The SANDAWE company is a private company of limited liability under Belgian law with a capital of EURO 30,000 listed on the Banque Carrefour des Entreprises under the number 820.488.455 and whose registered office is located at Waterloo Office Park - Bldg. B, Drève Richelle 161, Box 38, 1410 Waterloo, Belgium. 

SANDAWE is an independent publisher of graphic novels that manages the community site [www.sandawe.com] in order to create a space where participants in the world of graphic novels (readers, authors, investors, traders, journalists, …) meet and promote the creation and production of new books, as well as the discovery and development of new talent. 

Through the site, the community decides to publish the projects presented by the Authors, which guarantees the editorial independence of SANDAWE, which carries out the decisions of the community to the best of its ability. 
SANDAWE sells graphic novels as widely as traditional publishers.

The site is divided into several sections:

• Projects: provides access to graphic novel projects submitted by the Authors and SANDAWE
• Members: provides access to news of members, natural persons registered on the site
• News: informs visitors and SANDAWE site members
• Boutique: sale of goods and services provided by SANDAWE
• Forum: a tool for discussion amongst members of the site SANDAWE

This list of topics and content are subject to change by SANDAWE at any time and without notice.

L’accès au Site est gratuit pour tous les visiteurs. Tous les logiciels et matériels nécessaires à l’utilisation des services du site, à l’exception de ceux proposés directement sur le site, sont à leur charge.

En tant que visiteur, vous bénéficiez d’un droit d’usage privé et non exclusif sur le contenu du Site. Tout renvoi au Site par le biais de liens hypertextes doit respecter les conditions prévues à l’article 9.

To create a profile as an Author or Interneditor, you must:

• Be 16 years of age or older
• Create a profile in your own name. The creation of a profile on behalf of a third party is prohibited except with permission.
• Regarding the Authors: you must have an activity as a writer or beginning writer of graphic novels, whether this activity include drawing, scripting, colouring, or any other activity related to the creation of original graphic novels.

The Author creates a personal profile under the special terms and conditions for Authors and The Interneditor creates a personal profile under the special terms and conditions for Interneditors.

The Author claims to be the holder of the material posted and have retained a copy of all this material. As a result, the Author frees SANDAWE of all responsibility for any loss, theft or third party claims.

You may only create one profile per person, but you are free to be registered as an Author and an Interneditor with the same profile. 

When you register (or apply for the opening of an account) on our site via the registration form online, you must submit, as a minimum, the personal information necessary to manage your account, as is mentioned in the registration forms. You agree to provide accurate information when registering, and you strive to keep it updated in the case of any changes.

As a member, you choose your password when registering. This password is strictly personal and confidential. You are solely responsible regarding the maintenance of the confidentiality of the password. You agree to neither reveal the password to others nor not provide third parties access to the web page in order to add or modify the information contained on it.

You will immediately notify SANDAWE if you suspect any unauthorized use or access of the password, especially in cases of phishing.

You are solely responsible for the content you decide to post on the site, whatever its nature may be. SANDAWE has no a priori control over the content that you post except in the context of graphic novel projects. You must therefore respect the laws and regulations regarding compliance with intellectual property, respect for privacy, and personhood of others (including defamation, insults, slander, discrimination, etc...), public order and decency. This requirement also applies to content provided through links and any other technical means or indirect reference.

By putting your content online and making it available to the site's community, you guarantee  that you have all necessary rights and authorizations from the beneficiaries concerned, and that you have fulfilled all the rights and contingent payments due to these beneficiaries.

SANDAWE strives to provide you with a friendly and secure community site, assuming you follow the rules of conduct in relation to the members and artists. 

Since this is a site for exchange and sharing of information, you must respect the following rules, without prejudice to the above:

• You will respect the views of other users of the site on the forums or other tools at your disposal on the site.
• You will not harass other users on the forums or other tools at your disposal on the site, you will not insult them and will not make slanderous, defamatory or racist remarks on the site.
• You will not send or post commercial communications.
• You will not try to get information about other users, manually or using automated methods.
• You will not upload viruses or any other code that could jeopardize the operation of the Site.

In accordance with Belgian law, members have a right to information, a right of access, a right of correction, and a right of objection relating to their personal data held by SANDAWE that can be sent by mail to info@sandawe.com.

SANDAWE automatically collects the IP address (computer address) of all visitors, as well as various statistical information such as the time the connection, the address of the previous page visited on the site or all the pages visited. 

Optimizing the use of the site may require creation of text files ("cookies") stored by your browser on your hard drive containing information about your personal data or your time spent on the site. If you wish, you have the right to object to the saving of these "cookies" by configuring your computer according to information provided by your browser.

If you deactivate cookies, the performance or use of the Site may be affected.

SANDAWE cannot be held responsible for items that members disclose their own initiative, nor the accuracy of the data, nor the consequences of the dissemination of the data of another member.

When registering on the site of SANDAWE as a member, SANDAWE collects certain information which you provide voluntarily. 

The site is available continuously and without interruption other than periods of maintenance and downtime except for technical or administrative reasons. Wherever possible, we will keep you informed by email in case of a foreseen unavailability.

External hyperlinks
The site may contain hyperlinks to other websites not owned by SANDAWE or not controlled by SANDAWE. SANDAWE is not responsible for the navigation in general to these sites. SANDAWE does not endorse advertising, products or, other materials on such websites, or any external resources accessible from them.

The user can not directly or indirectly reproduce links to the Site for any purposes other than the promotion of the Author or book project. 

You may freely use hyperlinks which link to the SANDAWE home page as long as you make sure not to create confusion between SANDAWE's site and other sites.

• « framing » defined as a technique which inserts a page of the Site into the page of origin, without leaving the original site;
• « deep-linking » defined as inserting a hyperlink to a secondary page of the Site;
• « inline linking » defined as a hyperlink which adds an image from another website into the original web page.

The use of hypertext links to SANSAWE site gives absolutely no right to the content of the site, nor any responsibility on SANDAWE’s part concerning the site containing the link.

The creator of hyperlinks to the site also agrees:

• not to damage the reputation of the site, the Authors and others who are mentioned, and the information therein;
• to assume full responsibility for any loss or damage caused to the SANDAWE site, directly or indirectly related to it;
• not to create a hyperlink from a website containing information likely to be tried for libel or defamation, infringement, or otherwise affect the rights and interests of third parties, nor from a site that does not adhere to standards of decency and good taste;
• to compensate SANDAWE in case of appeal from a third party following any breach of these terms and conditions or due to access to SANDAWE via a hyperlink

Le visiteur s'engage à n'avoir aucune activité sur le site susceptible de perturber ou de tenter de perturber les activités du site. En particulier, SANDAWE interdit l’utilisation de fonctions JavaScript aux fins de déposer ou lire des cookies sur le site, rediriger les édinautes vers une autre page et les JavaScript "Include " et "iframe".

Any violation of this section may result in sanctions, including:

• cancellation of service;
• suspension of the responsible member's account.

The site is the exclusive property of SANDAWE. In general, SANDAWE grants a free, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right of access and use to the site. All other rights are expressly excluded without the prior written permission from SANDAWE. 

Any content available on the website (including visual, audio and audiovisual elements, software, scripts, interactive features, layout, interface, source code, photographs, drawings, texts) are and remain the exclusive property of SANDAWE or are (temporarily) yielded to SANDAWE by an Author, Interneditor or partner.

This content is protected by copyright, trademark law and other intellectual property rights or related rights held by SANDAWE or its partners.
All of third party brands presented on the Site constitute trademark rights held by their respective owners.

Site content may not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, modified, adapted, sold, licensed or exploited in any way and for any purpose whatsoever, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission from SANDAWE or in strict compliance with these Terms and conditions.

SANDAWE is not responsible to Member for any loss or damage they may suffer as a result of:

1. reliance on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, or resulting from any relationship or transaction between a member and any advertiser or sponsor whose advertising appears on the site;
2. any change that SANDAWE may make to services offered on the site or any temporary or permanent removal of the offering or features offered on the site;
3. failure by the member to provide SANDAWE with accurate information concerning his/her account;
4. inability of the member to keep his/her password or account information secure and confidential.
5. any interruption, defect, error in the functionality offered by the site, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or other harmful components, due to a network flaw.

SANDAWE's responsibility can only be held under the conditions of ordinary law, for direct and predictable injuries suffered by the user, in accordance with articles 1148 and following of the Civil Code.

In no event may SANDAWE be held responsible for consequential damages. By express agreement between the parties, the following shall be treated as consequential damages: any non-pecuniary or commercial damages, commercial loss of profits, of sales, of orders, of revenue or of clients, loss of data and any action against the user by a third and the consequences resulting from this action.

Whatever the nature, basis and conditions of an action that would be incurred by the member, SANDAWE's responsibility for any direct damage may not exceed, over the entire duration of service provided, and all events combined, an amount equal to 100 (one hundred) Euros for the entire duration of execution hereof.

On this occasion, it is to be recalled that each member is responsible for his/her own page, his/her actions on the site and the consequences they could cause (comments, criticisms, ...). To this end, the Member shall take all precautions in this regard, holding SANDAWE free and clear of any claim in this regard.

The User acknowledges that the guarantees and limitations of the responsibility detailed above gives the parties a reasonable distribution of risks and responsibilities with regard to the context and financial conditions governing the provision of free service.

As non members, the GTCU apply for the duration of the connection to the site.

As a registered member (Author, Interneditor, partner), the GTCU and the relevant Special Conditions apply as long as you keep your account on the site.

If any provision of these General Terms and Conditions of Use prove to be unenforceable, this fact will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. SANDAWE will replace them with legally valid provisions that are within the spirit and purpose of these General Terms and Conditions of Use.
 

SANDAWE retains the possibility to modify these Terms of Use at any moment depending in particular on the evolution of the operating conditions of the site and improving service. You will be notified of these changes by any means at our convenience, usually by information posted on the site or in by a message sent to your internal SANDAWE inbox.
 

These General Terms and Conditions of Use are governed, interpreted and applied in accordance with Belgian law, the language of interpretation being the French language.