Legal notice for the website http://fondation.saint-gobain-initiatives.com/fr/ (last updated on December 12th, 2016)

1). Website Editor

This website, accessible at the URL http://fondation.saint-gobain-initiatives.com/en/ (hereinafter referred to the “Website”), is edited by the International Corporate Foundation “Saint-Gobain Initiatives” (hereinafter referred to as the “Foundation”). Its purpose is to allow present and former employees of the Saint-Gobain Group, as well as charitable associations and non-profit organizations, to file their patronage projects applications for the purpose of being potentially selected and sponsored by the Foundation.

On the Website, “Saint-Gobain Group” or “Saint-Gobain” mean the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain together with a large number of entities affiliated to it, and which it directly or indirectly effectively controls (such entities are hereinafter referred to the “Entities of the Saint-Gobain Group”).

The Foundation is duly authorized by the Autorisation Préfectorale dated April 17th, 2008.

Offices are located at Les Miroirs - 18, avenue d'Alsace - 92400 Courbevoie - FRANCE.

Phone number: +33 (0) 1 47 62 30 00.

Publication director: Marie de Laubier, Director of General Relations.

Information relating to the design and hosting of the Website are provided in section 6 “Credits”.

2). Responsibility and liability

The Foundation, as the owner of the Website, continually undertakes to make its best efforts in order to ensure the reliability of the any and all information provided on the Website when displayed online, as well as while such information is available online.

The Foundation reserves the right to modify or rectify any content, information, and documents published on the Website, at any time without notice.

The Foundation, and more generally, any and all Entity of the Saint-Gobain Group, cannot be held liable or responsible for the mistakes and/or omissions regarding the published information, the technical issues encountered on the Website and/or, on every other website for which the Website provides any link, as well as the interpretation of such information, and consequences of its use.

More generally, the Foundation shall not be liable for any and all damage, whether direct or indirect, irrespective of the cause, origin, nature or consequences thereof, resulting of the access on the Website, or the impossibility thereof, as well as the Website utilization and/or the credit given to any information directly or indirectly accessible on the Website.

3). Intellectual Property

Except as otherwise stated, and to the exception of the projects, intellectual property rights relating to the documents displayed on the Website as well as in every elements created for the Website, are the exclusive property of the Foundation, the Company de Saint-Gobain and/or of the Entities of the Saint-Gobain Group (such documents and elements are hereinafter referred to the “SG Rights”). The Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, the Entities of the Saint-Gobain Group, or the Foundation, grant no license, or any other right other than the right to visit the Website. The copying of part or all elements, published documents on the Website including the Rights of Applicants as hereinafter defined (such as, but not limited to: photos and movies), is only authorized for information purposes, and strictly for personal and private use. Any reproduction or any use of copies for reasons other than those previously specified is expressly prohibited, except with a prior written authorization from the Company of Saint-Gobain. Corporate names, logos, products, trademarks, domain names mentionned on the Website are the property of the Company of Saint-Gobain and/or of the Entities of the Saint-Gobain Group, and cannot be used without the previous written consent of the concerned corporation.

For the purpose of this legal notice, “Rights of Applicants” means any and all intellectual property rights attached to the projects filed by the applicants on the Website. They include texts, photos, videos and more generally, any and all element integrated to a given project by a tender (hereinafter together the “Elements”). Every applicant hereby grants to the Saint-Gobain Group, a royalty free, unlimited and worldwide license on the rights to copy, disclose, resell and or distribute, on the Elements.

4). Cookies

Use of the cookies

When you visit the Website, cookies may be automatically installed and temporarily saved in your computer, mobile phone or tablet’s memory or on its hard disk, in order to make it easier for you to navigate around the Website. Cookies do not enable us to identify you, but are used to record information about the pages you have viewed on our website, the date and time of your visit to the site, etc. 

Please find on this page the list of the cookies used by the Website and their purpose.

General settings

You can set our using of the cookies on the Website by adjusting your browser preferences:

•           Internet Explorer™

•           Safari™

•           Chrome™

•           Firefox™

•           Opera™

You can also disable cookies by modifying internet browser settings. However, please be aware that this operation will disable all cookies used by the internet browser, including those one used by other websites.

Disabling of cookies may alter or cause the loss of one or more settings or informations, and cause the navigation on the Website to be more difficult.

5). Data collected on the Website

Every visitor on the Website providing information to the Foundation, agrees to grant any and all transferable right relating to these information, and authorizes the Foundation to make any and all use thereof as it deems fit. The information provided by the visitors will be considered non-confidential, they shall be accurate, exact and lawful, and must neither harm the interests, nor cause any damage, to third parties.

More specifically concerning personal data collected on the Website, visitors and applicants are informed that the Website uses several processing operations in order to ensure the communication and exchange of informations with the visitors.

These processing operations notably make it possible to:

• manage the solidarity projects applications filed by applicants, and answers eventually provided to them;
• answer potential written requests of the visitors;
• contact the applicants about their projects, and for instance in order to request additional information.

Collected data:

• shall only result from a voluntary registration of the relevant visitor;
• are for internal use only, and are only intended to those responsible of the handling of the visitor’s request;
• are kept only as long as necessary to carry out one or more of the purposes defined above.

The Foundation benefits from the Dispense DI-008 issued by the French data protection authority (CNIL).

In accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act n°78-17 dated January 6th, 1978, modified by law n°2004-801 dated August 6th, 2004, any person wishing to exercise his access, rectification, deletion or opposition rights shall contact the following department:

International Corporate Foundation Saint-Gobain Initiatives – Marie de Laubier.

Les Miroirs – 18 avenue d’Alsace – 92096 La Défense Cedex – France

Fax : + 33 (0) 1 47 62 52 07

6). Credits

Web hosting: Amazon Web Services, Inc., P.O. Box 81226, Seattle, WA 98108-1226, USA - http://aws.amazon.com - https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ - 1-206-266-0927
1-206-266-2882
1-206-266-2992

Website design and conception: Conception du Site : Optimy S.A., Tienne de Renival 18, 1380 Lasne, Belgique - N° d'entreprise / TVA : BE 0824 055 778 - [email protected] - +32 (2) 888 77 02