You are connected to the AREVA group's official alternatives.areva.com website.
For complete information on its use or operation, contact the webmaster: alternatives@publicorp.fr.

Use of the alternatives.areva.com website constitutes the user's full and complete acceptance of these terms and conditions and legal notice, defined hereunder. AREVACOM may change or supplement these terms and conditions and legal notice with or without notice; alternatives.areva.com site users are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

Users may access this site at any time; however, maintenance operations may cause the site to be temporarily inaccessible.

1/ Description of the alternatives.com website

The Alternatives.areva.com website is a multimedia work belonging to AREVACOM, a simplified business corporation (Société par actions simplifiée) with share capital of 216,342 euros registered in Nanterre, France under number RCS 399 673 425, with its registered office at AREVA Tower - 1, place Jean Millier - 92084 Paris La Défense Cedex - France – Tel.: +33 1 47 96 48 40.

The AREVA group's Corporate Communications Department supplied the data to produce the alternatives.areva.com site. The person in charge of the site at the Communications Department is Mrs. Anne-Claire Lienhardt.

Mr. Michel-Hubert Jamard is the publication editor for the alternatives.areva.com site.

The site publisher is AREVACOM, a simplified business corporation (Société par actions simplifiée) with share capital of 216,342 euros, registered in Nanterre, France under number RCS 399 673 425, with registered office at AREVA Tower - 1, place Jean Millier - 92084 Paris La Défense Cedex - France – Tel.: +33 1 47 96 48 40.

The site was designed and produced by PubliCorp.

Site hosting is provided by PubliCorp Creation, 13 rue Rosenwald, 75015 Paris, France - Tel.: +33 1 55 76 11 11

Site illustrations were provided by Loungepark and Gettyimages.

2/ Intellectual Property Rights

The general organization of the site and the information, pictograms, photographs, text, images, icons, software and video footage, with or without sound, that make up the alternatives.areva.com website or that are accessible on the site are subject to intellectual property laws and are the property of AREVACOM or of third parties such as any of its suppliers, subcontractors and/or affiliated companies involved in the operation of this website, who have given AREVA their permission to use them. As such, any reproduction, representation, adaptation, publication, translation and/or modification, in whole or in part, by any process whatsoever, of the alternatives.areva.com website or of one or more of its components without the prior written consent of AREVACOM is forbidden (except for copies for private use and copies made for the press) and constitutes counterfeiting sanctioned by articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code and is likely to incur the civil and/or penal liability of its author.
The AREVA brands appearing on the alternatives.areva.com website are trademarks duly registered by AREVA. Any reproduction of these trademarks, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of AREVA is prohibited.

3/ Personal data

• Automatically collected personal information

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

• Collection of personal information

To be able to respond to site user questions or requests and to manage systems for interaction with the public, AREVACOM may need to ask them for personal information such as name, address and e-mail address, 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.
Some of the requested information is need to process user requests. If the user does not provide the required information requester of him/her, or provides incomplete information, it is possible that the form will not be validated and AREVACOM may not be able to follow up on the request; none of the information provided by the user shall be kept.

• Purpose of data collection

The purpose of data collection is to:
- enable AREVACOM to respond to requests from alternatives.areva.com website users and to send them e-mails informing them of new developments in the AREVA group or on the alternatives.areva.com website;
- give the Internet user access to the interactive areas of the alternatives.areva.com website and AREVA's areva.com website;
- generally support the operation of this website.

• Receiver(s) of the collected information

If the user orders a publication, requests a service or submits content to the alternatives.areva.com website, AREVACOM may need to contact the user to get additional information needed to process the request.

Personal information collected is for AREVACOM only.

AREVACOM will not provide this information to a third party with the permission of the user, unless otherwise required by legislative or legal requirements; in the latter case, it shall not be held liable.

However, alternatives.areva.com website users grant AREVACOM the right to share any information collected with its suppliers, subcontractors or affiliated companies to the extent necessary for the processing mentioned above. In that case, said suppliers, subcontractors and affiliated companies shall be notified of corrections and/or cancellations of personal information.

• Duration of conservation of personal information

Personal data and/or information related to the alternatives.areva.com website user's navigation 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 on the alternatives.areva.com website is never completely without risk and electronic communication systems are not totally protected against “sabotage” or “hacking”; AREVACOM shall endeavor to take the appropriate measures aimed at prevention, preservation of data integrity, and risk reduction, in particular by preventing any access to users' personal information by unauthorized third parties and any abusive or inaccurate use of same, although it cannot guarantee the user against potential “sabotage” and “hacking” operations.

• Data processing and civil liberties

At its own initiative or at the user's request, AREVACOM may supplement, change or delete incomplete, inaccurate or outdated personal data that has been stored and which relates to the operation of the alternatives.areva.com site.

The alternatives.areva.com website was subject to registration on the AREVA group's list of personal data processing 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”.
This list is maintained with the French national commission on data processing and civil liberties (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, CNIL) by the group's Data Processing and Civil Liberties Coordinator, Hélène Legras, appointed to apply the provisions of the French Law of August 6, 2004.

In application of the provisions of the aforementioned laws of January 6, 1978 and August 6, 2004, users are hereby informed that they have the right to access personal information on them and the right to amend and delete said information. This right may be exercised upon simple written or electronic request, specifying the address to which the response should be sent, to:

TMS (Alternatives)
75-77 boulevard Victor Hugo
93400 Saint-Ouen – France

4/ Users

Users of this site shall comply with these provisions and in particular the provisions of the French data processing and civil liberties law (“Loi Informatique et Libertés”). Violators of this law may be subject to criminal prosecution.

In addition, users shall not collect, capture, misrepresent or use information put on line or in general commit any act that may infringe upon a person's privacy or damage his or her reputation.

5/ Hypertext links / cookies

The insertion of hypertext links to any part of the alternatives.areva.com site is prohibited without the prior written consent of AREVACOM.

In addition to the personal information that the user may supply, the alternatives.areva.com website may use technologies capable of collecting certain technical information, such as the user's IP address, the operating system of the user's computer, the user's type of browser, how user data circulates, etc.

AREVACOM may on occasion use cookies to record information related to user computer navigation on the alternatives.areva.com website (pages accessed, date and time of connection).
A “cookie” is a small file which does not enable identification of the user by name, but records information related to a computer's navigation on a site.
By collecting this type of information, AREVACOM can facilitate and improve subsequent navigation on the alternatives.areva.com website.

The user can refuse cookies or be notified of their use with the following procedure:
- for users who use Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or 4 for browsing: click on “display”, “options”, “advanced”. Among the various options from which to select, the fourth one is entitled "notify before accepting cookies" and, for Internet Explorer 4 only, the fifth is entitled "always refuse cookies".
- For users who use Netscape Navigator Gold 3 for browsing: click on “options”, “network preferences”, “protocols”. Among the various options, the first one entitled “notify before accepting cookies” should be selected; the user will be notified of cookies and may refuse them.

6/ Liability

The information on AREVACOM'S alternatives.areva.com website is provided for information only, with guarantee of any kind for errors and omissions that may occur. Accordingly, AREVACOM shall not be held liable for it. It may be changed or updated without notice.

The alternatives.areva.com site contains a certain number of hypertext links to other sites set up with AREVACOM's permission. However, since AREVACOM is not able to verify the content of sites thus visited, AREVACOM shall not be held liable for those external hypertext links and the content of third party sites to which they point.

The user is solely responsible to using the alternatives.areva.com website. In no event shall AREVACOM, its subsidiaries and its subcontractors be held liable for damages of any kind, whether direct or indirect, resulting from the content or the use of this site and/or one of the sites linked to it (including accessing and the inability to access any one of those sites) and in particular, although not limited to, any operating loss, financial or commercial loss, program and/or data loss, particularly in the site user's information system.