Game rules

The company MAISON BALZAC , a simplified joint-stock company registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 801 504 879, with a capital of 45,137.00 euros, whose registered office is located at 1 Cité Paradis, 75010 Paris, represented by Mr. Charles Fourmaux, its Managing Director, domiciled in this capacity at said registered office (hereinafter referred to as “the Organizing Company”) is organizing, from 05/21/2025 to 05/28/2025 inclusive, a free game, with no purchase obligation, entitled “The Balzac Paris x Club Med competition”, in collaboration with the Instagram account “@clubmed”, (hereinafter the “Partner”), according to the terms and conditions described in these rules, and accessible from the Instagram account “@balzacparis” https://www.instagram.com/balzacparis/?hl=fr and the registration form accessible on the following link: (hereinafter the “Form”) https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=W5ZtZE&g=TvRF62 .

At the end of the draw, one winner will win a stay for two people without transport in one of the Club Med Europe / Africa Resorts, valid for one year excluding school holidays in France / Belgium / Switzerland all zones combined, as well as a €1,000 (one thousand) voucher valid at Balzac Paris.

Prior to any participation in the Game, each participant must read and accept without reservation these rules of the Game. Anyone violating one or more of the articles of these rules will be deprived of the possibility of participating in the Game, but also of any winnings that they may have won.

3.1 Participation in the Game is open from May 21, 2025, 10:00 a.m., Paris time, to May 28, 2025, 11:59 p.m., Paris time, the date and time of participants' connections, as recorded by the computer systems of the Organizing Company and/or its technical service providers, being authentic.

The Game is accessible 24 hours a day on the Instagram account @balzacparis on Form, administered by the Organizing Company, subject in particular to possible maintenance operations on the Game servers.

Access to the Game is possible from a computer, mobile phone or tablet, equipped with an internet connection.

3.2 Participation in the Game is open to any adult natural person residing in Metropolitan France, with Internet access, excluding:

Corporate officers and staff members of the Organizing Company, or of companies having participated in the implementation and/or promotion of the Game, as well as members of their family (and in particular spouses, ascendants, descendants, brothers and sisters, etc.);

Participants refusing the collection, recording and use of personal information concerning them.

The participant authorizes all verifications concerning his or her identity. The participation of minors in the Game is subject to parental authorization. The Organizing Company reserves the right to verify this authorization at all stages of the Game.

3.3 By the sole fact of participating, the winner authorizes the organizing companies to use their surname, first name, pseudonym, email address and image in any promotional operation relating to their products, without this use giving rise to any right to remuneration.

3.4 Any breach of these Rules or unfair or fraudulent attitude by the participant will result in the immediate cancellation of his/her participation by the Organizing Company at any time.

The Organizing Company reserves the right to verify the identity, loyalty, and sincerity of each participant by directly requesting proof of the aforementioned conditions from the participant. Any winner refusing to provide proof of these conditions will not be able to receive their prize.

He must, where applicable, reimburse the prize sent to him as part of the Game; this reimbursement must be sent to the Organizing Company.

4.1 The participant can participate in the competition in two ways.

VIA THE REGISTRATION FORM

The participant can register for the competition by completing the Registration Form administered by the organizing company, accessible at the following address: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=W5ZtZE&g=TvRF62 .

To be eligible, the participant must complete the following fields: First name, Last name, Email address, and validate their registration.

By validating their registration, the Participant agrees to receive communications by email from the Organizing Companies.

If he wishes, he can also subscribe to the Partner's communications by checking the box provided for this purpose.

VIA THE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT @BALZACPARIS

To participate, the participant meeting the conditions listed in article 3 of these Rules must meet all of the following conditions:

Subscribe » at the top.

Subscribe » at the top.

To maximize their chances, the participant can share the publication in a story.

4.2 The Participant can double his chances of being drawn by participating via both methods.

5.1 At the end of the competition, one Prize is to be won by one participant (hereinafter referred to as “the Prize”). This Prize is a stay for two people without transport in one of the Club Med Europe / Africa Resorts, valid for one year excluding school holidays in France / Belgium / Switzerland all zones combined, as well as a €1,000 (one thousand) voucher valid at Balzac Paris.

Participation in the competition is only open to mainland France.

The Prize is not exchangeable for other prizes, or for their value in checks or cash, nor is it refundable. It cannot be awarded to anyone other than the winner.

The Organizing Company will draw the name of a participant from among the eligible Participants according to the registration terms defined 4. The draw will take place on May 30, 2025.

5.2 Here is the procedure to follow for the winner to benefit from their Club Med stay**.**

How to register?

Your registration must be made at the earliest two months before the departure date.

Your stay must take place outside of school holidays in all areas of France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Send your request by email to the following address: bons.gratuits@clubmed.com

Be sure to include the reference number of your free voucher (top right of the free voucher). If you wish to register more than two people and/or add a service, please refer to the Price List in effect on the date of booking.

Enter your credit card number, its expiration date, and the cardholder's first and last name.

The original of the duly completed voucher must be sent to the following address: Club Med SAS – Service Support Commercial France (Free vouchers) - 11, rue de Cambrai 75019 PARIS

If your application is accepted:

If your request is accepted, you will receive a confirmation message, and the sales contract will be sent to the address provided.

Some of our managed resorts cannot be offered free of charge. These are the following resorts: Bodrum, Palmiye, Les Boucaniers, Trancoso, Bintan, Guilin and Yabuli, the villas of Albion and Kani, the chalets of Valmorel and Samoens.

If your request is refused:

The Club contacts the winner and makes a counter-offer.

For any practical information relating to your stay, please contact your Agency.

Offer conditions:

This stay is subject to the specific conditions of this offer and then to the general or specific conditions of sale as appearing in the brochures and on the Club Med website.

In the event of any contradiction between the latter and the conditions of this offer, the conditions of this offer shall prevail.

Special conditions of the offer:

Each registration is subject to a systematic study of the availability of the stay in the Resort and on the dates requested by the winner. In the event that the Resort or the requested dates are not available, Club Med SAS will offer the winner, depending on availability, replacement services (change of date at the same Resort or change of Resort on the same date or change of date and Resort).

If, before departure, Club Med SAS is forced to cancel the winner's stay purely and simply, for any reason whatsoever under the conditions set out in its general terms and conditions of sale applicable to the stay in question, the winner will be offered, except in cases exempting from force majeure, replacement services. The Club will inform the winner of the cancellation of the stay and the new choices proposed as a replacement by telephone and/or by any other means available to the winner. This cancellation will not give rise to any rights other than those mentioned above (replacement services), and no refund of the package or compensation may be paid as a result of this cancellation.

This offer does not include, as part of the stay package, the services and/or activities mentioned in our Club Med SAS brochures as being additional (example: excursions, certain strong alcohols, spirits, wines and Champagne, tourist card, visas, ski equipment, transfers, etc.)

We draw your attention to the fact that in the event of cancellation on your part, your stay cannot be postponed and will be definitively lost (except in special circumstances).

We also draw your attention to the fact that the departure date, the chosen destination and the names of the participants are firm and definitive as soon as the registration is accepted by Club Med SAS. No changes to the departure date and/or destination and/or the names of the participants by the winner will be accepted once the registration has been completed (except in the case of special exemptions).

Registration by the winner implies unconditional acceptance, on the part of the winner and any accompanying person, if applicable, of the general terms and conditions of sale and the specific conditions in force applicable as set out in the Club's brochures and website. This voucher cannot be transferred free of charge, except in the case of a special exemption.

5.2 Furthermore, the Participant accepts that his identity may be disclosed by the Organizing Company, for communication relating to his Game, on its website, its Facebook page and its Instagram page.

5.3 At the end of the Game, the winner will be contacted by the Partner of the Organizing Company by private message or by email if the Participant registered via the Form.

The winner must then respond to the Partner, providing proof of being the holder of said account and requesting the information required to obtain the prize, including their email address.

The Prize will be made available to the winner by the Partner and by Balzac Paris only according to the information that he/she has then declared to the Organizing Company and according to the terms communicated to the Organizing Company, by email.

If the winner does not respond within one week of the email being sent, their winnings will be forfeited.

5.4 The Organizing Company declines all liability in the event of failure by Club Med, particularly in the event that it fails to provide the intended Prize. Consequently, the Participant expressly waives any recourse or claim against the Organizing Company in this regard.

The photograph, the products photographed, and the names of the products and/or their distributors are protected by intellectual property rights. The Organizing Company is either the owner or licensee of these intellectual property rights. Under no circumstances is the Internet user authorized to exploit these rights outside the authorization granted within the framework of these Rules.

To participate, the participant must provide personal information about themselves (Instagram username for those registered via Instagram, and Name / First name / email for those registered via the Form).

Personal information collected as part of this Game is processed in accordance with the French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978 as amended. The personal data that participants provide as part of the competition is primarily intended for the Organizing Company for the purpose of managing entries, determining winners, awarding and delivering prizes, and for email communication purposes. All participants have, pursuant to this law, a right of access, opposition, modification, and deletion of data concerning them, which they may exercise by sending a written, signed request, accompanied by a photocopy of an identity document, by post to the company MAISON BALZAC, 1 Cité Paradis 75010 Paris.

If the participant accepts registration on a commercial mailing list, their personal data may be processed for commercial purposes by Club Med in accordance with its privacy policy.

In any event, registration on the commercial mailing list is not obligatory for participation in the competition.

Each participant is invited to consult the Club Med® data protection charter on www.clubmed.fr for more complete information on the processing of their Data.

8.1 The Organizing Company reserves the right to cancel, modify, shorten or extend the Game, if circumstances beyond its control force it to do so. It will notify participants as soon as possible and will not incur any liability as a result.

The Organizing Company assumes no liability in the event of a technical incident preventing the participant from connecting or resulting in the loss, delay or sending to an incorrect address of the winner.

Under no circumstances shall the Organizing Company be liable for the delay in sending the prize(s) or in the event of the winner(s) being unable to receive the prize(s) due to circumstances beyond its control. In particular, it shall not, under any circumstances, be held liable in the event of loss and/or damage to the prize(s) by the Post Office or any similar third-party service provider, and more generally if the winners do not receive their prize.

8.2 In the event that a comment posted by a participant is, according to the Organizing Company, contrary to the law or likely to offend, the latter reserves the right to modify it and to take any action against its author.

8.3 The Contest is not managed or sponsored by Instagram. The information provided by each participant is provided to the Organizing Company and not to Instagram. This information will only be used if the user has agreed to receive newsletters from the Organizing Company. By participating, the user validates a full release from Instagram. Instagram cannot be held responsible for the Contest.

These Regulations are governed by French law and interpreted in accordance with its provisions.

If one or more provisions of these Regulations were declared null or inapplicable, the other clauses would retain their full force and scope.

Any dispute concerning the interpretation and/or cases not provided for in these rules will be settled by the Organizing Company, whose decisions will be final and without appeal. No telephone requests relating to the terms of the Game or the interpretation of these rules will be answered.

Disputes which cannot be settled amicably, despite the efforts made by the Parties, are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Lille metropolitan area, even for emergency or protective proceedings, in summary proceedings or by application, and notwithstanding multiple Defendants or third-party claims.

No dispute will be admissible two (2) months after the closing of the Game.

Any dispute concerning the interpretation and/or cases not provided for in these rules will be settled by the Organizing Company, whose decisions will be final and without appeal. No telephone requests relating to the terms of the Game or the interpretation of these rules will be answered.

Disputes which cannot be settled amicably, despite the efforts made by the Parties, are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Lille metropolitan area, even for emergency or protective proceedings, in summary proceedings or by application, and notwithstanding multiple Defendants or third-party claims.

No dispute will be admissible two (2) months after the closing of the Game.