Terms of Use

John Deere Web Site Terms of Use

1. Agree­ment

By accessing, or using this internet site (“Site”), you agree to be bound by the following terms and condi­tions (“Terms”) that are estab­lished by Deere & Company (“Deere”), a Delaware corpo­ra­tion with offices at One John Deere Place, Moline, Illi­nois, 61265, U.S.A., from time to time. This Site is intended for use by Deere, its dealers, its customers, its poten­tial customers, its suppliers, and its other autho­rized users deter­mined by Deere. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use this Site. “Deere Parties” shall mean Deere, its subsidiaries and its affil­i­ates. Affil­i­ates means any of the following: (a) John Deere GmbH & Co. KG, a German entity with offices at John Deere Strasse 70, 68163 Mannheim, Germany, and (b) any entity that controls, is controlled by, or under common control with Deere, where control is estab­lished by majority owner­ship of the voting equity secu­ri­ties of the controlled entity or by the ability to direct the general busi­ness affairs of the controlled entity.


2. Revi­sions to Terms

You acknowl­edge that, in its sole discre­tion, Deere may revise the Terms and the Content and mate­rials on this Site at any time and without any prior notice to you. The Terms are subject to change by Deere at any time, effec­tive when posted on the Site or effec­tive as soon after posting as permitted under applic­able law. Your continued use after such notice will consti­tute accep­tance by you of such changes.


3. Rights in Content

“Content” refers to any docu­ments, text, images, video, inter­ac­tive media, logos, symbols soft­ware or other mate­rials on this Site. All Content is owned by Deere, its subsidiaries, its affil­i­ates, or its licen­sors and is protected by copy­right, trade­mark and other applic­able laws. Except for the limited rights granted in these Terms, Deere does not grant you any express or implied license or rights in any Content or in any intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights of Deere, its subsidiaries, its affil­i­ates, its licen­sors, or its Content providers.


4. Copy­right Notice

Unless other­wise noted on any partic­ular Content, footer, header or work on this Site, Content on this Site is copy­right © Deere & Company 2011-2016. You agree that all copy­right notices or propri­etary labels on the Site or Content shall not be deleted, obscured, or modi­fied.


5. Trade­marks

John Deere’s green and yellow color scheme, the leaping deer symbol, and John Deere are some of the trade­marks of Deere & Company. You may not use Deere’s name or other trade­marks, service marks, logos or symbols (“Marks”) in any adver­tise­ment, publi­ca­tion, online, or other­wise without the Deere’s prior written approval, unless autho­rized under applic­able law and at your own risk of compli­ance with all aspects of applic­able law.


6. End User License

Subject to your compli­ance with the Terms, Deere grants you a non-exclu­sive, non-assign­able, non-subli­cens­able, non-trans­fer­able limited license and rights: (a) to access and display Content for your personal infor­ma­tion or for commer­cial purposes autho­rized by Deere, solely on your own lawfully-programmed device to the extent that you qualify as an autho­rized user, and (b) by your regis­tering with a legit­i­mate user-name iden­ti­fier and pass­word, along with your payment of any required licensing fee for restricted Content in restricted areas of the Site, to access and display restricted Content solely on your lawfully-programmed device as a customer of Deere, its subsidiaries or its affil­i­ates. The right to display Content on the Site excludes the right to publicly display any Content or publicly perform Content to an audi­ence for a fee or for commer­cial purposes, unless other­wise agreed by Deere in a sepa­rate written agree­ment. Without the express written permis­sion from Deere, you may not retransmit, copy, down­load, or modify any files from this Site, any Content or any modi­fied versions thereof. Deere reserves all world­wide rights not expressly granted under the Terms. Any other use, copying, repro­duc­tion, modi­fi­ca­tion, or distri­b­u­tion of Content of this Site not explic­itly permitted herein is prohib­ited.


7. Marketing Mate­rials

Notwith­standing the above license grant, if Deere permits you to down­load or print a limited number of product brochures, service brochures, product data sheets, or other marketing mate­rials for your personal infor­ma­tional use, Deere shall expressly iden­tify the applic­able marketing mate­rials on the Site, which shall be subject to at least the following restric­tions: (a) your use shall be limited to your personal infor­ma­tional use, (b) the copy­right notice and any other applic­able propri­etary notice shall appear on the marketing mate­rials, (c) the marketing mate­rials shall not be modi­fied, and (d) in its sole discre­tion, Deere may termi­nate or revoke such permis­sion to use, down­load, or print the marketing mate­rials at any time without prior notice and may require you to destroy the marketing mate­rials under your control or in your posses­sion. Notwith­standing the above license grant, autho­rized Deere dealers are permitted to elec­tron­i­cally copy certain eligible marketing mate­rials, such as Deere product brochures and any other mate­rials iden­ti­fied in a sepa­rate agree­ment between Deere and such Deere dealer, published on this Site and to make print-outs thereof for the benefit and use by their customers and poten­tial customers, provided that the copy­right notice, along with any other applic­able propri­etary notice, appear on the mate­rials and provided that the mate­rials are not modi­fied.


8. License Restric­tions

You may not inter­rupt or attempt to inter­rupt the oper­a­tion of the Site or inter­fere with the proper oper­a­tion of the Site. You may not create a mirror version of this Site. You may not hack, defeat or circum­vent tech­nical measures or secu­rity measures on this Site. You shall comply with all applic­able laws including the Digital Millen­nium Copy­right Act. You may not data mine, crawl or scan this Site with auto­mated computer equip­ment, soft­ware or commu­ni­ca­tions over the internet or any commu­ni­ca­tions network. In its sole discre­tion, Deere may restrict the Site or restricted areas of the Site to selected users. Except as permitted by applic­able law, you shall not, directly or indi­rectly, or cause any third party to: (a) subli­cense, rent, lease, loan, time­share, sell, distribute, disclose, publish, assign or transfer any rights in any Content or soft­ware avail­able on the Site; (b) trans­late, reverse engi­neer, decom­pile or disas­semble any Content or any soft­ware avail­able on the Site, (c) alter or remove any copy­right or propri­etary rights notices or legends appearing on or in the soft­ware, docu­men­ta­tion or Content. If you down­load soft­ware from this Site as autho­rized by Deere from a non-public restricted area of the Site, you agree to be bound by any applic­able sepa­rate soft­ware license agree­ment between you and Deere or its affil­i­ates or licen­sors. Unless other­wise agreed, the terms and condi­tions of the sepa­rate soft­ware license shall supple­ment the Terms with respect to the licensed rights in the soft­ware and asso­ci­ated docu­men­ta­tion and shall super­sede the Terms if there is a direct conflict between the Terms and the sepa­rate soft­ware license. In its sole discre­tion, Deere can limit or termi­nate your access to this Site or Content without notice. Cumu­la­tive with other restric­tions in the Terms, use, dupli­ca­tion, or disclo­sure of Content by the U.S. govern­ment, and its agen­cies, is subject to one or more of the following restric­tions: (a) limited rights in Content that qual­i­fies as non-commer­cial tech­nical data, (b) restricted rights in Content that repre­sents non-commer­cial computer programs, and (c) commer­cial license terms and condi­tions in Content that qual­i­fies as commer­cial items or commer­cial computer soft­ware, in accor­dance with applic­able regu­la­tions, such as the Federal Acqui­si­tion Regu­la­tions (FAR) or Defense Federal Acqui­si­tion Regu­la­tion Supple­ment.


9. Linking

If you link to this Site, in its sole discre­tion, Deere reserves the right to limit or redi­rect your link at any time, to delete the page or Content that you link to without prior notice to you. If you link to this Site, you shall not imply that Deere approves or endorses you, your website, your service or product, or any prod­ucts or services of any third party. You shall not provide any false or misleading infor­ma­tion about Deere on any website that you control or main­tain. This Site may contain links to non-Deere sites. Any links to non-Deere sites are provided to you only as a conve­nience. Such linked websites are not under the control of Deere. To the full extent permitted under applic­able law, Deere is not respon­sible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. The inclu­sion of any link does not imply endorse­ment by Deere of the site, and Deere shall have no respon­si­bility for infor­ma­tion which is refer­enced by or linked to this Site.


10. Submis­sions to Deere

You may send to Deere comments, ques­tions, sugges­tions or ideas (“Submis­sions”) relating to this Site. If you do provide any Submis­sions that are not specif­i­cally indi­cated as confi­den­tial under a sepa­rate written agree­ment that is mutu­ally accepted, you agree that such infor­ma­tion or Submis­sions sent to Deere is not submitted on a confi­den­tial basis and that Deere is not oblig­ated to keep such infor­ma­tion or Submis­sions confi­den­tial and that Deere is not oblig­ated to respond. To the maximum extent permitted under applic­able law, Deere shall be free to delete, destroy or use the infor­ma­tion or Submis­sion you send to Deere in any manner, including but not limited to devel­oping, manu­fac­turing, and marketing prod­ucts and services based on such infor­ma­tion; Deere may also repro­duce, disclose and distribute the infor­ma­tion in your commu­ni­ca­tion to others without limi­ta­tion, subject to limiting any disclo­sure of personal infor­ma­tion as required by Deere’s privacy and data state­ment.


11. Consent on Data Processing and Privacy and Data State­ment

If you provide personal infor­ma­tion as a Deere customer, your personal infor­ma­tion will be treated as set forth in the applic­able Deere privacy and data state­ment, avail­able at http://www.deere.com/privacy_and_data/privacy_and_data_us.page or on the landing page of this Site. For example, you consent to Deere Parties storing, retrieving, managing, and using your personal infor­ma­tion for purposes of providing and offering services and prod­ucts to you, improving the prod­ucts and services, and offering new prod­ucts and services. You consent to Deere trans­fer­ring the Submis­sions and personal infor­ma­tion to a desti­na­tion outside the Euro­pean Economic Area (“EEA”) or storing them at a desti­na­tion outside the EEA for the purposes set forth in these Terms in accor­dance with the above Deere privacy and data state­ment and applic­able law. Your consent under this Section 11 shall be revo­cable if required under applic­able law and you consent to trans­fers of your Personal Infor­ma­tion between Deere and any Deere Parties, including but not limited to Deere and John Deere GmbH & Co. KG, and any other enti­ties listed on an optional exhibit to this Release for the purposes set forth in these Terms.


12. Product and Services Avail­ability

This Site has been estab­lished primarily for the benefit and use of Deere & Company’s dealers, suppliers, customers and poten­tial customers. Not all prod­ucts or services referred to may be avail­able, and Deere may change or discon­tinue the prod­ucts or services described by this Site at any time. This Site may include inac­cu­ra­cies, and the infor­ma­tion in this Site may be changed peri­od­i­cally. Check with your local John Deere dealer before relying on any product-related infor­ma­tion or service-related infor­ma­tion found in this Site.


13. Warranties

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, THE MATERIAL ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. Deere, its subsidiaries, its affil­i­ates, its suppliers, its licen­sors and its content providers shall have no respon­si­bility for errors or omis­sions in this Site. Deere does not warrant that func­tions contained on this Site will be unin­ter­rupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this Site or the server is free of viruses or other harmful compo­nents. These Terms solely apply to the Site and the Content on the Site; the warranties set forth in these Terms do not super­sede or revoke any warranties or limi­ta­tions of liabil­i­ties that apply to prod­ucts and/or services offered or provided by Deere, its affil­i­ates, its suppliers, or its dealers in sepa­rate written agree­ments.


14. Liability

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, YOU HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ALL LEGAL AND EQUITABLE RIGHTS RELATING TO ALL LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, DEMANDS, ACTIONS, SUITS, DAMAGES AND EXPENSES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CLAIMS FOR COPYRIGHT OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT, INFRINGEMENT OF MORAL RIGHTS, DEFAMATION, INVASION OF RIGHTS OF PRIVACY, RIGHTS OF PUBLICITY, INTRUSION, FALSE LIGHT, PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF PRIVATE FACTS, PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL INJURY OR DISTRESS OR ANY SIMILAR CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION IN TORT, CONTRACT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, NOW KNOWN OR HEREAFTER KNOWN IN ANY JURISDICTION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM USE OF THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT ON THE SITE.

DEERE SHALL HAVE NO OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT OR OTHERWISE FOR LOSS OF USE, REVENUE, OR PROFIT OR FOR ANY OTHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WITH RESPECT TO ANY NONCONFORMANCE OR DEFECT IN THE SITE OR USE OF ANY CONTENT, EACH OF WHICH IS HEREBY EXCLUDED BY AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

To the extent autho­rized under the Terms, any mate­rial down­loaded, uploaded or other­wise obtained through the use of this Site or soft­ware is done at your own discre­tion and risk and you will be solely respon­sible for any damage to your computer system or busi­ness or loss of data that results from the down­load or upload of any such mate­rial or the use of this Site or soft­ware obtained from this Site.

You are solely respon­sible for the main­taining the confi­den­tiality of any pass­word you may use in accessing a non-public restricted area of this Site and for the use of your pass­word, whether or not autho­rized by you. You agree to imme­di­ately notify Deere of any unau­tho­rized use of your pass­word.


15. Claims of Copy­right Infringe­ment

Content may be made avail­able via the Site or other Deere services by you or by third parties not within Deere’s control. Deere is under no oblig­a­tion to scan content used in connec­tion with the Site or other Deere services for the inclu­sion of illegal or imper­mis­sible content. However, Deere respects the copy­right inter­ests of others. In Deere’s sole and exclu­sive discre­tion, it is Deere’s policy not to permit mate­rials that infringe another party’s copy­right to remain on the Site or other Deere services. If you believe any mate­rials on the Site or other Deere services infringe a copy­right, you may provide Deere with written notice that complies with the Digital Millen­nium Copy­right Act and at a minimum contains:

(i) A phys­ical or elec­tronic signa­ture of a person autho­rized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclu­sive right that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the copy­righted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copy­righted works on the Site are covered by a single noti­fi­ca­tion, a repre­sen­ta­tive list of such works on the Site;
(iii) Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the mate­rial that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and infor­ma­tion reason­ably suffi­cient to permit us to locate the mate­rial;
(iv) Infor­ma­tion reason­ably suffi­cient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, tele­phone number, and, if avail­able, an elec­tronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
(v) A state­ment that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the mate­rial in the manner complained of is not autho­rized by the copy­right owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi) A state­ment that the infor­ma­tion in the noti­fi­ca­tion is accu­rate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is autho­rized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclu­sive right that is allegedly infringed.

All copy­right infringe­ment notices should be sent to Deere’s desig­nated agent as follows:

Deere & Company
Attn: Compli­ance Depart­ment, DMCA Manager
One John Deere Place Moline, IL 61265
Email: DMCA@JohnDeere.com

It is Deere’s policy to termi­nate rela­tion­ships regarding content with parties who repeat­edly infringe the copy­rights of others.


16. Forward Looking State­ments

Safe Harbor State­ment under the Private Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­tion Reform Act of 1995: Certain state­ments in the Content or on the Site are forward-looking state­ments that relate to future events, expec­ta­tions, trends and oper­ating periods involve certain factors that are subject to change, and impor­tant risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cause actual results to differ mate­ri­ally. Some of these risks and uncer­tain­ties could affect partic­ular lines of busi­ness, while others could affect all of the Company’s busi­nesses. Deere and its affil­i­ates (“Company”), except as required by law, under­takes no oblig­a­tion to update or revise its outlook, whether as a result of new devel­op­ments or other­wise. Further infor­ma­tion concerning the Company and its busi­nesses, including factors that poten­tially could mate­ri­ally affect the Company’s finan­cial results, is included in the Company’s filings with the SEC including the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quar­terly reports on Form 10-Q.


17. Indem­ni­fi­ca­tion

To the full extent permitted under applic­able law, you agree to indem­nify, defend and hold harm­less Deere and its affil­i­ates and their offi­cers, direc­tors, employees, contrac­tors, and agents, and against any and all losses, liabil­i­ties, expenses, damages and costs, including reason­able attor­neys’ fees and court costs, arising or resulting from your use of the site and any viola­tion of these Terms.


18. General Provi­sions

Unless more specific or detailed agree­ments or provi­sions apply to your use, your trans­ac­tions or your inter­ac­tion with the Site, the Terms consti­tute the sole and entire agree­ment of the parties with respect to the subject matter contained herein and super­sede all prior and contem­po­ra­neous under­stand­ings, agree­ments, repre­sen­ta­tions and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to such subject matter. Notwith­standing any language to the contrary and subject to applic­able law, the Terms shall incor­po­rate by refer­ence the Deere privacy and data state­ment (consis­tent with Section 11) and any applic­able finan­cial poli­cies between Deere (or its constituents) for any finan­cial services provided by Deere or its subsidiaries or affil­i­ates. If any use, service, or trans­ac­tion on this Site, requires an account, or a user-name iden­ti­fier and pass­word, such services or access may be subject to addi­tional terms and condi­tions that supple­ment these Terms or that super­sede these Terms if there is a direct conflict between the Terms and the addi­tional terms and condi­tions.

If any term or provi­sion of these Terms are invalid, illegal or unen­force­able in any juris­dic­tion, such inva­lidity, ille­gality or unen­force­ability shall not affect any other term or provi­sion of the Terms or inval­i­date or render unen­force­able such term or provi­sion in any other juris­dic­tion. Any term or provi­sion that is held to be invalid, illegal or unen­force­able by a court of compe­tent juris­dic­tion shall be severed from the Terms and the remaining terms and provi­sions shall remain in full force for purposes of the applic­able juris­dic­tion.

To the full extent permitted under applic­able law, the Terms are binding on and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respec­tive succes­sors, heirs and assigns.

The parties agree that all matters arising out of or relating to the Terms shall be governed by and construed in accor­dance with the state and federal laws applic­able in the state of New York in the United States of America without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provi­sion or rule (of New York or any other juris­dic­tion). To the maximum extent permitted under applic­able law, any claim or cause of action arising under these Terms shall be brought only in the federal and state courts located in New York, New York in the United States of America, and the parties hereby consent to the exclu­sive juris­dic­tion of such courts. However, any claim arising under consumer protec­tion laws, including but not limited to class action claims, shall be resolved by arbi­tra­tion in New York in the United States of America in accor­dance with the then-current rules of the Amer­ican Arbi­tra­tion Asso­ci­a­tion by one or more arbi­tra­tors appointed in accor­dance with the above rules. Any award rendered in the arbi­tra­tion proceeding will be final and binding upon the parties. Any judg­ment or award of the arbi­tra­tion may be entered in and enforced in any court of compe­tent juris­dic­tion. You agree not to insti­tute any claims against the Deere Parties except as provided expressly in the Terms.