Terms and Conditions

Definitions

The meanings of capitalised terms used in these terms of service are set out below:

Interpretation

In these terms of service:

• Headings in bold type are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these terms of service;
• Words of any gender include all genders;
• An expression referring to a person includes any company, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation or other body corporate and any governmental agency as well as an individual;
• A reference to any legislation, regulations, binding directions issued by government agencies, mandatory codes of conduct, or similar, includes all delegated instruments made under them and any amendments, consolidations, replacements or re-enactments of any of them;
• A reference to a day means the period of time commencing at midnight and ending 24 hours later;
• A reference to $ is to United States Dollars currency unless denominated otherwise;
• Specifying anything in these terms of service after the words “include” or “for example” or similar expressions does not limit what else is included.

(a) These are binding terms

By accessing or using the Linkiee Service:

• You agree to be bound by these terms of service. If you disagree with any part of these terms of service then you may not access the Linkiee Service;
• You confirm that you can form a binding contract with us, that you accept these terms of service and that you agree to comply with them.

(b) Please comply with our Privacy Policy

Your access to and use of the Linkiee Service is also subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the Linkiee Service, you consent to the terms of the Privacy Policy.

(c) Jurisdiction Specific Terms

If you access or use the Linkiee Service from a jurisdiction for which there are Jurisdiction Specific Terms, you also hereby agree to the specific terms applicable to each relevant jurisdiction and in the event of a conflict between the provisions of these terms of service and the Jurisdiction Specific Terms, the Jurisdiction Specific Terms will prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

(d) You are the authorised representative of a business (if relevant)

If you are accessing the Service on behalf of a business or entity then you represent and warrant that you are an authorised representative of the business or the entity with the authority to bind the entity to these terms of service, and that you agree to these terms of service on the entity’s behalf.

(e) Eligibility

You warrant that you are at least 18 years old and you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts. If you are under 18 years old, you must obtain the consent from your parent or guardian for you to use the Linkiee Service and they agree to be bound by these terms of service on your behalf.

(a) We can change these terms of service

We may change or replace these terms of service at any time if the change is necessary to reflect changed or added functionality of the Linkiee Service, for compliance with law, for reasonable commercial reasons, or otherwise to protect our legitimate interests.

(b) We may notify you of certain changes to the terms of service

If a change to these terms of service may have a material negative effect on you, we will use our best efforts to advise you of the change in advance (for example, by providing a notification on the Website), and we will aim to do so least 1 month prior to any new terms taking effect.

(c) You must check these terms of service for changes

It is your responsibility to check these terms of service from time to time for any changes. If you do not agree with any of the changes to these terms of service, it is your responsibility to stop using the Linkiee Service and/or cancel in accordance with clause.

(d) Your continued use deemed to be acceptance

Your continued use of the Linkiee Service will be deemed as your acceptance of any changes to these terms of service, as described above.

(e) We can change the Linkiee Service and functionality

You acknowledge that the Linkiee Service is constantly evolving, and we may change parts of the Linkiee Service and its functionality from time to time.

(a) You must create an account to use the Linkiee Service

To access or use our Linkiee Service, you must create an account with us. When you create this account you must provide accurate and up-to-date information. It is important that you maintain and update your details and any other information that you provide to us.

(b) You must maintain your password

You agree not to disclose your password to any third party, and you are responsible for safeguarding the password that you use. You will be fully responsible for activities that relate to your account or your password. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorised use of your account.

(c) You must choose an appropriate username

You may not use, as a username, the name of another person (for example, the name of well-known personalities or a name to which you have no connection), brand, or entity, a name that is not lawfully available for use, or a trade name that is subject to any rights of another person or entity, or a name that is offensive, vulgar, or obscene. In the event that issues arise over the use of particular usernames, for example where another person claims that your username appropriates their name, we will consider the circumstances reasonably and may require you to change your username (and we may then reassign your username). If we have asked you to do this and you refuse, we may suspend or cancel your user account. Importantly, and without impacting the above, we do not permit ‘domain squatting’ or ‘domain parking’ or similar, and we may reclaim and reallocate usernames that we reasonably believe have been created for these purposes. You can raise any concerns with us relating to usernames – see clause 16(b) for details.

(d) Your responsibilities regarding the use of your account

ou must not use your user account or allow it to be used in a way which may (in our opinion) cause damage to or impair the Linkiee Service or our reputation, or infringe or violate any third party rights, or violate any applicable laws or regulations.

(a) Your right to post Content

You may post, link, store, share and otherwise make available certain information, text, graphics, videos, or other material to/on the Page that you create using the Linkiee Service (Content). You are responsible for the Content, including its legality, reliability, and appropriateness. Where any third party owns any of the Content, you are also responsible for ensuring that you have all rights (including any licences) needed to allow you to make available that Content on the Page and the Linkiee Service.

(b) You grant us a license to use and display your Content

By posting Content to the Linkiee Service, you grant us the right and license to use, publicly display and distribute such Content on and through the Linkiee Service and you confirm that you have all third party rights and licences necessary to post that Content. You retain any and all of your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Linkiee Service and you are responsible for protecting those rights. You agree that this license includes the right for us to make your Content available to other users of the Linkiee Service, who may also use your Content subject to these terms of service.

(c) Your responsibilities in posting Content

You agree that:

(d) Keeping records

You agree to keep all records necessary to establish that your Content does not violate any of the requirements of this clause 6 and make such records available upon our reasonable request.

(e) Our right to monitor and modify your Content

We are under no obligation to regularly monitor the accuracy or reliability of your Content incorporated into the Linkiee Service. We reserve the right to modify or remove any Content at any time.

(f) You accept risk of public disclosure

You acknowledge and agree that all Content you provide on the Linkiee Service will be publicly available information and you bear the risks involved with such public disclosures.

(g) We can use your Content to promote the Linkiee Service

We may choose to feature your Page and Content (but not your registered trademarks or personal information, unless you agree in writing) on our Website or otherwise to promote the Linkiee Service. You grant to us a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to use such Content for such purposes.

(a) access or use the Linkiee Service if you are not fully able and legally competent to agree to these terms of service;

(b) make unauthorised copies, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, extract information from or create any derivative worksof the Linkiee Service or any content included, including any files, tables or documentation (or any portion of these) or determine or attempt to determine any source code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied by the Linkiee Service or any derivative works of the Linkiee Service (or authorise any other person to do so on your behalf);

(c) distribute, license, transfer, or sell, all or any part of any of the Linkiee Service or any derivative works thereof, except that you may re-sell the Linkiee Service to a limited class of persons if we have expressly given consent for such activity to you in writing (and, if we do give consent, we may also include conditions to such consent, which you must comply with);

(d) market, rent or lease the Linkiee Service for a fee or charge, or use the Linkiee Service to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, except that you may market the Linkiee Service to a limited class of persons if we have expressly given consent for such activity to you in writing;

(e) use the Linkiee Service, without our express written consent, for any commercial or unauthorized purpose, including communicating or facilitating any commercial advertisement or solicitation or spamming;

(f) interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Linkiee Service, disrupt the Website or any networks connected to the Linkiee Service, or bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Linkiee Service;

(g) incorporate the Linkiee Service or any portion of it into any other program or product, except as may be agreed separately with us in writing;

(h) use, or authorise others to use, automated scripts or other scraping tools to collect information from your Page, or the Linkiee Service, or otherwise interact with the Linkiee Service;

(i) impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your affiliation with any person or entity, including giving the impression that any content you upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise make available comes from the Linkiee Service;

(j) intimidate or harass another person, or promote violence or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age on your Page, your account, or on or through any links on your Page;

(k) include any sexually explicit material (including pictures and language) on your Page itself or your account itself;

(l) use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without authorisation from us, or create a false identity on the Linkiee Service;

(m) use the Linkiee Service in a manner that may create a conflict of interest or undermine the purposes of the Linkiee Service, such as trading reviews with other users or writing or soliciting fake reviews;

(n) use the Linkiee Service to upload, transmit, distribute, store, or otherwise make available in any way:

• Files that contain viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful;
• Any information that in Linkiee’s opinion constitutes unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail”, “spam”, “multi-level marketing”, “chain letters”, “pyramid schemes”, or any prohibited form of solicitation;
• Any private information of any third party, including addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, number and feature in a personal identity document (e.g. National Insurance numbers, passport numbers) or credit card numbers, other than to us as contemplated in the Privacy Policy;
• Any material which does or may infringe any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property or privacy rights of any other person;
• Any material which is defamatory of any person, or obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
• Any material that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offence, dangerous activities or self-harm;
• Any material that is deliberately designed to provoke or antagonise people, especially trolling and bullying, or is intended to harass, harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass or upset people;
• Any material that contains a threat of any kind, including threats of physical violence;
• Any material that is racist or discriminatory, including discrimination on the basis of someone’s race, religion, age, gender, disability or sexuality;
• Any answers, responses, comments, opinions, analysis or recommendations that you are not properly licensed or otherwise qualified to provide;
• Material that, in our sole judgment, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using the Linkiee Service, or which may expose us, the Linkiee Service or our users to any harm or liability of any type.

(a) Our Intellectual Property Rights

All Intellectual Property Rights in the Linkiee Service, the Website, and their content (excluding your Content, but including the Linkiee Content), features and functionality are and will remain our (or our licensors’) exclusive property, and you will not challenge such ownership.

(b) No transfer of our Intellectual Property Rights to you

The Linkiee Service is protected by copyright, trade mark, and other laws of both Singapore and foreign countries. Our trade marks and trade names and ‘get up’ may not be used in connection with any product or service without our prior written consent. Nothing in these terms of service constitutes a transfer of any Intellectual Property Rights from us to you.

(c) Your limited rights to use the Linkiee Service

You are permitted to use the Linkiee Service only as authorized by us (which includes use in accordance with these terms and conditions). As a user, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable right to use the Linkiee Service to create, display, use, play, and upload Content subject to these terms of service.

(d) How the Linkiee Service must not be used

You must not use the Linkiee Service in connection with a product or service that is not affiliated with us or in any way brings us into disrepute.

(e) Responsibility for material posted

Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by any other users are those of the respective authors or distributors and not of us.

(f) Your responsibilities in using Linkiee Content

If we provide you with any images, icons, video, graphics, or other content (Linkiee Content) for you to use in connection with the Linkiee Service, you must:

• Only use such Linkiee Content on your Page and not anywhere else;
• Comply with any reasonable written guidelines or terms, which may be the guidelines or terms of a third party, in relation to the Linkiee Content that we provide to you.

(a) Our data, and guardianship of our data

All data (and any Intellectual Property Rights in data) that we or the Linkiee Service create or generate based on your use (or End Users’, or other users’ use) of the Linkiee Service or the Content (Data) will be owned by us and you will not dispute such ownership.

(b) We may provide you with Data

We may provide Data or visualisations of Data to you as part of the Linkiee Service (Data Analytics). We make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of the Data Analytics, but we will try to make it as accurate and complete as we can.

(c) Please refer to our Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy applies to the way in which we may collect, use, and disclose personal information about you.

(a) You must protect confidential information provided to you

If we share information about the Linkiee Service with you that is confidential, or that a reasonable person would consider is confidential, you must keep it confidential and use reasonable security measures to prevent unauthorised disclosure of or access to that information.

(b) Our responsibilities regarding Feedback

If you choose to contribute to the Linkiee Service by sending us any ideas for new products, services, features, modifications, enhancements, content, offerings, promotions, computer code, or any other materials (Feedback), then regardless of what your communication may say

• We have no obligation to review, consider, or implement your Feedback or to return to you all or part of any Feedback for any reason;
• Feedback is provided on a non-confidential basis, and we are under no obligation to keep any Feedback you send confidential or to refrain from using or disclosing it any way;
• You irrevocably grant us a perpetual irrevocable transferable worldwide royalty free licence to reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, modify, perform, communicate to the public, make available, display, and otherwise use and exploit the Feedback and derivatives thereof for any purpose and without restriction.

(a) We are not liable for damages

You agree that we will not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using the Linkiee Service, or copying, distributing, or downloading Content from the Linkiee Service.

(b) No liability for certain types of damage for breach of contract or tort

In no event will you or we be liable for any indirect, punitive, special, incidental or consequential damage (including loss of business, revenue, profits, use, privacy, data, goodwill or other economic advantage) however it arises, whether for breach of contract or in tort (including negligence), even if the relevant party has been previously advised of the possibility of such damage.

(c) You are responsible for your use of the Linkiee Service

You have sole responsibility for adequate security protection and backup of data, Content, and/or equipment used in connection with your usage of the Linkiee Service and will not make a claim against us for lost data, re-run time, inaccurate instruction, work delays or lost profits resulting from the use of the Linkiee Service. You must not assign or otherwise dispose of your account to any other person.

(d) Indemnity

You will indemnify us against any loss suffered by us that arises out of a breach by you of these terms of service (including clause 7), or a third party claim made against us in relation to your Content.

(e) Limitation of our liability to you

In no event will our liability to you under or in connection with these terms of service or the Linkiee Service exceed the fees actually paid by you to us at the time the liability purportedly arose. This limitation applies regardless of whether your claim against us is based on contract, negligence, other torts or otherwise.

(a) You use the Linkiee Service at your own risk

Your use of the Linkiee Service is at your sole risk. The Linkiee Service is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. The Linkiee Service is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, up-time or availability, or implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or course of performance.

(b) We make no warranties about the Linkiee Service

We, our subsidiaries, affiliates and licensors do not warrant or represent that:

• The Linkiee Service will function uninterrupted or securely, or be available at any particular time or location;
• Any errors or defects will be corrected;
• The Linkiee Service is free of viruses or other harmful components;
• The results of using the Linkiee Service will meet your requirements.

(c) Extent of this disclaimer

This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft, or destruction or unauthorized access or, alteration of or use of record in connection with the use or operation of the Linkiee Service, whether for breach of contract, tortious behaviour, negligence or any other cause of action.

(d) We make no warranties about the content on the Linkiee Service

We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the content contained on the Linkiee Service for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. We disclaim any express or implied warranty, representation, or guarantee as to the effectiveness or profitability of the Linkiee Service or that the operation of the Linkiee Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. We are not liable for the consequences of any interruptions or error in the Linkiee Service.

(e) We may provide access to third party services

We may at times include as part of or ancillary to the Linkiee Service access to specific functionality or other services which are provided by third parties (for example, a payment portal).

(f) We do not exclude the application of laws that cannot be excluded

These terms of service (including the above provisions of this clause 14) apply to the maximum extent permitted by law. Nothing in these terms of service is intended to exclude, restrict or modify rights which you may have under any law, which may not be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement. If these terms of service are governed by the Australian Consumer Law, our liability to you for failure to comply with a consumer guarantee in respect of any services is limited to the re-supply of the services or payment in lieu of such re-supply.

(g) Beta functionality

We may from time to time make certain functionality of the Linkiee Service available to you in beta (and this functionality will be marked as ‘beta’ or similar). We are still evaluating and testing such beta functionality and it may not be as reliable as our other parts of the Linkiee Service.

(h) End user donations

End user agrees that donations made to a user, via Linkiee’s ‘Support Me’ link, are made voluntarily and without exchange for any good or service. The service to process these payments is provided by a third party (see clause 15).

(a) No endorsement of third party services

Unless we otherwise specifically state, we do not endorse (or make any warranties or representations in relation to) any third party product or service, and your use of that third party product or service may be subject to separate terms and conditions which you are responsible for reviewing and agreeing.

(b) Terms and conditions of third party services

You will comply with the terms and conditions that you have either separately agreed to comply with or that we make it clear to you that you must comply with of any third party service that you use in conjunction with the Linkiee Service.

(c) No refunds

We do not offer refunds for any amounts you have paid to a third party.

(d) Suspension or cancellation of account

If you do not agree with the third party terms and conditions, then we may suspend or cancel your user account or limit the relevant functionality.

(a) Our rights to suspend or cancel your account

If you do not comply with any of these terms of service (in particular, clauses 7 (Acceptable Use), and 9 (Intellectual Property)), we may suspend or cancel your user account or limit the functionality of the Linkiee Service that you have access to. Depending on what the non-compliance is, we may not use this right to suspend or cancel, but if there is repeat non-compliance on your account, or a material non-compliance, we are likely to.

(b) Your rights to approach us with any issues

If you have any issues with our decision under clause 16(a), with the performance of the Linkiee Service, or anything else in connection with these terms of service, please let us know by emailing us at service@linki.ee (Issue Notice). Once we receive an Issue Notice, you and we will use all reasonable endeavours to resolve the issue in good faith. Neither of us will bring any legal proceedings or take any formal or public action in connection with the issue until we have spent at least 1 month from the date of the Issue Notice trying to resolve the issue in good faith.

(a) Entire agreement

These terms of service (along with the Privacy Policy) represent the entire agreement between you and us concerning your use and access to the Website and your use and access of the Linkiee Service. No other term is to be included in these terms of service except where it is required to be included by any legislation. All implied terms except those implied by statute and which cannot be expressly excluded are expressly excluded.

(b) Severability

If any provision of these terms of service is invalid under the law of any jurisdiction, then the provision is enforceable in that jurisdiction to the extent that it is not invalid, and the to the extent it is not valid then it will be severed from these terms of service and the remainder of these terms of service will continue to apply with such amendments as are strictly necessary to reflect the severance.

(c) Governing law

These terms of service are governed by the laws of Singapore. Both you and we submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre(SIAC).

(d) No waiver

Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these terms of service will not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.

(e) No agency

Neither these terms, nor the Linkiee Service, create a relationship of agent / principal between you and us.