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Terms of Use

This website (the “website”) is owned and operated by The Association of Hong Kong Language Centres (AHKLC) (“AHKLC,” “We,” or “Us”). Any references to “we”, “us” or “our” shall be taken as references to AHKLC. Any references to “you” or “your” shall be taken as references to users of the website.

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website. By using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you do not wish to accept this policy, you must discontinue use of this website. Please note that additional terms and conditions may apply to specific sections of the site. Please ensure that you review these where they are drawn to your attention.

License to use website

AHKLC and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights of the website and material on the website, including text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, videos, audio, images, applications, programs, computer code and other information, including but not limited to the design, layout, “look and feel” and arrangement of such content, is owned by AHKLC, its licensors or its content providers and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property and unfair competition laws. Subject to the license named, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

Except as otherwise provided in any additional terms for a Service, you may print or download content for your own personal, non-commercial, informational or scholarly use, provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
  • sell, rent or sub-license material from the website
  • reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose
  • edit or otherwise modify any material on the website
  • redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution
  • use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity
  • use any robots, spiders, crawlers or other automated downloading programs, algorithms or devices, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to: (i) continuously and automatically search, scrape, extract, deep link or index any content; (ii) harvest personal information for purposes of sending unsolicited or unauthorized material; or (iii) cause disruption to the working of the services or any other person’s use of the services on the website

Username and password

You may be required to register as a user of the website to be able to access certain areas of the website. In such a case, you will need to provide a username and password when doing so. You must ensure that you keep your username and password secret and that you do not disclose them to anyone, as you will be responsible for all activities which occur under your username and password. It is your responsibility to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your username or password or any other breach of security as soon as you become aware of it.

User content

In these terms and conditions, you are responsible for materials (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or AHKLC or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

AHKLC reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website.

No warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. AHKLC makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, AHKLC does not warrant that:

  • this website will be constantly available, or available at all
  • the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading
  • anything on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, AHKLC has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against AHKLC officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website. You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect AHKLC’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors and sub-contractors as well as AHKLC.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify AHKLC and undertake to keep AHKLC indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by AHKLC to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of AHKLC 's legal advisers) incurred or suffered by AHKLC arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.