Director of publication: Jean-Philippe RICARD
Publisher: Freyssinet website is the property of Soletanche Freyssinet, a simplified joint stock company (SAS) capitalised at €214,265,025, recorded in the Nanterre Trade and Companies Register under number 562 134 544, whose registered office is 280, avenue Napoléon Bonaparte 92500 RUEIL MALMAISON – France – Tel: +33 (0)1 47 76 42 62.
VAT number: FR 56 562 134 544
The purpose of the www.freyssinet.com website (the ‘website’) is to provide information about Freyssinet Group and its member companies to employees of Freyssinet and any business and private users wishing to learn more about the Group and its achievements (the ‘users’).
These details and data are provided as general information, with no guarantee whatsoever of their suitability for a particular purpose. Freyssinet may modify or update them at any time without prior notice.
All the details and data presented via the website, and more generally all its component parts, including specifically software, data, text, graphics, images, sounds, videos, logos, symbols and html code hereinafter referred to as the ‘Content’, are made available to users solely and exclusively for information purposes. They may not be interpreted in any way whatsoever as a commercial offer, licence or advice, neither do they constitute any form of business relationship between the user and Freyssinet. The Content provided on this website does not exempt users from the need to check the information provided.
Use of the website is subject to compliance with the following website Terms of Service and with French law. Any person accessing the website accepts the website Terms of Use and undertakes to respect them.
The terms ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refer to Freyssinet or, more generally, any other subsidiary of the parent Group.
The website may contain hyperlinks to other websites or other Internet sources that are neither operated nor controlled by the publisher.
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The publisher accepts no responsibility whatsoever for these websites, their content, operation, updating, compliance and accuracy, or for the use that may be made of them by users of its own website, including any damage caused as a result of viruses or malware communicated as a result of connecting to external sources.
It remains the sole responsibility of Internet users to take all appropriate and relevant steps to protect their hardware, data or software, especially against computer viruses circulating on the Internet.
Link authorisation
Hyperlinking to this website is subject to obtaining the prior written permission of the publisher using the contact details given below.
This website is protected by intellectual property rights, including, but not limited to trademarks, copyright, drawings and the sui generis right of the database producer, and remains the exclusive property of the publisher.
Its Content, including, but not limited to text, data, graphics, images, sounds, videos, logos, icons and html code, is protected by intellectual property law and remains the property of the publisher or third parties that have given their permission for its use.
Any reproduction, representation, use or modification of this website, any part of its content and/or any of the trademarks shown on the website, whether in whole or in part, regardless of the process and/or medium used, without the express prior written consent of the publisher is strictly forbidden.
Any failure by the publisher to institute legal action as soon as it becomes aware of such unauthorised use does not constitute acceptance of such use or any waiver of prosecution. No implicit right or licence may be attributed to any of these elements without the express prior written consent of the publisher or the third party copyright holder.
However, users are permitted to represent and/or reproduce elements of the website for exclusively private use, subject to the systematic visual recognition of any copyright or other intellectual property rights that may appear on the page(s) of the website that are reproduced.
Database(s)
The publisher expressly prohibits any re-use, reproduction or extraction of content from any website databases. Users will be held liable for any unauthorised re-use, reproduction or extraction.
Image copyright
Customers, partners and, more generally, all persons represented in the photos and videos published on this website have consented to the use of their image for the purpose of campaigns produced for the publisher, its brands, its companies or its partners, customers, project management or subcontractors.
Freyssinet employees and managers whose images are used on this website have consented to the use of these iconographic documents for the purposes of Group external communication.
Users of the website may not reproduce, represent or use in any form whatsoever these photos and videos without the express prior written consent of the publisher. Any use, whether in full or in part, of these documents in contravention of obligations referred to above may result in legal proceedings.
The Content is provided on an ‘as-is’ basis with no guarantee of any kind, either express or implied, and specifically with no guarantee that the Content meets the needs of users or that the Content is up to date.
The publisher endeavours to ensure that its website provides reliable Content, but does not guarantee in any way that its website is free of inaccuracies, typographical errors, omissions and/or viruses.
The publisher reserves the right to improve and/or change the Content at any time and with no prior notice.
The publisher does not guarantee the outcomes resulting from the use of software available on its website. Users accept sole responsibility for any and all use made of the information contained on this website.
The publisher accepts no responsibility whatsoever in the event of website interruption, suspension or malfunction, or in the event of data loss or bugs.
The publisher accepts no liability whatsoever for any indirect prejudice resulting from the use of this website or other websites linked to it, even where the publisher was previously aware of the possibility that such prejudice could potentially occur.
All website users agree to comply fully with these terms of service, and specifically agree to:
The publisher reserves the right to change and/or update the methods used to access the website and its Terms of Service at any time. Such changes and updates are binding on users, who must therefore refer regularly to this section to verify the Terms of Service applicable at any given time.
The publisher reserves the right to change and/or delete all or part of the website without prior notice and with no obligation to provide any prior notification to website or Internet users.
The publisher accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any difficulties in accessing its website or for any failure in communication.
If you have any questions regarding the conditions governing the use of the website, please e-mail us by using the contact form or the following address: communication@freyssinet.com
The website is published in English. These Terms of Service are subject to French law. Any dispute relating to the application, implementation and/or interpretation of these Terms of Service shall be resolved by courts of law within the jurisdiction of the Paris courts, unless jurisdiction is specifically allocated by a particular law or regulation.
The publisher reserves the right to take legal action in the event of non-compliance with any of these Terms of Service, regardless of the nature of such non-compliance.
Jean-Philippe RICARD
Publisher:
Freyssinet website is the property of Soletanche Freyssinet, a simplified joint stock company (SAS) capitalised at €214,265,025, recorded in the Nanterre Trade and Companies Register under number 562 134 544, whose registered office is 280, avenue Napoléon Bonaparte 92500 RUEIL MALMAISON – France – Tel: +33 (0)1 47 76 42 62.
VAT number: FR 56 562 134 544
Management, authoring and coordination:
Freyssinet Communications Department (Mélanie Cadennes, Communications director)
Website concept, design and development:
OctaveOctave
Hosting:
OVH
Lille Métropole RCS no. 424 761 419 00045
Registered office: 2 rue Kellermann – 59100 Roubaix – France
Photo credits:
Aktua prod, Jonathan Alexandre, William Beaucardet, Luc Benevello, Aline Boros, Yves Chanoit, Laurent Chartier, Frédéric Courbet, Benoit Diacre, Cyrille Dupont, Maxime Gil, Jean-Yves Govin Sorel, Jean-Marie Huron, Lavigne & Cheron architectes, On Air Productions, Patrice Lefebvre, LV Stadium company LLC, Sébastien Marchal, Lisa Ricciotti, Govin Sorel, Nguyen Tien Tuong, Alexis Toureau, Francis Vigouroux and Laurent Wargon.
Freyssinet media library, Soletanche Freyssinet media library, VINCI media library, CARPI media library, HEBETEC media library, Unsplash media library.
If you are the copyright owner of a photograph published on the website and not credited to you, or whose publication contravenes image reproduction rights and/or copyright, you may request its withdrawal from publication and/or that it is used appropriately in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
You can make your request to the Freyssinet Communication Department by e-mail at: communication@freyssinet.com
Soletanche Freyssinet is dedicated to protecting your Personal Data as a priority. We are committed to ensuring the transparency of our processing of any Personal Data that we gather, and to providing you with all the relevant information concerning the processing of your Personal Data that may be gathered on our www.soletanchefreyssinet.com web site (the “Web Site”).
Soletanche Freyssinet (“we”, “us” or “Soletanche Freyssinet”) may gather and process your Personal Data when you visit this Web Site. As the data controller, Soletanche Freyssinet is responsible for the Personal Data that you provide to us. In order to protect your privacy and your Personal Data in the most effective way possible, we have appointed a data protection officer. This person, who is the sole point of contact of the regulator, ensures that we process your data in keeping with the applicable laws.
You may contact our data protection officer at the following address: dpo@sf-group.com.
Soletanche Freyssinet may be contacted by post at 280 Avenue Napoléon Bonaparte, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison France, by telephone on +33 1 47 76 42 62, or by means of the contact form found on this Web Site.
We undertake to ensure the highest possible level of protection for the persons whose personal data we process (the “Data Subjects”). The protection of personal data, and in particular the personal data of our clients, is all the more important to us given our professional secrecy obligations.
We undertake to comply at all times with the applicable regulations when processing personal data. For instance, we will always comply with the following principles:
In concrete terms, these commitments mean that:
You may visit our Web Site without disclosing any Personal Data. However, should you wish to access certain parts of our web sites and/or to make use of specific information or services, we may gather your Personal Data which we shall process for the purposes that are mentioned below.
“Personal data” means information relating to a natural person who is identified or identifiable, such as an e-mail address, your family name and first name, your IP address, etc.
We gather your Personal Data via the contact form of this Web Site and by other means. In some cases, we gather your Personal Data directly from you. In other cases, your Personal Data may be disclosed to us by a third party.
The personal data that we may process comprises:
Some information concerning the activity of the users of this Web Site may be gathered automatically. This information is destined for Soletanche Freyssinet alone, and may be used as a basis for studies, statistics, audience measurements and other analyses with the aim of improving and developing the Web Site. Moreover, we may process your personal data:
We always process your personal data in keeping with one of the following legal bases:
Soletanche Freyssinet will only keep your Personal Data for the duration that is necessary in light of the purposes for which it is being processed, in accordance with the applicable law. Thus, the period of retention of your Personal Data will depend on the purpose for which it is processed, in keeping with the following rules of thumb:
Your Personal Data will be stored in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) by Soletanche Freyssinet and its trusted service providers. However, in some cases, your Personal Data may also be transferred to a country outside the EU and the EEA for specific data processing operations.
In case of a transfer of your Personal Data outside the EU or the EEA, we will ensure that the data is transferred securely and in keeping with the applicable rules and regulations. If the country where the data is transferred does not feature protection comparable to that of the EU, we resort to “appropriate or suitable guarantees”.
These appropriate or suitable guarantees are a means of ensuring that the protection of your Personal Data is guaranteed even when it leaves European territory. The appropriate guarantees may for instance involve resorting to the standard contractual terms adopted by the European Commission.
We will inform you on a case-by-case basis about any planned transfer of your Personal Data to a third country, about the existence or non-existence of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, and where applicable, about the reference to the appropriate guarantees and the means of securing a copy thereof or the place where they are available for perusal.
We may transfer your Personal Data to our service providers that are in charge of:
We may also be compelled to disclose your Personal Data by laws, court rulings and/or requests from governmental or public authorities, inside or outside your country of residence. We may also disclose your Personal Data if we determine that, for reasons of national security, or for the purposes of the application of a law or imperative public need protected by law, a disclosure is necessary or appropriate.
We may also disclose your Personal Data if we determine in good faith that the disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our rights by resorting to the available remedies, applying our General Terms and Conditions, investigating fraud or protecting our operations or our users.
Finally, Soletanche Freyssinet may restructure its worldwide activities at any point in time. These measures may lead us to disclose Personal Data to existing or potential clients or to receive Personal Data from potential sellers. We will always ensure adequate protection of the confidentiality of any Personal Data that is disclosed as part of this type of transaction.
You have the right to secure confirmation from us that your Personal Data is or is not being processed (right of access). Should this be the case, you may access your Personal Data and obtain information such as the purpose of the processing of this data, the categories of Personal Data involved, etc.
You may also request that your Personal Data be rectified or erased.
You also have the right to oppose the processing of your Personal Data or to request that its processing be limited. You moreover have the right to request that your personal data be sent to you in a structured and standardised format, if the conditions required to exercise this right are met.
Should you wish to exercise these rights, please send an e-mail to our DPO, who can be contacted at the following address: dpo@sf-group.com.
In order to enable us to process your request to your satisfaction, you must prove your identity by any suitable means. Should we have any doubts in this respect, we may ask you for additional information, such as the transmission of a copy of your identity card, signed by you.
We will do our best to respond to your requests to your satisfaction. Whatever our answer, we undertake to respond within a timescale of one month, but our response times may be extended by two more months depending on the complexity and the number of requests involved.
If, for any reason whatsoever, you believe that our answer is not satisfactory, please note that you may file a complaint with France’s CNIL [data protection watchdog].
Soletanche Freyssinet uses various technological and organisational security measures to protect the Personal Data that we gather, use or transfer against loss, wrongful use, tampering or destruction.
However, Soletanche Freyssinet hereby disclaims liability for the security of transmissions of Personal Data over the Internet.
Our web sites may feature links to external web sites.
Soletanche Freyssinet does not provide any warranty nor does it make any representation concerning these external web sites.
This policy was last updated on 06/10/2020.
We may modify this policy from time to time to ensure that it remains in line with the latest technological developments, common practice in our trade and the applicable regulatory requirements, or for other reasons.
Should we need to make major changes to our Policy, we will publish a clearly visible announcement on the home page of the Web Site before the modification becomes effective.
Freyssinet may install cookies on your devices when you visit our web site and may use cookies in the electronic messages that are sent to you.
This cookies policy is designed to inform you about the various cookies used, their purposes and your rights, for instance when it comes to configuring your browser.
Cookies or connection trackers are used on the web site and are temporarily stored on the terminals or devices of our users, such as computers, tablets and/or smartphones, in order to facilitate their browsing and optimise the quality of the web site. These cookies may be rejected by users subject to the choices and options that they may express at any point in time.
The cookies used on this web site may be deposited either by our web site, or by a third party web site. These cookies can be session or persistent cookies: a session cookie is a cookie that is automatically erased when the user leaves the browser, whereas a persistent cookie remains stored in the user’s computer until its expiry date.
The cookies used on our web site have a maximum lifespan of 12 months.
We use a number of different types of cookies on this web site:
These cookies are vital for users to browse through our web site and benefit fully from its functionalities, such as access to certain secure web pages. Without these cookies, it may not be possible to provide you with certain services that you might request.
The following mandatory cookies are used on the web site:
These cookies enable the web site to record your configuration choices in order to provide you with enhanced and personalised functionalities. These cookies can for instance be used to memorise the modifications that you have made to the text size, font and other parts of the web pages that you have visited. They can also be used to provide you with certain services that you may have requested such as watching a video.
These cookies cannot monitor your browsing activity on other web sites and do not gather any information about you that may be used for advertising purposes.
The following performance cookies are used on the web site:
These cookies are used to gather information about the way in which visitors use our web site, such as the most visited pages or the displaying of error messages on certain pages. All the information gathered by these cookies is anonymised and it is gathered for the sole purpose of developing and monitoring the traffic trends on our web site in order to improve the way in which it operates.
This information is used solely by Soletanche Freyssinet and is not shared with third parties.
The following analytics audience measurement cookies are used on the web site:
Targeted advertising cookies are used to assess the effectiveness of an advertising campaign by enabling the insertion of advertisements specifically targeted to users, whose recurrence is limited.
The cookies that are deposited or used may lead to the gathering of personal data, such as identifying data (IP address), connection and acceptance data, information about a user’s identity and contact details.
Third party social media sites may gather some information (such as the IP address, the type of browser, the language used, or the access time) if you are connected to these sites while browsing our web site. These web sites can also cross-reference the information that they gather against information from your profile available on their own web site. We cannot monitor these third party tracking technologies, so we recommend that you become acquainted with the terms of use and the data protection policies of these third party sites before using them.
Other cookies may gather personal data (including information held by cookies positioned by our advertising links on third party sites):
Freyssinet also uses technologies that are significantly similar to cookies, such as web beacons and other devices that might be contained in promotional electronic messages or newsletters in order to determine whether these messages have been seen or whether you clicked on the links that they contain. The web beacons do not insert any data in your device, but can be used in parallel with cookies to analyse a user’s browsing of the web site.
Freyssinet enables you to manage and configure the cookies that you accept as well as to decide whether to accept or reject all or part of the cookies that are inserted on your device.
Please note however that the deactivation of cookies may lead to the alteration or loss of some settings or information. Should you opt to reject cookies, this might alter your browsing experience or make it difficult to browse our web site.
In order to enable a continuous access to your cookies settings and your full control of the collected data, Soletanche Freyssinet provides you a consents managing tool clicking on the button below:
Should you not wish to receive cookies from our web site, you can configure your browser accordingly. To that end, please follow the appropriate instructions below depending on what browser you use:
This policy was last updated on 02/09/2021.
We may modify this policy from time to time to keep up with changes in the law, court precedents or recommendations from France’s CNIL [data protection watchdog].
In accordance with the French decree published in the Official Journal of 25 July 2019 regarding disabled user access to publicly available online services, Soletanche Freyssinet is making every effort to improve access for disabled users to its existing and future websites and applications.
Nevertheless, we are aware that continual commitment to full compliance can occasionally be compromised, depending on the OS, browser and other technologies used, as well as on the type of device (PC, MAC, mobile devices, etc.). So if you encounter any problems accessing a resource hosted on this website, we have the ability to provide you with that content in other ways.
You can call us on the following number +33 1 4776 4262 or e-mail us at info@soletanchefreyssinet.com to tell us which format or type of interaction – voice, file transfer, etc. – you would prefer.
In accordance with the Group’s Code of Ethics and Conduct and Anti-corruption Code of Conduct, all Freyssinet employees undertake to ensure complete transparency in their practices and to behave in a legally and ethically correct manner.
This undertaking is an essential element of contracts and relations with clients. It applies to each of our employees, whatever their function and country.
A digital and anonymous whistleblowing system allows everyone to report facts that they feel do not comply with our ethical rules.
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