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WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Limited License to Use Site. Subject to these terms, conditions
and restrictions, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ("Air Products")
and its subsidiaries and affiliated joint venture companies and partnerships
("Affiliates") grant to each user of this site a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, limited right to access, use and display this site and
the information presented on this site. No user shall attempt to interfere
with the operation of this site in any way. For purposes of these terms,
conditions and restrictions, other communication media employed in conjunction
with use of this site, including telephone and video augmentation, shall
be deemed to be part of this site and the information provided in such
other communication media shall be deemed to be information presented on
this site. This site is not intended for use by any natural person under
eighteen years of age and no license to use the site is granted to such
persons.
Who We Are. Air Products maintains this site for itself and as
a convenience for its Affiliates and customers of its Affiliates.
Customers of Affiliates may use this site for product ordering purposes
or for other informational needs. This site is provided by Air Products
primarily for sharing common product information and website resources.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, this site is not intended to establish
any new or additional privity of contract, or agency or other relationship
between those Affiliates and Air Products or between Air Products
and customers conducting business with those Affiliates. No agency,
employment or franchise relationship with Air Products is being created
through use of this site.
Nature of the Information. The information and
functionality contained in this site has been provided as a convenience and,
in some cases, is provided by outside sources. This site has been supplied
upon the condition that you will make your own determination as to the
suitability of information contained in this site before use and that you
have the proper qualifications or expertise to properly evaluate and use
that information. None of the information presented on this site is
intended as legal or tax advice; competent legal or tax advisors should
be consulted as required. Although we attempt to make all information
accurate at the time it is posted to the site, we cannot guarantee or
warrant completeness or accuracy, or that information will be updated.
We make no representation that the information contained on the site
is appropriate or available for use in all countries, and access to
information from places where the site's contents are illegal is
prohibited. Your local Air Products contact can assist you with
the availability of our products and services. The nature of
forward looking
statements is described in the Air Products annual
report and related financial documents. We may, in our sole
discretion and at any time, change site content or these terms,
conditions and restrictions, or modify or discontinue this site
or specific portions of it, without notice. Subsequent re-use of
this site shall be deemed an agreement to any previously revised
terms, conditions and restrictions.
Product Safety Information. Air Products
and its Affiliates maintain material safety data sheets
(MSDSs) on all
of their respective chemical products. You are urged to obtain
copies of the relevant MSDSs before using these products to enhance
the protection of your employees and customers against any known
health or safety hazards described in those MSDSs. Air Products
and its Affiliates strive to make safety a top priority. Therefore,
do not hesitate to contact us to discuss any safety aspects of
these products. Certain areas of this site have been designed
to provide online safety or process training or advice. In all,
cases, such training or advice is based only on the specific
factual information provided to us; the scope of our training or
advice is limited to the scope of coverage and limiting assumptions
and premises identified in our response.
Governing Law and Venue. With respect to
matters arising under this site, the governing law, without regard to
principles of conflicts of laws, and venue shall be: (i) for a particular
matter arising on a given webpage on this site, the choice of law and
venue specified online for that matter, if any, (ii) for an online
product sale, the choice of law and venue specified in the accompanying
online terms and conditions, or in the absence of such specification,
the law of, and venue in the place where, the Air Products
Affiliate making that sale of product has its main office,
(iii) unless otherwise determined under clauses (i) or (ii),
for matters arising on a webpage on this site devoted to a particular
Affiliate, the law of, and venue in the place where, such Affiliate's
main office is located, or (iv) for all other matters, including matters
where no choice of law or venue is specified and matters regarding these
terms, conditions and restrictions, the law shall be the law of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States of America, without regard
to its principles of conflicts of laws, and the venue shall be the
United States Eastern District Court or any other court of competent
jurisdiction within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Jurisdictional Issues. The existence of
this site and the ability to request information or request or order
products through the site is not an offer to sell or solicit or do
business in those countries or jurisdictions in which we are not permitted
by law to do business or in which we do not already conduct business.
Neither the existence of this site nor the accessibility of content of
this site is intended to establish any new or additional jurisdictional
or tax contacts or relationships for or between Air Products
or any Affiliate within any country or jurisdiction in which
Air Products or that Affiliate does not already conduct business.
You are responsible for compliance with all local laws applicable
to you with respect to the content and operation of this site.
Online Product Orders. Nothing contained
in this site shall constitute an offer by Air Products or any
of its Affiliates to buy or sell products or services. No agreement to
buy or sell products or services shall be formed by means of the use of
this site until an order is placed by a user and then accepted by,
Air Products or one of its Affiliates, in the manner described
in the specific ordering information provided with the online product
or service descriptions. Once an agreement has been formed, the terms
and conditions of the agreement shall be the terms and conditions of
Air Products or its Affiliate governing the purchase or sale,
as the case may be, presented on-line at the time of order. All
product requests or orders are subject to prevailing law, including,
as appropriate, export and import regulations and boycotting
restrictions, if any, imposed by governing bodies having jurisdiction
over such product requests or orders.
Hyperlinks. For your convenience, this site contains
hyperlinks to other websites unrelated to Air Products or its
Affiliates. If you use these links, you will leave this site. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content
of any such linked sites. Links to other sites do not imply that
Air Products endorses, approves, or sponsors any information
available at the linked site or any products or services that may be
sold there, nor is Air Products or its Affiliates liable for any
damage that might result from your use of such information, products
or services. We make no representations about the hyperlinks
that other parties may appear to have to this site but which are
not active links to the most current information.
Cookies. The use of a technology called
"cookies" is now an industry standard, and part of most
major websites. "Cookies" are small pieces of information
that are stored by your web browser software on your hard drive or
temporarily in the memory of your computer. Cookies can be useful
to you because it helps you move more quickly through a web site
by recording information from your last visit to a site, such as
user name, registration information and pages viewed. In addition
to recording website usage, cookies track traffic patterns, add
advertisements for goods or services of interest, and estimate
website audience size. Some of the webpages of this site use
cookies to better serve your needs for return visits to this
site. Your browser can be set to notify you when a cookie is
received so that you may choose whether to accept it.
CONTENTS OF WEBSITEDISCLAIMER. THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE
(INCLUDING ANY GRAPHICS) AND ANY MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS
SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITH RESPECT TO THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE,
AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS DISCLAIM, TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS
DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE
RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR
CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. THE MATERIALS IN
THIS SITE COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL
ERRORS. THESE MATERIALS COULD BECOME INACCURATE AS A RESULT OF
DEVELOPMENTS OCCURRING AFTER THE RESPECTIVE DATES SUCH MATERIALS
ARE PUT ON TO THE SITE. AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES AND
CONTRACTORS UNDERTAKE NO OBLIGATION TO KEEP SUCH INFORMATION
CURRENT.
CERTAIN LINKS IN THIS SITE MAY LINK YOU TO OTHER SITES ON THE WORLD
WIDE WEB. BECAUSE AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS
HAVE NO CONTROL THROUGH THIS SITE ON THE USE OR NATURE OF EITHER
THIRD-PARTY LINKS OR HYPERLINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES, AIR PRODUCTS,
ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS
OF ANY LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES TO SUCH SITES.
AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION RECEIVED FROM ANY
LINKED SITE. AIR PRODUCTS IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO YOU
ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY
A REFERRAL BY, OR AN ENDORSEMENT BY AIR PRODUCTS OF, THE
LINKED SITE. AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS ALSO
MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO SUCH LINKS
OR LINKED SITES, NOR WARRANT THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING
SUCH LINKS OR LINKED SITES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING FOR THE
PURCHASE OF ANY GOODS OR SERVICES.
OPERATION OF WEBSITEDISCLAIMER. AIR PRODUCTS ENDEAVORS
TO MAINTAIN THIS SITE AND ITS OPERATION, BUT IS NOT, AND CANNOT BE,
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS OF ANY DEFECTS THAT MAY EXIST IN THE
SITE OR ITS OPERATION. AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE, AIR PRODUCTS,
ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF
ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES AND CONTRACTORS
MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT: (I) THE OPERATION OF THE SITE WILL
MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (II) ACCESS TO THE SITE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS, OR FREE OF ERRORS; (III) THE RESULTS THAT MAY
BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SITE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE;
OR (IV) DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. YOU (AND NOT
AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES OR CONTRACTORS) ASSUME THE
ENTIRE COST OF ALL SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION THAT MAY
BE NECESSARY FOR YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE AS A RESULT
OF ANY VIRUSES, ERRORS OR OTHER PROBLEMS YOU MAY HAVE AS A RESULT
OF VISITING THIS SITE.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL
AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES OR CONTRACTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES OR INJURY, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE
USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THIS SITE OR THE MATERIALS IN THIS
SITE, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS
ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN THIS SITE. AIR PRODUCTS
AND ITS AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE EVEN IF AIR PRODUCTS
OR ITS AFFILIATES OR AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF AIR PRODUCTS
OR AN AFFILIATE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
THESE INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED
BY ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE,
HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE FAILURES, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION,
LINE FAILURE OR COMPUTER VIRUS OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENT, THE USE
OF INFORMATION ON THIS SITE, AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES TO SERVICE
THE APPLICATIONS ON THIS SITE, OR FORCE MAJEURE EVENTS.
LIMITATIONS AS TO WEBSITE DISCLAIMERS AND LIABILITY. APPLICABLE
LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. HOWEVER, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL LIABILITY
OF AIR PRODUCTS, ITS AFFILIATES OR CONTRACTORS TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, EXCEED
THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THIS SITE.
Summaries of Information. Descriptions of
documents filed with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission, references to employment practices or policies, or
other information may be excerpts or summaries and may not be
comprehensive, definitive or current. All references to the
specified documents are qualified in their entirety by reference
to the full documents.
User Information. Any information or
material sent through this site to Air Products or its Affiliates
will be deemed not to be confidential or proprietary (except
that personal data shall be governed by our privacy statement),
unless sent pursuant to a separate written confidentiality agreement
duly executed by both parties. By sending to Air Products or
its Affiliates copyrighted, confidential or proprietary information
without a confidentiality agreement, you: (i) agree to
transfer ownership of such information, including any copyright
therein, to Air Products without further compensation;
(ii) have automatically granted to Air Products,
without further agreement or compensation, an unrestricted,
irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform,
modify, transmit and distribute such information; and
(iii) agree that Air Products and its Affiliates
are free to use such information, including any ideas,
concepts, know-how or techniques, for any purpose.
Export Restrictions. This site is
maintained and operated by Air Products from its offices within
the United States. We make no representation that the information
or other materials accessed through this site are appropriate or
available for use in other locations, and access to them from
other countries where their contents are illegal is prohibited.
Those who choose to access the information or the site from
other locations do so on their own volition and are responsible
for compliance with applicable local laws. You may not export
or re-export any information or products received hereunder
except in full compliance with all United States laws and
regulations. In particular, the information or products
may not be exported or re-exported into (or to a national
or resident of) any country to which the United States
embargoes goods, or to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's
list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce
Department's Table of Denial Orders. In addition, you are
responsible for complying with any local laws in your country,
which may impact your right to import, export or use the
information or products.
Bulletin Boards. This site may
contain chat rooms or bulletin boards for the convenience of
users of this site, Air Products, and its Affiliates.
Air Products does not control the materials or information
placed in these media. No user shall: (i) interfere
with another user's use of such media on this site;
(ii) post unlawful, obscene, threatening, libelous,
defamatory, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, profane,
or indecent material or any material that could constitute or
encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense,
give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law;
(iii) post material infringing upon any copyright, trademark
or similar proprietary material; (iv) violate the privacy
or publicity rights of others; (v) post material containing
viruses or other harmful elements; or (vi) post material
for commercial or advertising purposes. Air Products
may, from time to time, monitor or review discussions, chats
or postings in the chat rooms or on bulletin boards. However,
Air Products is under no obligation to do so and assumes
no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any
such discussions, chats or postings or for any error, defamation,
libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography,
profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any such
discussions, chats or postings. Air Products reserves
the right to disclose any information: (x) required to
satisfy legal or governmental requirements; (y) in
cooperation with any law enforcement authorities or court
order; or (z) if it has a good faith belief that such
disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights,
property or personal safety of Air Products, its
Affiliates, their employees, shareholders or customers or
the public. Air Products reserves the right to remove
or deny the posting of any material that Air Products
deems objectionable in its sole judgment. Air Products
may prosecute improper tampering with or use of this site
to the full extent of the law.
Proprietary Information. Air Products
owns the copyright for all of the material on this site or has
a valid right from a third party to use material on this site.
Trademarks and trade names belonging to Air Products or
its Affiliates are protected under the laws of various jurisdictions
and have been registered in various countries where registration
is legally required or considered to be beneficial. No part of
this site may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded,
posted, transmitted or distributed in any way, except that
you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer
for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you
keep intact all copyright, trademark and other proprietary
notices on the materials. Any modification of the materials or
use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of
copyright and other proprietary rights of Air Products and
its Affiliates. The use of any such material on any other
site or computer network without the prior written consent
of Air Products or its Affiliates, as applicable, is
prohibited. Permission to link to our information will not
be granted to a site that frames or otherwise presents our
information in a manner that does not attribute such information
to us. Your use of the trademarks, service marks and trade names
on this site in any manner other than as authorized in these
terms, conditions and restrictions, or as authorized in writing
by Air Products or its Affiliates, is strictly prohibited.
Presentation of information in this site is not intended to
confer any proprietary or other rights in our trademarks,
tradenames, copyrights, patents or other proprietary rights
or information nor is it intended to infringe patent rights
or other intellectual property rights held by others. Linking
to other sites does not imply that Air Products or the
linked site has any legal authorization to any trademark,
trade name, logo or copyright of the other.
Digital Signatures; Electronic Signatures;
Notices. This site does not accept notices sent by electronic
means, and no digital or electronic sound, video, action, or
signature implemented through this site shall bind Air Products
or its Affiliates, unless (i) prior written arrangements
have been made by our duly authorized officers or their appointed
representatives or (ii) with respect to a particular portion
of our site, such portion invites electronic contracting in a
specific manner, in which case electronic action in such manner
shall bind us and you as a user on the terms and conditions
provided. Clicking on "I submit" or "I agree"
or "I accept" buttons on this site are intended as
a binding electronic acceptance whose contract provisions are
those terms and conditions provided online. Similarly, use
of this site constitutes the user's binding agreement to these
terms, conditions and restrictions and our binding agreement
to provide the information on this site on that basis.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
The privacy and the security of your information is important to us. We take care to ensure that the online data profiles that you create and submit to us on this site are used by us, our affiliates and our business partners to fulfill our internal purposes in serving you as a customer, including fulfilling product orders, or, as a prospective customer, notifying you of our products and services that we think might be of interest to you. We use industry-standard security measures to protect these profiles and to ensure the security and fulfillment of your online orders through our site. Our site's security measures are intended to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. These measures may not fully protect such information in all cases, therefore you should exercise care in using this site.
Unless we are required to do so by law, we will not reveal to any party, other than our affiliates and business partners, your online profile that you submitted to us. We will not sell or publicize your online profile or any materials or other information specific to your identity submitted by you to us online, unless: (i) we first receive your permission; (ii) we notify you before we collect your online profile, materials or other information that such could be published, sold or traded; (iii) required by law; (iv) we feel it is necessary in order to protect the integrity or security of our site; (v) in conjunction with the sale of substantially all of the business of the product line(s), to which your individual online profile relates; (vi) required by the "company" identified in your individual online profile or (vii) you have violated our site terms, conditions and restrictions and we feel it is necessary to protect our business or is in the interest of an individual's personal safety. You have the right upon request to view and verify the contents of your online profile.
Periodically, we create statistical reports that include aggregate data regarding our customers. These reports may also include information on sales, traffic patterns, and similar site related information. The amount of information we gather from you may depend on the settings you have on your browser; please refer to your browser to learn what information it sends. Our reports are used for various purposes, including improving our site. Aggregate data may be shared with external parties, such as industry trade associations, marketing organizations, or organizations providing actuarial, research study or similar services. However, no information by which any individual customer could be identified is part of the aggregate data that is shared.
Some of the applications on this site require either prequalification or registration with us before access is granted. Once access is granted, you will be issued a username and password. You should safeguard your password carefully and make it available only to those persons whom you authorize as your agent. You may not otherwise sell, resell, assign or transfer your access rights. It is our policy to grant access to anyone using your password in conjunction with your username and to treat anyone using your username and password as your agent for all purposes. You should notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of such password.
For your convenience, this site may contain links to other websites. We can make no promises or guarantees regarding the privacy policies of other websites or the data collection practices of such websites. We recommend that you read the privacy policy for each website you visit.
This privacy and security statement is subject to our Web Site Terms and Conditions.
Last updated 11 February 2002
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