Terms of use

Who We Are:

This website is operated by or on behalf of Harman Kardon, a unit of Harman International Industries, Incorporated.(“referred to as “Harman”, “we”, “our” and “us”). Harman’s registered address is:

Harman International Industries
400 Atlantic Street, 15th Floor
Stamford, CT 06901, USA
+1.203.328.3500

Welcome to Harman’s Website:

Welcome to Harman’s website. Harman is a subsidiary of Harman International Industries, Incorporated. Our website offers to you information and resources about us, our business, our products and other tools and services. Please read these terms of use carefully before using this website. Your access and use of this website is subject to these terms of use and other applicable laws. If you do not agree to these terms of use, do not use this website. Please review these terms of use periodically as these terms of use may change and Harman may make such changes at any time.

Your Age and Agreement to these Terms of Use:

By using this website, you represent to us that you are at least 13 years old. If you are at least 13 but are under the age of 18, you may only use this website with your parent’s or guardian’s consent and your parent or guardian must provide consent after having read these terms of use. You agree to all of the terms and conditions of these terms of use or if you are between the ages of 13 and 18, that you have obtained your parent’s or guardian’s consent after your parent or guardian has reviewed and agreed to these terms of use.

Changes to these Terms of Use or Website:

Harman may changes these terms of use or the website at any time without any requirement to provide notice to you other than by posting the amendments on this website. These changes will be effective upon Harman’s posting of these changes on the website. You agree that Harman will not be liable to you for any change or discontinuance, in whole or in part, of the terms of use or this website. Your use of the website after these changes will constitute your acceptance to the changes to the terms of use or this website.

Termination:

Harman reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate or restrict your use of all or any part of this website without reason, without notice and without liability to you or anyone else. These terms of use pertaining to your use of Harman’s intellectual property, indemnification and limitation of liability will survive any termination, expiration or subsequent modification of these terms of use.

Intellectual Property:

You acknowledge that all business information, code, content, drawings, graphics, information, logos, metadata, meta tags, marketing information, page format and style, phrases, pictures, product descriptions, product reviews, renderings, text and trademarks and all intellectual property rights and good will associated therewith (collectively referred to as “site content”) is owned by Harman and Harman reserves all rights in and to the site content. Except as expressly granted to you under these terms of use, Harman does not grant you any right, title or interest in or to the site content. You will not delete, remove or otherwise alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice appearing in or on the site content. You will not take any action to jeopardize, limit or interfere in any manner with Harman’s ownership of the site content. Harman reserves the sole and exclusive right at its discretion to assert claims against third parties for infringement or misappropriation of its intellectual property rights in the site content. The website may contain site content owned or licensed by third parties. All restrictions set forth in these terms of use equally apply to all site content owned or licensed by third parties.

Grant of License:

Subject to the restrictions defined in these terms of use, you are permitted to access and use the website solely for the purpose for your own non-commercial use to review information about Harman and Harman’s products and provide content regarding Harman’s product where allowed.

License Restrictions:

You will not, or assist or direct any third person to: (i) extract, separate, remove or otherwise copy the site content; (ii) disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise convert any part of the site content to source code or a human-perceivable form; (iii) adapt, modify or create a derivative work of the site content; (iv) distribute, encumber, lease, rent, sell, transmit, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the site content, in whole or in part; or (v) use the site content for any other purpose.

Your Account on this Website:

In certain circumstances, our website may allow you to provide your opinion and feedback regarding our products and you may be allowed special pricing for participating in marketing campaigns at the discretion of Harman. In exchange, you may be required to create a username and password for your use. Select a non-obvious password and preserve your username and password with care; do allow anyone to use your login credentials to access the website and change your password periodically. You agree to immediately notify Harman in the event of any unauthorized use of your login credentials. Harman will not be responsible for any loss or liability resulting from the unauthorized use of your login credentials with or without your knowledge. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur by use of your login credentials. Harman reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary to ensure the security of the website and your account, including without limitation, terminating your account, changing your password or requesting additional authentication information from you. The security of your personal information is important to Harman. Harman agrees to take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of your personal information. Harman does not represent or guarantee your personal information is free from security threats or other vulnerabilities. Harman reserves the right to terminate your account if Harman deems your account to be inactive for an extended period of time.

Your Content on this Website:

To post content on the website, you must create an account and become a registered user. When you provide or post information on the website you agree to provide true, accurate, current and correct information and to promptly update such information to keep it true, accurate and current. If you provide any information that is or Harman reasonably believes is untrue or inaccurate, Harman may edit, remove or refuse such information and suspend or terminate your access to your account. Harman does not pre-screen content that you or other users post to the website and the website serves merely as a forum to for users discuss Harman’s products. Harman does not guarantee that the information is true, accurate or current or otherwise false, misleading, inaccurate, fraudulent, deceptive or illegal. By posting any content or information to the website, you grant Harman a non-exclusive, non-revocable, worldwide right to use your posted information and content in any manner or media, including the right to adapt, modify, create derivative works, sublicense, assign and commercialize without any compensation due to you. Your use of the website constitutes your consent to allow Harman to store content created by you, including your personal information on Harman’s host computers. You also agree to observe and follow the following posting rules:

• Do not impersonate anyone else.
• Do not post any content that includes information that is false, misleading, inaccurate, fraudulent, deceptive or that promotes illegal activity.
• Do not post your personal information or solicit any personal information from other users of the website.
• Do not post any content or information in violation of any laws.
• Do not insult or flame any other users of the website. Do not post content that is that is offensive, libellous, defamatory, indecent, harmful, harassing, intimidating, threatening, hateful, abusive, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit.
• Post only constructive information. Do not speculate or post rumours about Harman, Harman’s products or any other user.
• Do not post information that you do not own or control all rights thereto. You are responsible for all content that you post.

Privacy:

Our Privacy Policy describes the collection and use of information on this website. Read our Privacy Policy prior to any use of this website.

User Content Complaints:

In the event any objectionable content or information appears on the website, notify Harman in writing of the objectionable content. Harman will make a good-faith effort to investigate all allegations of objectionable content that violates the terms of use but Harman does not represent or warrant that Harman will take any action relating thereto.

Notice of Infringement Claims:

If you believe that your work has been improperly copied and posted to the website, please provide Harman with your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, a physical or electronic rendering of your signature, a description of your copyrighted work, a description of the location of your copyrighted work on the website and a statement by you made under penalty of perjury that the above information is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or otherwise authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Notices for Complaints:

Send all legal notices under these terms of use to:

Harman International Industries
400 Atlantic Street, 15th Floor
Stamford, CT 06901, USA
+1.203.328.3500

Site Security:

Compromising the security of the website is prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Harman may investigate security-compromising activities and will contact and cooperate with law enforcement if a crime has possibly occurred. Harman deems the following activity as attempts to compromise the security of the website: unauthorized access to information on Harman’s server computer or systems such as probes, scans, or vulnerability tests of the website, bypass or circumvention of the website’s authentication measures, interfering with service to any end user, interfering with or tampering with the website’s host computer or network facilitating any connection with or to the website, attempts to overload Harman’s host computer or network, altering or cloning packet headers, e-mail headers or message headers.

Harman’s Usage and Storage of Information:

Harman may establish standard practices and limits regarding the use of the website, including the type of user-posted content permitted on the website, maximum number of days user-created content is displayed, accessible or retained by Harman or the maximum number of e-mails an account my send or receive e-mails and the maximum disk-space allotted to each end user. Harman will have no liability for the preservation or deletion of any content or personal information maintained by the website or otherwise provided by you to Harman through use of the website. Harman reserves the right to modify its usage and storage of content and information from time to time.

Links to Third Party Websites:

This website may link to other websites owned or operated by third parties. Harman has no control over these third party websites.

Product Orders:

All purchase orders for product placed by you through this website are subject to Harman’s acceptance and the availability of product or as otherwise provided by law. Harman reserves the right to refuse to accept or cancel any purchase order without reason and without liability to you or anyone else. All purchase orders for products are subject to Harman’s terms of sale and these terms of use will not supersede any terms of sale. If Harman refuses to accept or cancels your purchase order after your payment method has be charged or otherwise received by Harman, Harman will, at its option and sole discretion, reverse the payment method or issue you a refund.

Enforcement:

Harman reserves the right to enforce these terms of use in the sole discretion of Harman. Harman may issue warnings, suspend or terminate use or access to the website, edit user-posted content and information, prosecute or institute legal proceedings for any violation of these terms of use. Harman’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these terms of use will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any right or provision is deemed unlawful or void, then the provision will be deemed severable from these terms of use and will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms. These terms will be governed and construed under the laws of the State of New York, U.S.A. You agree to bring any legal proceedings against Harman in the federal or state courts located in New York, New York, U.S.A.

Indemnification:

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Harman, its parent company, shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers from and against any and all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs, including, without limitation, attorneys' fees, arising from or relating in any way to your use of this website, including without limitation any content posted or otherwise created by you. This obligation will survive the termination or modification of these terms of use.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER:

THE WEBSITE AND THE INFORMATION AND CONTENT PROVIDED BY HARMAN THEREIN ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. EXCEPT AS PROHIBITED BY LAW, HARMAN DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF EVERY KIND INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. HARMAN DOES NOT REPRESENT NOR WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE WEBSITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF DEFECT OR FREE FROM ANY SECURITY COMPROMISING MECHANISMS. HARMAN DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE INFORMATION OR CONTENT PROVIDED BY THIS WEBSITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, TRUTHFULNESS, USEFULNESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:

HARMAN WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE OR THE PERFORMANCE OR THE CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OF THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF HARMAN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. YOUR ONLY REMEDY AGAINST HARMAN FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT IS TO STOP USING THE SITE. HOWEVER, IF HARMAN IS FOUND LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS WHICH IS IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT, HARMAN'S LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED US $100.00.