Legal Notice

The present website is owned by Silliker Group Corporation France SAS, a company of the Mérieux NutriSciences group (hereafter “Mérieux NutriSciences”).

General Conditions of Use

The access and use of the present website and of all of its subdomains are subject to the following conditions (hereafter “General Conditions of Use”) and all applicable laws and regulations. By accessing and browsing the present website or any its subdomains, the User accepts, without limitation or qualification, the General Conditions of Use. Mérieux NutriSciences is entitled, at any time, to change or to modify the present General Conditions of Use. Therefore, the User has to regularly visit this section to review the then General Conditions of Use to which he is bound.

1. Definitions

Site: means the website corpo.merieuxnutrisciences.com/corporate and all of its subdomains, which are owned by Silliker Group Corporation France SAS.

User: means any person using the Site, under its sole responsibility and who has already accepted the present General Conditions of Use.

Mérieux NutriSciences: means Mérieux NutriSciences group with all its affiliated companies, including Silliker Group Corporation France SAS.

General Conditions of Use: means all the present dispositions to which the User already accepted prior any use of the Site.

Content: means all information and data contained in the Site, including without limitation, design, article, diagram, chart, methodology, know-how, photo, image, video or sound element, and/or any other element contained in the Site.

2. Purpose of the General Conditions of Use and the Site

Mérieux NutriSciences maintains this Site for the User personal information and communication. Therefore, the User acknowledges to be fully informed that this Site is not intended to supply, in any possible way, whatsoever, advice or recommendation. The User must not use any Content of the Site to analyze or to study any category of product.

3. Use of the Site

The User is permitted to freely navigate the Site. However, access to the full content of the Site is restricted and requires a subscription. The standard subscription fee for full access is €689 per year, per user, excluding VAT. This rate should be regarded as a nominal indication only and does not constitute an offer or a binding commitment. Content displayed on the Site may be downloaded by the User solely for personal and non-commercial use, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices are maintained. Without a subscription, the User will have access only to partial content. The User shall not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, or repost any Content from the Site for public or commercial purposes without prior written consent from Mérieux NutriSciences.

It is strictly prohibited for the User to post or to transmit any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, slanderous, pornographic or any Content, that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law.

4. Content – Update

Mérieux NutriSciences uses reasonable efforts to present accurate and up-to-date information on the Site; however Mérieux NutriSciences makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Mérieux NutriSciences assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the Content of the Site. In this respect, all the Content of this Site, in particular the information relating to Mérieux NutriSciences’ services, are non contractual. Mérieux NutriSciences reserves the right to modify and to update at any time, the Site and its Content, including the present General Conditions of Use.

This Site may from time to time contain information relating to scientific, technical or public health matters. This is for informational purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by a health care professional or any legal advisor.

5. No Guarantee or Warranty

The use of the Site is at the User own risk. Neither Mérieux NutriSciences nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site is liable for any direct or indirect damage, of any sort, arising out of the User access to, or use of, the Site or its Content. Without prejudice to the preceding, everything on the Site and its Content is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, regarding the accuracy or completeness of the Content or that the Content does not infringe the right of third parties.

Although Mérieux NutriSciences may, from time to time, control or verify the discussions, the transmissions, the advertising displays or any other Content on the Site, Mérieux NutriSciences assumes no obligation to do so, or no responsibility for such information, or their incorrect, defamatory, obscene, slanderous, incomplete, plagiarist, pornographic, or dangerous nature. Mérieux NutriSciences makes no warranties that the Site is free from errors, virus or other harmful materials, nor that it will run without disruption.

Mérieux NutriSciences also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for any damages to the User’s computer equipment or other property on account of the User access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or the User downloading of any Content, such as materials, data, text, photo, image, video or audio from the Site.

6. Intellectual Property

6.1 Copyright

The Site and its Content are subject to the protection of the copyright unless otherwise stated, and shall not be used, except as provided in these General Conditions of Use or in the text on the Site, without the prior written consent of Mérieux NutriSciences. Mérieux NutriSciences neither warrants nor represents that the use of the Content will not infringe rights of third parties.

Unless for personal data which are subject to the Protection of personal data section, any information or communication the User transmit to the Site in any way whatsoever as electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, question, comment, suggestion, idea, concept, know-how, technique or other information is treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary, except if the User mentions it, and may be freely used, reproduced, disclosed, published, broadcasted, and otherwise disposed of, by Mérieux NutriSciences for any purposes whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing services using such information.    

6.2 Materials on the Site

The Site and its Content (hereafter the “Materials”) are protected by the copyright, neighboring rights and/or other property rights according to French and international laws and treaties on intellectual property and privacy protection. Such Materials are either the property of Mérieux NutriSciences or of third parties having granted to Mérieux NutriSciences the rights and licenses to use them in the Site. The reproduction and use of any Material is hereby authorized, only provided that the User retains the specific mention of copyright and/or other proprietary notices if any, for the personal and private information of the User, and the User’s knowledge of Mérieux NutriSciences, its services, to the exclusion of any commercial purpose whatsoever. Any reproduction or use of the Materials and any part thereof other than for personal and private use is strictly prohibited without Mérieux NutriSciences’ prior written consent. Distribution, reproduction, representation, adaptation, modification, publication, transmission, translation, sale, or any disposition of all or part of the Materials as well as of the presentation, the structure and the organization of the Site, in any form and by any mean whatsoever, is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of Mérieux NutriSciences.

6.3 Software

Software from this Site may be further subject to French and United States of America laws, rules and regulations, as amended from time to time. The User may also check his local laws and regulations accordingly before downloading or exporting any software from this Site.

6.4 Trademarks

The trademarks, names, logos and service marks (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Site, are registered and/or common law Trademarks belongings to Mérieux NutriSciences, or to another person or company. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. Any use of the Trademarks, or of a sign similar to the Trademarks, displayed on the Site, or any other Content on the Site, except as provided in these General Conditions of Use, is strictly prohibited. The User is also advised that Mérieux NutriSciences will enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including all legal means at its disposal and legal proceedings.

6.5. Hypertext links

The Site may provide links to other websites; it is only as a convenient resource for the User. Mérieux NutriSciences, however, has no control and makes no verification over the websites linked to the Site and maintained by third parties. Mérieux NutriSciences cannot guarantee, and makes no representation as to, the accuracy of any website to which it provides a link or reference. Mérieux NutriSciences is not responsible for the content of any other websites linked to the Site. The User linking to any other off-Site pages or other websites is at the User own risk.

7. Applicable law

The present General Conditions of Use are subject to French law.

Any disputes relatives to the interpretation or performance of the present General Conditions of Use shall fall within the jurisdiction of the Lyon Commercial Court.

8. Miscellaneous

8.1 Force majeure

Mérieux NutriSciences shall not be held responsible for any damage that may occur from the use of the Site and/or its Content, such as the loss of data, the damage caused in the computer hardware, the intrusion of third party into the information system and/or the damage caused by a case of force majeure as defined by the French civil Code.

8.2 Escape clause

If one or more provisions of this General Conditions of Use be or become invalid for any reason whatsoever, the validity of the remaining provisions would not be affected by this fact.

Copyright Silliker Group Corporation France SAS. All Rights Reserved. Copying, displaying, downloading, distributing, modifying or reproducing information contained in this Site or any portion thereof in any form, including electronic medium or in hard copy, or creating any derivative work based on such documents, is prohibited without the prior written consent of Silliker Group Corporation France SAS.

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