Introduction

This confidentiality charter applies to the website of the AREVA group published by AREVACOM, www.alternatives.areva.com, and not necessarily to the AREVA group’s other websites.

By reading this, you are aware of the confidentiality charter applicable to this site.<
By accessing the site and using it, you are accepting the provisions of this confidentiality charter.
Refusal to accept the provisions of this charter will prevent you from accessing the services supplied by this site.
The name AREVA cited in this charter shall be taken to mean AREVA and/or its service providers contributing or having contributed to the creation of this website.

Data collected

Non-personal information collected automatically

AREVA agrees to maintain the confidential nature of the identity of visitors to its website. AREVA may supply overall statistics concerning visitors to the site, data concerning their profiles and other information to third parties related to the site; in no event shall such statistics include information enabling personal identification.

Collection of personal information

To be able to respond to your questions or requests and to manage systems for interaction with the public, AREVA may need to ask you for personal information such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone numbers, etc., on either a required or optional basis. This information shall be kept and processed fairly and lawfully. It will be recorded for specific and legitimate purposes and shall be used in accordance with those purposes. It shall be appropriate, relevant and not excessive in relation to those purposes. It shall be the subject of precautions aimed at ensuring the security of the data to prevent that data from being damaged, changed, destroyed or transmitted to unauthorized third parties.
If the internet user does not provide the required information, the form will not be accepted and his or her information will not be saved.

Purpose of data collection

The purpose of data collection is:

• to enable AREVA to answer your requests and contact you by mail, e-mail or telephone to inform you of updates to the group's news or to its website; and
• to enable the internet user to access interactive areas of AREVA’s www.areva.com website and to the site devoted to the magazine of the AREVA group.

Receiver(s) of the collected information

If you order a publication, request a service or submit content on this website, AREVA may need to contact you to get additional information required to process your request.

However, AREVA shall not supply this information to a third party without your authorization, except in the case of legal requirements or the need to process your request, or for the management of systems for public interaction.

You also grant to AREVA the right to share any information provided with its suppliers and affiliates for the processing mentioned above. In that case, said suppliers and affiliates shall be notified of corrections and/or cancellations of specific personal information.

Duration of conservation of personal information

Personal data and/or information related to the internet user’s navigation on our site shall not be kept beyond the period of time required for related processing purposes, not to exceed five years.

Security

The fact of supplying personal data (whether directly on the site, by telephone or by internet) is never completely without risk and electronic communication systems are not totally protected against “sabotage” or “piracy”; AREVA shall endeavor to take the appropriate measures aimed at prevention, preservation of data integrity, and risk reduction, in particular by preventing any access to your personal information by unauthorized third parties and any abusive or inaccurate use of same.

Data processing and civil liberties

At its own initiative or at your request, AREVA may supplement, change or delete incomplete, inaccurate or outdated personal data that has been stored and which relates to the operation of this site.

In addition, the AREVA group’s “Alternatives” website was subject to registration on the list maintained by the AREVA Data Processing and Civil Liberties Coordinator with the French national commission on data processing and civil liberties (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, CNIL), Hélène Legras, in accordance with Law No. 2004-801 of August 6, 2004, amending Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 pertaining to “Data processing, files and civil liberties”. For example, you can gain access to your data and ask that it be changed or deleted by simply contacting the site webmaster.

Any member of the AREVA site forum has the right to make changes and may ask the department in charge of access rights at any time that his or her contributions be deleted. In view of the technical constraints, internet users shall formulate their requests for deletion no later than one (1) month after the initial publication of the message on the AREVA site.

Visitor identification

In addition to the personal information you may supply, this site may use technologies capable of collecting certain technical information, such as your IP address, your computer’s operating system, the type of browser you use, how data circulates, etc.

AREVA may on occasion use cookies to record information related to your computer’s navigation on our website (pages accessed, date and time of connection).

A cookie is not capable of identifying you by name.

The collection of this type of information may be used by AREVA to improve this site.

If you do not want to receive cookies, or if you want to be notified of their use, you can change your Internet browser settings as follows:

• if you use Internet Explorer 3 or 4 (Microsoft) for browsing: click on “display”, “options”, “advanced”. Among the various options from which you may select, the fourth one is entitled "notify before accepting cookies" and, for Internet Explorer 4, the fifth is entitled "always refuse cookies";
• if you use Navigator Gold 3 (Netscape) for browsing: click on “options”, “network preferences”, “protocols”. Among the various options from which you may select, the first one is entitled “notify before accepting a cookie”. You will be notified when a cookie arrives and you can refuse to have it recorded.

Minors

No information may be supplied to AREVA by persons age 18 years or less without the prior consent of a parent or a legal guardian.

Changes

AREVA reserves the right to change this confidentiality charter and to change or delete access to this site. AREVA may also change its content at any time, with or without prior notice.

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