Legal Notice

Before your use of this Industrial Technology Research Institute ("ITRI") website (the "Website"), please read carefully all the terms and conditions listed in the ITRI legal notice. Your use of the information provided on this Website refers to your agreement to abide by every term and condition listed in the ITRI legal notice.

  1. Copyrights of all the content and materials published on the Website belong to ITRI.Please be aware of the following principles in using any information from the Website:

    None of the information provided on this Website may be duplicated, reproduced or transmitted, either partially or completely, in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of ITRI. Neither may the information be modified arbitrarily.
    Except as noted on a webpage, a user, under a reasonable scale, may download or print out information from the Website for research or personal non-profit purposes.
    For the convenience of browsing webpages, a user may duplicate a file temporarily to his/her computer.
    Content and intellectual property notices of material downloaded or printed shall not be modified arbitrarily.
    Every company name, product, and trademark mentioned on the Website belongs to the correspondent company.
  1. Double check content on the Website
    • Any information provided on the Website should not be relied on as the basis for doing or failing to do something.
    • Information provided on the Website is for broadcasting industrial and technological developments from ITRI's work. It is not suggested that it will resolve any professional, medical, scientific, or technological problem.
    • Information provided on the Website may consist of uncertainty in the state-of-the-art technology field. ITRI may not warrant the correctness, time-efficiency and completeness of the information.
    • Information provided on the Website may be changed from time to time, and may not be noted individually.
    • Due to the practical difficulties of investigating all the information provided on the Website from possible infringement, ITRI shall not be liable for any infringement occurring on its Website. A user shall be responsible for any damage suffered as a result of using the information provided on the Website.
  1. Notice to authors

    Before submitting an article to this Website, please ensure its legality and copyright, and warrant not violating rights of any one else. You acknowledge that ITRI has rights, on a profit or non-profit basis, to publish, reproduce, modify, edit, and transmit the article you submit.
  1. Notice to web links
    • The Website reserves the right to be linked or framed. ITRI shall be notified in advance if one links to or frames the Website.
    • The Website may be linked to other websites only as a convenience. ITRI is not responsible for the content of those sites.
  1. Aware of Internet security and computer viruses
    • There are still some unsafe factors on the World Wide Web (WWW). Any information transmitted between you and this Website may be intercepted or modified by a third party.
    • ITRI is cautious in maintaining the security of this Website, but it may not warrant materials transmitted from this Website to be absolutely free from computer viruses.
  1. On-line privacy protection
    • ITRI takes responsibility in using any information you submit to the Website. This information is used only for our reference to provide better services.
    • To have a better understanding of your needs, the Website, through a service hotline or some functions on a webpage, may ask you to provide additional personal data, including your name, address, and telephone number. You may also choose not to obtain further information from this Website. After you log on to the Website for subscription of electronic newsletters or electronic mail, all the e-mail sent from the Website may list means regarding how to cancel the subscription.
    • Please do not send any confidential information to the Website. Every question and problem sent to the Website may be submitted to relevant technical sectors of ITRI for proper answers.
    • The Website will not give your personal data to any other firm or individual without your prior permission. If there is a need to provide you with particular services, such as customer support services or print materials as you require, ITRI may have to give your name and delivery address to a third party such as a shipping company.
  1. ITRI is an organization pursuing knowledge and technological innovation. It pays special attention to intellectual property management and application. Please review the " GUIDELINES ON THE MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY " for a detailed policy.

    (07/01/1999)