Legal notice
This notice describes the present site — an independently maintained preservation archive of the work of Christine Cotton — not Christine Cotton's own website at christinecotton.com. Christine Cotton is deceased and was not involved in the creation of this archive. Her own legal notice (as published on her site during her lifetime) is preserved as a historical document at /archive/pages_en/mentions_legales_EN/ (English translation) and /archive/pages/mentions_legales/ (French original).
About this site
This site is a bilingual preservation archive of the published work of Christine Cotton — biostatistician, founder of Statitec, and author of a Good Clinical Practice critique of the Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 trial. The archive was started after her death because her own website may not stay online indefinitely.
The archive is maintained independently by the archive maintainer (see the contact link in the footer). It is not affiliated with Christine Cotton's estate, with Statitec, with her publishers, or with any organisation she worked with during her lifetime.
What this site contains
- Captured plain-text versions of her publicly released works (reports, OPECST presentation, McCullough slides, book) — kept locally for preservation. Per the copyright policy described below, the site links to her own PDFs hosted at christinecotton.com rather than republishing them.
- The full original French of every page from christinecotton.com that was tracked during preservation.
- English translations of her French-only site pages, produced for this archive. These translations are explicitly identified on each page as archive translations, not Christine Cotton's own English.
- An indexed catalog of her reports, interviews, and the 231 external sources she cited.
- A link to her last public message, with a content warning, on the About page.
Copyright
On Christine Cotton's own writing
The copyright in Christine Cotton's reports, book, summaries, slides, and the contents of her website remains hers (and now passes to her estate or heirs, as French succession law provides). The express copyright notice that appears on her GCP expertise reports continues to apply.
This archive does not republish her copyrighted PDFs or the full text of her book. For each such work, this site captures a plain-text rendering for indexing and preservation purposes (kept locally, git-ignored, not served to the public), and links to her own original PDF URL on christinecotton.com as the canonical source. The only original PDFs republished by this archive are her CV and the OPECST presentation, neither of which carries a copyright notice.
If a copyright holder believes this archive is hosting their material without permission, the takedown procedure is described under Contact & corrections below.
On third-party documents Christine Cotton cited
The Pfizer C4591001 trial protocol and the Rose & Crawford VAERS analysis cited in her work are owned by their respective authors/publishers. This archive links to their original publishers (NEJM supplementary materials and the regulations.gov docket) rather than redistributing them.
On this archive's own original content
The original prose written for this archive — the Home page, this Legal page, the About page, the curated landing copy on the Expertise & Reports and Book pages, and the English translations of Christine Cotton's French-only site pages — is provided for non-commercial educational and preservation use. The archive's site code (the Jekyll configuration, layouts, and stylesheet) is part of the public repository at GitHub. The repository's README and LICENSE files describe how the source may be reused.
Personal data
This site is a static archive. It does not run server-side code, does not collect user accounts, does not set tracking cookies, and does not use any analytics service. The only data your browser sends to the host server is the HTTP request for each page; the host's standard request logs are governed by the host's privacy policy (see Hosting, below).
If you contact the archive maintainer by email, your message is processed only to reply or to act on a correction/takedown request. It is not shared with anyone else.
Hosting
This site is served as static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Hosting details are visible in the public repository. The host's terms of service and privacy policy govern any incidental logging of HTTP requests.
External links
Many pages on this site link to external resources — regulators, peer-reviewed journals, news outlets, court filings, and Christine Cotton's own site. The archive cannot guarantee that those external resources will remain online, accurate, or unchanged. Links are provided as references; the archive takes no responsibility for the content of external sites.
Accuracy & corrections
This archive aims to faithfully preserve and present Christine Cotton's publicly released work and the metadata around it. Errors will occur — in captured text, in translation, in dates, in attributions. If you find one, please report it: see Contact & corrections.
The archive does not editorialise her conclusions. Her reports are her work and her arguments. Where the archive paraphrases her work (in the curated landing pages), the paraphrase is the archive maintainer's, not hers.
Contact & corrections
For corrections, takedown requests, or general questions about this archive, please contact the archive maintainer. The contact email is listed in the footer of every page once configured. (A contact email has not yet been configured; it will be set before public launch.)
Takedown requests from copyright holders will be honoured promptly. If you are acting on behalf of Christine Cotton's estate and want the archive removed in whole or in part, please say so explicitly; that request will be honoured.
Reference: Christine Cotton's own legal notice
Christine Cotton's own legal notice — as it appeared on christinecotton.com during her lifetime — is preserved verbatim as a historical document: