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Article 1: Object

The present conditions have the purpose to define the terms of application made by the FIB for the use and conditions of its website.
All connections to our website is made under the respect of the present terms of use and that the FIB has the absolute right to modify or update at any time.

ACCES AND USE OF THE PRESENT WEBSITE ENGAGE YOUR COMPLIANCE TO THE PRESENT TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING CLAUSES, EXITING THIS WEBSITE IS ADVISED.

Article 2: Service Access

Access to the services of this website is granted 24/7, excepted for exceptional issue and/or any event unrelated to FIB’s control. This also applies during eventual system failure, breakdown and maintenance interventions required for functional services and materials.

In any case of website shutdown, you must be aware that the FIB declines all responsibilities for:
- Any unexpected shutdown of one or many services.
- Any bugs or graphic failure.
- Any misinformation or forgotten content (text, picture, drawings).
- Any damages resulting of a forbidden intrusion from an external user leading to a loss of data and/or content, modification of personal data integrated to the website (pictures, photos, etc.)
- Any damages as a direct way or not, from any cause, origin nor consequences.
- Any credit granted to some information coming from the website as a direct nor indirect way.

FIB grants any user, whom accepts it, the right to connect to one working space or more on this website. Connection to any service is made from the user’s computer link to a communication network allowing the access to FIB’s website.
Rights of accessibility and use of our platform are non-exclusive and untransmissible.

Article 3 :

In application of the French Legislation regarding Intellectual Property, all contents (texts, pictures, animations, products names, etc.) integrated to this website remains the property of the French Institute of Bioinformatic.
Thus, any reproduction of those elements is authorized only and exclusively for private use.

Any content reproduction without specific authorization from the French Institute of Bioinformatic is totally forbidden.
Moreover, it is also forbidden to copy, modify, create a derivate content, invert or damage the graphic conception, nor visual assembling or any other way attempt to find the source code (in exception of specific situation defined by the French law).

Every element displayed on this website are eligible to modifications without previous warning and remain disposable under no guarantee, in an explicit way or not, and will not lead to any refund.

Protection of personal data and/or software by malwares or viruses via

Internet network is under responsibility of the user.
The IFB preserves its legit right to ask for indemnities in case of counterfeit and intellectual property infringement.

Article 4 : Documents use

Any document hosted on this website CANNOT be copied, downloaded, reproduced, published, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way excepted for the following conditions:
You are allowed to download a copy from some document onto your personal computer for your own private use and only for non-commercial purpose.
If you use this website, you are not allowed to use those documents on another website nor in an numeric network environment.
If you choose to proceed a download from our website, the IFB grants you, a non-exclusive right, a user access on the software (including files, pictures attached and linked data as well). The IFB do not gives the user a property right of the software and any elements attached to it. The user only detains the machine on which the software is saved, however the IFB keeps full paternity of those technologies and, thus, every right regarding intellectual property attached to it.
Any user is not permitted to distribute, sell, uncompiled, break or damage the software in any way or any usable form.

Article 5 : Emails

To contact us via email, users shall fullfill the adapted form available on our website

Answers provided by IFB to email correspondency will not be assimilated or used as a proof of advertising activity, promotional intent and/or commercial message by the receiver’s territory.

Article 6 : COOKIES

A « Cookie » is a text file which conserve information related to your surfing habits when visiting a website. You are free to read, modify or delete those information. This system cannot be used to collect personal data, install a virus nor to read personal email addresses.

The cookie is set up when someone uses our website, by the server, on the user’s hard drive in temporary way (“session cookie”, stored only for the time spent on the website. In opposition to permanents cookies).

We inform all users that they can oppose to this storage by modifying connections parameters in your browser (Tools/ Internet settings)

Article 7 : LIABILITY LIMITATION

Any document and/or information broadcasted on the following website are granted as its stands; without any form of guarantee in any way.
IFB reserves its right to correct or modify all content, now present on the IFB’s website, at anytime without any previous warning.
IFB will not be held responsible in case of corruption of data and IT materials resulting in virus spread or any other kind of virtual degradations.
Under no circumstances shall its employees, suppliers or third parties referred to in this Site be liable for any action for contract liability, tort liability or other action, direct or indirect damage, incident or accessory, or of any kind or injury, in particular, of a financial or commercial nature, resulting from the use of this Site or any information obtained on this Site.
The IFB disclaims all responsibility for the information, materials, software of sites linked by hypertext link to the IFB site.

Article 8 : JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

Any dispute arising or to be resolved relating to these Terms of Use shall be brought before the courts of the head office of the IFB and shall be governed by French law independently of the conflict of laws. The use of this site means your express agreement to the application of this legal clause.
In the event that any of the provisions of these Terms of Use are found to be unlawful, null or unenforceable for any reason, it would be considered not part of these Terms of Use and would not affect the validity or application of the other provisions.