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1. Website Presentation

In accordance with Article 6 of Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ are hereby informed of the identity of the various parties involved in its creation and maintenance:

Registered Office
Pharmaspecific
Parc Descartes Nobel, 23 rue Nobel
77420 Champs-sur-Marne, France

Legal Representative
Vanessa Montanari

Company Registration
SIREN No.: 752 023 283
APE Code: 7219 Z

Intra-Community VAT Number
VAT Identification Number: FR88752023283

Hosting Provider
OVH
2 rue Kellermann
59100 Roubaix
France

2. General Terms of Use of the Website and Services Provided

The Website constitutes an intellectual creation protected under the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code and applicable international regulations. The Client may not, under any circumstances, reuse, transfer, or exploit for personal purposes any part of the elements or content of the Website.

Use of the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ implies full and complete acceptance of the general terms of use described below. These terms of use may be modified or supplemented at any time, and users of the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This website is normally accessible to users at all times. However, an interruption for technical maintenance may be decided by https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, which will endeavor to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention. The website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ is regularly updated by its administrator. Likewise, the legal notices may be modified at any time; they remain binding on the user, who is invited to refer to them as often as possible to stay informed.

3. Description of Services Provided

The website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ is intended to provide information on all news related to clinical research, as well as updates concerning the company Pharmaspecific. It strives to provide information on the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies, or failures in updating, whether caused by itself or by third-party partners who supply such information.

All information provided on the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ is given for informational purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information appearing on the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ is not exhaustive. It is provided subject to modifications that may have been made since it was published online.

4. Contractual Limitations on Technical Data

The website uses JavaScript technology. The website cannot be held liable for any material damage resulting from its use. In addition, the user of the website agrees to access the site using recent equipment, free of viruses, and with an up-to-date, modern browser. The website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ is hosted by a service provider located within the territory of the European Union, in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: No. 2016-679).

The objective is to provide a service that ensures the highest level of accessibility. The hosting provider guarantees continuity of service 24 hours a day, every day of the year. However, it reserves the right to interrupt hosting services for the shortest possible durations, particularly for maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, infrastructure failures, or if the Services generate traffic deemed abnormal.

Pharmaspecific and the hosting provider cannot be held responsible for network failures, telephone line issues, or computer and telephony equipment malfunctions, particularly those caused by network congestion preventing access to the server.

5. Intellectual Property and Infringement

Pharmaspecific is the owner of the intellectual property rights and holds the usage rights for all elements accessible on the website, including texts, images, graphics, logos, videos, icons, and sounds. Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, or adaptation of all or part of the elements of the website, regardless of the method or process used, is prohibited without prior written authorization from Pharmaspecific.

Any unauthorized use of the website or any of its elements will be considered an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of Articles L.335-2 and following of the French Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitation of Liability

Pharmaspecific acts as the publisher of the website.

Pharmaspecific cannot be held liable for direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in section 4, or from the occurrence of a bug or incompatibility.

Pharmaspecific also cannot be held liable for indirect damages (such as loss of business or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/. Interactive areas (such as the contact form) are available to users. https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in these areas that violates applicable French law, particularly provisions related to data protection. Where applicable, https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ also reserves the right to hold the user civilly and/or criminally liable, especially in cases of racist, offensive, defamatory, or pornographic messages, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph, etc.).

7. Personal Data Management

Internet users are informed of the regulations concerning marketing communications, the Law of June 21, 2014 on confidence in the digital economy, the amended Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: No. 2016-679).

7.1 Data Collection Responsibility

For Personal Data collected during the creation of the User’s personal account and while browsing the Website, the data controller is: Pharmaspecific, represented by Vanessa MONTANARI, its legal representative.

As the data controller, Pharmaspecific undertakes to comply with the legal framework in force.
It is responsible for defining the purposes of its data processing, providing its prospects and clients with complete information on the processing of their personal data upon collecting their consent, and maintaining a processing register that reflects reality. Whenever Pharmaspecific processes Personal Data, Pharmaspecific takes all reasonable measures to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the Personal Data with regard to the purposes for which Pharmaspecific processes it.

7.2 Purpose of Data Collection

Pharmaspecific may process all or part of the data, based on legitimate interest (i.e., in order to develop its business and streamline the user experience on its website):

• to enable navigation on the Website and the management and traceability of services ordered by the user: connection and usage data of the Website, billing, order history, etc.
• to prevent and combat computer fraud (spamming, hacking, etc.): hardware used for browsing, IP address, password (hashed)
• to improve navigation on the Website: connection and usage data
• to conduct optional surveys on https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/: first name, email address
• to carry out communication, marketing or sales campaigns (email): first name, email address
• to conduct candidate recruitment activities (data redirected to the website of our service provider Neospheres): CV, first name, last name, email address, region of residence, professional experience, education, foreign language proficiency

Pharmaspecific does not sell your personal data to third-party companies.
Your data is retained for a duration that complies with applicable legislation. Regarding users of the Website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, we collect the above-mentioned data, which will be retained for a maximum period of 3 years for user data and 2 years for job applicant data after collection, unless formal consent is given by the candidates allowing for longer retention.

7.3 Right of Access, Rectification, and Objection

In accordance with current European regulations, Users of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ have the following rights:

• right of access (Article 15 GDPR) and rectification (Article 16 GDPR), updating, and completion of User data
• right to block or erase personal data of Users (Article 17 GDPR), when such data is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated, or when its collection, use, communication or retention is prohibited
• right to withdraw consent at any time (Article 13-2c GDPR)
• right to restrict the processing of User data (Article 18 GDPR)
• right to object to the processing of User data (Article 21 GDPR)
• right to data portability for data provided by Users, when such data is subject to automated processing based on their consent or a contract (Article 20 GDPR)
• right to define the fate of User data after their death and to designate a third party to whom https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ should (or should not) disclose their data

As soon as Pharmaspecific becomes aware of the death of a User and in the absence of instructions from them, Pharmaspecific undertakes to delete their data, unless its retention is necessary for evidentiary purposes or to comply with a legal obligation.

If the User wishes to know how Pharmaspecific uses their Personal Data, request rectification, or object to its processing, the User may contact https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ in writing at the following address:
Parc Descartes Nobel, 23 rue Nobel, 77420 Champs-sur-Marne, France or via privacy[at]pharmaspecific.fr

In such cases, the User must specify the Personal Data they wish https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ to correct, update, or delete, and must identify themselves precisely by providing a copy of an identity document (ID card or passport).

Requests for deletion of Personal Data will be subject to the legal obligations imposed on https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, particularly regarding document retention or archiving.
Finally, Users of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ may file a complaint with the supervisory authorities, notably the CNIL (https://www.cnil.fr/fr/plaintes).

7.4 Non-Disclosure of Personal Data

The recorded information is reserved for the use of the relevant service(s) and may be disclosed to service providers. The transmission of your data to recipients located outside the European Union is intended for the entry, tracking, and hosting of commercial follow-up data.
Hosting is carried out in adequate countries and in countries where the transfer is governed by standard contractual clauses to ensure a sufficient level of protection of personal data. Nevertheless, Pharmaspecific remains free to choose its technical and commercial subcontractors, provided they offer sufficient guarantees in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR: No. 2016-679).

Pharmaspecific undertakes to take all necessary precautions to preserve the security of the Information and, in particular, to ensure that it is not disclosed to unauthorized persons.
However, if an incident affecting the integrity or confidentiality of Client Information is brought to the attention of Pharmaspecific, it must inform the Client as soon as possible and communicate the corrective measures taken. Furthermore, https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ does not collect any “sensitive data.”

The Personal Data of the User may be processed by subsidiaries of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ and subcontractors (service providers), exclusively for the purposes of this policy.

Within the scope of their respective responsibilities and for the purposes mentioned above, the main individuals likely to access the data of Users of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ are members of our customer service team.

8. Incident Notification

Despite all efforts made, no method of transmission over the Internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a security breach, we will notify the affected users so that they can take appropriate measures. Our incident notification procedures take into account our legal obligations, whether at the national or European level. We are committed to fully informing our clients of all matters relating to the security of personal data and to providing them with all necessary information to help them comply with their own regulatory reporting obligations.

No personal information of the user of the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ is published without the user’s knowledge, nor exchanged, transferred, assigned, or sold to third parties in any form. Only in the event of the acquisition of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ and its rights could such information be transferred to the potential buyer, who would then be bound by the same obligation to retain and modify the data with respect to the user of the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/.

Security

To ensure the security and confidentiality of Personal Data, https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ uses networks protected by standard security measures such as firewalls, pseudonymization, encryption, and passwords.

When processing Personal Data, https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ takes all reasonable measures to protect such data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

9. Hyperlinks, “Cookies” and Internet Tags

The website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ contains a number of hyperlinks to other websites, established with the authorization of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/. However, https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ does not have the ability to verify the content of the websites thus visited, and therefore assumes no responsibility in this regard.

Unless you choose to disable cookies, you agree that the website may use them. You may disable these cookies at any time, free of charge, using the deactivation options available to you and described below, bearing in mind that this may reduce or prevent access to some or all of the services offered by the website.

9.1 “COOKIES”

A “cookie” is a small data file sent to the User’s browser and stored on the User’s device (e.g., computer, smartphone), hereinafter referred to as “Cookies.” This file contains information such as the User’s domain name, Internet service provider, operating system, as well as the date and time of access. Cookies do not, under any circumstances, damage the User’s device.

https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ may process User information regarding their visit to the Website, such as pages viewed and search queries. This information enables https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ to improve the content of the Website and the User’s navigation experience.

Cookies that facilitate navigation and/or the provision of services offered by the Website may be accepted or rejected by the User. The User may configure their browser to decide whether to accept Cookies so that they are stored on the device, or to reject them, either systematically or depending on the sender. The User may also configure their browser software to prompt acceptance or rejection of Cookies before a Cookie is likely to be stored on their device.
https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ informs the User that, in such cases, some browser functionalities may not be fully available.

If the User refuses to store Cookies on their device or browser, or deletes those already stored, the User is informed that their navigation and experience on the Website may be limited. This may also occur when https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ or one of its service providers cannot recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used, language and display settings, or the country from which the device appears to be connected to the Internet.

In such cases, https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ disclaims all responsibility for any consequences related to the degraded operation of the Website and any services that may be offered by https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, resulting from (i) the User’s refusal of Cookies or (ii) the inability of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ to store or access Cookies necessary for their operation due to the User’s choices. Cookie management and User preferences vary depending on the browser. This configuration is described in the browser’s help menu, which will inform the User how to modify their Cookie preferences.

At any time, the User may choose to express and modify their Cookie preferences. https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ may also use external service providers to assist in collecting and processing the information described in this section.

Finally, by clicking on the social media icons for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn displayed on the Website of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, and if the User has accepted the placement of Cookies by continuing to browse the Website of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn may also place Cookies on your devices (computer, tablet, mobile phone).

These types of Cookies are only placed on your devices if you consent by continuing to browse the Website or mobile application of https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/. At any time, the User may withdraw their consent for https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ to place such Cookies.

9.2 INTERNET TAGS

https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ may occasionally use Internet tags (also known as “tags,” action tags, single-pixel GIFs, transparent GIFs, invisible GIFs, or one-by-one GIFs), and deploy them through a web analytics partner that may be located in a foreign country (and therefore store the corresponding information, including the User’s IP address).

These tags are placed both in online advertisements that allow users to access the Website and on various pages of the Website.
This technology enables https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ to evaluate visitor responses to the Website and the effectiveness of its actions (e.g., the number of times a page is opened and the information viewed), as well as the User’s use of the Website.

The external service provider may collect information about visitors to the Website and other websites using these tags, compile reports on Website activity for https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/, and provide other services related to the use of the Website and the Internet.

10. Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent, are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify whether you use it.
Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Any dispute related to the use of the website https://blogdelarechercheclinique.com/ is subject to French law. Unless otherwise provided by law, exclusive jurisdiction is granted to the competent courts of Créteil.