ATTENTION: THIS LEGAL NOTICE APPLIES TO THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE UNDER THE DOMAIN NAME WWW.MISS-WORLDPEACE.COM (“WEBSITE”) AND TO ANY CORRESPONDENCE BY EMAIL BETWEEN US AND YOU. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. USING THIS WEBSITE INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU CHOOSE TO REGISTER WITH US. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE. THIS NOTICE IS ISSUED BY MISS WORLD PEACE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (“THE COMPANY”).
1. Introduction
1.1 You will be able to access most areas of this Website without registering your details with us.
1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Website immediately.
1.3 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you.
2. Users Obligations
2.1 You are permitted to access our Website, use the material on this Website and download and store information from this Website on the following basis:
2.1.1 Not use this Website in any which interferes with its availability to other users nor any acts of misuse of the website, infringement of laws, or any attempts to abuse its network and systems to tamper with its normal operation or do anything that degrades the operational performance of the Website;
2.1.2 Not upload or distribute any files that contain viruses, corrupted files or any other similar computer program that may adversely affect the operational performance of another computer; Not se any devise, software or routine or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the website or any transaction offered at this Website;
2.1.3 Not use this Website for any illegal purpose.
2.1.4 Such material is for personal use only;
2.1.5 that no commercial use is made of any information or material on this site;
2.1.6 that you accept that your use of the information on this Website is done so at entirely your own risk.
2.2 All intellectual property rights in the material on this Website is owned by the Company. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited.
2.2.1 The Company will not tolerate and reserves the right to take appropriate legal action against any person who performs, directly or indirectly, such acts. Such persons will also be liable for any loss or damage caused by the prohibited acts.
3. Website Service Access
3.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company’s control.
4. Visitor material and conduct
4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company will have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
4.2 You are prohibited from transmitting to or from this Website any material:
4.2.1 that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
4.2.2 for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals;
4.2.3 which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world;
or
4.2.4 which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).
4.4 The Company will fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone transmitting any material in breach of paragraphs 4.2.
5. Copyright
5.1 Website contains Miss World Peace name, trademarks, distinctive signs and devices owned and used by Miss World Peace Foundation International Limited to distinguish its products and services. These trademarks and related proprietary intellectual property are protected under Hong Kong Government Laws and International laws and may not be reproduced, copied or otherwise used without the express prior written permission of the Company;
5.2 The content of the Website, including but not limited to data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics, and all other information and software published or otherwise contained on this site (the “Contents”) are the exclusive property of the Company;
5.3 Website obtained permission from the rightful owner (or such other third party otherwise identified therein) and protected by copyright, trade marks, service marks, trade secrets, patents, database rights, moral rights, publicity rights, confidentiality or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as specifically provided herein, the Contents and any parts thereof may not be copied, distributed, displayed, reproduced, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the express prior written permission of the Company;
5.4 For the avoidance of doubt, users must not adapt, edit, change, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast or show or play in public the website or any material on the website (in any form or media) without the Company’s prior written permission;
The automated and/or systematic collection of data from the website is prohibited. You may request permission to use the copyright materials on the website by writing to mswp@miss-worldpeace.com;
5.4.1 The Company takes the protection of its copyright very seriously. If the Company discovers that a user has used its copyright materials in contravention of the license above then it may institute legal proceedings seeking monetary damages and an injunction to stop the use of those materials and may claim its legal costs. If a user becomes aware of any use of the Company’s copyright materials that contravenes or may contravene the license above, please report this by email to mswp@miss-worldpeace.com;
5.5 You agree to release and permitted Website to use, publish, display, reproduce or transmit, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, of any form of media with User’s data, video, photographs for promotional or audition purposes;
5.6 The Company and its authorized representatives shall have the right to record, broadcast, televise and reproduce in any medium devised or form or any means now known or hereafter to be advised in relation to the Contest or any part thereof for any audience in any jurisdiction;
5.7 While every effort is made to ensure the timeliness and accuracy, no express or implied warranty is given by the Company as to the accuracy of the information published, or the proper transmission or display of the information on the intended receivers due to variations in information technology and data transmission standards.
6. Links to and from other websites
6.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
6.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that:
6.2.1 you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
6.2.2 you do not in any way imply that the Company is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
6.2.3 you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;
6.2.4 you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and
6.2.5 your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
6.3 The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 6.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.
6.4 You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company or any of its group companies for breach of paragraph 6.2.
7. Disclaimer
7.1 While the Company endeavors to ensure that the information on this Website is correct but does not warrant the accuracy or suitableness of any of information or products or services featured on this Website.
7.2 The material on this Website and is provided ‘as is’ without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Website and on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.
8. Liability
8.1 The Company and any of the Company’s group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website.
9. Government Law
9.1 This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Hong Kong Government Law and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.
If there is any inconsistency or conflict between the English and Chinese versions, the English version prevails.
Please contact us at mswp@miss-worldpeace.com with any questions regarding the Terms & Conditions.