Terms of use

Welcome to the https://espp.syensqo.com website (hereinafter the “Website”).

Please read these terms of use (hereinafter the “Terms”), and any special terms stated on the pages of the Website, which govern your use of the Website. These Terms cover your rights and legal responsibilities, and become applicable as soon as you start to use this Website.

This Website is available to you free of charge (except for Internet connection costs) for your personal use, subject to compliance with the Terms set out below. By accessing, visiting and/or using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms, and that you undertake to comply with all relevant laws and regulations. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use this Website.

You undertake to access the information provided on this Website exclusively for personal and non commercial use. You may only use the Website for legitimate purposes. It may not be used or misappropriated for purposes contrary to Public Order and Morality.

The content of these Terms of use may change. We therefore advise you to read them regularly.

1. Legal information

This Website is the property of SYENSQO, a public limited company duly incorporated under Belgian law, having its registered office at 98 rue de la Fusée, 1130 Brussels (Belgium), registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 0798,896,453.
The website development is made by the firm Butterfly SAS, whose head office is at 14 boulevard du général Leclerc 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine Paris, France.
The content is hosted on computer equipment owned by the firm CLARANET SAS, whose head office is at 2 rue des Landelles, 35577 Cesson Sévigné, France.

2. Limitation of liability and guarantees

As a user of the Website, you acknowledge that you have the necessary skills and means to access and use this Website.

SYENSQO and its contributors make every effort to ensure that the information provided on this Website is accurate and up-to-date, reserving the right to modify the content at any time and without notice. However, they cannot guarantee that this information is complete, or that it has not been modified by a third party (hacking, virus, etc.). SYENSQO and its contributors also accept no liability (direct or indirect) in the event of delay, error or omission with regard to the contents and use of these pages and in the event of the service being interrupted or unavailable.

You agree that you have been informed that the Website is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except in the event of force majeure, server problems, problems caused by the telecommunications network infrastructures or other technical difficulties. SYENSQO may occasionally shut down its Website for maintenance purposes. In this case, it will make every effort to notify users in advance.

SYENSQO is not responsible for delays, operating problems or incompatibility between the Website and files, your browser or any other programme used for access to the Website. SYENSQO may under no circumstances be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from or subsequent to third-party distribution of a virus by means of our Website, which may infect your computer system following connection to this Website, use of this Website or browsing on this Website. Likewise, SYENSQO may not be held liable for any material or consequential damage (including but not limited to technical failure, disclosure of confidential documents and data loss), or for any other indirect damage, arising from or associated with the use of the Website.

SYENSQO makes every possible effort to ensure that the information provided on the Website is accurate and up-to-date, and reserves the right to correct the content at any time and without prior notice. However, SYENSQO and its contributors make no undertaking and assume no liability, under any circumstances whatsoever, with regard to the relevance, continuity, accuracy, absence of errors, veracity, timeliness, fair and commercial nature, quality, validity and availability of the information contained in this Website. Each Internet user shall be fully responsible for the risks incurred by giving credence to this information. Incorrect information or omissions may be encountered arising from typographical or formatting errors. If you find any such errors, please inform us so that we can make the relevant corrections.

The information on the Website is provided “as seen”, without guarantee of any kind, whether implied or explicit. SYENSQO categorically rejects any interpretation that seeks to represent the content of the Website an offer of purchase or an incitement to purchase shares or other securities, whether listed or unlisted, of SYENSQO, or any one of its direct or indirect subsidiaries or affiliate companies.

SYENSQO reserves the right to modify any content of the Website at its sole discretion. Pursuant to its policy of updating and improving the Website, SYENSQO may decide to modify these Terms.

Any dated information published on the Website is valid exclusively for the specified date.

Users are also reminded that the confidentiality of correspondence cannot be guaranteed on the network and that every Internet user is responsible for taking all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software from contamination by any viruses that may be circulating on the Internet.

The Website includes links to other SYENSQO websites or SYENSQO Group companies likely to have their own legal conditions, which should be read and complied with.

3. Intellectual property

The Website is fully subject to French law on copyright, trademarks and, in general, on intellectual property.

The SYENSQO trademarks and logos (semi-figurative trademarks) shown on the Website are registered trademarks. Any full or partial reproduction or representation, alone or in company with other elements, without the prior express written authorisation of SYENSQO is strictly forbidden.

The general structure, software, texts, images, videos, sounds, know-how, animations, and more generally all information and content shown on the Website, are the property of SYENSQO or are subject to rights of use or exploitation. These elements are subject to copyright law.

Any full or partial representation, modification, reproduction, distortion, of all or part of the Website or its contents, by any procedure whatsoever and in any medium whatsoever, constitutes an infringement sanctioned by articles L 335-2 of Intellectual Property Code.

These Terms do not grant you any licence for the use of trademarks, logos or photographs belonging to SYENSQO.

Any databases appearing on the Website are protected by the legal provisions for the protection of databases. In this respect, SYENSQO expressly prohibits any re-use, reproduction or extraction of elements of these databases. The user shall be held liable for any such reuse, reproduction or extraction.

SYENSQO reserves the right to delete immediately and without prior notice any content – message, text, image or graphic that contravenes the laws and regulations in force and particularly the regulations specified above.

If you wish to use some of the Website content (text, image, etc), you must obtain prior express written authorisation from SYENSQO, by writing to the address given in the paragraph “Legal information” or by sending an e-mail to the webmaster.

5. Respect for privacy

As a user of the Website, you are bound by the relevant laws, and notably the French law on privacy, data protection and freedom of information. Infringement of this law is a criminal offence.

In particular, you must refrain from compiling and using in any fraudulent manner any personal data you obtain, and from any action likely to damage the privacy, reputation, esteem, image or sensitivity, of any individual or corporation, and notably of SYENSQO, by avoiding any defamatory, provocative, malicious or threatening comments, messages or texts on any medium.

No personal data is collected from SYENSQO employees directly by Butterfly via the Site (except via functional cookies and possibly statistics cookies).

6. Hyperlinks

SYENSQO may not be held liable for hyperlinks to other websites, and particularly for the content of those websites.

SYENSQO is not liable for hyperlinks from other sites to this Website and no such links may be set up without its prior written autorisation.

7. Cautionary statement on forward-looking data

The Website may contain certain information that does not rely on historical facts and that makes statements about the future, including – but not limited to – statements that are predictions of future events, trends, plans or objectives. Such statements are based on the current views and assumptions of management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements (or from past results). Additional information regarding these risks and uncertainties is set out in the documents filed by SYENSQO with the relevant authorities. Forward-looking statements represent predictions made on a certain date, and SYENSQO makes no undertaking to update or revise them, whether in response to new information, future events or for any other reason.

8. General clauses

Any assignment or other transfer of the rights granted under these conditions is strictly forbidden.

If, for any reason whatsoever, a competent court were to rule that a provision of these Terms is invalid, the invalidity of that provision will not in any way affect the validity of the remaining Terms, which will remain in force.

Failure by one of the parties to exercise a right or to institute legal proceedings under the terms of these Terms shall not be deemed to be a waiver of such a right or such proceedings.

The Website is subject to French law. These Terms will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with French Law.

9. Cookies

9.1 - General information

When you visit the Website, information on your browsing activity may be saved in 'cookies' stored on your Device. A cookie is a file stored on Your Device, which records information on how you browse a website. The data thus obtained are intended to facilitate future browsing of the same website and also make it possible to measure web traffic. These cookies are installed when You browse our Website, either directly by us or by certain SYENSQO partners. (See how to configure your cookie settings in point 1.5 below, 'Your choices with regard to cookies'). The shelf life of cookies is 13 months.

9.2 Cookies installed via the Website

The cookies we install on Your Device are session cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. You cannot disable them. They allow us to save your preferences regarding whether you choose or not to disable the performance cookies that record your visits to the Website.

9.3 Cookies installed by third parties via the Website

We include Matomo's audience tracking solution on the site, which deposits 2 to 7 cookies whose name begins with "_pk_" for the purpose of statistics on visits to the various pages. No personal data is collected by this tool, in particular the complete IP address of the visitor which would allow him to be identified: this is truncated so as to collect only the city. This statistical tool has been validated as GDPR compliant by the CNIL.

9.4 Your choices with regard to cookies

The storage of cookies remains subject to Your consent, with the exception of audience measurement, which is exempt from consent because it is strictly limited to measuring traffic on this Website. Audience measurement therefore starts without waiting for Your agreement, and You may refuse it at any time from the “Audience measurement” section at the bottom of this page or from the cookie management icon. You therefore have the option of configuring Your browser settings to block cookies at all times or only some of the time (depending, for instance, on the issuer). Browser settings also give You the option of enabling or blocking cookies as and when they appear, before being stored on Your Device. Given the purposes of cookies as defined above, any settings configured to block the storage of cookies is liable to modify Your browsing experience and/or the functions, services and conditions for accessing certain services requiring the use of cookies, such as an ergonomic layout of the Website adapted to Your Device, for example.

You can select or modify your cookie settings at any time as follows:

• For Chrome: click on the menu then on 'Settings' and display advanced settings. Under 'Privacy and security', click on 'Content settings' and under 'Cookies', select the desired level.
• For Mozilla Firefox: Select the 'Tools' menu then 'Options', click on the 'Privacy' icon, find the 'History' menu and select the 'Use custom settings for history' option. Select the desired level.
• For Microsoft Internet Explorer 11.0 and above: select the 'Tools' menu, then 'Internet options' and click on the 'Privacy' tab. Select the desired level using the cursor.
• For Opera 6.0 and above: in the main menu, select 'Browser settings', click on 'Privacy and security' in the side bar and under 'Cookies' select the options You prefer.
• For Safari: in the Safari menu, select 'Preferences' > 'Security' or 'Privacy' and select the options You prefer.