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Access to the Members Only section of this website is limited to the staff of Automotive Safety Council and designated employees of its member companies who have been authorized to access the site (“users”). Permissions are granted to such users and are not transferable. Access by any other individual or entity is strictly prohibited.

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Users may not retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any copyrighted material. The burden of determining that any information or other content on this website is not protected by copyright rests with the user.

Restrictions on Use. You may not use this website for any illegal purpose or in any manner inconsistent with the Terms of Use. You agree not to resell or otherwise transfer or dispose of, the contents. You agree not to use, transfer, distribute or dispose of the contents in any manner that could misrepresent, or not accurately reflect such or disparage or defame the Automotive Safety Council. You acknowledge that this website has been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected and arranged by the Automotive Safety Council through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort and money and constitutes valuable intellectual property of the Automotive Safety Council. You agree to protect the proprietary rights of the Automotive Safety Council in this website during and after the term of this agreement and to comply with all reasonable written requests made by the Automotive Safety Council to protect its contractual, statutory and common law rights in the site. You agree to promptly notify the Automotive Safety Council in writing upon becoming aware of any unauthorized access or use of this website by any party or of any claim that the site infringes upon any copyright, trademark or other contractual, statutory or common law rights.

Restriction of Liability. You agree that use of this website is entirely at your own risk. The site is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation any warranty for information, services, or for uninterrupted access. The Automotive Safety Council specifically disclaims any and all warranties, including without limitation: 1) any warranties concerning the availability, accuracy or content of information, products or services; and 2) any warranties of title or warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of this website, or its content, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. You specifically acknowledge that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

Neither the Automotive Safety Council nor any of its agents, members, affiliates or content providers shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of use of this website or inability to gain access to or use the site or out of any breach of any warranty.

Furthermore, the Automotive Safety Council shall not be liable even if it has been negligent or if it’s authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages — or both.

In any event, the Automotive Safety Council’s liability to a user for all losses, damages, injuries, and claims of every kind (whether the damages are claimed under the terms of a contract, or are claimed to be caused by negligence or other wrongful conduct, or under any other legal theory) will not b