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The United States Customs Service Department of the Treasury has advised all U.S. customs brokers clearing incoming shipments at port of entry, that beginning early in 1994, the consignee's I.R.S. Employer ID number (if the consignee is an employer) or an individual's Social Security Number, (if the consignee/purchaser is an individual), must be on the invoice and other shipping and entry documents. If this number is not on the documents, the shipment will be detained in a bonded warehouse building up daily storage charges, and will not be released to the consignee or onward freight carrier until the number is provided. The storage charges are in addition to customs duty, merchandise processing fees, and brokerage charges. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has made things more complicated, instead of reducing the paper-burden!

Consequently, if you are ordering from within the U.S.A., including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, or other U.S. Territories where U.S. Customs has jurisdiction over incoming shipments, one of two numbers must be provided to us BEFORE WE WILL SHIP:

1. Employer tax identification number (2 digits followed by a dash, followed by 9 digits) used by employers for reporting employee payroll deductions to the Internal Revenue Service. This will include private corporations, limited companies, public companies and government agencies.

2. Your personal Social Security Number (3 digits, followed by a dash, followed by 2 digits, followed by a dash, followed by 4 digits), if you are ordering as an individual rather than as a company or government agency.

Please be certain that one of the two types of numbers is placed prominently on your purchase order, so that we do not have to contact you to obtain it. We cannot ship without it. If your agency or department is one of the rare government services that does not have an employer tax reporting ID number, then we require written certification to that effect from your accounting or payroll office, or your local IRS office. We will attach a copy of that certification to the shipping documents, and hope that U.S. Customs Service accepts it, allowing the goods to pass.

LIABILITY NOTICE

Individuals, companies and government agencies at whatever level (federal/national, state/provincial, county/regional and municipal/city) purchase our products for use in their training and testing programs, entirely at their own risk.

Securesearch manufactures and sells our own range of “simulant” products, and we distribute training aid products made by several other companies. We, and they, have been producing these products for many years, to assist in training and testing personnel on many aspects of hazardous items and materials. The simulated and replica products we sell are certified as being inert and non-hazardous--when used as directed by qualified instructional personnel. If an item may have an element that could pose a minor health or safety risk, we supply a material safety data sheet and detailed warnings.

Our products, and those that we distribute on behalf of other companies, are supplied with an Instructor Guide that describes in detail how the products function, and how they relate to the real, hazardous items that they represent. These instructor guides are custom printed to reasonably match the products shipped in your order, and come with explicit cautions on their use, where necessary, for instructor and student safety. Their contents are based on many years of expertise developed through our own training and acquired field experience. We also follow the guidance of specialist consultants.

Our technical posters, videos, CDs, DVDs and publications represent the best available information at the time they were produced and published. From time to time, as new and significant technical information and/or images become available to us, we update these products, and indicate a revision date, or new copyright date.

Our products are not sold to the general public. They are for a specialized market of qualified users/instructors in the fields of security/protection, detector canine training, law enforcement, forensic investigation (arson, bomb scene), and military training.

No training product, or training aid range, can possibly cover and portray all aspects or hazards of every product; this is particularly so for old items, improvised/homemade items and the vast amount of military ordnance (much of which was experimental, and for which little or no reliable documentation remains)—found in all parts of the world.

We screen requests for quotations and orders, for the suitability of the purchaser to acquire and legitimately use our products—whether they are an individual, corporation or government agency. Purchasers are required to complete and return a Waiver of Liability form and two other documents, prior to first purchase. Many countries have legal restrictions or prohibitions on the purchase, possession and transfer of our products—limiting sale to certain government agencies. Persons considering purchase of our products must first research the laws, statutes and ordinances in their jurisdiction, prior to purchasing. Again, purchasing our products is entirely at your own risk!

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

All Securesearch, Inc. intellectual property, including: registered trademarks, products, industrial designs, photos on this website, and our training aid instructor’s guides, technical reference and training publications, technical posters, video programs, slide/tape programs, CD/DVD programs, and photos used in corporate advertising, are protected by copyright and trademarks and must not be copied, except with our prior written permission.

Our permission, (which must be granted prior to use), may authorize products to be copied for a specific application only, on a one-time basis, and granted at our discretion. Technical posters, publications and inert training aids, that are manufactured by other companies, and purchased and sold by Securesearch, Inc., require permission to copy be granted by those manufacturers, producers and publishers, prior to use.

Securesearch, Inc. has worldwide sole distribution rights from Security Awareness & Promotions CC (South Africa), for posters and publications produced by Patrick Gericke.

Persons and corporations found violating copyright of any of the above items, are subject to civil penalties, including damages, injunction and legal costs, and possible criminal prosecution for violation of copyright, trademark infringement and counterfeiting of industrial designs and in some countries, to criminal prosecution for violation of laws on copyright, trademark infringement and counterfeiting of industrial designs.

Purchasers of our products do so, on the express understanding and agreement, that the products are protected by copyright, trademark and industrial design legislation, and are purchased for their own use and are not to be copied.

Products purchased from Securesearch, Inc. and from our authorized sales representatives, are sold on the understanding that they are not to be used in or for any competitive business transactions, including price quotes, production or sales, that will be in competition with Securesearch, Inc.