The Company undertakes to indemnify you in respect of any loss of or damage to the goods while in the actual custody or control of the Company or of any independent contractor up to the limit of liability stated in paragraph 2.7 below, PROVIDED THAT the Company shall not be liable for loss, damage, liability or expense directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to, by or arising from:
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any such loss, damage, liability or expense suffered which is caused, or materially contributed to, by you, your agent or the owner of the goods (beneficial or otherwise), or any of its director, officers, employees, agents or shareholders (beneficial or otherwise);
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any burglary or theft during the exhibition
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natural ageing, gradual deterioration, inherent defect, rust or oxidisation, moth or vermin;
breakage of container (and articles contained therein) unless such breakage is caused by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the Company;
house breaking other than at the premises of the Company;
aridity, humidity, exposure to light or extremes of temperature unless such loss or damage is caused by fire, lightning, explosion, storm, flood or earthquake;
your dishonesty or the dishonesty of your agent or the dishonesty of the owner of the goods (beneficial or otherwise), or any of its director, officers, employees, agents or shareholders (beneficial or otherwise) acting alone or in collusion with others;
the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous or contaminating properties of any nuclear installation, reactor or other nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof;
any weapons of war employing atomic or nuclear fission and/or fusion or other like reaction or radioactive force of matter;
an act or incident which occurs or is committed whether directly or indirectly by reason of or in connection with war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities or warlike operations (whether war be declared or not), civil war, rebellion, revolution, insurrection, military or usurped power, seizure of power arising from a military conspiracy, civil commotion or civil unrest, sabotage, terrorism including any form of cyber attack;
ionizing radiations from or contamination or radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste or from the combustion of nuclear fuel;
any chemical, biological, bio-chemical or electromagnetic weapon;
a Force Majeure Event, which shall mean any cause preventing either party from performing any or all of its obligations which arises from, or is attributable to, acts, events or omissions beyond the reasonable control of the party so prevented, including, without limitation, fire, flood, explosion, earthquake, accident or other calamity, epidemic, quarantine restrictions, embargos, strikes, lock-outs, labour dispute or labour stoppage, disruption of telecommunications and interruption or degradation of any public utility or service, any act of government or any law or governmental order, rule or regulation, unless such circumstances were known by the parties at the date this contract was made as indicated above
negligent packing of the container or the goods or incorrect addressing or labelling of such container or the goods;
consequences of any insufficient or incorrect description or valuation of the goods;
the contents of a sealed container, where the container is delivered with the seals intact;
any opening of container or the goods required by authorized officials, whether customs or otherwise, to inspect the container or the goods;
any loss or damage to containers or the goods relating and/or arising out of directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from the use or operation, as a means of inflicting harm, of any computer, computer system, computer software program, malicious code, computer virus or process or any other electronic system;