DISCLAIMER
This website is property of RIC BV
Headquarters
RIC BV
President Kennedypark 6
8500 Kortrijk
Belgium
Telephone: +32 (0)56 20 40 31
Email: info@RIC-group.com
VAT BE 0428.603.012
By accessing and using the website, you have expressly agreed to the following general conditions.
RIC BV
RIC BV is an analytical service provider. RIC offers services in research, development, analysis, consultancy, support (including instrumentation) and training for applications within the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and chemical sector, in addition to food, environment and toxicology.
Intellectual Property Rights
The contents of this site, including trade marks, logos, drawings, data, product or company names, texts, images, etc. are protected by intellectual property rights. RIC BV obtained the explicit authorization of the intellectual property rights owners to use these intellectual property rights.
Liability Limitation
The information on the website is general in nature. It is not adapted to personal or specific circumstances and can therefore not be regarded as personal, professional or judicial advice for the user.
RIC BV does everything in its power to ensure that the information made available is complete, correct, accurate and updated. However, despite these efforts inaccuracies may occur when providing information. If the information provided contains inaccuracies or if specific information on or via the site is unavailable, RIC BV shall make the greatest effort to ensure that this is rectified as soon as possible.
RIC BV cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damage caused by the use of the information on this site. The site manager should be contacted if the user has noticed any inaccuracies in the information provided by the site.
The contents of the site (including links) may be adjusted, changed or extended at any time without any announcement or advance notice. RIC BV gives no guarantees for the smooth operation of the website and cannot be held responsible in any way for the poor operation or temporary unavailability of the website or for any type of damage, direct or indirect, which may occur due to the access to or use of the website.
RIC BV can in no case be held liable, directly or indirectly, specifically or otherwise, vis-à-vis anyone for any damage attributable to the use of this site or any other one, in particular as the result of links or hyperlinks including, but not limited to, any loss, work interruption, damage of the user’s programs or other data on the computer system, hardware, software or otherwise.
The website may contain hyperlinks to websites or pages of third parties or refer to these indirectly. The placing of links on these websites or pages shall not imply in any way the implicit approval of the contents thereof. RIC BV expressly declares that it has no authority over the contents or over other features of these websites and can in no case be held responsible for the contents or features thereof or for any other type of damage resulting from their use.
Applicable Legislation And Competent Courts
This site is governed by Belgian law. Only the courts of the district of Ghent are competent to settle any disputes.
Privacy Policy
RIC BV believes that your privacy is important. While most of the information on this site is available without having to ask the user for personal information, the user may be asked for some personal details. This information will only be used to ensure a better service (e.g. for our customer database, to keep users informed of our activities, etc.). The user may, free of charge and on request, always prevent the use of his personal details for the purposes of direct marketing. In this regard, the user should contact RIC BV, President Kennedypark 6, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium or via info@RIC-group.com. Your personal details will never be transferred to any third parties (if this should occur your consent will be requested).
In accordance with the law on the processing of personal data of 8 December 1992 (the ‘Privacy Act’), the user has the legal right to examine and possibly correct any of his/her personal data. Subject to proof of identity (copy of the user’s identity card), you can via a written, dated and signed request to RIC BV, President Kennedypark 6, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium or via info@RIC-group.com, receive free of charge a written statement of the user’s personal details. If necessary, you may also ask for any incorrect, incomplete or irrelevant data to be adjusted. Within the framework of the Privacy Act, you will also have the right to appeal the use of your personal data.
RIC BV can collect non-personal anonymous or aggregate data such as browser type, IP address or operating system in use or the domain name of the website that led you to and from our website, ensuring optimum effectiveness of our website for all users.
Cookie Statement
1. Introduction
Cookies are small text files that are stored in the browser of your device such as a computer, tablet or smartphone the first time you visit the Website.
This Cookie Statement covers all services provided by BV RIC (“we”,”us”, “our”) , with its registered office at 8500 Kortrijk, President Kennedypark 6 (Belgium) and company registration number BE 0428.603.012 and SAS RIC, with its registered office at 69800 Saint-Priest, Place Berte Morisot 4, Bâtiment A3 (France) and company registration number 440.889.186 and, in general, all activities carried out through our Website www.ric-group.com.
We use cookies and similar techniques to make our Website function properly, to improve it and to optimise and personalise your experience on our Website so that the content is relevant to you.
We may update this cookie statement from time to time. We encourage you to review this cookie statement regularly to stay informed. You can always access the most up-to-date version through the Website.
2. Responsible
Cookies may be set by the Website’s operator itself or by a third party:
First party cookies are cookies set directly by the Website’s operator and can only be read by the Website. The operator responsible for the Website is BV RIC, with its registered office at 8500 Kortrijk, President Kennedypark 6 (Belgium) and company registration number BE 0428.603.012 and SAS RIC, with its registered office at 69800 Saint-Priest, Place Berte Morisot 4, Bâtiment A3 (France) and company registration number 440.889.186
Third party cookies are cookies placed on the Website by third parties and/or used to send certain information about your visit to a third party. This happens, for example, because the Website contains elements from other sites, such as images, social media plug-ins or advertising. When the browser or other software retrieves these elements from other sites, the cookies placed by those other sites are considered third-party cookies. The third parties have their own privacy and cookie statements regarding the handling of (personal) data collected and used by the marketing cookies. BV RIC and SAS RIC do not control and are not responsible for the use of cookies by those third parties. If you have any questions regarding their use of your personal data, please contact the relevant party setting the cookie.
3. Types of cookies
Cookies can serve different purposes:
Essential cookies are cookies that are necessary for the proper functioning of the Website (e.g. to prevent overload of the Website, keep the Website functional and accessible). These cookies can be set without your consent.
Functional cookies are cookies that are necessary to improve your browsing experience or to provide a functionality explicitly requested by you (e.g. remembering your settings). These cookies may also be set without your consent.
Analytical cookies are cookies that collect information about how you use the Website to improve search engine hits and the functioning of the Website (e.g. we see how visitors move through the Website when they use it to ensure that visitors easily find what they are looking for). These cookies are only set if you have given your consent.
Advertising cookies are cookies that collect information about your browsing and search behaviour to provide you with personalised ads in advertising spaces on websites based on your personal interests. These cookies are only set if you have given your consent.
Social media cookies are cookies that make it possible to share certain functions of the Website on social media networks (e.g. Facebook). In addition, these cookies collect information about your browsing and search behaviour on the Website in order to offer you personalised promotions and advertising about our products on these social media networks. These cookies are only set if you have given your consent. These social media networks may also use the information they collect through these cookies for their own purposes. More information on this can be found in the privacy statements of the relevant social media networks.
4. Duration
Cookies have an expiry date:
Temporary cookies, or session cookies, are cookies that are stored temporarily on your computer or mobile device during the browser session and are deleted when you close your browser.
Permanent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device after you close your browser and will recognise you when you revisit the Website. These cookies are deleted after a certain expiry date or when you disable or delete them manually. How long the cookie remains on your device depends on the lifetime of the specific cookie, as well as on your browser settings.
5. Cookies used on the website
Below is the complete list of cookies used on the Website:
Cookie name: cookie description
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6. Your cookie preferences:
When you visit the Website for the first time, a banner will ask for your cookie preferences. You cannot refuse essential cookies and functional cookies when visiting/using our Website.
Analytical cookies, advertising cookies and social media cookies are only set if you give your consent through the cookie preferences. Consent can be given for each type of cookie. Refusing certain cookies means that certain functionalities of the Website are not available: for example, without consent for social media cookies, you cannot view our latest social media posts. If you delete some or all cookies used by the Website, your experience on the Website may be affected, for example by no longer being able to (fully) see certain parts of the Website or by not receiving personalised content when you visit the Website.
You can withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie preferences.
If you use different devices to visit the Website (e.g. via your computer, tablet, smartphone, et cetera), you should ensure that each browser on each device is adapted to your cookie preferences.
7. Any Questions?
If, after reading this Cookie Statement, you have further questions or comments regarding the application and management of cookies, please contact our contact person: Tom Sandra, reachable by e-mail: dataprotection@RIC-group.com
