Terms and Conditions of Use

Welcome to the www.ITW.com website (the "ITW Website" or the "Website") operated by Illinois Tool Works Inc. ("ITW"). This Website provides general information about ITW free of charge to Website users. All Website uses are subject to the following terms and conditions of use ("Terms of Use").

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before accessing or using any part of this Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, as amended from time to time. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not access or use any part of this Website.

ITW may revise and update these Terms of Use at any time by posting the amended terms to this Website. Your continued use of the Website means that you accept and agree to the revised Terms of Use. If you disagree with the Terms of Use (as amended from time to time) or are dissatisfied with this Website, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this Website. The most current version of these Terms of Use, which supersedes all previous versions, can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms of Use" hyperlink at the bottom of each page of the Website.

USE OF THE ITW WEBSITE

You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes.

1. Specifically, you agree not to do any of the following: (1) upload to or transmit on the Website any defamatory, indecent, obscene, harassing, violent, or otherwise objectionable material, or any material that is, or may be, protected by copyright, without permission from the copyright owner; (2) use the Website to violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or to violate the laws of any jurisdiction; (3) use the Website to intercept or attempt to intercept electronic mail not intended for you; (4) misrepresent an affiliation with any person or organization; (5) upload to or transmit on the Website any advertisements or solicitations of business; (6) restrict or inhibit use of the Website by others; (7) upload or otherwise transmit files that contain a virus or corrupted data; (8) collect information about others (including e-mail addresses) without their consent; (9) download a file or software or include in a message any software, files, or links that you know, or have reason to believe, cannot be distributed legally over the Website or that you have a contractual obligation to keep confidential (regardless of availability on the Website); (10) post "spam," transmit chain letters, or engage in other similar activities; or (11) engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone's use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined by ITW, may harm ITW or users of the Website or expose them to liability.
2. Any content and/or opinions uploaded, expressed, or submitted to a message board, chatroom, or any other publicly available section of the Website (including password-protected areas), and all articles and responses to questions, other than the content provided by ITW, are solely the opinions and responsibility of the person or entity submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of ITW. You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever content you submit, and you, not ITW, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, and appropriateness. By uploading or otherwise transmitting material to any area of the Website, you warrant that the material is your own, is in the public domain, or is otherwise free of proprietary or other restrictions and that you have the right to post it to the Website. You grant to ITW the right to use all content you upload or otherwise transmit to the Website in any manner ITW chooses, including, but not limited, to copying, displaying, or publishing it in any format whatsoever, modifying it, incorporating it into other material, or making a derivative work based on it.
3. ITW reserves the right, but does not assume any responsibility, to (1) remove any material posted on the Website which ITW, in its sole discretion, deems inconsistent with the foregoing commitments, including any material ITW has been notified, or has reason to believe, constitutes a copyright infringement; and (2) terminate any user's access to all or part of the Website. However, ITW can neither review all material before it is posted on the Website nor ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, ITW assumes no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications, or content provided by third parties. ITW reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary to protect the personal safety of users of this Website and the public; however, ITW has no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this paragraph.
4. Your failure to comply with the provisions above may result in the termination of your access to the ITW Website and may expose you to civil and/or criminal liability.

COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS/USE OF CONTENT

The entire contents of this Website (including all information, software, text, displays, images, and audio) and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof, are proprietary to ITW or its licensors and are protected by United States and international laws regarding copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other proprietary rights. You are authorized only to use the content on the Website for personal use or legitimate business purposes related to your role as a current or prospective shareholder, customer, supplier, or distributor of ITW. You may not copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display or perform, republish, store, transmit, or distribute any of the material on this Website without the prior written consent of ITW, except to: (a) store copies of such materials temporarily in RAM, (b) store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes, and (c) print a reasonable number of pages of the Website; provided in each case that you do not alter or remove any copyright or other proprietary notices included in such materials. Neither the title nor any intellectual property rights to any information or material in this Website are transferred to you, but remain with ITW or the applicable owner of such content. Except as expressly authorized by ITW in writing, you may not reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes (i) any part of this Website, (ii) access to this Website, or (iii) use of this Website or of any services or materials available through this Website.

TRADEMARKS

The term "ITW" is a trademark and the ITW logo and all related product and service names, designs, and slogans are ITW trademarks. You may not use such marks without ITW's prior written permission. All other names, brands, and marks are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

DEALINGS WITH MERCHANTS

If you choose to correspond, participate in a promotion, or engage in transactions with any merchant found on or through this Website, you acknowledge and agree that ITW is not a party to, and will not be responsible for, your interaction with such merchant, including its treatment of your information and the terms and conditions applicable to any transaction between you and the merchant. The terms of your interaction with any merchant are solely between you and such merchant. You agree that ITW will have no responsibility or liability for any loss or damage of any kind that you may suffer as the result of any such interaction or the presence of such merchants on this Website.

LIABILITY OF ITW AND ITS LICENSORS

ITW does not assume any liability for the materials, information, and opinions provided on, or available through, the Website (the "Site Content"). Reliance on the Site Content is solely at your own risk. ITW disclaims any liability for injury or damages resulting from the use of any Site Content.

THE ITW WEBSITE, THE SITE CONTENT, AND ANY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITH ALL FAULTS. NEITHER ITW NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH ITW MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE. SPECIFICALLY, BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER ITW NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH ITW WARRANTS OR REPRESENTS THAT THE WEBSITE, THE SITE CONTENT, OR ANY SERVICES PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THIS WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR THAT THE WEBSITE WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS. ITW DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT WILL ITW OR ITS LICENSORS OR CONTRACTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE, THE SITE CONTENT, ANY SERVICES PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THIS WEBSITE OR ANY LINKED SITE, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM DELAY, INTERRUPTION IN SERVICE, VIRUSES, DELETION OF FILES OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, OR ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE WEBSITE OR THE SITE CONTENT, WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS NEGLIGENCE BY ITW AND WHETHER OR NOT ITW HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless ITW and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, third-party information providers, licensors, and others involved in the ITW Website or the delivery of products, services, or information over the ITW Website (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties"), from and against any and all liabilities, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising from any violation by you of these Terms of Use or your use of the Website or any products, services, or information obtained from this Website. You will also indemnify and hold the Indemnified Parties harmless from and against any claims brought by third parties arising out of your use of the information accessed from this Website.

SUBMISSION OF Personal INFORMATION on the Website

These Terms of Use hereby incorporate ITW's Website Privacy Statement, which describes ITW's use of personal information collected through the Website and the choices and rights available to you with respect to such information.

This Website is operated by ITW in the United States and any personal information submitted through the Website will result in the collection and processing of such information in the United States. As a result, if you are visiting the Website from a country other than the United States, your personal information will cross an international boundary. The level of protection for your personal information in the United States may not be the same as the level of protection in your country.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION; lEGALLY-rEQUIRED dISCLOSURES

You are prohibited from using any services or facilities provided in connection with this Website to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security (e.g., password guessing programs, cracking tools, or network probing tools) is strictly prohibited. If you become involved in any violation of system security, ITW reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at other web sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents. ITW reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms of Use.

ITW reserves the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing ITW to disclose the identity of anyone posting any e-mail messages, or publishing or otherwise making available any materials that are believed to violate these Terms of Use. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS ITW AND THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ITW DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER ITW OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.

COMMENTS AND SUBMISSIONS

ITW welcomes your comments. To the extent permitted under applicable law, all comments, suggestions, or other information sent by you to this Website will become ITW's property and you agree that all intellectual property rights therein are transferred to ITW. You understand that any postings to publicly available portions of the Website are non-confidential for all purposes.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The Website may contain links to other websites on the Internet. ITW is not responsible for and does not endorse the content, products, or services of any third-party web sites, including, without limitation, sites framed within the ITW Website or third-party advertisements, and ITW does not make any representations regarding their quality, content, or accuracy. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such web sites.

US GOVERNMENT USERS

Use, duplication, or disclosure by the United States Government is subject to the restrictions set forth in DFARS 252.227-7013(c)(1)(ii) and FAR 52.227-19 and any other successor regulations that may be applicable.

COMPLIANCE

The owner of this Website is based in the State of Illinois, USA. ITW makes no representation that materials in this Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access this Website from other locations, you are responsible for complying with local laws.

CONTACT

Please contact us (using the "Contact" hyperlink at the bottom of each page of the Website) if you become aware of any content that may infringe the copyright of a third party or that you believe to be in violation of these Terms of Use.

MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms of Use shall be governed in all respects by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, without regard to its conflicts of law principles. These Terms of Use, as they may be amended from time to time, completely and exclusively state the agreement between you and ITW with respect to the Website, and no other terms that may have been communicated to you orally or in any other manner shall have any force or effect. Any cause of action you may have with respect to the Website must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred. Exclusive jurisdiction over any cause of action arising out of these Terms of Use or your use of the Website shall be in the state or federal courts located in Chicago, Illinois. You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of such courts.

If any part of these Terms of Use is unenforceable, the unenforceable part shall be construed to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties. The other provisions of these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, or agency relationship exists between you and ITW as a result of these Terms of Use or your use of this Website.

A printed version of these Terms of Use and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to these Terms of Use to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

ITW's failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of the provision. Neither a course of dealing or conduct between you and ITW nor any trade practices shall be deemed to modify these Terms of Use. ITW may revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting.

These Terms of Use were last updated on February 28, 2020.