Terms and Conditions of Use

Welcome to cle-academy.net, the Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) educational website.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. All users of the CLE Academy educational website (the “website” or “site”) agree that access to and use of this site are subject to the following terms and conditions (the “Terms”) and other applicable law. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use this site. Your use of this site shall be deemed to be an acceptance of these Terms.

1. GENERAL

This website was funded through an educational initiative provided by Mauna Kea Technologies (RCS 431268028), who provides this website for general informational and educational purposes only. The content was authored by the respective physician conducting the course. It is not intended nor implied to be professional medical advice, or substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment and should not be used or relied on for such purposes.

All content and information available on or through this website is to be used only as an aid in understanding current knowledge about CLE and is not sufficient for medical decisions. Any diagnostic assessment should always be made by the attending physician, based on the evaluation of all sources of clinical, endoscopic and other relevant information. In no event shall Mauna Kea Technologies be liable of any use of the information contained in this website.

Your access to this website is a privilege, and not a right. cle-academy.net reserves the right to suspend your access to the website at any time for reasons that include, but are not necessarily limited to, your failure to abide by these Terms.

cle-academy.net reserves the right to manage your access to the different sections of this website, depending on your profile, and at its sole discretion.
 

2. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

This website and all information it contains is intended for use by medical professionals and is provided on an "AS IS" basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation, any warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or accuracy.

cle-academy.net relies on the authors and contributors of content items to confirm the accuracy of the information presented, and to describe generally accepted practices, and therefore we as the publisher and editor, cannot warrant its accuracy. You should be aware that professionals may have different opinions. Because of this fact and also because of regular advances in medical research, we strongly recommend that you independently verify all information. Ultimately it is your responsibility to make your own professional judgments.

THIS WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED NOR IMPLIED TO BE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE, OR SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED OR RELIED ON FOR SUCH PURPOSES.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Mauna Kea Technologies, its subsidiary, Cellvizio®, or any of their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, managers, employees, agents, licensors or suppliers, or the editors or moderators of this website and/or contributors, be liable for injury or damage caused to any person or property, whether direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential, resulting from use of this website or the application of the information or content contained on or accessible through this website.

cle-academy.net does not make any representations or warranties that the functions contained in the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any defects will be corrected, that this site or the server that makes the site available are free of viruses or other harmful components, or as to the use of the materials on this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, adequacy, usefulness, timeliness, reliability or otherwise.

3. RIGHTS IN CONTENT AND LICENSE GRANT TO USERS

The site content, including but not limited to Cellvizio® sequences from this website, which are anonymous data, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This license gives you the right to reproduce the information provided in respect to the uses:

All content contained here is and shall remain the property of Mauna Kea Technologies and/or its content suppliers.

4.COPYRIGHT 

© Mauna Kea Technologies 2019. All rights reserved.

The reproduction or representation, total or partial of the pages, data or any other core element of the site, by any means or on any media, is forbidden and constitutes, when not authorized by the Publishing Director, an infringement of copyrights.

5. TRAINING ASSISTANCE

The clinical classification of the sequences shown in the website is validated by co-localized histology or cytology when available or relevant clinical data available otherwise.

Note that the CLE Certificate that you may obtain through the Certification section does not constitute an official certification.

6. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

In an attempt to provide increased value to our site users, this site may link to sites operated by third parties. However, even if the third party is affiliated with Mauna Kea Technologies, Mauna Kea Technologies has no control over these linked sites, all of which have separate practices, and, as a result of which, Mauna Kea Technologies shall not be responsible. These linked sites are only for your convenience and therefore your access to them is at your own risk. Nonetheless, Mauna Kea Technologies seeks to protect the integrity of its website and the links placed upon it and therefore requests any feedback on not only its own site, but for sites that this website links to as well (including whether a specific link does not work).

7. TERM AND TERMINATION

These terms and conditions are applicable to you upon your accessing the site and/or completing the registration. These terms and conditions, or any part of them, may be terminated by cle-academy.net without notice at any time, for any reason. The provisions of Sections 2 and 4 through 10 shall survive any termination.

8. NOTIFICATIONS

Mauna Kea Technologies may deliver notifications to you by means of e-mail, a general notice on the site, or by other reliable method to the address you have provided to cle-academy.net.

9. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Mauna Kea Technologies, Cellvizio®, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates, including officers, directors, managers, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers, and the editors and moderators of this website, from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms or any activity related to your account (including negligent or wrongful conduct) or use of this site by you or any other person accessing the site using your account.

10. GOVERNING LAW

This Legal Notice is governed by the laws of France.

 

PRIVACY POLICY

As a data controller, we, Mauna Kea Technologies, are committed to the right to privacy for our website visitors.

When you visit our website, MKT collects and tracks some information to helps us to improve upon the content provided on our site. Information collected may include how long you spend on our site, the pages you visit, your browser and operating system types and the name of your Internet service provider.

Our website provides the capability to request information on-line. To process your request, we need to collect some personal identifying information. The collected information will be used and stored after the last contact for a maximum of 2 years, unless otherwise stated. They may be transferred to our internal departments providing the services required or dealing with your requests. These personal data might be communicated to some of our Company’s suppliers in order to be processed on behalf of Mauna Kea Technologies, or to any company being part of the Group Mauna Kea Technologies sharing this type of information. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to locations outside Europe for the purposes described above.

The French law "Informatique et Libertés" of January 6, 1978 and the European regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) entitles you to access, correct, delete, request restriction or objection of processing the personal information you provided to us and data portability.
 

If you wish to exercise this right, please send us a message indicating your surname, firstname and address to:

Mauna Kea Technologies
Data Protection Officer
9 rue d'Enghien
75010, Paris, France

Tel: +33 (0)1 48 24 03 45
Or by e-mail to this address : dataprotection@maunakeatech.com
If necessary, you can send a complaint to the CNIL, www.cnil.fr