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The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation is a
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Content

This website has been prepared solely for the purposes of providing information about the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation (the “Foundation”) and advancing safe, reliable, and cost-effective arc welding design and practice worldwide. This website has been compiled in good faith by the Foundation. However, no representation is made as to the completeness or accuracy of the information it contains. In particular, you should be aware that this information may be incomplete, may contain errors or may have become out of date. The Foundation makes no commitment, and disclaims any duty, to update any of the information on the website and reserves the right to add, modify or delete any information at this website at any time. This information includes technical articles submitted to the Foundation by third parties and is provided “as is” without any warranty or implied term of any kind.

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The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation does not sell any personal information or e-mail addresses collected on it’s Web site. It also does not share this information with any other organizations not directly affiliated with the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. In addition, our Web site tracks information about the visits to our Web site through various methods including the use of cookies. These statistics are used internally to better provide services to the public and are not provided to other organizations.

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