Legal mentions

The website www.holcim.com is owned by Holcim Ltd, Grafenauweg 10, 6300 Zug, Switzerland.

Publication Director: Nollaig Forrest

Hosting company : Amazon Web Services
LLC 1200 12th Avenue South Seattle,
Washington 98144-2734 AWS
http://aws.amazon.com
 

Use of "Holcim"

The Holcim Group companies are from a legal point of view individual and separate legal entities. However, the terms "Holcim", "Group", "We" or "Us" used in this website shall refer to Holcim in general or, if not explicitly otherwise stated, where no useful purpose is served by identifying any particular Holcim Group company.
 

No representations or warranties

Holcim Ltd is bound only by a best-endeavors obligation concerning the information it makes available to visitors to its website, www.holcim.com.

While Holcim Ltd has made great efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information and links, such information and links on this website are provided as a convenience to you on an "as is and as available" basis.

Holcim Ltd makes no representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, in relation to the availability, accuracy, completeness, reliability or content of this website.

Stock market data in the Investor Relations section is provided by external third parties. We cannot be held responsible for inaccurate, delayed or interrupted data with regard to the stock price quoted on its website.

The website www.holcim.us is normally accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. In case of circumstances outside our control, difficulties associated with information systems, difficulties associated with telecommunications networks, other technical issues, or for maintenance - this list is not exhaustive - we may decide to suspend or interrupt access to all or part of the site.

Holcim Ltd may change this website at any time without notice but does not assume any responsibility to update it. All users agree that all access and use of this website and on any website linked to from this site and the content thereof is at their own risk.
 

No offer and no solicitation

Nothing on this website should be construed as constituting a proposition of sale or purchase. All products, processes and programs presented on the website www.holcim.us are not necessarily available in all countries. Consequently, the user of this website agrees to exercise his own responsibility when using this information.

Investors must not rely on information provided on this website for investment decisions as such information does not constitute an offer of or solicitation for an offer to purchase, sale, trade, exchange or implement any other transaction in any Holcim Ltd securities.

Special notice for American users of the www.holcim.us website:

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (C.O.P.P.A.) 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 (C.O.P.P.A.)."

Holcim Ltd does not intend to collect any Personal Identification Information from children under the age of 13. However, if children under the age of 13 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 privacy.lh@holcim.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 (www.ftc.gov).

Holcim Ltd is the owner of all right, title and interest in the name of Holcim. You are prohibited from using the name of Holcim without the positive authorization of Holcim. This site and its content are protected according to the intellectual property code, particularly with regard to branding, copyrights, drawings and patterns.

Under applicable laws and 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, presentation or organization of the site, or the works protected by copyright shown on the website www.holcim.us without the specific prior written consent of the holder of the copyright attaching to the work, the presentation or organization of the site, or the data reproduced.

You are also prohibited from introducing data by whatever means to the website www.holcim.us that would modify or be likely to modify the content or appearance of the data, the presentation or organization of the site, or the works featured on the Holcim website. 

For more information, contact the webmaster at the following address: privacy.lh@holcim.com.
 

Hyperlinks to the website www.holcim.us

Simple hyperlinks to the home page of www.holcim.us may be set up freely as long as they are not used for commercial or advertising purposes and under the condition that the express notice "On Holcim website" (or any other similar or more detailed notice) is clearly pointed out on the link or next to the link.

Holcim Ltd disclaims any liability for the use of this website or any website linked to it and shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for any direct, incidental, special, indirect, punitive or other consequential damages arising out of your access, use or inability to use this website or any website linked to from this site, or any errors or omissions in the content thereof, including, but not limited to viruses, that may infect your computer equipment, or any loss of business, profits, data or use.

This authorization is not relevant for websites conveying unlawful, pornographic, xenophobic, subversive, immoral and offensive to human dignity content or any other content which may, to a greater extent, affect the sensitivity of many.

Deep links to any document other than the home page of www.holcim.us, notwithstanding the shape and content of these links, are prohibited unless express and prior authorization from Holcim Ltd. It should include in particular, but not exclusively, any document of graphic type, any multimedia or text document.

Any reproduction or any use, even partial, of any element of the website www.holcim.us, within a third party website by framing, inlining or any other similar process are strictly prohibited unless exceptional authorization from Holcim.  

The authorization for the setting of above-mentioned hyperlinks should be requested to the following e-mail address: webmaster.lh@holcim.com. Such request should mention the URL where the hyperlinks are asked to be set up.
The access to the page incorporating the hyperlinks to the website www.holcim.us should be free.

Hyperlinks by Holcim to third party websites

This website may contain hyperlinks to other Holcim Ltd websites but also to external websites. Such hyperlinks are provided for your convenience only.

Holcim Ltd does not express any opinion on and is not responsible for the content of any third party website linked to from this website or through which you may have gained access to this website. Holcim makes no representations whatsoever about any third party website and expressly disclaims any liability for all such third party information and the use of it.

The www.holcim.us website is produced by the Communication Department of the Holcim Group in association with the following partners:

Amazon Web Services, for hosting
LLC 1200 12th Avenue South Seattle,
Washington 98144-2734 AWS
http://aws.amazon.com

Edifixio, for the technical implementation of the site and for the hosting administration & supervision
123 rue Jules Guesde
92300 Levallois-Perret - France
Tel.: +33 1 56 90 50 40 - Fax: + 33 1 56 90 50 20
www.edifixio.com
 
Poleetic, for guidance and project consulting
Nicolas Laustriat
78 avenue Raymond Poincaré
75116 Paris
Tel.: + 33 6 17 01 26 77
www.poleetic.com
 

Holcim Ltd uses the questionnaires found on the www.holcim.us website to collect data regarding visitors to the site. This data allows us to respond to your requests for information. Personal information collected in this way is restricted to basic contact information (last name, first name, job title, company name and address, 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. Any personal information so collected is destined for use by Holcim and Holcim's affiliates and partners. Holcim Ltd will never share a user's personal data with any third party, unless the user himself specifically requests this. Holcim deletes users' IP addresses six months after their last visit to the site.

A session cookie is created when you visit the www.holcim.us website. Cookies record information about your visit to our site (pages visited, date and time of visit, etc.) on your computer's hard drive. This information can be used during your next visit to the website. This cookie remains on your computer for 30 minutes. You can block these cookies by modifying the security parameters of your browser (for example, Tools / Options on Microsoft Explorer 6).