Legal Notice

Website general terms of use and services offered

Using the website www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com implies full and unconditional acceptance of the general terms of use set forth below. These terms of use may be amended or supplemented at any time and users of www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com are, therefore, invited to check them regularly.

This website can normally be accessed by users at any time. However, Doctor Matthieu MEYER can decide to suspend access for technical maintenance and will endeavour to inform the users beforehand of the date and time of the maintenance.

The website www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com is regularly updated by Ancre Rouge. In the same way, the legal notice may also be modified at any time: the user must regularly check it for any modifications.

Description of services provided

The website www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com provides information regarding all the company’s activities.

Doctor Matthieu MEYER strives to ensure the information provided on www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com is as accurate as possible. However, he cannot be held liable for any omissions, inaccuracies, and deficiencies in updates, whether of his own doing or that of partner third parties providing this information.

All the information available at www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com is indicative only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com is not exhaustive and is subject to any amendments that may have been introduced since it was published.

Contractual restrictions regarding the technical data

The website uses JavaScript.

The website cannot be held liable for any material damage linked to using the website. Furthermore, the user undertakes to access the site using recent equipment with no viruses and with the latest version of an internet browser

Intellectual property and piracy

Doctor Matthieu MEYER owns the intellectual property rights or rights of use of all the components accessible on the website including the texts, photographs, graphics, logos, icons, sound, and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification or publication of all or part of the components on the website is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of Doctor Matthieu MEYER.

Any unauthorised use of the website or its content shall be deemed as piracy and subject to legal proceedings in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 et. seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

Limitation of liability

Doctor Matthieu MEYER shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage to equipment when accessing www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com and arising from the use of equipment not meeting the specifications in point 4 or the occurrence of a bug or an incompatibility.

Doctor Matthieu MEYER shall not be held liable for any indirect damage (such as loss of business or loss of opportunity) arising from the use of www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com.

Interactive areas (possibility of asking questions on the Contact page) are available to users. Doctor Matthieu MEYER reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this area that contravenes applicable French legislation, in particular the provisions on data protection. If necessary, Doctor Matthieu MEYER also reserves the right to question the civil and/or criminal responsibility of the user, particularly in the case of racist, offensive, libellous or pornographic messages, whatever the media used (text, photograph…).

Personal data management

In France, personal data is protected in particular by Law no. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, Law no. 2001-800 of 6 August 2004, article L. 226-13 of the Penal Code, and the European Directive of 24 October 1995.

When accessing the website www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com, the following information may be collected: the URL of links via which the user accessed www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com, the user’s internet provider and Internet protocol (IP) address.

Either way, Doctor Matthieu MEYER only collects personal information about the user for the needs of some services proposed by the website www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com. The user provides this information in full knowledge of the facts, especially when he/she enters the information. The user of the website www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com is thus informed whether it is compulsory to provide the information or not.

In accordance with the provisions of articles 38 et. seq. of the Data Protection Act 78-17 of 6 January 1978, the individual user has a right of access, modification, and opposition to all their personal data. To exercise this right, a written and signed request should be sent together with a copy of signed proof of identity, specifying the address to which the reply is to be returned.

None of the personal information of www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com website users is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, yielded, or sold in any form to third parties. Only the hypothesis of the buyback of Doctor Matthieu MEYER and his rights would allow the transmission of the aforementioned information to the potential buyer who would be bound by the same obligation to retain and modify data with regards to the user of the website www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com.

The aforementioned website is declared with the CNIL under number…

The databases are protected by the provisions of the Law of 1st July 1998 transposing directive 96/9 of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.

Hyperlinks and cookies

The www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com website contains a certain number of hyperlinks to other websites established with the authorisation of Doctor Matthieu MEYER. However, Doctor Matthieu MEYER is unable to check the contents of the sites visited and shall accept no liability in this regard.

When browsing the www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com website, cookies may be installed on the user’s device. A cookie is a small file stored on the user’s device containing information relating to the user’s browser history on the website but does not enable the user to be identified. The data obtained facilitates subsequent visits to the website and is also used to gather information regarding the number and frequency of visits.

Refusing the installation of a cookie may make it impossible to use some of the services. The user can however configure their device as follows to prevent cookies from being stored on their device:

With Internet Explorer: click on “tools” (the gear icon top right) / Internet options. Click on Privacy then choose block all cookies. Click on OK.

With Firefox: click on the menu icon (three horizontal lines) at the top of the browser window, then select Options. Select the Privacy & Security panel. In History set Firefox will to “use custom settings for history”. Finally, deselect it to disable cookies.

With Safari: click on the menu icon in the top right-hand corner of the browser (gear icon). Select Settings. Click on Display advanced settings. In the ‘Privacy and Security’ panel click on Content settings. In the “Cookies” section, you can block cookies.

With Chrome: click on the menu icon in the top right-hand corner of the browser (three horizontal lines). Select Settings. In the “Privacy and security” panel, you can block cookies.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

Any dispute regarding the use of www.dr-meyer-orthopaedics.com is governed by French law. The courts of Paris shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

The main laws concerned

Law no. 78-87 of 6 January 1978, as amended namely by law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 on Information Technology, Databases, and Civil liberties.

Law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on Trust in the Digital Economy

Glossary

User: person who connects to and uses the aforementioned website.

Personal information: information permitting, in whatever form, directly or not, the identification of the natural person to which they apply (article 4 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).