Legal notice

Welcome to the site “Essilor-Instruments.com” (the “Site”). By accessing the Site, you accept the present legal notice and general usage conditions. The Site is intended to provide you with information on Essilor Instruments Division, its activities and products, its distributors, and links towards the Group’s various Internet sites.

GENERAL USAGE CONDITIONS

The publisher of the Site is:

ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D’OPTIQUE)
Public limited company with capital of €39 331 386,18
Registered head office: 147 rue de Paris, 94220 Charenton-le-Pont, FRANCE
RCS Créteil B 712 049 618 (“ESSILOR”)
E-mail: instruments-communication@essilor.com
Tel: + 33 (0)1 49 77 42 24
Director of publication: Christophe Condat, in his capacity as Chief Executive Officer of Essilor Instruments.

The Site is designed and hosted by WSB, having its head office at 4 rue esprit des Lois 33 000 Bordeaux, registered under number 447 529 082.

 

APPLICABILITY – DURATION

The present usage conditions are applicable from the date of their online release and shall be binding at the date of first use of the Site by the user, and for the entire period of use of the Site, until new general usage conditions replace the present ones.

ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (“ESSILOR”) reserves the right to modify or supplement this legal notice and general usage conditions at any time and without prior notice. For this reason, we invite you to consult this notice on a regular basis.

General notice:

ESSILOR, the owner of the Site, makes every effort to ensure that the information on its website is accurate and current at the time it is published online.

However, ESSILOR:

  • Makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the information provided via the site,
  • Reserves the right to modify and correct the content of the documents published on the site at any time, without prior notice.

As a result, ESSILOR disclaims any liability for:

  • any interruptions of service to the site or software bugs,
  • any errors or omissions in the information contained in the Site,
  • any damages resulting from a third party’s fraudulent intrusion, including any ensuing modifications to information contained on the site,
  • more generally, any direct or indirect damages, whatever the cause, origin, nature or consequence, arising from anyone’s access or failed access to the site, from use of the site and/or from any credit granted regarding information originating directly or indirectly from the site.

COMPLIANCE WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

The Site is a creative work protected by intellectual property laws. Unless otherwise indicated, intellectual property rights relating to documents contained in the Site and any elements created for the Site are the exclusive property of ESSILOR, given that ESSILOR has granted no license nor any other right except that of consulting the Site.

This Site complies with copyright law. All of the rights of authors of protected works reproduced and communicated on the Site are reserved. Except where authorised, any use of works other than reproduction and individual, private consultation is prohibited and shall constitute infringement.

The reproduction of all or part of the content of the Site is authorized solely for personal and private use, and all reproduction and all use of photocopies for other purposes is explicitly prohibited.

The brands, patents, logos, models, images, texts, photos, videos, graphical charters, databases or other intellectual property rights cited or used on the Site are the property of ESSILOR or are the subject of a usage authorisation. No rights or licenses shall be assigned concerning any of these elements without the written authorisation of ESSILOR or a third party who holds these rights.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The links which the Site may contain to other sites are given for information.

The links to all these sites shall not implicate ESSILOR in any manner: support for the content to which these links point, or to the products, advertisements or any elements or services presented on these sites.

The IT security of the pages towards which some of the links on the Site may point is not guaranteed. It is your responsibility to take the necessary precautions in this regard, as ESSILOR declines all responsibility for any direct or indirect harm, whatever the cause, origin, nature or consequences arising from access to other sites, or concerning the content of information provided by these sites.

We remind you that these sites are subject to their own usage conditions.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

 

The information concerning you is recorded and processed in complete confidentiality and security by ESSILOR.

You are informed that the information that you communicate using the forms present on the Site is necessary to respond to your requests and is intended for ESSILOR, the data controller, for purposes of administration and for external communication or information. This data is not retained beyond a period of 1 year.

Connection data may be processed for purely statistical purposes. If it becomes necessary to retain this data, it will be retained for a maximum period of one year. We inform you that, for reasons inherent in the purpose of processing, this data may be transmitted to other companies located within the European Union.

Any personal data you send to ESSILOR is protected by the French Data Protection Act (No. 78-17) of 6 January 1978. This law grants you the right to access, rectify and delete any personal information at any time, directly online at the following electronic address instruments-communication@essilor.com, accompanying your request with a copy of an identity document.

The Site may use cookies in your computer. A cookie does not allow us to identify you; however, it records information relative to your computer’s browsing on the Site (the pages that you accessed, the date and time of access, etc.). We hereby inform you that you may refuse to accept cookies by configuring your web browser. However, this may disrupt navigation on the Site.

COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS

The present general usage conditions are governed by French law. This is so for substantive and formal rules. Any dispute arising from the application of the present general usage conditions shall come within the competence of the French courts.

The Site is put in place by ESSILOR, for which the head office is in France. Internet users who access the site from locations outside France must comply with all local laws.

©ESSILOR 2017