Website Terms of Use

General Information

Access to the website implies acknowledgement of the Terms of Use and their acceptance. The Terms of Use are valid and effective with regards to any visitor (hereinafter referred to as the “User”) of the website and in particular all those registering to online services (hereinafter “Services”) offered thereby, such as online medical reports and the My C.D.C. personal area. Therefore, upon browsing the website and using its Services, the User must follow these Terms of Use. Users are liable for any infringement of the law or these Terms of Use. The website is property of and managed by C.D.C. S.p.A. (hereinafter the “Owner”) – with legal headquarters at 20 Via Cernaia, Turin – that reserves the right, at is undisputable discretion, to suspend or make void, freely and without prior notice, the terms, conditions, and contents of this website. The website is protected by the current Italian intellectual property rights legislation.

Copyright and trademarks

The service’s trademarks are deposited by the Owner and are protected by current distinguishing features legislation. Their reproduction, in any form or by any means, is forbidden without previous declared approval by the Owner. Other products or product brands referenced to on the website may be registered trademarks owned by the respective owners. All content of this website is protected by intellectual property rights.

User Commitments

Limitation of use to personal and non-commercial purposes

The Owner authorizes viewing, printing, sending by e-mail to third parties, and downloading of all content present on this website exclusively for personal and non-commercial use.

The content and information present on this website, as well as the infrastructure used to distribute such content and information, is exclusively a property of the Owner. Consequently, the User commits – as a condition for use of this website – to make use, directly or indirectly, of the website, its content and information, strictly for personal and non-commercial use, given the provisions related to intellectual property rights and industrial property rights. The User hereby accepts to not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, exhibit, debug, reproduce, publish, license, cede, sell or re-sell the information, software, goods, or services originating from this website.

Additional User commitments

The User shall commit to using the website and its offered services with in full and strict respect of the law, public order, decency (including the code of conduct known as Netiquette), and all that is established by these Terms of Use. Users commit to not access personal areas should they not be the legitimate owners of the access credentials. Should Users access their personal area to integrate or modify their personal data, they commit to providing information that is true and strictly necessary to use of the services provided by the Owner. Once his/her account is activated, the User commits to using it – or in any case the related username and password – lawfully and diligently, even in the light of the legal consequences related to its use. Users must safeguard their account username and password with due care and diligence, and in case of theft or loss they shall promptly communicate the incident and ask for cancellation of the credentials. Should the User not communicate theft or loss of credentials (username and password) to the Owner, all legally compromising statements of intention, actions and facts generated by the User account shall be incontestably attributed to the latter. The Owner shall not by any means be held liable for the illegitimate consultation of data present in the personal area by third parties who have acknowledged the User credentials due to his/her negligence. Users commit to not disrupt the use of the service by other Users in any way. Should the User post contents of the Owner’s website on Social Network pages, he/she shall take on full responsibility for any eventual consequences.

Liability

The Owner commits to provide Users with online access to the website and the services offered thereby, as well as the communication tools linked to it, by following their implementation compatibly with the state-of-the-art of IT tools. The information, software, products, and services published on the website may contain inaccuracies or typing errors. To this regard, and within the limits prescribed by law, the Owner does not guarantee the accuracy and does not account for eventual inaccuracies in the information and descriptions of services or products present on the website. All information is periodically updated, integrated, and modified. The Owner has the right to update, integrate, or modify the website at any given time. The Owner declines any responsibility for eventual complaints by Users for the inability to use the website and/or its Services for whichever reason. The Owner declines all responsibility for damage, claims, or losses, whether direct or indirect, that Users are subject to due to breakdown and/or malfunction of the website and the electronic appliances owned by Users themselves or by third parties, including Internet Service Providers, telephone or Internet connections not directly operated by the Owner or by contracted third parties acting on its behalf. The Owner shall not be held defaulting in the performance of its duties nor liable for damage following the failed provision of Services or failed access to the website as a result of incorrect functioning or non-functioning of the electronic communication systems due to causes beyond its sphere of control.

Illegal or prohibited use

As an essential condition for use of this website, the User guarantees to the Owner that he/she shall not use this website for illegal use or use prohibited by these Terms of Use.

Website hyperlinks and links to third party websites

Using hyperlinks linked directly to the home page and internal pages of this website without previous written approval by the owner is forbidden. Framing – creating a browser environment or a frame around – any page of this website and its contents is in any case strictly forbidden. The activation of hyperlinks to this website – even in the case it should be authorized by the Owner – does not imply any approval whatsoever by the latter of contents present on the website on which the hyperlink is found, nor by no means a waiver to these Terms of Use. This website may contain hyperlinks to websites managed by third parties not including the Owner. The Owner has no control over such websites and may not be held liable for their contents or use of such contents. The inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites by the Owner does not imply any approval whatsoever of the material published on the websites or any relationship between the Owner and the website owners themselves.

Changes to the terms of use

The Owner reserves the right to modify the terms and conditions at the basis of this website.

Applicable law and Court of Competent Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use are subject to Italian law. All disputes arising related to the validity, effectiveness, interpretation, and execution of these Terms of Use shall be governed exclusively by the Court of Competent Jurisdiction in Turin, Italy.