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Terms and Conditions of Use of Web Site

Please Read These Terms and Conditions Carefully Before Using This Site

This Web site is provided by Union Switch & Signal Inc. ("US&S") and may be used for product, sales and informational purposes only. By using the site or downloading materials from the site, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions set forth in this notice.

Additionally, this Web site may contain additional terms and conditions that govern particular features, offers, sales or products. In the event that the terms and conditions of this notice conflict with any other terms and conditions contained in the Web site, the terms and conditions of this notice shall control.

If you do not agree to abide by these terms and conditions do not use the site or download materials from the site.

Limited License

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, US&S grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use and display this site and the materials thereon. You agree (1) not to use the site or materials for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this Agreement, (2) not to use the site or materials in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, interrupt, or otherwise impair the operation of the site in any way, and (3) not to use the site or materials in any manner which could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the site and materials. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the site, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the site, through hacking, password mining, or other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Web site. You may not upload any files that contain or otherwise introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, corrupted files, or any other software or programs that may damage the operation of the site or any computer or other property of US&S or any other party.

US&S authorizes you to view and download the information ("Materials") at this Web site ("Site") only for your personal use. This authorization is not a transfer of title in the Materials and copies of the Materials and is subject to the following restrictions: 1) you must retain, on all copies of the Materials downloaded, all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the Materials; 2) you may not modify the Materials in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose; and 3) you must not transfer the Materials to any other person unless you give them notice of, and they agree to accept, the obligations arising under these terms and conditions of use. You agree to abide by all additional restrictions displayed on the Site as it may be updated from time to time. This Site, including all Materials, is copyrighted and protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. You agree to comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of this Site and to prevent any unauthorized copying of the Materials. Except as expressly provided herein, US&S does not grant any express or implied right to you under any patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secret information.

Compliance with Laws

US&S has an express policy of complying with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations (including without limitation those governing export control, unfair competition, antitrust, intellectual property and false advertising) regarding the use of the Web site, the placing of bids on or purchase of goods or services through the site, and posting and retrieval of information from the Site. The operation of the Web site is not intended to facilitate collusion or other illegal agreements among competitors or acts that would violate a third party's copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or confuse or deceive consumers. Accordingly, each user hereby represents and warrants that it does not intend to and will not use the Web site to violate antitrust, copyright, trademark, consumer protection or other laws.

Disclaimer

THE MATERIALS MAY CONTAIN INACCURACIES AND TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. US&S DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE MATERIALS OR THE RELIABILITY OF ANY ADVICE, OPINION, STATEMENT OR OTHER INFORMATION DISPLAYED OR DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE SITE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY RELIANCE ON ANY SUCH OPINION, ADVICE, STATEMENT, MEMORANDUM, OR INFORMATION SHALL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. US&S RESERVES THE RIGHT, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION, TO CORRECT ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY PORTION OF THE SITE. US&S MAY MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGES TO THE SITE, THE MATERIALS AND THE PRODUCTS, PROGRAMS, SERVICES OR PRICES (IF ANY) DESCRIBED IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. US&S DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR ANY SOFTWARE OR SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE ON THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR WITHOUT BUGS. THIS SITE, THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS ON THE SITE, AND THE SOFTWARE MADE AVAILABLE ON THE SITE, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW FOR THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Third Party Sites

As a convenience to you, US&S may provide, on this Site, links to Web sites operated by other entities. If you use these sites, you will leave this Site. If you decide to visit any linked site, you do so at your own risk and it is your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements. US&S makes no warranty or representation regarding, and does not endorse, any linked Web sites or the information appearing thereon or any of the products or services described thereon. Links do not imply that US&S or this Site sponsors, endorses, is affiliated or associated with, or is legally authorized to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol displayed in or accessible through the links, or that any linked site is authorized to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol of US&S or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries.

Information Provided by You

US&S does not want you to, and you should not, send any confidential or proprietary information to US&S via the Site. You agree that any information or materials that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to US&S will not be considered confidential or proprietary. By providing any such information or materials to US&S, you grant to US&S an unrestricted, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, publicly perform, transmit and distribute such information and materials, and you further agree that US&S is free to use any ideas, concepts or know-how that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to US&S. You further recognize that US&S does not want you to, and you warrant that you shall not, provide any information or materials to US&S that is defamatory, threatening, obscene, harassing, or otherwise unlawful, or that incorporates the proprietary material of another.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL US&S OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES OR SUBSIDIARIES BE LIABLE TO ANY ENTITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOSS OF USE, LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION OR PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM) ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE CONTENT, MATERIALS, AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SITE OR ANY LINKED WEBSITE, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE OR THE MATERIALS, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE AND MATERIALS.

Changes

US&S reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of this Agreement in whole or in part, at any time. Changes in this Agreement will be effective when notice of such change is posted on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after any changes to this Agreement are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes. US&S may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the US&S Site, including the availability of any features of the Site, at any time. US&S may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Site without notice or liability. US&S may terminate the authorization, rights and license given above and, upon such termination, you shall immediately destroy all Materials and copies thereof.

International Users and Choice of Law

This Site is controlled, operated and administered by US&S from its offices within the United States of America. US&S makes no representation that materials at this site are appropriate or available for use at other locations outside of the United States and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use the Site or export the Materials in violation of U. S. export laws and regulations. If you access this Site from a locations outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. These Terms and Conditions of use shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions, except that the United Nations Convention of the Sale of Goods shall not apply.

This Agreement, including the US&S Privacy Policy and all additional terms and conditions contained in the Site, all of which are expressly integrated herein, constitutes the entire agreement between US&S and you with respect to your use of the Site or the Materials. Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of the Site or Materials must be commenced within ninety (90) days after the claim or cause of action arises or be forever barred. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of the Agreement or portion thereof, to be unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to effect the intent of the Agreement, and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. The failure of US&S to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
 


 

Privacy Policy

This is the web site of Union Switch & Signal Inc.

Our postal address is 1000 Technology Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

We can be reached via e-mail at info@switch.com or you can reach us by telephone at (800) 351-1520.

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).

We collect the domain name of visitors to our Web page, aggregate information on what pages customers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as email address, survey information and/or account registrations.

The information we collect may be used for: internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of our Web page, used to notify customers about updates to our Web site, used by us to contact customers for marketing purposes, and is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the list.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address. Please provide us with your name and phone number. We will be sure your name is removed from the list.

With respect to Ad Servers, we do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Upon request, we will provide site visitors with access to financial information (e.g., credit card account information) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them, and a description of information that we maintain about them. Customers can access this information by sending us e-mail at the above address or writing to us at the above address. Customers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address or writing to us at the above address.

Security

When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as online orders and account information, we direct visitors to a secure server. We maintain a Verisign certificate to ensure site security.

VeriSign authenticates our organization, enabling you to verify your site and communicate via state-of-the-art SSL or WTLS encryption. This protects confidential information - such as credit card numbers, online forms, and financial data - from interception and hacking.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.


 

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