Last Updated: 1/10/2025

Carson Industries Inc. (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the site that links to these Terms of Use (the “Site”).  These Terms of Use (these “Terms”) apply to the Site. These Terms constitute an agreement between us and you. The Site helps us to provide a central, documentation repository and reference portal our employees [or contractors] may access and reference within the scope of their employment with us. These Terms are in addition to other terms that we may have with our vendors or you, including, without limitation, your employment agreement and any policy we may have in place at the time, and shall not replace or supersede any such other terms. We may, in our sole discretion and at any time, modify, suspend, or discontinue the Site or specific portions of it. Please read these Terms carefully before accessing or using the Site.

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE OR VISITING THE SITE, YOU ACCEPT AND CONSENT TO ALL OF THESE TERMS.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS, THEN YOU MUST NOT USE THE SITE, OR ACCESS, USE OR VISIT THE SITE.

• Use of Our Site.  The Site is solely available to you to reference the documentation during your employment with us. Other than as expressly permitted in these Terms, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform, publish, license, modify, translate, adapt, create derivative works from, transfer, sell, or otherwise exploit the Site or any content or information obtained from the Site, for any commercial purpose or enterprise.  You may not use the Site, or any content within the Site, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms, or to solicit the performance of an illegal activity or other activity which infringes our rights or the rights of other individuals or entities. If you make any other use of the Site, except as otherwise provided above, you may violate copyright and other laws of the United States, and other countries, as well as applicable state laws and may be subject to liability for such unauthorized use.

• Prohibited Uses.  You may not (a) decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer the Site or any portion thereof; (b) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, any portion thereof, including content accessible via the Site, or any other system or platform through the Site; (c) use any automatic device, program, algorithm, or methodology, or engage in harvesting of email addresses or other personal information, unsolicited emailing, phone calling or mailings, spoofing, flooding, overloading, spidering, screen scraping, database scraping, or any similar or equivalent manual process to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any content on the Site; or (d) reverse look up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to the Site to its source. You agree that you will not use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site.  You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site. You will not use the Site to violate any applicable law, rule or regulation and you will not encourage or enable others to violate any applicable law, rule or regulation.

• Intellectual Property.  The Site and all content and materials on the Site, including, without limitation, all graphics, interfaces, features, functions, text, button icons, data compilations, software, code and materials thereon, the “look and feel”, selection and arrangement, design and organization of the Site, trademarks and logos, audio and video clips, are owned by, or licensed to, us.  We and our licensors and service providers reserve and shall retain the entire right, title, and interest in and to the Site, including, without limitation, all copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights therein or relating thereto, except as expressly granted to you in these Terms.  You shall not (i) remove, delete, alter, or obscure any trademarks or any notices of copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property or proprietary rights from the Site, including any copy thereof; or (ii) rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer or otherwise make available the Site, or any features or functionality of the Site, to any third party for any reason, including, without limitation, by making the Site available on a network where it is capable of being accessed by more than one device at a time.

• Account.  To access the Site, you must set up an account with us. When you create an account with us, you represent to use that the information you provide us is truthful, accurate, complete, current and otherwise in compliance with these Terms at all times. Submission of false, misleading, inaccurate, incomplete, obsolete, or other information prohibited under these Terms may result in immediate termination of your account on the Site. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information, including, without limitation, your account password and restricting access to your account. You are solely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account, including, without limitation, any activity that occurs as a result of your failure to keep secure and maintain the confidentiality of your account. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. You are solely responsible for controlling the dissemination and use of your password, controlling access to and use of your account. You may not use anyone else’s password or account at any time on the Site. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these requirements and you may be held liable for any losses incurred by us or for any other user of the Site if your failure to keep your account information secure and confidential results in someone else’s use of your account or account information. 

• Privacy.  Data provided to the Site is subject to our employee privacy policy, which is incorporated into these Terms.    

• Updates and Unavailability.  You agree that we have no obligation to provide any updates or to continue to provide or enable any particular features or functionality.  You acknowledge that the Site may, from time-to-time, be unavailable due to events like scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, system upgrades, internet outages, and other reasons, some of which are beyond our control.  We cannot, and do not, guarantee any specific minimum availability of the Site.

• Feedback.  We welcome your feedback, testimonials, comments, ideas and reviews about the Site (“Feedback”).  Unless specifically otherwise stated, you agree that by submitting Feedback to us, (a) such Feedback shall be deemed to be non-confidential, and (b) you grant to us, our successors, affiliates, representatives and agents a perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid-up, irrevocable, transferable, worldwide right and license to use, transmit, copy, reproduce, publicly display or perform, create derivative works of, or otherwise use such Feedback, without compensation, acknowledgement or notice to you. You also represent and warrant to us that you have the necessary permissions and rights to provide such Feedback to us.

• Third-Party Offerings.  The Site includes third-party links to documentation not provided by us (collectively, “Third-Party Offerings”).  Your use of any such Third-Party Offering will be subject to any terms and conditions required by the applicable third party.  You understand that we are not the provider of, and are not responsible for, any such Third-Party Offerings and that these Terms do not themselves grant you any rights to access, use, download content from or purchase any Third-Party Offerings.  The fact that we link to a third-party website or service is not an endorsement of that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies, terms of use, business practices or their compliance with laws.  We encourage you to read the privacy policies and terms of use of the other websites and services you use and the terms of the offers in which you participate.  You agree that we are not responsible for nor will we be liable to you or any third party for your interaction with such third parties.

• WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS.  Your use of the Site is at your sole risk.  THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS, PRODUCTS, TEXT, GRAPHICS AND LINKS THEREON, ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, NON-INTERFERENCE, DATA ACCURACY, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM TRADE USAGE, COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. THE PROTECTED ENTITIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT (A) THE SITE WILL FUNCTION UNINTERRUPTED, SECURELY OR BE AVAILABLE AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR LOCATION; (B) ANY ERRORS OR DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; (C) THE SITE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR (D) THE RESULTS OF USING THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS.  WE DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF CONTENT ON THE SITE OR WITH RESPECT TO ITS COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TRUTHFULNESS, AVAILABILITY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SITE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.  YOU AGREE THAT WE, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, MAY IMMEDIATELY TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE SITE AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON.  YOU AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO THE SITE OR DELETION OF YOUR ACCOUNT. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF OR LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATIONS ON THE APPLICABLE STATUTORY RIGHTS OF A CONSUMER, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

• INDEMNIFICATION.  YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND, AND HOLD HARMLESS US, OUR LICENSORS, AND OUR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS, AS WELL AS OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, LIABILITIES, DEFICIENCIES, CLAIMS, ACTIONS, JUDGMENTS, SETTLEMENTS, INTERESTS, AWARDS, PENALTIES, FINES, COSTS, OR EXPENSES OF WHATEVER KIND, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO (A) USE AND ACCESS OF THE SITE, BY YOU OR ANY PERSON USING YOUR ACCOUNT; (B) BREACH OF OR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE TERMS BY YOU OR ANY PERSON USING YOUR ACCOUNT; (C) VIOLATION OF THE LAW OR ANY THIRD-PARTY RIGHT BY YOU OR ANY PERSON USING YOUR ACCOUNT; (D) YOUR CONTENT OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US VIA THE SITE AND (E) ANY ACTIVITY OTHERWISE RELATED TO USE OF THE SITE (INCLUDING NEGLIGENT OR WRONGFUL CONDUCT) BY YOU OR ANY PERSON USING YOUR ACCOUNT.

• LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.  TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE AND OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS (“PROTECTED ENTITIES”) SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR CONTENT OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION YOU SHARE WITH US.  TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR RESPECTIVE LICENSORS OR SERVICE PROVIDERS, HAVE ANY LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE FOR: (A) PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE, LOST PROFITS, COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; OR (B) DIRECT DAMAGES IN AMOUNTS THAT IN THE AGGREGATE EXCEED FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00).  THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARISE OUT OF BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE OR COMPANY WAS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  YOU AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION RELATED TO THE SITE AND/OR THESE TERMS MUST BE FILED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.  SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

• Miscellaneous. These Terms, together with our internal policies, each as may be amended from time to time, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site.  Neither the course of conduct between us nor trade practice shall act to modify these Terms.  No failure to exercise, and no delay in exercising, on the part of either party, any right or any power under these Terms will act as a waiver thereof, nor will a single or partial exercise of any right or power under these Terms preclude further exercise of that or any other right under these Terms.  These Terms, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be delegated, transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by us without restriction.  Any purported delegation, transfer or assignment by you shall be null and void. These Terms and the relationship between you and us will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of North Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of North Carolina.  If any provision of these Terms is found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision will be deleted from these Terms and the remaining provisions will continue with full force and effect. 

• Jurisdictional Issues.  The Site is operated out of the United States.  We make no representation that the Site, or content or information available via the Site, is appropriate or available for use outside of the United States, and access to it from jurisdictions where the content is illegal is prohibited.  Those who choose to access the Site from outside the United States do so at their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws.

• Changes. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. Any changes to these Terms will become effective upon posting of revised terms. Your use of the Site reaffirms your continuing agreement to the ten-current Terms of Use.

• Contact Us.  If you have any questions about these Terms or our Site, please feel free to contact us by email at: info at carsonlift dot com.