Terms and Conditions for Web Site use

This document was last updated on October 10, 2003

By accessing or using any areas of our Web site (http://www.arirent.com/ and all related servers operated by Asset Retrieval & Investigations), you are bound by the terms and conditions set forth below, as well as the terms of our Acceptable Use Policy and our Web Site Privacy Statement . If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you may not access or use this Web site. We retain the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time by posting new terms and conditions on this page.

Permission to Use this Web Site

Many portions of this Web site are available for public viewing and use. You must register or enter into a separate agreement with Asset Retrieval & Investigations to access other portions of this Web site. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth on this page, our Acceptable Use Policy and our Privacy Statement, and the terms and conditions of any license or other agreement pursuant to which you use our products or services, Asset Retrieval & Investigations, Inc. grants you permission to do the following: (i) view and use for intended purposes those portions of this Web site to which we have granted you access; (ii) make one complete, unaltered electronic copy and/or one complete, unaltered paper copy of any page on this Web site to which we have granted you access, provided you retain all copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights notices and that you use it solely for personal or internal business purposes and do not distribute or republish it; (iii) obtain our products and sign up for our services, subject to payment of all applicable charges and agreement to the terms and conditions of any license agreement or other agreement associated with those products and services; and (iv) use the discussion forums, contact lists and e-mail links to which you have been granted access to interact with Asset Retrieval & Investigations and other users of our products and services in ways that do not violate our Acceptable Use Policy . Any other use of this Web site or its contents is prohibited without first obtaining written permission from Asset Retrieval & Investigations.

Copyright, Trademarks and Other Proprietary Rights

This Web site contains text, data, software, photographs, graphics, videos, music, sounds and other information and material that is protected by state, national and international law pertaining to copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other proprietary rights. Unless indicated otherwise, all of this content is the property of Asset Retrieval & Investigations and/or its licensors or affiliates, and Asset Retrieval & Investigations and its licensors and affiliates reserve all rights with respect to this Web site’s content, including, without limitation, all rights to copy, display, distribute, transmit, modify, remove, and create derivative works of it.

AriRent, ARIRENT, AriRent.COM and ARIRENT.COM are trademarks of Asset Retrieval & Investigations  Other trademarks, product names, company names and logos appearing on this Web site are the property of their respective owners. You must obtain permission from those owners before copying or using their trademarks, product names, company names or logos.

Linking, Framing, and Metatags

You may make referential links to any of the publicly accessible pages on this Web site that are not password protected, subject to review and termination by us at any time and for any reason. Please be aware that we continually update and revise our Web site. We cannot guaranty that each page to which you may provide a link will remain available or that its content will remain the same.

You may not link to our Web site in any way that might lead others to believe that our Web site or any of its contents were created or are operated or offered by you or any party other than Asset Retrieval & Investigations. Unless you have entered into a separate written agreement with us permitting you to do so, you may not frame or otherwise display any portion of our Web site or any of its contents, nor may you place any text or other content on your Web site that states or implies that there is any association between you and Asset Retrieval & Investigations.

You may not use any of Asset Retrieval & Investigations’s trade names, trademarks or any of the textual content of our Web site as metatags in your own Web site, unless we have granted you a license explicitly permitting you to do so.

Communication and Submissions via this Web Site

Whenever you communicate with Asset Retrieval & Investigations or others using this Web site, including its forums and e-mail links, your communications are nonconfidential. Asset Retrieval & Investigations is free to use all submissions, ideas and feedback contained in your communications in any manner that is consistent with our Privacy Statement , including, but not limited to, incorporating your suggestions into our product and service offerings without any financial or other obligation to you.

Member Account, Security and Password

If any of the products or services available to you on this Web site requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You may be asked to choose a user name and/or password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Asset Retrieval & Investigations. immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Asset Retrieval & Investigations will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Asset Retrieval & Investigations or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

Third Party Statements and Opinions

Asset Retrieval & Investigations is not responsible for any opinions, advice or statements made by third parties. Except as required by law, we have no obligation to monitor user’s postings to our forums or to remove or retain forum content, although we reserve the right to do so.

Third Party Products, Services and Web Sites

Third parties may develop or provide tools, skins or other software applications or components, materials, data, content or other products or services for use with our products or services, some of which may be accessible on or via this Web site. Asset Retrieval & Investigations makes no representation or warranty with respect to the quality, reliability or non-infringement of any third party product, service or material accessible on or via this Web site. Your rights with respect to third party products, services or data may be subject to the terms and conditions of separate agreements with the third parties providing them.

This Web site may contain links to third party Web sites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, they are not intended as a certification or endorsement of the owner of the Web site, the Web site’s content, or any products or services available on or via the Web site. Asset Retrieval & Investigations does not control and is not responsible for linked Web sites, or any Web sites (other than our own) that are linked to them.

No Warranties

THIS WEB SITE AND ITS CONTENTS ARE PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. ASSET RETRIEVAL & INVESTIGATIONS, AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTROLLED OR CONTROLLING ENTITIES, BUSINESS PARTNERS, AGENTS, THIRD-PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS (COLLECTIVELY, "AFFILIATES"), MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ABOUT THIS WEB SITE OR ITS CONTENT, AND THEY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES REGARDING THIS WEB SITE AND ITS CONTENTS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE AND NOT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF CONTENT, OR the availability or quality of any products or services AVAILABLE VIA this Web site (except as may be set forth in any license or other agreement related to those products or services).

Limitation of Liability

EXCEPT AS MAY BE PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE WRITTEN LICENSE OR OTHER AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND ASSET RETRIEVAL & INVESTIGATIONS PERTAINING TO Asset Retrieval & Investigations’s PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, Neither Asset Retrieval & Investigations nor any of its affiliates will be liable for ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER LOSSES OR damages arising out of or RELATED TO use of this Web site OR ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES DISTRIBUTED ON OR PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE, whether as a result of errors, omissions, LOSS OF DATA, defects, viruses, interruptions or delays in operation or transmission, or ANY other cause. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY WILL APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORIES UNDER WHICH RELIEF IS SOUGHT AND EVEN IF ASSET RETRIEVAL & INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR ITS AFFILIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE LOSSES OR DAMAGES ALLEGEDLY SUFFERED.

IN NO EVENT WILL ASSET RETRIEVAL & INVESTIGATIONS’ AND ITS AFFILIATES’ TOTAL LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE EXCEED THE LOWER OF DIRECT DAMAGES ACTUALLY INCURRED BY YOU OR US$1O.

Some jurisdictions limit the exclusion OF DAMAGES or limitation of liability, so the above exclusions AND limitations may not apply to you. IF any part of The exclusions of DAMAGES OR LIMITATION OF liability set forth above is unenforceable under applicable law, ASSET RETRIEVAL & INVESTIGATIONS’ AND its affiliateS’ AGGREGATE LIABILITY will BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Export and Import Restrictions

This Web site is controlled and operated by ASSET RETRIEVAL & INVESTIGATIONS from its offices within the United States. ASSET RETRIEVAL & INVESTIGATIONS makes no representation that the products, services and other materials available through this Web site are appropriate or available for use in other countries, and access to them from countries where their contents or use is illegal is prohibited.

Miscellaneous Terms and Conditions

The terms and conditions contained on this page apply generally to your access to and use of this Web site and our products and services. Some of these terms and conditions may be modified or superseded by expressly designated legal notices located on other pages of this Web site or by the terms and conditions of the licenses or other agreements pursuant to which you obtain our products or services. A specific provision in any of those notices, licenses or agreements that addresses the same subject matter as a provision on this page overrides the provision on this page.

No delay or failure to take any action or exercise any right that Asset Retrieval & Investigations may take or exercise pursuant to these terms and conditions or applicable law will constitute a waiver of that action or right by Asset Retrieval & Investigations.

Any litigation arising out of or related to your access to or use of this Web site will be brought only in the United States District Court for the District of Texas, or, if federal subject matter jurisdiction is lacking, then in the Texas state trial court for the division and county in which Asset Retrieval & Investigations’ or its successor’s or assign’s principal office in Texas is then located. By accessing or using this Web site, you submit to the personal jurisdiction of these courts and waive all objections to placing venue exclusively before them. The prevailing party in any litigation will be entitled, in addition to any other relief granted to it, to recover reasonable attorney's fees, expenses and costs incurred in connection with the litigation.

The terms and conditions contained on this page will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to any of its choice of law rules that might lead to application of the law of another jurisdiction. If any of the terms or conditions contained on this page are determined to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, then the remaining terms and conditions will remain in full force and effect, and the invalid or unenforceable term or condition will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable term or condition that matches the practical effect of the original provision as closely as possible. These terms and conditions set forth our entire agreement with you related to your use of this Web site, and they prevail over any other communications we may have regarding its use, with the exception of an agreement signed by an authorized representative of Asset Retrieval & Investigations that explicitly authorizes a use which is inconsistent with these terms and conditions.