User license agreement for Gulf Standards files

If you request Gulf standards files or any other attachments from GCC Standardization Organization(GSO), this will be subject to articles of the License Agreement below, and completing the request constitutes a legal agreement and an acknowledgment of reading and reviewing user license agreement and agree to abide by its articles and what is stated in the “Intellectual property rights document for documents, publications, products and services of GCC Standardization Organization(GSO)".

If you do not agree to articles of this agreement, you may leave the page immediately without completing purchase order nor downloading standards files.

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The License agreement is between GCC Standardization Organization (GSO) and the mentioned beneficiary who requested standards files (referred herein below as “you” or “your”).

Standards files of GCC Standardization Organization (GSO) included in the purchase order through the organization’s online store are subject to the following:

1. Gulf standards files issued by GSO that you are about to request and obtain from GSO webstore are in portable electronic document format (PDF) files and copyrights reserved to:
   GCC Standardization Organization (GSO), Diplomatic quarter (Embassies), P.O. Box 85245, Riyadh 12511, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Email: csc@gso.org.sa
   All rights reserved In all countries, civil and/or criminal laws apply against copyrights infringements.
2. By downloading, copying, installing, or accessing and using Gulf standards files issued by GSO, means that you agree to abide by articles of license agreement. No ownership or other related rights in the GSO’s document are transferred to you.
3. Any right, ownership or interest in standards files shall concerned to GCC Standardization Organization (GSO). You must not delete or obscure copyright mark or any other marks contained therein.
4. An electronic watermark with final beneficiary name will be placed on standard file. The information shall not be deleted. GCC Standardization Organization (GSO) reserves the right to take additional measures to protect electronic files and may not be visible to final beneficiary.
5. You are authorized to save Gulf standard file issued by GSO on hard disk of your personal computer with the possibility of using file for your personal use only.
6. It is not permitted to use or access any local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), internal network "intranet" or internet without prior written permission from GCC Standardization Organization (GSO).
7. You have the right to print only one copy of standard file for your personal use, under any circumstances, electronic file or printed copy shall not be reproduced. In addition, printed file or electronic file copy shall not be distributed elsewhere on computer network or in any other location. Accordingly, electronic file shall not be sent by e-mail, downloaded to hard disk, copied to another hard disk, or shared with others.
8. Standards texts shall not be used in artificial intelligence systems or by any other means leads to the same purpose.
9. You must not sell, lend, rent, sublicense, publish, translate or any other exploitation of standard file issued by GSO, which means that this license is for commercial or other purpose. GCC Standardization Organization (GSO) has the right to verify compliance with license agreement, at its expense, and at any time during normal work hours. In order to achieve this, GSO will seek the assistance of an independent consulting party, under a confidentiality agreement, to review your use of its documents. For this purpose:
   1. You agree to allow access to your information and computer systems.
   2. Verification shall be made according to notice sent by GSO not less than 10 days in advance during normal work hours, and in a manner that does not reasonably conflict with your business.
   3. If verification process reveals unauthorized use of GSO’s documents, you shall reimburse GSO for incurred costs in conducting verification and reimburse GSO for any unauthorized uses.
   4. By implementing this procedure, GSO does not waive any of its rights to apply this agreement or protect its intellectual property rights through any other means permitted by law.
10. This license does not grant you any rights in any trademarks or service marks of GSO.
11. In case of failure to comply with the terms and conditions of this license, GSO has the right to cancel this license. In this case, you must delete standard file and destroy all paper and electronic copies immediately.
12. This agreement is validated until terminated, and you may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all copies (printed, digital and on any other medium) of standard file or any GSO’s documents.
13. GSO does not bear any responsibility or liability for damages resulting from reader’s interpretation of the reproduced material as a result of placement and context of the material.
14. This agreement shall be subject to laws of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, headquarter country of GSO, the competent court for settling disputes, if any, shall be in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, GSO has the right to take legal action against you or otherwise to ensure its rights under Saudi or local laws in your country of residence or in any jurisdiction in case of non-compliance or infringement of this agreement.