Thank you for visiting our website. The access to and use of this website are subject to the general terms of use as they are listed below. The terms of use comprise the legal information for visiting and using the URS-website, a declaration concerning intellectual property rights and a reference to the Privacy Policy.

You are invited to read these terms of use attentively before visiting the website or make use of it in whatever way.

Any further visit to and/or use of this website implies full acceptance of this terms of use. If you have difficulties to read the terms or if you do not agree with its content, URS advises you not to visit or use the website any further.

Definitions

For the application of these terms of use (hereinafter 'Terms') the following terms will have the meaning as described below:

• "Website": the web pages of URS N.V. which can be visited at http://www.urs.be;
• "User" or "you" and its derivatives: each person that uses and/or visits the Website or that makes a third person doing so;
• "URS" or "URS N.V.": the limited liability company under Belgian law whose characteristics are listed below.

Legal information

1. The company URS
This Website (http://www.urs.be) is published on-line and hosted under the responsibility of the N.V. URS with the following address and further characteristics:

• Registered Office (address): Italiëlei 3 box 2, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
• e-mail: webmaster@urs.be
• Telephone number: +32 3 5441120
• Fax number: +32 3 5417007
• Enterprise identification number: BTW BE404.532.857

2. Scope
These terms of use contain the conditions you have to respect when you want to visit the URS-website.

3. Content and use of the Website
The Website aims at promoting its activities in general and wants to offer its Users the possibility to get in contact with the company in particular.

URS can in no event be held liable for the content of its site. The information contained herein:

• is of a general nature only and not tailored to a person, entity or specific circumstance;
• is not necessarily complete, accurate or up-to-date;
• does not contain professional or legal advice.

While URS takes every care to offer you information that was carefully selected and compiled, you cannot use the Website in substitution of any kind of (legal) advice whatsoever, nor can you rely on it as such.

As a User you agree that the use of the Website and/or any information herein contained is at own risk. The Website and all materials are available ''as such'' and without any warranties as to its quality, accuracy, fitness for purpose, usefulness or completeness.

URS is doing all reasonable efforts to offer correct and updated information on its Website. When URS is informed about possible errors and mistakes on its Website, URS will use all reasonable means to correct these as soon as possible. Unfortunately, in spite of the efforts, errors and mistakes might subsist. URS cannot warrant that the Website at any moment is up to date and free of mistakes. Therefore, as a User you may not follow blindly the information contained in this site, but you better contact the third party who is responsible for the information to verify it.

The Website may contain links to other websites not owned or operated by URS. The links to any such third party websites are provided solely for your convenience. Since URS has no control whatsoever over these websites, it can in no event be held liable in any way for the content of the linked sites nor does it warrant that these websites are operated in compliance with all applicable legislation and regulations.

Websites owned, controlled or operated in whole or in part by third parties may provide links to this Website, provided that the link refers to the homepage of this website.Deep-linking is only permitted upon written approval from URS. URS did not examine the content of these websites and has no influence or say whatsoever in the content or other characteristics of these websites. The use of this Website in other websites or elements of other websites (including, but not limited to, in-line linking, or framing) is
not permitted.

URS cannot be held liable for any prejudice or damage you might experience as a result of wrong, inaccurate or poor information or as a lack of clarity on the Website or a website of a third person that is referenced to. Thus are excluded direct and indirect damages such as loss of goodwill or business, loss of revenue or profits or any other claim, demand, proceeding, cost and
expense arising from or related to the use or the interpretation of our website and/or the information it contains, including without limitation for the use or the interpretation of any echnical data, recommendations or specifications available on our website.

In addition, you acknowledge and agree that downloading information or obtaining information by using the Website in any other way is at your own discretion and at your own risk. You are solely responsible for any possible damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from
downloading information.

4. Modifications to the Website
URS preserves the right to modify the information that is published on its Website at any time and thus to amend, update or complete the provisions of the terms of use. It is your responsibility to check these terms and conditions regularly. If you continue to use the Website after the modifications entered into force, you acknowledge to agree with the changes and to accept them.

In addition, URS does not assume any liability for potentially damaging consequences resulting from changes to the Website or its terms of use.

5. Functioning of the Website
URS uses reasonable efforts to make its Website available continuously and to secure it by all reasonable means. URS takes every care to limit inconveniences caused by technical errors.

However, URS cannot exclude the possibility that wrong technical actions or non-authorised interventions take place or that viruses are entered. For these reasons, URS cannot guarantee that the access to the Website will be uninterrupted or that no other forms of nuisance can be encountered. As a consequence, URS cannot be held liable for such errors, functional disorders, incidents and problems that might result from using the Website.

Furthermore, you acknowledge that URS has the right to interrupt the access to its Website, without prior notice, to detect and suppress possible cases of fraud or abuse, to remedy technical or operational functional disorders. Such interruptions are needed to modify or improve the Website, to assure a regular technical maintenance and an update of the content.
URS does not assume liability for any prejudice you might subsist due to these interruptions.

6. User obligations
Irrespective of what is determined in the other terms of use, as a User you specially commit yourself to:

• use the Website in good faith in a reasonable way (as a 'goed huisvader' /
  'bon père de famille');
• not to use the Website in a way contrary to these terms of use;
• not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to
  interfere with the proper working of this website. You further undertake not
  to take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large
  load on the infrastructure of the Website (which could cause the temporary
  or permanent unavailability), nor to denigrate the content;
• not to use the Website for illegitimate purposes, in violation of common
  public decency or with the intention of causing prejudice to the reputation
  of URS or of any third party;
• not to insert in the Website another website, logo, photo, other element
  or a hyperlink to link the Website with another website without the explicit
  prior written approval of URS;

When URS finds out or has reasonable presumptions that you violate one of the provisions above (letter a) to e)) or any other provision imposed by these terms of use, URS has the right to deny you access to its Website in whole or in part.

Intellectual Property Rights

You acknowledge and agree that the content of URS's Website, including without limitation the text, photographs, illustrations, technologies described, logos, icons, and software, are protected in all forms, media and technologies by intellectual and/or industrial property rights, including without limitation by copyrights, trademarks, data base rights, commercial name, domain name, know-how, models, logo's and designs. URS or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies preserve all rights on these elements.

The use of this website does not grant you any rights on any of its content. The content of the website may only be used for your personal, noncommercial use. Every authorised use of information of the Website must take place in such way that the source of the information is mentioned in a clear and visible way. You may not modify, adapt, publish, distribute, or in
any way exploit any of this website, in whole or in part.

You do not obtain any rights on downloaded content. Modification, adaptation, publication, transmitting of downloaded content for any other purpose than your personal, non-commercial use is strictly prohibited without the explicit prior written permission of URS.

Protection of privacy and personal data

URS takes every care to protect the personal data you provide to URS. You can find a link to our Privacy Policy here.

To contact us

If you wish further explanation or any clarification concerning these terms of use, you are kindly invited to contact URS by the following means:

• e-mail: webmaster@urs.be
• telephone number: +32 3 5451120
• fax number: +32 3 5417007

URS takes every care to solve within a reasonable amount of time all misunderstandings, complaints, technical or operational problems which are related to the Website or with the quality of its content and which are brought to URS's attention by a User.

Legal validity of the terms of use

If any term of these terms of use is held to be totally void and/or unenforceable, the validity or enforceability of the remainder of the terms of use shall not be affected.

In the event that one or more provisions of these terms of use shall be determined to be partially void and/or unenforceable by any court or body of competent jurisdiction or by virtue of any legislation to which it is subject or by virtue of any reason whatsoever, it shall be void or
unenforceable to that extent only and no further and the validity and enforceability of any of the other provisions herein shall not be affected thereby.

Any provision found to be partially or totally invalid and/or unenforceable shall be substituted by a suitable valid provision which comes nearest to the original objectives of the void provision.

The provisions of these terms of use do not prevail over any legal or regulatory provisions or the provisions of public order under Belgian or E.U. law.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

Belgian law governs these terms of use.

Any dispute arising from or related to the use of our website or arising from the acceptance, interpretation or observance of this terms of use and/or the Privacy Policy shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent Courts of Antwerp which will apply Belgian law, with the exclusion of private international law rules. URS may amend these terms of use from time to time in order to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. These terms of use were last changed on 2006-10-09.