Legal notice
This website, accessible at www.rhodia.com is the property of, and is maintained by:
RHODIA
A French corporation (société anonyme) with stated capital of € 1,213,044,816
Principal head office: Immeuble Coeur Défense – Tour A, 110 Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, 92400 Courbevoie, France
Tel: (33) 1 53 56 64 64
Registered with the Nanterre Trade and Companies Register under No. 352 170 161.
Please read this Legal Notice carefully prior to visiting the www.rhodia.com website (the “Website”).
The companies in the Rhodia Group are independent legal entities. Nevertheless, to facilitate distribution of the information on this Website, the following terms are used: “Rhodia”, “Group”, the “Rhodia Group”, and “we”; these terms mean all of the companies in the Group, each of which operates its business independently.
The Publication Director is: Corporate Communication head office
ARTICLE 1: PURPOSE
The purpose of this Notice is to define the procedures by which Rhodia makes this Website available to users and the conditions under which users may access and use this Website. Any login to this Website is subject to compliance with this Legal Notice, which Rhodia reserves the right to modify or update at any time. Access to and use of the Website requires your compliance with this Legal Notice. If the user does not agree with the provisions set forth below, he is advised not to use this Website.
ARTICLE 2: ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE
As a general rule, access to the Website is available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week; however, this does not result in any obligation for Rhodia to ensure such access. It is specifically noted that Rhodia has the right to suspend, interrupt or cancel access to the Website if any of the following events occur but without limitation to these events: force majeure, computer malfunction, structural difficulties with the telecommunications network, technical problems, or for reasons relating to system maintenance. Rhodia shall in no event be liable for such interruptions or any consequences for the user resulting therefrom.
The user acknowledges that he possesses the skills and resources to use the Website as he has verified that the IT configuration used does not contain any viruses, that it operates correctly and, finally, that the user has familiarized himself with the legal notice and agrees to comply with it.
ARTICLE 3: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES RIGHTS
Rhodia holds all rights, title to and interest in the Rhodia name and logo. The Website and all its contents (pictures, texts, layout & design, graphic charter, trade marks, designs, models & templates, and all other distinctive signs…) are protected in accordance with the French Intellectual Property Code, in particular all copyright, design and trade mark rights.
Accordingly, all use of these signs is strictly prohibited, with exception of reproductions without modifications or distorsions made for the sole purpose of personal and private copy in accordance with article L.122-5.2° of Intellectual Property Code.
All other use is submitted to prior and written authorization from the owner of the intellectual property rights concerned.
All names and logos appearing on the Website, including the Rhodia name and logo, are registered trade marks; any reproduction, in whole or in part, of such marks, without Rhodia’s written and prior approval, is prohibited in accordance with the French Intellectual Property Code.
According to the French Intellectual Property Code and, more broadly, the treaties and international conventions containing provisions relative to the protection of copyrights, the user may not make any non-private use, especially sell, distribute, disseminate, adapt, modify, publish or communicate, in whole or in part, in any format whatsoever, without prior and written authorization from the owner of copyright, the data, appearance or organization of the Website, as well as texts, images, photographs and more generally all works protected by copyright which appear on the Website. The user is also prohibited from introducing any data to the Website which would modify it or would be susceptible to modifying the contents or the appearance of the data, the presentation and organization of the Website, or the works appearing thereon in any manner whatsoever.
ARTICLE 4: ELECTRONIC MAIL
To contact Rhodia via e-mail, users must complete the electronic mail forms provided on the Website. Rhodia’s responses to e-mail shall not, nor shall they be deemed, to constitute proof of any advertising, promotion or commercial activity within the country to which such responses may be sent.
ARTICLE 5: PERSONAL DATA
The personal data of users is intended for the sole use of Rhodia. It shall not be disclosed to third parties. With respect to the regulatory protection of personal data (Article 34 of the Act on Data Processing, Data Files and Individual Liberties of January 6, 1978, Directives 95/46 and 97/66), a user has the right to access, correct and remove information concerning him. To exercise this right for the purpose of preventing the receipt of any commercial message, or for any corrections, the user may send a letter, by regular or electronic mail, to
Rhodia, Direction de la Communication (Communications Department)
Immeuble Coeur Defense – Tour A
110 Esplanade Charles de Gaulle
La Défense 4
92931 Paris La Défense Cedex
communication-corporate@eu.rhodia.com
ARTICLE 6: LIABILITY LIMITATION
All the information appearing on this Website have no contractual character and shall not entail liability of RHODIA who remains free to add, update, modify, amend or delete all or part of the content or appearance of its Website, at any time, without any prior notice.
RHODIA is only submitted to concerning documents and information put at user’s disposal.
Despite all care in creation and updating of this website, mistakes, imprecision, omissions or clerical error may still remain, as well as difficulties or interruption of connection to the website. Neither RHODIA, nor its subsidiaries or affiliates are in a position to warrant the completeness or accuracy of documents and information of the website, as well as continuous access to the website.
Accordingly, RHODIA or its subsidiaries or affiliates assume no liability regarding direct or indirect harms resulting from access to this website, use of the contents of this website or resorting by the users to any information found on this website, in particular, in case of mistakes, imprecision, omissions or clerical error.
Moreover, RHODIA, its affiliates or its subsidiaries also assume no liability for all direct or indirect harms resulting from fraudulous intrusion of a third party leading a modification of the documents or information available on the website.
The website may contain links allowing access to other websites. By these links, you are able to consult third websites. RHODIA and its affiliates disclaim any liability whatsoever for the content of websites whose links are provided on its Website. Such links are provided solely as a convenience to the user, and the decision to access such links rests solely with the user.
No information, in particular financial information, distributed on the Website constitutes any inducement to invest in or engage in any transaction of any nature whatsoever with respect to Rhodia shares. Such information shall in no event be deemed to constitute a solicitation or public offering, nor shall it constitute an offer for the subscription for or purchase, sale or exchange of shares or other securities of Rhodia, whether listed or not
The Website provides access to data relating to Rhodia at the international level and may therefore not include references to Rhodia products, processes, programs and services which are not available in the user’s country. It shall not mean that Rhodia is considering offering such products, processes, programs and services in that country.
COOKIES
This Site uses "cookies" to enable you to log into our services and personalize your use of the Internet. A cookie is a small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. It contains information that can later be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot run programs, or bring viruses to your computer.
The main purpose of cookies is to save your preferences and other information on your computer to save you having to retype the same information and display your personalized content when you visit the site later.
If you are using a public computer or if you prefer this information not to be saved, select the relevant button on the login page. This means the cookie will not be used.
You can either accept or reject cookies. Most Web browsers will accept them by default, but it is usually possible to modify your browser settings if you prefer to reject them. If you choose to reject cookies, you may have difficulty in logging on or using some functions of the Site that may depend on cookies.
If you choose to accept cookies, you can also delete cookies that you have accepted. In Internet Explorer 7, you can delete cookies by selecting "Tools", "Delete browsing history …".
INTERNET HOST
The internet hosting entity which is responsible for the direct and full-time hosting of the portal is:
Atos Origin Infogérance,
A simplified French corporation (société par actions simplifiée) with stated capital of € 832,471
whose principal office is located at: Les Miroirs, 18, av. d’Alsace – 92400 Courbevoie, France
Tel: + 33 1 46 14 50 00
Registered with the Nanterre Trade and Companies Registry under number SIREN B 064 502636
PHOTO CREDITS
Rhodia® photo library: Eyedea Gamma (Paulo Fridman - Pierre Hounsfield - Zeng Nian - Richard Schroeder – Engle douglas – Christine Donnier Valentin - Deroubaix François - Somoza Girardot – Brunnet A.- Coussat Cyril) / Gilles Defaix / B3M production / Barret M - Rapho / Corbis : Mark karrass /Getty images / Xavier Renault / Agence Gamma Hachette Filippacchi (Fridman Paulo- Bassignac Gilles) / Soligny B. / Photodisc Rouge / Roland B. / Murez S. / Avantazio Melania / Bouchut N. / Clapot E. / Cramer Sweeny / Courtin R. / Janin Agnès / Masterfile / XYZshutter / All rights reserved
This legal notice is submitted to French law. The language of this legal notice is French language. In case of contradiction between French translation and any other translation, the provisions of French translation will prevail. In case of dispute, the French courts will be exclusively competent.