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June 15, 2011

Copyright Disclaimer

It serves to inform you of the Terms and Conditions governing the use of the Sonangol Website and its subsidiary websites.


Copyright and Intellectual Property

All content on the Sonangol Group Websites, including but not limited to text, graphics, images, sounds, and any other information, is the property of Sonangol and its subsidiaries and is protected by copyright law and the Property Law.

No part of our Websites may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any process, electronic, mechanical or photographic, without the prior written consent of Sonangol or its subsidiaries. Naturally, transcripts of short passages for presentation or criticism of the work are excepted, with Sonangol and its subsidiaries holding their copyright.


User Terms of Use

You are obliged, in your use of our Websites, including the submission of content you make to them, to comply with applicable law, including copyright and related rights law, industrial property law and other Angolan laws. Similarly, following applicable laws, you undertake to refrain from obtaining content to our websites through illegal and/or fraudulent means and to plagiarize it.

You further undertake to act in good faith and make use of our Websites that do not offend any rights of third parties, in particular, that do not in themselves constitute defamation, incitement to theft, fraud, violence, terrorism, pedophilia, as well as that it does not employ obscene, unseemly or pornographic content or use it for any other purposes that may be considered unworthy of Sonangol's image on the market.

You are only authorized to use the content from our Websites for strictly personal purposes, and you are expressly prohibited from posting, reproducing, broadcasting, distributing or otherwise making the content accessible to third parties for public communication purposes or marketing, in particular by making it available on another website, on-line service, or paper copies, and it is prohibited from processing the contents.

You are also prohibited from creating on Sonangol Group Websites any type of virus or program that damages, contaminates, and/or prevents its normal operations.


Password Protection

Sonangol and its subsidiaries limit access to password-protected areas to authorized users. It is the sole responsibility of any authorized user to access one of these areas to protect the confidentiality of their UserID and Password in all transactions that require their use. You agree to notify Sonangol or its subsidiaries immediately of any breach of security or misuse of your UserID or Password. Sonangol and its subsidiaries are not responsible for any direct or indirect loss or damage suffered by you failing to protect the confidentiality of your UserID and Password or any other security breaches by you.

To ensure the security of your password, we suggest that the following security procedures be followed:

  • Do not share your password with other people, companies or websites;
  • If there is any doubt about your password breach, please change it immediately;
  • When setting your password, do not use popular or family-related words (last name, family name, phone number, date of birth, etc.)

Use of Content from our websites

The content of our websites is informative, and therefore, it does not constitute advice or establish any contractual relationship.

Sonangol and its subsidiaries are not liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, suffered by any entity that has faith and uses the information contained on this Website for their business purposes or otherwise.

Sonangol and its subsidiaries do not warrant that the services provided by their websites will be uninterrupted or free of errors, viruses, or other harmful elements.

Sonangol and its subsidiaries are not responsible for the accuracy, quality, safety, legality or lawfulness, including compliance with copyright and related rights rules, concerning the content, products or services contained on this Website that has been provided by other companies. As well as any information contained on third party websites to which it links.


Acceptance

By continuing to use the Sonangol Website or the website of one of its subsidiaries, you are expressly accepting the terms and conditions described above.

Users who do not agree with the Legal Notice and Privacy Policy described and adopted herein are advised not to use the Sonangol Group Websites.


Changes to Legal Notice and Privacy Policy

Any changes or revisions made to the Legal Notice and Privacy Policy posted here, the contents of this page will be updated, and the date changed.