TERMS
OF USE
OF
SHAMIR WEBSITE
Introduction
to SHAMIR's Website
Welcome
to SHAMIR's Website ("Website").
We thank you for your interest in accessing the Website, in using the
services
offered by Shamir Optical Industry Ltd. and its subsidiaries (“SHAMIR”,
"us", or "we") on the Website (“Services”),
and in purchasing products and other offerings which may be available
from time
to time by us ("Products").
The
purpose of this Website is to provide its
users with easy access to acquire updated information regarding the
SHAMIR
Group and its Services and Products, as well as links to the group’s
various
websites.
This
Website is made available to you subject
to the following Terms of Use, which by choosing to access this Website
you
agree to accept. In these Terms of Use, “SHAMIR” means Shamir Optical
Industry
Ltd., as well as its subsidiaries and affiliates.
We
may amend, update or otherwise change, at
any time and without prior notice, any or all of the Terms of Use,
included in
this Website. Please check the contents of these Terms of Use
periodically for
changes. Each such amendment shall become automatically valid and
enforceable
at the time when first displayed by us in the Website. Your continued use of this Website,
or of any part thereof following
the posting of any changes to the Terms of Use, constitutes acceptance
of these
Terms of Use and of any subsequent changes. If you do not agree with
any of the
terms and conditions hereof, kindly do not make any use of this Website.
Intellectual
Property Rights
The
information contained and referred to in
these pages, including but not limited to all patents, trademarks,
registered
trademarks, copyright, logos, trade names, drawings, pictures, designs,
names,
materials, contents, programming, databases of information, resources,
links,
descriptions of internet resources and any other documents or details
from
which any proprietary and/or intellectual property right may emanate,
is the
sole and absolute property of SHAMIR.
Unless
otherwise specifically authorized in
writing by us, no part of any such information may be duplicated,
copied,
reproduced, distributed, used to create derivative works, amended or
otherwise
used for any purpose, wholly or partially, without our prior written
consent.
Without derogating from the generality of the stated above, none of
SHAMIR's
names, patents and trademarks, whether registered or not, may be used
without
the prior written consent of SHAMIR and in no event shall any of these
be used
in any way or manner which may be misleading and/or which may cause any
confusion. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose
any
trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including, without
limitation, images, text, page layout, or form) of SHAMIR without its
express
written consent. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and
the like
that appear on the Website, Services or Products are the property of
their
respective owners. You may not use any of these trademarks, trade
names, trade
dress, or service marks without the respective owner’s express
permission.
Under
no circumstances is any license,
permission, right or interest of any nature granted to anyone using
this Website,
nor does any purchase of any product imply that you are in any way
entitled to
such rights.
Violation
of any of these provisions is
expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and
criminal
penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent permitted
by law.
This
notice refers to any page/s that are or
that may be included in, and/or linked with the SHAMIR Website,
irrespective of
whether such pages are marked with Copyright notice ©, Trademark
notice ™, or registered patent notice ®.
Hyperlinks
Our
Website may provide links to other
websites or resources. Since we cannot be responsible for such other
sites and
as we have no control over any of these other sites, including but not
limited
to their contents, you hereby acknowledge and agree that SHAMIR is not,
and
will not be held responsible for such other sites, including without
limitation
their availability, contents, the type of services they offer, the
advertising
and/or products contained therein, and their form. You also acknowledge
and
agree that we are not, and will not be held liable or responsible,
directly or
indirectly, for any damage and/or loss, whether pecuniary or not,
caused or
alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of, or reliance on,
any such
contents, goods or services available on or through any such other
site/s or
resource/s.
You
further acknowledge that SHAMIR is not
and will not be held liable or responsible for the accuracy, the
legality, the
decency, the copyright, the compliance, the availability of any
materials
included in or referred to in these other sites, or any other aspect of
the
content of such other sites. The inclusion of such links does not imply
endorsement of the Website by SHAMIR or any association with the
operators of
such site and resources.
Without
derogating from the generality of that
stated above, you specifically undertake and agree not to create any
direct or
indirect links to our Website without obtaining our previous written
consent.
Accuracy
and Access
All
information, including, without
limitation, data, figures, specification and names contained in this
Website is
constantly reviewed and modified by us in accordance with our latest
developments and recent publications. However, although we carefully
and
constantly review the accuracy of these pages, we can NOT assure, under
any
circumstances, the accuracy, the availability and the access to any
Service
and/or any part of any information contained or listed in our Website
and/or in
any of its pages. We assume no responsibility or liability for
omissions or
errors that may appear, and we cannot assure the availability of the
Service or
Products at any given time. We cannot guarantee that each and every
specification contained in the information in our Website at any time
is or
will be accurate, correct, or complete, nor can we assure strict
reliance on
the information contained in this Website. As your use of this Website
is at
your own risk, you are fully encouraged to use all possible means and
precautions to overcome any of the above factors.
Security
Unfortunately,
no data-transmission over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We cannot assure or
guarantee the
security and protection of information sent by you over the Internet,
and any
information you transmit to us is at your own risk. Nonetheless, any
information we may receive from you will be maintained and used by us
in
accordance with our Privacy Statement, and in a manner that protects
and
safeguards your privacy. If you feel more secure you may always contact
SHAMIR's local branch or authorized distributor rather than sending any
of your
information over the Internet.
Privacy
Statement
Your
privacy as well as the protection of all
of your personal information is vitally important to us, and we
undertake to
safeguard them by exercising reasonable care through reasonably
available means.
We do not disclose any information that we receive from you to any
third party
without your prior consent, nor do we sell or license the use of any
information received from you. However, with the aim to better meet
your needs,
we may share information with our authorized distributors for the
purpose of
facilitating transactions you may wish to conduct with us.
We
may also use the information for
statistical and marketing purposes, in order to analyze and process
your
preferences and varying needs and to contact you for the purpose of
providing
you with details and features related to our products and to the
contents of
our Website. Our Website may gather certain usage information, such as
numbers
and frequency of visitors to our Website. This information may be used
by us
solely in the aggregate to enable us to improve the access, the
availability,
the various features and contents of our Website, and in order to
assure that
it may appeal to, and be used by as many users as possible.
Thus,
we may make use of certain technologies
which process statistical data and provide details regarding the number
of
visitors to our Website, the means by which access is made to the
Website, and
the times of visiting our Website. We do not use such technologies to
collect
personally identifiable information, nor do we use any data received
through
same with other personally identifiable information for any other
purposes.
The
Website might employ “cookie” technology
at times. Cookies are small text files stored in files on your computer
allowing our Website to track your use of the Website as you visit and
revisit
the website (the pages you visited, date and time of the visit, etc.),
but will
not enable to identify you. Please note that you can choose to block
the use of
cookies through settings in your web browser but be advised that
certain
features of website may not work properly without them. The Help menu
on the
menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser
from
accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you
receive a
new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether.
Any
information received by us from you over
the Internet is regarded as confidential information. That includes not
only
data that you sent to us over the Internet, but also information about
your
individual visits to our Website and any other queries you may have
regarding
our Products or Services.
Use
of Google Analytics
This
Website uses Google Analytics, a web
analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a
cookie in
order to evaluate your use of the Website and compile reports for us on
activity on the Website to help us understand how visitors engage with
the Website
and track visitor interactions. Google Analytics collects information
anonymously
and without identifying individual visitors. Google stores the
information
collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to
third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third
parties
process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate
your IP
address with any other data held by Google. By accessing this Website,
you
consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and
for the
purposes set out above. Analytics uses
its own cookies to store information, such as what time the visit
occurred,
whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred
the
visitor to the web page. To disable this type of cookie, some browsers
will
indicate when a cookie is being sent and allow you to decline cookies
on a
case-by-case basis. In addition to declining cookies, you can also
install
the Google
Analytics
Opt-out Add-on in your browser, which prevents Google
Analytics
from collecting information about your website visits.
DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTIES
SHAMIR
PROVIDES THE WEBSITE, SERVICES, AND
PRODUCTS ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. SHAMIR MAKES NO
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT THE
WEBSITE, OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, SERVICES, OR PRODUCTS
AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE, ITS SERVERS, OR EMAIL SENT FROM SHAMIR
INSIGHT: (I)
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, (II) WILL BE FREE OF DEFECTS, VIRUSES,
INACCURACIES,
ERRORS, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, (III) WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,
OR (IV)
WILL OPERATE IN THE CONFIGURATION OR WITH OTHER HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE
THAT YOU
USE. SHAMIR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE
WEBSITE, SERVICES, AND PRODUCTS IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
IN
ANY EVENT WHERE APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT
ALLOW EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DAMAGES OR
WARRANTIES AS
HEREIN STIPULATED, SHAMIR’S MAXIMAL LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO, AND
SHALL
NOT EXCEED THE MINIMAL EXTENT OF LIABILITY STIPULATED AND/OR PERMITTED
BY APPLICABLE
LAW.
LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY
SHAMIR,
ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES,
EMPLOYEES, DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECTORS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO
YOU OR ANY
THIRD PARTY FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, OR
SPECIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES RELATING TO LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOSS
OF
GOODWILL) ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO OR CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF THE
WEBSITE,
SERVICES, OR PRODUCTS, BASED ON ANY CAUSE OF ACTION (INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT, INFRINGEMENT, INVASION OF
PRIVACY,
OR STRICT LIABILITY), EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. WITHOUT
DEROGATING FROM THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT WILL THE LIABILITY OF SHAMIR
IN
CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OF USE, THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICES, OR THE
PRODUCTS
EXCEED THE GREATER OF (I) THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO SHAMIR DURING THE
SIX
MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT THAT GIVES RISE TO SUCH
LIABILITY, OR
(II) US$5,000.
INDEMNIFICATION
YOU
WILL INDEMNIFY AND/OR COMPENSATE SHAMIR
AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, DISTRIBUTORS, AGENTS AND
EMPLOYEES, AND HOLD THEM HARMLESS AGAINST ANY CLAIM, LIABILITY OR
DEMAND,
INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES, RELATED TO USE YOU MAKE AND/OR TO
MATERIALS OR INFORMATION THAT YOU DISTRIBUTE OR OTHERWISE TRANSMIT VIA
THIS WEBSITE,
AND WHICH MAY RESULT FROM OR BE RELATED TO YOUR MISCONDUCT, OR USE OR
MISUSE OF
THIS WEBSITE. WITHOUT DEROGATING FROM YOUR DUTY TO INDEMNIFY AND/OR
COMPENSATE
SHAMIR ALSO IN ANY CASE OF VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE, WE RESERVE
THE
RIGHT TO EXERCISE ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENCE AND
HANDLING OF
ANY MATTER OTHERWISE SUBJECT TO INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU, IN WHICH EVENT
YOU
UNDERTAKE TO FULLY CO-OPERATE WITH SHAMIR AND TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
SHAMIR’S LEGAL ADVICE IN ADHERING AND MANAGING ANY AVAILABLE DEFENCES.
International
Use
SHAMIR
makes no representation whereby any Products
and/or Services offered on this Website, are or may be available or
appropriate
in territories outside the territory in which the same are performed
and/or
offered. You specifically acknowledge and agree that any Product and or
Service
you may order from SHAMIR, if SHAMIR opts to provide it, will be
provided to
you from and by SHAMIR’s local lawful representative in the applicable
territory. Any such Product, Service transaction, deal, bargain or
shall
constitute a local deal and trade, which will be executed and performed
subject
to all SHAMIR's Terms
and Conditions of Sale as included on this Website or published
elsewhere by SHAMIR, and in accordance with all relevant and governing
provisions of the local law in that country.
Accessing
this Website and/or using the contents
hereof from territories where such activities are illegal, is
prohibited. Doing
so contrary to this provision is at your own risk and subject to your
sole
responsibility to comply with all local laws.
Misconduct,
Improper Use & Disruption
You
are held responsible for any misconduct
and/or materials that you place or transmit on or through this Website,
and
shall not use this Website and/or any of the Services available therein
to
offer, send, distribute, link to, or solicit contents or materials that
are or
that may: (i) violate any law, regulation, contract or mode of behavior
applicable to online conduct and to users of the World Wide Web; and/or
(ii) be
illegal, misleading, incorrect, incomplete, detrimental, intimidating,
harassing, offensive, defamatory, improper, violent, obscene,
pornographic,
libelous or infringing others’ privacy; and/or (iii) infringe someone
else's
intellectual property or other rights; and/or (iv) contain viruses or
any other
computer files or programs that are designed or intended to, or that
may,
disrupt, damage, interfere with or limit the functioning of any part of
this
Website and/or any equipment or software; and/or (v) interrupt or
interfere
with the operation of the Website; and/or (vi) be used by persons not
authorized, for any purpose other than that which complies with these
Term of
Use.
Choice
of Law and Forum
These
Terms of Use shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Israel. You
expressly
agree that the sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action
arising
out of or relating to these Terms of Use or your use of this Website
shall be
filed exclusively with the competent court and instance in the State of
Israel.
Further, you specifically agree and submit to the exercise of personal
jurisdiction of such court/instance for the purpose of litigating any
such
claim or action.
Severability
and Integration
These
Terms of Use constitute the entire
agreement between you and SHAMIR with respect to this Website and its
contents
as defined above. If any provision amongst these Terms of Use is held
invalid
or otherwise unenforceable, wholly or partially, such provision shall
be
construed, applied and enforced in a manner consistent with the
applicable law
and which reflects the genuine intentions expressed in these Terms of
Use. Each
and any of the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and
effect.
Termination
SHAMIR
reserves the right, at its sole and
absolute discretion, to terminate and/or otherwise limit access to all
or part
of this Website and/or its contents as it deems fit, with or without
notice.
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