Legal Information

Using the guerbet.com website and the guerbet.fr website represents implicit acceptance of the terms of use stated below by all visitors to the site.

Absence of warranty

Guerbet endeavors to keep the site up-to-date. However, Guerbet cannot warrant that information made available on the website is correct, accurate, up-to-date, or complete. Thus, with the exception of direct damage resulting from Guerbet’s intentional or severe negligence, Guerbet cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect loss or damage that may ensue from accessing or using the site or for any damage or virus that may affect your computer or other computer equipment.

Guerbet reserves the right to alter the content of the site, without prior notice and at any time. In particular, Guerbet may temporarily or permanently suspend or interrupt all or part of the site in order to maintain, improve, and/or change it.

Purpose of Site

The site, published by Guerbet, is designed to provide general information about Guerbet and its products.

The information included on the site is solely of an informative nature. It does not represent any legal undertaking or contractual agreement by Guerbet, nor shall it be deemed to encourage investment, in particular where financial information is concerned.

Corporate name: Guerbet

Legal representative: David Hale

Public limited company (Société anonyme under French law)

Capital: €12,596,161, divided into 12,596,161 shares.

R.C.S. Bobigny: 308 491 521

SIREN number: 308 491 521

Registered Office: 15, rue des Vanesses 93420 Villepinte

Tel.: +33(0) 1 45 91 50 00

Fax: +33(0) 1 45 91 51 99

Head of publication: Anne-Laure Delasalle, Communications Director

The site and its contents are governed by French law. Any dispute relating thereto shall be subject to the competence of the French courts.

Personal data

In accordance with the (EU) General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, you have the right to access, rectify and delete your personal data by requesting this from GUERBET's Data Protection Officer, either by post (Data Protection Officer, BP 57400, 95943 Roissy CdG Cedex, France) or by e-mail at dataprotection.officer@guerbet.com.

Any personal data collected through contact forms is intended for internal use only and will not in any way be transferred to third-party companies.

The site is not intended to receive information of a confidential nature. Consequently, except for personal data referred to above, any data that you send to us via the site will not, in any instance, be deemed confidential, regardless of the form (ideas, suggestions, concepts, know-how, techniques, etc.).

The act by you of sending such data entitles us to use, reproduce, broadcast, alter or transmit it, in whole or in part, in any respect and for any reason whatsoever, without any compensation of any kind being due and without ever being obliged to disclose the origin.

However, during the consultation of the Guerbet website, certain user data is collected automatically:

  • The user's IP address (this address enables access to the Internet, and is assigned to the user's computer by the internet service provider; the information, which changes based on the user's session, is not personally identifiable);
  • The address of the website from which the user is connected directly to the Guerbet website;
  • The date and time of the visit of the user on the Guerbet website and the pages visited;
  • The operating system of the user’s computer as well as its browser;
  • “Cookies” (identifying how the user accesses the web pages, the time at which they do so, and the number of pages visited).

Guerbet thus collects anonymous user data (or anonymous information) on this website, such as the pages that you visit and the searches that you undertake. These data are anonymous, since they will in no event enable personal identification of the user of the website.

We use this anonymous information to help us improve the content of our sites and to obtain overall statistics on your visits. These statistics can be prepared by third parties, the latter being bound by an obligation of confidentiality.

This anonymous information is collected in particular through “cookies,” which collect the first part of the domain name of the user (i.e. the identifier after the “@”) and the date and time of access. “Cookies” are stored on the hard disk of your computer without any risk of damage to it.

You may prevent the registration of cookies by configuring your navigator to warn you before accepting cookies, or always to refuse cookies.

Additional information concerning cookies may be obtained at: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/260971/description-of-cookies

Marketing and Communication purposes

You may choose to receive communications about educational events and latest updates on our comprehensive range of imaging products, solutions, and services for Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Imaging.

Guerbet UK and Guerbet affiliates collect your personal interests based on your registration information to online services, websites and downloaded documents. Such information are stored under a personal user profile.

Your personal user profile will be used by Guerbet UK and Guerbet affiliates to send communications (e.g. invitations to participate in original educational events with your peers, latest updates on Guerbet and our comprehensive range of imaging products, solutions, and services for Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Imaging) that are of interest to you. This information can also be used to show customized content on Guerbet websites or to improve Guerbet websites and online services.

Revoking and further information

You can revoke your consent to receive marketing information at any time. You can use the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each e-mail or you can declare your revocation by e-mail to dataprotection.officer@guerbet.com. You will not receive any further marketing information from Guerbet SA after revocation of this consent.

Your personal data for Newsletter

Your personal data will be processed by Guerbet for newsletter distribution. The legal basis of your voluntary subscription to the newsletter on websites.

Your personal data will be stored during the newsletter subscription. Data may be communicated to authorized parties on behalf of Guerbet.

You have the right to revoke your consent at any time by signing out using the sign-off link at bottom of the email.

You have the right to request from the controller access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing by email at dataprotection.officer@guerbet.com

You have a right to lodge a complaint with the national authority for data protection, if you consider that any of your personal data are processed in breach of the applicable law.

Intellectual property

The whole of the site and each of its components taken separately are covered by French and international copyright law and, more broadly, by intellectual property law (including in particular protection of copyright, trademarks, databases, and the like).

The reproduction, representation, or use of all or part of components of the site for any purpose that is not strictly private and non-commercial is prohibited unless Guerbet has given its prior written consent.

If authorized, any components composing or shown on the site must be used without being distorted, modified, or altered in any way whatsoever. The source must be stated clearly and legibly and may take the following form: “Guerbet document from the guerbet.com site. All rights reserved by Guerbet.”

Information on products specific to a given country

Information provided on the site may include direct or indirect references to Guerbet products not available in your own country or offered under a different name, and which may be subject to various regulations and terms of use. The fact that they are referred to does not mean that Guerbet plans to market them. Ask our local subsidiary or sales partner for any information about product availability in your country.

Advice or expert opinion

As information that may be of interest to visitors, the site may contain extracts from press articles or opinions stated by experts. Such information solely reflects the opinion of the expert or publication and shall not be construed as Guerbet’s.

Guerbet does not guarantee either the accuracy or completeness of such information, whatsoever it may be, and shall not under any circumstances be held liable if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

Links to other sites

To provide easy access to other websites that may include further information, Guerbet may provide links on the site. Guerbet has no means of controlling the content of these totally independent third-party sites and shall not be held liable for their content or consequences ensuing from their use. Guerbet reminds you that the privacy of correspondence is not guaranteed on the internet, and individual web users are responsible for taking all appropriate measures to protect their data and/or programs from infection by any viruses circulating on the net.

Industrial Batteries

As a producer of industrial batteries under the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009, Guerbet Laboratories Ltd produce LEAD ACID Batteries. We are obliged to take back free of charge, waste industrial batteries supplied to an end user for treatment and recycling. We are required to do this in any calendar year we place new industrial batteries on the market. If any of our customers or in certain cases other end users, require us to take back Industrial batteries, they should contact us by Telephone: 0121 733 8542 Email: uk.info@guerbet-group.com. We will agree the necessary arrangements for the return, proper treatment and recycling of the waste industrial batteries.

Use of cookies

When you visit this website, a session ID cookie may be automatically installed and temporarily stored on your hard drive to facilitate your browsing of the site. Once the session ends, the cookie is destroyed. A cookie is a small, randomly generated text file that a website transfers to an individual’s computer hard drive to help facilitate his or her browsing, streamline registration procedures or assist in the measurement of visitors to the site. By definition, a cookie does not enable us to identify those who visit our site.

Visitors to our site have the option of refusing cookies for any given session by reconfiguring their browsers accordingly (see the method suggested by the CNIL at http://www.cnil.fr). Doing so may have an impact on your browsing of the site, or make browsing difficult. Visit the www.cnil.fr website for further information (available in English, Spanish, and French).
Social plug-ins or share buttons linked to social networks may, subject to your consent, be present on our site to allow you to share content from our website on social networks, inform others of what you have seen on this site, or voice your opinion concerning the website’s content (social plug-ins include features such as “like”, “share”, etc.).

The mere presence of social plug-ins on a site – whether or not you are a user of social networks – may result in cookies being stored on your hard drive that track your browsing activities and identify your interests. 
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your visit to our site.

The generation and use of cookies by third parties are subject to their privacy policies. Before deciding to utilize these social plug-ins or networks, we suggest that you read the third-party policy statements to learn how they will use such cookies, including for advertising purposes, and the kind of browsing information that may be collected through dedicated plug-ins. These privacy policies should enable you to make decisions concerning social networks, including privacy settings for each account you have on these networks.
If desired, you can refuse to have cookies stored on your computer by adjusting the privacy settings in your web browser (see below). You may change this option at any time. 
Moreover, to analyze your preferences and subject to your consent, web beacons may be included by a third party in some of our articles and messages to identify the pages viewed, record display frequency and the number of visitors, analyze traffic patterns, and generate statistics for the most popular content.
If desired, you can refuse to have cookies stored on your computer by adjusting the privacy settings in your web browser by following these steps:

For Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Go to the Tools menu and select Options
  2. Click on the Privacy icon
  3. Locate the Cookies menu and select the appropriate options

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

  1. Go to the Tools menu and select Internet options
  2. Click on the Privacy icon
  3. Use the cursor to select the appropriate level

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies

For Google Chrome:

  1. Go to the Chrome menu / Preferences
  2. Click on "Show Advanced Settings".
  3. Click on "Settings of Content" in the privacy section
  4. Click on "Cookies and Site Data" in the new window
  5. Click "Delete all" and confirm by clicking on "OK".

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

For Safari:

  1. Go to the Safari menu / Preferences
  2. Click on "Privacy"
  3. In "Block Cookies", select "Always".

www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/cookies/

The CNIL (the French data protection authority) explains (in French) what you can do to reduce your digital footprint on its website: http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/conseils-aux-internautes/ie. It also provides more general information on cookie setting mechanisms: www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/.

By continuing to browse on this site, you agree and consent to the use of third-party cookies on our site. You can revoke this consent at any time.