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AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND CEAA
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Prior to using this Web site, please note that Civil Engineering
Alumni Association, HKUST and Department of Civil Engineering,
HKUST ("CEAA" and "Department" is used
respectively hereafter) does not make any claims as to the
truth of the statements made in any of the message boards.
The names of the authors and any other names are fictitious
and may or may not be the person that the name suggests.
Considering the real-time nature of this message board,
it is impossible for CEAA or Department to review all messages
or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember
that CEAA or Department does not monitor the contents of
posted messages AT ALL and is not responsible for any messages
posted. By using this Web site, you are agreeing to our
User Terms.
CEAA or Department does not vouch for or warrant the accuracy,
completeness or usefulness of any message, and is not responsible
for the content of any message. The messages solely express
the view of the author of the message, not the views of
CEAA or Department or any entity associated with CEAA or
Department. CEAA or Department disclaims all intents to
publish any of the messages posted on the Website. Any user
who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged
to contact us immediately by completing the message removal
form.
CEAA or Department has the ability to remove objectionable
messages and will make every effort to do so within a reasonable
time frame should CEAA or Department determine that removal
is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please
realize that CEAA or Department may not be able to remove
particular messages immediately. We will, however, exercise
diligent care in removing messages upon receipt of any request.
CEAA or Department provides this Website and all site-related
services (collectively, the "Site") subject to
your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth
in this agreement (the "Agreement"). By using
the Site, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please
do not use the Site.
This Agreement is made between CEAA or Department and Site
visitor and/or member ("you"). We reserve the
right at any time to:
Change the terms of this Agreement;
Change the Site, including eliminating or discontinuing
any content on or feature of the Site; or
Change any fees or charges for use of the Site.
Any changes we make will be effective immediately upon notice,
which we may provide by means including, without limitation,
posting on the Site or via electronic mail. Your use of
the Site after such notice will be deemed acceptance of
such changes. Be sure to review this Agreement periodically
to ensure familiarity with the most current version.
1. Code of Conduct
While using the Site and/or Software (as defined below),
you agree not to:
Conduct any sexual, ethnic, racial, or discriminating slurs;
Restrict
or inhibit any other visitor or member from using the Site,
including, without limitation, by means of "hacking"
or defacing any portion of the Site;
Use
the Site or Software for any unlawful purpose;
Express
or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us,
without our prior written consent;
Transmit
(a) any content or information that is unlawful, fraudulent,
threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise
objectionable, or infringes on our or any third party's
intellectual property or other rights;
(b) any trade secret of any third party; or
(c)
any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid
schemes, investment opportunities, or other unsolicited
commercial communication (except as otherwise expressly
permitted by us), or engage in spamming or flooding;
Transmit any software or other materials that contain any
virus, worm, time bomb, Trojan horse, or other harmful or
disruptive component;
Modify, adapt, sub-license, translate, sell, reverse engineer,
decompile or disassemble any portion of the Site or Software;
Remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights
notices contained in the Site;
"Frame" or "mirror" any part of the
Site without our prior written authorization;
Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application,
or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve,
index, "data mine," or in any way reproduce or
circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of
the Site or its contents; or
Harvest or collect information about Site visitors or members
without their expressed consent. While using the Site and/or
Software, you agree to comply with all applicable laws,
rules and regulations. Upon our request, you agree to sign
a non-electronic version of this Agreement.
2. Registration
Although certain areas of the Site do not require you to
be a CEAA or Department member, some areas do. When and
if you register to become a member (you may be subjected
to pay membership fee), you agree to (a) provide true, accurate,
current and complete information about yourself as prompted
by our registration form (including your email address)
and (b) to maintain and update your information (including
your email address) to keep it true, accurate, current,
and complete. You acknowledge that, if any information provided
by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete,
we reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and your
use of the Site.
As part of the registration process, you will be asked to
select a username and password. We may refuse to grant you
a username that impersonates someone else, is or may be
illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or other proprietary
rights law, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may cause
confusion, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
You will be responsible for the confidentiality and use
of your username and password and agree not to transfer
or resell your use of or access to the Site to any third
party. If you have reason to believe that your account with
us is no longer secure, you must promptly change your password
by updating your account information by logging in and clicking
on "Online Activation" and immediately notify
us of the problem by emailing us at al_civil@stu.ust.hk.
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your username and password and entirely responsible for
any and all activities (including purchases, as applicable)
that are conducted through your account.
3. Submissions and Postings
Please note that, because we and our designees host message
boards and other forums found on the Site (collectively,
the "Forums") and therefore redistribute materials
you give us, we require certain rights in those materials.
Therefore, by sending or transmitting to us creative suggestions,
ideas, notes, concepts, or other materials (collectively,
"Materials"), or by posting such Materials to
any area of the Site, you grant us and our designees a worldwide,
non-exclusive, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers),
assignable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to
use, reproduce, distribute (through multiple tiers), create
derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display,
digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale
and import such Materials in any media now known or hereafter
developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise,
without compensation to the provider of the Materials. None
of the Materials shall be subject to any obligation, whether
of confidentiality, attribution, or otherwise, on our part
and we shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of
any Materials.
4. Ownership and Restrictions on Use
All rights is reserved by CEAA and Department. The Site
is owned and operated by us in conjunction with others pursuant
to contractual arrangements. You may not copy, reproduce,
republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute materials
from the Site in any way, without our prior written permission,
except you may download one copy of such material on any
single computer for your personal, non-commercial home use
only, provided you keep intact, without change, all copyright
and other proprietary notices. Modification of the materials
or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation
of our copyright and other proprietary rights, and is strictly
prohibited. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any
ownership rights by using the Site.
If you download any software from the Site, such software,
including any files, images incorporated in or generated
by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively,
the "Software") are licensed on a limited basis
to you by us or the owner of such Software. Title to the
Software is not transferred to you. You own the medium on
which the Software is recorded, but we retain all right,
title, and interest in and to the Software, and all intellectual
property rights therein. You may not re-sell, decompile,
reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Software
to a human-perceivable form, or transfer the Software to
any third party.
5. Limitation of Liability
Neither CEAA and Department nor sponsors are responsible
or liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special,
exemplary, punitive or other damages under any contract,
negligence, strict liability or other theory arising out
of or relating in any way to the site and/or content contained
on the site, the software, or any product or service purchased
through the site. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with
the site, the software, and/or content contained within
the site is to stop using the site and/or software, as applicable.
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