You must agree to the following terms and conditions of use before you access or otherwise use or participate in the Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community. Your use of this Web site constitutes your agreement with Sanofi Aventis Groupe to be bound by, and to act in accordance with, these Terms and Conditions.
The role of C Space
The community is conducted by C Space (http://www.cspace.com), pursuant to a contractual agreement with Sanofi Aventis Groupe. C Space shall not assign, sell or otherwise share your personal information and shall only use the information you provide in order to assist Sanofi Aventis Groupe in administering and organizing feedback from community members.
You understand that this is not a Sanofi Aventis Groupe customer service channel. If you have any questions or concerns which require the assistance of a Sanofi Aventis Groupe representative, you agree to submit any such requests through your normal customer service channels at Sanofi Aventis Groupe.
Notification of Changes
We may change or revise these Terms and Conditions from time to time by updating this posting. Please visit the Terms and Conditions area each time you visit the Web site to keep up to date with the current terms regarding your use of the Web site. Your use of the Web site reaffirms your continuing agreement to the then-current Terms and Conditions. Any future changes to these terms and conditions will be posted on the community Web site.
Confidentiality
Your invitation to participate in the Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community is personal and non-transferable. You may not disclose to others any of the information that we disclose to you or any ideas or information that are generated in the community. Your community member name and password are for your use only. You may not disclose your password to any other person.
Assignment
You irrevocably assign to Sanofi Aventis Groupe all rights in any ideas or expressions of ideas that you provide to the community. All comments, suggestions, graphics, ideas (including product and advertising ideas), and other information or materials you submit to Sanofi Aventis Groupe through this Web site will become and remain the exclusive property of Sanofi Aventis Groupe, including any future rights associated with such submissions, even if these Terms and Conditions are later modified or terminated. This means that you disclaim any proprietary rights in such submissions, and you acknowledge Sanofi Aventis Groupe unrestricted right to use them (or materials or ideas similar to them) in any medium, now and in the future, without notice, compensation or other obligation to you or any other person. It also means that with the exception of your personal information, Sanofi Aventis Groupe has no obligation to keep your submissions confidential.
You further release and waive all claims against Sanofi Aventis Groupe with respect to any intellectual property or other proprietary rights, rights of privacy and publicity, rights of attribution, or any other liability under the applicable laws. You agree to indemnify and hold Sanofi Aventis Groupe harmless from all claims, actions, damages, costs, judgments, penalties or expenses of any kind whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys' fees except as provided herein), which may be obtained against, suffered by, or imposed upon Sanofi Aventis Groupe and/or its officers, directors, agents or affiliates as a result of any claim for its use of any information you provide through the community that was proprietary, confidential or protected by the laws of any jurisdiction.
Privacy
To the extent that you provide C Space with any of your personally identifiable information, C Space will not share such information with Sanofi Aventis Groupe; information will only be shared with Sanofi Aventis Groupe in aggregate and anonymous form. Sanofi Aventis Groupe will not receive or be responsible for protecting any of your personally identifiable information.
C Space will only use your personal information in accordance with its privacy policy a copy of which is available at https://www.cspace.com/privacy_en-gb/. Please note that by clicking on the "I Accept" button below, any of your personally identifiable information you submit may be directed to a third party site administered and hosted by a third party vendor retained by C Space provided, that in such event, the third party vendor is subject to confidentiality agreements and will have no right to use any such information other than uses necessary to fulfill its services to C Space.
By accepting these Terms & Conditions and by submitting personal information, including sensitive information, you explicitly consent to the processing of such information by C Space consistent with these Terms & Conditions.
When collecting sensitive personal information (e.g. ethnicity, income, education, etc.), C Space is doing so for the purposes of conducting market research and creating a balanced community reflective of Sanofi Aventis Groupe’s consumer population or its segments. Such information is not collected for any discriminatory purposes. You will always retain the right not to answer any question regarding personal information with which you do not feel comfortable.
C Space is a self-certified member organization of the U.S. - EU Safe Harbor Framework, and strictly adheres to U.S. - EU data privacy protection laws. Personal information collected on the site may be stored or processed in your country of residence or any other country in which Sanofi Aventis Groupe or its subcontractors or agents maintain facilities and by using the site, you consent to any transfer of information outside your country of residence.
If you do not want your personally identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like us to remove it from our records, please contact the community facilitator, Kristina Ogneva at kristinao@cspace.com. If you want to correct any personally identifiable information that you already submitted, please contact the community facilitator.
Code of Conduct
You agree not to upload, post or transmit to or distribute or otherwise publish through the Web Site any materials which (i) restrict or inhibit any other user from using the Web Site, or contain a virus or other harmful component, (ii) violate any laws or violate or infringe any rights of third parties (including copyright, trademark, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right), or (iii) are not appropriate or pertinent to the purpose of the Web Site or are libelous, defamatory or offensive. You will agree to abide by the copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property and proprietary rights of Sanofi Aventis Groupe.
You agree to abide by these rules of conduct:
· Only those who are members of the community may access it.
· Your invitation to participate in Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community is personal and non-transferable.
· You may not disclose to others any of the information that we disclose to you or any ideas or information that are generated in the community. Your community member name and password are for your use only. You may not disclose your password to any other person.
· Unless specifically told otherwise, you must keep confidential all information that Sanofi Aventis Groupe, other community members, and you share with the community.
· Sanofi Aventis Groupe has the right to use the ideas and information that you put forth in the community.
· You agree not to use behavior that does not support a safe and comfortable environment for all members, or to engage in any proselytizing or commercial activity. You further agree that you will refrain form making disparaging remarks about Sanofi Aventis Groupe products or the products of its’ competitors.
· You agree not to copy or download any material from the community.
· You agree to receive emails from the Community regarding Community Activities.
· You understand that no personal information that you post on this site will be sold, traded, shared with other organizations, or used for any purpose other than consumer research.
· Sanofi Aventis Groupe does not endorse the information posted in the community.
· You understand that this Community is not a forum for seeking or giving medical advice, and Sanofi Aventis Groupe and C Space cannot guarantee the privacy and/or accuracy of any medical information shared here. This Community is not intended as a substitute for professional medical care. Only your physician can diagnose and appropriately treat your symptoms.
Adverse
Events
THIS SITE IS NOT THE APPROPRIATE FORUM IN WHICH TO REPORT POSSIBLE ADVERSE
EVENTS. If you’d like to report any patient adverse events or injuries, or have
any questions about why a patient may have experienced them and best ways to
help avoid them, or you would like product or service-related help from Sanofi Aventis Groupe, please contact Jean-Marc
Chantelot at jean-marc.chantelot@sanofi.com
or +33 1 55 71 31 23.
You further understand that you should refrain from making any comments or references to “off-label” uses (uses which are not within governing regulatory agencies’ approved indications or labeled conditions of use of Sanofi Aventis Groupe products or those of their competitors).
Topics and activities initiated by Sanofi Aventis Groupe in the Online Community are for research purposes only and should not be construed as an endorsement or promotion of any of the products or services discussed. Sanofi Aventis Groupe cannot prevent or screen content provided by you or other members of the community prior to it being posted for general viewing, and while members are welcome and indeed encouraged to start their own activities on relevant topics of interest, Sanofi Aventis Groupe and C Space DO NOT ENDORSE any member postings, including any postings regarding the off-label use of Sanofi Aventis Groupe products.
Links to Third Party Sites
This Web site may contain links to other Web sites for informational purposes and are not intended to suggest any affiliation with Sanofi Aventis Groupe unless expressly stated. The reliability, availability and performance of these other Web sites are beyond Sanofi Aventis Groupe’s control, and Sanofi Aventis Groupe makes no representations or warranties with respect to such Web sites. Sanofi Aventis Groupe provides these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link to such Web sites does not imply endorsement by Sanofi Aventis Groupe of those Web sites. Sanofi Aventis Groupe reserves the right to terminate any link or linking program at any time. Any trademarks, copyright or other registered material or intellectual property of the Websites remain the property of their respective owners.
No Duty To Monitor
Sanofi Aventis Groupe is not responsible for content provided by others and is under no obligation to pre-screen content posted within a Community. Sanofi Aventis Groupe, however, retains the right to refuse to post, redact or delete any content for any reason whatsoever. Notwithstanding this right, Sanofi Aventis Groupe is not responsible for any failure or delay in removing material.
Compliance with DMCA
C Space and Sanofi Aventis Groupe comply with the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The owner or the person entitled to enforce a copyright may notify Sanofi Aventis Groupe of any violation of copyright in the Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community by sending a notice containing the following information:
Send Notice to:
Kristina O for Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community
C Space Corporation
290 Congress Street, Floor 7
Boston, MA 02210
U.S.A.
kristinao@cspace.com
Fax: 617.316.4200
Please note that this procedure is solely for notifying C Space and Sanofi Aventis Groupe that copyrighted material has been infringed. THIS POLICY IS INTENDED TO COMPLY FULLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LIABILITY LIMITATION ACT.
Membership
Your membership in and access to the Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community is strictly at the discretion of Sanofi Aventis Groupe and may be revoked at any time without cause and without notice. You hereby release Sanofi Aventis Groupe from any and all liability that may arise in connection with your use of the Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community.
Warranty
Sanofi Aventis Groupe does not represent or endorse the correctness, accuracy, reliability or any other aspect of advice, opinion, statement or other information distributed through the Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community, and reserves the right to remove any content from the community Web site that it deems inappropriate.
Sanofi Aventis Groupe and/or its agencies endeavor to maintain this Web site and its operation, but are not, and cannot be, responsible for the results of any defects that may exist in the Web site or its operation. As to the operation of the Web site, Sanofi Aventis Groupe expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, including, but not limited to all implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. Sanofi Aventis Groupe makes no warranty that (i) the operation of the Web site will meet the user's requirements; (ii) access to the Web site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, free of viruses, worms, trojan horses or other harmful components, or free of defects or errors; (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the Web site will be accurate or reliable; or (iv) defects will be corrected. You (and not Sanofi Aventis Groupe) assume the entire cost of all servicing, repair, or correction that may be necessary for your computer equipment and software as a result of any viruses, errors or any other problems whatsoever you may have as a result of visiting this Web site.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall Sanofi Aventis Groupe and/or its agencies be liable for any damages or injury, including any direct, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or other damages, that may result from the use of, or the inability to use, the Web site or any materials in this site, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of the Web site or information available in the Web site. Sanofi Aventis Groupe shall not be liable even if Sanofi Aventis Groupe or a Sanofi Aventis Groupe authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. These include but are not limited to damages or injury caused by error, omission, interruption, defect, failure of performance, delay in operation or transmission, line failure or computer virus, worm, trojan horse or other harmful component.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Sanofi Aventis Groupe and/or its agencies harmless from any claim or demand made by any third party against Sanofi Aventis Groupe due or arising out of your participation in the Sanofi Aventis Groupe Online Community and/or any breach by you of the provisions of this agreement.
Jurisdiction
The Site and its content are governed by the Laws of France. Any possible litigation referring to the Site and its content will come under the competence of French Courts.