Identification

This site, which can be accessed via the http://www.vapaway.eu URL, (otherwise known as the 'Site') is published by COVIDIEN, a company  established under the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number B 392 906 699, head office located at:
2 rue Denis Diderot 78990 Elancourt, France

The Site publication director is:
Agnès Bornet in her capacity as EMEA Hospital Marketing Director.

The Site editorial director is:
Bettina Bovinelli in her capacity as EMEA Group Product Director - Breathing System & ITP.


Site hosting is carried out by the company PROSODIE, head office located:
150 rue Gallieni - 92100 Boulogne Billancourt
Telephone Number: +33(0)1 46 84 17 23.

Site access and usage of Site content are subject to the usage stipulations provided hereinafter. The act of accessing and browsing this site by the internet user implies full and unreserved acceptance of the following stipulations:

COVIDIEN commits itself to ensuring, to the best of its ability, that the information posted on this site is correct and up-to-date. COVIDIEN reserves the right to correct the site's content at any time and without warning. However, COVIDIEN cannot guarantee the correctness, precision, thoroughness or completeness of the information available on this site.

As a result, COVIDIEN declines responsibility:

- for any site interruption,
- for any bugs,
- for any errors or omissions contained in the information available on the site,
- for any and all damage resulting from a third party’s fraudulent intrusion which causes modifications to the information contained on the site,
- from any direct or indirect damage, whatever its cause or causes, nature, origins or consequences. This includes costs resulting from the purchase of goods on the site, profit, client and data losses or any other loss of material goods arising from anyone’s access or failed access to the website, or any credit granted to information directly or indirectly from the site.

Personal data protection

COVIDIEN is commited to preserving the confidentiality of any information provided on line by Internet users. All personal information that an Internet user transmits to COVIDIEN in exchange for the site’s services is subject to French legislation (“Informatique et Libertés” law N° 78-17 dated 6 January 1978, amended by the French law concerning the "protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of data of a personal nature" N°2004-801 dated 6 August 2004). This legislation allows Internet users to access, rectify and delete any personal information by submitting:

A written notice to the following address:

COVIDIEN
EMEA Hospital Marketing - Respiratory Division
2 rue Denis Diderot
78990 Elancourt, France


or by sending an e-mail to:
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Links

The site may include links to other websites or other Internet sources. COVIDIEN cannot control these sites and external sources. Hence, COVIDIEN cannot be held responsible for those sites or external sources, and declines any responsability for the content, advertising, products, services and any other material available on or branching off those sites and external sources. In addition, COVIDIEN cannot be held responsible for any damage or losses, true or alleged, deriving from the use or from having trusted the content, or goods and services available on those sites or external sources.

COVIDIEN Property rights

The site as well as software used in connection with the site may contain confidential information protected by existing intellectual property right legislation or any other law. Hence, unless otherwise indicated, intellectual property rights relating to documents contained on the site and to each of the elements created for the site are the exclusive property of COVIDIEN, given that COVIDIEN did not grant any license nor any other right except that of consultation to Internet users. In particular, trademarks and other intellectual property rights mentioned on the site are owned by the respective entities of COVIDIEN. The reproduction of all documents published on the site is authorized solely for personal and private use. All reproductions and all use of photocopies for other purposes are explicitly forbidden. In terms of software, it is forbidden to copy, modify, create a derived work, reverse engineer its conception or assembly – or attempt, in any way, to find the source code (except when it is allowed by law), to sell, to grant, to sublicense, to modify or to transfer the software’s property rights. It is also forbidden to modify the software or to use a modified version of the software, particularly but not exclusively in order to obtain unauthorized access to the service – or to access the website through another interface other than that provided by COVIDIEN.

Cookies

cookies make navigation on our website easier for you, while making it easier for us to manage logins and monitor user traffic.

Cookies are text files placed on your computer's hard drive by a web page server. Your computer is probably configured to accept cookies, but you can modify your parameters to reject them. We recommend you do this if you are concerned about receiving cookies.

When you visit our website to search, read, or download information, we collect and archive specific "visitor information", such as the domain name and host name of the server from which you are accessing the internet, the internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using, the date and time of your visit, and the URLs through which you were directed to our site. We then use this information to analyze and measure activity on our site in order to improve it for you. All information is then erased after a period of time.

You should be aware of cookies and this type of data collection when visiting our site.

VAPAWAY QUESTIONNAIRE

Procedures for handling, processing, storage and destruction of data collected to the restrictive access (login-password) and to the survey are compliant with the Data Protection Act of 6 january 1978 (See the Decree No 2005-1309 of 20 October 2005 enacted for the application of Act No 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on Data Processing, Files and Individual Liberties amended by Act No 2004-801 of 6 August 2004)