Terms of Use

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Terms of Use

  1. Welcome to Guardian Law (“we”, “us”, or “our”). We are a sole proprietorship registered in Singapore at 1 Park Road #04-06 People’s Park Complex, Singapore 059108.
  2. We operate the website https://guardianlaw.com.sg (“Site”), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these Terms of Use (collectively, “Services”)
  3. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of this site and/or any Services provided.
  4. Please read the following additional documents which may also apply to your use of our Services and should be read together with these Terms: -
    1. Privacy Policy; and
    2. Letter of Engagement (if any).
  5. These Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (and together with any other authorised person you appoint to act on your behalf) (collectively “you” or “your”) and us, concerning your access and use of our Services.
  6. By using this site and/or any of our Services, you agree that you have read and understood these Terms and thereby agree to be bound by these Terms.
  7. Any non-compliance with these Terms may result in civil liability.
  8. If you do not agree to these Terms, you are expressly prohibited from using our Services and you must discontinue your use immediately.
  9. Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Services from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Terms from time to time. We will alert you about any changes by updating the ‘Last updated’ date of these Terms, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Terms to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Terms by your continued use of our Services after the date such revised Terms are posted.
  10. Our Services are intended for users who are at least 21 years old. Persons under the age of 21 are not permitted to use our Services.
  11. For the avoidance of doubt, all prices for our Services as displayed on our Site are merely invitations to treat.

Our Services

  1. The information provided when using our Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access our Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

Intellectual Property Rights

  1. While you are using our Services, you may use the Guardian Law Materials only for your personal use and solely as necessary in relation to our Services.
  2. ”Guardian Law Materials” includes any data, materials, content and printed and electronic documentation (including any specifications and integration guides) owned, developed and provided by us or our affiliates to you for download from our Site. You may not, and may not attempt to, directly or indirectly: 3. transfer, sublicense, loan, sell, assign, lease, rent, distribute or grant rights in our Service or the Guardian Law Materials to any person or entity; 4. remove, obscure, or alter any notice of any of our trade marks, or other “intellectual property” appearing on or contained within our Services or on any Guardian Law Materials; 5. modify, copy, tamper with or otherwise create derivative works of any software included in the Guardian Law Materials; or 6. reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile the Guardian Law Materials or our Services or apply any other process or procedure to derive the source code of any software included in the Guardian Law Materials or as part of the Services.

Prohibited Activities

  1. You may not access or use our Services for any purpose other than that for which we make our Services available. Our Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavours.
  2. As a user of our Services, you agree not to: 7. Systematically retrieve data or other content from our Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us. 8. Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users. 9. Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of our Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Guardian Law Materials or enforce limitations on the use of our Services and/or the Guardian Law Materials contained therein. 10. Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or our Services. 11. Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person. 12. Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct. 13. Use our Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations. 14. Engage in unauthorised framing of or linking to our Services. 15. Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of our Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of our Services. 16. Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. 17. Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Guardian Law Materials. 18. Attempt to impersonate another user or person. 19. Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats (‘gifs’), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as ‘spyware’ or ‘passive collection mechanisms’ or ‘pcms’). 20. Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on our Services or the networks or services connected to our Services. 21. Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of our Services to you. 22. Attempt to bypass any measures of our Services designed to prevent or restrict access to our Services, or any portion of our Services. 23. Copy or adapt our Services’ software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code. 24. Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of our Services. 25. Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorised script or other software. 26. Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on our Services. 27. Make any unauthorised use of our Services, including collecting email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email. 28. Use our Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use our Services and/or the Guardian Law Materials for any revenue-generating endeavour or commercial enterprise.

Services Management

  1. We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: 29. monitor our Services for violations of these Terms; 30. take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms, including without limitation, reporting such user to the appropriate law enforcement authorities; 31. in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from our Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems; and 32. otherwise manage our Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of our Services.

Term And Termination

  1. These Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services.
  2. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR SERVICES (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN OUR SERVICES AND ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.
  3. In addition to terminating or suspending your use of our Services, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

Modifications And Interruptions

  1. We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of our Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Services. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of our Services.
  2. We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify our Services at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services. Nothing in these Terms will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support our Services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

Governing Law

  1. These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore. Any disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Singapore.

Corrections

  1. There may be information on our Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on our Services at any time, without prior notice.

Disclaimer

  1. To the extent permitted by law, neither we nor our officers, directors, employees, suppliers agents and any related entities make any specific warranties, guarantees or representations of any kind with respect to our Services. All warranties, conditions and terms, whether express or implied by statute, common law or otherwise (including any implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement of third party rights) given by us are excluded to the extent permitted by law. In particular, we (and our officers, directors, employees, suppliers, agents and related entities): 33. do not make any commitments about the content or data or the specific functions of our Services or its accuracy, reliability, availability or ability to meet your needs; 34. does not guarantee that our Services will operate uninterrupted or error-free, will always be available, contains and/or displays information that is current or up-to-date, and will be free from bugs or viruses, or never be faulty; 35. will not be liable to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, or consequential loss, if you use our Services for any commercial or business purpose; 36. may occasionally have to interrupt your use of the Services for operational, security or other reasonable reasons. In such cases, we will restore access as quickly as practicable; 37. will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a bug or virus, or other technological attacks or harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material, related to your use of our Services; 38. cannot be liable for any failure to perform, or delay in performing, any of our obligations as a result of events which are outside our control. An event which is outside our control refers to any act or event beyond our reasonable control, including, but without limitation to, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks or impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.
  2. If you are dissatisfied with the Services, or you do not agree with any part of these Terms, or you have any other dispute or claim with or against us with respect to these Terms or our Services, then your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using our Services.

Indemnification

  1. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries and affiliates, and all of our respective officers, directors, employees, suppliers, agents and related entities, on demand against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable legal fees and expenses, incurred or suffered in connection with or as a result of: 39. your breach of any term of these Terms, including your representations and warranties set forth herein; 40. failure to comply with applicable law; 41. your use or misuse of our Services; or 42. any actions arising from your instructions or which we reasonably believe to have been made by you or any of your authorised users.
  2. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, which will not excuse your indemnity obligations under this section. This section shall continue to be in force even after you cease using our Services.

User Data

  1. We will maintain certain data that you transmit to our Services for the purpose of managing the performance of our Services, as well as data relating to your use of our Services. Although we perform regular routine backups of data, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using our Services. You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data, and you hereby waive any right of action against us arising from any such loss or corruption of such data.

Electronic Communications, Transactions, And Signatures

  1. Using our Services, sending us emails, completing online forms (e.g., via Google Documents, email or mobile text message) constitute electronic communications. For purposes of forming a legally binding agreement, you hereby consent to receive electronic communications and agree that all terms and conditions, agreement, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any applicable legal requirements, including that these be made in writing. You acknowledge that there is inherent risk in use of the Internet and that information transmitted through the Internet in general is not confidential. We cannot and do not guarantee the privacy or protection of any electronic communications through the Internet. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances, or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by any means other than electronic means.
  2. In addition to communicating via electronic means, we may contact you via letter or telephone where appropriate. We may also communicate with you via any mobile messaging applications (including SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram). Any communications or notices sent by post will be deemed received three (3) days from the date of posting for Singapore post or within five (5) days of posting for international post. Any communications or notices sent by any mobile messaging applications will be deemed received the same day.

Miscellaneous

  1. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of these Terms will continue in full force and effect.
  2. These Terms and any other terms and conditions of our Services constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the Services and supersedes all prior understandings, agreements, representations and warranties, both written and oral, between us with respect to our Services.
  3. Nothing in these Terms will be construed as creating an agency, a partnership or joint venture between us, constitute any party being the agent of the other party, or authorise any party to make or enter into any commitments for or on behalf of the other party. Each party confirms it is acting on its own behalf and not for the benefit of any other person.
  4. These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore. Any disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Singapore.
  5. These Terms, and your rights and obligations hereunder, may not be assigned, subcontracted, delegated or otherwise transferred by you without our prior written consent, and any attempted assignment, subcontract, delegation, or transfer in violation of the foregoing will be null and void.
  6. A person who is not a party to these Terms has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001 of Singapore (or any equivalent legislation under applicable law) to enforce any term of these Terms, save as expressly provided in these Terms.

Contact Us

  1. In order to resolve a complaint regarding our Services or to receive further information regarding use of our Services, please contact us at: enquiries@guardianlaw.com.sg

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