TERMS OF USE Avansas Office Supplies Limited (“Avansas”) resides at; [107-111 Fleet Street London EC4A 2AB United Kingdom] operates the website of; www.avansas.com/uk (“Website”) pursuant to the rules stated in this Terms of Use and in the Privacy Policy, which is also published on the Website. The visitors who who browse on the Website (“Visitors”) are deemed to be agreed and declared to have read its content in full and to approve all of its provisions as stated below. 1. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS Avansas is the sole owner of all contents posted and available on the Website and it shall not permit or consent to any unlawful use thereof, including, in particular, any and all uses mentioned below, and the acquisition, reproduction, process and use of the contents or the insertion of any link to such contents. • The use of the Website by the Member or a third party to create, control, update or change a database, record or guideline that belongs to the user or a third party; • The use of the Website in its entirety or any part thereof for violation, modification or reverse engineering purposes; • The use of the Website for any unlawful purpose or for fraudulent transactions, • The use, reproduction, change, transmission or replacement of the Website content or the contents of any third party in its entirety or any part thereof without any permission as the same may be under the protection of law or may be copyrighted, including personal confidentiality or broadcast/ publication rights; • Distribution of chain letters or spam; • Transmission of any virus, malware or other damaging technology for the Website, its database or any content on the Website; • Collection of any information of other visitors like their e-mail addresses, without any permission; • Attempts to have access to the Website in a manner that poses unreasonably or disproportionally large loads on the communications and technical systems designated by the Website or that somehow blocks, ceases, disrupts, spoils or modifies them in any manner; • Use of “screen scraping” software or systems such as automatic programs, robots, web crawlers, spiders, data mining or data crawling on the Website without the Platform’s prior written consent, and the unauthorized reproduction, publication, broadcast or use of any content on the Website this way; unauthorized use of Website and any contents on it without permission and beyond such limits of use as defined herein is unlawful, and the Platform reserves its right to immediately suspend or cancel the membership and to institute any legal proceeding or to make any claim without any fee refund. • The connection quality and its fees of the visitors may vary depending on their connection speeds. This may affect the performance in using the Website, but Avansas under no circumstance shall be liable in this regard. Fees and additional costs arising from any connection for any device shall be borne by the Visitor. • These terms and conditions shall be regularly announced on the Website and such terms and conditions may be changed when deemed necessary by being published on the Website. The visitor shall be obliged to follow and regard such rules/terms via Website. • Data Protection principles are covered in our Privacy Policy and thus please visit the relevant pages for further information. 2. CONTENTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS The information offered on the Website may include specifications or general descriptions of the technical options for products, including their technical dimensions, that may not be available all cases (e.g. due to product modifications) and thus Avansas does not guarantee its accuracy and validity. For this reason, the required product performance characteristics and other product features that might be necessary for the planning and implementation of lighting projects will only be stipulated upon request and/or purchase orders. The visitor may not resell, share, distribute, exhibit, reproduce the contents provided over the Website, or the copyrighted Works; otherwise, he/she shall be responsible to indemnify and cover any and all other liabilities including but not limited to court expenses and attorney’s fee along with such amount of compensation asked from Avansas on account of the losses suffered by third parties, including but not limited to, the licensors. The rights of Avansas for all of its assets, real and personal rights, commercial data and know-how including any tangible and intellectual property rights it possess through the software it shall provide at the Website, commercial knowledge, copyrighted works, trademarks, trade dressing or Website are reserved and may not be used without permission. 3. EFFECTS OF THE NON-PERFORMANCE BY FORCE MAJEUR In all circumstances that are considered to be force major events legally, Avansas shall not be responsible to underperform or not to perform any of its obligations set out herein late or at all. Any late or incomplete performance in case of a force major event shall not be considered a non-performance or an event of default, or the visitor shall not have the right to claim any right or compensation under any name against Platform in such circumstances. The term “force major event” shall refer to any event that is beyond the reasonable control of Platform and that cannot be avoided in spite of the necessary due care and diligence, including but not limited to God’s acts, riots, state of war, strike, cyber-attacks, communication troubles origination from service providers and access issues, technical infrastructure and Internet breakdowns or malfunctions, system improvement or upgrade works and related malfunctions, power shortage and extreme weather conditions. 4. VALIDITY OF RECORDS The visitor agrees, represents and undertakes that all electronic and system records and commercial records as well as book records, microfilms and microfiches and computer records maintained at the Website and its servers shall constitute valid, binding, conclusive and exclusive evidence in case of any dispute that may arise. 5. LAW AND JURISDICTION The laws of England shall apply to this Terms of Usage and the courts of London/UK shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute that may arise. The Visitors are deemed to be accepted and are bound by the terms as stated, during their visit to the Website. All related inquiries can be directed to; data@avansas.com or to any communication e-mail shown in the Website.
