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Our Privacy Commitment
Baker Hughes Incorporated (“Baker Hughes”) is committed to protecting
the privacy of all personal data obtained from you during visits to and
use of our websites. Our aim is to safeguard the security and privacy of
your personal data while providing a personalized service that keeps you
up-to-date with Baker Hughes products and services. By using our
websites, you indicate your consent to the collection and use of such
information in accordance with the following Privacy Policy.
What information is obtained about
you and what do we use the information for?
You can visit public areas of our websites without revealing any
personal details. We do collect information about the IP address from
where a user originates and use “cookies” to track user sessions and
page views on our websites. A "cookie" is a small text file that a
website can place on your computer's hard drive in order to collect
information about your activities on the site. Cookies provide
additional functionality to our websites, help us analyze website usage
more accurately and assist you by remembering your password when you
re-visit our websites. Cookies also allow Baker Hughes to personalize,
monitor, or regulate the use of our websites.
In order to qualify for access to the
restricted areas of our web-sites, you are required to provide
registration details about yourself and your company. These registration
details are used to qualify you for access, identify you as a registered
user, enable us to respond to your inquiries, and/or to provide you with
follow-up information about our products and services. Baker Hughes is
under no obligation to grant you access to the restricted areas of our
websites. Subject to the exceptions provided in the next paragraph, we
do not disclose your registration details to any organization outside
Baker Hughes.
Exceptions
If necessary, as may be determined by Baker Hughes, to prevent
fraud, enforce our Terms of Use, defend intellectual property rights,
protect against abuse of our websites, protect Baker Hughes or another
from liability, protect someone’s safety, or comply with law or law
enforcement-related requests, we may provide the information we collect
about you to third parties. We may also provide your registration
details to third parties acting under our direction for the purposes of
marketing Baker Hughes products and services. By entering your
registration details, you signify your agreement to these terms and
conditions of use and our privacy policy.
Consent to Collect, Process and
Transfer Data
The data we collect through our websites may be processed and
transferred to Baker Hughes affiliates throughout the world. Such
transfers may include personal data automatically collected or processed
during the course of your activities on or use of our websites and may
also include personal data you directly provide in connection with
registration or other use of our websites. The legal systems in some or
all of the countries to which your details may be transferred may only
provide limited protection for personal data, and law enforcement
agencies may have greater access to such data than exists in the country
of your residence. You agree that you will not have the ability to
control or prevent the processing, use or transfer of your personal
data. By using our websites, you expressly consent to any collection,
processing, transfer and use of any such personal data.
Updates
You can amend your registration details on our website or contact
Baker Hughes to have your registration capabilities removed.
Security
Baker Hughes believes it employs appropriate technical security
measures to protect your personal data and ensure that it is not
accessed by unauthorized persons.
Relationships
Baker Hughes’ Privacy Policy addresses the use and disclosure of
information collected via our websites only, and does not affect any the
use or disclosure of information in any other relationship that you or
your company may have with Baker Hughes or any of its affiliates.
Terms of Use
Please read these
Terms of Use carefully.
By using our websites, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree,
please discontinue your access or use of our websites.
Introduction
Our websites are owned by Baker Hughes Incorporated, a Delaware
corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Baker Hughes” or “we”).
We reserve the right to make changes and corrections to our websites and
our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at any time, without notice.
However, no change to the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use will be
retroactive. By using or accessing our websites you and Baker Hughes
agree as follows:
License to Use
Baker Hughes grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive,
non-transferable, revocable license to use our websites as provided in
these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. You may electronically copy
and print hard-copy excerpts of our websites (and materials here) only
for non-commercial personal use or non-commercial use within the
organization that employs you, provided that the materials are not
modified and all copyright or proprietary notices are retained. Any
other use of the materials in our websites, including any use referenced
in the immediately following paragraph, without the prior written
permission of Baker Hughes, is strictly prohibited.
Use Restrictions; Copyright
You may not resell, redistribute, broadcast or transfer any
information, including all graphics, photos, graphs, sounds, data,
images, audio, headers, software, buttons, video, icons or the
arrangement or compilation of any of the foregoing (collectively,
“Information”) or use the Information in a searchable, machine-readable
database or file except through authorized access to our websites.
Unless separately and specifically authorized in writing by Baker
Hughes, you may not rent, lease, sublicense, distribute, transfer, copy,
reproduce, publicly display, publish, adapt, modify, decompile, reverse
engineer, create derivative works, store or time-share our websites, any
part thereof, or any of the Information received or accessed from our
websites. to or through any other person or entity. Access to restricted
areas of our websites without the authorization of Baker Hughes is
strictly prohibited. You agree to use our websites and Information for
lawful purposes only. You agree not to post or transmit any information
through our websites which (1) infringes the rights of others or
violates their privacy or publicity rights, (2) is unlawful,
threatening, abusive, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, profane,
indecent or otherwise objectionable, (3) is protected by copyright,
trademark or other proprietary right without the express written
permission of the owner of such right, (4) is used to unlawfully collude
against another person in restraint of trade and competition, (5)
contains, or materially relates to, any software, device or routine that
interferes or is intended to interfere with the normal operation of our
websites, or (6) impersonates any person or entity or otherwise
misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity. You shall be
solely liable for any damages resulting from any infringement of
copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or any other harm
resulting from your use of our websites or their Information. Except as
otherwise indicated, all Information and materials on and relating to
our websites are the copyright property of Baker Hughes, ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED.
Submissions
You agree that any materials, including but not limited to
questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, plans, notes, drawings,
original or creative materials or other information, provided by you in
the form of email or submissions to Baker Hughes, or postings at our
websites, are non-confidential and (to the extent of your ownership
interests therein) shall become the sole property of Baker Hughes. Baker
Hughes shall own exclusive rights and, except as limited by applicable
law or the Privacy Policy contained on our websites, shall be entitled
to the unrestricted use of these materials for any purpose, commercial
or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
Third Party Websites
Our websites contain links to other websites over which we have no
control, and other websites, over which we have no control, may have
links to our websites. Baker Hughes does not accept responsibility or
liability for the operation or content of such websites.
Trademarks
"Baker Hughes", the Baker Hughes logo, BakerHughesDirect, Baker
Atlas, Hughes Christensen, Baker Petrolite, Baker Hughes INTEQ, Baker
Oil Tools, Centrilift and the other names, marks, products and services
described in our websites are either trademarks, trade names or service
marks of Baker Hughes and its licensors, or are the property of their
respective owners. These marks may not be copied, imitated or used, in
whole or in part, without the express prior written permission of Baker
Hughes. In addition, page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and
scripts that are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of Baker
Hughes may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part,
without the prior written permission of Baker Hughes.
Third Party Information Resources
Information here is not intended for trading purposes. Neither Baker
Hughes nor any of its data or content providers shall be liable for any
errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance
thereon.
Financial and/or Material Disclosure
Persons using Baker Hughes websites for information regarding a
potential investment decision with respect to Baker Hughes should access
the Investor Relations section of Baker Hughes websites.
Disclaimer
OUR WEBSITES AND THE MATERIALS ON OUR WEBSITES ARE PROVIDED ON AN
"AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BAKER HUGHES DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. BAKER HUGHES DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT
MATERIALS IN OUR WEBSITES ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT, OR
ERROR-FREE. BAKER HUGHES DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT OUR WEBSITES
OR ITS SERVER(S) ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
Limitations of Liability; Indemnity
IN NO EVENT SHALL BAKER HUGHES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL,
INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, OR LOSS OF
DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED
WITH THE USE OF OUR WEBSITES OR THE MATERIALS CONTAINED IN, OR ACCESSED
THROUGH, OUR WEBSITES. WHERE NOT PROSCRIBED BY LAW, THE AGGREGATE
LIABILITY OF BAKER HUGHES AND ITS AFFILIATES TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR
CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITES OR THE MATERIALS CONTAINED IN OR
ACCESSED THROUGH OUR WEBSITES, IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, IS LIMITED TO THE
GREATER OF THE FEES PAID BY YOU TO BAKER HUGHES IN CONNECTION HEREWITH
DURING THE 6 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE OCCURRENCE UPON WHICH YOUR CLAIM IS
BASED OR $1,000. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Baker
Hughes and its affiliates and their respective officers, directors,
employees and agents from and against any liabilities, losses, costs,
claims, expenses, damages, causes of action or demands, including
without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or
resulting, or alleged by a third party to be arising or resulting from
your use of any information or material from our websites or your breach
of any of these Terms of Use. The provisions of this paragraph shall
indefinitely survive the termination of this agreement.
Applicable Law
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Texas, applicable to agreements made and
entirely to be performed within such state, without resort to its
conflict of law provisions. By accessing and/or placing orders under our
websites, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to
be bound by these Terms of Use and by all applicable laws and
regulations, including U.S. Export control laws and regulations.
Visitors who do not agree with these Terms of Use should not access or
place orders through our websites. You agree that any action at law or
in equity arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use shall be
filed only in the State of Texas located in State or Federal Court and
you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent and submit to the
exclusive jurisdiction of such courts over any suit, action or
proceeding arising out of these Terms of Use.
Termination
Notwithstanding any of these Terms of Use, Baker Hughes reserves the
right, without notice and in its sole discretion, to terminate your
license to use our websites, and to block or prevent future access to
and use of our websites.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful,
void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be
deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the
validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Miscellaneous
These Terms of Use apply exclusively to your access to, and use of,
our websites and do not alter in any way the terms or conditions of any
other agreement you may have with Baker Hughes for products, services or
otherwise.
Baker Hughes reserves the right to change any and all content contained
on our websites at any time without notice. Reference to any products,
services, processes, or other information, by trade name, trademark,
manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or imply
endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof by Baker Hughes.
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