Newmont Mining Company and its subsidiaries (“Newmont”,
“We” or “Us”) operate the web Website located at
www.newmont.com, (the “Website”). Please carefully read these Terms of
Use. By using this Website, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and agree to be
bound by these Terms of Use (this “Agreement”). If you do not agree
to be bound by this Agreement, please exit the Website now and refrain from using ANY
CONTENT that you MAY have obtained from the WEBSITE. This Agreement will be available
in the primary languages of the countries in which we operate, but the controlling
version of this Agreement is in the English language.This Agreement is made between
Newmont and you or, in the case that you represent and are using the Website on behalf of
a company or other entity, that company or other entity (in either case,
“You”).
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USE OF THE WEBSITE. You may access and use the Website solely for
lawful purposes and only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Newmont reserves
the right at any time and in its sole discretion to modify, suspend, or discontinue the
Website (or any portion thereof) with or without notice.
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REGISTRATION. The Website may include a process by which You may
apply to become a registered user (a “Registered User”) of certain
portions of the Website. If the Website has such a registration process, Your access to
the Website will be limited to the public areas of the Website until You apply for and
are approved as a Registered User of the Website. Your approval as a Registered User is
at the sole discretion of Newmont. In connection with Your application to become a
Registered User, You will be asked to submit certain information about Yourself
(“Registration Information”). If Your application to become a
Registered User is approved, You will be asked to create an account to access areas of
the Website available to Registered Users (an “Account”). You agree to
keep Your Account information (including Your password) confidential. You agree to notify
Newmont immediately of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your Account. Your
Account is solely for Your personal and non-commercial use. You may not sublicense,
distribute, sell, lease, rent, loan, or otherwise transfer Your Account or the right to
access Your Account to any third party. You are solely responsible for all activities
that occur through Your Account. Newmont will not be responsible for any loss to You
caused by your failure to comply with these obligations. You represent and warrant that:
(a) all Registration Information You have provided is true, accurate, current, and
complete; and (b) You will maintain and promptly update the Registration Information to
keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. As part of the registration process, you
may be permitted to create a user ID for use in identifying your Account (a
“User ID”). You may not: (i) select or use a User ID of another person
with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use a User ID in which another person
has rights without such person’s authorization; or (iii) use a User ID that
Newmont, in its sole discretion, deems offensive. Failure to comply with the foregoing
shall constitute a breach of this Agreement, which may result in immediate termination of
Your Account.
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TERM AND TERMINATION. This Agreement will be effective on the date
You first use the Website and will continue until terminated. Newmont may terminate this
Agreement immediately, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice to You. You
may terminate this Agreement upon written notice to Newmont, such termination effective
10 business days following acknowledgment of receipt of such notice by Newmont. Newmont
may also suspend your use of the Website and direct You to cease using the Website with
or without notice to You and with or without cause. Upon any termination of this
Agreement, all rights granted to You under this Agreement will cease; if You are a
Registered User, your Account will be closed, and You must promptly discontinue all
access to any part of the Website and the use of any Content downloaded or otherwise
obtained from the Website. Sections 2-12 and 14 will survive termination or expiration of
this Agreement for any reason as they apply to the rights granted to Newmont and the
restrictions placed on You.
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Content. The text, files, images, graphics, illustrations,
information, data, audio, video, photographs and other content available on the Website
or provided from or through the Website (collectively, “Website
Content”) are protected by the Intellectual Property Rights of Newmont and its
partners, affiliates, and licensors (“Affiliates”). Unless otherwise
noted on the Website, as between You, Newmont and its Affiliates, all Website Content is
owned by Newmont and its Affiliates. Your access to and use of any Website Content is
also subject to any other license or other agreement separate from this Agreement that
You may enter into (or may have entered into) with Newmont or its Affiliates accompanying
the Website Content or otherwise on the Website relating to that Website Content (each
such license or other agreement, a “Content Agreement”). Except as
expressly set forth in this Agreement or any Content Agreement, You are granted no
licenses or rights, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, in or to the Website
or Website Content, or any intellectual property rights therein or related thereto, and
You may not modify, reproduce, perform, display, create derivative works from, republish,
post, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, distribute, or in any way exploit
any portion of the Website or Website Content without the prior written permission of
Newmont.
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Marks. Unless otherwise labeled, all trademarks,
tradenames, service marks, logos, banners, and page headers displayed on the Website
(collectively, the "Marks") are the property of Newmont and its Affiliates. Except
as expressly set forth in this Agreement, You may not display, link to, or otherwise use
the Marks without the prior written permission of Newmont.
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Postings and Uploads. The Website may include forums,
bulletin boards, chat rooms, or other opportunities through which You may provide or
upload Website Content to the Website (“Provided Content”). You agree
not to upload or provide any such Content that is: (1) libelous, defamatory, obscene,
abusive, pornographic, threatening, or an invasion of privacy; (2) an infringement or
misappropriation of the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party; (3) illegal in
any way or that advocates illegal activity; or (4) an advertisement or solicitation of
funds, goods, or services. You represent and warrant to Newmont that You own all right,
title, and interest in and to any Provided Content that You provide or upload to the
Website, or that You have sufficient rights to grant Newmont the rights discussed in this
Agreement. You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Newmont and its Affiliates from
any and all third-party claims, losses, liabilities, damages, fees, expenses, and costs
(including attorneys’ fees and court costs) that result from a breach or alleged
breach of any representation or warranty set forth in this Agreement. By providing or
uploading any Provided Content to the Website, unless otherwise stated in a separate
agreement entered into by You and Newmont in connection with Your upload of any Provided
Content, You grant Newmont a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and
fully sublicensable right to use, copy, store, reproduce, modify, display, adapt,
publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such Provided
Content throughout the world in any form. In addition, you waive all moral rights in the
Provided Content or warrant that all moral rights applicable to such content have been
waived. You also grant Newmont the right to use Your name in connection with the
reproduction or distribution of such material.
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CONDUCT. You will not and will not permit any third party
to use Your Account to (1) use the Website to harvest or collect e-mail addresses or
other contact information of other users from the Website by electronic or other means
for the purposes of sending unsolicited e-mails or other unsolicited communications; (2)
use the Website in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable,
overburden or impair the Website; (3) use automated scripts to collect information from
or otherwise interact with the Website; (4) use the Website to intimidate or harass any
other people or entities; (5) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise
attempt to derive the source code or method of operation of the Website; (6) remove,
bypass or circumvent any electronic protection measures on the Website; (7) remove,
alter, or obscure any copyright or other proprietary rights notices included on the
Website; or (8) upload to the Website or provide to Newmont any code or device capable of
or intended to interrupt, harm or damage the Website or the operation of the
Website.
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Claims of Infringement. Newmont respects the copyrights and
other intellectual property rights of users of the Website and other third parties. If
You believe in good faith that Your copyrighted work has been reproduced on the Website
without authorization in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, You may notify
our designated copyright agent by mail to:
Newmont Mining Company
Attn: Copyright Infringement Agent
6363 South Fiddlers Green Circle
Greenwood Village, Colorado USA 80111
Please provide the following information to Newmont’s
Copyright Infringement Agent:
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the identity of the infringed work, and of the allegedly infringing work;
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Your name, address, daytime phone number, and e mail address, if available;
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a statement that You have a good-faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work is not authorized by the owner, his or her agent, or the law;
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a statement of the accuracy of the notice and, under penalty of perjury, that You are authorized to act on behalf of the owner; and
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Your electronic or physical signature.
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Representations And Warranties. You hereby represent, warrant, and
covenant for the benefit of Newmont and its Affiliates that: (1) You have the legal right
and authority to enter into this Agreement, and, if You are accepting this Agreement on
behalf of a company or other entity, to bind the company or other entity to the terms of
this Agreement; (2) You have the legal right and authority to perform Your obligations
under this Agreement and to grant the rights and licenses described in this Agreement and
in any applicable additional agreement You enter into in connection with any of the
Website; and (3) all information You provide to Newmont in connection with this Agreement
and Your access to the Website and use of the Services is correct and current.
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Disclaimer And Limitation Of Liability.
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Disclaimer. THE WEBSITE AND ALL ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT AND THE
SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED BY NEWMONT "AS IS" and “AS
AVAILABLE” WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. NEITHER NEWMONT NOR ITS AFFILIATES
REPRESENT OR ENDORSE THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY ADVICE, OPINION, STATEMENT, OR
OTHER INFORMATION DISPLAYED, DOWNLOADED FROM, OR DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE WEBSITE. you
understand that by using the Website, you may be exposed to content that YOU MAY FIND
offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will NEWMONT be liable in
any way for any SOFTWARE OR content provided THROUGH the Website. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR
ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
LIABILITY OR DAMAGE YOU INCUR THROUGH ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE. EXCEPT WHERE THE LAWS AND
REGULATIONS OF A PARTICULAR JURISDICTION CONCERNING WARRANTIES CANNOT BE WAIVED OR
EXCLUDED BY AGREEMENT, NEWMONT EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, REGARDING THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL WARRANTIES OF TITLE,
NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU RECOGNIZE
THAT THE CURRENT STATE OF TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT ALLOW FOR ERROR-FREE ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE
AND INTERRUPTIONS, CRASHES, AND DOWNTIME BEYOND NEWMONT’S CONTROL MAY OCCUR FROM
TIME TO TIME.
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Limitation. IN NO EVENT WILL NEWMONT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF (OR YOUR
FAILURE TO GAIN ACCESS TO OR USE OF) THE WEBSITE, YOUR ACCOUNT, OR ANY OF THE SERVICES,
SOFTWARE OR CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, EVEN IF NEWMONT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY
LIMITED REMEDY. NEWMONT’s total aggregate liability for any damages arising out of
or related to this Agreement will not exceed $250.
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Indemnification. You hereby indemnify, defend, and hold
harmless Newmont and its Affiliates, employees, agents, contractors, assigns, licensees,
and successors in interest (“Indemnified Parties”) from any and all
claims, losses, liabilities, damages, fees, expenses, and costs (including attorneys'
fees, court costs, damage awards, and settlement amounts) that result from any claim or
allegation against any Indemnified Party arising from Your accessing or using the Website
(or any Content, Services or Software available through the Website), or Your breach of
any term of this Agreement. Newmont will provide You with notice of any such claim or
allegation, and Newmont will have the right to participate in the defense of any such
claim at its expense.
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Privacy STATEMENT.
12.1
Introduction. This Section 12 provides Newmont’s information and data
privacy practices for the Website. Your access to and use of certain portions of the
Website may also be subject to additional information and data privacy terms and
conditions separate from this Agreement that are applicable to those portions of the
Website. Any such additional information and data privacy terms and conditions are in
addition to this Agreement and will govern your use of such other portions of the Website
in the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and those additional terms
and conditions.
12.2 Personally
Identifiable Information. We may collect personally identifiable information from You
when You access the Website. We may also collect personally identifiable information from
You through a number of voluntary sources on the Website, such as responses,
registrations, comments, e-mails, postings, messages or other electronic submissions and
communications sent by You to Newmont or the Website. The personally identifiable
information We may collect from You will include, by way of example, e-mail address,
domain name and IP address, contact information, and username and password information
for each Website. The personally identifiable information that Newmont collects from
users of the Website may be used to provide the services offered through the Website to
users of that Website, to customize content displayed on the Website and/or the layout of
the Website for each individual user of the Website, to notify users of the Website about
updates to and activities on the Website, to improve the content of the Website, to
analyze data and patterns regarding usage of the Website, and to contact users of the
Website for information verification purposes.
12.3 Disclosure as Required by Law. Although Newmont makes
every reasonable effort to preserve user privacy, Newmont may need to disclose personally
identifiable information of certain users of any Website when Newmont has a reasonable
and good-faith belief that the disclosure is necessary to enforce this Agreement, comply
with a judicial proceeding, court order or other legal process, or to otherwise enforce
or protect Newmont's rights under applicable law, including, without limitation,
Newmont's intellectual property rights. In this situation we will use reasonable efforts
to provide notice of this disclosure to all affected users, to the extent reasonably
possible under the circumstances.
12.4 Communication with Users. Newmont may send You a welcoming
e-mail to verify password and username. You may occasionally also receive periodic e-mail
alerts, if you have elected to receive such notices. Newmont may communicate with You to
provide requested services, and with regard to issues relating to Your account, we will
reply via e-mail, in accordance with Your wishes. On occasion it may be necessary to send
out service related announcements. These communications are not promotional in
nature.
12.5 Cookies. Newmont may use a “cookie” file which is
stored on the hard drive of Your computer for purposes of facilitating your use of the
Website and related services, for example to save Your preferences, customize content of
the Website for You, to alert You to new areas that might be of interest upon return to
the Website, and to save certain information about You and others who visit the Website.
Newmont does not use cookies to retrieve information from a computer that is unrelated to
Newmont or the Website. A cookie does not collect or keep your name or other personally
identifying information; however, we may link the information obtained through cookies to
other personally identifiable information to give us a better understanding of Your
preferences, so that we can provide a more meaningful experience to You on our
Website.
12.6 Access, Review, Update. If you would like to review,
delete/deactivate or update the personal information that was previously provided to us,
You may contact us at contactus@newmont.com.
12.7 Other Web Website; Links. Certain of the web Website of
Newmont’s affiliates and other third-party web Website may be accessible through
the Website. These third party web Website have their own privacy and data collection
policies and practices. If You access a third-party Website from the Website, then You do
so at your own risk. Newmont is not responsible for any actions or privacy policies of
such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third
parties when providing personally identifiable information through linked web
Website.
12.8 Consent to the Use
of Third Party Providers. Newmont may contract with third parties to provide various
services to Newmont relating to the Website on an outsourced basis rather than performing
the services itself. By visiting the Website, You consent to Newmont providing both Your
personal and non-personal information to these third party providers for the purpose of
enabling the third party provider to provide these services to Newmont. In addition, You
consent to the collection, maintenance, and processing of Your personal and non-personal
information by Newmont and these third party providers.
12.9 Security. We will use reasonable security measures on the
Website to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
While there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet, we will take all
reasonable steps to insure the safety of Your personal information.
12.10 Transfer of Information. If Newmont elects, in its
reasonable discretion, to transfer ownership or control of the Website to a third party,
whether or not in the context of an acquisition of Newmont or a merger of Newmont with a
third party, You consent to the transfer of your personally identifiable information and
non-personally identifiable information by Newmont to that third party, provided that all
use of your information by that third party remains subject to the terms of this Section
12.
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Notices. Except as expressly stated otherwise, any notices
required or allowed under this Agreement will be given to Newmont by postal mail to the
address for Newmont listed on the Website. If applicable law requires that Newmont
accepts e-mail notices (but not otherwise), then You may send Newmont an e-mail notice by
emailing Newmont at contactus@newmont.com. With respect to Newmont's notices to You,
Newmont may provide notice of amendments to this Agreement by posting them on the Website
and You agree to check for changes. In addition, or in lieu thereof, Newmont may give
notice by sending e-mail to the e-mail address You provide during registration for the
Website. Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after it is posted or an e-mail is sent,
unless (as to e-mail) the sending party is notified that the e-mail address is
invalid.
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General Terms.
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Assignment. You may not assign, delegate or transfer this Agreement
or any of Your rights hereunder by operation of law or otherwise, and any attempt to do
so will be null and void.
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Integration. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of
the parties and supersedes any and all prior oral and written agreements or
understandings between the parties regarding the subject matter of this Agreement. This
Agreement may not be modified except upon mutual written agreement of both parties. The
waiver by either party of a breach of any provision of this Agreement will not operate or
be interpreted as a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.
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Severability. If for any reason any provision of this Agreement
shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part in any jurisdiction, such
provision shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity
or unenforceability, without in any manner affecting the validity or enforceability
thereof in any other jurisdiction or the remaining provisions hereof in any
jurisdiction.
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Jurisdiction and Venue. This Agreement will be governed by the laws
of the State of Colorado, without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles. The
parties specifically exclude from application to the Agreement the United Nations
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the Uniform Computer
Information Transactions Act. You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent to the
jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts sitting in Denver, CO (USA). In
any such dispute, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover its reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses from the other party.
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Modifications. Newmont reserves the right, at any time and without
notice, to add to, change, update, or modify the Website and these Terms of Use, simply
by posting such addition, change, update, or modification on this Website. Any such
addition, change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on
the Website. If we decide to change the privacy statement in Section 12, unless we seek
and receive your consent, we will use information in accordance with the terms under
which the information was last collected.