| This Agreement
establishes the terms and conditions pursuant to which you
may submit a suggestion to Albion Engineering Company (also,
at times, referred to as “us”, “we” or “our”) through the
Suggestion Box on our web site. It is intended to avoid
misunderstandings, and must be carefully read and accepted
by you before submitting any suggestion. We will not review
or consider any suggestion from you unless you have agreed
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Please be
aware that Albion Engineering Company has been in business
for over eighty years, and with employs - many talented,
innovative and experienced individuals. Most of the ideas
which are new and useful to us come from our employees. Many
outside suggestions, as well as suggestions from our
employees, are in our files for future use or development,
or have already been tried or exhausted. However, if you
believe you have a new and unique idea that we could use, we
would like you to tell us about it.
Any suggestions you submit to us will be reviewed by our
management staff. If we decide to use on of your
suggestions, we may, but are not obligated to, provide you
with recognition in some fashion. Any such recognition will
be given in our sole discretion.
In addition to the other terms and conditions of this
Agreement, when submitting a suggestion to us, you represent
and agree as follows:
- All rights, title and interest, including all
intellectual property rights, to anything you submit to us
are hereby assigned by you to us, and you agree to execute
any documents reasonably requested by us to effectuate such
assignment.
- Anything you submit to us is not confidential and we have
no duty or obligation to hold it in confidence. You
understand that we may disclose your suggestion to our
employees or other parties if, in our sole opinion, such
disclosure is necessary to properly evaluate, develop,
commercialize, market and sell the subject matter of your
suggestion, and you agree to release any indemnify us from
any and all liability in connection with any such
disclosure.
- You are not aware that any aspect of the subject matter of
your suggestion is owned or claimed to be owned by a third
party or that any aspect of the subject matter of your
suggestions infringes any intellectual or proprietary rights
of any third party.
- You are not aware that any aspect of the subject matter of
your suggestion has been publicly used or disclosed, or has
otherwise entered the public domain.
- You are not one of our employees, representatives or
agents. Our employees, representatives and agents are not
eligible to submit suggestions pursuant to this Agreement.
- Any recognition of you by us, should we choose in our sole
discretion to recognize you, is accepted by you in full
consideration of your suggestion.
- You do not rely, in submitting your suggestion, on any
expectation, understanding, prior communication, or contract
with us that you that believe is express or implied, and you
understand that only the terms written in this Agreement
apply to the submission of your suggestion. You acknowledge
that the submission of your suggestion does not give rise to
any type of agreement between you and us concerning your
suggestion, except as specifically set forth herein.
- You are at least eighteen (18) years of age.
- To the extent that the terms of our web site Privacy
Statement, Terms of Use, and/or any other statements,
policies or agreements applicable to the use of our web site
differ from the terms of this Agreement, the terms of this
Agreement shall apply and shall be controlling.
This Agreement is entered into in the State of New
Jersey. This Agreement, and any dispute arising under or in
connection with it, shall be interpreted under the laws of
the State of New Jersey (excluding conflicts of law
principles). You agree to submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the state and federal courts of the State of
New Jersey with respect to any dispute arising out of or
related to this Agreement or any submission to us of a
suggestion by you. No joint venture, partnership, agency, or
employment relationship exists between Albion Engineering
Company and you by virtue of your submitting a suggestion
and entering into this Agreement.
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