last updated February 2007
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Legal notice

This page describes the legal instructions which apply to every Internet-user visiting the site. In consulting this site you undertake to respect these instructions without reservation. We advise you to consult these instructions regularly, as they may be modified from time-to-time without notice.

Intellectual property

This site is owned and operated by the sanofi-aventis Group. All intellectual property rights in the web site located at www.arrive-online.org and its contents (hereinafter the "Site"), including trade marks, logos and domain names, are owned by or licensed to sanofi-aventis and/or its affiliates.

Except as permitted by law, no material from the Site may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, uploaded, distorted, transmitted or distributed in any way, in whole or in part, without the express prior written consent of sanofi-aventis.

All authorised use of visuals, whether constituting the site or included within it, must not be distorted, modified or altered in any way whatsoever.

Sanofi-aventis or its subsidiaries may take legal action in the event of breach of the above policy or infringement of any intellectual property rights in the Site.

Nature of information

From time to time, expert opinions concerning a particular area of the Site may be posted on the Site, or extracts from press articles. Such information represents only the opinions of the respective experts or of the newspaper, which opinions are not necessarily those of sanofi-aventis Group. Such experts are not employees of sanofi-aventis Group and do not receive any compensation from sanofi-aventis for the use of their opinion. Sanofi-aventis is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any information or opinions set forth in such materials. Expert advice reflects only the personal view of that expert, and in no case shall it be regarded as the opinion or responsibility of sanofi-aventis.

Moreover, the Site contains information relating to medicines, health, fitness, the medical domain and various kinds of medical treatment reserved exclusively for use by humans.

This is for information purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by your own physician or any other medical or health professional. You should not use the information contained herein for diagnosing any illness or physical problem or in order to prescribe or use any medication presented on the Site. You should always consult your own physician and any competent professional health advisors.

Information on products

The information contained and broadcast on the Site may contain direct or indirect references to sanofi-aventis Group products, programmes and services which are not proposed or available in certain countries or regions, or which may be offered under a different trademark, and which may be subject to different regulations and conditions of use according to the country. Such references do not imply any intention on the part of sanofi-aventis Group to sell these products, programmes or services in your country. Please consult the local sanofi-aventis Group subsidiary or your sanofi-aventis Group commercial partner for any information concerning the products, programmes and services which are available in your region / country.

Privacy policy

Sanofi-aventis will not divulge to any third party personal information concerning you which you may communicate via the site. This information will be used solely for reporting back to you.

In accordance with the French law "Loi n°2004-801 du 6 août 2004, Loi relative à la protection des personnes physiques à l'égard des traitements de données personnelles et modifiant la loi n°78-17 du 06 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés", you have a right to access, to modify, to rectify and to suppress any personal data concerning you, simply by requesting it:

www.arrive-online.org or www.sanofi-aventis.com

OR by email at:

webmaster@sanofi-aventis.com

OR by post at:

Sanofi-aventis, 174 avenue de France, 75635 Paris Cedex 13, France

Tracking traffic movement: this Site may use information to track the total number of visitors to the Site, the number of visitors to each page of the Site, the movement of visitors through the Site and the domain names of visitor Internet service providers. Sanofi-aventis may use this information, which remains in aggregate form, to understand how visitors use the Site so that they may improve it. No personally identifiable information is available in this process.

In addition, we may store some information on your computer to improve the quality of your visit to our site. In some cases, this information will help us to tailor the content to your interests, or help us to avoid asking for the same information on repeat visits to the site. With most Internet browsers, you can erase the information, referred to as "cookies" from your computer's hard drive, block all cookies or even receive a warning before a cookie is placed on your system. Refer to your browser instructions or help button to learn more about cookies.

Furthermore, information that you provide to the Site may be sent electronically to servers outside the country where you originally entered the information. However, data transmission via the Worldwide Web cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Because of this, sanofi-aventis cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to the Site and you do so at your own risk.

Limitation of liability

Sanofi-aventis makes every effort to ensure to the best of its abilities the accuracy and updating of the information broadcast on the Site, whose content the company reserves the right to change at any time and without prior notice. Nonetheless, sanofi-aventis cannot fully guarantee the accuracy, precision, updating or exhaustiveness of the information made available on the Site. As a result, and with the exception of direct damage or for personal injury or death resulting from wilful misconduct or gross negligence by sanofi-aventis, the latter cannot be held liable for:

any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission relative to the information provided on the Site;
any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party leading to the modification of the information or materials provided on the Site;
in a more general way, any damage, direct or indirect, regardless of its cause, origin, nature or consequences, even whilst sanofi-aventis has been aware of the foreseeability of such damage, whether it be the result of:

(i) access or inability to access the Site,
(ii) the use of the Site, including any damage or virus which may infect your computer system or any other product, and/or
(iii) credit given to any information provided directly or indirectly by the Site.
The materials in the Site and all other sites are provided "as is", without any kind of warranty, whether express or implied. sanofi-aventis does not offer any express or implied warranty relative without limitation to their merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Site availability

You acknowledge that (i) it is technically impossible that the Site will be provided free of defaults and that sanofi-aventis cannot take any responsibility for this, (ii) that defaults may lead to the temporary unavailability of the Site, and that (iii) the operation of the Site may be adversely affected by conditions and performances outside sanofi-aventis 's control, such as, for example, transmission and telecommunication links between sanofi-aventis and you and between sanofi-aventis and other systems and networks. Sanofi-aventis and/or its suppliers may, at any time, temporarily or permanently modify or interrupt, all or part of the Site in order to perform maintenance work and/or make improvements and/or changes to the Site. Sanofi-aventis is not liable for any modification to or suspension or interruption of the Site.

Furthermore, it is your responsibility to take the necessary precautions to prevent this Site being contaminated by one or more or any virus.

Links to other sites

Links from www.arrive-online.org Site to external sites:
The responsibility of sanofi-aventis will not be called into account with regard to any third-party site to which you may have gained access via this site. We have no way of controlling the content of these third-party sites which remain totally independent of sanofi-aventis. What is more, the existence of a link between the Site and any third party site in no way implies that sanofi-aventis in any way approves the content of those sites, or, moreover, any use to which such content may be put. A warning message will appear to inform you when you leave the Site via a link to an external Site. These links may change and become incorrect.

Links from external sites to the Site:
External sites may contain hyperlinks leading to this Site. Any such hyperlink shall not be installed without sanofi-aventis 's prior express consent. In any case, sanofi-aventis is in no way responsible for the unavailability of such external sites and sanofi-aventis does not review, control, approve, nor is it responsible for any content, advertising, products or other materials available on or accessible via those sites. These links may change and become incorrect.

Jurisdiction

The Site and its content are governed by UK law. Any possible litigation referring to the Site and its content will come under the competence of the UK courts.

Site editor

Sanofi-aventis Groupe, 174 avenue de France, 75635 PARIS Cedex 13, France

Publishing director

Radu Vadanici

Site hosting

ScopeMedical Ltd, Tubs Hill House, London Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1BL, UK: attn: Arrive team, arrive@scopemedical.com

Last updated

January 2007