Terms of Use

TERMS OF SITE USE

Wel­come to the SALT Online web­site (“this Web­site”) of the National Vol­un­teer & Phil­an­thropy Cen­tre of Sin­ga­pore (“NVPC”).

Your use of this Web­site is gov­erned by these Terms of Site Use.

1. Copy­right

1.1 This Web­site and its con­tents, includ­ing the text, graph­ics, web­site design and arrange­ment, are sub­ject to copy­right pro­tec­tion under the laws of Sin­ga­pore and, through inter­na­tional treaties, other coun­tries. The copy­right in the con­tents and mate­ri­als avail­able on this Web­site are owned by [NVPC/​SALT Online] or third par­ties where so indicated.

1.2 No part of the con­tents or mate­ri­als avail­able on this Web­site may be repro­duced, licensed, sold, pub­lished, trans­mit­ted, mod­i­fied, adapted, pub­licly dis­played, broad­cast (includ­ing stor­age in any medium by elec­tronic means whether or not tran­siently for any pur­pose save as per­mit­ted herein) with­out the prior writ­ten per­mis­sion of [NVPC/​SALT Online]. You may view this Web­site and its con­tents using your Web browser and save an elec­tronic copy, or print out a copy, of parts of this Web­site solely for your own infor­ma­tion, research or study, pro­vided you (a) do not mod­ify the copy from how it appears in this Web­site; and (b) include the copy­right notice [‘SALT Online’] on such copy. With­out prej­u­dice to the gen­er­al­ity of the fore­go­ing, the logo and tagline of [NVPC/​SALT Online] should never be removed from pages on which they orig­i­nally appear. These web­pages should always appear exactly as posted on this Web­site with­out vari­a­tion, unless the prior writ­ten approval of [NVPC/​SALT Online] has been obtained.

1.3 You must not oth­er­wise exer­cise the copy­right in the whole or any part of the con­tents and mate­ri­als in this Web­site for any other pur­pose except as expressly per­mit­ted by any applic­a­ble law or with the prior writ­ten con­sent of [NVPC/​SALT Online].

2. Trade Marks

2.1 Any logos, tagline, name, ser­vice marks, trade marks or any other devices, whether reg­is­tered or oth­er­wise (col­lec­tively, the ‘Marks’), per­tain­ing to SALT Online or any of its affil­i­ates that may be dis­played on this Web­site are trade­marks of [NVPC/​SALT Online]. The use, repro­duc­tion, copy­ing or redis­tri­b­u­tion of the Marks with­out the prior writ­ten per­mis­sion of [NVPC/​SALT Online] is pro­hib­ited. Noth­ing con­tained in this Web­site should be con­strued as grant­ing, by impli­ca­tion, estop­pel, or oth­er­wise, any licence or right to use any of the Marks belong­ing to it or to third par­ties that are dis­played on this Web­site with­out the prior writ­ten con­sent of [NVPC/​SALT Online].

2.2 Cer­tain prod­uct and com­pany names men­tioned on this Web­site or mate­r­ial dis­played on this Web­site may be intel­lec­tual prop­erty belong­ing to third par­ties. [NVPC /​SALT Online] does not war­rant or rep­re­sent that if you use such mate­r­ial you will not infringe the legal rights of these third parties.

3. Links from Other Websites

3.1 This Web­site may con­tain links to other web­sites or resources oper­ated by third par­ties. Such links are pro­vided as a ser­vice for the con­ve­nience of the users of this Web­site. [NVPC/​SALT Online] does not accept any lia­bil­ity in con­nec­tion with any third-​party web­sites that can be accessed through this Web­site and does not, whether expressly or implic­itly, endorse or approve the con­tents of any such site. [NVPC/​SALT Online] shall not be liable, whether directly or indi­rectly, for any dam­age or loss caused or sus­tained by the user, in con­nec­tion with the use or reliance on any infor­ma­tion or mate­r­ial avail­able on, or omit­ted from, such linked sites or resources.

3.2 [NVPC/​SALT Online’s] prior writ­ten con­sent is required before a link to this Web­site may be placed on any exter­nal web­site or other pub­li­ca­tions. [NVPC/​SALT Online] reserves the right at any time to require the removal of any such links to this Web­site from any exter­nal web­sites or pub­li­ca­tions. Any links cre­ated by the user to this Web­site should be text links con­tain­ing [NVPC/​SALT Online’s] domain name and which trans­fer other vis­i­tors directly to our home­page. [NVPC/​SALT Online] requires that the con­tents of this Web­site should not appear within the frames of other web­sites, nor be accom­pa­nied in any way by third-​party mate­r­ial that may cre­ate a false or mis­taken impres­sion in the mind of the viewer about [NVPC/​SALT Online’s] affil­i­a­tion or asso­ci­a­tion with or endorse­ment of the third-​party site, frame or material.

4. Third Party Information

4.1 This Web­site may con­tain infor­ma­tion and mate­r­ial related to adver­tis­ing and spon­sor­ship. Adver­tis­ers and spon­sors are respon­si­ble for ensur­ing that mate­r­ial sub­mit­ted for inclu­sion on this Web­site com­plies with all applic­a­ble laws. [NVPC/​SALT Online] shall not be liable for any inac­cu­racy or error in the mate­r­ial sub­mit­ted to it pur­suant to any such adver­tis­ing or spon­sor­ship arrangements.

4.2 [NVPC/​SALT Online] may from time to time pro­vide infor­ma­tion or data on this Web­site on third-​party sup­pli­ers and the goods and ser­vices they deal in and/​or the events that they organ­ise. Noth­ing on this Web­site should be con­strued as an endorse­ment by or rec­om­men­da­tion from [NVPC/​SALT Online] to buy any prod­ucts or obtain any ser­vices from, or to par­tic­i­pate in any event(s) organ­ised by, these third-​party sup­pli­ers. [NVPC/​SALT Online] makes no war­ranty or rep­re­sen­ta­tion and accepts no lia­bil­ity in respect of the goods and ser­vices pro­vided, or events orga­nized by such third-​party suppliers.

4.3 All views expressed on the Web­site that are from con­trib­u­tors /​sup­port­ers or invited blog­gers are per­sonal to such par­ties and do not reflect the views of [NVPC/​SALT Online]. [NVPC/​SALT Online] does not mon­i­tor, ver­ify or endorse infor­ma­tion sub­mit­ted by third par­ties for post­ing on this Web­site for any pur­pose what­so­ever, and makes no war­ranty or rep­re­sen­ta­tion as to the accu­racy or com­plete­ness of such information.

5. Improper Use

5.1 You shall not use any robot, spi­der, auto­matic device, man­ual process, soft­ware or rou­tine which may inter­fere, elec­tron­i­cally or man­u­ally, with the proper oper­a­tion or func­tion­al­ity of this Web­site or any trans­ac­tions being con­ducted on this Website.

5.2 In con­tribut­ing, upload­ing, post­ing, email­ing or oth­er­wise trans­mit­ting to this Web­site or [NVPC/​SALT Online] any infor­ma­tion or mate­r­ial, you shall not:

(a) con­tribute mate­r­ial which is abu­sive, offen­sive, unlaw­ful, harass­ing, defam­a­tory, con­fi­den­tial, threat­en­ing, harm­ful, obscene, pro­fane, sexually-​oriented, racially-​offensive or oth­er­wise objec­tion­able;
(b) con­tribute any unso­licited or unau­tho­rised adver­tis­ing or pro­mo­tional mate­ri­als;
© imper­son­ate any per­son or entity, falsely state or oth­er­wise mis­rep­re­sent your affil­i­a­tion with any per­son or entity, or take any action to dis­guise the ori­gin of any con­tent trans­mit­ted to this Web­site or to [NVPC/​SALT Online]; or
(d) take any action which imposes an unrea­son­ably or dis­pro­por­tion­ately large load on this Web­site or its related infrastructure.

5.3 With­out prej­u­dice to any other rights which [NVPC/​SALT Online] may have, [NVPC/​SALT Online] reserves the right to remove any mate­r­ial upon receipt of any com­plaint relat­ing to the same with­out con­di­tion and/​or to deny you access to this Web­site where it believes that you are in breach of any of these Terms and Conditions.

6. Dis­claimer

6.1 All mate­r­ial included in this Web­site is intended for infor­ma­tion pur­poses only and does not rep­re­sent legal advice. Users are hereby placed under notice that they should take appro­pri­ate steps to ver­ify such infor­ma­tion. No user should act or refrain from act­ing on the infor­ma­tion con­tained in this Web­site with­out first ver­i­fy­ing the infor­ma­tion and as nec­es­sary obtain­ing legal and/​or pro­fes­sional advice.

6.2 While all due care and dili­gence has been used to main­tain the source data, [NVPC/​SALT Online] does not make any rep­re­sen­ta­tions or war­ranty as to the accu­racy or com­plete­ness of the infor­ma­tion or data con­tained on this Web­site for any pur­pose what­so­ever, includ­ing any war­ranties of title, non-​infringement of the intel­lec­tual rights of third par­ties, mer­chantabil­ity, sat­is­fac­tory qual­ity or fit­ness for any purpose.

6.3 [NVPC/​SALT ONLINE] EXPRESSLY DIS­CLAIMS ALL LIA­BIL­ITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDI­RECT OR CON­SE­QUEN­TIAL LOSS OR DAM­AGE OCCA­SIONED FROM THE RELIANCE UPON, USE OR INABIL­ITY TO USE THIS WEB­SITE, RESULT­ING FROM INAC­CU­RA­CIES, NEGLECT, DEFECTS, ERRORS, WHETHER TYPO­GRAPH­I­CAL OR OTH­ER­WISE, OMIS­SIONS, OUT-​DATED INFOR­MA­TION OR OTH­ER­WISE, EVEN IF SUCH LOSS WAS REA­SON­ABLY FORE­SEE­ABLE AND SALT ONLINE HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE POS­SI­BIL­ITY OF THE SAME. CON­SE­QUEN­TIAL OR INDI­RECT LOSS AND DAM­AGE SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIM­ITED TO LOSS OF PROF­ITS, LOSS OF GOOD­WILL, LOSS OF INFOR­MA­TION, BUSI­NESS INTER­RUP­TION, LOSS OF OPPOR­TU­NITY AND WASTED EXPENDITURE.

6.4 There is no war­ranty that this Web­site is free from infec­tion by viruses or any­thing else that has con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing or destruc­tive properties.

6.5 Any omis­sion of [NVPC/​SALT Online] to exer­cise any right under these Terms and Con­di­tions shall not con­sti­tute a waiver of any such right unless expressly stated by [NVPC/​SALT Online] in writing.

6.6 [NVPC/​SALT Online] reserves the right at any time, from time to time, to make changes to the whole or any part of these terms and/​or the mate­ri­als, con­tent and ser­vices offered on this Web­site, or ter­mi­nate this Web­site, as it deems appro­pri­ate with­out prior notice.

7. Indem­nity

7.1 You agree to indem­nify and hold [NVPC/​SALT Online], its par­ent com­pa­nies, sub­sidiaries, offi­cers harm­less from any claims and expenses, includ­ing but not lim­ited to, rea­son­able solicitor’s fees, related to your breach of these Terms of Site Use. You shall remain solely liable for the con­tent you upload or trans­mit to the Web­site and agree also to indem­nify and hold harm­less [NVPC/​SALT Online] from any claim, action, demand, loss, expense or dam­age made or incurred by any third party aris­ing out of or relat­ing to your con­duct, your breach of these Terms of Site Use or your vio­la­tion of any rights of a third party. Fur­ther, in the event you have a dis­pute with one or more users of this Web­site, you agree to release [NVPC/​SALT Online] and its offi­cers, agents, sub­sidiaries from any claims, demands and dam­ages (actual or con­se­quen­tial) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, sus­pected and unsus­pected, dis­closed and undis­closed, aris­ing out of or in any way con­nected with such disputes.

8. Gov­ern­ing Law and Dis­pute Resolution

8.1 [NVPC/​SALT Online] con­trols and main­tains the Web­site from Sin­ga­pore and makes no rep­re­sen­ta­tion that the con­tent con­tained in the Web­site is appro­pri­ate or avail­able for use in all other locations/​jurisdictions.

8.2 With respect to any dis­pute regard­ing the Web­site, all rights and oblig­a­tions and all actions con­tem­plated by these Terms of Site Use shall be gov­erned by the laws of the Repub­lic of Sin­ga­pore, includ­ing with­out lim­i­ta­tion the pro­vi­sions of the Sin­ga­pore Evi­dence Act (Chap­ter 97) and the Sin­ga­pore Elec­tronic Trans­ac­tions Act (Chap­ter 88).

8.3 The Courts of the Repub­lic of Sin­ga­pore shall have exclu­sive juris­dic­tion to hear a dis­pute aris­ing out of or in rela­tion to these Terms of Site Use.

8.4 The dis­tri­b­u­tion of con­tent on the Web­site may be restricted by the applic­a­ble laws in your juris­dic­tion. It is your respon­si­bil­ity to find out what those restric­tions are and to observe them.

8.5 A printed ver­sion of these Terms of Site Use and of any notice given in elec­tronic form shall be admis­si­ble in judi­cial and admin­is­tra­tive pro­ceed­ings based upon or relat­ing to these Terms of Site Use to the same extent and sub­ject to the same con­di­tions as other busi­ness doc­u­ments and records orig­i­nally gen­er­ated and main­tained in printed form.