Disclaimer

Users conditions

The use of the Metra website implies a tacit approval of the user with the conditions below.

The word ‘information’ includes all kinds of information such as text, lay-out, images, software, graphical elements or any other item.

1. The use is restricted for personal purpose only.
The user is not entitled to commercialise in whatever way or whatever form, the information in this website.
It is prohibited to save this information electronically or to use is for illegal aims.

2. Liability
· Metra puts a lot of effort in the design of this website. The information in this website basically comes from reliable sources.

· Nevertheless, Metra nor the providers of content can guarantee the correctness, the accuracy, the appropriateness nor the completeness of the information for wathever use. All the information is given as such without any guarantee of any kind.

· The user is warned that the information can be modified without prior notification.
· Metra nor its content providers are responsible for wathever initiative a user might take based upon the given information.
· Metra nor its content providers can be hold responsible for any possible direct, indirect or occasional harm or loss resulting form or in connection with the use of the Metra website or the impossibility to use it.

· Metra nor its providers can be hold responsible for any interruption, mistakes or disturbance of the electronical publication Metra and its related information services.

3. Hyperlinks to external sites

· The Metra website contains hyperlinks to sites that are managed by third parties. Those hyperlinks are offered only for the comfort of the user. Metra is not responsible for the content, nor for the availability, nor of the use of those sites.

· The fact that Metra offers those hyperlinks, does not imply the approval of the elements of these sites, nor does it imply any possible cooperation between Metra and the owners of the other sites.
· Metra cannot be hold responsible for any mistake in adresses of websites or domainnames of these websites.

 4. Intellectual rights of ownership
· The user acknowledges explicitly that the given information is and remains property of Metra and the related content providers. 
· Any text, picture and any other item on the Metra website or the website of related content providers is protected by copyright: reproduction, distribution, modification, translation, processing and any use for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden, without prior written permission from the form master of the copyright.
· It’s strictly forbidden to save the information of Metra and its content providers or to use it in a database.
· Some of the names, signs and logos used on the website of Metra or its content provicers are patented and protected.

5. Final Clause
This agreement is subject to Belgian law. All disputes will be settled before the courts and Tribunals of Ghent (Belgium).

Protection of the Privacy

Metra respects the visitors of her websit’s Privacy.
The gathering of ‘privat data’ through its website and the use of it by Metra, is in strict correspondence of the regulations of the Belgian Law of 1992, Dec 8th (law to protect the private life in relation to the processing of personal data) and the law of 1998, Dec 11th to convert the EU directive 95/46/EG from 1995, Oct 24th (concerning the protection of natural persons in connection to the processing of personal data and the free traffic of this data).

Metra collects and processes personal data of the visitors of its website for marketing purposes, customer management and also for internal purposes:

· Collecting personal data at registration, purchase and promotional actions:
Metra collects personal data at the registration of the user at the website, at the purchase through the website or at the participation of commercial actions. Personal data given by the user of the website can be used by Metra or organisations associated to Metra, for marketing purposes, for customer management and to be able to offer certain services. This personal data can also be given and shared with other parties, related to Metra.

· Collecting data for internal purposes : profiling, traffic analysis, improving of offered services
Metra also collect personal information for internal purposes, such as profiling of the users of its website and analysing the traffic on its website. And to improve the services offered to the users.

· Use of "cookies"
Metra can use "cookies". "Cookies" are very small pieces of data, planted on to the hard disk of the user, to simplify the use of the website. The use of “cookies” is generally accepted. Most of the important websites are using it.

The use of  “cookies”  prevents the user to logon over and over again to personalised services. The use of “cookies” can be managed by the user in his browser.
When the “cookies” are disables, the optimal functioning of Metra’s website cannot be guaranteed. 

· Right to inspect and to correct
Any person proving his identity, has the right to request and get permission to his personal data, collected by Metra. This request is to accompanied by the ID proof and is to be directed by post to Metra at its address which you find on the website. One can also resist the use of personal data for marketing purposes by e-mail adressed at info@metra.be

· Modification and notification of this privacy regulation

Metra reserves the right to modify this privacy regulation at any time. Any modification shall be notified trough the website.

· Disputes 
This agreement is subject to Belgian law. All disputes will be settled before the courts and Tribunals of Ghent (Belgium).