Terms of Use
Automotive Safety Council
By using this website, you agree to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree, you should not use this site. The content of this website may be changed or modified at any time. Your continued use of the site after any change or modification to this agreement constitutes your agreement to any such changes or modifications.
Access to the Members Only section of this website is limited to the staff of Automotive Safety Council and designated employees of its member companies who have been authorized to access the site ("users"). Permissions are granted to such users and are not transferable. Access by any other individual or entity is strictly prohibited.
Copyright Restrictions. The contents of this website include information, graphics, text, and other material that is the property of the Automotive Safety Council and its member companies. The contents are protected by copyright, and the Automotive Safety Council and its member companies own all rights, title, and interest in the contents, including the copyright therein. You may view and download one copy of the contents from this website for your use only, provided you do not delete or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. Except as otherwise permitted under copyright law, the contents may not be sold, adapted, modified, performed, promoted, advertised, sublicensed, edited, or distributed in any medium or method now known or later developed by any individual or entity without the written permission of the Automotive Safety Council.
Users may not retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any copyrighted material. The burden of determining that any information or other content on this website is not protected by copyright rests with the user.
Restrictions on Use. You may not use this website for any illegal purpose or in any manner inconsistent with the Terms of Use. You agree not to resell or otherwise transfer or dispose of, the contents. You agree not to use, transfer, distribute or dispose of the contents in any manner that could misrepresent, or not accurately reflect such or disparage or defame the Automotive Safety Council. You acknowledge that this website has been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected and arranged by the Automotive Safety Council through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort and money and constitutes valuable intellectual property of the Automotive Safety Council. You agree to protect the proprietary rights of the Automotive Safety Council in this website during and after the term of this agreement and to comply with all reasonable written requests made by the Automotive Safety Council to protect its contractual, statutory and common law rights in the site. You agree to promptly notify the Automotive Safety Council in writing upon becoming aware of any unauthorized access or use of this website by any party or of any claim that the site infringes upon any copyright, trademark or other contractual, statutory or common law rights.
Restriction of Liability. You agree that use of this website is entirely at your own risk. The site is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation any warranty for information, services, or for uninterrupted access. The Automotive Safety Council specifically disclaims any and all warranties, including without limitation: 1) any warranties concerning the availability, accuracy or content of information, products or services; and 2) any warranties of title or warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of this website, or its content, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. You specifically acknowledge that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you.
Neither the Automotive Safety Council nor any of its agents, members, affiliates or content providers shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of use of this website or inability to gain access to or use the site or out of any breach of any warranty.
Furthermore, the Automotive Safety Council shall not be liable even if it has been negligent or if it’s authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages -- or both.
In any event, the Automotive Safety Council’s liability to a user for all losses, damages, injuries, and claims of every kind (whether the damages are claimed under the terms of a contract, or are claimed to be caused by negligence or other wrongful conduct, or under any other legal theory) will not be greater than the amount such user paid to access the Automotive Safety Council’s website. You hereby acknowledge that the provisions of this section shall apply to all content on this website. The Automotive Safety Council intends for the content to be accurate and reliable. However, technical inaccuracies or typographical errors may sometimes occur.
Trademark Notice. The name Automotive Safety Council, and the Automotive Safety Council logo are the trademarks and service marks of the Automotive Safety Council, Inc., and may not be used or reproduced without permission, other than as permitted herein, or by express written permission of the Automotive Safety Council, other than to identify the services of the Automotive Safety Council
Legal Advice. Although the contents may include discussions, articles and materials concerning legal issues, it is provided for informational purposes only. Such materials may or may not reflect the most current legal developments and are not intended to constitute, and should not be considered, legal advice. Transmission of such information is not intended to create, and receipt by the user does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. None of the material on this website is intended to substitute for the user obtaining legal advice from competent, independent, legal counsel in the relevant jurisdiction.
Website Links. The Automotive Safety Council provides access to other World Wide Websites from this website. Such linked sites contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of the Automotive Safety Council. The Automotive Safety Council does not endorse or approve any products or information offered at sites you reach through this website. Your linking to the websites of others, or to off-site pages or other sites, is at your own risk and without the permission of the Automotive Safety Council.
Websites shall not link to the Automotive Safety Council’s website, except with permission. The Automotive Safety Council controls and operates this website from its headquarters in the United States of America. If you use the Automotive Safety Council website from locations outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.
