General terms of use

We invite you (“the user”) to read these General Terms of Use (“GTU”) carefully prior to any

use of the Website.

 

Access to and use of the Website are subject to the GTU and to the applicable laws.

 

Any use of the Website by a user shall imply that the said user has previously familiarised

him/herself with the GTU and has accepted them unreservedly. Any user who does not accept

any of the provisions of the GTU must refrain from using the Website.

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe reserves the right to modify the GTU at any time. As far as

possible, DNP Photo Imaging Europe shall notify users of changes made to the GTU by email

or announcement on the Website. In any event, the users are invited to consult the GTU

on a regular basis, so as to familiarise themselves with any modifications. In the event of

disagreement, the user may report the GTU and renounce the use of the Website.

 

A. USE OF THE WEBSITE

 

The Website is accessible free of charge to any user with Internet access, it being stipulated

that all costs relating to access to the Website, regardless of nature, shall be the exclusive

liability of the user.

 

The user is expressly informed and accepts that the content disseminated on the Website is

subject to protection by intellectual property rights. In particular, DNP Photo Imaging Europe

and companies of the DNP group of which DNP Photo Imaging Europe belongs to are holders

of the brands “DNP”, “DNP Dai Nippon Printing” and others. The user undertakes to refrain

from any kind of dissemination, extraction, supplementing, modification or reproduction of

all or part of the content disseminated on the Website, except with the express written and

prior authorisation of DNP Photo Imaging Europe.

 

B. ACCESSIBILITY OF THE WEBSITE

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe shall make efforts, as far as is possible, to keep the Website

accessible 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. DNP Photo Imaging Europe may nevertheless

interrupt access, notably for reasons of maintenance and upgrading or for any other reasons,

notably technical ones.

 

C. COMPATIBILITY WITH BROWSERS

 

The Website is compatible with all recent browsers which support HTML 5 and CSS 2 and

which comply with the vocabulary and grammar of XHTML and CSS, recommended by the W3C.

 

Consequently, the Website shall perform optimally with latest generation browsers, albeit

while remaining accessible to older browsers.

 

Use of the following browsers is recommended:

- for Mac.OS.X (Macintosh operating system 10): Opera, Safari, Mozilla Firefox

- for Windows: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 6, HPR (Home Page Reader) 3.0

- for Linux: Mozilla Firefox, Opera

 

D. Guarantee and liability

 

Within the context of his/her use of the Website, the user undertakes to observe the GTU and

all applicable regulations. DNP Photo Imaging Europe shall not be held liable for any losses

suffered by the user or by any third parties resulting from failure on the part of the user or any

third party to observe the GTU or any applicable regulations. The user shall bear sole

responsibility for the use which he/she makes of the Website and of the information which it

contains.

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe shall in no case be held liable for any difficulties encountered by

the user when using the Website or any incapacity of the same user to use the Website, for

any malfunctions or unavailabilities of the computer equipment of the user or of the Website,

for any constraints and problems specific to the use of an information network such as the

Internet or for the security of data exchanges within such a network.

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe reserves the right to modify, move or interrupt all or part of the

Website and information at any time, whether temporarily or permanently.

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe shall not guarantee that the information on the Website is

accurate, free from errors, relevant, exhaustive or that it shall meet the expectations of the

user.

 

E. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

 

The Website provides hypertext links to websites published by third parties. Since DNP Photo

Imaging Europe and the Website do not exercise any form of control over these websites and

the companies which publish them, DNP Photo Imaging Europe may in no case be held liable

for these hypertext links, the products or services offered by these third party websites, data of

any nature contained or disseminated on these websites published by third parties, processing

of personal data carried out by the publishers of these websites, their use by the user or any

actions or deficiencies attributable to third parties.

 

F. Miscellaneous

 

The parties agree that they may exchange information necessary for the execution of the GTU

by electronic means. Any electronic communication between the parties is presumed to have

the same force of evidence as a document on a paper medium.

 

The fact that one of the parties did not claim a breach by the other party of any of the

obligations contained in the GTU shall not be interpreted as a waiver of the obligation in

question.

 

If any of the provisions of the GTU are declared null and void, the parties shall undertake to

negotiate in good faith, in order to agree on the terms of a new provision which shall replace

the provision in question, while coming close to the initial intention of the parties, with the

other provisions remaining in effect and maintaining their full force of obligation.

 

The GTU shall be governed by French law.

 

 

 

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe may collect and process personal data concerning the user when

he/she uses the Website.

 

1. Collected data

 

The user must provide the required data when requesting registration for the newsletter and

certain on-line services in the mandatory fields indicated by an asterisk (*) in order to benefit

from the services. If the user fails to provide information for these mandatory fields, the user

shall not be able to receive the newsletter and/or to benefit from the concerned on-line

services. Answers in the fields not indicated by an asterisk (*) are optional.

 

On each visit to the Website, the server will automatically recognise the domain of origin of

the user but will not automatically detect his/her e-mail address.

 

The following data are retained when the user visits the Website:

 

- his/her domain (automatically detected as stipulated above);

 

- his/her e-mail address, if the user has revealed it to DNP Photo Imaging Europe, e.g.

by sending messages or questions to this Website, communicating by e-mail, participating in

discussion forums, accessing the restricted part of the website through identification, etc.;

 

- all of the information concerning the Website pages which the user has consulted;

 

- all information which the user has given DNP Photo Imaging Europe voluntarily (e.g.

within the context of requests for information and/or registrations on the Website, demands,

use of the career module or by accessing the restricted part of the website through

identification).

 

2. Purposes

 

The data provided shall be processed by DNP Photo Imaging Europe for the requirements of

managing customers and prospects, for sending newsletters and the information which the

user has requested, for answering the user’s questions, for addressing commercial proposals to

the user and for drawing up statistics.

 

3. Period of retention

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe only retains the user’s personal data for a reasonable period,

which is strictly necessary for the purposes of the data processing for which they have been

collected or which the user has subsequently authorised. After this period, they shall be

preserved exclusively for statistical purposes and shall not be used for any purpose.

 

4. Cookies

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe registers data relating to the user’s browsing of the Website in

text files named “cookies”, installed on the user’s device. The information contained in these

cookies is only preserved for a maximum period of 13 monts.

 

The cookies used are strictly necessary for DNP Photo Imaging Europe, since they have the

aim of facilitating electronic communication between DNP Photo Imaging Europe and the

user and of permitting the provision of certain services.

They notably have the function of:

 

- detecting the default language in the browser for defining the language of the Website.

If the user has made a manual selection of another language, DNP Photo Imaging Europe

shall then retain this choice in the cookies on the user’s browser with a view to the user’s next

visit;

 

- keeping the user’s session active, notably when the user has given his/her e-mail

address for downloading some content from the Website, so that the user does not have to reenter

his/her e-mail address for a new download;

 

- carrying out statistical studies.

 

You may at any time adjust the settings of your web browser to accept or refuse the cookies.

 

The set-up porcedure is described in the Help sectio of your browser or you may follow the

appropriate link from the list below:

· For Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allowcookies

· For Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042

· For Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlm=en&answer=95647

· For Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies

· For Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html

 

If you set-up your browser to refuse cookies, you may not be able to access all or part of our

website.

 

You may consult the CNIL website for further information concerning cookies at:

http://www.cnil.fr

 

5. Google Analytics

 

This website uses Google Analytics provided by Google Inc. ("Google') that itself uses

cookies from measuring website usage and performance. The information generated by

cookies will be communicated to google and stored by google on a server located in the

United States.

 

The usage of such cookies will be subject to the user's consent.

 

You may refuse and deactivate Google Analytics by clicking on the following link :

https://support;google.com/adsense/answer/2839090?hl=fr

 

The cookies you have set up ("opt-out" cookie) will deactivate any future collection of data

during your visit to our website.

 

You may also refuse Google Analytics by downloading and installing the plug-in available at:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr

 

Further information relating to data protection by Google Analytics is available on the Google

Analytics data protection notice at:

https://support;google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=fr

 

6. Recipients

 

The user’s personal data shall only be used internally and shall not be assigned to third parties

for commercial purposes. They are thus transmitted to the employees of DNP Photo Imaging

Europe, as well as to DNP group companies.

 

DNP Photo Imaging Europe is also likely to assign or share all or part of its assets, including

the user’s personal data, within the context of a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, total or

partial sale of its assets or in the event of a restructuring or judicial liquidation.

 

7. Security and confidentiality

 

The user’s personal data are processed by DNP Photo Imaging Europe so as to guarantee their

security and confidentiality, within the following limits:

 

- it is impossible to guarantee Internet security and the data transmitted to the Website in

full;

 

- it is incumbent on the user to take all of the necessary precautions for ensuring the

confidentiality of his/her passwords and not to disclose them to a person who has not been

authorised to use them.

 

8. The user’s rights

 

Pursuant to the applicable data protection laws, the user has a right of access, modification

and removal of his/her personal data. The user can submit his/her request by e-mail to: