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Web Site Terms and Conditions

Introduction
This document sets forth the terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") governing your use of the Internet web site operated by 7th on Sixth, IMG. ("MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com "), located at "MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com" (the "Site"), and the information and services made available on and through the Site. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. These Terms and Conditions will form a binding Agreement between you, the user, and MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com .

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions
Your use of the Site indicates your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions, you may not use the Site. The use of the Site is a privilege. Please review these Terms and Conditions each time you use the Site as they are subject to change at any time by MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com without notice to you. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions will be effective immediately upon posting to the Site. MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com reserves the right to suspend your use of the Site for any reason at any time, in its sole discretion.

Intellectual Property
Some text, graphics, designs, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, data compilations and information ("Content") contained on the Site are owned or controlled by MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com or its respective owners and are protected by United States and international copyright laws. Certain graphics, designs, logos and images on the Site are owned or controlled by Guardian. You may download Content solely for your personal use for non-commercial purposes. You may not modify or further reproduce the Content for any purpose whatsoever.

All logos and trademarks displayed on the Site are registered trademarks or trademarks of MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com or are the marks, trade names, trade dress of their respective owners. Depictions of products or services on the Site are trademarks of their respective owners ("Trademarks") and are protected in the United States and internationally. No use of any Trademarks may be made without the prior written authorization of MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com or the respective owners of the Trademarks except to identify the products or services associated therewith.

Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license or right to any patents, copyright or trademark embodied in the Site. All right, title and interest in the Content and the Trademarks shall reside solely with MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com or the respective owners thereof.

MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through the Site and any information or material sent to MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com through the Site in respect of any products or service referenced or offered on the Site will be deemed NOT to be confidential. By sending MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com any information or material regarding our services, you grant MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com an unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information, and you also agree that MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com is free to use any ideas, inventions, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com for any purpose. Such purposes may include disclosure to third parties and/or developing, manufacturing and/or marketing goods or services.

Representations of User
By using the Site, you hereby represent and warrant that: (i) all information contained in any submission by you is either owned by you or rights have been granted to you permitting you to disseminate the information as set forth in these Terms and Conditions; and (ii) the information contained in any submissions by you does not infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, including but not limited to, copyright, trademark, patent, or trade secret rights.

Limitations on Information Submitted
Any submission of information by you through the Site or to MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com is subject to the following guidelines and restrictions:

  1. It may not contain URLs or links to any other Internet web sites;
  2. It may not contain copyrighted material (unless you own the copyright or have the owner's permission to post the copyrighted material);
  3. It may not contain trade secrets (unless you own them or have the owner's permission to post them);
  4. It may not contain material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent, or trade secret rights;
  5. It may not contain information that is known by you to be untrue, false or misleading or that does not fairly or accurately depict or describe the subject matter that is the subject of the information posted by you;
  6. It may not present information which impersonates another person, whether living or dead, misstate the identity of any person, or misstate or mislead as to gender or age;
  7. It may not contain viruses, bots, Trojan horses or other programs or information which disrupts or interferes with the operation of the Site;
  8. It may not be sent for the purpose of "flooding", "mailbombing" or "crashing" the Site;
  9. You may not solicit money, investments or make any offering of securities or investments;
  10. You may not submit chain letters or pyramid schemes.

Monitoring of Information
MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com does not assume any obligation to review the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or content of any information submitted to the Site by you, other users of the Site, or of companies offering products or services on the Site. Notwithstanding, MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com may in its discretion review information submitted to the Site for any purpose whatsoever and it reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject any information submitted to the Site for any reason whatsoever.

Hyperlinks
From time to time, as a convenience to you, the Site may include links to third party web sites, or permit third parties to link to this Site. Links to or from a third party web site, whether provided by MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com or not, do not imply any affiliation between MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com and the site owner, or an endorsement of such third party sites. We may cancel any link at any time and will remove any link from this Site upon request from the owner of the linked site. Such requests should be sent to our PR department / web site administrator.

Availability
Not all of the products and services described on this Site are available in all geographic areas of the world. You may not be eligible for all of the described products or services and we reserve the right to determine the eligibility of any user for any product or service. The pages relating to each product or service may provide additional information on the availability of each product or service and may contain additional terms governing eligibility.

Children
This Site does not intend to market any products or services to children. MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com does not knowingly gather, or solicit data, from children through this Site for marketing purposes.

Accuracy of Content
MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com will make every reasonable effort to include accurate and up to date content on the Site. Notwithstanding, MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com provides such content for informational purposes only and does not warrant or represent that descriptions of services or other content contained on the Site is complete, accurate, reliable, current or error-free.

Disclaimer
THE SITE AND THE INFORMATION ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED ?AS IS? WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS SITE WILL BE CURRENT, TIMELY, COMPLETE, ACCURATE OR ERROR FREE. MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com HAS NOT REVIEWED ALL THE SITES THAT MAY BE LINKED TO ITS SITE AND DOES NOT ENDORSE AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF ANY OFF-SITE PAGES OR ANY OTHER SITES LINKED TO THESE SITES. YOUR LINKS TO SUCH SITES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TO THE EXTENT THAT THE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT THE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, ALL CONTENT ACCESSIBLE ON THE SITE, OR ANY OTHER WEB SITE TO WHICH THIS SITE LINKS, IS WARRANTED ONLY TO THE MINIMUM AMOUNT LEGALLY REQUIRED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE, OR ON ANY LINKED WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR OTHERWISE.

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITY, CLAIMS, CAUSES OF ACTIONS, DAMAGES, COSTS AND EXPENSES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ATTORNEYS FEES AND COSTS OF SUIT, ARISING OUT OF YOUR BREACH OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Governing Law and Venue
These Terms and conditions are governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of New York in the United States of America, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction and venue for any claims arising under from the use of the Site or these Terms and Conditions shall lie exclusively with the state and federal courts within the State of New York. You hereby irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts within the State of New York.

If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. The failure of MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com to enforce any term or condition of these Terms and Conditions shall not be deemed a waiver thereof and shall not prevent its later enforcement.

Changes
The information contained in these Terms and Conditions may be changed or updated by MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com from time to time and without prior notice by posting the modified Terms and Conditions to the Site. MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the programs described in this information at any time without notice. It is your obligation to review these Terms and Conditions on an ongoing basis. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to these Terms and Conditions. If at any time you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you must cease your use of this Site.

Privacy Policy
MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com ., and its affiliates, related companies, agents, and licensors (collectively "MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com "), is committed to protecting your privacy and the security of all data on this site. To demonstrate this commitment, we have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). Our policy is based on the principles of notice/awareness, choice/consent, access/particMercedesBenzFashionWeek.com tion and integrity/security in the collection and use of all information regarding our users and their activities at the "MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com .com" web site ("Site"). Please review this policy each time you use the Site as it is subject to change at any time by MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com without notice to you. It is your obligation to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. By accessing the Site you are indicating your agreement to this Privacy Policy. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon posting to this Site.

Notice of our Policy
This policy tells you, among other things, what information we gather from you, how we may use or disclose that information and our efforts to protect it. Please read this policy carefully.

What Types of Information are Collected and Why?
Information submitted by you
At times, we may ask you to provide information about yourself or your companies in order to better serve you. For example, some of the information collected may include name, title, company, address, phone number, email address, and other relevant data. We do not require this information to obtain access to any area of our site. This information allows us to contact you should the need arise or to respond appropriately to your request for services.

Information collected by Cookies
We may also make use of website "cookies" to help you use our services more easily and to help us continuously improve our website and our service to you. A "cookie" is a small data file that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive to help our website "remember" information about you when you return to our website, such as your preferences for our website or account id's. Our cookies do not read data off of your hard drive, read cookie files created by other websites or track any personal information about you. You may have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies, however, doing so may negatively impact upon the performance of the Site or restrict us in better serving your needs and interests. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

How Does MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com Use My Information?
User Identification
We will retain this information on a secure server so that on re-visiting our web-site, you will not need to re-enter that information. MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com may use this information in an aggregated form to measure number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, and other relevant statistics. MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com collects this information to measure the use of our site and to improve the content of our site.

We use your personally identifying information to identify you as a user of the Site and to assist and speed the completion of transactions on the Site. We may use your email address to contact you directly regarding services or products that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also use information collected about your preferences and activities at the Site, such as the particular pages you request at the Site and purchases or other transactions you effect through the Site, we may vary the content you receive in future visits to the Site based on your preferences and activities.

Disclosure of Aggregate Information
We may combine your personally identifying information, and information about your preferences and activities, with those of all or a particular group of our users to prepare collective profiles of our users and their activities for our internal use. For example, we may track the number of our users who view certain pages or use certain features or compile the total dollar amount of sales conducted through the Site in a particular geographic region or to track purchasing trends. Such information, and other information we derive from individual users' information, allows us to continue to grow and provide you with quality information through more accurate marketing and advertising of the Site. We may share aggregated information concerning our users, without attribution of personal information, to our advertisers and other companies with whom we conduct business.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Outside Parties
We may disclose your personal information that you provide or that we collect, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, account numbers, etc. to persons outside of MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com .com. We w may lease, license, sublicense, rent, transfer, disclose, disseminate or otherwise grant access to the information we collect from you from the Site to persons outside of MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com . We will, however, comply with any court order or other requirement of law which requires us to disclose your personal information.

What Does MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com do to Keep This Site Secure?
We may use industry-standard encryption methods to transmit your personal registration information from your computer to ours across the Internet, and we may restrict access to any transactional portions of the Site to computers running web browsers that support Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol. To use this protection technology, you need to have an SSL-capable browser. We may use industry-standard encryption methods to transmit your personal registration information from your computer to ours across the Internet, and we may restrict access to any transactional portions of the Site to computers running web browsers that support Secure Socket Layer ("PGP") protocol. To use this protection technology, you need to have an PGP-capable decoder.

Our website may contain "links" to other sites, and we cannot and are not responsible for maintaining your privacy once you leave our site. We attempt to only link to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy. If you provide any information to parties who operate Web sites that are linked to or from the Site, different rules may apply to their collection, use or disclosure of your personal information. We encourage you to review other sites' policies before revealing any sensitive or personal information. Under no circumstances shall MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com have any liability whatsoever for the activities conducted by or at any Web site accessed from or through the Site. Regardless of the precautions taken by us we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you transmit such information at your own risk.

What You Can Do To Protect Your Information
Use only secure sites when disclosing your personally identifiable information. Secure pages begin with https. Avoid easy to figure out access and personal ID (PIN) codes. Never respond to unsolicited requests for your social security number (SSN) or financial data. Do not disclose your passwords to the Site or your account information to any other person.


Special Policy on Information Regarding Children
(persons under 18 years of age)
The Site is not directed to children, and MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com does not knowingly collect any personal information from children. If you are concerned about your child's use of the Site, you may use web filtering technology to supervise or limit access to the Site.

General
This Privacy Policy is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of New Yorkin the United States, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under or out of this Privacy Policy shall lie exclusively with the state and federal courts within the State of New York. If any provision of this Privacy Policy is found to be invalid by a court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Privacy Policy, which shall remain in full force and effect. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL MercedesBenzFashionWeek.com HAVE ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE BREACH OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, HOWEVER OCCASIONED.

Notice of Media Credential Use Conditions

This working credential is issued by the Event Organizer to an organization (the "Accredited Organization") for the sole purpose of providing venue access to an individual (the "Bearer") who has a legitimate media working function in connection with the March 16-20,2005 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Event ("Event") for which this credential is issued. It Is Non-Transferable. Any unauthorized use of this credential subjects the Bearer to ejection from the venue and prosecution for criminal trespass, and subjects the Accredited Organization to revocation of its credentials for future New York Fashion Week events. The "Event Organizer" is defined as International Merchandising Corporation, its parents and affiliates, and their employees and agents.

This credential authorizes (i) the use by the Accredited Organization, for news and editorial coverage of the Event, of any descriptions, accounts, photographs, films, audio or video recordings, or illustrations of the Event or of any interviews, press conferences, or other venue activities related to the Event (collectively, "Event Information") taken, made, created, or compiled by the Accredited Organization or the Bearer, and (ii) the use by the Accredited Organization of any Event trademarks (the "Marks") in connection with its authorized use of the Event Information. Any other use or attempted use by the Bearer or the Accredited Organization of Event Information or Marks, including any distribution of Event Information to third parties other than ultimate consumers (e.g., newspaper readers) for their use (whether before or after the conclusion of the Event, and whether or not for editorial purposes) and any authorization of any third party to redistribute Event Information or to use any Marks, is expressly prohibited, unless the Accredited Organization has obtained the advance written permission of the Event Organizer for such other use.

Accredited Organizations agree that Event Information taking the form of film, video, or digital video recordings ("Video Material") may only be used in connection with a regularly scheduled broadcast television newscast aired by the Accredited Organization, and further agree that their use of Video Material in such newscasts shall not exceed two (2) minutes of current-Event highlights on any day. Use of Video Material in any other manner without the advance written permission of the Event Organizer is prohibited.

The Accredited Organization and the Bearer assume all risk incident to the performance by the Bearer of his or her services; assume all risk incident to attending the Event; agree that the Event has no responsibility for any equipment in use at the Event's site; agree that they are not acting for the Event Organizer in any manner whatsoever and are not employees or agents of the Event Organizer; and agree to Indemnify and hold harmless the Event Organizer, its affiliates, its member clubs, and their agents and employees from and against all liability, loss, damage or expense resulting from or arising out of the issuance of this credential or the Bearer's presence in the venue, except to the extent such liability, loss, damage or expense arises out of the willful or intentional misconduct of the Event Organizer or any other indemnified party.

Acceptance of the credential constitutes agreement by the Accredited Organization and the Bearer to abide by the foregoing conditions. Thank you for your cooperation.




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