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Disclaimer

Should you or any viewer of this Web site respond with information, feedback, data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like regarding the content of this Web site, Information or any Dolly & Issam Bassil publication or product, any such response shall be deemed not to be confidential and Dolly & Issam Bassil shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the response to others without limitation. You agree that Dolly & Issam Bassil shall be free to use any ideas, concepts or techniques contained in your response for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products incorporating such ideas, concepts or techniques.

Trademark List

BASSIL.COM and the Bassil Family logo are trademarks of Myrna Bassil (hereinafter referred to as "Myrna") in Lebanon and/or other countries.

The absence of a product or service name, slogan, or logo from this list does not constitute a waiver of Myrna's trademark or other intellectual property rights concerning that name, slogan, or logo.

Acceptance of Terms

Dolly & Issam Bassil ("BASSIL") welcomes You to our BASSIL.COM web site. By using the Web site, You agree to follow and be bound by the following terms and conditions concerning Your use of the Web site ("Terms of Use"), which may be revised by BASSIL at any time without notice to You. BASSIL reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate Your access to this website without prior notice.

Terms Disclaimer

BASSIL reserves the right to disclose Your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Use of Web Site Information

Except where Your use of graphics, documents, and other information ("Information") contained within the Web site constitutes "fair use" under copyright law or as authorized by BASSIL elsewhere on the website, You may not otherwise use, download, upload, copy, print, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, post, transmit or distribute any Information from this website in whole or in part without the express authorization of Dolly & Issam Bassil. For any portion of this website that You are authorized to view, copy, print or distribute, the following conditions apply: The website may be used for personal, informational, non-commercial purposes only. The website may not be modified or altered in any way. Any copy of Information or a portion of the website must include the copyright notice above. BASSIL reserves the right to revoke such authorization at any time, and any such use shall be discontinued immediately upon notice from BASSIL.

Privacy

BASSIL is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We have structured our web site so that, in general, you can visit BASSIL.COM on the web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. BASSIL.COM provides this online privacy statement to make you aware of our privacy policy and practices, and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Personal Information

Once you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your customer relationship with BASSIL.COM. We will only collect sufficient information on you to allow us to communicate with you in an appropriate way. This information will include your name and email address details as appropriate. In order to tailor our subsequent communications to you and continuously improve our services, we may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, and more detailed contact preferences. BASSIL.COM uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to communicate back to you, to update you on services and benefits, and to personalize our web sites for you. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contacts. BASSIL.COM will NOT sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other BASSIL.COM entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf for the uses described above. BASSIL.COM will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first requesting your permission. As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us and we will do everything we can to honor such requests.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

When you visit the BASSIL.COM website, we automatically gather and store the following information about your visit so that we can track the use of our web site in order to make improvements. This information is stored and used in the aggregate only, and is not used to contact you personally: The IP address from which you access our web site. The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account). The date and time you access our site. The pages, files, documents and links that you request from our web site.

Cookies

The BASSIL.COM website will not require the use of cookies to view public information. A cookie is an electronic record, stored on the user's computer, containing unique information a web site can use to track such things as passwords, the date when a page was last accessed, or to identify a user session at a particular web site.) The BASSIL.COM website may require the use of cookies to enable the display of user-specific web pages. Information gathered through the use of cookies will only be used by the BASSIL.COM website to facilitate the display of information to the web user. No personally identifiable information will be stored in cookies. Most browsers provide for automatically accepting or rejecting cookies, or they give the user the opportunity to accept/reject cookies during each transaction.

Links to External Websites

Links to third party websites are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you will exit the BASSIL.COM site. BASSIL.COM has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their Privacy Statement. Thus, BASSIL.COM does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so at your own risk.

Security

BASSIL.COM is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. E-mail inquiries are transmitted by insecure means and stored off-line.

Confidentiality

Any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary ("Submissions"). BASSIL.COM will have no obligations with respect to the Submissions. BASSIL.COM and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Submissions and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law. pfdservices.org may, but is not obligated to, monitor or review any areas on the Site where users transmit or post Submissions, including but not limited to bulletin boards and the content of any such Submissions. BASSIL.COM, however, will have no liability related to the content of any such Submissions, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. BASSIL.COM retains the right to remove Submissions that include any material deemed abusive, defamatory, obscene or otherwise unacceptable.

User Registration

No registration is required in order to use this website.

Opt-Out Instructions

Users who no longer wish to receive our electronic newsletter or promotional material from us or from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by Unsubscribing from such services. Access to Password Protected or Secured Areas Access to and use of password protected or secured areas of this Web site, including without limitation, the BASSIL.COM site, is restricted to authorized users only. You will be asked to provide accurate and current information on all registration forms on this Web site. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any username and password that You choose to access any password protected or secured areas of this Web site as well as any activity that occurs under Your username/password. You will not misuse or share Your username or password, misrepresent Your identity or Your affiliation with an entity, impersonate any person or entity, or misstate the origin of any Information You are exposed to through this Web site. Furthermore, Your access and use of the password protected or secured areas of this Web site may be governed by different terms of use posted for such areas. If there is a conflict between these Terms of Use and the terms of use posted for a specific area of the Web site, the latter shall have precedence with respect to Your use of that area of the Web site.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless - at Your expense - BASSIL.COM, its officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with Your access to or use of the Web site, or relating to any inaccurate or incomplete information provided by You hereunder.

Applicable Laws

All matters relating to Your access and use of this Web site shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of Lebanon. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue of any actions arising out of, or relating to or in any way connected with Your access and/or use of this Web site shall be in Beirut, Lebanon.

Transfer of Ownership

In the event BASSIL.COM becomes a target acquisition of another corporation, all our customer data including financial records and consumer information collected on BASSIL.COM may be transferred to the new company. You will be notified via email if any such change in ownership or control takes place.

Warranties and Disclaimers

THIS WEB SITE AND ALL INFORMATION REFERENCED BY OR LINKED TO THIS WEB SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. BASSIL.COM ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THIS WEB SITE OR INFORMATION REFERENCED BY OR LINKED TO THIS WEB SITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL BASSIL.COM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEB SITE OR INFORMATION REFERENCED BY OR LINKED TO THIS WEB SITE. THIS WEB SITE OR INFORMATION REFERENCED BY OR LINKED TO THIS WEB SITE MAY BE CHANGED OR UPDATED BY BASSIL.COM AT ANY TIME WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding the Legal or Terms of Use, or if you would like to obtain updated information on the guidelines for using BASSIL trademarks or logo, please contact:

Legal Department
Dolly & Issam Bassil
Broummana, LEBANON

Tel: PRIVATE
Fax: PRIVATE
e-mail: legal@bassil.com


YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND UNDERSTAND THE RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN. BY CONTINUING TO USE THE BASSIL.COM WEB SITE, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND GRANT TO BASSIL.COM THE RIGHTS SET FORTH HEREIN.

Last Updated: October 31, 2008.