Definitions
Client: any professional or natural person with legal capacity within the meaning of articles 1123 and following of the French Civil Code, or any legal entity, who visits the Site covered by these conditions.
Content: all the elements that make up the information on the Site, in particular texts, images and videos.
Client information: hereafter “Information”, the personal data that may be held by Michigan Scientific Europe for the management of the customer relationship and for analysis and statistics.
User: any person connecting to and using the Site.
Personal information: “information which allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies” (article 4 of French law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).
The terms “personal data”, “data subject”, “processor” and “sensitive data” have the meaning defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: no. 2016-679).
1. Presentation of the website
Under article 6 of French law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the website https://www.michsci-europe.com are informed of the identity of the parties involved in its creation and follow-up.
- Owner: SAS PM Instrumentation, share capital €64,000, VAT number FR51334204492, 47 avenue de l’Europe, 92400 Courbevoie, France. Michigan Scientific Europe is the European office of Michigan Scientific Corporation, operated by PM Instrumentation.
- Publication manager: Stéphane SADAI.
- Webmaster: Stéphane SADAI.
- Host: Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
- Data protection officer: Stéphane SADAI.
2. General conditions of use of the site and of the services offered
The Site is a work protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code and by the applicable international regulations. The Client may not in any way reuse, transfer or exploit for their own account all or part of the elements or works of the Site.
Use of the Site implies full acceptance of the general conditions of use described here. These conditions may be modified or supplemented at any time; users of the Site are therefore invited to consult them regularly.
The Site is normally accessible to users at any time. An interruption for technical maintenance may however be decided by Michigan Scientific Europe, which will then endeavour to inform users beforehand of the dates and times of the intervention. The Site is updated regularly. In the same way, the legal notice may be modified at any time: it nevertheless applies to the user, who is invited to refer to it as often as possible.
3. Description of the services provided
The purpose of the Site is to provide information about all the activities of the company. Michigan Scientific Europe endeavours to provide information on the Site that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies and shortcomings in the update, whether they are its own doing or that of the third-party partners who provide this information.
All the information given on the Site is given for information only and is subject to change. Moreover, the information on the Site is not exhaustive. It is given subject to modifications made since it was put online.
4. Contractual limitations on technical data
The Site uses JavaScript technology. The Site cannot be held responsible for material damage linked to the use of the Site. In addition, the user of the Site undertakes to access the Site using recent equipment, free of viruses, and with an up-to-date latest-generation browser.
The objective is to provide a service that ensures the best rate of accessibility. The host ensures the continuity of its service 24 hours a day, every day of the year. It nevertheless reserves the possibility of interrupting the hosting service for the shortest possible periods, in particular for maintenance, improvement of its infrastructure, failure of its infrastructure, or if the services generate traffic deemed abnormal.
Michigan Scientific Europe and the host cannot be held responsible in the event of a malfunction of the Internet network, telephone lines or computer and telephony equipment, linked in particular to network congestion preventing access to the server.
5. Intellectual property and counterfeiting
Michigan Scientific Europe owns the intellectual property rights and holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the Site, in particular texts, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons and sounds. Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication or adaptation of all or part of the elements of the Site, whatever the means or process used, is prohibited without prior written authorization from Michigan Scientific Europe.
The names and logos of customers shown on the Site are trademarks of their respective owners. They are shown as customer references only.
Any unauthorized use of the Site or of any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 and following of the French Intellectual Property Code.
6. Limitations of liability
Michigan Scientific Europe acts as the publisher of the Site and is responsible for the quality and accuracy of the Content it publishes.
Michigan Scientific Europe cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the Site, 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.
Michigan Scientific Europe also cannot be held responsible for indirect damage (such as a loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the Site. Interactive spaces (the possibility of asking questions through the contact forms) are available to users. Michigan Scientific Europe reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content submitted in these spaces that would contravene the legislation applicable in France, in particular the provisions relating to data protection. Where applicable, Michigan Scientific Europe also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, in particular in the event of a message of a racist, abusive, defamatory or pornographic nature, whatever the medium used (text, photograph, etc.).
7. Applicable law and jurisdiction
Any dispute in connection with the use of the Site is subject to French law. Except in cases where the law does not allow it, exclusive jurisdiction is given to the competent courts of Nanterre, France.
Credits
Pictures, illustrations and videos: Michigan Scientific Corporation, internal sources, iStockphoto.
Fonts: IBM Plex, SIL Open Font License. 3D viewer: model-viewer, Google LLC, BSD-3-Clause license.