Last updated: August 28, 2025
bee2link group, a French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with share capital of €781,042.66, whose registered office is located at 278 boulevard Saint Germain 75007 Paris, France, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 847 509 353, publishes the website openhive.eu.
The OpenHive Site offers a service whereby Customers are put in contact with Partners for the purchase of Products and/or Services.
In this context, it is recalled that bee2link group acts as an online platform operator, as a simple technical intermediary. Its role is limited to presenting and listing Partners' Products and Services on the OpenHive Site as well as connecting Customers with Partners.
If the Customer expresses interest in Products and/or Services listed on the OpenHive Site, they are redirected to the relevant Partner Site to proceed with ordering the Products and/or Services. Any order thus made is governed by the Partner's General Terms and Conditions of Sale, which are separate from these Terms of Use.
The terms mentioned below have the following meaning in these Terms of Use:
"External Cause": means all cases and/or events beyond the reasonable control of bee2link group, including, without limitation, any act or omission by a person not employed or under contract with bee2link group, for example, Partners, Customers, technical service providers or third parties; cases of force majeure, for example, natural disasters and events, riots or civil disturbances, union actions, labor disputes, sabotage, acts of terrorism, telecommunications network interruptions.
"Customer": means any automotive professional accessing the OpenHive Site and purchasing Products and/or Services on Partner Sites.
"Terms of Use" or "ToU": means this document defining the conditions of use of the OpenHive Site.
"Partner's General Terms and Conditions of Sale" or "Partner GTC": means the Partner's terms and conditions applicable to the Customer's order of Products and/or Services on the Partner Site.
"Content": means individually or collectively the information, texts, logos, trademarks, designs and models, photographs, data and/or other elements present on the OpenHive Site.
"Partner": means any professional whose Products and/or Services are presented on the OpenHive Site.
"Product": means any product offered by a Partner, listed and presented on the OpenHive Site.
"Service": means any service offered by a Partner, listed and presented on the OpenHive Site.
"OpenHive Site": means the intermediation platform accessible via the URL https://openhive.eu, whose purpose is to list and present Products and Services offered by Partners. For clarity, no transaction is carried out on the OpenHive Site, the ordering of Products and Services occurring exclusively on Partner Sites.
"Partner Site": means the website published by the Partner, whose purpose is to market the Partner's Products and Services and on which the Customer can order said Products and Services.
"User": means any person accessing and browsing the OpenHive Site, whether Partner, Customer or simple internet user.
Consulting and using the OpenHive Site implies acceptance, without reservation, of these ToU, as well as the OpenHive Site's privacy policy accessible at the following address: https://openhive.eu/en/privacy-policy.
Thus, the User undertakes to carefully read these ToU when accessing the OpenHive Site.
It is specified that the ToU are referenced at the bottom of each page of the OpenHive Site by means of a hyperlink and can thus be consulted at any time.
The OpenHive Site is accessible at https://openhive.eu by any User with access to the internet network. The equipment necessary for access to and use of the OpenHive Site is the responsibility of the User, as are the telecommunication fees related to this use.
The User may only use the OpenHive Site and Content in accordance with its purpose as described in these ToU and in compliance with them.
The User may not modify information posted online by bee2link group or by another User or divert the purpose of the OpenHive Site to commit crimes, offenses or violations.
Using the OpenHive Site in a manner that could damage, disable, overload or impair the OpenHive Site, or that could interfere with the normal operation of the OpenHive Site or with another User's use of the OpenHive Site is prohibited.
The User is prohibited from downloading, reproducing, extracting or exploiting, in any way whatsoever, all or part of the Content appearing on the OpenHive Site. In particular, they are prohibited from using data mining techniques, robots, or any other automated tool or process for collecting or extracting data.
The User agrees that they may not sell, assign, sub-license, distribute, commercially exploit or make available to a third party the Content or the OpenHive Site, nor grant a warranty or transfer a right in any way concerning them, nor integrate all or part of the OpenHive Site on another site or web page.
The OpenHive Site may not be, in whole or in part, reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, or exploited for commercial purposes without the express written consent of bee2link group.
The User may post reviews and comments on the OpenHive Site. They may also submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions or other information, provided that the content is not contrary to these ToU.
In particular, the User undertakes not to disseminate via the OpenHive Site messages or information:
Constituting disparagement aimed at bee2link group, Users of the OpenHive Site or third parties;
Contrary to public order and morality;
Infringing intellectual property rights;
Of an insulting, defamatory, racist, xenophobic, revisionist nature or damaging the honor or reputation of others;
Inciting discrimination, hatred of a person or group of people because of their origin or their membership or non-membership in an ethnic group, nation, race or specific religion;
Threatening a person or group of people;
Of a pedophilic nature;
Inciting to commit an offense, crime or act of terrorism or glorifying war crimes or crimes against humanity;
Inciting suicide;
Containing viruses or any form of "spam";
Allowing third parties to directly or indirectly obtain pirated software, software allowing acts of hacking and intrusion into computer and telecommunications systems and more generally any tool, software or other allowing infringement of the rights of others and the security of persons and property.
The User undertakes not to use a false email address, impersonate another person or entity, or mislead as to the origin of content.
bee2link group reserves the right to monitor and delete reviews and comments that do not comply with these ToU. bee2link group disclaims all responsibility and obligation for reviews and comments or any content posted by a User.
The OpenHive Site is protected by intellectual property law and other laws in force, including those relating to trademarks and copyright. The OpenHive Site, including all intellectual property rights relating to it, belongs to bee2link group. bee2link group owns and retains all its copyrights related to the Content. Except as specifically authorized on the OpenHive Site for certain content, the Content may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, downloaded, posted, transmitted, performed or distributed in any way, and the User agrees not to modify, rent, lend, sell, distribute, transmit or broadcast the Content or the OpenHive Site, nor to create a derivative work entirely or partly from them, in any way.
The OpenHive trademark, logo, domain names, computer audio, visual, graphic content, texts and images are the exclusive property of bee2link group. The User has no right or license to use the foregoing. Any reproduction or representation of any of these elements is strictly prohibited, without the prior written authorization of bee2link group and is likely to constitute infringement within the meaning of the Intellectual Property Code. bee2link group may use and integrate into the OpenHive Site any suggestion or comment that the User makes, without payment or condition.
The links present on the OpenHive Site and redirecting to Partner Sites or third-party websites are provided to Users for convenience. By clicking on these links, the User leaves the OpenHive Site and is subject to the terms of use, privacy policies and other documentation of said sites. bee2link group is in no way responsible for the availability, content, security of Partner Sites and third-party websites, Products and Services offered on these sites as well as transactions that may be concluded there.
bee2link group exercises no control over the Products and/or Services offered by Partners and does not intervene in any way in the relationship between Partners and Customers, particularly with regard to the sale of Products and/or Services (formation, execution, termination, interpretation, etc.). The sales contract is concluded exclusively and directly between the Customer and the Partner.
Consequently, bee2link group cannot be held responsible, in any capacity whatsoever, for damages of any nature whatsoever, such as direct or indirect, material or immaterial (such as loss of profits, loss of data, loss of opportunity or damage to image), which could result from the relationship between the Customer and the Partner or from the use of Products and/or Services marketed by the latter.
Any dispute that may exist between the Customer and the Partner must be dealt with directly between the Customer and the Partner, the latter remaining solely responsible for the proper execution of orders placed on the Partner Site. The Customer undertakes to contact the Partner directly to deal with any dispute with them.
Unless otherwise stated herein, the OpenHive Site as well as all information, content, elements, Products or Services presented on the OpenHive Site or made available to the User in any way via the OpenHive Site are provided "as is".
bee2link group makes no representation and gives no warranty of any kind, express or implied, concerning the operation, availability, accuracy, reliability or completeness of the OpenHive Site, Content or any element made available to the User, in any way, via the OpenHive Site.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, bee2link group excludes all express or implied warranties, including, in particular, implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose.
bee2link group does not guarantee that the OpenHive Site, Content, Products or Services presented on the OpenHive Site or made available via the OpenHive Site, its servers or emails sent by bee2link group are free of viruses or other harmful elements.
bee2link group disclaims all liability in case of:
Temporary impossibility of accessing the OpenHive Site for technical maintenance operations or updating of published information. Users acknowledge that bee2link group's liability cannot be engaged in the event of malfunction or interruption of transmission networks;
Breach of computer security that may, in particular, cause damage to Users' computer equipment and their data;
Viral attacks, illegal intrusion into an automated data processing system;
Abnormal use or illegal exploitation of the OpenHive Site by a User or third party;
Non-compliance with these ToU attributable to Users;
External Cause, as defined herein;
Actions by a Partner of any nature whatsoever;
Any problem encountered during the execution of the sale of Products and/or Services or the provision of Products and/or Services by Partners.
bee2link group will not be liable for direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or other damages, including, without this list being exhaustive, any loss of data, revenue or profits, resulting directly or indirectly from the use or performance of the OpenHive Site, delays in use or inability to use the OpenHive Site.
The User understands and accepts that they are personally responsible for their behavior on the OpenHive Site. They undertake to indemnify, defend and hold harmless bee2link group, its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, joint ventures, business partners, licensors, employees, agents and third-party data suppliers against any claim, loss, expense, damage and cost (including, but not limited to, direct, consequential, incidental, exemplary or indirect damages, as well as reasonable attorney fees), resulting from or arising from their use or misuse of the OpenHive Site or Content, their inability to use them, or a violation of these ToU committed by themselves.
Digital services legislation requires that intermediate service providers, including online platforms, designate a single point of contact to enable notification of illegal content by a User or any third party. Notification to bee2link group must be made by email to: contact@openhive.eu.
Notification of manifestly illegal content must imperatively include the following elements: (i) the reasons why the notifier believes the content is illegal, (ii) the precise location of the reported content (for example, its URL), (iii) the notifier's contact details and (iv) a good faith statement by the notifier, to enable bee2link group to examine the request.
bee2link group reserves the right to remove any content that has been reported to it and that it considers to be manifestly illegal within the meaning of these ToU and applicable regulations.
10.1. Headings
In the event of difficulties of interpretation resulting from a contradiction between any of the headings appearing at the head of the clauses and any of the clauses, the headings shall be deemed non-existent.
10.2. Waiver
The fact that neither the User nor bee2link group has required the application of any clause of these ToU, whether permanently or temporarily, may in no case be considered as a waiver of said clause.
10.3. Severability
If any of the provisions of these ToU were to be declared null and void with regard to a legislative or regulatory provision in force and/or a court decision having the authority of res judicata, it shall be deemed unwritten but shall not affect in any way the validity of the other clauses which shall remain fully applicable.
10.4. Modification of the ToU
bee2link group reserves the right to modify these ToU at any time without prior notice. The date of last revision of the ToU is indicated at the top of this document. bee2link group recommends that Users regularly consult this page.
The applicable ToU are those in force at the time of browsing on the OpenHive Site.
These ToU are governed by French law, excluding its conflict of laws rules.
Any dispute of any nature whatsoever arising in particular from the interpretation, execution or termination of these which could not be settled amicably, shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the jurisdiction in which the registered office of bee2link group is located, including in the event of urgent proceedings, multiple defendants or third-party claims.