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Legal notice
This page describes the legal instructions which apply to every Internet-user visiting this web site (“User”). In consulting this web site all Users undertake to respect these instructions without reservation. We advise Users to consult these instructions regularly, as they may be modified from time to time and without notice.
- Intellectual property
This site is owned and operated by sanofi-aventis South Africa (pty) ltd (“sanofi-aventis”), part of the sanofi-aventis Group. The presentation and each of the materials, including trademarks, logos and domain names, posted on the web site located at www.health-matters.org.za ("Site"), are protected by the applicable laws regarding intellectual property, and are owned by the sanofi-aventis or its subsidiaries, or have been authorized for use by third parties.
Subject only to the specific exclusions set out in this paragraph, no material, including but not limited to text, graphics and photographs, from the Site may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, uploaded, distorted, transmitted or distributed in any way, on any support, in total or in part, by a User without the prior consent in writing by the sanofi-aventis Group. Notwithstanding the aforegoing, the press, acting in good faith, may copy, reproduce, republish or distribute material from the Site provided that all of the sanofi-aventis intellectual property rights and other property rights are respected, and Users may print copies of material from the Site for personal, non-commercial, home use.
The following notice shall appear on all copies of the whole or part of the content of the Site: "COPYRIGHT 2004-2009 SANOFI-AVENTIS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED".
sanofi-aventis and/or its subsidiaries reserve the right to take legal action against any unauthorized use of material from the Site and any other infringement of its intellectual property rights.
- Nature of information
The Site contains information relating to health, fitness, certain specific disease areas and various kinds of medical treatment (“Health Materials”). Please note that the Health Materials are provided for information and education purposes only and is not meant to be, and is not, a substitute for the advice provided by your own doctor or pharmacist. You should not use the Health Materials 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 doctor or pharmacist.
In addition to, or forming part of, the Health Materials, expert opinions or extracts from articles in the press relating to the content of the Site may be posted on the Site. Please note that such information represents the opinions and/or personal views of the expert, the publisher and/or author in question only, and does not necessarily represent or reflect the opinions or views of the sanofi-aventis. sanofi-aventis is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any such information.
- Links to other sites
sanofi-aventis shall not be in any way responsible for any third-party site, including but not limited to the content or accuracy thereof, to which a User may have gained access via the Site. In addition, the existence of a link between the Site and any third party site in no way implies that sanofi-aventis in any way approves of or agrees with the content of such site or of any use to which such content may be put.
- Nominative information and other information
- sanofi-aventis will not divulge to any third party personal information concerning you which you may communicate via electronic mail. This information will be used for the sole purpose of replying to you in the most efficient way possible, subject always to any applicable laws in respect of Users’ health information.
You have the right to access, to modify, to rectify and to suppress any personal data concerning you, simply by requesting sanofi-aventis to do so on line at webmaster@health-matters.org.za
- Save as expressly provides otherwise, the Site is not designed to receive any confidential information which you may submit. As a result, and with the exception of the personal data outlined above, all information, in whatever form, including but not limited to documents, data, graphics, questions, suggestions, concepts and remarks, which you communicate on the Site will in no way be considered as confidential. As result of this, the simple fact of your transmitting this data to us grants us the right to use, reproduce, diffuse or modify this data, or to transmit it for the purposes of processing your request.
- Limitations of liability
sanofi-aventis makes every effort to ensure to the best of its abilities the accuracy and updating of the information on the Site, the content of which sanofi-aventis reserves the right to change at any time and without prior notice. Nonetheless, sanofi-aventis cannot and does not guarantee or warrant the accuracy, precision, updating or exhaustiveness of the information made available on the Site. As a result, and with the exception of direct damage resulting from willful misconduct or gross negligence by sanofi-aventis, including its employees and agents, 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 possibility 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 voetstoots, without any kind of warranty, whether express or implied.
- Availability of the web site
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 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 in 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.
- Information on the products
The information contained on the Site is for Users in the Republic of South Africa (“South Africa”). The Site may contain direct or indirect references to products, programs and services of the sanofi-aventis Group which are not proposed or available outside of South Africa, or which may be offered under a different trademark, and which may be subject to different regulations and conditions of use outside of South Africa. Such references do not imply any intention on the part of sanofi-aventis to promote or sell these products, programs or services in any country outside South Africa. Please contact the local sanofi-aventis subsidiary or affiliate in your country for information concerning the products, programs and services which are available in your country.
- Legal framework
The Site and its content are governed by the Laws of South Africa. Users hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of South African Courts.
- Legal notice
- Site Editor:
sanofi-aventis South Africa (pty) ltd, sanofi-aventis house, 2 bond Street, Grand Central X1, Midrand
- Site Hosting:
ACCESS Health, 680 Joseph Lister Street, Constantia Kloof X31, Roodepoort
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