DISCLAIMERS

CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THE SITE


1. Site publisher and hosting:

 

Site publisher:
Total France
Limited company with a capital of 623 728 035 Euros
24, cours Michelet 92800 Puteaux - France
SIREN 542 034 921 RCS NANTERRE

 

This site is hosted by:
Total France
Limited company with a capital of 623 728 035 Euros
24, cours Michelet 92800 Puteaux - France
SIREN 542 034 921 RCS NANTERRE


2. Foreword:

The publisher has put this site on line in order to present its products and services, and provide information and recommendations related to your activity or centres of interest. The use of this site implies that you agree to be bound by the terms of the following general conditions and to observe all the applicable laws.

The companies of the Total group to which the site publisher belongs have their own legal existence and an independent legal personality. However, in this site the terms "Total", "Total Group" or, "we", refer to the site publisher.

 


3. Information on the products and services:

The products and services that are presented do not constitute an offer but a general presentation of the line of goods and services distributed by the site publisher.

For this reason, not all of these products and services may be available in certain countries. To find out whether they are distributed in the country that interests you, please contact the site publisher.

The site publisher may modify the information contained in this site concerning products and services at any time and without prior notice. This information, in particular the safety files for products, is provided without any guarantee concerning their suitability for a particular need or use.


4. Sales network:

In particular, the products and services presented in this site are distributed by a network of retailers independent of the site publisher.

In all cases, these retailers are companies that have their own legal personality and which act on their own account, without any mutual relation between them.
For this reason, when you access the information, products and services proposed by these retailers via a hypertext link, the latter are entirely responsible for the information contained in their site.


5. Personal data protection and "cookies":

 

Personal data
When visiting this site, you may be requested to provide a certain amount of personal data: this is so that we can reply to your requests for information and understand your expectations, and help you benefit from the services available on this site. These data are kept confidential and are used exclusively by the site publisher, its partners and independent retailers for the purposes of survey analyses and sales operations.

Naturally, you are entitled at any time to access, modify and delete data concerning you, by contacting us:
Total France
24, cours Michelet 92800 Puteaux - France

 

"Cookies"
When you visit this site, we wish to install a "cookie" in your computer.
A "cookie" does not enable us to identify you, but records information relating to the way your computer browsed this site (the pages you have consulted, the date and time of consultation etc.) which we can read when you next visit.

In this way, the information that you provide when filling in a questionnaire will not be asked for again. The shelf life of this information in your computer is 12 months.

You can prevent the recording of "cookies" in your computer by configuring your computer in the following way:
- If you surf the Internet with Internet Explorer 3 or 4 (Microsoft): click on "display", "options", "advanced".

Among the various warnings you can activate, the fourth is entitled "warn before accepting cookies" and, only Internet Explorer 4, the fifth is entitled "always refuse cookies".

 

- If you surf the Internet with Navigator Gold 3 (Netscape): Click on "options", "network preferences", "protocols". Among various warnings you can activate, the first is entitled  "warn before accepting a cookie". You will then be warned when a "cookie" arrives and you can prevent it from being recorded by your browser.


6. Intellectual ownership rights:

 

Royalties
All the information or documents contained in the site as well all the items created for the site are either the property of the site publisher, or are subject to the right of use, reproduction and representation granted to the latter.

The aforementioned information, documents or items are governed by the laws protecting copyright as soon as they are made available to the public on this site. Copies of the documents contained in this site can be made for the purposes of information only but exclusively for strictly private use. No license, and no right other than that of consulting the site, is conferred in relation to intellectual ownership rights.

The reproduction of documents contained in this site is authorised exclusively for informational purposes of a personal and private nature: any reproduction and any use of copies made for other purposes is expressly prohibited and subject to the prior express authorisation of the site publisher.

In all cases, the authorised reproduction of information contained in this site must indicate the source and the appropriate title of ownership.

 

Distinctive signs

Unless otherwise stipulated, the corporate names, logos, products and brands cited in this site (® and ™ products) are the property of the site publisher. They cannot be used without the prior written authorisation of the site publisher.

 

User commitment
Every visitor to the site who provides information grants the site publisher all the assignable rights relating to this information and authorises the site publisher to use same. Information provided in this way by visitors will be regarded as non-confidential.


7. Financial information:

The documents presented on this site may contain forecasts concerning the financial standing, the results of operations, as well as the activities and the industrial strategy of the site publisher. More specifically, the use of expressions such as "foresees", "expects that", as well as declarations concerning the objectives of Management, estimates and objectives concerning production and trends with regard to the results of operations are by nature forecasts.

These forecasts are based on assumptions that may prove to be inaccurate and depend on risk factors such as variations in the exchange rate, the price of petroleum products, the capacity to carry out cost reductions without unduly perturbing operations, as well as considerations concerning ecological regulations, and economic and financial conditions in general.

The site publisher is on no way responsible for updating the forecasts due to new information or future or other events. Additional information on factors that might have an effect on the financial results of the site publisher is contained in the documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission if the company is listed.


8. Hypertext links:

Activating links
The site publisher formally declines any responsibility concerning the contents of sites towards which it provides links.
These links are provided for users of this site as a service. The decision to activate the links belongs exclusively to the users of the site.

 

Authorisation to create links
If you wish to create a hypertext link to this site you must obtain the prior written authorisation from the site publisher at:

Total France – Département Compétition - 51 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle La Défense 10
92007 Paris La Défense Cedex.


9. Limitations of liability

The information and recommendations ("Information") available on this site are provided in good faith. The information is supposed to be correct when it is provided.

However, the site publisher neither represents nor guarantees that the information is either exhaustive or exactitude in nature. Visitors to the site fully assume the risks related to the credit you grant to such information.

The information is provided subject to the condition that you or any other person who receives it can determine its interest for a specific purpose before using it. In no case, may the site publisher be held liable for damage likely to result from the credit granted to this information, its use or the use of a product to which it refers.

This information should not be regarded as recommendations to use information, products, procedures, equipment or formulations which may contradict a patent, copyright or trade mark.

The site publisher categorically rejects any interpretation that might equate the contents of its site with offers to purchase or incentives to acquire shares or other transferable securities of the site publisher, whether listed or not. No guarantee, explicit or implicit, is given concerning the nature of the Information provided, or concerning its suitability for a determined purpose, or with regard to the products or services to which reference is made in the Information.

In no case does the site publisher undertake to update or correct Information that is disseminated on or via this site.

Similarly, the site publisher reserves the right to modify or correct the contents of its site at any time without prior notice.


10. Updates and conditions of use of the site and governing law:

The site publisher may proceed to update these conditions of use of the site at any time. For this reason, you are invited to regularly refer to the latest conditions applicable to the use of the site.

These general conditions for site use and content are subject to French law and shall be governed by French jurisdiction.