LEGAL NOTICE

Introduction

The following general conditions apply to all users or visitors of the website www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com. Your access to or visit of the site indicates acceptance on your part of the general conditions, which you confirm you have read. If any of these conditions is unacceptable to you, please leave the site at this time.

The present general conditions apply beginning on February 12, 2009.

Access to the website www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com is free and open to anyone. It provides Internet users with information on the general topic of art.

Copyright

All data, texts, information, images, photographs as well as any other content distributed on the site is protected under the law on intellectual property.
Any reproduction, representation, use, or adaptation, in any form, of elements from the website, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, constitute counterfeiting and are punished under the Code of Intellectual Property.

All brand names (trademarks and logos) as well as any other distinctive sign appearing on our website are the property of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard. Accordingly, any reproduction and/or representation, and any use of these distinctive signs are prohibited without prior written permission of their owner.

As a consequence, you acknowledge that all the elements featured on this website are legally protected. You agree to abide by the said clauses and confirm that you will not extract, reuse, store, reproduce or keep on any media, by any means and in any form whatsoever, in whole or in part, pages from the site, computer codes, database content or any other element from the site.

The owner of a personal website may not provide a direct link from such website to the homepage of the website of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard for personal use without the prior authorization of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard.
In all cases, any link, even implicitly authorized, will be removed upon a simple request from the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard.

Note on the protection of personal data

In accordance with the Act of 6 January 1978 on data processing, data files and individual liberties, and the Act of 6 August 2004 modifying it, we inform you that any individual on whom personal data have been collected may exercise his/her right of access, modification, and suppression regarding these data through a request in writing addressed to :
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
Service Internet
12, rue Boissy d'Anglas
75008 Paris
France
or through an e-mail to : info@fondation-entreprise-ricard.com.

Any individual may also, for legitimate reasons, oppose the processing of data concerning him/her by sending a written request to the contacts mentioned above.
We collect information in order to meet your requests as well as possible. Such information is to be used exclusively by the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard. If mandatory fields are not filled out, your request will not be taken into consideration.

Cookies

The web server of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard automatically collects standard information such as the user's IP address, type of web browser used, operating system, access times, etc. The site of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard does not use cookies to personalize the content of the webpage. Cookies are small electronic files that a website can transfer onto a hard drive to identify users and personalize their use of the website. All information collected indirectly will be used by the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard solely to monitor the volume, type and configuration of the traffic to the site; to develop the conception and organization of the website; and to other administrative and planning ends.

Responsibility

To access the site www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com, web users should have the skills, equipment, and software required to use the Internet. They acknowledge that, given the characteristics and constraints of the Internet, the security, availability, and integrity of data transmission over the Internet cannot be fully guaranteed.

The Fondation d'entreprise Ricard cannot guarantee the availability of the services of its website if the service delivered by the Internet access provider proves defective. The Fondation d'entreprise Ricard may not be held accountable for any malfunction of the site, impossibility to access the site, or poor conditions in the use of the website caused by unsuitable equipment, internal dysfunction with the user's IP, congestion of the Internet, as well as by any other reason external to the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard.

The responsibility of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard may not be invoked for any inconvenience or damage inherent to the use of the Internet, notably in the case of a disruption in the service, external intrusion, downloaded viruses or damage caused to the equipment or the software resulting from a visit to the website www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com.

The only obligation of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard has to do with means, relative to the information it makes available to the public accessing its website. While all steps are taken to ensure the reliability of the information posted on this website, the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard may not be held responsible for any errors, omissions, or search results that may be found through the use of the said information.

The Fondation d'entreprise Ricard may provide hypertext links to other websites than www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com or to other web sources over which the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard has no control. The Fondation d'entreprise Ricard may not be held responsible for making these external sites and sources available and will not be held responsible as to their content, advertising, products, services, or any other element available on or from these external sites or sources. Any difficulty experienced in relation to a link should be reported to the administrator or webmaster of the site in question. Also, the consultation and/or use of these external sites and sources is subject to their own general conditions for use.

Access to the site www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com may be temporarily interrupted for maintenance, updates, technical upgrades, or to alter the content and/or its presentation. Whenever possible, the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard will inform Internet users prior to these maintenance or updating operations.

The present general conditions may be updated at any time. Accordingly, we urge Internet users to check them every time they visit the website.

Applicable law-litigation

The present General Conditions are subject to French law.
In the event of litigation, French courts alone have the jurisdiction to act.

Identification of the site's publisher

You currently are on the official website of the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard.

Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
12, rue Boissy d'Anglas
75008 Paris
France
Tel : (33) (0)1.53.30.88.00
info@fondation-entreprise-ricard.com

Managing editor: M. Savinel

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