Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement

Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you & are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its & terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement & to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use & of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq & Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason.

Use of www.mondaq.com

You may use the Website but are required to register as a user if you wish to & read the full text of the content and articles available (the Content). You may & not modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative & works from, distribute, perform, link, display, or in any way exploit any of the & Content, in whole or in part, except as expressly permitted in these terms & & conditions or with the prior written consent of Mondaq Ltd. You may not use & electronic or other means to extract details or information about Mondaq.com's & content, users or contributors in order to offer them any services or products & which compete directly or indirectly with Mondaq Ltd's services and products. &

Disclaimer

Mondaq Ltd and/or its respective suppliers make no representations about the & suitability of the information contained in the documents and related graphics & published on this server for any purpose. All such documents and related & graphics are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Mondaq Ltd and/or & its respective suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with & regard to this information, including all implied warranties and conditions of & merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. & In no event shall Mondaq Ltd and/or its respective suppliers be liable for any & special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting & from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence & or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or & performance of information available from this server.

The documents and related graphics published on this server could include & technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added & to the information herein. Mondaq Ltd and/or its respective suppliers may make & improvements and/or changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described & herein at any time.

Registration

Mondaq Ltd requires you to register and provide information that personally & identifies you, including what sort of information you are interested in, for & three primary purposes:

• To allow you to personalize the Mondaq websites you are visiting. &
• To enable features such as password reminder, newsletter alerts, email a & colleague, and linking from Mondaq (and its affiliate sites) to your website. &
• To produce demographic feedback for our information providers who provide & information free for your use.

Mondaq (and its affiliate sites) do not sell or provide your details to third & parties other than information providers. The reason we provide our information & providers with this information is so that they can measure the response their & articles are receiving and provide you with information about their products and & services.

If you do not want us to provide your name and email address you may opt out & by clicking here .

If you do not wish to receive any future announcements of products and & services offered by Mondaq by clicking here .

Information Collection and Use

We require site users to register with Mondaq (and its affiliate sites) to & view the free information on the site. We also collect information from our & users at several different points on the websites: this is so that we can & customise the sites according to individual usage, provide 'session-aware' & functionality, and ensure that content is acquired and developed appropriately. & This gives us an overall picture of our user profiles, which in turn shows to & our Editorial Contributors the type of person they are reaching by posting & articles on Mondaq (and its affiliate sites) – meaning more free content for & registered users.

We are only able to provide the material on the Mondaq (and its affiliate & sites) site free to site visitors because we can pass on information about the & pages that users are viewing and the personal information users provide to us & (e.g. email addresses) to reputable contributing firms such as law firms who & author those pages. We do not sell or rent information to anyone else other than & the authors of those pages, who may change from time to time. Should you wish us & not to disclose your details to any of these parties, please tick the box above & or tick the box marked "Opt out of Registration Information Disclosure" on the & Your Profile page. We and our author organisations may only contact you via & email or other means if you allow us to do so. Users can opt out of contact when & they register on the site, or send an email to unsubscribe@mondaq.com with "no & disclosure" in the subject heading

Mondaq News Alerts

In order to receive Mondaq News Alerts, users have to complete a separate & registration form. This is a personalised service where users choose regions and & topics of interest and we send it only to those users who have requested it. & Users can stop receiving these Alerts by going to the Mondaq News Alerts page & and deselecting all interest areas. In the same way users can amend their & personal preferences to add or remove subject areas.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file written to a user's hard drive that contains an & identifying user number. The cookies do not contain any personal information & about users. We use the cookie so users do not have to log in every time they & use the service and the cookie will automatically expire if you do not visit the & Mondaq website (or its affiliate sites) for 12 months. We also use the cookie to & personalise a user's experience of the site (for example to show information & specific to a user's region). As the Mondaq sites are fully personalised and & cookies are essential to its core technology the site will function & unpredictably with browsers that do not support cookies - or where cookies are & disabled (in these circumstances we advise you to attempt to locate the & information you require elsewhere on the web). However if you are concerned & about the presence of a Mondaq cookie on your machine you can also choose to & expire the cookie immediately (remove it) by selecting the 'Log Off' menu option & as the last thing you do when you use the site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, & advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies and we & are not aware of any at present that do so.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track movement, & and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not & linked to personally identifiable information.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Mondaq (or & its affiliate sites) are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other & sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read & the privacy statements of these third party sites. This privacy statement & applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or & contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and & the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose any information & requested. Information requested may include contact information (such as name & and delivery address), and demographic information (such as postcode, age & level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. & Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the & functionality of the site.

Mail-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our & site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Mondaq stores this & information and may contact the friend to invite them to register with Mondaq, & but they will not be contacted more than once. The friend may contact Mondaq to & request the removal of this information from our database.

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