Last Updated: January, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of Viega LLC’s (“we,” “us” or “our”) service, which includes our websites (viega.us and viega.ca), mobile apps, features, widgets, plug-ins, applications, communications (including chats and emails), content, downloads, platform and other products and services that post or link to, or otherwise stated to be governed by, these Terms (collectively, the “Service”).  These Terms sets out the conditions of use of the Service, and constitute an agreement between us and you (“you” or “your”).  By accessing or otherwise using the Service, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms.   Additional terms and conditions applicable to specific areas, functions, products, or services of our website may also be posted in relevant areas, and together with the Terms govern your use of those areas, functions, products or services. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access the Service.

This Service is offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older. By using this Service, you represent and warrant that you meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Service.

1. Changes to the Service and Terms

The form and nature of the Service, Content (as defined below) and all information posted on the Service is subject to change without notice. In addition, these Terms may be changed, altered or modified at any time without prior notice. We will make such changes by posting them here. You should check this page periodically for such changes. You can determine when these Terms were last revised by referring to the "LAST UPDATED" date at the top of these Terms. Your continued access and use of the Service after such changes conclusively demonstrates your acceptance of those changes.

We reserve the right, at any time and from time to time, temporarily or permanently, in whole or in part, to: modify or discontinue the Service, with or without notice; charge fees in connection with the use of the Service; and/or offer opportunities to some or all users of the Service. We may update the Service, all of the information and materials contained therein, and the software used to make the Service available (collectively, “Content”) from time to time, but the Content is not necessarily complete or up-to-date. Any of the material on the Service may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material. You agree that neither we nor any Affiliated Entities shall be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service, in whole or in part, or of any service, information and materials contained herein, software used to make the Service, or feature or product offered through the Service. In these Terms, “Affiliated Entities” means any direct or indirect parent, subsidiaries, sponsors, or affiliated companies of Viega LLC.

2. Permitted Use, Limited License and Authorization to Reproduce

Subject to these Terms and any other terms and conditions on the Service, we hereby grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-assignable and non-exclusive right to access and use the Service and read, print, download, install, reproduce, use and disclose the contents of the files or other media provided on the Service that are specifically identified as available for download, subject to the following conditions: (i) the material may be used for informational, personal, not-for profit and noncommercial purposes only; (ii) it may not be modified in any way, nor distributed, transmitted or re-posted; (iii) no copy is made of any Viega LLC or Affiliated Entity trademark or logo apart from the page on which it appears; and (iv) any copy of any portion of the material must include the copyright notice appearing on the Service. The Content is and shall remain our property and  the property of our licensors and suppliers, and is protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright, trademark, patent and/or other proprietary rights and laws. You do not acquire any right, title, ownership, interest or any other rights in such Content by virtue of accessing the Service or making use of the permitted uses allowed under these Terms. You may use the Service only in the manner described expressly in the Terms and subject to all applicable laws. Using the Service for any other purpose or in any other manner is strictly prohibited.

3. Copyrights

As between the parties, you should assume that the Service, and any and all Content, material, page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts and the presentation, arrangement, coordination, enhancement and selection of such and other information in text, graphical, video and audio forms, images, icons, software, designs, applications, data, and other elements available on or through the Service are subject to copyright protection, unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms without our written permission. We neither warrant nor represent that your use of materials displayed on the Service will not infringe rights of third parties. Images, photographs, or illustrations displayed on the Service are either the property of, or used with permission by, us. The use of these materials by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Service. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and other applicable laws.

In the event you send us feedback, comments or other types of unsolicited comments (collectively, “Feedback”), you agree that we are not required to (i) use any Feedback, (ii) identify you when using any Feedback you may have submitted nor (iii) treat any Feedback as confidential, and will be entitled to use the Feedbacks, or any part thereof for any purposes whatsoever. By submitting Feedback, you hereby grant (or warrant that the owner of the Feedback grants) to us and our assigns a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, unrestricted, non-exclusive, assignable, transferable, sublicensable, right and license to copy, modify, publish, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly display and otherwise use the Feedback or any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques associated with the Feedback for any purpose whatsoever. You also agree, represent and warrant that all moral rights in the Feedback are waived in favour of us, our Affiliated Entities, and our and their assigns.

PLEASE NOTE THAT UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE SERVICE OR ANY CONTENT ON THE SERVICE (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY SOFTWARE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE) MAY IN PARTICULAR JURISDICTIONS RESULT IN MONETARY DAMAGES AND OTHER CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

4. Trademarks

The trademarks, logos, service marks, brand identities, title, characters, trade names, graphics, designs, copyrights and other properties appearing within Service or or any other word, expression, name or symbol which could cause confusion as to the link or association of the user with us or our endorsement or sponsorship of user’s products or services (collectively the "Trademarks") are protected intellectual property that include registered and unregistered trademarks of Viega LLC, its Affiliated Entities and others. Nothing contained on the Service or elsewhere shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on this Service without our written permission or such third party that may own the Trademark displayed on the Service. Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on the Service, or any other content on the Service, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited.

5. Unauthorized Use or Access

Unless otherwise expressly authorized in these Terms or on the Service, you may not take any action to interfere with the Service or any other user's use of the Service or decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any Content or other products or processes accessible through the Service, nor insert any code or product or manipulate the Content in any way that affects any user's experience. While accessing and using the Service and its Content, you agree to only to do for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Service by, any third party. You are required to comply with all applicable statutes, orders, regulations, rules, and other laws when accessing and using the Service. In addition, we expect users of the Service to respect the rights and dignity of others. Your access and use of the Service is conditioned on your compliance with the rules of conduct set forth in this section.

You may not (and you expressly agree that you will not) do any of the following, which violate these Terms:

a)     Post, upload, share, transmit, distribute, facilitate distribution of, or otherwise make available, through or in connection with the Service:

    1.     Anything that is or may be (a) threatening, harassing, degrading, hateful, or intimidating; (b) defamatory; (c) fraudulent or tortious; (d) obscene, indecent, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable; or (e) protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other proprietary right without the express prior consent of such owner.

    2.     Any material that would give rise to criminal or civil liability; that contains or promotes violence, drug use, illegal gambling or other criminal activity; that encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offense; or that encourages or provides instructional information about illegal activities or activities such as "hacking," "cracking," or "phreaking."

    3.     Any virus, worm, Trojan Horse, Easter egg, time bomb, spyware, or other computer code, file, or program that is harmful or invasive or may or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software or equipment.

    4.     Any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional material, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letter," "pyramid scheme" or investment opportunity, or any other form of solicitation.

    5.     Any material, non-public information about a company without the proper authorization to do so.

b)     Use the Service for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose.

c)      Use the Service to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others, including without limitation others' privacy rights or rights of publicity, or harvest or collect personally identifiable information about users of the Service.

d)     Impersonate any person or entity, including without limitation any representative of Viega LLC or an Affiliated Entity; falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity in connection with the Service; or express or imply that we endorse any statement you make.

e)     Interfere with or disrupt the operation of the Service or the servers or networks used to make the Service available; or violate any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of such networks.

f)      Restrict or inhibit any other person from using the Service (including without limitation by hacking or defacing any portion of the Service).

g)     Use the Service to advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, without our express prior written consent.

h)     Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Service.

i)       Modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Service.

j)       Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notice from the Service or materials originating from the Service.

k)     Frame or mirror any part of the Service without our express prior written consent.

l)       Create a database by systematically downloading and storing Service Content.

m)    Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device to retrieve, index, "scrape," "data mine" or in any way gather Service Content or reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service.

n)     Circumvent and violate any security measures of the Service, or attempt to breach or breach the security and/or authentication measures which are not authorized.

o)     Rent, lease, sublicense or transfer any rights in the Service or the Content.

p)     Any unauthorized use of the Content (including use on any other Service or networked computer environment).

q)     Attack the Service via a denial-of-service attack, distributed denial-of-service attack, flooding, mailbombing, or crashing.

r)      Engage in any conduct which we, in our sole discretion, determine to be detrimental to our interests, including, without limitation, acting in a manner contrary to these Terms, or intentionally interfering with the proper working of the Service or our computer systems.

s)      Modify any of the pages, removing or altering any visible or non-visible identification, marks, notices, or disclaimers.

t)      Additionally, you acknowledge and agree that you (and not us) are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telecommunications, broadband, and computer hardware, equipment, and services needed to access and use the Service, and paying all charges related thereto.

6. International Users

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by us (or our licensees) from our offices within the United States of America and is not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. We do not represent or warrant that the Service or any part thereof is appropriate or available for use in any particular jurisdiction other than the United States. Those who choose to access the Service do so on their own initiative and at their own risk, and are responsible for complying with all local statutes, orders, regulations, rules, and other laws. You are also subject to United States export controls and are responsible for any violations of such controls, including without limitation any United States embargoes or other federal rules and regulations restricting exports. We may limit the Service's availability, in whole or in part, to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction we choose, at any time and in our sole discretion.

7. Termination of Access

These Terms are in effect until terminated by either party. In addition to any right or remedy that may be available to us under applicable law, we may suspend, limit, or terminate all or a portion of your access to the Service, and/or your rights to use any of the Content, at any time with or without notice and with or without cause, including without limitation, if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms. Upon any such termination, your right to use the Service will immediately cease. In addition, we may refer any information on illegal activities, including your identity, to the proper authorities. You agree that Viega LLC and its Affiliated Entities shall not be liable to you or any third party for any suspension, limitation, or termination of your access to the Service.

8. Accuracy of Information You Submit

You may be permitted to or asked to submit information to the Service. You expressly represent and warrant: (a) that you have the authority to provide us with all such information; (b) that all such information may be used by us for the purposes intended; (c) that all such information shall be true, accurate, and complete; and (d) that you will maintain and update such information as needed, such that the information remains true, accurate and complete. You agree that if any information you provide is false, inaccurate, obsolete or incomplete, we may terminate your access to or use of the Service.

9. User Content 

We may include features on the Service that allow you to share your information, comments, reviews, and other texts (together referred to as “User Content”) with us and other users of the Service.  Please note that by sharing User Content through the Service, your User Content may become publicly accessible and will not be subject to any confidentiality restrictions. In addition to section 6 of the Terms, when posting, publishing, sending or uploading User Content, you agree, not to: (i) post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including, without limitation, any User Content constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, provincial, national or international law or regulation; (ii) post or transmit any User Content, including, without limitation, articles, images, stories, software or other material, which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by any intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark or other proprietary rights herein, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or rights holder; (iii) post or transmit any User Content which contains a virus or other harmful component, or provides or creates computer viruses; (iv) post or transmit junk mail, chain letters, unsolicited mass mailing or spam; (v) posting, uploading or transmitting any User Content for commercial purposes, and which contain advertising or which engage in commercial activities and/or sales, or which involve contests, sweepstakes, barter and/or advertising; and (vi) downloading, archiving, storing, copying, reproducing, collecting, compiling, recompiling, using, modifying, adapting, translating or preparing any summaries, digests, derivative works, of the Service and the Content, in whole or in part, including any photograph, description, reference, picture or other data or information obtained or derived from the Service (excluding rights you have to access, and view under the terms hereof).

You grant to Viega LLC and its Affiliated Entities a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, unrestricted, irrevocable right and license, without compensation to you:

a)     to use, reproduce, distribute, adapt (including without limitation edit, modify, translate, and reformat), derive, transmit, display and perform, publicly or otherwise, such User Content, in any media now known or hereafter developed, for our and/or our Affiliated Entities' business purposes,

b)     to sublicense the foregoing rights, through multiple tiers, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and

c)      to use your name, or screen name, hometown, photograph, portrait, picture, voice, likeness and biographical information as news or information in any and all media and for advertising or promotional purposes, whether or not in connection with your submission.  

The foregoing licenses shall survive any termination of your use of the Service.  For all of the User Content you share through the Service, you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary for you to grant these licenses, and that such User Content, and your provision or creation thereof through the Service, complies with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations and does not infringe or otherwise violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy or other intellectual property or other rights of any third party, and is furthermore free from viruses and other malware.  You further, to the extent permissible by law, irrevocably waive any "moral rights" or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding each item of User Content that you submit.