LEGAL MENTIONS

This website and its content, which may be modified from time to time, are subject to a

  • Trademark and copyright notice
  • Legal disclaimer
  • Privacy statement

and maintained for informational purposes only enhancing public access to information about Holcim, one of the world's leading suppliers of cement and aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel) as well as further activities such as ready-mix concrete and asphalt including services.

If you do not agree with these legal notices, please do not use this website.

Disclaimer

The web site www.durabric.com is owned by Holcim Ltd, Zürcherstrasse 156, 8645 Jona, Switzerland.

Publication Director and Chief Editor: François Perrot, Head Affordable Housing, Holcim.
Hosting company:

Amazon Web Services
LLC 1200 12th Avenue South Seattle,
Washington 98144-2734 AWS

Nothing on this web site should be construed as constituting a proposition of sale or purchase. All the products, processes and programmes presented on the web site www.durabric.com are not necessarily available in each country. Consequently, the user of this web site recognizes to use this information under their own responsibility.

Holcim is bound only by a best-endeavours obligation concerning the information it makes available to persons visiting its web site www.durabric.com

Although we have made every effort to ensure the reliability of the information contained on this web site, Holcim may not be held liable for any errors or omissions, or for any results that may be obtained by using such information. In particular, using hypertext links at our site may involve you being transferred to other servers, over which Holcim has no control, to find information.

The web site www.durabric.com is normally accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. In case of major difficulty such as those related to our information system or to the structure of telecommunications networks or any other technical issue, for maintenance reasons or according to any decision of Holcim, - this list is not exhaustive - the access to all or part of the site can be interrupted.

The web site can be modified without any notice.

Special notice for American users of the www.durabric.com website: The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 provides safeguards to protect children who use the Internet by regulating the online collection of personal information from children under the age of 13. According to this Act, "(...) if you operate a general audience web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children, you must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)." 
Holcim does not intend to collect any Personal Identification Information from children under the age of thirteen years old.
owever, if children under the age of thirteen years old provide Personal Identification Information to us, their parents or legal guardian should request that we delete this information from our files by sending us an email at durabric@holcim.com.
We will use all reasonable efforts to delete children's information from our files.

Further information about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 may be found on the Federal Trade Commission's website http://www.ftc.gov.

Copyright

Holcim is the owner of all right, title and interest in the name of Holcim. You are prohibited from using the name of Holcim without the positive authorization of Holcim. This site and its content are protected according to the intellectual property code, particularly with regard to branding, copyrights, drawings and patterns.

Under applicable laws and international treaties and agreements containing provisions on the protection of copyright, you are prohibited from reproducing (other than for your private use), selling, distributing, issuing, broadcasting, adapting, modifying, publishing, communicating in full or in part in any form the data, presentation or organization of the site, or the works protected by copyright shown on the website www.durabric.com without the specific prior written consent of the holder of the copyright attaching to the work, the presentation or organization of the site, or the data reproduced.

You are also prohibited from introducing data by whatever means to the Holcim website www.durabric.com that would modify or be likely to modify the content or appearance of the data, the presentation or organization of the site, or the works featured on the Durabric website. 
For more information, contact the webmaster at the following address:  durabric@holcim.com.

Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks to the website www.durabric.com

Simple hyperlinks to the home page of www.durabric.com may be set up freely as long as they are not used for commercial or advertising purposes and under the condition that the express notice "On the Holcim Durabric website" (or any other similar or more detailed notice) is clearly pointed out on the link or next to the link.

Holcim disclaims any liability for the use of this website or any website linked to it and shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for any direct, incidental, special, indirect, punitive or other consequential damages arising out of your access, use or inability to use this website or any website linked to from this site, or any errors or omissions in the content thereof, including, but not limited to viruses, that may infect your computer equipment, or any loss of business, profits, data or use.

This authorization is not relevant for websites conveying unlawful, pornographic, xenophobic, subversive, immoral and offensive to human dignity content or any other content which may, to a greater extent, affect the sensitivity of many.

Deep links to any document other than the home page of www.durabric.com, notwithstanding the shape and content of these links, are prohibited unless express and prior authorization from Holcim. It should include in particular, but not exclusively, any document of graphic type, any multimedia or text document.

Any reproduction or any use, even partial, of any element of the website www.durabric.com, within a third party website by framing, inlining or any other similar process are strictly prohibited unless exceptional authorization from Holcim.  

The authorization for the setting of above-mentioned hyperlinks should be requested to the following e-mail address durabric@holcim.com. Such request should mention the URL where the hyperlinks are asked to be set up.

The access to the page incorporating the hyperlinks to the website www.durabric.com should be free.


Hyperlinks to third party websites

This website may contain hyperlinks to other Holcim websites but also to external websites. Such hyperlinks are provided for your convenience only. 

Holcim does not express any opinion on and is not responsible for the content of any third party website linked to from this website or through which you may have gained access to this website. Holcim makes no representations whatsoever about any third party website and expressly disclaims any liability for all such third party information and the use of it.

Our partners

The www.durabric.com website is produced by the Affordable Housing Department of the Holcim Group in association with the following partners:

Amazon Web Services, for hosting
LLC 1200 12th Avenue South Seattle,
Washington 98144-2734 AWS
http://aws.amazon.com
 

Edifixio, for the technical implementation of the site and for the hosting administration & supervision
123 rue Jules Guesde
92300 Levallois-Perret - France
Tel.: + 11 33 1 56 90 50 40 - Fax: + 33 1 56 90 50 20
www.edifixio.com

Personal data

Holcim uses the questionnaires found on the www.durabric.com website to collect data regarding visitors to the site. This data allows us to respond to your requests for information. Personal information collected in this way is restricted to basic contact information (last name, first name, job title, organization name, e-mail address).

You may send e-mails to the email address shown on the website. Each message will contain your e-mail address and any additional information that you wish to include in the message.

Tracking techniques may be used on our website as a means of enhancing your navigational experience. Any personal information so collected is destined for use by Holcim and Holcim's affiliates and partners. Holcim will never share a user's personal data with any third party, unless the user himself specifically requests this. Holcim deletes users' IP addresses six months after their last visit to the site.

A session cookie is created when you visit the www.durabric.com website. Cookies record information about your visit to our site (pages visited, date and time of visit, etc.) on your computer's hard drive. This information can be used during your next visit to the website. This cookie remains on your computer for 30 minutes. You can block these cookies by modifying the security parameters of your browser (for example, Tools / Options on Microsoft Explorer 6).

Photo and icon credits

Holcim is the owner of all Intellectual Property rights arising from the pictures available on this website (or at least, has been duly authorized by the relevant owner). Consequently, you should not licence, sell, rent, loan the pictures without the prior written consent of Holcim.

The content of the pictures might also be subject to Copyright. It is your responsibility to use the pictures in accordance with the legal requirements in your country or to ask for the relevant authorization from the Copyright owner. 

Holcim cannot be held responsible if you do not comply with these Terms of Use.

Photographs: Yves Chanoit.

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