1. DEFINITIONS

'HKDC' and 'we' as used herein refer to Hong Kong Design Centre Limited. HKDC operates and administers the website “www.designdistrict.hk” (the 'Websites') through which certain services are delivered (the 'Services'). 'You' and 'User' as used herein refer to all individuals and/or entities accessing the Services for any reason or any purpose. 'Contents' is used herein to refer to all or any of, as the case may be, information, data, content, analysis, news, reports, programmes, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, audio, software and other materials and services, communications, transmissions and other items, tangible or intangible.

 

2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

HKDC provides the Services to you, subject to the following Terms of Use which we may, in our sole discretion and at any time, without prior notice to you amend from time to time. You accept and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use upon your using any Services or otherwise accessing the Websites or using any information found therein. If you do not accept the Terms of Use, you may not and should not access the Websites or use the services or information provided thereunder. If you have any questions about the Terms of Use, or about accessing and using the Websites, please contact us at [email protected].

 

3. THE SERVICE

All Services are subject to the Terms of Use and HKDC assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure of the provision of any Services. HKDC shall not be liable for any failure of any Services in whole or in part or for your inability to gain access in whole or in part to such Services due to the delay or failure of any communication networks or any party providing such access.

 

4. REGISTRATION

4.1 You may be required to complete in our registration or application forms before certain Services become available to you. In filling in those forms, you undertake to:

a) provide true, accurate, current and complete personal information about yourself/your company;

b) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about any Contents you posted or provided by you on the Websites; and

c) inform us immediately of any changes to the information in paragraphs (a) and (b) above as required.

4.2 HKDC may suspend or terminate your membership or refuse access by you to the websites without prior notice if we suspend any information or any Contents provided by you is not true, accurate, current and complete.

4.3 HKDC has the absolute discretion to refuse registration of any users and to terminate the services/membership for any reason whatsoever.

 

5. PASSWORDS AND ACCOUNT SECURITY

You may receive a password and/or user name upon completing our on-line registration form.

You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the Services. In this regard, you agree that you will be solely responsible to HKDC for all activities that occur under your account. If you become aware of any unauthorised use of your password or your account, you agree to notify HKDC immediately at [email protected].

 

6. HKDC PRIVACY POLICY

For details of our Privacy Policy Statement, please visit here

 

7. USER CONDUCT

7.1 By your conduct in using any Services or otherwise accessing the Websites or using any information found therein, you undertake not to use the Services in the following manners:

a) trespass, break into, access, use or attempt to trespass, break into, access or use any other parts of our servers, and/or any data areas for which you have not been authorized by us;

b) restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Websites;

c) post or transmit any unlawful, fraudulent, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, profane, threatening, abusive, hateful, offensive, or otherwise objectionable or unreasonable Information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that may constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, national or foreign law;

d) post or transmit any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities or schemes or other unsolicited commercial communication, or engage in spamming or flooding;

e) post or transmit any Information or software which contains any virus, trojan horse, worm or other harmful component;

f) post, publish, transmit, reproduce, distribute or in any way exploit any Information obtained through the Websites for commercial purposes; or

g) upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, or distribute in any way, Information obtained through the Websites which is protected by copyright, or other proprietary right, or create derivative works with respect thereto, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner or right-holder.

8. THIRD PARTY INFORMATION

The Contents on the Websites contain information provided by our service providers registered with us for the purpose of providing information on the Websites (“Service Providers”). Such information provided by the Service Providers is, in no circumstances, considered to be recommendation or endorsement by HKDC for any purpose with respect to any person, product or service.

HKDC is not responsible if any such Information is not true, accurate, current or complete and does not verify such Information. Accordingly we do not accept any responsibility whatsoever in respect of such Information. Any use of and reliance on such Information is at your own risk.

 

9. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

You agree that all information provided by you voluntarily make available in the public area are not to be regarded as being collected by HKDC.

 

10. INDEMNITY

10.1 You agree to indemnify and hold HKDC, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees harmless from and against all claims, proceedings, damages, injuries, liabilities from:

a) your acts or inaction in breach of these Terms of Use;

b) your use of any Services; or

c) the Contents, information you provide on the Websites or personally identifiable information you submit, post to or transmit through the Services.

 

11. NO RESALE OF SERVICES

You undertake not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Services, use of the Services, or access to the Services.

 

12. LINKS

12.1 The links on the Websites may take you to other external websites that are not operated by the HKDC, and you acknowledge and agree that HKDC have no responsibility for the accuracy or availability of any Information provided by linked websites.

12.2 Links to other websites do not constitute an endorsement by HKDC of such websites or the Information, products, advertising or other materials available on those websites.

 

13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

13.1 You expressly understand and agree that:

a) Your use of the services is at your own risk. To the extent permitted by law, HKDC expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

b) HKDC makes no warranty that:

I) The services will meet your requirements;

II) The services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free;

III) The results that may be obtained from the use of the services will be accurate or reliable;

IV) The quality of any contents or merchandise purchased or obtained by you through the services will meet your expectations; and

V) Any errors in any software will be corrected.

13.2 Any contents downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the services are obtained at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system and/or mobile telecommunication devices or loss of data that results from the download of any such contents.

13.3 No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from HKDC or through or from the services shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the Terms of use.

 

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

14.1 You expressly understand and agree that, to the extent permitted by law, HKDC shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, resulting from:

a) The use or the inability to use the services;

b)The cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any contents, other information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from the services;

c) Unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmissions or personally identifiable information;

d) Statements or conduct of any third party in connection with any services; or

e) Any other matter relating to the services.

14.2 HKDC's liability, if it is so held liable despite the provisions herein, to the user in relation to the services shall be limited to the amount of the relevant transaction or the direct damages sustained, whichever is less.

 

15. COPYRIGHT AND TRADE MARK POLICIES

15.1 All intellectual property rights subsisting in respect of the Websites belong to HKDC or have been lawfully licensed to HKDC for use on the Website. All rights under applicable laws are hereby reserved.

15.2 You agree that we are free to use, disclose, adopt and modify all and any ideas, concepts, knowhow, proposals, suggestions, comments and other communications and information provided by you to us ('Feedback') in connection with the Website and/or Services without any payment to you. You hereby waive and agree to waive all and any rights and claims for any consideration, fees, royalties, charges and/or other payments in relation to our use, disclosure, adoption and/or modification of any or all of your Feedback.

15.3 For details of HKDC Copyright Policy, please visit here.

 

16. MISCELLANEOUS

Failure of HKDC at any time to enforce any provision of the Terms of Use or to require performance by you or any third parties of any provision hereof shall in no way affect the validity of the Terms of Use or any part hereof or the right of HKDC thereafter to enforce its rights hereunder; nor shall it be taken to constitute a waiver of that default or any other or subsequent default or breach by your or such third parties.

 

17. GOVERNING LAW

The Terms of Use shall for all purposes be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong and you agree irrevocably to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.

 

18. SEVERABILITY

If any provision of these Terms of Use, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance should, for any reason and to any extent, be invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby, but rather shall be enforced to the greatest extent permitted by law.

Please note that this Terms of Use may be amended from time to time. Notices regarding amendments will be posted at this website to inform you of the effective dates of the amendments. Amendments will not have retrospective effect.

 

私隱政策

 

一 ) 一般政策聲明

我們保證完全達到《個人資料（私隱）條例》的規定，或在可能的情況下，更會高於國際認可的個人資料私隱保障標準。為此，我們將確保我們的職員能夠遵守最嚴格的保安及保密標準。

 

二 ) 資料搜集及用途

本網站訪客提供個人資料，全屬自願性質。個人資料可包括姓名、地址、電郵地址等。該等資料只會被我們用作於我們邀請閣下提供資料的相關頁面上所陳述之目的。未經閣下事先同意，我們不會利用閣下的個人資料作任何其他用途，除非有關使用為法律所許可或規定。 當閣下瀏覽本網站時，我們只會將閣下的到訪記錄為一次「點擊」，而不會收集關於閣下任何可供辯識本網站訪客身分的個人資料。該等「點擊」資料可讓我們收集一般統計數據，以顯示每日瀏覽本網站的訪客數目。 當閣下瀏覽本網站的某些服務時，我們會透過小型文字檔案 (cookies) 來收集有關閣下瀏覽的一般資料。該等資料只會被用作分析閣下對我們提供的服務的喜好。閣下可選擇接受或拒絕貯存小型文字檔案 (cookies) ，惟若閣下選擇拒絕貯存小型文字檔案 (cookies) ，閣下將不能使用本網站的某些功能。

 

三 ) 透露個人資料

我們的一般政策是不會向第三者透露可供識別的個人資料，除非此為法律所規定。為滿足上述任何用途之需要，我們可能會將閣下的個人資料轉移給合作夥伴或服務承辦商。我們只提供可讓第三方機構完成合約所列明的服務內容的所需個人資料。我們與第三方機構的合約內將列明有關個人資料的用途，有關個人資料亦會受其私隱政策條例所約束。

 

四 ) 個人資料的保留

在閣下與我們的往來中，我們會保留閣下網上交易的紀錄以作審核之用。我們的一般政策是保留該等資料二十四個月。我們不會提供網上設施供閣下刪除由我們所保留的個人資料。

 

五 ) 個人資料的保安

閣下向我們提供的所有個人資料均受本網站保護，並限定只有獲得授權之職員才可接觸該等資料。

 

六 ) 你的同意及權利

通過使用我們的服務、登記或瀏覽網站，閣下已同意我們對閣下個人資料的收集及使用，以及其他在此聲明中包括的活動。

根據香港個人私隱條例，閣下有以下權利：

• 查問我們是否有保存閣下的個人資料，並可查閱這些資料；

• 要求我們更改不正確的資料；

• 查詢我們對個人資料的政策及做法，以及我們保留了的個人資料類別。

 

七 ) 如閣下欲查閱或更改閣下的個人資料，又或對私穩政策有任何問題，請電郵至 [email protected] 或去函至 香港九龍塘達之路七十二號創新中心一樓

我們可能會修訂私隱政策，我們鼓勵閣下不時瀏覽本私隱政策聲明，以確保閣下得悉最新版本。一切修訂將不具備可追溯效力。

此私隱政策內容為英文之翻譯本。如英文版本和中文版本有任何地方不一致，以英文版本為準。