Terms of use

By accessing and using this website, including any applicable mobile apps (collectively, “Website” or “site”), you acknowledge that you have read these respective

Terms of Use, including our Privacy Policy, understand them, and agree to be bound hereby.

General. This Website is operated by Vallourec Digital Solutions, LLC (herein after called “Vallourec”). Throughout the site, the terms "we," "us" and "our" refer to Vallourec. Vallourec offers this Website, including all information, products, tools, services available from this site, to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all the terms, conditions, policies stated here. Access to certain areas of this Website shall be permitted only to authorized individuals who have valid login information and a password. You are responsible for the use of your login and password, and therefore, you must take appropriate steps to protect them from unauthorized disclosure. If you become aware of any unauthorized disclosure or access, you must immediately advise Vallourec. You may not violate or attempt to violate the security of the Website. Tampering with any portion of the Website, providing untruthful or inaccurate information, misrepresenting your identity, or conducting fraudulent activities on the Website, whether or not through the use of agents, are prohibited and constitute a breach of these Terms of Use. You may not use the Website if you are a sanctions target or otherwise restricted under any applicable laws, including without limitation, U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) or U.S. export sanctions and control laws, sanctions administered by Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, or any equivalent measures of the United Nations, the European Union, or any other applicable jurisdiction, including sanctions imposed on certain states, organizations and persons within the framework of the European Union’s common foreign and security policy.

Contacts. Any questions concerning these Terms of Use can be sent to Vallourec at the following Email Address: contact@behub-e.com .

Privacy Policy. See the Privacy Policy on the Website.

Cookies. To obtain information on cookies collected during browsing, users are invited to consult the Privacy Policy.

Hyperlinks. This Website may contain links to other websites and/or other third party content. This is provided solely for your convenience and Vallourec does not review or monitor any third party websites linked from or to the Website and does not make any representations or warranties with respect to such third party websites and/or information. If you decide to access the linked third party website, you do so at your own risk. Vallourec shall not be responsible for any information, materials or services obtained on or from such other websites and will not be liable in any respect for any damages arising from your access of such websites. The inclusion of these links does not imply any endorsement, representation or warranty by Vallourec with respect to any such website or the content or services contained through such websites.

Features. Some features that may be available on this Website require registration. By registering at and in consideration of your use of the Website you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself. Some features on this Website require use of a password. You are responsible for protecting your password. You agree that you will be responsible for any and all statements made, and acts or omissions that occur, through the use of your password. If you have any reason to believe or become aware of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of your password, notify Vallourec immediately. Vallourec may assume that any communications Vallourec receives under your password have been made by you unless Vallourec receives notice otherwise. The Website may also feature links to other websites. When you use other websites, you acknowledge that Vallourec is not a party to any transaction and you will be relying solely upon the third party operating the website with regard to any transaction.

Materials You Submit and License. You acknowledge that you are responsible for any material you may submit via the site, including the legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright of any such material. You may not upload to, distribute or otherwise publish through this Website any content that (i) is confidential, proprietary, false, fraudulent, libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, infringing on intellectual property rights, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable; (ii) may constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law; or (iii) may contain software viruses, political campaigning, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false email address or other identifying information, impersonate any person or entity or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any content. You may not upload commercial content onto the Website.

If you do submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Vallourec and its affiliates an unrestricted, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such material throughout the world in any media. You further agree that Vallourec is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to Vallourec. You grant Vallourec and its affiliates the right to use the name you submit in connection with such material, if they so choose. All personal information provided via this Website will be handled in accordance with the site's online Privacy Policy. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all the rights to the content you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate any provision herein and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify and defend Vallourec and its affiliates against all claims resulting from content you supply. Vallourec is under no obligation to post, forward, distribute or otherwise provide any material available on this site, and so we have an absolute right to remove any material from the site in our sole discretion at any time.

Intellectual Property Ownership and Permissions. This Website and all its content, including all trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, text, materials, design, text, graphics, files, photographs, video and audio clips, image, logo, icons, interfaces, code and software as well as the selection and arrangement thereof (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) are the exclusive property of Vallourec and/or their respective owners. Any other third party Intellectual Property used in this Website is owned by their respective owners, and Vallourec makes no representations of any kind with respect to such third party Intellectual Property. Vallourec authorizes you to view and use the Website with the following restrictions: 1) use must be solely for your personal informational and noncommercial use in the case of an individual, or for your own internal business purpose (not to include advertising or promotion) in the case of a business; 2) downloading is limited to one electronic or hard copy of limited portions; 3) each page downloaded must include this copyright statement displayed in a prominent position: '© Vallourec. All rights reserved.'; 4) materials cannot be modified, forwarded, displayed, distributed, performed, or published in any media without the prior written permission of Vallourec. In addition, you may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any portion of this Website without the express written consent of Vallourec. You may not use meta tags or any other hidden text using the Vallourec name or trademarks and service marks without the express written consent of Vallourec. Nothing in this Website shall be deemed to convey upon you any right, title, or interest in any Intellectual Property except as expressly provided herein. Any unauthorized use of any Intellectual Property may constitute an infringement under applicable laws for which you shall be solely liable and will indemnify and defend Vallourec and its affiliates against.

No commercial use of the information on or under this Website is licensed or permitted, except to the extent necessary in connection with the offering of goods or services for purchase or sale on this Website. The use of automated systems (robots, spiders, or any other data-mining or similar data-gathering and extraction tools) to access, acquire, or download information on this Website is expressly prohibited where such systems are employed in connection with commercial objectives, or in a fashion that directly or indirectly violates the privacy interests of any individual. The word 'Vallourec,' the Vallourec logo, and the products and services described in this Website are either trademarks, trade names, or service marks of Vallourec and its licensors, or are the property of their respective owners. These marks may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the express prior written permission of Vallourec or their respective owners, and then with the proper acknowledgments. In addition, page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts may be service marks, trademarks, or trade dress of Vallourec, and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Vallourec.

Any other use of content on the site, including but not limited to the modification, distribution, transmission, performance, broadcast, publication, uploading, licensing, reverse engineering, transfer or sale of, or the creation of derivative works from, any material, information, software, products or services obtained from the site, or use of the Website for purposes competitive to Vallourec, is expressly prohibited.

You agree to abide by all additional restrictions displayed on the Website as it may be updated from time to time. Vallourec reserves the right to refuse or cancel any person's registration for this site, remove any person from this Website or prohibit any person from using this Website for any reason whatsoever. Vallourec, or its licensors or content providers, retain full and complete title to the material provided on the site, including all associated intellectual property rights, and provide this material to you under a license that is revocable at any time in Vallourec's sole discretion. Vallourec neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials on this Website will not infringe rights of third parties.

You may not use contact information provided on the Website for unauthorized purposes, including marketing. You may not use any hardware or software intended to damage or interfere with the proper working of the Website or to surreptitiously intercept any system, data or personal information from the site. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Website in any way. Vallourec reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to limit or terminate your access to or use of the Website at any time without notice. Termination of your access or use will not waive or affect any other right or relief to which Vallourec may be entitled at law, equity, or otherwise.

Forums, interactive areas, postings, and feedback. This Website may include discussion forums or other interactive areas, including chat rooms, bulletin boards, and collaboration facilities. Forums and interactive areas shall not be used advertising or promotion purposes. You shall remain solely liable for the content of any messages or other information posted by you on this Website, and Vallourec takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for the content of posted or uploaded material. Please contact Vallourec concerning any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity you may encounter on this site. Vallourec reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to remove or edit any material posted by you that is determined to be harmful, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

Vallourec software. Any Vallourec software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively 'Software'), that may be made available on this Website is licensed to you by Vallourec for your personal, non-commercial use, and no ownership rights pass to you. You shall not copy, distribute, sell, modify, transfer, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works from any Software.

Notices of Copyright Infringement. Vallourec will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law and this section of these Terms of Use. In accordance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) (“DMCA”), if you believe any content accessible on the Website infringes your copyright, you may request removal of that content from the Website by submitting written notice, with your physical or electronic signature, to our Copyright Agent designated below that includes the following information (the “DMCA Notice”):

• • Identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed or, if the claim involves multiple works on the Website, a representative list of such works;
  • Identification of the content you believe to be infringing in a sufficiently precise manner to allow us to locate that content;
  • Information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number and e-mail address);
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the content is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law (e.g. is not a “fair use”);
  • A statement that the information in the written notice is accurate; and
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

DMCA Notices may be sent to us at contact@behub-e.com . If you knowingly materially misrepresent that any content on the Website is infringing your copyright, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) under the DMCA.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability. Vallourec and its affiliates make no warranties or representations as to the accuracy of this Website or any information or materials provided herein. Under no circumstances shall Vallourec or its affiliates, or their respective officers, directors, managers, employees, partners, members, contractors or subcontractors of any tier, or any party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Website be liable to you or any third party for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, special, exemplary, or punitive damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on this Site. Further, Vallourec and its affiliates shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in this Website or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from this Website.

YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE OR ANY FEATURE OR PART THEREOF AT ANY TIME. VALLOUREC EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTIES THAT MATERIALS ON THE WEBSITE ARE NON-INFRINGING, AS WELL AS WARRANTIES IMPLIED FROM A COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR COURSE OF DEALING; THAT ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE SECURE; THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE WEBSITE AVAILABLE WILL BE VIRUS-FREE; OR THAT INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE WILL BE COMPLETE, ACCURATE OR TIMELY. IF YOU DOWNLOAD ANY MATERIALS FROM THIS SITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIALS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM VALLOUREC OR THROUGH OR FROM THE WEBSITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. VALLOUREC DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE IN TERMS OF THEIR COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. IN CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS, AS APPLICABLE, THE LAW MAY NOT PERMIT THE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU SEND OR RECEIVE DURING YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE MAY NOT BE SECURE AND MAY BE INTERCEPTED BY UNAUTHORIZED PARTIES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT THE WEBSITE IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU AT NO CHARGE. RECOGNIZING SUCH, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER VALLOUREC NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE SITE, OR ANY OTHER WEBSITE YOU ACCESS THROUGH A LINK FROM THIS WEBSITE OR FROM ANY ACTIONS WE TAKE OR FAIL TO TAKE AS A RESULT OF COMMUNICATIONS YOU SEND TO US, OR THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ADVERTISED IN OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, THE REMOVAL OR DELETION OF ANY MATERIALS SUBMITTED OR POSTED ON ITS SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF VALLOUREC, ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY ARISING FROM ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECTS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUSES, FILE CORRUPTION, COMMUNICATION-LINE FAILURE, NETWORK OR SYSTEM OUTAGE, YOUR LOSS OF PROFITS, OR THEFT, DESTRUCTION, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, LOSS OR USE OF ANY RECORD OR DATA, AND ANY OTHER TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE LOSS. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT NEITHER VALLOUREC NOR ITS SUPPLIERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER OF THE SITE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE CLAIMS OR ANY DISPUTE WITH VALLOUREC IS TO DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THE SITE. YOU AND VALLOUREC AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE WEBSITE MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES OR THE CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, ALL OR A PORTION OF THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Indemnification. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Vallourec and its affiliates and their respective officers, directors, managers, employees, partners, members, contractors, agents, licensors, service providers, subcontractors and suppliers of any tier from and against any and all losses, liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including attorneys' fees and court costs, arising or resulting from your use of the Website and any violation of these Terms of Use. If you cause a technical disruption of the Website or the systems transmitting the Website to you or others, you agree to be responsible for any and all losses, liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including attorneys' fees and court costs, arising or resulting from that disruption.

Termination. Notwithstanding any of these Terms and Conditions, Vallourec reserves the right, without notice and in its sole discretion, to terminate your license to use this Website and to block or prevent future access to and use of this Web site.

Severability and Non-Waiver. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. No waiver by Vallourec of any right under or term or provision of these Terms of Use will be deemed a waiver of any other right, term or provision of these Terms of Use at that time or a waiver of that or any other right, term or provision of these Terms of Use at any other time.

Language. It is at the express consent of the parties that the present agreement be written in English.

Changes to these Terms. Vallourec reserves the right to change, modify, or update these Terms and Conditions of Use, at any time without notice. The date of the latest update is presented below. References to any products, services, processes, or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation thereof by Vallourec

Governing law and jurisdiction. These Terms of use shall be governed in accordance with the laws of Texas, without regard to conflict of laws principles. Disputes shall be finally settled by an arbitration panel, in accordance with the latest current version of the Rules of American Arbitration Association by arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said Rules. Arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in Houston, Texas, and in the English language. The decision of the arbitrators shall be final, binding, and enforceable upon the parties and judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. In the event that the failure of a party to comply with the decision of the arbitrators requires either party to apply to any court for enforcement of such award, the non-complying party shall be liable to the other for all cost of such litigation including attorneys’ fees. Rev 2022-01