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1. Background

1.1 Website. The "Lone Star Management Europe Website" include http://www.lonestareurope.com .

1.2 Use of Lone Star Management Europe Website Constitutes Acceptance. This Agreement will constitute a binding and enforceable agreement between you (individually and in your individual capacity as an employee, officer, agent, partner, etc. of each organization you represent in connection with any use of the Lone Star Management Europe Website) and Lone Star Management Europe Limited ("Lone Star Management Europe"). By using the Lone Star Management Europe Website, you acknowledge and agree that you have fully read and agree to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement, exactly as if it were printed on paper and signed by you. If you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement in its entirety, then you must immediately stop using the Lone Star Management Europe Website. Although the registration process may require you to "click-through" or otherwise affirmatively agree to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement, this Agreement is binding on you by your use of the Lone Star Management Europe Website.

1.3 Business or Employment Use. Where you use the Lone Star Management Europe Website or service in the course of your employment or business, you enter into this Agreement both on your own behalf and in your individual capacity as an employee, officer, agent, partner, etc. of such organization which you represent, and references in this Agreement to "you" shall mean both you as the individual user of the Lone Star Management Europe Website or Service and you in your capacity as a representative of your organization.

1.4 Changes to this Agreement. Lone Star Management Europe may remove, amend or replace any provision of this Agreement at any time.

2. Disclaimer

2.1 Risks of Doing Business on the Internet. You acknowledge and agree that electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering and break-ins and that, notwithstanding Lone Star Management Europe’s implementation of reasonable security precautions, Lone Star Management Europe does not, nor does any entity that is part of Lone Star Management Europe, guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place. You agree to follow all access and security procedures provided by Lone Star Management Europe, from time to time, and will not attempt, nor will you aid or abet any other person in any attempt, to circumvent or otherwise interfere in any way with any security precautions or measures of Lone Star Management Europe.

2.2 Links to Third-Party Websites. The Lone Star Management Europe Website may include hyperlinks to third-party websites. Lone Star Management Europe is not responsible for, and makes no representations or endorsements with respect to, any such website or with respect to any product or service that may be provided by or through such websites. You should be aware that such websites, products or services may be provided subject to privacy policies, acceptable use policies or other terms of use that differ substantially from the provisions of this Agreement, and you should consult such terms of use before using such websites, products or services.

2.3 NO WARRANTIES. LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE PROVIDES THE LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE WEBSITE SOLELY ON AN "AS-IS/AS-AVAILABLE" BASIS. SAVE TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY ANY MANDATORY APPLICABLE LAW, NONE OF THE LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE WEBSITE’S CONTENT ARE SUBJECT TO ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY CONTENT. IN ADDITION, LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT PROVISION OF THE LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE WEBSITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED.

3. Acceptable Use Policy

3.1 Courtesy and Common Sense. Participation in message boards and other online interaction with other users of the Lone Star Management Europe Website should be governed by the same rules of courtesy and common sense as face-to-face interactions with other people who may share different opinions.

3.2 Unacceptable Behavior. You will not (nor will you aid or abet any third party to):  a.upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit to the Lone Star Management Europe Website any material that is:
  i.confidential or proprietary to you or any other person or entity, or that you do not have the right to disclose generally to the public;
  ii.unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful or invasive of the rights of any other person or entity;
  iii.likely to infringe or misappropriate any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual-property right of any other person or entity; or,
  iv.a virus, worm or Trojan horse, or any other computer code that is likely to disrupt, overload, harm or impair the functioning of any Lone Star Management Europe Website;
 b.attempt to impersonate any other person, or otherwise misrepresent your identity, qualifications, affiliations or any other information about you;
 c.solicit other users or post any advertisement without Lone Star Management Europe’s express written consent;
 d.attempt to disrupt, overload, harm or impair the functioning of the Lone Star Management Europe Website; or,
 e.engage in any conduct that is unlawful, disruptive or otherwise inappropriate.

3.3 Postings Not Anonymous. Lone Star Management Europe does not guarantee that any message-board posting or other material that you post on the Lone Star Management Europe Website will not be traceable to you, either by Lone Star Management Europe or by other users. Lone Star Management Europe reserves the right to monitor any and all of your activities on the Lone Star Management Europe Website, and to take appropriate action with respect to inappropriate or unlawful conduct, including, without limitation, reporting such conduct to appropriate authorities. In some cases, the functionality of the Lone Star Management Europe Website or other technology also may allow other users to learn your identity or other information about you. You may be liable to other users, as well as Lone Star Management Europe, for any defamatory or otherwise unlawful material that you post on the Lone Star Management Europe Website.

3.4 Downloading Content. Lone Star Management Europe grants you a revocable, nontransferable, nonexclusive license to download copies of articles, contact information and other content, solely for your individual or internal business use; provided, that you do not: (a) remove any copyright notice, trademark notice or other intellectual property notice from any copy of any content, or (b) accept any consideration in exchange for any content, or for services provided using any content (including legal services) to any third party.

3.5 Links to the Lone Star Management Europe Website. Lone Star Management Europe grants you a revocable, nontransferable, nonexclusive license to include a hyperlink on your own website to the home page of the Lone Star Management Europe Website; provided, that you do not: (a) "deep link" to any other page of the Lone Star Management Europe Website, (b) "frame" the Lone Star Management Europe Website or any content, or otherwise cause the Lone Star Management Europe Website or any content to appear in a window with any other material, (c) cause the hyperlink or the Lone Star Management Europe Website to be displayed in any way that is disparaging to Lone Star Management Europe, or (d) otherwise imply or state that any type of relationship or special arrangements exist with Lone Star Management Europe that have not been approved in writing by Lone Star Management Europe. You agree that you will promptly remove any hyperlink to the Lone Star Management Europe Website upon written request from Lone Star Management Europe to do so. In no event will you use Lone Star Management Europe’s logo or any other trademark as a hyperlink "button" or in any manner without Lone Star Management Europe’s express written consent.

3.6 Indemnification. Lone Star Management Europe provides the Lone Star Management Europe Website solely as an accommodation to you, and Lone Star Management Europe will not accept any risks arising from your use thereof. As such, you will indemnify, defend and hold harmless Lone Star Management Europe, and their respective partners, employees, vendors and agents, from and against any and all claims that arise from or relate to: (a) your use of any Lone Star Management Europe Website; (b) Lone Star Management Europe’s use of any message-board posting, information or other material that you upload or send to, or post on, the Lone Star Management Europe Website; or (c) your breach of any provision of this Agreement.

4. Privacy Policy

4.1 Your Privacy. Lone Star Management Europe is committed to the protection of your privacy, and will treat all of the information you provide through the Lone Star Management Europe Website, with the utmost respect. Lone Star Management Europe works diligently to ensure that it has taken all appropriate administrative and technical measures to prevent the unauthorized or unlawful use of your personally identifiable information, and to prevent any accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, such information. Lone Star Management Europe will not sell or disclose personally identifiable information about you to unaffiliated third parties except in accordance with this Article 4 (this "Privacy Policy").

4.2 Collection of Information.
 i.As with many websites, the Lone Star Management Europe Website collect certain information about visitors, even when they are not logged in. Lone Star Management Europe may record your IP address, the URLs of the websites and pages you visit (before, during and after your visit to the Lone Star Management Europe Website), the times and dates of such visits, information about the computer hardware and software you use and other information that may be available. Also, Lone Star Management Europe may place "cookies" on your computer to recognize you on return visits to enable Lone Star Management Europe to enhance your browsing experience, as well as to collect additional information about you. You may adjust your browser settings or use other means to prevent cookies from being placed on your computer, but doing so may result in reduced functionality and a less personalized browsing experience.
 ii.During registration and at other times when you visit the Lone Star Management Europe Website, Lone Star Management Europe may ask you to provide certain additional information about yourself, including your name, contact information, the organization you come from and certain other information that Lone Star Management Europe may use to identify you. If you choose not to provide such information, you may not be permitted to access the Lone Star Management Europe Website.

4.3 Use of Information.
 i.Lone Star Management Europe uses the information that it collects about you to improve your browsing experience by personalizing the Lone Star Management Europe Website to your interest. Information about the content you visit will be used alone or in conjunction with information collected from other users to help Lone Star Management Europe tailor the Lone Star Management Europe Website and its other products and services to better suit the needs and interests of you and other users.
 ii.Information that you provide may also be used as part of Lone Star Management Europe’s effort to keep you informed about events, special offers and selected products and services that may be of interest to you. In some cases, Lone Star Management Europe may contact you with information from carefully selected third parties, but Lone Star Management Europe will not provide information to third parties for such purposes. In other cases, your information might be shared with a third party pursuant to a process that contemplates such sharing but which you knowingly initiate.  iii.Lone Star Management Europe reserves the right to disclose any information that it obtains through the Lone Star Management Europe Website to appropriate governmental or regulatory authorities, if required by law or any governmental agency.

4.4 Transfers of Information.
 i.From time to time, Lone Star Management Europe may disclose information about you to carefully selected service providers that Lone Star Management Europe may engage to host the Lone Star Management Europe Website or to provide other services. Lone Star Management Europe will require all such service providers to use the information solely to provide the specified services, and otherwise to conform to the requirements of this Privacy Policy. Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, Lone Star Management Europe will not provide your information to third parties for any other purpose, including marketing.  ii.Information that Lone Star Management Europe collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Lone Star Management Europe and their respective partners, affiliates or contractors have offices in order to enable Lone Star Management Europe to use the information as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are in the European Union, information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including the United States) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Union. You expressly agree to such transfers. Lone Star Management Europe will respect and protect your privacy as set out in this Privacy Policy.

5. Intellectual Property

Practice content. All of the content, including, without limitation, all text, graphics, video and sounds on the Lone Star Management Europe Website, and all computer code associated therewith, are the valuable proprietary property of Lone Star Management Europe, its licensors and contributors, and are subject to copyright, trademark and other intellectual property protection. You acknowledge and agree that Lone Star Management Europe has expended substantial time and effort to create the Lone Star Management Europe Website and that Lone Star Management Europe exclusively owns or has been licensed by third parties to use and sublicense all rights, title and interest therein and all associated information, data, databases, images and other material.

6. Limitations of Liability

6.1 NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES. EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY ANY APPLICABLE MANDATORY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTNERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS OR AGENTS, BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE WEBSITE, ANY CONTENT OR ANY SERVICE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, RELIANCE, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OPPORTUNITY, SAVINGS OR INTEREST, OR ANY PENALTIES OR ASSESSMENTS IMPOSED UNDER APPLICABLE TAX LAWS OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTNERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS OR AGENTS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE LIKELIHOOD THEREOF.

6.2 AGGREGATE LIABILITY. EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY ANY APPLICABLE MANDATORY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTNERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS AND AGENTS WITH RESPECT TO ALL CLAIMS ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE WEBSITE, ALL CONTENT AND ALL SERVICES EXCEED AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO ONE HUNDRED BRITISH POUNDS.

6.3 MANDATORY APPLICABLE LAWS. CLAUSES 6.1 AND 6.2 SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY LIABILITY MAY NOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE MANDATORY LAWS. THE EXTENT OF THIS EXCEPTION WILL DEPEND ON THE COUNTRY IN WHICH YOU RESIDE AND THE CAPACITY IN WHICH YOU USE THE LONE STAR MANAGEMENT EUROPE WEBSITE.

7. Miscellaneous

7.1 Jurisdiction. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to its rules of conflict of laws. The courts located in London, will have exclusive jurisdiction over any case or controversy arising from or relating to this Agreement, the Lone Star Management Europe Website. Each party hereby consents irrevocably to personal jurisdiction in such courts with respect to any and all such matters, and waives any defense of forum non conveniens with respect to such courts. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may seek appropriate injunctive relief from any court having jurisdiction. Each party will and hereby does knowingly and voluntarily waive any right to a trial by jury in any case or controversy arising from or relating to this Agreement.

7.2 Assignment. Your rights and obligations under this Agreement are personal to you and may not be assigned to any other party.

7.3 Force Majeure. Lone Star Management Europe will not be deemed to be in breach of this Agreement for any failure or delay in performance caused by reasons beyond its reasonable control, including any natural calamity, act of God or a public enemy, act of any military, civil or regulatory authority, change in any law or regulation, disruption or outage of communications, power or other, failure to perform by any supplier or other third party, or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of Lone Star Management Europe.

7.4 Waiver. Lone Star Management Europe will not be deemed to have waived any breach by you of this Agreement, except by a written waiver expressly so stating, and such waiver will not be construed as a waiver of subsequent or continued breaches.

7.5 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability will be limited to the maximum extent permissible, and the other provisions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect.

7.6 Complete Understanding. This Agreement constitutes the final and complete agreement between the parties regarding the subject matter hereof, and supersedes any prior or contemporaneous communications, representations or agreements between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.

Imprint

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Lone Star Management Europe Limited
50 Welbeck Street
W1G 9XW England
phone: +44 20 7616 - 6800
info@LoneStarEurope.com