Terms of Use

Overview

The following are the terms of an agreement between you and COOAU. By accessing, or using this Web site, you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including control laws and regulations. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this website.

COOAU may, without notice to you, at any time, revise these Terms of Use and any other information contained in this Web site. COOAU may also make improvements or changes in the products, services, or programs described in this site at any time without notice.

General

This Web site contains proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed. Please see the tab entitled “Copyright and trademark information” for related information.

COOAU grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission to access and display the Web pages within this site as a customer or potential customer of COOAU provided you comply with these Terms of Use, and all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices remain intact. The use authorized under this agreement is non-commercial in nature (e.g., you may not sell the content you access on or through this Web site.) All other use of this site is prohibited.

Except for the limited permission in the preceding paragraph, COOAU does not grant you any express or implied rights or licenses under any patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary or intellectual property rights. You may not mirror any of the content from this site on another Web site or in any other media. Any software and other materials that are made available for downloading, access, or other use from this site with their own license terms will be governed by such terms, conditions, and notices. Your failure to comply with such terms or any of the terms on this site will result in automatic termination of any rights granted to you, without prior notice, and you must immediately destroy all copies of downloaded materials in your possession, custody or control.

Confidential Information

COOAU does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through our Web site. Please note that any information or material sent to COOAU will be deemed NOT to be confidential. By sending COOAU any information or material, you grant IBM an unrestricted, irrevocable license to copy, reproduce, publish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, publicly display, perform, modify, create derivative works from, and otherwise freely use, those materials or information. You also agree that COOAU is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques that you send us for any purpose. However, we will not release your name or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us unless: (a) we obtain your permission to use your name; or (b) we first notify you that the materials or other information you submit to a particular part of this site will be published or otherwise used with your name on it; or (c) we are required to do so by law. Personally-identifiable information that you submit to COOAU for the purpose of receiving products or services will be handled in accordance with our privacy policies. Please see the tab entitled “Privacy” for information regarding IBM’s privacy policies.

 Acceptable Use Policy

 You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website, or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without COOAU's express written consent. 

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without COOAU's express written consent.

Linking to This Site

COOAU consents only to links to this Web site in which the link and the pages that are activated by the link do not: (a) create frames around any page on this Web site or use other techniques that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of any content within this site; (b) misrepresent your relationship with COOAU; (c) imply that COOAU approves or endorses you, your Web site, or your service or product offerings; and (d) present false or misleading impressions about COOAU or otherwise damage the goodwill associated with the COOAU name or trademarks. As a further condition to being permitted to link to this site, you agree that COOAU may at any time, in its sole discretion, terminate permission to link to this Web site. In such event, you agree to immediately remove all links to this Web site and to cease any related use of COOAU trademarks.

Entire Agreement

Together with COOAU's Privacy Policy, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and COOAU in relation to your use of this website and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will COOAU be able to any party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary or consequential damages of any type whatsoever related to or arising from this website of any use of this website, or of any site or resource linked to, referenced, or accessed through this website, or for the use or downloading of, or access to, any materials, information, products, or services, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, lost savings or loss of programs or other data, even if COOAU is expressly advised of the possibility of such damages. This exclusion and waiver of liability applies to all causes of action, whether based on contract, warranty, tort, or any other legal theories.

Indemnity and Breaches

You hereby indemnify COOAU and undertake to keep COOAU indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities, and expenses (including, without limitation, legal expenses and any amounts paid by COOAU to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of COOAU's legal advisers) incurred or suffered by COOAU arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these Terms of Use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these Terms of Use.

Without prejudice to COOAU's other rights under these Terms of Use, if you breach these Terms of Use in any way, COOAU may take such action as COOAU deems appropriate to deal with the breach; including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website, and bringing court proceedings against you.

Changes to Our Terms of Use

If we decide to change our Terms of Use, we will update the Terms of Use modification date below.

Last Modified: September 1, 2019

Feedback and Information

Any feedback you provide at this site shall be deemed to be non-confidential. COOAU shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis.

GOVERNING LAW

These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of UK.