This page gathers the information that article 6 of French law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy requires to be made available to the visitors of a website. It is completed by the privacy policy, which describes the processing of personal data, and by the page on cookie management.
Publisher of the site
This site is published under the PAT-INDUSTRY trade mark. PAT-INDUSTRY designates a trade mark and an activity rather than a legal entity: the commitments made on this site are made by S.A.S. PLM, identified below.
This site is published and operated by:
| Company name | S.A.S. PLM |
|---|---|
| Legal form | société par actions simplifiée (simplified joint-stock company) |
| Share capital | €1,000 |
| Registered office | 73 rue du Château, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Registration | 983 663 634 R.C.S. Nanterre |
| SIREN number | 983 663 634 |
| SIRET number of the registered office | 983 663 634 00027 |
| APE / NAF code | 82.11Z |
| Intra-community VAT number | FR72 983 663 634 |
| Publication director | Thomas Ricour, president |
| Contact email | pat-industry@pat-industry.com |
| Telephone | +33 (0)6 87 93 52 83 |
| Trade mark used | the PAT-INDUSTRY trade mark |
The site is operated by S.A.S. PLM under the PAT-INDUSTRY trade mark. The activity falls under no regulated profession and calls for no particular administrative authorisation.
Professional training activity. S.A.S. PLM is registered as a training provider with the French authorities. French law requires the statutory wording to be reproduced verbatim: « Enregistrée sous le numéro 11922990492. Cet enregistrement ne vaut pas agrément de l’État. » Registration as a training provider is a declaration, not a State approval of the training delivered.
Hosting
The site is hosted by:
OVH SAS, 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France.
Shared Performance offering, hosted at the Gravelines (eu-west-gra), France data centre. That location is what the statements on data transfers in the privacy policy rest on.
Intellectual property
All the content published on this site, texts, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, comparison tables, page structure, code and graphic elements, is protected by copyright and by the provisions applicable to databases. Save where stated otherwise, this content is the property of S.A.S. PLM or is used under licence.
Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or distribution, whole or partial, on any medium, is prohibited without prior written authorisation.
Short quotation, for information, teaching or scientific discussion, remains free under the conditions provided by law, subject to indicating PAT-INDUSTRY as the source and mentioning the address of the original page. Reusing a figure, a comparison table or a whole article supposes prior written authorisation, requested at pat-industry@pat-industry.com and granted in most cases.
The trade mark used by the publisher, and the associated logotypes, are its property or are used under licence: the PAT-INDUSTRY trade mark. Their use without authorisation is prohibited.
The trade marks, company names and product names of third parties that may be cited on this site belong to their respective holders. Any mention of them carries informational or technical identification value alone. Save where explicitly and in writing stated on the page concerned, it implies no affiliation, no sponsorship, no representation status, and no reciprocal endorsement between the publisher and those third parties.
The absence, beside a name cited on this site, of the ® symbol, the ™ symbol or a mention of registration means neither that the name is free of rights, nor that it has fallen into the public domain, nor that its holder waives it.
Hypertext links
This site may offer links to external sites: standards bodies, authorities, scientific publications, instrument manufacturers. These links are given to make the information cited easier to verify. The publisher exercises no control over those sites, their content, their availability or the data processing they carry out, and assumes no responsibility in that respect. Consulting a third-party site is done under the sole responsibility of the visitor and falls under the terms of use of that site.
Creating a link to a page of this site is free, provided it does not use framing, does not mislead as to the origin of the content, and does not sit in a context prejudicial to the publisher. The publisher may request the removal of a link that does not respect these conditions.
What the technical content of this site is, and what it is not
The technical pages of this site, measurement technologies, quantities followed, methods, background articles, are published as general information. They describe measurement principles, orders of magnitude and field experience, in a deliberately generic frame.
They constitute neither a performance commitment on a given process, nor a guarantee of result, nor a regulatory opinion, nor a compliance recommendation enforceable against an authority. A performance obtained on a given matrix, particle size, probe geometry and range of conditions does not transfer as it stands to another process.
Any application to a particular process supposes a specific study: feasibility on the real material, verification of the representativeness of the sampling, qualification of the reference method, validation in the framework applicable to the site concerned. Decisions taken on the sole basis of the content published here are the responsibility of the person taking them.
Limitation of liability
The publisher endeavours to keep the information published accurate and up to date, without being able to guarantee it. Technical content evolves with the state of knowledge, standardisation and the applicable frameworks. A page may therefore cease to be accurate without the publisher being immediately aware of it. Any error reported to pat-industry@pat-industry.com will be examined and, where appropriate, corrected.
The publisher does not guarantee the continuous availability of the site. Access may be suspended, in particular for maintenance, updating or security reasons, with no notice and no indemnity. The publisher cannot be held liable for damage resulting from an interruption of service, an intrusion, malicious software, a hardware or software incompatibility, or a use of the content other than as intended.
Applicable law and competent jurisdiction
This legal notice is governed by French law. In the event of a dispute relating to the use of this site, the parties will seek an amicable solution before any legal action. Failing agreement, and subject to the mandatory rules of jurisdiction applicable to consumers, the dispute will be brought before the competent French courts: the competent courts within the jurisdiction of Nanterre.
This page last updated: 31 August 2026. The legal notice is reviewed at each change of address, legal form, director, host or trade mark used.