Terms Of Use

Welcome to the STALabs.com web site. This web site has been designed to provide general information about STA Laboratories and its products and services. You may use this web site, provided you comply with these terms and conditions.

Acceptance of These Terms and Conditions

Please take a few minutes to carefully review these terms and conditions. By accessing and using this web site you agree to follow and be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to follow and be bound by these terms and conditions, you may not access, use or download materials from this web site.

Terms and Conditions May Change

STA Laboratories reserves the right to update or modify these terms and conditions at any time without prior notice. Your use of this web site following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the terms and conditions as changed. For this reason, we encourage you to review these terms and conditions every time you use this web site. These terms and conditions were last revised on August 1, 2006.

Copyright Notice and Limited License

Everything you see and hear on this web site (the “Content”), including, for example, all of the text, photographs, illustrations, graphics, audio and video clips, documents, is copyrighted under United States law and applicable international copyright laws and treaty provisions. The copyrights in the Content are owned by STA Laboratories, Inc. or by one of its affiliates, or by third parties who have licensed their materials to STA Laboratories. The entire Content of this site is copyrighted as a collective work under United States law and applicable international copyright laws and treaties, and STA Laboratories owns the copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of the Content.

You may download, store, print, and copy selected portions of the Content of this site, provided you:

  1. only use the Content you download for your personal, noncommercial use or to further your business dealings with STA Laboratories;
  2. you do not publish or post any part of the Content on any other Internet site;
  3. you do not publish or broadcast any part of the Content in or on any other media;
  4. you do not modify or alter the Content in any way or delete or modify any copyright or trademark notices or notices of confidentiality.

Except as expressly stated above, you may not copy, download, print, publish, display, perform, distribute, transmit, transfer, translate, modify, add to, update, compile, abridge or in any other way transform or adapt all or any part of the Content of this site without first obtaining written permission from STA Laboratories.

Except as expressly stated above, no right, title or interest in the downloaded Content is transferred to you when you download Content from this site. Except for the limited, non-exclusive license expressly granted above, nothing contained in these terms and conditions or on this web site shall be construed as conferring a license, or any other right under any copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property right of STA Laboratories or any third party.

Trademark Notice

All of the trademarks, service marks and logos displayed on this web site (the “Trademark(s)”) are registered and unregistered trademarks of STA Laboratories, one of its affiliates, or third parties who have licensed their Trademarks to STA Laboratories or one of its affiliates.

Except as expressly stated in these terms and conditions, you may not reproduce, display or otherwise use any Trademark without first obtaining STA Laboratories ’written permission.

Unsolicited Ideas

STA Laboratories welcomes your comments and feedback regarding this web site. All information and materials submitted to STA Laboratories through this web site, such as any comments, feedback, ideas, questions, designs, data or the like, will be considered NON-CONFIDENTIAL and NON-PROPRIETARY. For this reason, we ask that you not send us any information or materials that you do not wish to assign to us, including, without limitation, any confidential information or any original creative materials such as product ideas, computer code, or original artwork.

By submitting communications and/or materials to STA Laboratories through this web site, you assign to STA Laboratories, free of charge, all worldwide rights, title and interest in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the information and/or materials you submit. STA Laboratories will be entitled to use any information and/or materials you submit through this web site, and any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any such information and/or materials, for any purpose whatsoever, included but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information or materials without restriction and without compensating you in any way.

However, STA Laboratories will not use any information or materials you submit through this web site in a way that violates applicable privacy laws. In particular, STA Laboratories will not release your name or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted information or materials to us unless: (a) we obtain your permission to use your name; or (b) we first notify you that the materials or other information you submit to a particular part of this site will be published or otherwise used with your name on it; or (c) we are required to do so by law.

You are responsible for the information and other content contained in any communications you submit through this web site, including, without limitation, their truthfulness and accuracy.

Third-Party Information

Some of the information, articles and other materials available through this site are provided to STA Laboratories by third-parties. Wherever practical, in our opinion, the source of these third-party materials is identified. These third-party materials are provided for your interest and convenience only. STA Laboratories does not endorse these materials or the vendors who supply them to us, nor does STA Laboratories warrant or represent that these materials are current, accurate, complete or reliable. STA Laboratories accepts no responsibility for any use to which third party information is put.

Links to Other Web Sites

This site contains hyperlinks to web sites that are not operated by STA Laboratories. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only, and do not imply any endorsement of the material on these third-party web sites or any association with their operators. STA Laboratories does not control these web sites and is not responsible for their contents. You access and use these web sites solely at your own risk.

Product Information

Any information contained or referenced in this web site is suitable only and is not to be construed other than as an introduction to STA Laboratories and its products and services. For specific advice and instructions related to our products and services, please contact STA Laboratories directly.

Right to Alter Web Site

STA Laboratories reserves the right to alter the content and functionality of this web site in any way, or to limit access to this web site, or to shut down this web site, at any time, for any reason, without prior notification, and will not be liable in any way for possible consequences of such changes.

Limitation of Liability

Your use of this web site is at your sole risk. Under no circumstances, shall STA Laboratories, its affiliates, employees or agents, be liable for any direct or indirect losses or damages arising out of or in connection with your access of, use of, or inability to use this web site or your reliance on any information provided in this web site. Without limiting the foregoing, STA Laboratories shall not be liable in any way for possible errors or omissions in the contents of this site; this applies in particular to any reference to products and services supplied by STA Laboratories. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all losses and damages of any kind whatsoever, whether direct or indirect. This limitation of liability applies whether the alleged liability is based on a contract, negligence, tort, strict liability or any other basis. Some countries or some political subdivision of certain countries do not allow the limitation of liability set forth above, so this may not apply to you.

Entire Agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and STA Laboratories with respect to your access to and/or use of this web site.

Effective Date

The terms and conditions set forth above are effective as of August 1, 2006.