Intellectual property

CONDITIONS OF USE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. All Intellectual Property Rights in and to the content and design of the Site, all materials hosted on the Site and/or distributed in conjunction with the Site are reserved exclusively to Nibras Group (NG) (which for these purposes includes their suppliers). You are not allowed to use, reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any trademarks or other trade names appearing on the Site. The software which operates the Site is proprietary software and you may only use it as expressly allowed under these Terms.
2. All rights to the material on the Site or provided as part of a Service (including without limitation any news sent by email as part of a subscription service) (together the "Content") belong to us or any third party content providers and are protected by the copyright, trademarks, and/or other intellectual property laws of the Sultanate of Oman and other countries. You agree to abide by all applicable copyright, intellectual property and other laws, as well as the terms of any additional copyright notices or restrictions contained on the Sites or in these Terms. We may license third parties to use the Content at our sole discretion.
3. You may use the Sites and the Content solely for your own personal use and benefit and not for resale or other transfer or disposition to any other person or entity (the "Permitted Purpose"). You further agree not to use, transfer, distribute or dispose of any Content in any manner that might compete with our business subject to 4 below.
4. You may retrieve and display Content on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disc (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network), for the Permitted Purpose only. You may not reproduce, modify or exploit any of the Content for commercial purposes. You may use the in-built sharing tools to send an article from the Site to other individuals provided neither you nor such other individuals then use the Content for commercial purposes. You may on an occasional and irregular basis provide insubstantial portions of the Licensed in memoranda, reports and presentations. Where the Permitted Purpose is educational, you may on an occasional and irregular basis provide insubstantial portions of the Content to other staff and students or in scholarly works and articles. In all cases these insubstantial portions may only be made available in print or by secure electronic means to a limited number of individuals, and each such portion must include a copyright notice from NG and an original source attribution, in each case, as such notice and attribution is reasonably acceptable to NG.
5. The trademarks "Nibras Group" and "NG" are the property of NG, other trademarks/logos appearing on the Site are the property of their respective owners, and none of these marks may be used without the express prior written permission of the respective owners.
6. CONTENT BY EMAIL/PHONE
   1. We may give you the option to request Content by email. We will also send you email to keep you updated on project developments. Content received through these emails will be subject to these Terms.
7. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
   1. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for fraud, or intentional unlawful conduct by us, or death or personal injury resulting from our negligence and the paragraphs below are subject to this provision.
   2. The Content is made available for general information and use and is not intended for trading purposes. We do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information provided by any information provider or content provider. Reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, or other information shall be at your own risk. Neither does the Content constitute any form of advice, recommendation or arrangement by us and is not intended to be relied upon by users in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment or other decisions.
   3. We, our officers, employees, affiliates, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, suppliers and third party agents will not be liable to you directly or indirectly for: (a) any inaccuracies or errors in or omissions from a Site or a Service including, but not limited to, quotes and financial data; (b) any delays, errors or interruptions in the transmission or delivery of the Site or a Service; (c) any incidental, punitive, special or consequential damage, loss or expenses including but not limited to any loss of business, contracts, revenue, or profits, any business interruption, security breach, loss of data, loss of goodwill or reputation or other pecuniary loss suffered by you; (d) any damage, loss or expenses suffered by you as a result of any viruses, worms, "Trojan horses" or similar programs, denial or service attack, spamming or hacking or consequential damages or any claim against us by any other party; (e) any fault, inaccuracy, omission, delay or any other failure in a Site or a Service caused by your computer equipment or arising from your use of the Service on such equipment; or (f) any loss or damage arising by any reason of non-performance.
8. CHOICE OF LAW
   1. These Terms, to the maximum extent permissible under the law of the territory that you are located in, will be governed by Omani law and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Omani courts. We reserve the right to bring claims in any other court of competent jurisdiction.
9. FORCE MAJEURE
   1. We shall not be deemed to be in breach of these Terms by reason of any delay in performing, or any failure to perform any service or our obligations in relation to these Terms, if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, explosions, floods, fire or accident, war or threat of war, terrorism or threat of terrorism, sabotage, civil disturbance, epidemics, prohibitions or measures of any kind on the part of any governmental, parliamentary or local authority, import or export regulations or embargoes, or industrial actions or trade disputes (whether involving our employees or of third parties).
10. ASSIGNMENT
    1. You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights under these Terms without our prior written consent.
    2. We may assign, sub-contract or transfer any and all of our rights and obligations under these Terms to any group company or any entity who acquires a substantial part of the assets of our business without your prior written consent.