LEGAL NOTICE 

This page describes the legal instructions which apply to every user visiting this site. In visiting this site, you undertake to respect these instructions without reservation. We advise you to consult these instructions regularly as they may be modified from time to time, and without notice.

1. Intellectual property

The www.sanofistudies.com website (hereinafter the “site”) is owned and operated by Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement, belonging to the Sanofi group. The presentation and each of the elements, including trademarks, logos, and domain names appearing on the site are protected by intellectual property laws and (i) are held by Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement or its affiliates or (ii) are held by third parties and are subject to an authorization of use granted to Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement by their owners.

No material from the site may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, uploaded, distorted, transmitted, or distributed in any manner or in any medium, in part or in whole, without the prior written consent of Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement, except strictly for the purposes of the press and subject to the respect of intellectual property rights and any other proprietary rights that are mentioned. Only copying for private usage is permitted for your personal, private, and non-commercial use on your personal computer or through sharing tools offered on the site.

The following notice shall appear on all copies authorized in whole in or in part of the site’s content: “COPYRIGHT SANOFI 2021-2023. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.”

Elements composing or contained in the site authorization for use may not be distorted, modified, or altered in any way.

Sanofi or its affiliates reserve the right to take legal action against any counterfeit of its intellectual property rights.

2. Information

2.1 Nature of information

The information provided on the site does not constitute an invitation to prescribe or purchase drugs or other specialties marketed by the Sanofi group.

The information provided on the site shall not be considered as an invitation to invest. They shall not be interpreted as canvassing or public offering, and do not constitute either an offer to subscribe, purchase, or deal in Sanofi shares or any other securities issued by Sanofi and/or its affiliates.

As the case may be, expert opinions concerning a particular area in relation with the content of the site shall be posted on the site, or extracts from press articles. Such information represents only the opinions of the respective experts or of the newspaper, which opinions are not necessarily those of the Sanofi group. Such experts are not employees of the Sanofi group and do not receive any compensation from Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement for the use of their opinion. Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any information or opinions set forth in such materials. Expert advice reflects only the personal view of that expert, and in no case shall it be regarded as the opinion or responsibility of Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement.

2.2 Product and medical information 

The site contains information relating to the health, fitness, medical domain, and various kinds of medical treatments reserved exclusively for use by human beings and which might only be available – if and when officially approved by competent health regulatory authorities – upon prescription from a medical doctor or qualified professional. This is for information purposes only and is not meant to complete or be a substitute for the advice provided by your own physician or pharmacist. You should not use the information contained herein for diagnosing any illness or physical problems or in order to prescribe or use any medication presented on the site. You should always consult your own physician or pharmacist. Please note that certain sections of this site may be intended only for particular audiences, such as health care professionals and/or the general public. 

Product information may be provided on this site and is intended for general information purposes only. The information contained and broadcasted on the site may contain direct or indirect references to products, programs, and services of the Sanofi group which are not proposed or available in certain countries or regions, or which may be offered under a different trademark, and which may be subject to different regulations and conditions of use according to the country. Such references do not imply any intention on the part of the Sanofi group to sell these products, programs, or services in your country. You should not construe anything on this site as a promotion or advertisement for any product or for the use of any product that is not authorized by the laws and regulations of your country.

This site contains information relating to the conduct of clinical studies and information on products currently in development. Users must be aware that some products are not and might not have been granted approval from any regulatory authorities. Sanofi makes no representation or warranties that these products will be granted approval from any health regulatory authorities. Consequently, users shall be aware that certain sections of this site are intended only for certain kinds of expert users (e.g., physicians interested in the clinical studies) or only for audiences in certain countries.

The site is not intended to be used for reporting health problems, adverse reactions, filing technical complaints about Sanofi group products, or asking technical or medical questions about such products.  

If you have any questions about one of our products or if you wish to report a quality defect or an adverse reaction, please follow the appropriate steps outlined below: 

  • For healthcare professionals: if you wish to report an unexpected adverse event occurred in a patient treated by one of our products, please use the current procedure in force, in your country.
  • For patients: please contact your personal physician. You may also report any adverse event, adverse reaction, incident, or risk of incident related to a health product to the health authorities using the current procedure enforced in your country.

If you have a medical problem, consult your physician or pharmacist.

3. Links to other sites

The responsibility of Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement will not be called into account with regard to any third-party site to which you may have gained access via the site. We have no way of controlling the content of these third-party sites which remain totally independent from Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement. In addition, the existence of a link between the site and any third-party site in no way implies that Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement in any way approves the content of this site, or, moreover, any use to which such content may be put.

Furthermore, it is your responsibility to take the necessary precautions to prevent the site being contaminated by, including, but not limited to, one or more “viruses”, “Trojan horses”, or any other “parasites”.

External sites may contain hyperlinks leading to the site. Any such hyperlink shall not be installed without Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement’s express prior consent. In any case, Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement is in no way responsible for the unavailability of such external sites and Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement does not review, control, approve, nor is it responsible for any content, advertising, products, or other materials available on or accessible via those sites.

4. Privacy, Protection of Personal Data and Confidential Information

4.1 Privacy and Protection of Personal Data

Sanofi fully understands the importance of privacy and the protection of personal data in the digital era and is committed to ensuring an adequate level of data protection for all persons with whom Sanofi has dealings. We invite you to read the Privacy Policy to get more information about the processing of personal data.

Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement is the data controller for the processing of personal data collected through this website.

Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement:
1 avenue Pierre Brossolette
91380 Chilly-Mazarin
Tel: +33 (0)1 60 49 77 77
Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement is a Corporation (Société Anonyme) with capital of 37,601,855 Euros, registered with the RCS of EVRY under the number 713 002 269 (SIREN). 

4.2 Confidential information

The site is not designed to receive any confidential information which you may submit. Consequently, and except for the personal data mentioned above, any information in whatever form - documents, data, graphics, questions, suggestions, concepts, remarks or other - which you communicate on the website will in no way be deemed confidential. Consequently, the mere transmission by you gives us the right to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, or transmit this information in order to process your request.

5. Limitations of liability

Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement makes every effort to ensure to the best of its abilities the accuracy and update of the information broadcasted on the site, whose content the company reserves the right to change at any time and without prior notice. Nonetheless, Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement cannot fully guarantee the accuracy, precision, update, or exhaustiveness of the information made available on the site.

As a result, and with the exception of direct damage resulting from willful misconduct or gross negligence by Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement, the latter cannot be held liable for:

  • any imprecision, inaccuracy, or omission relative to the information provided on the site,
  • any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party leading to the modification of the information or materials provided on the site,
  • in a more general way, any damage, direct or indirect, regardless of its cause, origin, nature, or consequences, even while Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement has been aware of the possibility of such damage, whether it be the result of (i) access or inability to access the site, (ii) the use of the site, including any damage or virus which may infect your computer system or any other product, and/or (iii) credit given to any information provided directly or indirectly by the site.

The materials on the site and all other sites are provided “as is”, without any kind of warranty, whether express or implied. Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement does not offer any express or implied warranty relative without limitation to their merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Any claims arising in connection with your use of this site or any of its content must be brought within one (1) year of the date of the event giving rise to such action occurred.

6. Availability of the website

You acknowledge that (i) it is technically impossible that the site will be provided free of defaults and that Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement cannot take any responsibility for this, (ii) that defaults may lead to the temporary unavailability of the site, and that (iii) the operation of the site may be adversely affected by conditions and performances outside Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement’s control, such as, for example, transmission and telecommunication links between Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement and you and between Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement and other systems and networks.

Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement and/or its suppliers may, at any time, temporarily or permanently modify or interrupt, all or part of the site in order to perform maintenance work and/or make improvements and/or changes to the site. Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement is not liable for any modification to or suspension or interruption of the site.

7. Legal framework

The site and its content are governed by the Laws of France. Any possible litigation referring to the site and its content will come under the competence of French Courts.

If any provision of this Legal Notice is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Legal Notice.

8. Legal notice

8.1 Site Editor

Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement
1 avenue Pierre Brossolette
91380 Chilly-Mazarin
Tel.: +33 (0)1 60 49 77 77

Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement, a Corporation (Société Anonyme) with capital of 37,601,855 Euros, registered with the RCS of EVRY under the number 713 002 269 (SIREN).

8.2 Publishing Director

Lionel Bascles
Chairman and Managing Director of Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement

8.3 Site hosting

Primary:
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
County Dublin, Ireland

Secondary:
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Paris, France

9. Social Networks – Terms of use  

This section is subject to the Sanofi group social media community guidelines which can be found in the legal notice of Sanofi here: https://www.sanofi.com/fr/legal-notice 

10. Credits

10.1 Photo credits

Sanofi-owned images