ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF USE
Welcome to the National Family Council’s (hereinafter referred to as “We” or “Us” as the context requires) ThinkFamily.sg website (hereinafter referred to as “ThinkFamily.sg” or “This Website” as the context requires).
By accessing and continuing to access This Website (www.thinkfamily.sg), you are deemed to have agreed to be bound by these Terms of Use (“TOU”). If you do not agree to be bound by these TOU, please do not continue to access this web site.
These TOU are subject to change by Us from time to time without prior notice to you. Changes to these TOU will be posted on This Website and you can review the most current version of these TOU at any time on This Website. You hereby agree that continued use of This Website after any changes to these TOU will amount to agreement to be bound by the modified TOU.
In addition, when using particular ThinkFamily.sg website features, you shall be subject to any guidelines or rules applicable to such features which may be posted from time to time on This Website. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into these TOU.
REGISTRATION DATA
In consideration of your use of This Website, you agree to:
- provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by any registration form (such information being the “Registration Data”); and
- maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
You hereby agree that if you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if We have grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, We may suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future access to or use by you of This Website or any parts or features thereof.
PRIVACY POLICY
Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference into these TOU. The complete
Privacy Policy is accessible at this location.
REGISTERED USER, ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY
If you are a registered user, you will receive a password and account designation upon completing the website’s registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to:
- notify Us immediately of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security; and
- ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Clause.
WEBSITE CONTENT
The contents of This Website, unless otherwise apparent, are owned by or controlled by Us and are protected by copyright, trademark and other forms of intellectual property rights.
By accessing This Website, We hereby grant you a revocable limited licence to reproduce content from This Website for the purpose of online and/or offline viewing at a single computer, for personal and non-commercial use. You are not permitted to download or otherwise reproduce This Website in its entirety. You are also expressly prohibited from copying, reproducing or adapting content from This Website without prior written permission from Us.
USER CONTENT
This Website may contain comments, opinions, views, information, data, text, sound, photographs, graphic images, video, messages or other material (“User Content”), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, provided by users of This Website. User Content is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such User Content originate. This means that you are solely responsible for all User Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via This Website, in particular its Discussion Forum, Blog or Chat features. You hereby agree that by contributing any User Content, you assume and take personal responsibility and liability for such User Content contributed by you.
We do not claim ownership of User Content you submit or make available for inclusion on This Website. However, with respect to User Content you submit or make available for inclusion on This Website, you hereby grant Us a perpetual world-wide, royalty-free, non-revocable and non-exclusive license to copy, transmit, use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, make available, provide access to and publicly display such User Content.
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR USER CONTENT
You hereby acknowledge and agree that:
- We do not monitor or exercise any editorial or other control over all or any of the User Content posted via This Website and, as such, We do not warrant, guarantee or make any representation as to the accuracy, integrity or quality of User Content;
- you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any User Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such User Content, before making use of or relying on all and any User Content; and
- by accessing or using This Website, you may be exposed to User Content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable.
You hereby acknowledge and agree that We do not assume or take any responsibility or any liability whatsoever for User Content. You hereby acknowledge and agree that We will not under any circumstances be liable to you in any way for any User Content, including any errors or omissions in any User Content, for any loss or damage of any kind suffered by you or incurred by you as a result of your use of or reliance on any User Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via This Website.
TAKE DOWN POLICY FOR USER CONTENT
If you find any User Content which is defamatory or which may be the subject of any private civil suit or public prosecution, please email Us (
admin@ThinkFamily.sg) with the following information:
- a description of the offending User Content and the reasons why you say that it is offensive;
- a description of where the offending User Content is located on This Website; and
- your contact details, in particular, address, telephone number, and email address.
We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to remove or otherwise prevent access to part or all of any User Content posted on or accessible via This Website.
USER CONDUCT
You agree to not use the website to:
- upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, religiously or otherwise objectionable;
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise represent your affiliation with a person or entity;
- upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
- upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual proprietary rights of any party;
- email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation;
- upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real-time exchanges;
- interfere with or disrupt the website or servers or networks connected to the website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the website;
- abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other users or to impersonate, “stalk” or otherwise harass another;
- cull, collect, compile, capture, harvest, retrieve, store or in any other manner obtain personal data about other users without the explicit permission of such user or, in any event, for the purpose of transmitting to such users unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation; or
- with the exception of search engines or for accessing RSS feeds, use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access This Website for any purpose without our express written permission.
We may preserve User Content and may also disclose User Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the TOU; (c) respond to claims that any User Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect Our rights, property or personal safety, or the rights, property or personal safety of any of Our users and the public.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold the National Family Council, the Government of the Republic of Singapore, officers, agents, contractors, and employees of the Council or of the Government, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of User Content you submit, post, transmit or make available through This Website, your use of, connection to This Website, or your breach of the TOU, or your violation of any rights of another.
GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE
We may establish general practices and limits concerning use of This Website, including the maximum number of days that email messages, message board postings or other uploaded User Content will be retained on This Website, the maximum number of email messages that may be sent from or received by an account, the maximum size of any email message that may be sent from or received by an account, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on Our servers on your behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access This Website in a given period of time.
We have no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other User Content maintained on or transmitted via This Website. You acknowledge that We reserve the right to terminate or suspend accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You further acknowledge that We may, at Our sole discretion and without prior notice to you, change these general practices and limits at any time.
MODIFICATIONS
We may at any time modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, This Website (or any part thereof) without notice. We shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of This Website.
TERMINATION
We may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate your ThinkFamily.sg account, any associated email address, and access to This Website.
Cause for such termination includes (a) your breach of the TOU or other incorporated agreements, rules or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d) discontinuance or material modification to This Website (or any part thereof), (e) unexpected technical issues or problems, and (f) extended periods of inactivity.
Termination of your ThinkFamily.sg account includes (a) removal of access to all features within the website, including but not limited to the Discussion Forum, Blog and Chat features, (b) deletion of your password and all related information, files and content associated with your account (or any part thereof), and (c) barring you from further use of This Website or parts thereof.
Further, you agree that all terminations for cause shall be made at Our sole discretion, without any obligation on Our part to provide any explanation; and that We shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your account, any associated email address, or access to This Website.
LINKING TO THIS WEBSITE
Hyperlinks to content from This Website from another website, electronic mail, document, or any other manner is allowed provided that any such links shall either be made to:
(b) directly to content within This Website where such links identify or makes obvious the fact that the content is from This Website.
Framing or any other manner whereby any content from This Website is reproduced or made to pass off as or appear to be part of the content of any third party web site, electronic mail or other document is expressly prohibited and will constitute a breach of these TOU.
By accessing This Website from links from other third party web sites, electronic mail or document, you agree to be bound by these TOU.
LINKING TO OTHER SITES
This Website may contain links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. We are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources; and We do not endorse nor are We to be considered responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such other sites or resources. We shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such other site or resource.
NOTICE
Notices to you on events, competitions, or website updates may be made via email. We may also provide notices of changes to the TOU or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on This Website.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that your intellectual property rights have been infringed, please email Us (
admin@ThinkFamily.sg) with the following information:
- a description of the intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
- a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on This Website;
- your contact details, in particular, address, telephone number, and email address;
- a statement stating (i) that in good faith you believe that an act which constitutes an infringement of the intellectual property rights in question was carried out on the website; (ii) the grounds for your belief; and (iii) such other information as you may think is useful.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
The website is provided "as is," with no warranties whatsoever. All express, implied, and statutory warranties, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of proprietary rights, are expressly disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law. You agree that the Government of the Republic of Singapore disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or material in the website.
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
You agree that the National Family Council and the Government of the Republic of Singapore disclaims, to the maximum degree permissible by law, any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or material on This Website.
You agree that under no circumstances shall the National Family Council, the Government of the Republic of Singapore, officers, agents, contractors, and employees of the Council or of the Government, be liable to you on account of your use or misuse of and reliance on This Website. Such exclusion of liability shall apply whether the damages arise from use or misuse of or reliance on any content, including User Content, available on This Website, from inability to use This Website, or from the interruption, suspension, or termination of This Website (including such damages incurred by third parties).
GOVERNING LAW
The use of This Website and any questions or dispute arising from the use of This Website shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Singapore and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.