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Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin
Place des Carmes Déchaux
63040 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 9
France
Tel.: (33)4 73 32 20 00
Société en commandite par actions au capital de 304 000 000 €.
855 200 507 R.C.S. Clermont-Ferrand
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Publication director: Géraldine Balaÿ
Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin
Place des Carmes Déchaux
63040 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 9
France
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Please read this legal notice carefully before consulting this Site.
The subsidiaries of Michelin Group have their own legal status and are autonomous. However, in order to simplify the communication of information presented on this Site, the following terms may be used: "Michelin", "Group", "Michelin Group" and "we"; these terms are used to refer to all the subsidiaries of the Group which are all carry on their business independently.
ARTICLE 1: PURPOSE
The purpose of the present legal notice is to define the terms and conditions under which Michelin puts at your disposal this website and under which you may access to and use this website. Any connection to the website is subject to compliance with the present legal notice that Michelin reserves the right to modify or update at any time. The access to and the use of the site involve your acceptance of the present legal notice and your consent to Michelin Policy on confidentiality and protection of personal data.
ARTICLE 2: ACCESS TO THE SITE
Michelin strives to keep the site accessible, without however being subject to any obligation to succeed. It is specified that access to the site may be modulated or interrupted for the purposes of maintenance, update or any other reason, particularly of a technical or legal nature. Under no circumstances shall Michelin be liable for these interruptions and the consequences which could follow for you.
You commit not to access fraudulently to the site.
ARTICLE 3: COPYRIGHT - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The contents (notably, but not in a limited way, the information, texts, graphics, data, visuals, videos, and soundtracks, as well as the form of these elements and of the site itself) are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property rights. The contents are exclusively owned by their respective editors. Any copy, reproduction, representation, utilisation, adaptation, alteration, modification, translation, distribution, as a whole or partially, of the contents, thoughtless they belong to Michelin or any other third party who has granted rights to Michelin, by any mean, is unlawful except for limitative rights that are granted to you as specified in article 4 below and/or for a private copy which is limited to the private use of the copyist. The contents displayed on the site are subject to modification without notice and are presented without any express, tacit, or any other kind of guarantee and may not give any right to any compensation. The contents are protected by copyright © 1997-2009 Michelin or copyright of its partners. Logos are trademarks.
ARTICLE 4: USE OF THE CONTENTS
Any alteration and modification of the contents, or their use with another aim which is not authorized constitute an infringement of Michelin’s or a third party’s intellectual property rights.
Within the limits hereafter, Michelin allows you to download and broadcast the contents (I) when the functionality of downloading exists (II) for non commercial purposes (III) with good faith (iv) by keeping intact the mentions of property and the date of setting on line which are reproduced on the contents, if such information are indicated. This right shall never be interpreted as a licence in particular of mark or of logo.
ARTICLE 5: E- MAILS
In order to correspond with Michelin by e-mail, you must fill in the electronic correspondence form proposed on the site. The answers formulated by Michelin to the e-mails, as well as the access to the site and its contents, cannot be assimilated or cannot constitute a proof of the exercise of an advertising, promotional or commercial activity on the territory of the country where the user is located.
ARTICLE 6: PROTECTION OF PERSONAL CHARACTER DATA
Generally, you can visit our site without having to decline your identity or to provide personal information relating to you. However, Michelin can sometimes require information about you, in order to, for example, answer your request, provide you a service or treat an order.
The collected data via our site are intended for Michelin and for selected partners and/or for the service providers of Michelin.
In order to offer you a better service, Michelin collects anonymous data relating to your navigation on our site (consulted pages, date and consulting hour…). Michelin can use these data in order to analyze tendencies or to draw up statistics and measures of audience of the site. We inform you that you can be opposed to the recording these cookies. However, if you choose to refuse the cookies, you may not be able to access to certain parts of our site.
Concerning the personal data that you would be brought to communicate to us, you have a right to access, correct and delete these data, in accordance with the French law called “Informatique et Libertés” n°78-17 of January 6, 1978, modified by the law n°2004-810 of August 6, 2004.
Without expenses, you can also refuse your data to be collected and processed by Michelin. In addition, you have a right to be opposed to the use of your data for canvassing, in particular commercial, under the terms of the law “Informatique et Libertés”.
To exercice these rights, you may send us a mail at the following address:
Géraldine Balaÿ
Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin
Place des Carmes Déchaux
63040 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 9
France
Our site may contain links towards other sites. We inform you that Michelin does not share your personal data with these sites. We warn you that when you leave our site, you can be subjected to other practises regarding personal data protection, on which Michelin does not have any control and does not engage its liability.
For more information, please refer to Michelin Policy on confidentiality and protection of personal data.
ARTICLE 7: WARRANTY AND LIABILITY
The contents displayed on the site are provided “as you find them” without any express, tacit, or any other kind of guarantee. Michelin reserves the right to modify, correct, stop and/or remove contents or access to the site at any time, without notice. Michelin shall not be liable in case of contamination of your computer equipment resulting from the propagation of a virus or other data-processing infections. You are supposed to take every appropriate precaution in order to protect your computer equipment.
Under no circumstances Michelin, its employees, its suppliers, or any partner mentioned on the site may be held responsible, under an action of contractual liability, of criminal responsibility or any other action, for any direct or indirect damage, incidental or additional, or of some other nature, or any prejudice, in particular of financial or commercial nature, resulting from the use of the site or from any information obtained on the site.
Setting up hypertext links towards illicit content as they are defined in article 8.2 below is strictly forbidden. The site may contain simple or deep links towards partner websites of Michelin or of other third party’s, with an authorization of the latter for deep links. Michelin has no control over these sites and shall not be liable as for their accessibility, relevance, availability, contents, advertisements, products and/or services which would be available on or from these sites. Thus, Michelin shall not be liable in case of direct or indirect damage occurring at the occasion of your access to or use of a partner’s site or in case of non-observance of any regulation on this site.
ARTICLE 8: LEGAL JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
Any disputes relative to the site or to the present legal notice shall be brought before the court of Clermont-Ferrand and shall be governed and analyzed according to French law, independently of the rules concerning conflict of laws. By using the site you expressly agree with the application of the present jurisdiction clause. In the event where one measure of the legal notice would be declared illegal, null or inapplicable for whatever reason, it will be no longer considered as part of this legal notice, and will not affect the validity or application of the other measures.
