For the purposes hereof: Beat Per Light: live entertainment support company. Client: any legal entity acting for the purposes of its professional activity and requesting Beat Per Light's services. Services: all services offered by Beat Per Light within its business.
These General Terms apply, outside the scope of public contracts, to services provided by Beat Per Light. Any service implies the Client's unreserved acceptance.
Beat Per Light contracts exclusively with professional clients acting for the purposes of their activity. These General Terms do not apply to consumers within the meaning of the French Consumer Code.
These General Terms govern the relationship between Beat Per Light and its professional clients. They apply to all sales of services. Clients may only benefit from the services subject to acceptance of these Terms. Signing the quote constitutes acceptance and compliance with these Terms.
Beat Per Light may, in addition to these General Terms, set specific conditions at the time of order. Any derogation must be agreed in writing in its offer.
Unless otherwise stated in the quote, quoted amounts constitute a firm commitment from Beat Per Light for a period of 1 month. The quote may be revised if the information provided by the Client proves inaccurate or incomplete.
The Client shall appoint a single authorised contact able to legally and financially bind the Client. To confirm the order, the authorised person must return the quote or contract, duly initialled, signed and dated with the words "Bon pour accord" and the company stamp. The order is final once the signed quote/contract is returned with any requested deposit. Once validated, the Client cannot withdraw, subject to the cancellation article.
The Client undertakes to provide Beat Per Light, in good time, with all information and documents required for proper performance, including venue plans, rigging load data, electrical schematics, access, clearances and schedule. Beat Per Light cannot be held liable for degraded or impossible performance resulting from missing, late or inaccurate information from the Client; Beat Per Light's claim remains due.
Beat Per Light alone determines team composition. The Client cannot select the staff involved nor give them direct instructions, except in case of emergency or danger to persons. Beat Per Light may use subcontractors or seconded staff and remains liable for them towards the Client. Beat Per Light holds professional liability insurance covering its work; the certificate is available on written request.
Prices are those in force on the order date, in euros and excluding tax; the applicable VAT rate is added. Any change or additional service likely to vary the price is subject to a supplementary quote agreed in writing by the Client.
Unless otherwise stated in the quote, a deposit is paid at order, the balance being payable on receipt of invoice and at the latest within the statutory B2B deadline. Beat Per Light may issue progress invoices pro rata to the services rendered.
Any late payment automatically incurs, without prior reminder, late penalties at three times the legal interest rate, plus a fixed recovery indemnity of forty euros (40 €) per unpaid invoice, pursuant to articles L441-10 and D441-5 of the French Commercial Code. If actual recovery costs exceed this amount, additional compensation may be claimed on proof. Non-payment may lead to suspension of any ongoing service.
Any cancellation must be notified in writing. An indemnity is due, calculated on the total amount incl. tax: cancellation more than 90 days before the date: 20%; between 30 and 90 days: 40%; between 7 and 30 days: 70%; less than 7 days or on the day: 100%. These amounts cover staff mobilisation, equipment booking, transport and subcontracting already committed. Any postponement requested by the Client equals a cancellation followed by a new order and a new quote; availability of teams and resources is not guaranteed for the new date.
Force majeure means any unforeseeable, irresistible event beyond the parties' control making performance impossible, including: administrative ban or restriction on gatherings, severe weather, natural disaster, transport strike affecting the service, recognised pandemic, or damage to the venue. The party relying on it informs the other as soon as possible. Where force majeure occurs more than forty-eight (48) hours before the date, only sums for costs already committed and non-recoverable (ordered equipment, transport, accommodation) remain due, on proof. Where it occurs less than forty-eight (48) hours before, the means being already mobilised, the service is deemed fully due; the Client pays the amount and may call upon its cancellation insurance.
Beat Per Light's liability for any service is limited to the amount excluding tax of the relevant service. Beat Per Light shall in no case be liable for indirect or immaterial damage, loss of business, loss of profit or harm to image. This limitation does not apply in case of personal injury, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, nor to mandatory legal obligations.
The original creations made by Beat Per Light (lighting concepts, programming, patches, show files, 3D pre-visualisations, technical plans and documents) remain its exclusive intellectual property. The plans and technical files required for load-in and operation are provided to the Client before the work; they are strictly intended for the booked service only. Any additional or different use — other date, other venue, other production, reproduction, distribution or reuse — is subject to prior negotiation and a separate written agreement. The Client further authorises Beat Per Light to mention its name, the show title and photographs or video extracts of the service as a reference on its professional communication media, revocable on reasoned written request.
Throughout the collaboration and for a period of twenty-four (24) months following the last service, the Client shall refrain from soliciting, hiring or contracting directly, without Beat Per Light's prior written consent, with any subcontractor, operator, technician, collaborator or company introduced or made available by it within an assignment. In case of breach, the Client shall owe a fixed indemnity of eight thousand euros (8,000 €) per person or company concerned, without prejudice to any further damages.
Each party undertakes to keep confidential the technical, artistic and commercial information disclosed by the other within the service (show configurations, patches, tour data, production elements). Beat Per Light undertakes to use the Client's data only for the proper conduct of the contract, any commercial use being prohibited.
Personal data collected is processed in accordance with the GDPR and applicable regulations. Details are set out in the website's privacy policy.
These General Terms are governed by French law. Any dispute regarding their interpretation or performance falls, failing amicable settlement, within the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent Commercial Court of Beat Per Light's registered office, including in case of multiple defendants or warranty claims. For professional clients established outside France, French law remains applicable and the parties shall seek to settle any dispute amicably before any action.