LAST UPDATED 1 JULY 2020
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ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF SERVICES
Legalmapp Limited, its affiliates, subsidiaries and parent company
(collectively, “we”, “us”, “our” or “Legalmapp”) provides services to you. Your
use of any of Legalmapp services, websites, applications, software or contents
(collectively, the “Legalmapp Service”) provided on, from or through any of our
application or websites and/or their forwarding websites (“Website”) is subject
to these terms of service (the “Terms of Service”) in effect at the time of
your use. Legalmapp reserves the right to update and change these Terms of
Service from time to time without notice or acceptance by you, so please check
this page frequently for updates and changes.
Your use of the Legalmapp Service is also subject to the Legalmapp Privacy
Policy in effect at the time of your use, which is incorporated herein. You can
review the most current version of the Legalmapp Privacy Policy at this
website.
Your use of the Legalmapp Service may also be subject to additional terms,
conditions, policies and/or agreements applicable to a specific website,
service, software, service level or version (“Additional Terms”). In the event
of any conflict between these Terms of Service and the Additional Terms, such
Additional Terms will prevail.
By agreeing to these Terms of Service or making any use of the Legalmapp
Service, you signify your irrevocable acceptance of these Terms of Service in
effect at the time of your use. If you are an individual acting as a
representative of a corporation or other legal entity which wishes to use the
Legalmapp Service, then you represent and agree that you have the authority to
accept these Terms of Service on behalf of such corporation or other legal
entity and that all provisions of these Terms of Service will bind that
corporation or other legal entity in place of you.
YOUR ACCOUNT
The Legalmapp Service is not intended for users under the age of eighteen
(18). By signifying your acceptance of these Terms of Service or making any use
of the Legalmapp Service, you represent and warrant that you are at least
eighteen (18) years of age.
You may be required to register, or previously registered, for a Legalmapp
account in order to access the functionality of some of the Legalmapp Service.
Legalmapp can refuse registration of, or cancel, any account in its sole
discretion at any time without reason, notice or liability.
Your account may be accessed through your social media or email or instant
messaging user ID. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
your login details of your Legalmapp account (“Credentials”) and shall not
share the Credentials with anyone, and you are fully and solely responsible for
all activities that occur under your Credentials, whether authorized by you or
not. It is your responsibility to take adequate precautions with your
Credentials and to immediately notify Legalmapp and the social media or email
or instant messaging service provider of any unauthorized use of your
Credentials.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Your own text, images, audiovisual media and any other form of intellectual
property, including the data, ideas, inventions, designs, patterns and
processes in such material (collectively, “Content”) that you post on or
through the Legalmapp Service belongs to you and you may use it in any other
way without restriction. But by using the Legalmapp Service, you are granting
Legalmapp a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right and
licence to use, reproduce, create derivative works of distribute, publicly
perform and publicly display your Content on and through the Legalmapp Service
and on and through services affiliated with Legalmapp, regardless of the form
of media used or of whether such services now exist or are developed in the
future. If you post Content on or through the Legalmapp Service, you represent
and warrant that you have the right to post that Content and to grant the above
rights to Legalmapp.
Legalmapp may preserve your Content and may also disclose such Content, with
or without notice to you, if required to do so by law or in the good faith
belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
comply with legal process;
enforce these Terms of Service;
respond to claims that your Content violates the rights of any third party; or
protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Legalmapp, its users and
the public.
You understand that posting your Content on or through the Legalmapp Service
is entirely voluntary and will expose your Content to public display in a
non-confidential manner. You understand that Legalmapp and/or any past, present
or future client of Legalmapp (each, a “Client”) may view your Content and may
develop or have developed Content which is identical or similar to yours, may
already know of such Content from other sources or may have taken or will take
some other action with respect to such Content. Therefore, you represent and
agree to all of the following and acknowledge that Legalmapp and its Clients
are explicitly relying on such representations and agreement with regard to
your Content:
The Content represents your own original work and you have all necessary
rights to disclose the Content. In doing so, you are not violating the rights
of any third party and you know of no other individual or entity whose rights
will be infringed by the Content being viewed and used as described in these
Terms of Service.
Your disclosure of the Content does not violate a confidential relationship
with any third party, establish a confidential relationship with Legalmapp or
any of its Clients or obligate Legalmapp or any of its Clients to treat your
Content (or any related materials) as secret or confidential.
Legalmapp and/or any of its Clients may give your Content such consideration
as is warranted by their respective judgments. Review of your Content shall not
be construed as any recognition of the novelty or originality of the Content.
Neither Legalmapp nor any of its Clients is obligated to give reasons for
making use of or rejecting your Content or to reveal its activities that are
related to your Content.
Neither Legalmapp nor any of its Clients has any obligation, either express
or implied, to make any use of your Content. However, if Legalmapp and/or any
of its Clients do make use of your Content, whether such use is intentional or
inadvertent, no compensation will be due to you or anyone else for the use of
your Content or the use of any data, ideas, inventions, designs, patterns
and/or processes similar to, related to or derived from your Content.
Neither Legalmapp nor any of its Clients assumes any obligation with respect
to any of your Content except as set forth in these Terms of Service, unless
and until it enters into a separate written contract with you, and then only as
expressed in that separate written contract. In the absence of a separate
written contract, your rights with regard to Legalmapp or any of its Clients’
user of your Content shall be as described in these Terms of Service and as
existing under the laws of Hong Kong.
If your Content is the subject of a pending or issued patent, you have
disclosed or will disclose that fact in connection with posting your Content on
or through the Legalmapp Service. To the extent you hold a patent in the
Content, no licence under any patent is herein granted. Any licence to use
patented Content shall be in the form of a separate written contract, in which
event your, Legalmapp’s and/or any of its Clients’ respective obligations shall
be only those expressed in such separate written contract.
Neither the discussion or negotiations between you, on the one hand, and
Legalmapp and/or any of its Clients, on the other hand, relating to the
possible purchase or license of your Content, nor the making of any offer for
the purchase or license of your Content, shall prejudice Legalmapp and/or any
of its Clients in any way, or be construed as recognition of the novelty,
originality, priority, other rights or value of your Content. Further,
Legalmapp’s and/or any of its Clients’ consideration, discussions or negotiations
with you will not in any way impair Legalmapp’s and/or any of its Clients’
right to contest the validity or infringement of your rights in and to the
Content.
You hereby irrevocably release and forever discharge Legalmapp and its
Clients and their affiliates and subsidiaries (together, the “Released
Parties”) from any and all actions, causes of actions, claims, damages,
liabilities and demands, whether absolute or contingent and of any nature
whatsoever, which you now have or hereafter can, shall or may have against the
Released Parties or their successors and assigns with respect to the Content,
including without limitation in respect of how the Released Parties, directly
or indirectly, use the Content, with the sole exception that the foregoing release
and discharge does not apply to your right to bring a claim of patent
infringement arising from use of your Content.
Content posted by another person or company on or through the Legalmapp
Service belongs to the poster. Except as expressly permitted in these Terms of
Service, you do not have the right to use, reproduce, create derivative works
of, distribute, publicly perform or publicly display any Content that does not
belong to you, other than viewing of the Content on or through the Legalmapp
Service as Legalmapp may make available.
Legalmapp owns the Legalmapp Service as a whole, including all computer
code, graphics, user interfaces and audiovisual content used to provide the
Legalmapp Service, and the combination of all the elements on the Legalmapp
Service. They are all copyrighted works of Legalmapp. Various other aspects of
the Legalmapp Service may be protected by intellectual property laws including
laws of copyright, trademark, service mark, patent and trade secret.
Legalmapp owns all right, title and interest in and to the Legalmapp
Service. Legalmapp reserves all rights to the Legalmapp Service that are not
expressly granted herein. By way of example only, and not limitation, you do
not have the right to modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion
of the Legalmapp Service and you do not have the right to index or aggregate
any portion of the Legalmapp Service (either by hand or by means of a robot,
spider, or other device). Nothing in these Terms of Service will be construed
as granting you any property rights in the Legalmapp Service or to any
invention or any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property
right that has been issued, or that may issue, based on the Legalmapp Service.
CODE OF CONDUCT
Legalmapp has the right, but not the obligation, to remove or block Content
from the Legalmapp Service that it determines in its sole discretion to be in
violation of these Terms of Service, to be unlawful, offensive, threatening,
libellous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, that violates any
party’s intellectual property or that is detrimental to the quality or intended
spirit of the Legalmapp Service. Legalmapp also has the right, but not the
obligation, to limit or revoke the privileges of the account of anyone who
posts such Content or engages in such behaviour.
Legalmapp will use common and business sense regarding Content or behavior
allowed on or through the Legalmapp Service. Examples of unacceptable Content
or behaviour include:
Abuse, harassment, threats, flaming or intimidation of any person or
organization.
Engaging in or contributing to any illegal activity or activity that violates
others’ rights.
Use of derogatory, discriminatory or excessively graphic language.
Providing information that is false, misleading or inaccurate.
Hacking or modifying the Legalmapp Service or another website to falsely imply
an association with Legalmapp.
Implying or pretending to be affiliated with a company or organization with
which you are not affiliated, or misrepresenting the extent of your affiliation
or role with an affiliated company or organization.
Transmitting worms, viruses or harmful software.
Sending unwanted messages or spam to other users.
Disclosing personal or proprietary information of another person or
organization.
Interfering with or disrupting the Legalmapp Service or servers or networks
connected to the Legalmapp Service.
Transferring or assigning your Legalmapp Account to any third party without our
prior written approval, and such any assignment by you will be null and void.
Legalmapp cannot and need not control all Content posted by third parties on
or through the Legalmapp Service, and does not guarantee the accuracy,
integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the
Legalmapp Service you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive,
indecent, incorrect or objectionable and you agree that in no circumstances
will Legalmapp be liable in any way for any Content, including any errors or
omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a
result of your use of any Content. You understand that you must evaluate and
bear all risks associated with the use of any Content, including any reliance
on the content, integrity, and accuracy of such Content. All information
provided on or via the Website is for information purposes only. You should
seek your own independent advice with respect to any Content. If you would like
to report objectionable materials, you may use the flagging feature by clicking
the “Inappropriate” link attached to every topic post and reply. Urgent issues
can be reported to info@Legalmapp.org.
INTERNATIONAL USE
The Legalmapp Service is hosted in Hong Kong. If you use the Legalmapp
Service from outside of Hong Kong, you acknowledge that you are voluntarily
transferring information (potentially including personally-identifiable
information) and Content to Hong Kong and agree that Legalmapp’s collection,
use, storage and sharing of your information and Content is exclusively subject
to the laws of Hong Kong, not of the jurisdiction in which you are located.
You will comply with all Hong Kong laws, rules and regulations applicable to
the export of products, services, software and technical data regardless of the
jurisdiction in which you are located.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Copyright Infringement Notices. If you believe that any material available
on or through the Legalmapp Service violates your copyright, you may send
Legalmapp a copyright infringement notice. Your notice must be sent to us in
writing and must include substantially all of the following:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of
the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if
multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single
notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the
subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is
to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Legalmapp to
locate the material.
Complete URLs or link or saved image for each instance of the allegedly
infringing material.
Contact Information.
Your confirmation that use of the material in the manner complained of is not
authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
Your confirmation that the information in the copyright infringement notice is
accurate, and you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive
right that is allegedly infringed.
Please be aware that any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that
material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability.
Copyright Abuse Policy. Legalmapp will terminate, in appropriate
circumstances, account holders of Legalmapp’s system or network who are repeat
copyright infringers.
CANCELLATION AND TERMINATION
Legalmapp, in its sole discretion, may terminate your account and remove and
discard any Content within the Legalmapp Service for any reason, including and
without limitation lack of use, or if Legalmapp believes that you have violated
or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms of Service. In
such event, any contracts, verbal or written or assumed, in conjunction with
your account and all its parts, at Legalmapp’s discretion, will be terminated
as well.
Legalmapp, in its sole discretion and at any time, may discontinue providing
the Legalmapp Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. Any
termination of your access to the Legalmapp Service under any provision of
these Terms of Service may be effected without prior notice. Legalmapp may
immediately deactivate or delete your account, as applicable, and all related
information and Content and bar any further access to such information, Content
or to the Legalmapp Service. Legalmapp will not be liable to you or any third
party for any termination of your access to the Legalmapp Service.
After cancellation or termination of your account for any reason, you will
no longer have access to your account and all information and Content in your
account or that you have stored on the Legalmapp Service may be, but is not
required to be, deleted by Legalmapp. Legalmapp will have no liability for
information or Content that is deleted due to the cancellation or termination
of your account for any reason.
If you are a member of a private community, and that private community is
cancelled or terminated, Content posted to that private community will no
longer be available to you. Such Content may be, but is not required to be,
deleted by Legalmapp. Legalmapp will have no liability for information or
Content that is deleted due to the cancellation or termination of a private
community.
ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE ONLY TO CLIENTS
If you are a Client of the Legalmapp Service, the following terms also apply
to you.
Subscriptions to the Legalmapp Service may be made available in free or paid
versions and/or in different service levels. Not all of the features and
functionality of the Legalmapp Service may be available in each version or
service level. The features and functionality of each version or service level
may be changed from time to time at Legalmapp’s discretion.
In order to subscribe to the Legalmapp Service, you may be required to
provide Legalmapp with billing and account information (“Billing Information”)
for a credit card, payment card or another payment system for which you are
authorized to approve charges (each, a “Payment Source”) to allow Legalmapp to
collect payment from you for your use of the Legalmapp Service. You must
provide Legalmapp with, update and keep such Billing Information true,
accurate, current and complete.
Unless other payment arrangements have been made in advance and confirmed by
Legalmapp, you authorize Legalmapp to automatically and immediately bill your
Payment Source when charges for your use of the paid version of the Legalmapp
Service are due, without any further action on your part or other prior notice
on the part of Legalmapp. You assume full responsibility for such charges, even
if such charges are declined or not paid by your Payment Source.
If you register to use a paid version of the Legalmapp Service on a free-trial
basis and you do not cancel the trial before the expiration of the trial
period, then, upon the expiration of the trial period, your account may be
automatically converted to a paid account and, unless other payment
arrangements have been made in advance and confirmed by Legalmapp, your Payment
Source will be billed for that paid Legalmapp Service.
If your Payment Source is invalid, if charges billed to your Payment Source
are declined or not paid or if you fail to pay charges for a paid version of
the Legalmapp Service when due, your account may be downgraded, suspended or
cancelled, at Legalmapp’s discretion. If your account is suspended, Legalmapp
may, but is not obligated to, maintain your account and/or related content and
information, in order to allow you pay the past-due charges and restore your
account.
Unless stated to the contrary, all charges for paid versions of the
Legalmapp Service are non-refundable, even if your use of the paid version of
the Legalmapp Service is cancelled before the end of your current billing
period.
You are solely responsible for any and all taxes, levies, charges and fees
incurred or that may be payable to any taxing authority in connection with the
transactions hereunder, other than any income tax incurred by Legalmapp. All
fees stated for use of the Legalmapp Service are net of any applicable taxes.
You may not assign your subscription to the Legalmapp Service, and such any
assignment by you will be null and void; provided, however, that you may assign
your subscription to the Legalmapp Service to its successor in interest in
connection with the sale of your business as a going concern or in connection
with the sale of all, or substantially all, of your assets.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We may, in our sole discretion and with or without notice, vary, modify or
discontinue the Legalmapp Service or any part of them without notice.
You acknowledge that:
The information on the Legalmapp Service, in particular our applications and
Website are provided to you on an “As Is” and “As Available” basis, without
warranty or condition, either express or implied by statute or common law,
including without limitation any implied warranties or conditions of accuracy,
fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted use, reliability,
security, timeliness or freedom from computer virus in relation to such
contents. We will not be liable for any errors in, omissions from,
misstatements or misrepresentations (whether express or implied) concerning any
such information.
The Legalmapp Service may contain materials contributed by third parties and
link to external website. We expressly declare that we have not approved or
endorsed those materials or links. Such external websites are not within our
control and may not follow the same privacy, security, or accessibility
standards as ours. The provision of any such materials or links shall not
constitute any form of cooperation or affiliation with us of any such third
parties or external websites nor gives rise to any representation, statement or
warranty, express or implied, that we agree or do not disagree with the
contents of any such materials or external websites.
We will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility
whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation
consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect
of any use or misuse of or reliance on the information delivered on the
Legalmapp Service or inability to use any of the Legalmapp Service.
We make no representation, promise, warranty, undertaking or guarantee as to
the quality, resolution, completeness, accuracy, usefulness, continuity,
smoothness or timeliness of the Legalmapp Service.
Nothing you do on or in relation to the Legalmapp Service will transfer any
intellectual property rights to you or license you to exercise any intellectual
property rights.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance
the Legalmapp Service shall be subject to these Terms of Service.
We may at any time employ and/or install software in any computer and/or
mobile device(s) used by you, for purposes of detecting any downloading,
copying, storing, ripping, distribution, sharing or re-direction of any content
from the Legalmapp Service in any way or through any media.
LINKS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
We have no control over any third party websites and applications linked to
the Legalmapp Service; and are not responsible for the content or accuracy of
any off-site pages or any other third party websites linked to the Legalmapp
Service (including without limitation sites linked through advertisements).
Some links which appear on the Legalmapp Service are automatically generated,
and may be offensive or inappropriate to some people. The inclusion of any link
does not imply that we endorse the linked site, and you use the links at your
own risk. Your correspondence or dealings with, or participation in promotions
of, advertisers on the Legalmapp Service are solely between you and such
advertisers. We will not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage of any
sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the
presence of links and advertisements on the Legalmapp Service.
We may use third-party advertising companies to track and/or measure
advertising effectiveness on the Legalmapp Service. These companies may use
information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visits to the Legalmapp Service in order to measure
advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify us, our employees, sub-contractors, licensors and
agents against and from any third party claims, liabilities, losses, injuries,
damages, costs or expenses incurred by us which arise out of or from your use
or misuse of the Legalmapp Service, any specific services or features
associated therewith, including but not limited to our mobile application
distributors’ services, payment on any third party platform, and breach of
these Terms of Service, whether or not based on contract, tort (including
negligence), misstatement, misrepresentation or otherwise.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Under no circumstances shall Legalmapp or its licensors be liable to you on
account of that user’s use or misuse of or reliance on the Legalmapp Service
arising from any claim relating to these Terms of Service. Such limitation of
liability shall apply to prevent recovery of direct, indirect, incidental,
consequential, special, exemplary, and punitive damages whether such claim is
based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, (even
if Legalmapp or its licensors have been advised of the possibility of such
damages). Such limitation of liability shall apply whether the damages arise
from use or misuse of and reliance on the Legalmapp Service, from inability to
use the Legalmapp Service, or from the interruption, suspension, or termination
of the Legalmapp Service (including such damages incurred by third parties).
This limitation shall also apply, without limitation, to the costs of
procurement of substitute goods or services, lost profits, or lost data. Such
limitation shall further apply with respect to the performance or
non-performance of the Legalmapp Service or any information or merchandise that
appears on, or is linked or related in any way to Legalmapp. Such limitation
shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of any limited
remedy and to the fullest extent permitted by law.
GENERAL
These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, without giving effect
to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of
residence.
If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or
portion of these Terms of Service to be unenforceable, the remainder of the
Terms of Service will continue in full force and effect.
These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior
or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding
such subject matter (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the
Terms of Service).
Any waiver of any provision of the Terms of Service will be effective only
if in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Legalmapp.
