Legal notice and terms and conditions — the novel The Hammock and the Hummingbirds

Who publishes this website

Website publisher
The website www.lehamacetlescolibris.com is published by Karine Baridon, sole trader (entrepreneur individuel).
Address: 29 avenue Ambroise Thomas, 83400 Hyères, France
SIRET: 500 131 784 00034
VAT: VAT not applicable, art. 293 B of the French General Tax Code (CGI)
Email: [email protected]
Publication director: Karine Baridon

Host
Cloudflare, Inc. — 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States — www.cloudflare.com

Sharing creations
Readers share their creations on the sharing wall, a self-service collaborative wall hosted by Padlet (Wallwisher, Inc., San Francisco, United States — padlet.com). Everyone posts and removes their own creation themselves, in line with the creators’ charter. The publisher may remove any content that breaches the charter.

Liability
The information on this website is provided for guidance only. Links to third-party websites do not make the publisher liable for their content.

Protecting the creations

The full framework — what is protected, what is offered, what requires permission, and all the special cases — is set out on the page Rights of use and exploitation.

What belongs to the author, Karine Baridon
Three things are protected here, and they are all the exclusive property of Karine Baridon: the novel The Hammock and the Hummingbirds and its world (story, characters, places, invented words, illustrations, map, songs); the website and all its content (texts, images, guides, games, dictionary); and the concept of the website itself — the way the work is presented, opened up and put into the reader’s hands. All three are protected by copyright and have been registered as described below.

What you can do with them comes down to three cases.

1. Creating from the work: permitted in advance, nothing to ask.
Writing a chapter, inventing a sequel, drawing the characters, composing, filming, acting, teaching, and publishing the result. This permission applies as long as no financial transaction is involved, and provided that the novel The Hammock and the Hummingbirds and its author are credited.

2. Talking about it, quoting it, sharing it: permitted.
Quoting extracts, showing an illustration or the map, sharing a chapter, writing a review, an article, a video, a lesson: this is encouraged, provided you credit the novel and its author and link back to the website.
What is not permitted is publishing the work in its author’s place: putting it back online or printing it elsewhere as if you were the source, distributing it under another name, or circulating parts detached from the book. This requires the author’s prior written consent, even with no money involved.

3. Selling: written agreement and payment.
Selling, publishing, distributing for payment, adapting or exploiting in any form whatsoever the novel, its world or a creation born from it requires, in addition to written agreement, a payment due to the author under copyright: a sum or a percentage of the revenue or profits, depending on what is sold. The terms are set by contract before any exploitation.
This covers in particular adapting the novel into a film, series, documentary, play, show or game, republishing it, translating it, merchandise; and reusing the concept, structure or wording of this website for commercial exploitation.

The novel, the website and all its content are offered to read. They remain the property of their author, who keeps all exploitation rights. This is not a refusal: permission can be granted. It is then set out in a written contract, in line with intellectual property law, which defines its scope, duration and payment. The same rule is written in the creators’ charter.

What belongs to the creators
Creations shared by members of the community remain the property of their authors, always and with no time limit. Their terms of publication and use are those of the creators’ charter, accepted when they are sent.

Creators’ charter

What is registered

The novel The Hammock and the Hummingbirds is protected by an e-Soleau envelope filed with the INPI (the French intellectual property office), valid until 2046, and it has been registered with the U.S. Copyright Office since 21 August 2026. The concept and the website — the way of entering the reading through several doors, of making the work accessible through several senses, of offering the whole book, of turning it into raw material for creating, and of bringing the creations together in a shared gallery — were registered with the INPI on 5 September 2026, in an e-Soleau envelope with the files kept by the Institute. This filing dates the state of the concept and the website, and serves as proof of prior art.

Knowing your rights

Privacy & cookies (GDPR)

Data collected
The data you choose to send, via the contact form, the creators’ form or the newsletter sign-up: name, email.

Purpose
Replying to your requests. Publishing and crediting your creations. Sending you the newsletter if you’ve agreed to it. No data is sold or passed on to third parties.

Retention period
3 years after the last contact

Your rights
Access, correction, deletion, and unsubscribing — the link is at the bottom of every email. Write to [email protected].

Cookies
The website may use audience measurement cookies. A banner lets you accept or refuse them.

Buying

Terms and conditions of sale

1. Purpose
These terms and conditions govern the sale of the book The Hammock and the Hummingbirds, merchandise, collections, and the supporter subscription offered on the website.

2. Prices
In euros, including VAT.
The price of each format is shown on the page Support or give the book, which is authoritative
The applicable price is the one shown when the order is placed.

3. Ordering and payment
The order is confirmed once paid in full, by bank card, via the secure Stripe platform. A confirmation is sent by email.

4. Delivery
Paperback and objects: printed and shipped by our partner. Delivery times and costs are shown when you order.
Digital files: download link sent immediately after payment.

5. Right of withdrawal
14 days on physical objects, returned in perfect condition, return costs payable by you.
For digital content downloaded immediately, the right of withdrawal does not apply once you have agreed to delivery starting.

6. Subscription
No commitment, cancel at any time from your account. No reason is required. The month already started remains payable.

7. Community
Access to the gallery is free. It is subject to the kindness rules displayed. Any disrespectful behaviour may lead to exclusion.

Complaints

8. Complaints and disputes
[email protected]
An amicable solution will be sought first. Failing that, French law applies.
Consumer mediator: coming soon