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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

TERMS FOR USERS, TRIAL USERS AND GUEST USERS INCLUDING USERS OF ORGANISATIONS SUBMITTING CONTENT TO LEGAL CENTRIX

These Terms are for Users, Trial Users, and Guest Users of this Site.

By using this site, you signify your assent to these terms of use, including the terms of use for users, trial users and guest users, termination, severability, the disclaimer, the limitation of liability, the protection of intellectual property rights and data protection, below. If you do not agree to all of these terms, please do not use the site.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to these terms (including the Legal & Financial Media Limited Privacy Policies) will mean you accept those changes.

1. TERMINATION

These terms are effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate these terms at any time by destroying all materials obtained from any and all Legal & Financial Media site(s) and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of these terms or otherwise. These terms will terminate immediately without notice from Us if in our sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of these terms. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this site and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of these terms or otherwise.

2. SEVERABILITY; ENTIRE AGREEMENT; OTHER

If any provision of these terms shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This is the entire agreement between us relating to the subject matter herein. Save and except as provided hereinabove in the preamble to this Terms of Service, this agreement shall not be modified except in writing, signed by both parties.  

3. GOVERNING LAW

These terms shall be governed by Hong Kong law and you shall submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Hong Kong SAR courts.

4. TERMS OF USE

By using this website you agree to these terms and to the disclaimer and limitation of liability below. If you do not agree to these terms please leave the site immediately.

1.       As a User, You have a non-exclusive licence to search and view the materials on a Legal Centrix website which includes Legal Centrix and legalcentrix.com (collectively referred to as "Legal Centrix”, "we," "us," or "our" herein) for personal and employer information, browsing and research purposes, and for evaluating whether you wish for your firm or company to be a paid subscriber to a Legal Centrix online / web service you are using.

2. If you are a Trial or Guest User for a Premium service or Premium aspect of the website, during the trial period and in respect of the service(s) that you are trialling, you undertake that you will not:

a.       Download to a local machine, network or disk any materials from the site and save them in electronic form
b.       Copy and paste any materials from the site
c.       Make, print out, or copy of any materials from the site 
d.       Modify any materials from the site

3. Once you have logged into a Service as a user, you are responsible for immediately reading the online service terms and conditions. You agree to and accept ALL of these terms and conditions. Should you not accept thfese terms and conditions, you are obligated to log out of the service immediately and inform Us of your decision not to accept the terms and conditions by sending an email to support@legalcentrix.com titled "Terms Not Accepted."  

5. DISCLAIMER

The materials in the site are provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, Legal Centrix and its contributors disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Legal & Financial Media do not warrant that the features and/or functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Legal Centrix and its contributors do not warrant or make any representations regarding any actions (or lack thereof) taken as a result of relying on the site, or the use or the results of the use of the materials in this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not Legal Centrix or Media Centrix Ltd) assume the entire cost of all necessary correction and changes.

In particular,

• Information may be incorrect or out of date, and may not constitute a definitive or complete statement of the law or the legal market in any area.
• Materials are not intended to constitute advice in any specific situation
• To the maximum extent permitted by law all terms and conditions other than those stated here, warranties, undertakings, inducements or representations whether express or implied, statutory or by common law, custom, trade usage or otherwise in connection with this website or its use are excluded.
• You use this site at your own risk. Neither Legal Centrix, nor any affiliate or subsidiary nor their respective employees or agents, sub-contractors, etc. shall be liable to you or any other party for any losses or damages whatsoever arising in connection with this site, whether under this licence or other contract or in consequence of any misrepresentation, misstatement or tortious act or omission including negligence.

6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall Legal Centrix be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this site, even if Legal Centrix or a Legal Centrix authorised representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall Legal Centrix's total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action whether in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence), or otherwise exceed the amount paid by you for any 12 month period, if any, for accessing this site.

7. PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS

Paid subscriptions may be arranged with individuals or organisation. Please refer to the Terms of Service for terms and conditions of subscriptions and customer agreements.

8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – FOR ALL USERS

Copyright - Restrictions on Use of Materials

8.1 This site is operated by Legal Centrix and Media Centrix Ltd. and its affiliates, (collectively referred to as "Legal Centrix”, "we," "us," or "our" and “the Company” herein). No material from Us or any website owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by Us may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of Our copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of these terms, the use of any such material on any other website or networked computer environment is prohibited. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to Us.

In the event you download any permitted content or software from the site, the content or software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed to you by Us. We do not transfer title to the Software to you.

8.2 We represent that we are the owners, joint owners, or licensees of all Content and Information in the Service, including without limitation text, graphics, logos, images and software, and that we have the right to grant the Licence hereunder. Those works are protected by copyright, trade mark and other intellectual property laws around the world. All such rights are hereby expressly reserved. We grant users of this website a non-exclusive, limited, revocable licence to view, print, and distribute materials contained on this website and/or any portion thereof, pursuant to the following conditions:

• You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference . You must not photocopy or scan any printed copy [or store a copy of it on any server or other storage device connected to a network].
• You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
• Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not delete any copyright notice from any material printed or downloaded.
• You must not license or resell any material downloaded, printed or accessed from our site. You are allowed to use it for non-commercial purposes and in order to update your legal knowledge and stay up to date with legal affairs. You must not use it for commercial purposes without our prior written consent.
• You must not incorporate any material downloaded, printed or accessed from our site in any legal advice or transaction documents.
• You must not use any of the trade marks which are included on the website without express written permission from the owner; or display or use a link in a manner that causes this website or any portion of its content to display within a frame, be associated with any advertising or sponsorship not part of the website, or otherwise incorporate website content into a third-party website; or alter, block or otherwise prevent display of any content of the website; or link to this website if if the linked website infringes any third party rights or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws or regulations.

If you print off, copy, download or use any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

9. DATA PROTECTION

We process all data in accordance with our Privacy Policy, available in this website.

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CONTRIBUTOR / SUBMISSION TERMS

Contributor Terms / Submission Terms

The following terms and conditions apply for the submission of any content to Legal Centrix.

1. Your Work with Legal Centrix (the “Publisher”):

1.1 You have agreed to submit any of the following: Articles, updates, newsletters, event listings, webinar listings, videos, presentations, case judgment summaries, drafting note articles, sample contracts and forms and/or other content (“Your Content”) to Publisher according to a schedule (if any), number or frequency so agreed. By submitting Your Content to Publisher, you are deemed to have accepted these terms;

1.2 You shall be credited as the contributor and author or editor as the case may be of Your Content;

1.3 Your name, firm or company name, contact details and where possible, firm or company logo shall appear with Your Content and on any web page displaying Your Content. Where the title of Your Content appears on a Publisher web page, your name and firm or company name will appear, other than in Publisher online search engine results, where the title or only part of the title may appear;

1.4 Publisher agrees not to modify Your Content without first notifying You. Modification shall not include changing the title or description of Your Content, primarily for space limitation reasons, and general grammatical changes to improve the copy. You shall receive notification of the final publication ready version by email or newsletter;

1.5 Your name and firm name may be included in marketing materials by the Publisher. Publisher will notify You of such inclusion in advance.

2. Consideration, Rights.

2.1 You agree to grant to Publisher the irrevocable publishing right to Your Content and all revisions and updates thereof (if any), to reproduce and distribute Your Content, including translations and derivative works, throughout the world in printed, electronic or any other medium, in all languages, for unlimited duration, and in turn to licence, authorise and assign others to do the same.

2.2 For the editing and submission of contracts, forms and drafting note articles, you agree to grant to the Publisher the exclusive irrevocable right and copyright according to Clause 2.1 of these terms. For Overviews and Notes, you agree to grant the Publisher the exclusive irrevocable publishing right but not copyright.

2.3 The Publisher may require the exclusive irrevocable publishing right for the submission of articles and updates, and if so, will specifically agree this with You.

2.4 You agree to the assignment of this agreement and the rights herein by the Publisher.

3. Author Responsibilities.

3.1 You promise that Your Work will be your original work or that of Publisher, not previously published other than by Publisher and not currently under consideration by another publication unless you have so stated or known to You and Publisher, and that you have the full right and authority to agree to these terms and to grant the rights to Publisher. If your work contains material which is someone else’s copyright, you promise to inform Publisher of this fact and state that you have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner and that the material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the text.

3.2 Infringement. You promise that Your work will not contain anything which is libelous, illegal, or infringes anyone’s copyright or other rights.

3.3 Accuracy. You promise that Your work will be accurate and current to the date submitted to the Publisher or other date specified at the time of submission, and of the quality that both you and Publisher expect.

4. Applicable Law.

4.1 This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in all respects in accordance with, the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“HKSAR”).

5. Termination

5.1 You may terminate Your Co-operation or Agreement with the Publisher at any time without reason upon sixty days' notice unless otherwise stated in Your Agreement.

5.2 The Publisher shall have the right to terminate this Agreement upon written notice to You: (a) Upon a material breach by You, Your officers or employees of any material provision of this Agreement where such breach is not remedied within 90 days of notice, (b) Upon the termination of Your business, insolvency or the filing of a petition in bankruptcy. Termination under this clause may mean immediate termination of any licence(s) to use the service, at the discretion of the Publisher, or (c) as may be additionally provided for in Your Agreement with the Publisher.