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The web site www.ductal-lafarge.com is owned by the Lafarge company, « Société Anonyme » with a capital of € 1 145 815 116 registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under the reference 542 105 572 and which registered office is located 61 rue des Belles Feuilles - 75116 Paris, France.

Publication Director and Chief Editor : Jean Martin Saint Leon, Vice president Ductal® development, Lafarge Group.
Hosting company : Cap Gemini Ernst & Young France Outsourcing Services Tour Anjou
33, quai de Dion Bouton
92814 Puteaux Cedex - France
Tel: +33-1-41 26 51 00
Fax: +33-1-41 26 51 01

Nothing on this web site should be construed as constituting a proposition of sale or purchase. All the products, processes and programmes presented on the web site www.ductal-lafarge.com are not necessarily available in each country. Consequently, the user of this web site recognizes to use these information under his own responsibility.

Lafarge is bound only by a best-endeavours obligation concerning the information it makes available to persons visiting its web site www.ductal-lafarge.com

Although we have made every effort to ensure the reliability of the information contained on this web site, Lafarge may not be held liable for any errors or omissions, or for any results that may be obtained by using such information. In particular, using hypertext links at our site may involve you being transferred to other servers, over which Lafarge has no control, to find information.

Stock data within the « Financial Information » section are provided by outside third parties. Lafarge cannot be held responsible for inaccurate, delayed or interrupted data, regarding the stock price announced on its website.

The web site www.ductal-lafarge.com is normally accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. In case of major difficulty such as those related to our information system or to the structure of telecommunications networks or any other technical issue, for maintenance reasons or according to any decision of Lafarge, - this list is not exhaustive - the access to all or part of the site can be interrupted.

The web site can be modified without any notice.

Special notice for American users of the www.ductal-lafarge.com website : The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 provides safeguards to protect children who use the Internet by regulating the online collection of personal information from children under the age of 13. According to this Act, "(...) if you operate a general audience web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children, you must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)."
Lafarge does not intend to collect any Personal Identification Information from children under the age of thirteen years old. However, if children under the age of thirteen years old provide Personal Identification Information to us, their parents or legal guardian should request that we delete this information from our files by sending us an email at webmaster.ductal@lafarge.com. We will use all reasonable efforts to delete children's information from our files.

Further information about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 may be found on the Federal Trade Commission's website (http://www.ftc.gov).

Ductal® is a technology developed and patented jointly by Lafarge, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Rhodia. This site and its content are protected according to the intellectual property code, mostly regarding branding, copyrights, drawings and patterns.

Under the French Intellectual Property Code and more generally international treaties and agreements containing provisions on the protection of copyright, you are prohibited from reproducing other than for your private use,
selling, distributing, issuing, broadcasting, adapting, modifying, publishing, communicating in full or in part in any form the data, site presentation or organisation, or the works protected by copyright shown on the Ductal® web site http://www.ductal-lafarge.com.without the specific prior written consent of the holder of the copyright attaching to the work, the site presentation or organisation, or the data reproduced.

You are also prohibited from introducing data by whatever means to the Lafarge web site http://www.ductal-lafarge.com that would modify or be likely to modify the content or appearance of the data, the presentation or organisation of the site, or the works featured on the Lafarge web site.
For more information, contact the webmaster at the following address : webmaster.ductal@lafarge.com.

Lafarge collects data regarding visitors to the www.ductal-lafarge.com web site using the questionnaires found on the site. These data allow us to respond to your requests for information. Personally identifying information collected may consist of basic contact information, such as : name, address, title, company, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.

You may send e-mails to the addresses shown on the website. Each message will contain your e-mail address and any additional information that you wish to include in the message.

Tracking techniques may be used on our web site as a means of enhancing your navigational experience. You have a right to access, delete and modify any personal data collected through these means. Personal information concerning you are destined to Lafarge and Lafarge's partners ; Lafarge will never share your personal data with any third party, unless asked by the user himself. Lafarge will delete user IP addresses within a six-month time after the last visit.

Your visit on www.ductal-lafarge.com results in a cookie creation. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer's hard disc for record keeping purposes. Cookies aim at enabling website owners to provide more useful features for their users. They contain no name or address information or any information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone, e-mail or any other means. If you prefer to disable cookies, you can reconfigure your browser in the appropriate section (for instance Tools / Options on Microsoft Explorer 6).

As a visitor of the Ductal® website, you are bound to respect the provisions of the French law « Informatique, fichiers et libertés » (n°78-17), which violation is liable to penal sanctions.

You have the right of access to information concerning you and may have it updated or amended. If you wish to rectify or erase certain data, please send an e-mail to : privacy.ductal@lafarge.com.

The http://www.ductal-lafarge.com website is produced by the Group Marketing and R&D Department, with the following partners:

All Write, for content and writing
17 rue de la Comète - 75007 Paris - France
Tél. + 33 01 53 59 83 83- Fax. + 33 1 53 59 91 22

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young France, for hosting services
Outsourcing Services
Tour Anjou - 33 quai de Dion Bouton 92814 Puteaux Cedex - France
Phone + 33 1 42 26 51 00 - Fax. + 33 1 41 26 51 01
www.capgemini.com

Edifixio, for the technical development of the website
64, rue du Ranelagh - 75 016 Paris - France
Phone +33 1 56 90 50 40 - Fax - + 33 1 56 90 50 20
www.edifixio.com

Crehative, for graphic design

Isabella Serey

15 rue Duguay-Trouin

75006 Paris - France

Tél. +33 8 77 37 73 05

www.crehative.com

Photothèque Lafarge/DAA

Architects : Rudy Ricciotti, JP Cagan, Dominique Marrec & Emmanuel Combarel (E.C.D.M.), Duncan Lewis, JF Denner, Dominique François, Michel Ferranet, Fin geispel & Gulia Andi, Manuelle Gautrand, Marc Mimram, Enri Chabal, JF Picardat, Jean Nouvel et Julio Medem, Norman Foster, CPV Group Architects & Engineers LTD, M.I.T., VSL Australie, Moatti & Rivière, Philippe Gibert, Marie-Hélène Badia & Didier Berger

Photographers: Claude Cieutat,Jousselin, Alexandre Chemetoff, Georges fessy, Philippe Ruault, Philippe Couette, Christian Michel, Lui Zhan, Benoit Roland, Grussenmeyers Photo Inc, Guillaume Maucuit Lecompte, E.Jae, VSL Australie, Taporo, Il Cantiere, Nicolas Waltefaugle, Benoît Fougeirol, TCC Japon