LEGAL NOTICES
Publishing Director: François Jacq, CNES President and Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Manager : CNES - Direction de l’Innovation, des Applications et de la ScienceTechnique et Numérique - 18, Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE Cedex 9
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Access to and use of the COMET website https://comet-cnes.fr are governed by the provisions of these legal notices.
In this respect, by accessing or using the COMET website, users are automatically bound by these legal notices, and any subsequent modifications that may be made by CNES, at its sole discretion and without prior notice.
These legal notices are governed by and interpreted in accordance with French law. Any dispute relating to the interpretation or implementation of these legal notices shall be submitted to the relevant court in Paris (France).
The COMET website provides non-contractual information related to the activity of the COMET networks hosted and coordinated by CNES
Liability disclaimer
All the data and content on the COMET internet website are the property of CNES, or the property of a third party and for which a right has been granted for their use. The data and content are accessible in the state they were made available and with no guarantees of any kind.
CNES neither guarantees nor claims (i) that this service and its components shall meet your requirements, (ii) that this service and its components may not be periodically interrupted, without being due to a failure or error, (iii) that the data distributed via the COMET website are accurate, up to date or reliable, (iv) that the quality of the data shall meet the users’ expectations and that the data are free from errors or defects, or that any potential errors shall be corrected.
Access to and use of the COMET website is at the user's own risk. Under no circumstances shall CNES be held liable for any direct or indirect damage, or any subsequent or other damage, that may result from access to, use of, or unavailability of the COMET website or the websites linked to it (in particular the external non-affiliated internet websites used for registering for the events organised by the COMET network), including loss of data or programmes, interruptions, changes, updates, modifications to data published on the COMET website, the occurrence of bugs, loss of use, financial loss, any deterioration or infection of users’ equipment by viruses (including, without limitation, software, hardware, connections and any systems or networks).
CNES reserves the right to make temporary or permanent changes, updates, interruptions or modifications to any data published on the COMET website, including the selection and layout of the data, or its services, at any time and without prior notice.
CNES cannot be held responsible for any costs, losses and expenses resulting from any non-compliance with these legal notices, or linked to the use of or access to the COMET website.
Users shall not voluntarily or involuntarily insert viruses or files that may disrupt the operation of the COMET website. Users shall take full responsibility in any such case.
Users shall not access or use the COMET website for illegal or prohibited purposes.
Management of the personal data of COMET website users
When using the COMET website https://comet-cnes.fr users’ personal data may be collected in order to facilitate the operation of the COMET network (putting registered professional experts in contact with each other, informing users of the COMET website about the organisation of events).
With this in mind, the following information is recorded concerning the profile of registered professional experts:
- Title, last name, first name, nationality, position, expertise and email address of the registered professional expert, and
- Name, address and sector of activity of the company that employs the person.
This information is collected using a form and recorded in a computer file by Community coordinators for processing anonymous statistics about the COMET network or for use by the managers of companies that employ one or more professional experts who are members of the COMET network and who wish to know which of their employees are members.
The information concerning the last name, first name and expertise of the registered professional expert, as well as the name and address of the company that employs him/her, are also made available to the other registered professional experts in the network in order to create a directory.
The initial contact between professional experts who are members of the COMET network is anonymous: the recipient's electronic contact details do not appear when the initial contact is made (these are only communicated to the sender if the recipient replies).
In order to send information about COMET or partner events, the COMET website uses the “MailChimp” tool, which generates mailing lists based on memberships or subscriptions to newsletters. These lists are made available to the coordinators of each COMET and are in no case transferred for any commercial or other purposes. Making a membership application or subscribing to a newsletter implies you accept being recorded on these lists
For any other information collected, CNES specifies the specific purpose as well as the person responsible for the use and storage of the personal data.
Apart from cases about which users are expressly notified, the personal data collected are processed on a confidential basis by CNES and are not shared or transferred to third parties.
In accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council of 27 April 2016 concerning the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, users of COMET website have the right to access, rectify and delete information concerning them, by logging in directly to the “My account” area of the COMET website or by simply sending a request to comet@cnes.fr.
Requesting the deletion of one of the mandatory pieces of data from your member profile would imply the cancellation of your COMET membership.
Requesting complete deletion of your email address from the various databases would imply the cancellation of your COMET membership and your subscriptions to newsletters.
If users cancel their membership accounts and/or their subscription to one or more newsletters, the personal data relating to the accounts and/or subscriptions of the users concerned will be deleted.
Management of the personal data of COMET website users
Users of the COMET website may contact comet@cnes.fr at any time to find out what personal information about them is held on the COMET website and in the MailChimp application that manages the website’s list of email addresses, and to request that such information be modified or deleted. All data concerning COMET members and subscribers held by the website or within MailChimp will be destroyed once the COMET website is permanently closed.
Links
CNES cannot be held responsible as regards the access, content and use of third-party websites referenced by links, including, without limitation, the collection of personal data, or the installation of cookies.
Users are responsible for all risks linked to accessing such third-party sites through referenced links.
Cookies
This site may use cookies (small data files intended to keep track of users’ connections). CNES may access these data and record them during users' visits, without the intention being to identify the user. Users can modify the personal configuration of their browser to prevent the cookies from being saved.
Intellectual property rights
All intellectual property rights related to COMET website, including, without limitation, those relating to patented data, copyrights, trade names, trademarks, logos, databases, documents, texts, graphics, drawings, photographs, audio files, video files and digital circuits are the property of CNES, or the property of a third party and for which CNES has been granted a right for their use.
Unless otherwise provided for in writing, the access to and use of the COMET website do not grant or guarantee any rights concerning the use of these intellectual property rights.
Rights granted
CNES grants users a personal, free, non-exclusive and non-transferable right of access to and use of the COMET website. Any other rights are expressly excluded.
Consequently, and in a non-exhaustive manner, it is expressly and formally forbidden to (i) reproduce, represent, adapt and/or translate, (ii) extract, or (iii) create any work that derives from all or part of the COMET website and/or related content, unless for the strictly limited use of private copies or educational purposes.
In the case of private or educational copies, any reproduction of the data by the user must be accompanied by the following clearly-legible statement: “This document is taken from the COMET website. Protected information - All rights reserved © CNES (+ year of publication)”