional publication. It describes the group, its regional holdings, the six solutions it operates, its open roles and its newsroom, and it says how to reach it. It is not a customer portal, and no part of it is reserved to an identified user: there is no account, no login and no private area.

Nothing on this site is sold, and nothing on it is an offer capable of being accepted. The pages describing NetVox Intelligence, Global Technology Africa, Afrika Plaza, PAGEXPRESS, PAGPay and INTIC describe solutions the group operates; they are an invitation to make contact, not a quotation and not a commitment on price, availability, scope or performance.

A commercial relationship with the group is formed by a written agreement signed by the parties, and by that alone. Where such an agreement exists it governs — including scope, service levels, warranties and liability — and these terms neither amend it nor add to it. Where the two would conflict, the signed agreement prevails.

Directive (EU) 2019/770 governs contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services. None is concluded here: the site carries no ordering path, no payment page and no subscription. Statements published in the newsroom or in the investors section are informational; the group is not listed on any exchange and nothing on this site is an invitation to invest or a solicitation of funds.

The text, structure, code, photographs, film sequences, illustrations and logotypes of this site are protected works. They belong to Parousia Group or to the parties that licensed them to the group. Protection arises from the creation of the work and requires no registration and no notice, under the Berne Convention; the absence of a copyright symbol on a page means nothing.

• The names Parousia Group and Echad Technologies, the names of the group’s regional companies, and the names of the six solutions it operates — NetVox Intelligence, Global Technology Africa, Afrika Plaza, PAGEXPRESS, PAGPay and INTIC — together with the logotypes and the wave artwork used across the site, are marks of the group and are used under its control.
• Marks belonging to third parties may be named on the site to identify their holder. They remain the property of that holder, and naming them asserts no right over them and no relationship that is not stated in writing elsewhere.
• The typefaces are third-party works used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and packaged with the site rather than fetched from a font service. That licence covers the typefaces alone; it extends neither to the group’s content nor to its marks.

Using the group’s names or logotypes in a publication — a press article, a partner page, a procurement document, a presentation — requires written permission, which is requested at press@parousiagroup.com. Permission is not required to name the group in a factual statement, to quote a passage under section permitted-use, or to link to a page.

Any visitor may read, print, save and link to any page of this site. A reasonable extract may be quoted for information, comment, teaching, research or reporting, provided the source is named and the extract is not altered in a way that changes its sense. Search engines may index the site: robots.txt allows every user agent and excludes only the /api/ paths, which handle the forms and serve no page.

The following are not permitted.

• Reproducing a substantial part of the site, or extracting it systematically, in order to publish a site that competes with it or derives from it.
• Text and data mining of the site for purposes other than scientific research within the meaning of Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2019/790. The group reserves its rights under Article 4(3) of that Directive. The reservation is made here in writing; the site does not yet carry it in machine-readable form, and that gap will be closed rather than treated as an implied consent.
• Circumventing the rate limits on the forms, submitting through them automatically, or using them to send unsolicited commercial messages.
• Submitting the contact details of a person who has not asked to be contacted, or an electronic address that is not yours.
• Probing, scanning or testing the security of the site or of the infrastructure serving it without written authorisation, and any attempt to reach a part of it that is not public.
• Uploading a file that contains malicious code, or a file whose real format differs from the one it declares.
• Presenting oneself as an employee, agent, reseller or partner of the group, or using its marks so as to suggest an approval, a sponsorship or an affiliation that does not exist.
• Displaying a page of this site inside another site in a way that suggests the content is that other site’s own.

Three channels are open to a visitor, and no other. What each accepts, what limits it applies and what becomes of a submission are set out below rather than left to be discovered.

You keep every right you hold in what you send. To deal with your request the group needs a limited permission, and it takes no more than that: by sending a message, an application or a subscription, you grant Parousia Group a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, translate and pass on that content within the group and to the contact, recruitment or mailing system it uses, for the sole purpose of answering you or assessing your application.

That licence covers nothing else. It does not allow the group to publish your submission, to use it in a marketing document, to quote it in a commercial proposal or to pass it to a third party for that party’s own purposes, and it ends when the purpose it was granted for ends. The site publishes nothing a visitor sends: it carries no comment, no forum and no user page.

In sending it, you state that you are entitled to send it: that the content is yours or that you may lawfully communicate it, that it is not unlawful, and that any personal data it carries about someone else — a referee, a former manager, a colleague — is data you may lawfully pass on. The group may refuse, delete or leave unanswered a submission that is unlawful, abusive or automated.

The processing of personal data contained in a submission is governed by the privacy policy and, where it applies, by Regulation (EU) 2016/679, not by this licence. A licence to use content is not a legal basis for processing personal data, and the group does not treat it as one.

The site links to the sites of the solutions the group operates, to the sites of its regional companies, and to the group’s pages on LinkedIn, X, YouTube and Facebook.

A page of this site makes no outbound request: no content delivery network, no font service, no analytics, no third-party widget, no embedded player. That property stops at the link. Once you follow one you are on a service the group does not operate, whose content, availability, security and data practices are its own, and which may set cookies and record your visit before you have done anything at all.

A link is not an endorsement, and the group does not monitor the content of a linked site continuously. Where a link is broken, points somewhere it should not, or leads to content that is unlawful, write to contact@parousiagroup.com; the notice mechanism set out in the legal notice applies to links as it does to pages.

The site is published without any commitment of continuity. The group does not guarantee that it will be reachable at a given moment, that it will remain reachable, or that a page, a document or a section will be kept in place. Content is added, corrected and withdrawn, and a page that exists today may not exist next month.

There is no service level for this website, and none is implied by the service levels the group agrees contractually with its customers for the solutions it operates. Those live in the contract concerned and are owed to the party that signed it; a corporate site is not covered by them and cannot be invoked to establish them.

Maintenance, a security correction, a change of infrastructure or a legal obligation may interrupt access without notice. Where an interruption is planned and long, the group announces it on the site concerned when it is able to.

The content of this site is published for information. The group writes it with care and corrects it when it is shown to be wrong, and it does not warrant that every page is complete, current or free of error at the moment you read it. A description of a solution, an office, a role or a date can be overtaken by a decision taken the same week.

A statement of what the group intends to do is an intention, not an undertaking. Nothing published here obliges the group to build, launch, continue or maintain anything, and no page of this site may be relied upon in place of a written agreement or of a written answer given to a question you have asked.

To the extent the applicable law allows, the group is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from the use of this site or from the impossibility of using it — in particular loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data or loss of reputation — nor for a decision taken on the strength of a page rather than of a signed agreement or of a written answer from the group.

The group may change these terms. The version in force is the one published here, identified by the version number and the effective date shown at the head of the document. A change takes effect on publication and does not apply retroactively to a submission already sent, which stays governed by the version in force on the day it was sent.

There is no account on this site and therefore no individual notification. The group cannot write to a reader it does not know, and does not promise that it will. The version number and the date are the reliable indication, and both change whenever the text does.

Section identifiers are stable. A citation of the form /legal/terms#user-content designates the same passage after a revision as before it; where a section is removed, its identifier is not reused for another. Previous versions are kept and are provided on written request to contact@parousiagroup.com.

These terms are governed by the law of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the group has its seat, together with the OHADA uniform acts applicable there and, for what concerns electronic communication to the public, Ordonnance-loi n° 23/010 du 13 mars 2023 portant code du numérique. The courts of Kinshasa – Gombe have jurisdiction over a dispute arising from the use of this site.

That designation does not deprive a person acting outside a trade, business or profession of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country in which they are habitually resident. In the European Union, Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 (Rome I) preserves those rules and Articles 17 to 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 allow a consumer to bring proceedings before the courts of their own domicile and to be sued only there. Equivalent protections exist in other jurisdictions and are not displaced by this section.

Where a regional site is published by a regional company of the group — Parousia West Africa, Parousia East Africa, Parousia Europe, Parousia America, Parousia Middle East or Echad Technologies — the mandatory law of the country in which that company is established applies to that site to the extent it goes further than this section.

This document is authoritative in English and in French. Neither version is a translation of the other for the purpose of interpretation: the group has its seat in a French-language jurisdiction and works in English across its markets, and the two versions are read together.

Where the two diverge, the French version prevails before the courts designated in section governing-law. Before any other forum, the divergence is resolved in the sense most favourable to the person who did not draft the document — the rule Article 5 of Directive 93/13/EEC states for consumers, applied here to every reader.

The site interface is served in eleven languages. Legal documents are published in English and in French only, and a notice is displayed on the document when the language you have chosen has no version of its own. A machine translation of a text that produces legal effects would be worse than that notice.

If a provision of these terms is held void, unlawful or unenforceable by a competent court, it is reduced to what makes it enforceable or, failing that, severed. The other provisions continue to apply, and the severed provision does not carry them with it.

That the group does not enforce a provision on one occasion is not a waiver of it and does not prevent it from enforcing it later. These terms, with the legal notice, the privacy policy and the cookie policy to which they refer, are the whole of what the group publishes for the use of this site; they do not replace, and do not amend, an agreement signed with the group.

Questions about this document, and notices concerning something published on the site, are addressed to the group at the addresses below. The identification of the publisher, the hosting arrangements, the contact point designated under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 and the notice mechanism are set out in the legal notice.