LEGAL NOTICE AND GENERAL CONDITIONS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE
Accessing or using the website accessible at the URL address www.institut-paul-ricard.org (hereinafter ‘Website’) implies acceptance without reservation of the present General Conditions of Use (hereinafter ‘GCU’). If you do not accept the present GCU, we request that you immediately disconnect from the Website.
We reserve the right to alter the present GCU at any time without prior notice. The alterations will take effect as soon as they are published online. Users are therefore invited to regularly consult these GCU in order to be aware of any alterations that have been made.
- 1. LEGAL NOTICE
- 1.1 Editor
Institut Océanographique Paul Ricard (hereinafter referred to as ‘IOPR’)
A not-for-profit organisation under French legislation (Loi 1901) Address: Île des Embiez, 83140 Six-Fours-les-Plages, France Email : embiez@institut-paul-ricard.org
Editor-in-Chief: Patricia RICARD.
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- 1.2 Hosting organisation
Pantheon Systems, Inc., 717 California Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108.
- 2. ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE
The Website may be accessed free of charge by any user with an Internet access.
Access to the Website and the use of it are strictly reserved for private and personal purposes. You undertake not to use this Website and the information or data available on it for commercial, political or advertising purposes or for any kind of marketing solicitation notably by sending unsolicited electronic mail.
- 3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Website, the Website domain name, the logos and all the content and other elements of which it consists (such as: architecture, arborescence, logos, visuals, texts, commentaries, illustrations, animated and still images, files, video clips, sound clips, etc.) reproduced on the Website are protected by the French legislation in force relative to intellectual property and/or databases. They are fully and entirely the property of IOPR or its partners.
All reproduction, representation, adaptation or translation, in whatever form, of all or part of the Website without the prior written permission of IOPR is strictly prohibited and the author will be held responsible. No use for commercial purposes, even partial, of the data displayed on the Website may be undertaken without the prior written permission of IOPR.
- LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The Website may provide links to other websites: this is a service made available to the user. But since such websites are not under the control of IOPR, IOPR declines any responsibility relative to the content, information and data that may be featured there.
The setting of any hypertext links by a third party towards all or part of the Website is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from IOPR. In whatever circumstances, such a link must be withdrawn if so requested by IOPR.
- 5. RESPONSIBILITIES
For the proper management of the site, IOPR reserves the right at any time to suspend, interrupt or limit without prior notice access to all or part of the Website, to erase any information that might interfere with the functioning of the platform or contravene French law, or to suspend the Website in order to implement updates.
IOPR may not be held responsible for any inconvenience or damage related to the use of the network, notably in the event of defects, breakdowns, difficulties or interruption of functioning, preventing access to the Website or one of its functions.
Users of the Website acknowledge that the equipment used to connect to the Website is under the user’s entire responsibility and that appropriate measures should be taken to protect their personal data notably against virus attacks via Internet.
Users are furthermore solely responsible for the websites and data that they consult.
IOPR may not be held responsible in the event of legal proceedings against the user resulting from the use of the Website or of any service accessible via Internet.
Finally, users of the Website acknowledge that they remain responsible for any harm caused to themselves, to third parties and/or to their equipment as a result of connecting to or using the Website.
- 6. PRIVACY POLICY
Any personal information concerning you that you have communicated to us during your use of the Website, including nominative personal information which may have been collected during any process of registration or ordering, is subject to the Privacy Policy of the Website and the Cookie Policy, which are an integral part of the present General Conditions of Use and which may be accessed via a link provided at the bottom of each page of the Website.
We invite you to regularly consult the Policies, in order to be aware of any alterations that may have been made to them.
- 7. GOVERNING LAW AND COMPETENT JURISDICTION
The present General Conditions of Use are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, which cannot be settled out of court, only the French courts are competent.