Terms of Use
As a user of the North Star BlueScope corporate website (‘www.nsbsl.com’), you are bound by the following terms and conditions. Accordingly, you should review them in relation to all or part(s) of the website.
License
By allowing you to access the website, North Star BlueScope Steel Limited (North Star BlueScope) grants to you a license. By accessing the website, you accept the terms and conditions of this license.
Pursuant to this license and subject to the absolute right of North Star BlueScope to vary access to all or any part(s) of the website, you acquire a non-exclusive right to:
- View the material in the website.
- Access material contained in the website.
- Use the website strictly in accordance with the provisions of this license.
If you wish to download and use any material contained in the website for a temporary purpose (such as viewing offline), you may do so.
However, downloading material contained in the website for reproduction by you may only be done upon receipt of prior written consent from North Star BlueScope, and upon payment of any fee required by North Star BlueScope to be paid by you for that use.
Your Obligations
You hereby undertake the following obligations:
- To not copy or translate for commercial use, reproduce, adapt, vary or modify any material in the website without the express consent of North Star BlueScope, except as expressly authorized by this license.
- To ensure your employees, subcontractors and other agents (if any) who have authorized access to the website are made aware of the terms and conditions of this license.
- To not provide or otherwise make available any material in the website in any form to any person other than employees, subcontractors and other agents (if any) without the written consent of North Star BlueScope.
- To not use the material in the website for, or in connection with, a service bureau operation.
Warranties
North Star BlueScope does not warrant that the material in the website is accurate, complete or up to date. The existence of inaccurate, incomplete or superseded material in the website will not cause North Star BlueScope to be in breach of the terms of this license.
North Star BlueScope reserves the right to change, add or remove any material in or from the website without notice.
North Star BlueScope does not warrant that the functions contained in the website or third-party websites will be uninterrupted or without error, that defects will be corrected, or that electronic material in the website and other third-party websites are free of viruses or other harmful components.
To the extent permitted by law, all implied terms are excluded. If any statute implies terms into this license, which cannot be lawfully excluded, such terms will apply to this license, save that the liability of North Star BlueScope for breach of any such implied term will be limited, at the option of North Star BlueScope, to any one or more of the following:
- The replacement of goods or services to which the breach relates or the supply of equivalent goods or services.
- The repair of such goods or services.
- The payment of the cost of replacing the goods or services or of acquiring equivalent goods or services.
- The payment of the cost of having the goods repaired or the services performed again.
North Star BlueScope will not be liable for any indirect or consequential losses arising out of a breach of this license, or arising out of the supply of a defective program or incorrect materials.
When deciding to visit the website, you acknowledge that you have exercised your independent judgment and have not relied on any representation made by North Star BlueScope which has not been stated expressly in this license or upon any descriptions or illustrations or specifications contained in any document including catalogues or publicity material produced by North Star BlueScope (which material may be out of date or superseded).
Intellectual Property Rights
You acknowledge that the material in the website is the subject of copyright© and that it is the subject of other intellectual property and legal rights (including third-party rights).
You must not, during or at any time after the expiry or termination of this license, permit any act which infringes any of those rights and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you specifically acknowledge that you may not copy the material in the website, except as otherwise expressly authorized by this license.
Subscription Services
Subscribers to services of the website may store in digital format in computer terminals, databases or other repositories material which is supplied in the normal course of a subscription.
Password access is restricted to a single subscriber. Passwords and user names must not be distributed to any other person, body or corporation.
Subscribers must take due care to protect the copyright of materials from unauthorized use, copying, reproduction, lending, reselling, manipulation, disassembly, distribution or publication. In the event that a subscriber breaches this duty, or if it is found that a subscriber’s conduct violates applicable law, North Star BlueScope may immediately suspend or terminate a subscriber’s subscription without notice.
Indemnity
You must indemnify and keep North Star BlueScope indemnified fully against all liabilities, damages, claims, losses, costs and expenses, which North Star BlueScope may incur to a third party or you as a result of your breach of the provisions of this license.
This website may contain hyperlinks to other websites operated by third parties. You accept that North Star BlueScope has no control over, and is not responsible for, any material contained on any third-party websites. You may be required to comply with all requirements of any third party over the conditions of use of that third party’s website.
Users are prohibited from placing a link to the website without the prior written consent of North Star BlueScope and on terms satisfactory to North Star BlueScope.
Disclaimer
You accept that North Star BlueScope takes no responsibility for any error or omission relating to the material contained in the website.
You accept that North Star BlueScope makes no undertakings to provide access to the website at any particular time, or for any particular length of time. You agree that North Star BlueScope will not be held liable for any lapse in the website’s accessibility, or any consequences whatsoever that flow from the unavailability of the website.
Terms of License
This license commences upon your accessing the website and is granted in perpetuity. However, the license may be terminated without notice by North Star BlueScope if you are in breach of any terms of this license.
Upon termination, you or your representative must destroy any copies, electronic and printed, of material obtained from the website that you have in your possession or under your control or otherwise return or dispose of such material in the manner directed by North Star BlueScope.
Termination pursuant to this clause shall not affect any rights or remedies, which North Star BlueScope may otherwise have under this license or at law.
Amendments to this License
These are the current terms and conditions of the license.
North Star BlueScope may at any time vary and amend the terms and conditions of this license by publishing the varied Terms and Conditions of Use on the website. You accept that by doing this, North Star BlueScope has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation and amendment.
It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the current terms and conditions each time you visit the website.
Waiver
Failure or neglect by North Star BlueScope to enforce at any time any of the provisions of this license shall not be construed or deemed to be a waiver of the rights of North Star BlueScope under this license.
Jurisdiction
This licensee shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the state of Ohio, USA.
Definitions
‘North Star BlueScope’ means North Star BlueScope Steel Limited and all of its related bodies corporate. A related body corporate means a related body corporate as defined in the Corporations Law of the United States.
‘Hyperlink’ means any mechanism of providing a link from one location on the Internet (or a web page) to another location on the Internet (or a different web page, or a different location on the same web page), and includes any mechanism for linking to, or providing access to, files via the Internet.
‘Intellectual Property’ means all intellectual property rights as defined by Article 2 of the World Intellectual Property Organization Convention of 1967, in any inventions, designs, trademarks, trade names, circuit layouts, plant varieties, business and domain names, logos and get-up, confidential information, matter, materials or works accessible on or via the North Star BlueScope websites.