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Legal Notice

This Internet site (hereinafter the “Site”) is the exclusive property of bioMérieux SA (hereinafter “bioMérieux”).

bioMérieux maintains this Internet site for your personal information, education and better knowledge of bioMérieux’ group activities only. Please feel free to browse the Site.

You may download material displayed on the Site for non-commercial, personal use only, provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio and video, without bioMérieux’s written permission.

Your access to and use of the Site is also subject to the following conditions (“General Conditions”) and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept the General Conditions without limitation or qualification.

General Conditions

bioMérieux uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in the Site. However, bioMérieux makes no warranties as to its accuracy and assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.

The use of the Site is at the User’s risk. Neither bioMérieux nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of the access to, or use of the Site and/or any content thereof. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you “as is,” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. bioMérieux makes no warranties that the Site is free from errors, viruses or other harmful materials, nor that it will run without disruption; bioMérieux assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for any damages to your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site, or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video or audio from the Site.

Unless for personal data which are subject to our Privacy Policy Statement, any communication or material transmitted to the Site by the User in any way whatsoever as electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, concept, know-how, techniques or other information, is treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary, except if the User expressly mentions it and may be freely used, reproduced, disclosed, published, broadcast and otherwise disposed of, by bioMérieux or its affiliates for any purposes whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.

The Site may contain links to other Internet sites which are provided to you only for convenience purposes. bioMérieux has no control over such sites nor has it reviewed all the sites linked to the Site, and is not responsible for the content of sites linked to the Site. Your linking to or use of such sites and/or their content is under your own responsibility and at your own risk. Although bioMérieux may from time to time monitor or review discussions, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and the like on the Site, bioMérieux is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law.

This Site may contain information relating to various medical and health issues. This is for informational purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by your own doctor or other medical professional. You should not use the information contained herein for diagnosing anybody’s health or fitness problem or disease. You should always consult your own doctor and medical advisors.

Any information contained in the Site that relates to bioMérieux’s products and services shall not be legally binding. bioMérieux reserves the right to update and amend the Site and any information contained herein, including these General Conditions. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current General Conditions to which you are bound.

Privacy Policy Statement

In accordance with laws governing the protection of personal data, Users are hereby informed that while connecting to this Internet site, personal information will be automatically or voluntarily collected, retained and used as follows. If the Users do not wish such personal data be collected, retained and used according to the following conditions, they shall inform the Webmaster accordingly.

Personal data collected through each connection to the Site may, in particular, come from:

• the registration of User’s IP address through each connection;
• the automatic (login) or voluntary registration of User’s basic contact and identification information (such as name, address, telephone, fax, e-mail, company address or any other information the User agrees to submit) through participation in chat rooms, studies, online surveys, the request for further information on bioMérieux including marketing and advertising materials, the subscription to newsletters or to any application form and the like.

Personal data collected will only be used by bioMérieux and its affiliates and, unless otherwise specified at the collection time, will not be disclosed to or shared with any third party for any purposes.

• personal data collected through each connection will be used to track User’s browsing on the Site so as to enable bioMérieux to make connection statistics on the most visited pages and, generally, to monitor and improve the running of the site;
• personal data collected through chat rooms, online surveys, further information application forms, subscription to newsletters and the like shall only be used to meet the purpose for which such information have been submitted and collected. Any subscription to a newsletter may be cancelled, at any time, by sending an e-mail to the Webmaster.

Users may request to access, correct, modify and delete their personal data at any time by sending an e-mail to the Webmaster who shall make its best efforts to deal with the request as soon as practicable.

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