Legal notice

Legal information

1. Presentation.

In accordance with article 6 of the law n° 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 for confidence in the digital economy, the identity of the various parties involved in its realization and follow-up is specified to the users of the site www.apomixis.eu :
Owner: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement – Public scientific and technological establishment N° SIRET 180 006 025 00159 – IRD – Le Sextant – 44 boulevard de Dunkerque – CS 90009 -13572 Marseille Cedex 02 – France
Creator: Damien Guignabaudet
Responsible for publication: Olivier Leblanc – olivier.leblanc@ird.fr – The person responsible for publication is an individual or a legal entity.
Webmaster : Maïa Lejbowicz – maia.lejbowicz@ird.fr
Host: OVH – 2 rue Kellermann – 59100 Roubaix – France
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2. General conditions of use of the site and the proposed services.

The use of the site www.apomixis.eu implies full acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use are likely to be modified or completed at any time, the users of the site www.apomixis.eu are thus invited to consult them regularly. This site is normally accessible to users at all times. An interruption for technical maintenance may however be decided by the IRD, which will endeavour to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention. The website www.apomixis.eu is regularly updated by Olivier Leblanc. In the same way, the legal mentions can be modified at any time: they are nevertheless imposed to the user who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to take note of them.

3. Description of the services provided.

The site www.apomixis.eu aims to provide information on all the activities of the company. The IRD endeavors to provide on the site www.apomixis.eu information as precise as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies and shortcomings in the updating, whether they are of its own making or of the making of third-party partners who provide this information. All the information indicated on the site www.apomixis.eu is given as an indication, and is likely to evolve. In addition, the information on the site www.apomixis.eu is not exhaustive. It is given subject to modifications having been made since it was put on line.

4. Contractual limitations on technical data.

The site uses JavaScript technology. The website cannot be held responsible for any material damage related to the use of the site. Moreover, the user of the site undertakes to access the site using recent equipment, free of viruses and with a last generation browser updated.

5. Intellectual property and counterfeiting.

IRD is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logo, icons, sounds, software. Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, whatever the means or the process used, is prohibited, except prior written authorization of IRD. Any unauthorized exploitation of the site or of any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitations of responsibility.

IRD cannot be held responsible for direct and indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the site www.apomixis.eu, and resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the appearance of a bug or an incompatibility. The IRD cannot be held responsible for indirect damages (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the site www.apomixis.eu. Interactive spaces (possibility of asking questions in the contact space) are at the disposal of the users. IRD reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this area that would contravene the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. If need be, IRD also reserves the possibility of calling into question the civil and/or penal responsibility of the user, in particular in the event of message with racist, injurious, defamatory, or pornographic character, whatever the support used (text, photograph…).

7. Management of personal data.

In France, personal data are notably protected by the law n° 78-87 of January 6, 1978, the law n° 2004-801 of August 6, 2004, the article L. 226-13 of the Penal Code and the European Directive of October 24, 1995. At the time of the use of the site www.apomixis.eu, can be collected: the URL of the links by the intermediary of which the user reached the site www.apomixis.eu, the supplier of access of the user, the address of Internet protocol (IP) of the user. In any case, the IRD collects personal information about the user only for the need of some services offered by the site www.apomixis.eu. The user provides this information with full knowledge of the facts, in particular when he/she proceeds by himself/herself to their input. It is then specified to the user of the site www.apomixis.eu the obligation or not to provide this information. In accordance with the provisions of articles 38 and following of the law 78-17 of January 6, 1978 relating to data processing, the files and freedoms, any user has a right of access, of correction and opposition to the personal data relating to it, by carrying out its written and signed request, accompanied by a copy of the title of identity with signature of the holder of the document, while specifying the address to which the answer must be sent. No personal information of the user of the site www.apomixis.eu is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold on any medium to third parties. Only the hypothesis of the repurchase of the IRD and its rights would allow the transmission of the aforementioned information to the possible purchaser who would be in its turn held of the same obligation of conservation and modification of the data with respect to the user of the www.apomixis.eu. The databases are protected by the provisions of the law of July 1, 1998 transposing the directive 96/9 of March 11, 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

8. Hypertext links and cookies.

The site www.apomixis.eu contains a certain number of hypertext links to other sites, set up with the authorization of the IRD. However, the IRD does not have the possibility of checking the contents of the sites thus visited, and consequently will not assume any responsibility of this fact. Browsing the www.apomixis.eu website may result in the installation of cookie(s) on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file, which does not allow the identification of the user, but which records information relating to the navigation of a computer on a site. The data thus obtained is intended to facilitate subsequent navigation on the site, and is also intended to allow various measures of frequentation. Refusing to install a cookie may make it impossible to access certain services. However, the user can configure his or her computer as follows to refuse the installation of cookies: In Internet Explorer: Tools tab (pictogram in the form of a cog at the top right) / Internet options. Click on Privacy and choose Block all cookies. Validate on Ok. Under Firefox: at the top of the browser window, click on the Firefox button, then go to the Options tab. Click on the Privacy tab. Set the Retention Rules to: use custom settings for history. Finally uncheck it to disable cookies. In Safari: Click on the menu icon (symbolized by a cog) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on Content Settings. In the “Cookies” section, you can block cookies. In Chrome: Click on the menu icon (symbolized by three horizontal lines) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on preferences. In the “Privacy” tab, you can block cookies.

9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction.

Any dispute in connection with the use of the site www.apomixis.eu is subject to French law. The competent courts of Paris have exclusive jurisdiction.

10. The main laws concerned.

Law no. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended by Law no. 2004-801 of August 6, 2004 on information technology, files and freedoms. Law n° 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 for confidence in the digital economy.

11. Lexicon.

User: Internet user connecting, using the above-mentioned site. Personal information: “information that allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or not, the identification of individuals to whom they apply” (Article 4 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).