Terms of Use

Overview

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and HET that govern your access to and use of this website. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this website.

HET may, without notice to you and at any time, revise these Terms of Use. The most current version of the Terms of Use can be reviewed by clicking on the “Terms of Use” hyperlink located at the bottom of our webpages.

General

All content and services available through this website, including text, graphics, logos, images, sounds, downloads and software, is the exclusive property of HET or its content suppliers and is protected by the various applicable intellectual property laws in the United States and internationally. This website contains proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed.

HET grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission to access and display the pages within this website as a customer or potential customer of HET provided you comply with these Terms of Use and all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices remain intact. 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 website.) All other use of this website is prohibited.

Except for the limited permission in the preceding paragraph, HET 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 website 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.

Rules of conduct

Your use of HET.com (or related websites) is subject to all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations and you agree not to violate such laws and regulations. Any attempt by any person to deliberately damage this website is a violation of criminal and civil laws.

You agree not to post or transmit through HET.com 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.

Some of the services available through the website may require you to open an account, for which you may register by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You may not impersonate another user, use another user’s account without their permission, attempt to capture or guess other users’ passwords, forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers for any purpose. Please notify HET immediately of any unauthorized use of your account. HET will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account.

You may not engage in any activity on HET.com which restrict or inhibit any other user from using or enjoying the website by hacking or defacing any portions of the website.

You may not post or transmit through the website any advertising or commercial solicitations; promotional materials; political campaign materials; software or materials that contain malware, viruses, worms, time bombs, Trojan horses or other harmful or disruptive components, spam mail or 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 website or contents. You may not harvest or collect information about website visitors without their express written consent.

Disclaimer

From time to time, this website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors and we do not warrant the accuracy of any posted information. Please confirm the accuracy and completeness of information before using it to make decisions relating to services, products or other matters described in this website. This website may contain information about products and services that are not available in all jurisdictions or countries in which HET does business.

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.

This website may provide links or references to third-party websites and resources. HET makes no representations, warranties or other commitments or endorsements whatsoever about any non-HET website or resource, is not responsible for the contents of any linked website and is not a party to or responsible for any transactions you may enter into with third parties.

Confidential information

HET does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through our website and any information sent through the website will be deemed NOT to be confidential. By sending HET any information or material, you grant HET an unrestricted, irrevocable license to copy, reproduce, publish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, publicly display, perform, modify, create derivative works from and otherwise freely use, those materials or information. You also agree that HET is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose. Personally-identifiable information that you submit to HET for the purpose of receiving products or services will be handled in accordance with our privacy policies. Please see the link at the bottom of this webpage entitled “Privacy” for information regarding HET’s privacy policies.

U.S. government restricted rights

HET provides the software downloaded from this website to U.S. Government users with “RESTRICTED RIGHTS.” Use, reproduction or disclosure is subject to the restrictions set forth in the applicable GSA schedule.

Linking to this site

HET consents only to links to this website in which the link and the pages that are activated by the link do not: (a) create frames around any page on this website or use other techniques that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of any content within this site; (b) misrepresent your relationship with HET; (c) imply that HET approves or endorses you or your service or product offerings; and (d) present false or misleading impressions about HET.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

ALL CONTENT AND SERVICES ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITH NO WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES WHATSOEVER. HET EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY and OTHER WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES or REPRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE and NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. HET MAKES NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE THAT THIS WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE or ERROR-FREE.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL HET BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY TYPE WHATSOEVER RELATED TO OR ARISING FROM THIS WEBSITE OR ANY USE OF THIS WEBSITE or OF ANY SITE OR RESOURCE LINKED TO, REFERENCED or ACCESSED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE or FOR THE USE OR DOWNLOADING OF or ACCESS TO, ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, PRODUCTS or SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOST SAVINGS OR LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA, EVEN IF HET IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS EXCLUSION AND WAIVER OF LIABILITY APPLIES TO ALL CAUSES OF ACTION, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT or ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORIES.