TERMS & CONDITIONS (“T&Cs”)

This website is owned and operated by SANOFI WINTHROP INDUSTRIE (“SANOFI”, “we”, or “us”), 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 are owned by or licensed to SANOFI or its subsidiaries. 

No material from the site may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, uploaded, distorted, transmitted or distributed in any manner or in any medium, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of SANOFI, except for non-commercial or personal use (including financial or media reporting purposes), on the condition that all intellectual property rights and all other property rights are respected. 

You will ensure that the following statement appears on any authorized (in accordance with the above) copy of the whole or part of the content of this site: “COPYRIGHT © 2024 – SANOFI WINTHROP INDUSTRIE – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.”

All authorized copies of text, images, visuals or other material published on this Site, whether constituting this Site or being included within it, must not be distorted, modified or altered in any way whatsoever.

SANOFI or its subsidiaries reserve the right to take legal action against any infringement of its intellectual property rights.

SANOFI provides an innovation platform service accessible at  

https://sanofi.agorize.com/en/challenges/hackathon (“Website”), which allows the organizing company looking for innovative ideas for problems and programs to connect with innovators.
These T&Cs govern your access to and use of the Website and its Services.

By opening an account on the Website, you must tick a box, and confirm that you have read and accepted these T&Cs, which form a legally binding contract between you and SANOFI.

If you wish to participate in a specific Program, you will be asked to review and accept the rules applicable to the specific Program. 

Please read the following carefully. If you do not accept these T&Cs, do not use the Website. We may amend these T&Cs at any time by posting an updated version to this web page and notifying you before the amended T&Cs take effect. 

To improve your user experience, we may also modify, without prior notice, the structure and design of our Website, as well as some Services or content.

In this document,
“Account” means the account that must be created to become a Member and access the Services offered by the Website;
"Brief" means the concise statement of the instructions and guidelines for thea Program prepared by the organizing company;
"Program" means an invitation for proposals to solve a specific problem or program issued by an organizing company, who may offer an award for the winning Deliverables submitted via the Website by a Member registered to participate in the Program, and in accordance with the Program Rules;
“Program Rules” refers to the rules applicable to the Program and which are binding between the organizing company and each Program participant. In the event of discrepancies or contradictions with the T&Cs, the Program Rules shall apply; 
“Community” refers to all Members of the Website;
“Deliverables” all submissions, original ideas, documents or other materials (such as presentations, videos, etc.) uploaded to the Website by Members in response and as a solution to the Program;
“Member” means any individual having an Account on the Website;
“Services” means all products, services, content, features, technologies or functions delivered by us via the Website.

 

• Opening an Account

1. Conditions

    b. Creating an Account 

The Website allows Members to 

• view and enroll in the Program. 
• to interact with other Members or SANOFI through message boards, chat, email and messaging. 

You can view the Briefs and the Program if you are not registered, but you cannot enroll in or participate in the Program without first opening an Account and becoming a Member. 

To create your Account, you must complete the mandatory fields in the registration form (e.g., name, email, country and function). An Account activation link will be emailed to you; your Account is activated once you click on the link. 

To open an Account, you must have read and accepted these T&Cs and our Privacy Notice

     c. Accuracy of Account Information

You agree that your profile Account contains accurate and true information, and that you will update it, as needed.

    d. Password
You are responsible for keeping your Account password confidential. You agree to inform us if there is an unauthorized use of your Account or a security breach, such as loss or theft of your login information. 

 

The Website is an online innovation platform on which the organizer can create and post Briefs and Programs in which Members can participate, subject to the specific conditions of the Program as set out in the Program Rules.

As a Member:

• you may access a personalized space on the Website that contains your profile, allows you to view the Program in which you have enrolled, and to communicate and exchange messages, including by email and chat, with Members, mentors, and SANOFI;
• you may register for Program, provided you meet the conditions of the Program Rules;
• you may participate in the Program, individually, as a representative of a business entity, or by creating or joining a team, as specified in the Program Rules;
• you may upload Deliverables in response to the Program, as specified in the Program Rules;
• you may retrieve the data and Deliverables that you submitted during your participation in the Program, as specified in the Program Rules.

SANOFI may offer awards for the winning Deliverables submitted by Members registered to participate in the Program, in accordance with the Program Rules.
The organizing company is solely responsible for assessing all Deliverables and independently deciding, in accordance with their own criteria, on the winner(s) of the Program. Decisions made by the organizing company are considered final.

  

You may communicate with other Members, mentors or SANOFI via the Website. Any information you provide on the Website, both during registration and use of the Services (such as, public message board postings, emails, chats, Deliverables, etc.) is subject to the following:

• You agree that content posted by you will be accurate and will not: (i) infringe any third party’s copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy, or (ii) violate any law (including export control, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising).
• Regarding Deliverables, you guarantee that (i) you are the owner or authorized user of the intellectual property contained in your Deliverable and that (ii) you are not required to transfer your rights over the Deliverable to a third party pursuant to an employment relationship or other contract; or that (iii) you have obtained any necessary authorizations from your employer or co-contracting party before submitting the Deliverables. At any time, you may be asked to make legally binding warranties and representations to the organizing company in relation to a Deliverable or any specific information that you submit.
• You are solely responsible for the content that you publish or upload to the Website, and for the transfer of technologies or information with which you are involved. SANOFI expressly disclaims any liability or responsibility thereto.

There are certain rules that apply to Members. When using our Website, you agree:

• to not submit to us or other Members, mentors or the jury false, misleading, malicious or fraudulent information;
• to not post content of a defamatory, injurious, obscene, pornographic, vulgar, offensive, aggressive, uncalled-for, violent, threatening, harassing, racist or xenophobic nature, or with sexual connotations, inciting violence, discrimination or hatred, encouraging illegal activities, or more generally content that is contrary to good morals or the purposes of the Website;
• to not infringe the rights and image of SANOFI, such as its intellectual property rights;
• to not open more than one Account on the Website or open an Account in the name of a third party;
• to not use the Account of another Member;
• to not try to bypass the Website, such as by trying to contact or send the organizing company your Deliverables outside of the Website;
• to not transfer data that contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses or any computer file or program that could interrupt, destroy or limit the functioning of any computer or network linked directly or indirectly to the Website;
• to not use any device, software or routine that could interfere with the proper working of the Website or which is intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
• to not to take any action (such as, spamming) that imposes an unreasonable load on our Website;
• to not violate the principle of confidentiality, which may exist within the framework of thea Program; and
• to, more generally, not to act in a way that violates the law or breaches these T&Cs.
  
  

Within the framework of the Program, you may be required to maintain certain information confidential.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold SANOFI harmless, from and against all claims, actions or demands, liabilities, and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees, arising from your unauthorized and prohibited disclosure of confidential information.

SANOFI makes every effort to ensure that the information made available on this Website is accurate and up to date. Nonetheless, SANOFI does not provide any representation, guarantee or warranty, whether express or implied, as to the accuracy, precision or comprehensiveness of such information, nor does it represent, guarantee or warrant that the information is up to date.

Except for direct damage resulting from willful misconduct or gross negligence by SANOFI, SANOFI is not and will not be liable for:

• any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission in the information made available on this Website;
• any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party leading to the modification of the information or materials made available on this Website; or
• any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred in connection with this Site, irrespective of whether SANOFI was aware of the possibility of such loss or damage, and whether as a result of:
• access or inability to access this Website; 
• use of, or inability to use, this Website, including any damage caused by a distributed denial of service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material which may have infected your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any Website linked to it; 
• and/or use of or reliance on any information provided directly or indirectly by this Website.

You can terminate your contractual relations with SANOFI and close your Account at any time by clicking on the “Delete your profile” tab on your profile page or by contacting SANOFI. The termination takes effect immediately.

If you breach your undertakings as set out in these T&Cs or if we have genuine reason to believe that the security and integrity of SANOFI, its Members or third parties are at risk, we reserve the right to:

• immediately terminate these T&Cs binding you and SANOFI; and
• temporarily or permanently suspend your Account.

When this is necessary, you will be notified of such measures to enable you to respond. SANOFI will decide, at its sole discretion, whether to lift the measures put in place.

In using the Website and registering as a Member, you acknowledge and accept the processing of your personal data by us as set out in our Privacy Notice.

We shall try as far as possible to maintain the Website continually accessible. But access to the Website or the use of certain features may be suspended or disrupted without notice, due to technical maintenance, migration, or updates, or owing to outages or constraints linked to the network or for other technical reasons.

We reserve the right to modify or suspend all or part of your access to the Website or its features, at our sole discretion, temporarily or permanently.

Our Website may contain links to other websites. We do not control those websites and are not responsible for their content. By including these links, we are not endorsing the material on those websites or implying any association with their operators.

These T&Cs and the documents integrated by reference express the entire agreement between you and SANOFI relative to your use of the Website and the Services.

SANOFI may modify these T&Cs to adapt to its technological and commercial environment, and to comply with the law. Any modification to these T&Cs will be published on the Website with mention of the effective date, and you will be notified by SANOFI before the changes take effect.

These T&Cs are governed and construed in accordance with French law, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

We invite you to submit to us any complaints that you might have using the contact information provided above. If a contractual dispute between you and SANOFI cannot be amicably resolved, you may use mediation free of charge, and may consult https://www.economie.gouv.fr/mediation-conso to appoint a mediator.

If the dispute cannot be settled by mediation, you irrevocably agree to submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of the competent court of Paris, France.

For the exclusive benefit of SANOFI, SANOFI shall also retain the right to bring proceedings as to the substance of the matter in the courts of the country of your residence or, where these T&Cs are entered into in the course of your trade or profession, in the country of your principal place of business.

 1. Website Editor 

SANOFI WINTHROP INDUSTRIE, a public company with capital of €318,510.016, registered with the RCS of Créteil under no. 775 662 257, having its registered office at 82 Avenue Raspail, 94250 Gentilly, France. 

2. Publishing Director

Audrey Derveloy, CEO of SANOFI WINTHROP INDUSTRIE. 

3. Website hosting  

Region of operations (i.e. servers location):

eu-west-3 (Paris, France)

Headquarters:

Amazon Web Services, 

Inc. P.O. Box 81226 Seattle, 

WA 98108-1226 

http://aws.amazon.com

 

• Credit for Website design 

AGORIZE
15 rue Béranger

75003 PARIS

contact@agorize.com
Tel: (+33) 01 55 43 79 45