Welcome to Lineos

Your Used Vehicle purchasing website

The website accessible at https://lineos3-byd-eu.dekra-automotivesolutions.com/ (hereinafter referred to as the "Site") is intended for the personal information of internet users who use it. Access to and use of this Site are subject to the terms and conditions of access and use detailed below.

SITE PUBLISHER

BYD Europe B.V.

Scorpius 112, 2132 LR Hoofddorp, the Netherlands

Tel: 00800 10203000

Contact: remarketing@byd.com

KVK registration number: 24288673

HOSTING

DEKRA Automotive Solutions

5 Esplanade de la Gare

33110 LE BOUSCAT

Telephone: +33 5 56 69 34 34

ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF USE

Any use of the Site necessarily implies unconditional acceptance of these terms by the Site user.

The Site user acknowledges having read the terms of use at the time of connecting to the Site and expressly accepts them without reservation.

SERVICE DESCRIPTION

The Site offers exclusively to professional merchants in the used vehicle trade a service (hereinafter the "Services") allowing them to:

  • create an account or sign in using an existing account on the Site;
  • browse a catalog of used vehicle listings offered for online sale by BYD Group companies in Europe;
  • select listings that have caught their attention (hereinafter the "Selection");
  • directly order a used vehicle online from the seller.

It is understood that BYD Europe, as the Site Publisher, acts only as a technical intermediary. The Services provided by BYD Europe are limited to hosting the Site's content. As such, BYD Europe cannot be held responsible for the content or listings and particularly their quality or relevance.

Any potential sale of a used vehicle will be concluded directly between the seller and the user and will be subject to the seller's terms of sale, which the user can review before ordering a vehicle.

It is specified that BYD Europe is authorized to develop the Services, particularly by making any reduction, extension, improvement, and modification of any nature whatsoever.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION AND DATA PROCESSING

BYD Europe B.V. is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

BYD Europe carries out the collection and processing of personal data of Site users, which are necessary for the proper implementation of the Services and management of BYD Europe's customer relations. The user is solely responsible for the quality and relevance of the information entered in the collection forms. This processing of personal data has been declared to the CNIL. This data is stored by BYD Europe, other BYD Group Companies in the EEA for data concerning them, as well as by the Site host.

In accordance with GDPR, the user has the right to access, rectify, and delete data concerning them, as well as the right to object to the processing of this data for legitimate reasons or to its use for prospecting purposes, particularly commercial.

If the user wishes to exercise this right, they must contact email address: privacy.eu@byd.com.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All material on this website is protected by copyright laws and other applicable laws of each country. BYD's intellectual property rights (including copyright, trademark rights, and patent rights) will remain the exclusive property of BYD. Except for personal, non-commercial internal use, materials are prohibited from use (including, without limitation, copying, modifying, reproducing in whole or in part, uploading) without obtaining BYD's prior written consent.

The Site user agrees to respect the intellectual property rights relating to the Site and all intellectual works integrated into the Site. Also, the Site user guarantees BYD Europe against any infringement of intellectual and industrial property rights of each of these works that BYD Europe, any company of the group to which BYD Europe belongs, or any other third party, particularly BYD Europe's partners and service providers, may hold.

The user is informed that in case of infringement of its intellectual property rights, BYD Europe, or the holder of said intellectual property rights if it is a third party, may implement any measure and action, including legal action, to stop this infringement of its intellectual property rights and reserves the right to claim damages in case of counterfeiting and, more generally, of infringement of its intellectual property rights.

TRADEMARK

The trademark, logos, images and service mentions on this website are the property of BYD. They may not be used, downloaded, copied or distributed in any way whatsoever without the prior written consent of BYD.

LIABILITY

BYD Europe takes the utmost care and implements all means to disseminate quality information on the Site.

However, BYD Europe cannot guarantee the accuracy and completeness of all this information. BYD Europe is not bound by any guarantee concerning particularly the integrity, accuracy, currency, non-infringement, availability, reliability, quality, or completeness of the information and particularly the listings appearing on the Site nor their suitability for the use that the Site user intends to make of them. This information and/or documents may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors. It is strongly recommended to verify the accuracy and relevance of the information and/or documents made available on this Site. BYD Europe reserves the right to correct them as soon as these errors are brought to its attention.

The information and/or documents available on the Site are subject to modification at any time and may have been updated. In particular, they may have been updated between the time they were downloaded and when the user becomes aware of them.

The Site may contain hyperlinks to other private or public sites present on the Internet network. However, as BYD Europe is not the publisher of this Site, it cannot control its content. Consequently, BYD Europe cannot under any circumstances be held responsible for the content of the sites thus accessible, or any collection and transmission of personal data, installation of cookies, or any other process tending toward the same ends, carried out by these sites. Furthermore, BYD Europe cannot be held responsible for any proven or alleged damage or losses consequential to or in connection with the use of or reliance on the content, goods, or services available on these sites or external sources.

Any creation of links to BYD Europe's Site, any framing of the Site, and more generally any use of an element composing the Site, is subject to prior written authorization from BYD Europe which may be revoked at any time at its sole discretion. BYD Europe reserves the right to request the removal of any link to the Site that would not have been, or would no longer be, authorized and to claim damages in compensation for the prejudice suffered as a result.

Moreover, BYD Europe disclaims all liability for indirect damages, whatever their causes, origins, nature, or consequences, including notably costs that may arise from the acquisition of used vehicles offered on the Site, loss of profits, customers, data, or any other loss of intangible assets that may occur due to anyone's access to the Site or inability to access it or the credit given to any information coming directly or indirectly from the latter, or from the services, their use.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file recorded by a website on your hard drive. During visits to the Site, a cookie may automatically install itself on the user's browser software. The cookie allows collecting information relating to this user's navigation on the Site. Cookies do not damage your computer in any way and do not contain viruses. At any time, you can deactivate the use of cookies through your browser settings. The retention period for this information on your computer is 30 days. As a general rule, our websites contain cookies only for anonymous statistical evaluation purposes and to improve internet users' navigation. If these cookies should, in addition, be useful in particular cases, you are informed at the corresponding location. For more information on cookies and their use, the user can consult the CNIL file at the following address: http://www.cnil.fr.

SITE ACCESS

BYD Europe strives to allow access to the Site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in cases of force majeure or an event beyond BYD Europe 's control, and subject to possible breakdowns and maintenance interventions necessary for the proper functioning of the site and services. Consequently, BYD Europe cannot guarantee Site availability and/or services, reliability of transmissions, and performance in terms of response time or quality. The publisher's liability cannot be engaged in case of impossibility of access to the Site and/or use of services.

USE

Lineos accesses must remain personal, and under no circumstances be given to persons outside the dealership who might use robot-type systems or a page refresh system to purchase or option used vehicles.

In case of doubt about the use of such a tool, we will proceed with the automatic closure of the account in question.

MODIFICATION OF TERMS OF USE

BYD Europe reserves the right to modify, at any time and without notice, these terms of use in order to adapt them to the evolution of the site and/or its operation. The user therefore agrees to consult them regularly.