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IBM grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission to access and display the Web pages within this site as a customer or potential customer of IBM provided you comply with these Terms of Use, and all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices remain intact. You may only use a crawler to crawl this Web site as permitted by this Web site’s robots.txt protocol, and IBM may block any crawlers in its sole discretion. The use authorized under this agreement is non-commercial in nature (e.g., you may not sell the content you access on or through this Web site.) All other use of this site is prohibited.

Except for the limited permission in the preceding paragraph, IBM does not grant you any express or implied rights or licenses under any patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary or intellectual property rights. You may not mirror any of the content from this site on another Web site or in any other media. Any software and other materials that are made available for downloading, access, or other use from this site with their own license terms will be governed by such terms, conditions, and notices. Your failure to comply with such terms or any of the terms on this site will result in automatic termination of any rights granted to you, without prior notice, and you must immediately destroy all copies of downloaded materials in your possession, custody or control.

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You agree not to post or transmit through IBM Websites any material or content that violates or infringes in any way the rights of others or solicits, encourages or promotes the use of illegal substances or activities, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, derogatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, bigoted or hateful, profane, scandalous, pornographic, indecent or otherwise objectionable, gives rise to civil or criminal liability or otherwise violates any applicable law.

You may not impersonate another user, use another user’s IBMid, permit someone else to use your IBMid, attempt to capture or guess other users’ passwords, forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers for the purpose of disguising the origin of any content you transmit, conduct fraudulent business operations or practices, or promote or conceal unlawful conduct.

You may not engage in any activity on IBM Websites which restrict or inhibit any other user from using or enjoying IBM Websites by “hacking,” “cracking,” “spoofing,” or defacing any portions of IBM Websites. You may not use IBM Websites to stalk or harass another person or entity.

You may not post or transmit through IBM Websites advertising or commercial solicitations; promotional materials relating to website or online services which are competitive with IBM and/or IBM Websites; software or other materials that contain viruses, worms, time bombs, Trojan horses, or other harmful or disruptive components, political campaign materials; chain letters; mass mailings, spam mail, any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine,” or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of IBM Websites or contents. You may not harvest or collect information about website visitors without their express written consent.

From time to time, this Web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, and we do not warrant the accuracy of any posted information. Please confirm you are using the most up-to-date pages on this Web site, and confirm the accuracy and completeness of information before using it to make decisions relating to services, products, or other matters described in this Web site.

If any term in this Terms of Use is found by competent judicial authority to be unenforceable in any respect, the validity of the remainder of this Terms of Use will be unaffected, provided that such unenforceability does not materially affect the parties’ rights under this Terms of Use.

Except for historical information and discussions, statements set forth throughout this web site may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 or other applicable laws. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, as discussed in the company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. See the “SEC filings” tab under “Investor relations” on this Web site for copies of such filings.

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