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Legal Information and terms of use for the www.axa-framlington.com website

This website (hereinafter the "Website") is published by AXA Investment Managers ("AXA IM"), a "société anonyme" incorporated under the laws of France, registered with the Corporate and Trade Registry of Nanterre under the number 393 051 826 RCS Nanterre, with its registered office located at Cœur Défense Tour B - La Défense 4, 100 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle, 92400 Courbevoie, France.

AXA Framlington can be contacted as follows:

• by mail: 7 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7NX or
• by phone: 020 7003 1000, or
• by e-mail: webmaster-UK@axa-im.com

Head of publication: Matthew Lovatt, Head of Product Specialists, AXA Framlington

This Website is hosted by AXA Investment Managers Paris, a "société anonyme" incorporated under the laws of France with its registered office located at Cœur Défense Tour B - La Défense 4, 100 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle, 92400 Courbevoie, France.

 

Terms of use

The purpose of this Website is to provide corporate information about AXA Framlington, AXA IM and its subsidiaries (hereinafter the "AXA IM Group").

 

Accepting the terms of use of the Website

These terms of use apply to your use of this Website and it is therefore important that you read them carefully.

Any person who accesses and uses this Website shall be deemed as agreeing to these terms of use, in the version in force at the time the site is used. If you have any questions on these terms of use, please contact us.

The use of certain sections of this Website may be subject to further special terms of use, which are indicated on the pages concerned. These special terms are an integral part of the terms of use of this Website.

When you use this Website, you also accept that such use and any information on the Website will be governed by English law and that any dispute arising out of or in connection with the use of this Website or the information on it will be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

 

Information given for purely informative purposes

All data and information featured on this Website are provided by AXA IM for purely informative purposes. Such data and information do not represent, or be construed as representing, a solicitation, an offer, or a recommendation by AXA IM to buy or sell an investment or to take part in any other transaction. It cannot either be construed as an investment advice from AXA IM or any other affiliated companies and has no legal or contractual value.

Some sections of this Website contain information, studies, analyses and comments on investment strategies, financial markets, economic trends, etc. This information is aimed solely at professionals and is not aimed at individuals.

This information has been obtained from reputably reliable sources, but there can be no guarantees over its accuracy.

More generally, despite the efforts made by AXA IM to gather and confirm all information, AXA IM cannot give any representation, warranty or undertaking of any nature, whether express or implied, as to the accuracy, up-to-date character, completeness or in general terms the quality or reliability of the information available on the Website. This information may be withdrawn or amended at any time without notice.

In this respect, AXA IM cannot be held liable towards the user, so far as this is permitted under English law, for any direct or indirect consequences arising out of or in connection with the use of such information.

 

Personal data protection

Use of this Website may require us to install "cookies" on your computer in particular to facilitate your navigation on the Website. A "cookie" records information relating to your computer's navigation around the Website (which pages you have visited, the date and time of access, etc.) and we may use this information when you next visit. This information is for the purpose of gathering statistics about use of the Website, in particular which pages are visited and the average time spent on the Website.

You may block the registration of cookies by setting your browser in the following manner:

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and newer:

1. Choose the menu Tools and then Options
2. Click on Privacy
3. Locate the menu "Cookie" and select the option that fits you

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and newer:

1. Choose the menu Tools and then Internet Options
2. Click on Confidentiality
3. Select the appropriate level or click on Advanced

 

Google Chrome 10 and newer:

1. Click the "Spanner" icon in the top right of the browser window:
2. Click Options
3. On the left side of the browser window click "Under the Hood"
4. In the section titled "Privacy" click the button "Content settings"

 

Safari 4.0 and newer:

1. Click on the "Cog" icon in Safari
2. Click Preferences
3. Change to the Security tab.

 

Opéra:

1. Choose the menu File and then Preferences
2. Click on Privacy

 

We may ask you to provide your name and personal contact details if you wish for more information about our products and services. Both AXA Investment Managers UK Limited (AXA IM UK) and AXA IM GS Limited are registered with the Data Protection Commissioner to hold personal data. This data is used to provide you with the information you request, and may be retained to keep you informed by mail or telephone or other reasonable methods of products and services offered by AXA IM UK.

You have the right, at any time, to access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences or request to be removed from our mailing lists by writing to us at AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd, 7 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7NX or by writing to webmaster-UK@axa-im.com

We may record telephone calls for our mutual protection and to improve customer service.
In order to use your personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy, your personal data may be stored and processed in any country worldwide and will be disclosed to other members of the AXA Group. We may also pass your data to third parties, selected by us, with respect to certain activities. We will ensure that any such third parties will only use your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

Hypertext links/Use of links

No hypertext link to this Website may be set up without the prior written consent of AXA IM. This condition applies regardless of the type of link used.

AXA IM may authorise some links to exist between this Website and other third party sites that are beyond its control. By permitting such links however, AXA IM makes no representation as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or suitability of the information on the third party sites and does not accept any responsibility with regards to the content, services, products or materials offered on these sites.

 

Intellectual property/copyright and trademarks

This Website is protected by English laws and international agreements on intellectual property.

All intellectual and other property information contained in this Website shall continue to be held by the AXA IM Group and no rights of any kind in it shall pass to the users.

The reproduction, representation, distribution (by electronic or any other means), amendment, or use of all or part of the form or content of this Website, through any medium, for public or commercial use, is therefore strictly forbidden, unless AXA IM has given its prior written consent.

You may however copy pages and/or sections of this Website for your own private use only, provided that you do not remove any copyright or other notices relating to intellectual property. None of these elements or information may be resold or redistributed in any way.

The name "AXA Investment Managers" and all associated logos are trademarks that have been registered by AXA IM or its affiliated companies. The reproduction, removal, reuse or modification in any way of the distinctive signs found on the pages of this Website is forbidden.

 

Non-liability of AXA IM for usage of the Website

Users must accept that any access to this Website or any use of its content is carried out under their sole responsibility.

As a consequence, neither AXA IM, nor any of its affiliates, directors, officers or employees can be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage arising out of or in connection with such access or use, in particular but not limited to any damage caused by the interruption, withdrawal or malfunctions of the Website, in particular in the event of maintenance or restoration of the servers, a technical fault of the servers, overloading of the network, a cut in the telephone line, error, negligence or fault of the internet access providers, of a third party or of clients, or an internet-borne virus.

In addition, users of this Website agree that the Internet is not a secure medium for communication of information and that AXA IM will not be responsible for any loss or damage that could result from interception by third parties of any information made available through this Website.

 

October 2011