This contract is translated for information purposes, the legal version is in French
This contract is between:
The company AGAH, a public limited company with a Board of Directors with a capital of 53,170 euros, whose registered office is located in Les Hauts 710220 SAINT BONNET DE JOUX, registered with the RCS of MACON under number 789 714 367, operating the GROUPCORNER website, represented by its manager Mr Antoine de Corson
hereinafter referred to as "GROUPCORNER".
AND
And the company described in the form above.
Below is the CLIENT
On the other hand
PREAMBLE :
GROUPCORNER operates a website accessible at http//www.groupcorner.com It makes available to its users the services available on the site in order to facilitate contact between hotels and individuals or legal entities seeking a group accommodation (8 rooms or more).
The CLIENT may use the Groupcorner site to offer group accommodation solutions to its employees, collaborators, customers, suppliers or partners.
The term "income" refers to the amount of gross sums excluding tax levied by GROUPCORNER from the affiliated accommodation in return for its intermediary services as part of the group booking. As an indication, GROUPCORNER's income is around 10% of the total amount reserved and paid by customers for accommodation.
The term "commission" refers to an amount (excluding tax) that will be paid by GROUPCORNER to the CLIENT for each "confirmed reservation".
The term "confirmed reservation" refers to a reservation, which is not cancelled by the client, in accommodation that is a GROUPCORNER partner and that has resulted in the actual provision of accommodation in accommodation. Between the reservation date and the hotel departure date, the reservation has a status of "reservation in progress" or "reserved". At any time, if the reservation is cancelled, the status of the reservation changes from "reservation in progress or booked" to "cancelled". If the reservation is not cancelled, the reservation is a "confirmed reservation".
The term "income received" refers to the moment of the income actually received by GROUPCORNER. These are revenues from confirmed bookings, whose check out date has passed, that have been invoiced to the accommodation and whose invoices have been paid to GROUPCORNER by the accommodation.
The parties have come together and agreed as follows:
1
Purpose of the partnership
1.1
Membership of GROUPCORNER Corporate
The CLIENT will create a "Groupcorner Corporate" account with its access codes and identifiers. Registration is free of charge and without any commitment of time. The CLIENT will then be able to create user profiles from his account for each of his collaborators. The CLIENT and all users will use this tool, without obligation, to make requests for group accommodation and then book. GROUPCORNER will process these requests directly with the CLIENT. For confirmed bookings, bookings, contracts and payments will be made directly between the booked accommodation and the CLIENT.
GROUPCORNER will receive income from these confirmed reservations, which are paid by the accommodation to GROUPCORNER and then GROUPCORNER, according to the terms of a subsequent agreement with the CLIENT, will be able to refund part of the income received to the CLIENT. This is the commission.
1.2
Exclusivity
It is specified that this agreement is concluded on a non-exclusive basis, on both sides.
The CLIENT and its users are free to use other solutions to make their group reservations and GROUPCORNER is free to offer its services via other travel agencies
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Trade agreement
2.1
Commission
GROUPCORNER has no obligation to retrocede a commission to the CLIENT and GROUPCORNER will only pay commissions to the CLIENT in the event of the signing of a commercial agreement between the two parties.
2.2
Commission calculation rules
In the case of a signed commercial agreement, for each "confirmed reservation" made by the CLIENT's account on the GROUPCORNER website, GROUPCORNER will pay a commission to the CLIENT.
The percentage of commission paid will be defined in the commercial agreement and will be a percentage of the pre-tax income received by GROUPCORNER on confirmed bookings.
At the end of each calendar quarter, GROUPCORNER will calculate the amount of the commission to be paid to the CLIENT in euros. A commission will be considered due when the client's stay is over and the income has actually been paid by the hotel or host to GROUPCORNER.
GROUPCORNER will pay commissions quarterly within 30 days of the end of the calendar quarter. In the event that the accumulated commission to be paid to the CLIENT is less than €100 excluding VAT, the payment may be deferred by GROUPCORNER to the following quarter.
2.3
Billing and payment procedure
In the event that GROUPCORNER has commissions to pay to the CLIENT, the payment of the commissions will be made by bank transfer, based on the bank details provided by the CLIENT.
GROUPCORNER makes the payment through a "self-invoicing" system.
GROUPCORNER will provide the CLIENT, by e-mail, with an invoice indicating the amount of the commission to be paid in the past quarter (the "invoice"). The invoice shall be accompanied by a statement detailing the details of the confirmed reservations in order to provide the CLIENT with reliable and transparent accounting information and to verify its accuracy. Any complaint based on a statement must be sent by post or e-mail with acknowledgement of receipt within 30 days of receipt. The absence of a complaint within the deadline will be considered as final validation of the statement and the invoice.
GROUPCORNER undertakes to respond to any information or accounting accuracy requested by the CLIENT on the statement and invoice.
3
Duration and termination
3.1
Duration and termination
The contract shall take effect on the date of signature hereof for an indefinite period.
Either party may terminate it at any time, and without cause, subject to 7 days' notice by sending an email to corporate@groupcorner.com
In the event of termination and in the event of a signed commercial agreement, GROUPCORNER will continue to report quarterly and pay commissions to the CLIENT concerned as long as the CLIENT has outstanding reservations, even if the amount is less than €100 excluding VAT.
3.2
Termination in case of force majeure
GROUPCORNER may freely terminate this contract with respect to the CLIENT, after having previously informed the CLIENT, if the CLIENT does not respect an obligation of this contract or harms GROUPCORNER by its behaviour.
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Responsibilities
GROUPCORNER does not assume any obligation towards the CLIENT with regard to (i) information relating to the hotels and hosts on the Groupcorner.com website, (ii) the accommodation service and the estimate proposed by the hotels (iii) the actual performance of the service. GROUPCORNER's service is limited to putting the CLIENT in contact with hosting providers offering group accommodation solutions. Contracts are then concluded between the CLIENT and the hosts without the intervention of GROUPCORNER, under the sole responsibility of the CLIENT and the host.
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Intellectual Property
The parties undertake not to infringe the intellectual property rights of the other party or to create any confusion.
The parties undertake not to make any use of their names, trademarks, or the indication of the relationship between them, in any advertising, sales promotion, press release, or any other communication to the public whatsoever, without having first obtained the express agreement of the other party.
In particular, the contracting parties undertake to refrain from undertaking paid search marketing campaigns (such as Google Adwords) involving any text protected by copyright, trademark or other trademark element belonging to the other contracting party and to refrain from using any advertising text including the word Groupcorner or any other similar term that could cause confusion, including any trademarks belonging to GROUPCORNER or the CLIENT.
The CLIENT undertakes to refrain from registering or acquiring any Internet domain name containing the word Groupcorner or other similar terms that could cause confusion with the registered trademarks belonging to GROUPCORNER
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General terms and conditions
If any term or provision of this Agreement is found by the court or other competent authority to be unlawful, void, unenforceable or invalid, such term or provision shall be deleted from this Agreement, but the remaining terms and provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
Unless otherwise specified, the general terms and conditions combined with this contract constitute the entire agreement between GROUPCORNER and the CLIENT, and replace any previous understanding or agreement. GROUPCORNER's general terms and conditions of sale take precedence over the CLIENT's general terms and conditions
GROUPCORNER may at any time modify the general conditions of this contract by updating this document. In this case, the new general conditions will be sent to the CLIENT and presumed accepted after a period of 15 days without the latter having sent any objection by registered mail.
Each party shall bear its own costs and expenses incurred in the preparation, negotiation and performance of this contract.
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Jurisdiction - applicable law
This contract is subject to French law. Any dispute, any dispute falling within the scope of this agreement, including its termination and consequences, shall be submitted to the Commercial Court of Macon.