These Website Terms of Use explain the contractual agreement
between you, who uses this web site and agrees to these Terms of Use
("you", "your"), and Flexible Metal, Inc., and its
subsidiaries and affiliates (ìFMIî, "we", "us",
"our") regarding your use of this web site ("FMI Web Site") and
activities and purchases conducted through the FMI Web Site.
We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms of Use for your
records. If you have any questions
about these Terms of Use, please send an email to webmaster@flexiblemetal.com
with "TERMS OF USE QUESTION" in the subject line.
1. "Agree"
By using this site, you signify your acceptance of these Terms of
Use. Furthermore, at various times within the FMI Web Site you may be
required to click ìSubmitî or similar buttons to register and participate in
certain activities or to make purchases. Your act of ìclickingî the button
signifies your further acknowledgement and agreement with these Terms of Use.
We will try to remind you at various times
of these Terms of Use and your agreement with them, and you are encouraged to
review them often. Please note,
however, that our failure on any web page to make specific notice of these
Terms of Use does not mean that they are not applicable. These Terms of Use apply to the entire
FMI Web Site and all functionality, features and content offered by us
through the FMI Web Site. If you are dissatisfied with these Terms of Use,
your sole remedy is to discontinue your use of this site.
2. Updates and Changes to
the Terms of Use
We reserve the right, at any time, to modify, alter, update, or
remove portions of these Terms of Use, so please check them from time to time
as your continued use of the FMI Web Site after a change has been made
signifies your acceptance of any changed items. If you have registered with us
and provided an email address, we will send you an email when these Terms of
Use are changed. We may also add, delete or modify some or all of our products
or services at any time. You may only
amend these Terms of Use with a writing signed by both of us.
3. Ownership; Intellectual
Property Rights
The FMI Web Site and all intellectual property rights included
in or related to the FMI Web Site (including but not limited to copyrights,
trademarks, service marks, domain name rights, patents and data rights), are
owned or licensed by us, and all right, title and interest in the FMI Web
Site and the intellectual property rights remain our property. You may not reproduce, reverse engineer,
decompile, disassemble, modify, create derivative works with respect to,
download or otherwise exploit for any commercial use the FMI Web Site or
any images,
logos, trademarks or other content included in the FMI Web Site. You may
not remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or
proprietary notice or legend contained on the FMI Web Site or its content.
All trademarks, service marks, brand names, and corporate logos displayed on
the FMI Web Site are the property of FMI or its licensors, and may not
be used in any way without prior written approval by FMI. Access to the FMI Web Site does not
grant to the user any license under any patents owned by or licensed to
FMI.
4. Warranty Disclaimer
Although every care has been taken to assure the accuracy of the
information on the FMI Web Site, FMI provides this information
"AS IS". You acknowledge that your use
of the FMI Web Site is at your sole risk, that you assume full responsibility
for all costs associated with use of the FMI Web Site, and that FMI
shall not be liable for any damages of any kind related to your use of the
FMI Web Site. ALL FAULTS, AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY,
PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY AND EFFORTS IS WITH YOU. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY OR TITLE. FURTHERMORE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR
ENJOYMENT OF THE FMI WEB SITE OR AGAINST INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the FMI Web Site
will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that
the FMI Web Site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses
or other harmful components. Any
warranties and representations for FMI products or services that you
purchase or use will be subject to the agreed upon terms and conditions in the
contract for such product or service.
5. Limitation of Liability
NEITHER FMI NOR ANY OF
OUR EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, SUBSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES SHALL BE
LIABLE TO YOU OR OTHER THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE FMI WEB SITE OR
INABILITY TO GAIN ACCESS TO OR USE THE FMI WEB SITE. FURTHERMORE, IN NO
EVENT SHALL OUR LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE FMI WEB SITE EXCEED US$100.
6. Links to Third Party
Websites
This site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that
are owned and operated by third party vendors and other third parties. We are
providing these links solely as a convenience. The appearance of a link does
not imply our endorsement, nor are we responsible for the content of any linked
site. You access linked sites at your own risk, including reliance on the
content contained on or provided by such links or sites.
7. Links to the FMI Web
Site
Unless you have a written agreement in
effect with us which states otherwise, you may only provide a hypertext link to
the FMI Web Site on another web site, if you comply with all of the
following: (a) the link must be a text-only link clearly marked "Flexible Metal, Inc.
" or "www.flexiblemetal.com"; (b) the link must
"point" to the URL "www.flexiblemetal.com" and not to other pages
within the FMI Web Site; (c) the link, when activated by a user, must
display the FMI Web Site full-screen and not within a "frame" on
the linking web site; and (d) the appearance, position and other aspects of the
link must not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with our
name and trademarks or create the false appearance we are associated with or
sponsor the linking web site. We
reserve the right to revoke our consent to any link at any time in our sole
discretion.
8. System Integrity
You may not use any device, software or routine, including but not
limited to any viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, denial of service
attacks or other malicious code or routines, intended to damage or interfere
with the proper working of the FMI Web Site or to surreptitiously intercept
or expropriate any system, data or personal information from the FMI Web
Site. You may not take any action which
imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure,
including but not limited to ìspamî or other such unsolicited mass e-mailing
techniques.
9. Compliance with Laws
You agree to comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances
and regulations regarding your use of the site and your purchase of the items
on the site. You must be 18 years or older to use the FMI Web Site.
10. User Communications,
Feedback and Submissions
The FMI Web Site may have functionality that permits public
communication, including public postings and e-mail links. You agree not to
submit, publish, distribute, or transmit through the FMI Web Site or its
e-mail links any content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal,
hateful, racially or ethnically discriminatory, or that would constitute or
encourage a criminal or civil offense, violate the rights of any party, or that
would otherwise give rise to liability or violates any law. You also agree that
you will not submit, publish, distribute, or transmit anything through the site
that will violate any right of any third party, including copyright, trademark,
privacy or other personal or proprietary rights. We do not endorse any
information posted by third parties on the FMI Web Site and we are not
liable for any such information, including but not limited to any information
posted about you. By its very nature, other people's information may be
offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or in some cases may be mislabeled or
deceptively labeled. We reserve the
right to take any action with respect to information posted on the FMI Web
Site which we believe is appropriate in our sole discretion, including but not
limited to removal. However, we cannot,
nor do we, monitor or control the information provided by users or content
providers which is made available through our system.
11. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from and
against any and all claims, demands, actions, costs, liabilities, losses and
damages of any kind (including attorneysí fees) resulting from your breach of
any provision of these Terms of Use and/or any intentional wrongdoing by
you.
12. Governing Law and
Jurisdiction
The FMI Web Site is controlled and operated by us from our
offices within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Although it may be technically accessed from all 50 states as well as from
other countries around the world, you agree that your use of the FMI Web Site
shall be construed to be made from within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
you agree that these Terms of Use and your use of the FMI Web Site shall be
governed in all respects by the internal substantive laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflict of laws provisions. We specifically disclaim the applicability
of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods and the
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. You further submit to
jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts located in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County and further agree that any cause
of action you may bring arising under your use of the FMI Web Site shall be
brought by you exclusively in a state or federal court located in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County.
13. Other General Provisions
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or
franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by these Terms of Use
between you and us. These Terms of Use
are an agreement between you and us and are not intended to be for the benefit
of any third party. If any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be
invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be struck and the remaining provisions
enforced. Headings are for reference
purposes only. Our failure to act with
respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with
respect to subsequent or similar breaches. We reserve the right to report any
wrongdoing, if we become aware of it, to the applicable government agencies or
otherwise. These Terms of Use, and all writings and web pages incorporated by
reference into these Terms of Use, set forth the entire understanding and
agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof.
14. How To Contact Us
Contact information is presented in the page footer at the bottom of each
page in the Web site.
