LEGAL NOTICES Terms and Conditions Status 06/2011 Your access and use of this Website and any area of it is subject to the following Terms and Conditions along with all applicable laws. You should carefully read through these Terms and Conditions before using the Site. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that any other agreements between you and Gessi S.p.A, Parco Gessi, Vercelli (Italy) and/or any of its subsidiaries, are superseded and have no force or effect. Gessi S.p.A, Parco Gessi, Vercelli (Italy) and/or any of its subsidiaries, may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound. Copyrights & Ownership of Intellectual Property. Gessi S.p.A, Parco Gessi, Vercelli (Italy) and/or any of its subsidiaries, reserve all rights for this Website, and own the copyrights and intellectual property rights associated with the Site. This includes but is not limited to its design, structure, software, logos, texts, pictures, sounds, animations and videos. Any improvements or modifications to such content, any derivative works thereof, the collection, arrangement and assembly of all content appearing on this Site are the exclusive property of Gessi S.p.A and are protected by national and international copyright and other applicable intellectual property laws. All software used on The Site is the property of Gessi S.p.A. or its software suppliers and is protected by national and international copyright and other applicable intellectual property laws. Contents of this Website may not be copied, modified or distributed or made accessible to third parties for private or commercial use, without the prior written consent by Gessi S.p.A. In some cases, copyrights for certain items on this Website belong to third parties. By giving access to this site, we do not intend to provide you a license or other interest in any intellectual property rights. All industrial property rights and copyrights both named or not named in the Website, acquired by us or where appropriate by third parties, are subject without limitation to the provisions of the respective applicable national and international law(s) and the rights or claims of the respective registered or unregistered holder of the right. No conclusion can be drawn purely from the mere naming or non-naming that industrial property rights and copyrights of us or third parties do not exist. Trademarks The trademarks, service marks, product descriptions and names, company names and logos displayed on the Site, are registered Trademarks of Gessi S.p.A. Others are protected under trademark law. This is particularly true of the brand name Gessi, Gessi logo and Gessi product names. All other trademarks, product names, company names and logos appearing on the Site are the property of their respective owners. The lack of identification of names and logos as trademarks cannot automatically be interpreted as meaning that they are not protected by applicable trademark law. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without the written permission of Gessi S.p.A., or the third party owner of such Trademark. Your misuse of the Trademark, or any content on the Site, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is strictly prohibited. You are also advised that Gessi S.p.A. will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution. Use of Site Gessi S.p.A maintains this Site for your personal information on Gessi products and services and to conduct on-line communications. You may not distribute or commercially exploit the site or any part of its content (whether by reproduction, retransmission, dissemination, sale, broadcast, circulation, republication, amendment, re-delivery using "framing" or similar technology or otherwise). Any use of the on-line communication features of this site may only be used for lawful purposes and you may not post or transmit any material which is objectionable (whether harmful, threatening or otherwise); Gessi S.p.A, Parco Gessi, Vercelli (Italy) and/or any of its subsidiaries, reserve the right (but without the obligation or liability) to prohibit or remove any such material. Gessi S.p.A, Parco Gessi, Vercelli (Italy) and/or any of its subsidiaries, may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the site, without notice, for any conduct that Gessi S.p.A and/or any of its subsidiaries, in their sole discretion, believe is in violation of any applicable law or is harmful to Gessi S.p.A and/or any of its subsidiaries, or a third party. The user indemnifies Gessi S.p.A and/or any of its subsidiaries, against all claims of third parties which result from a use of our website that does not conform to these conditions of use. Disclaimer Your browsing of this Website is at your risk. Neither Gessi S.p.A. nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of the Site. The Website and its content are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied (except only as may be implied by applicable law), including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Gessi S.p.A and any of its subsidiaries, also assume no responsibility, and shall not be held liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, any computer equipment or other property on account, through the use of, or browsing of the Site or your downloading of any materials, which includes, but is not limited to, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site. Gessi S.p.A has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this Site and are not responsible for the contents of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. The linking to any other third party off-site pages or other sites is entirely at your own risk. Accuracy of information and Control over Content While Gessi S.p.A. uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on the Site, Gessi S.p.A and/or any of its subsidiaries assume no warranty for the fact that the information is up-to-date or for the correctness, completeness or suitability of the information for specific purposes. Gessi S.p.A. and/or any of its subsidiaries shall not be held liable for any errors, omissions or modifications of information contained in this website. Gessi S.p.A and/or any of its subsidiaries will not accept any liability for losses suffered directly or indirectly in connection with the use of this Website. Gessi S.p.A. reserves the right to shorten content at any time and to move it into other subject areas, to temporarily block it and/or to conclusively delete it. Availability of Services The aim of the Site is to give you a general outline of the services provided by Gessi S.p.A and/or any of its subsidiaries. However, the information contained in this Website does not create any legal claim to certain services, their complete, uninterrupted or undisturbed availability. Please note that individual information on the Site can refer to products, programs or services which are not available in certain countries. Please contact your authorized local Gessi distributor regarding the products or services available in your country. Showroom Dealer Referral Disclaimer Gessi S.p.A. and/or any of its subsidiaries, may list on its website, refer or supply information on where Gessi products may be purchased directly to the consumer or to the trade. All authorized Gessi showroom dealers are independent businesses. And as such, Gessi S.p.A. and/or any of its subsidiaries shall not be held liable for any contractual disputes between the purchaser of Gessi products and its authorized showroom dealers regarding price, payments of merchandise, delivery, unethical conduct or acts of God. The purchaser is not under any obligation to acquire Gessi products from any specific referral by Gessi S.p.A. its independent sales agents or subsidiaries. Please read all information, warranties or disclaimers provided by Gessi S.p.A. and/or any of its authorized subsidiaries, affiliates or the seller of the products provided on or in the product packaging and labels before using any product purchased. Governing Law These Terms of Use of the Site shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Italian laws. You irrevocably agree that the courts of Italy shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any claim or dispute concerning or arising from these Terms of Use and order terms. These Terms of Use were last updated on 30th January 2011.