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MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE, a public scientific, cultural and professional establishment, governed by the research code - articles R.353-1 et seq;

Its registered office is at 57, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris;

SIRET number : 180 044 174 000 19

It is represented by its President, Gilles Bloch.

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We invite you to familiarise yourself with the information contained in this section. You accept that the following provisions govern your consultation of the site.

This site is an application site. Its aim is to provide a single point of entry to the natural history collections of the MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. The scientific texts published on the site are valid on the date of publication and are not binding on their authors.

The information on the services or objects in the collections or any other information contained on the site is taken from documents considered to be reliable. The information on the site is regularly updated.

Practical information must, however, be checked directly with the MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE.

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The site, whose official language is French, is subject to French law and falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts.

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They may not be re-used without the express prior permission of the MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE.

The MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE authorises the user, in accordance with the present conditions and the rules of use on the Internet, to consult this site free of charge, for information purposes only, solely for personal and private use and to the exclusion of all commercial purposes.

Law no. 2000-230 of 13 March 2000 on the adaptation of the law of evidence to information technologies and electronic signatures recognises that written documents on electronic media have the same evidential value as written documents on paper. The MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE draws your attention to the consequences of sending electronic messages in terms of commitments of any kind and in particular legal commitments.

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The MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE declines all responsibility for the content and use made by any third party of information appearing on all other sites.

Likewise, the MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE accepts no responsibility for the consequences of technical failures in connection with these links.

The MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE may at any time demand the removal of hypertext link(s) set up by any person to its site from an external site, if this site infringes the image of the Muséum.

We remind you that the security and integrity of communications on the Internet cannot be guaranteed.

The MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE accepts no responsibility for the consequences of technical failures in connection with the site, in particular with regard to any difficulty in accessing the site or any interruption in the dissemination of the site.

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• fraudulently accessing or remaining in all or part of an automated data processing system;
• hindering or distorting the operation of such a system ;
• fraudulently introducing data into such a system or fraudulently deleting or modifying the data contained therein.

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