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USER AGREEMENT

Please read this agreement carefully. By using the Sun.Star website, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions of this user agreement.

rLIMITATIONS ON USE

All content of the Sun.Star website (including but not limited to all text, photos, graphics, captions, bylines, news articles, opinion and analysis, page designs, cartoons and illustrations, program codes) is copyrighted by Sun.Star Publishing Inc. or its suppliers, news and feature syndicates and wire services. (c) Copyright 2010 Sun.Star Publishing Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.

Unless with prior written permission, no portion of the content may be directly or indirectly copied, published, reproduced, modified, displayed, sold, transmitted, published or redistributed in any medium. Nor may any portion of the content be stored in a computer or distributed over any network except that a copy of occasional articles may be printed for personal and non-commercial use.

Materials contained in this website should be used for lawful purposes only.

Sun.Star reserves the right to modify, suspend, discontinue or restrict use to any or all portions of the website at any time and without notice or liability.

rLINK POLICY

There are links within the Sun.Star website that will lead out of the site. The linked sites are not under the control of the website and Sun.Star Publishing Inc. is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. Sun.Star provides the links only as a convenience to users, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Sun.Star of the site.

Sun.Star allows users to create a link from their website to any webpage in the site with prior written permission and with specific attribution that it is material taken from www.sunstar.com.ph. Please address all requests to: ninicab@sunstar.com.ph.

In such cases, only the headline of the article appearing in the Sun.Star website and the link to such article may appear in such websites.

However, Sun.Star does not assume responsibility for any broken links in websites carrying links to the Sun.Star website resulting from the removal or reorganization of documents in its server nor can it guarantee the validity of any third party links to any documents in the site.

Sun.Star's link policies apply as well to any material in the website forwarded or distributed through e-mail, newsgroups and mailing lists.

rLIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Sun.Star does not assume responsibility for any loss or damages resulting, directly or indirectly, from the use of, or the inability to use, materials in the website for any reason, including, but not limited to, electronic or mechanical equipment failures, telephone connection problems, defects, weather, strikes, walkouts, fire, acts of God, riots, armed conflicts, acts of war, acts of terrorism, or similar causes.

The user is also solely liable for any damages resulting from any infringement of patent, copyright, trademark or other proprietary right resulting from a user's utilization of the website.

The user acknowledges that all information, data, software, photographs, graphics, messages or other materials posted by any person or entity not affiliated with Sun.Star is the sole responsibility of the person from which the content originated.

Neither does Sun.Star bear liability for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any user.

rUSER SUBMISSIONS/MONITORING

All electronic forums made available to users are the sole property of the website and are not a public forum.

As such, Sun.Star reserves the right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display and use for any purpose all messages posted in the message board and speak-out sections and any e-mail sent to the website (in whole or in part) and to incorporate any such messages or e-mails in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

From time to time, Sun.Star may monitor for all lawful purposes any and all content transmitted or received through the website. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes. All content, including personal information, placed on or sent over the website may be monitored. Use of materials in the website, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes consent to such monitoring.

The website reserves the right to preserve and disclose content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes.

rPRIVACY POLICY

Records of registration of users become the property of Sun.Star and the website reserves the right to use the information for marketing and membership endeavors.

Sun.Star agrees not to share any information it collects about its users online, unless: 1) users are notified at the time the data are collected 2) the information is necessary to provide users the product or service they requested 3) the information is received as a consequence of a contest entry and has to be shared with the contest sponsor 4) the data are provided to companies contracted by Sun.Star to provide a product or service to users (companies may not use the data other than to assist Sun.Star) 5) the entity with whom it is shared is an affiliate of Sun.Star Publishing Inc.

Electronic mail address of users may become public when they participate in any of the Sun.Star website's electronic forums.

The Sun.Star website, like all major websites, uses cookies, which are pieces of information that a website transfer's to a user's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is to ensure web surfing easier by saving users' preferences while they are at the site.

The website also makes use of a tracker to collect information about and learn preferences of its visitors and may share the information with current and prospective advertisers and affiliated groups.

Sun.Star website pages currently display third party advertising provided by third party vendor Google that makes use of cookies to serve ads based on a user's browsing history. Users may choose not to receive interest-based ads by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

CHANGES TO POLICY: Sun.Star may change the policy from time to time at its discretion. Continued use of the site indicates consent to any provision in this agreement and amendments to it. This policy was last updated on January 23, 2004.

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