Welcome to the ITW Performance Polymers & Fluids (the “company”) ® website. This website (“our website” or the “website”) can provide the general information about the company and its products and services for Chinese users free of charge. Where appropriate, the “company” refers to ITW PPF and its subsidiaries.
All users of our website shall be bound by the following agreements and conditions of use (the “agreement of use”).
Please read the agreement of use carefully before accessing or using of any part of on the website. When you are accessing or using the website, it means that you have read, understood and agreed to be by bound by the agreement of use as amended from time to time. If you are unwilling to accept the agreement of use, please stop accessing or using any part of the website.
The company may change or update the agreement of use at any time by posting the revised terms on the website without notice. If you continue to use our website, it means that you have agreed and accepted the revised agreement of use. The only and exclusive remedy for your disagreement or dissatisfaction with the agreement of use (which may be subject to revision from time to time) is to stop using the website.

Purpose of our website You agree to use our website only for legal purposes:
(a) In particular, you agree not to commit any of the following acts: (1) upload or disseminate any defamatory, dirty, obscene, disturbing, violent or other controversial materials on our website; or without the permission of the copyright owner, upload or disseminate any materials under or possibly under the protection of copyright law on our website; (2) use our website in a manner that infringes on the legal rights of others (including the right of image publicity/publicity right and privacy right) or violates the laws of any jurisdiction; (3) intercept or attempt to intercept any emails that are not intended for you; (4) misrepresent the affiliation with any person or organization; (5) upload or disseminate any commercial advertisements or requests on our website; (6) restrict or restrain others from using our website; (7) upload or otherwise disseminate any data containing viruses or damage; (8) collect others' information without their consent (including email address); (9) download files or software, or include in the information any files, software or links that cannot be legally sent on the website as you have known or you have reason to believe, or to which you have a contractual obligation to keep confidential (even if it is available on our website); (10) post any "information for selling", disseminate any chain letters or engage in other similar activities; or (11) commit any other acts that restricts or restrains anyone from using or sharing our website, or have any behaviors that our company thinks may harm the interests of the company or users of our website or result in any liabilities thereto.
(b) Except for the contents provided by the company, any contents and/or opinions uploaded, published or submitted to message boards, blogs, chat rooms or any other publicly available parts of the company (including password protected areas), as well as all articles and replies to questions, only represent the opinions of the individuals or entities who submit them and are responsible for them, and do not represent the views of the company. You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any contents you submitted, rather than the company, including validity, reliability and appropriateness of such. When you upload or otherwise disseminate the materials in any part of our website, you shall ensure that such materials are owned by you, or available in public domain, or have no ownership or any restriction, and that you are entitled to post them on our website. The company is authorized by you to optionally use all the contents that you upload or otherwise disseminate on our website which include but are not limited to copying, presenting, demonstrating publishing such contents in any form, or to revising or including them in other materials, or creating derived works with such contents.
(c) The company reserves the following rights, but bear no responsibility for them: (1) to delete any materials posted on our website that the company considers to be inconsistent with the above commitments , including the company has received notification or has reasons to believe that any material that constitutes copyright infringement; and (2) to terminate any user's access to our website in part or in whole. However, the company neither can review all the materials before they are posted on our website, nor ensure to delete quickly any controversial material after they are posted. Therefore, the company shall not be liable for any act or omission to contents disseminated, communicated or provided by third parties. The company reserves the right to take any actions it deems necessary to protect the personal security of the website users and the public; but the company is not obliged to perform or fail to perform the actions described here for anyone.
(d) If you do not follow the Provisions of Paragraph (a) or (b) above, you may be allowed to log into our website, and may also be subject to civil and/or criminal liabilities.

Copyright restriction/use of contents
Any contents (including information, software, texts, pictures, video and audio data) and their design, selection and arrangement are owned by the company or its subsidiary or licensors, and are under the protection of the Chinese law and international law concerning copyright, trademark, business secret and other property ownership right. You can only use the contents on our website for personal use or for legal business purposes as an existing or potential customer, supplier or dealer of the company. Without written consent of the company, any materials on the website and their design, selection and arrangement shall not be copied, rewritten, created derivative works, publicly played or displayed, reissued, stored, disseminated or distributed unless(a) the copies of such materials are temporarily stored in RAM; (b) the web browser automatically caches the data to improve the playback quality; and (c) a reasonable number of pages on our website are printed. However, under no circumstances shall you change or delete the notice of copyright or other notices of title. The ownership and intellectual property rights of any information or materials on the website are owned by its owners or the company, and shall not be transferred to you. Unless expressly authorized in writing by the company, you shall not copy, sell or use (a) any part of the website; (b) access the website; or (c) use any services or materials on or available through the website for any commercial purposes.

Login and conflict
You agree not to (a) use any robot, spider or other automatic equipment, program or method to log into the website; (b) use any manual program to monitor or copy any materials on the website, or use any manual program for other unauthorized purposes without the written consent of the company; (c) use any equipment, software or path that interferes with the normal operation of the website; (d) attempt to interfere with the normal operation of the website; (e) commit any act that will cause unreasonable or disproportionate load to the infrastructures of the company; or (f) enter, reload or "refresh" the trading page more than once within any three (3) seconds, or have other requirements for the trading server.

Trademarks
Name of the company, “Devcon”, “Plexus”, “Permatex”, “Korroflex”, “LPS”, “American Safety Technologies”, “Anshengdi”, “Luoge”,“Chockfast”, “Schnee-morehead”, “Wynn’s”, “Franklynn”, “Krafft”, “Densit”, “Insulcast”, “Slime”, “QMI”、“Black Magic”,“Omega”,“Rainx”, and other terms, company logo, trademarks and all related names, logos, product and service names, design and slogans are the property of the company and/or its subsidiary. You shall not use such signs without the written consent of the company. The other names, brands and trademarks are used for identification purposes only, and may be the trademarks, registered trademarks or property of their respective owners.

Transaction with other merchants
If you choose to communicate, participate in sales promotion or make transaction with any merchants on or found through the website, you shall know and agree that the company is not involved in such communication between you and such merchants and is not responsible for this, including the processing of your information by these merchants and the applicable terms of any transactions between you and these merchants. The terms for transaction between you and any merchant only serve as an agreement between you and such merchant. You agree that the company will not be liable for any losses or damages resulting from such communication or presence of such merchants on the website.

Responsibilities of the company and its licensors
The company shall not be liable for any materials, information and opinions (“contents of the website”) provided on or available through its website. You shall be responsible for the risks caused by trusting the content of this website. The company shall bear no responsibility for any injuries and damages resulting from use of the contents of the website.
Our website, contents of the website, and products and services provided on or available through the website are provided on the basis of “as they are” and “as available” and there is no guarantee that they are free of defects. Neither the company nor anyone in relation with the company shall make any warranty or representation with regard to quality, accuracy or availability of our website. In particular, without any restriction on the above, neither the company nor anyone in relation with the company shall make the following warranty or representation: our website, contents of the website, or services provided on or available through the website are accurate, reliable, error free, or uninterrupted; or any defect will be corrected; or our website or the server supporting the use of our website is free of any virus or other harmful components; or our website will meet your demands or expectations. The company does not make any form of warranty, whether express or implied, including any guarantee of merchantability, specific purpose or non-infringement, and hereby makes a disclaimer.
Under any circumstances, the company or its licensors or its contractors shall not be liable for any kind of losses (including any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive indemnity) under any legal theory resulting from use or inability to use of our website, contents of the website, and any services provided on or through the website or any linked websites, including but not limited to personal injuries, profit losses or damages caused by delay, service interruptions, viruses, deletion of documents or electronic communications, or errors, omissions or other errors in our website or contents of the website, regardless of the negligence of the company or whether the company has received any notice about the possibility of such losses.

Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the company, its staff, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries, third-party information providers, licensors, contractors and others involved in delivering products, services or information on or through our website from and against any and all liabilities, debts, expenses, damages and costs (including reasonable attorney fees) resulting from your violation of the agreement of use or your use of our website or any products, services or information obtained from the website.

Suggestions and submission
We are looking forward to your suggestions. All the suggestions, opinions or other information that you send to the website for internal use of the company and its advertisers or business partners in response to requests on the website will become the property of the company, and you agree to transfer all the intellectual property rights related to them to the company. You understand that any contents entered or submitted for entry to any public, visible parts of our website for any purposes, are not confidential.

Links to other sites; reference to third party websites
The website of the company contains the links to other websites on the Internet. The company shall not be liable for or not recognize any contents, products, services or actions on the third-party websites, or shall not make any representation with regard to their quality, contents and accuracy. You shall bear any potential risks from use of third-party websites, and shall be bound by the terms on such websites.

Law abiding
The owner of the website is located in the People’s Republic of China. The company does not make any representation that the materials on the website are appropriate or applicable in other regions. In case of logging into the website from other regions, you are obliged to abide by the local laws.

Contact information
If you find that any contents may infringe the copyright of a third party, or you believe they violate the agreement of use, please contact us [name of individual to contact, phone number and email address]

Miscellaneous
The agreement of use shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the People’s Republic of China in all aspects. Any litigation with any cause arising from this use agreement or your use of the company's website shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of courts in or around Shanghai. You agree to be subject to the jurisdiction of such courts.
The agreement of use (which may be subject to revision from time to time) completely and exclusively lists the agreements between you and our company related to our website, and other terms transmitted to you orally or by any other means are not binding or legally valid. Any action of any cause must be brought against our website within two (2) years from the occurrence of the cause of the claim or action, or such cause will lose its statute of limitations.
Any part of the agreement of use that is not enforceable shall be interpreted as nearly as possible, to the original intention of both parties. The remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.
The company's failure to insist or force strict implementation of the provisions of this use agreement does not constitute a waiver of this agreement. Neither the process of transaction or behavior between you and the company nor any trade custom shall be deemed as a modification to the agreement of use.