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You warrant to IDC that you will not use this Site for any unlawful purpose or for any purpose that is prohibited herein. You may not use this Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site and our servers, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the IDC Site.

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This Site is not intended to provide engineering advice or opinions or as a substitute for obtaining professional engineering advice and you should not act upon any information contained in this Site without seeking professional advice. This Site may not reflect the most current engineering developments and is not guaranteed to be complete, contemporaneous or correct.

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The Site may provide links to other Internet web sites that are not owned by IDC, and are not under our control. We are not responsible for the content included in them including, without limitation, any subsequent links contained within a linked Site, or any changes or updates to a linked Site. Referring an entity, product, service or information is not an endorsement or recommendation by IDC or any of its employees.

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IDC makes no representations about the suitability or accuracy of the information contained in this site. All resources are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. IDC hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions of any kind, express or implied, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. IDC does not warrant that the resources on the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that the defects will be corrected, or that the server making this Site available is free of computer viruses or other harmful components. The information, materials, and services available through this Site may be superseded and/or may include inaccuracies. IDC may make improvements and/or changes to this Site, resources and servers at any time.

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IDC is not liable for any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from inconvenience, or loss of use, resources 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 Site or any third party web sites, even if IDC has been advised of the possibility of such damages or losses.

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Trademarks, logos, images, and service marks used on this Site are the property of IDC and may not be used without written permission from IDC, and then only with proper acknowledgement. Copyright © 2002 IDC, All Rights Reserved. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. No copyrighted material may be downloaded, modified, copied, displayed, transferred, distributed, sold, published, broadcast or otherwise used except as expressly stated either in such materials or in this notice without the express written permission of IDC.

Privacy Statement

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We only collect personally identifiable information when you provide it to us in connection with a request for more detailed information about IDC, its products or services, or if you provide personally identifiable information in order to use certain functions provided on our Site.

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We use the personally identifiable information that you provide over the Site to send you information, notices or other marketing information, or for any other lawful purpose. We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties without your consent, unless for some reason it becomes necessary to do so to comply with applicable laws or to enforce our rights.

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Any transmission of personally identifiable information between you and the Site is not encrypted and may not be secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to, from, or over the Site. You transact this interaction at your own risk.

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During your visit to the Site, we may use your Internet Protocol ("IP") address to help us administer the Site. Our server may place small temporary text files called "cookies" on your computer's processor or in the browser directory of your hard drive. We use your IP address and/or cookies to gather non-personally identifiable demographic information, such as how many users visited a certain part of the Site, but not to track a specific IP address to the identity of a particular individual user. You may choose not to accept cookies by setting your web browser to either refuse all cookies or to notify you each time before a cookie is set.