Terms of Service
ARTICLE 1 : Limitation of liability
Access to the site may be interrupted at any time, without notice, particularly in cases of force majeure or site maintenance, or if the Long Life Exposure Health and Aging (LEHA) team at Bordeaux Population Health (BPH) Center U1219 INSERM decides to suspend or stop the provision of this service. The obligation to provide the service is therefore limited to an obligation of means.
The site is governed by French law. Foreign users formally accept the application of French law by visiting this site and using all or part of the site's functionalities.
The algorithm integrated into the Macutest platform aims to predict your personalized risk of progressing to the advanced stages of AMD. The predictive capacity of the algorithm in terms of discrimination is greater than 80% (area under the ROC curve) at 5 years. Macutest cannot be held responsible for incorrect predictions.
ARTICLE 2 : Site Content
The LEHA team of BPH U1219 INSERM strives to ensure, to the best of its ability, the accuracy and updating of the information provided, when it is posted on the site. However, the LEHA team of BPH U1219 INSERM does not in any way guarantee the accuracy, precision or exhaustiveness of the information made available on the site. The information on the site is noncontractual and may be modified at any time.
ARTICLE 3 : Intellectual Property
The LEHA team of BPH U1219 INSERM grants the Internet user the right to reproduce all or part of the site's content, in one copy for backup or hard copy. This right is granted for strictly personal, private and non-collective use. Nevertheless, the contents, texts, including press releases, videos, images and animations that appear or are available on the site, are protected by intellectual property rights and are the exclusive property of the BPH U1219 INSERM LEHA team or for which the BPH U1219 INSERM LEHA team has the necessary and sufficient rights in the context of the site's operation. As such, you agree not to copy, translate, reproduce, sell, publish, exploit and distribute content from the site protected by intellectual property law without the prior written consent of the LEHA team at BPH U1219 INSERM.
The brands and logos on the site are, except in special cases, the property of the LEHA team of BPH U1219 INSERM. Unless prior written authorization is obtained, the Internet user is prohibited from using them.
ARTICLE 4 : Photo credits
The images and illustrations online on the site are the exclusive property of the LEHA team of BPH U1219 INSERM.
ARTICLE 5 : Personal data
If you have given us your e-mail address in order to be informed of the opening of the site, this address will be stored in our databases and will never be communicated to actors outside the project team. The LEHA team of BPH U1219 INSERM undertakes not to disclose to third parties any information provided by the Internet user. These are confidential and will only be used for the purposes of the service.
User data will be stored on secure servers that are authorized to store health data (HDS, HIPAA compliant) and comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The goal is to provide users with a history of their risk of progression to advanced stages of AMD over time. Users will also be able to continue to access and download their data at any time.
Participants will also be able to request deletion of their account on the MacuTest platform at any time.
The Macutest team will be able to use users' pseudonymized data for research purposes.