Legal notice and privacy

01Site publisher

This site is published by the Vector Control Product Evaluation Centre (VCPEC) of the Institut Pierre Richet, part of the National Institute of Public Health of Côte d'Ivoire.

• AddressInstitut Pierre Richet, 01 BP 9 Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire
• Phone+225 27 31 60 31 37
• Write to the centreForm on the Contact page

Further administrative details, including the name of the publication director, are available from the centre on request.

02Hosting and development

Information about the hosting and technical development of the site is available on request. To obtain it, write to the centre from the Contact page.

03Intellectual property

The texts, logos, photographs and videos on this site belong to VCPEC, the Institut Pierre Richet or their respective authors, and are used with their permission. Any reproduction, representation or distribution, in whole or in part, without the centre's prior written permission is prohibited.

The home page video is a trimmed and sped-up excerpt of « Anopheles Mosquito feeding » by Dunpharlain, published under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 licence on Wikimedia Commons, and shared here under the same licence.

The list of publications is built from the open OpenAlex database. Articles belong to their authors and publishers. Partner names and logos remain the property of their owners.

04Liability

The centre strives to publish accurate and up-to-date information, but cannot guarantee that it is complete or error-free. If you notice an inaccuracy, report it from the Contact page and it will be corrected as soon as possible.

The scientific and technical information on this site is provided for information only. It does not replace the study reports delivered to sponsors, nor the opinions of WHO and national registration authorities.

The site links to other sites, including those of partners, scientific journals and international organisations. The centre is not responsible for their content.

05Personal data

Apart from the anonymous audience measurement described in the next section, the centre only collects the data you enter yourself in the contact form. This means your name, email address, organisation, message and, for a study request, information about the product to be evaluated.

This data is only used to answer your request and prepare a possible study. It is never sold or passed on to third parties. Technical information about your products is handled confidentially, and commissioned studies are run under a confidentiality agreement. Data is kept for as long as needed to handle the request and, if a collaboration follows, for its duration.

Under Law No. 2013-450 of 19 June 2013 on the protection of personal data, you have the right to access, correct, object to and delete your data. To exercise it, write to the centre from the Contact page. You may also contact ARTCI, the Ivorian authority responsible for personal data protection.

06Cookies and audience measurement

The site uses no advertising cookies and no commercial trackers. Anonymous, cookie-free audience measurement shows how the site is used, such as the number of visits, the pages read, the country or the type of device. It cannot identify visitors.

Embedded videos only load when you click them, in privacy-enhanced mode, and the link to the Institut Pierre Richet map only opens the mapping service when clicked. These services then apply their own rules.

07Governing law

This site and its legal notice are governed by Ivorian law. Any dispute relating to their use falls under the jurisdiction of the competent Ivorian courts.