General Warranty Terms

PRESTIGIO offers a limited warranty to all of PRESTIGIO brand name products. Any product first sold to end user is guaranteed to be free from defects in both components and workmanship under regular uses defined in user manuals during the warranty period. The warranty period commences on the date of purchase.

Attention: Your original Purchase invoice (sales receipt) and warranty card showing the date of purchase, model number and serial number of the product is your proof of the date of purchase.

This International Limited Warranty is applicable and shall be honored in every country where PRESTIGIO or its Authorized Service Providers offer warranty service subject to the terms and conditions provided in this International Limited Warranty Statement.

PRESTIGIO Products Warranty period

The warranty terms for PRESTIGIO products are:

Tablet PC	two (2) years
eBook Readers	two (2) years
GPS Navigator	two (2) years
External Storages	two (2) years
USB Flash Drives	two (2) years
Desktop PCs	two (2) years
Portable DVD Players	two (2) years
Home Media Centers	two (2) years
Bluetooth Car Sets / Hands Free	two (2) years
Power Banks	two (2) years
Input Devices	two (2) years
Web Cameras	two (2) years
Bags	two (2) years
LCD TVs	two (2) years
GPS Bluetooth Receiver	two (2) years
Notebooks (apart from batteries and external power adaptors)	two (2) years
LCD Monitors	three (3) years
Plasma Displays	one (1) year
Accessories (including bundled CD/DVD discs, memory cards and other media, headphones and cables, docking stations, rechargeable battery packs, external power adapters and remote controls)	six (6) months

The International Limited warranty does not affect your statutory rights.

System Warranty

During the warranty period, the defective hardware parts of claimed PRESTIGIO products will be either repaired or replaced at the discretion of PRESTIGIO except in the cases listed in the Limitation of Liability Clause of this document

This International Limited Warranty covers the costs of service parts and labor required to restore your product to fully functional condition. PRESTIGIO will, at its discretion, repair or replace any defective products or parts thereof covered by this International Limited warranty with new or refurbished parts of the product that are equivalent to new products in both functionality and performance. A product or part that is repaired or replaced under this International Limited warranty shall be covered for the remainder of the original warranty period applying to the product or part, or for six months, whichever expires last. All exchanged parts and products under this International Limited Warranty will become the property of PRESTIGIO.

Software Limited Warranty

PRESTIGIO offers no warranty, either explicitly expressed or implicitly implied, for any pre-installed software, its quality, performance, functionality, or compatibility for a particular purpose. Nor does PRESTIGIO warrant that the functions contained in the software will meet specific requirements or that the operation of the software will be uninterrupted or error-free. Thus, the software is sold ‘as is” unless otherwise explicitly stated in writing.

Obtaining the Warranty Service

Warranty service is performed by PRESTIGIO authorized service centers on carry-in basis for products purchased and located within a country where PRESTIGIO or its authorized Service Providers offer the warranty service subject to the terms and conditions provided in this International Limited Warranty.

Warranty service or Returned Merchandise Authorization under this International Limited Warranty will be honored only if claims are made within the warranty period. Contact details of the nearest service centre may be obtained on PRESTIGIO website (www.prestigio.com/service ). In some parts of some countries, a Pick-up and Return warranty service may be provided.

The clients are requested to perform the following actions before claiming PRESTIGIO product as defective:

D1. Make sure to back up any important data and remove all confidential, proprietary or personal information from HDD, optical, of flash memory storage if necessary. Neither PRESTIGIO nor its authorized service centers are responsible for damages to or loss of any programs, data, or other software and files in the storage.

D2. Write down model name, serial number, and problem description. It is highly recommended to register the product failure case at http://www.prestigio.com/service and keep the printout for the records.

D3. Refer to user manual enclosed within the product package and/or information on http://www.prestigio.com/service for important tips on how to operate and troubleshoot the product

D4. Before returning the product for servicing, please reset the system to its default configuration by removing options and external connections, and remove the recently installed software if any.

International Warranty

Warranty may be valid when PRESTIGIO brand name product is purchased in one country and transferred to another country, where an authorized PRESTIGIO service center is located, without voiding the warranty. Please be advised that service availability and response time may vary from country to country.

Warranty repair service involving language based aspects of your product (e.g. keyboards, software) may not be capable of being performed in another language other than the primary language used in the country where the service request is made.

PRESTIGIO is not responsible for any export and import control issues, handling fees, tariffs, import duties, and all other related fees that may be incurred during transferring.

Limitation of Liability

Prestigio reserves the rights to refuse warranty service of products under disputable conditions. Prestigio also holds the rights to declare final decision whether products are within warranty conditions. The following actions and damages will result in voiding the limited warranty:

Damage caused by act of nature, such as fire, flood, wind, earthquake, lightning, etc.
Damage or incompatibility caused by failure to perform a proper installation or to provide an appropriate operational environment for the product, including but not limited to unstable wired/ wireless network connection and phone lines, bad grounding, external electro-magnetic fields, direct sunlight, high humidity and vibration.
Damage caused by impact with other objects, dropping, falls, spilled liquids, or submersion in liquids.
Damage caused by unauthorized repair or disassembling of the product
Damage caused by any other abuse, misuse, mishandling, or misapplication
Damage caused by third party peripherals (including but not limited to visible damages on motherboard or other electronic parts of the product such as burn spots after electric discharge, melting, fusing, splitting, etc.)
Any errors caused by software incompatibilities and viruses as well as unauthorized modification of built-in software (including BIOS).
Deterioration due to normal circumstances including the enclosures, diskette, manuals, and battery packs.
The serial number of the product (or serial number stickers of its parts) has been modified, removed, blurred or damaged.
Cracks and scratches on LCD and plastic material as well as other defects caused by transportation, handling or customer abuse.
The availability of pixel defects within the Class II level prescribed by ISO 13406-2 or other LCD panel defects. Please refer to Appendix A regarding the details of acceptable LCD panels defects.
The effects of so-called “image sticking” and faults in brightness on LCD panels caused by fixed pattern pictures displayed for a long period of time (longer then one day).

Disclaimer of Warranty

THIS WARRANTY IS EXPRESSED IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND OF ALL OTHER OBLIGATIONS OR LIABILITIES ON PRESTIGIO’S PART, AND IT NEITHER ASSUMES NOR AUTHORIZES ANY OTHER PARTY TO ASSUME FOR PRESTIGIO ANY OTHER LIABILITIES. THE FOREGOING CONSTITUTES THE BUYER’S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR THE FURNISHING OF DEFECTIVE OR NONCONFORMING PRODUCTS AND PRESTIGIO WILL NOT IN ANY EVENT BE LIABLE FOR COST OF SUBSTITUTE OR REPLACEMENT, COST OF FACILITIES OR SERVICE, DOWNTIME COSTS, LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES OR GOODWILL, RELIANCE DAMAGES, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF USE IF OR DAMAGE TO ANY ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES BY REASON OF THE FACT THAT SUCH PRODUCTS WILL HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO BE DEFECTIVE OR NONCONFORMING.

This Limited Warranty gives you specific legal rights. You may also have other rights that may vary from state to state or from country to country. You are advised to consult applicable state or country laws for full determination of your rights.

PRESTIGIO products are not designed for any “critical applications.” ”Critical applications” shall mean life support systems, medical applications, connections to implanted medical devices, commercial transportation, nuclear facilities or systems or any other applications where product failure could lead to injury to persons or loss of life or property damage.

Appendix A

Guidelines for pixel defects found in PRESTIGIO products

(effective since 02-04-2006)

At a resolution of 1024x768 pixels, where each consists of three sub-pixels (red, green, blue), approximately 2.4 million transistors are in use altogether. Owing to this very high number of transistors and the extreme complex manufacturing process associated with that, in rare cases defect pixels or sub-pixels might occur.

To regulate the acceptability of defects and to protect the end user, ISO[1] have created a standard for manufacturers to follow. ISO 13406-2 recommends how many defaults are acceptable in a display before it should be replaced, within the terms & conditions of warranty.

According to ISO 13406-2 further fault classes with the following number of faults are specified. Type 1, 2 or 3 refers to pixels differentiation respectively, which denotes always illuminated, never illuminated or containing sub-pixel faults:

LCD panel class	Fault Type 1	Fault Type 2*	Fault Type 3*
Class I	0	0	0
Class II	2	2	5
Class III	5	15	50
Class IV	50	150	500

*Type 1, 2 or 3 refers to pixels differentiation respectively, which denotes always illuminated, never illuminated or containing sub-pixel faults.

All PRESTIGIO LCD displays for monitors, TV and notebooks conform to LCD Class II of ISO 13406-2 standard.

The table below shows the allowable number of malfunctioning pixels and subpixels that are acceptable, depending on the native resolution of the LCD panel:

Resolution standard	Number of pixels	Acceptable quantity of defects
Resolution standard	Number of pixels	fault type 1*	fault type 2*	fault type 3*
1024 x 768	786,432	2	2	4
1280 x 1024	1,310,720	3	3	7
1400 x 1050	1,680,000	3	3	8
1600 x 1200	1,920,000	4	4	10

*Type 1, 2 or 3 refers to pixels differentiation respectively, which denotes always illuminated, never illuminated or containing sub-pixel faults.

[1] ISO 13406-2:2001 - Ergonomic requirements for work with visual displays based on flat panels - Part 2 (www.iso.org).