PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE

This website is operated by AK Steel. Your use of the site constitutes your agreement to all terms and conditions contained herein ("Terms"). AK Steel reserves the right, at its discretion, to update or revise the Terms. In exchange for using this website, you agree to be bound exclusively by these terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Your continued use of the site following any posted revisions of the Terms constitutes your consent to such changes.

THIRD PARTY SITES

This site may link you to other sites on the Internet ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under AK Steel’s control, and AK Steel is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Sites, including without limitation the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of the Linked Sites or any links contained therein. These links are provided for your convenience, and do not imply endorsement of the Linked Sites by AK Steel or any association with its operators.

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MATERIALS

The content of this site ("Content") is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. You may download, use, and copy the materials found on the site for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies that you make of the material must bear any copyright ("Copyright © 2004 by AK Steel Corporation. All rights reserved."), trademark, or other proprietary notices located on the site which pertain to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property right in the material or the services, processes, or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by AK Steel and/or any third party owner of such rights.

You may not create framed links to the site without express written permission from AK Steel.

You may not sell or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. None of the Content, including any software, may be reverse engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means, resold, or redistributed without the prior written consent of AK Steel, except as described herein.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

ALL MATERIALS, INFORMATION, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." AK STEEL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. AK STEEL MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, OR ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES CONTAINED IN OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES; THESE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE OR THE ASSOCIATED SERVICES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO CEASE USING THEM.

TERMINATION

AK Steel reserves the right to terminate your access to the site or to any or all of its services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

JURISDICTION

This site is controlled and operated by AK Steel from its location in Middletown, Ohio. This policy should be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to any conflict of laws provisions. Any dispute arising out of this policy shall be resolved exclusively by the state or federal courts in Butler County, Ohio.

SECURITY

We use industry-standard security measures to safeguard any information you may provide to us on our website as well as the account information you may access through the site. However, please remember that perfect security does not exist on the Internet.

PRIVACY POLICY

This is how we handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website.

The information we receive depends on what you do when visiting our site. If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain and host through which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com if you are connecting from an America Online account), and the date and time you access our site. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to different sections of our site, so that we can make our site more useful to our visitors. We typically delete this information after one year.

You may choose to send personally-identifying information to other sites you have linked to through our site. We do not control the collection or use of this information, and make no representations about the privacy policies of other sites.