Legal Notices/Terms of Use

Legal Notices

ERAMET, a French Société Anonyme (public limited company) registered in Paris with company number B 632 045 381.

Address of ERAMET head office:

10, boulevard de Grenelle 

CS 63205 – 75015 Paris

FRANCE

Tel.: + 33 (0) 1 45 38 38 88

Publication Director: Mrs Christel Bories

Site implementation and hosting

Implementation:

Hosting:

ERAMET (ERAMET) allows visits and users (Visitors) of its website https://srm.eramet.com to access this site based on (and subject to) acceptance of the following terms:

Terms of Use

Website owner and Intellectual Property

ERAMET owns and manages this website. ERAMET has put in place appropriate policies for updating the website.

All elements belonging to ERAMET and/or its subsidiaries, such as but not limited to the website, brand names, designs, models, images, text, photos, logos, graphics charter, software, search engines and databases, are the sole property of ERAMET. These Terms of Use do not represent any sale or grant of intellectual property rights whatsoever to the Visitor or any third party over the elements belonging to ERAMET and/or its subsidiaries. Any total or partial representation of the website without express permission from ERAMET is prohibited and shall constitute an infringement sanctioned by articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code. The marks of the website publisher and its partners, as well as the logos depicted on the website, are registered trademarks (composite or otherwise).

Hyperlinks and viruses

The website may contain links to external sites or online sources. ERAMET is unable to control these external sites and sources and therefore accepts no responsibility for them, their content, advertisements, products, services or other elements available via these external sites and sources. Visitors are entirely responsible for following these links. Visitors are also responsible for taking the necessary precautions to ensure external sites do not contain viruses or other destructive elements.

Limit of liability and exclusion of guarantee

ERAMET offers no guarantees as to the accuracy, relevance or exhaustive nature of the information on the website. This information may not be construed as an offer, invitation or solicitation to purchase or sell the products or services described on the website. Visitors accept all risks of using the information and/or data contained on the website. The website content is provided for information only. Although ERAMET endeavours to ensure the reliability of its website content, it cannot guarantee the absence of inaccuracies or omissions and will not accept liability for any mistakes or omissions or for the unavailability of information and services. ERAMET reserves the right at all times to improve and/or amend the content of its website without notice. ERAMET will not accept liability for any direct or indirect damage caused by accessing or using the website and/or its content, including the inability to access the site and any data loss, damage, destruction or a virus affecting the Visitor’s hardware, or for any virus on its website. Visitors therefore accept entire responsibility for using this information.

Registration - Password management

Visitors are issued a personal username based on the information they supply, together with a password. Visitors are required to change their password when they first log in into the site. Visitors are responsible for their own passwords and must not write them down or share them with third parties. 

Applicable law and jurisdiction

These Terms of Use apply from when they are published online and are enforceable from when the Visitor first uses the website. They are governed by French law. The French courts shall have sole territorial jurisdiction to hear any dispute (on the grounds of substance or form) relating to the use of this website. The ERAMET website is not intended for people living in jurisdictions where access to this website is prohibited (on the grounds of nationality, residence or another reason). No-one who is subject to these restrictions should access the ERAMET website.

Information supplied by Visitors - Data protection

ERAMET is very careful about how it uses personal data. It wishes to remain transparent over its policies for collecting, using and disclosing any personal data supplied by Visitors. This applies to all types of data that may be collected by cookies or other technologies used by its website.

Collection and use of personal data

ERAMET stores the personal data supplied by Visitors when registering with the website. 

This personal data includes:

• Contact details, such as name, email, address and phone number;
• Log-in details such as username and password;
• Interests and communication preferences, including preferred language.

ERAMET may also gather personal data about Visitors from public sources and data providers in order to validate and complete the information it stores.

This data may be used to communicate with the Visitor, use the SRM, comply with the law or another legal obligation.

The data will be stored for necessary duration based on the legitimate interest for which it was collected and for any other essential purposes such as compliance with our legal obligations, the keeping of commercial and financial records, dispute settlement, security, and abuse/fraud prevention and detection. Personal data will only ever be stored for the duration permitted by law.

Data disclosure

ERAMET may be required to disclose personal data to third parties if necessary in order to: 

• comply with a law, regulation, court process or other legal obligation;
• detect, investigate and prevent security issues, fraud or technical difficulties;
• ensure the technical and operational quality of the service offered;
• protect the rights, property and security of ERAMET, its users, employees and other persons.

If personal data are disclosed to third parties for these reasons, ERAMET shall apply the necessary safeguards.

Personal data may be transferred outside the Visitor’s country of residence to affiliates of the ERAMET Group in charge of processing requests, subscriptions or applications. A list of the ERAMET group of companies can be found at: http://www.eramet.com/implantations.

ERAMET has internal privacy policies and procedures to guarantee a high level of data protection by all its affiliates, irrespective of the source of the personal data or where they are processed.

ERAMET may also share personal data with service providers instructed to perform services in its name. These providers will be contractually prohibited from using or disclosing the data, unless necessary to provide the services or comply with the law.

Security 

ERAMET has taken appropriate physical, technical and administrative security measures to prevent unauthorised access to personal data supplied voluntarily by Visitors and to prevent any unauthorised use or disclosure of the data.

In the event of unauthorised third party access to personal data, the Visitor shall be informed and ERAMET will notify the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés in France, or the relevant national data protection authority if the data are not stored in France.

Rights of data subjects

• You have the right to access your personal data in order to know what information is kept about you;
• You have the right to correct your personal data, and can ask ERAMET to fix any mistakes;
• You have the right to be forgotten, and can ask ERAMET to delete any personal data that are not needed to deal with your requests;
• You have the right to data portability, and can receive all your personal data in a standard, machine-readable format, by contacting the ERAMET Data Protection Officer (dpo@eramet.com).

Finally, you can file a complaint with the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés in France if you believe your personal data have been processed in breach of the law.

ERAMET is the Data Controller and has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO). The DPO can be contacted at: dpo@eramet.com.

Cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored on the browser’s device (computer, tablet, smartphone). They allow website developers to store user data in order to improve the browsing and user experience.

About our cookies

This website https://srm.eramet.com uses cookies to (i) inform you, on your first visit to the website, about the use of cookies and your options; (ii) optimise your browsing preferences and navigation during a session; (iii) produce usage and visitor statistics in order to improve the user pathway and services offered.

Third party cookies

The website https://srm.eramet.com contains features that allow Visitors to share content, questions and opinions. These include the “share” functions of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Social networks can identify you through these features. ERAMET has no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your use of www.eramet.com. We advise reading the terms of use of these social networks to know the purposes for which they use your personal data, in particular for marketing.

How to delete or deactivate cookies

You can set your browser to warn you about cookies and ask whether you wish to accept them. You can accept or refuse cookies for each individual site, or tell your browser to always reject them. If your browser is configured to always reject cookies, you will not be able to use some of the services on our website.

Each browser has different settings. For more information, use the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/products/internet-explorer

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/#topic=7438008

Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/

Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html

Information/Contact

If you have any questions, send us an email at: dpo@eramet.com.