Terms of Use

Introduction and Acceptance

These Terms of Use govern your use of silkroadtoday.com website (the “Site”), owned and operated by North America Asean Consultants Inc. (the “Company”, “us”, “we”, or “our”). By accessing this Site, you agree in full to be bound by the Terms of Use (“Terms”) set forth herein. If you disagree with these Terms or any part of these Terms, do not use this Site.

We assume no liability or responsibility for any damage to you, your computer, or your other property, due to your access to, use of, or downloading of this Site or any materials provided on this Site. We reserve the right to revise this Terms of Use at any time and in any manner. Revised Terms will apply to the use of this Site from the date of the publication of the revised Terms on this Site. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. To view our Privacy Policy, please click here. By registering, accessing or using the Site, you signify your acceptance and consent to the Site’s Privacy Policy.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise explicitly stated in these Terms or applicable Additional Terms, copyright in the content of this Site, including but not limited to the Site material arrangement, all trademarks, service marks, and any and all copyrightable material (including source and object code), (collectively, the “Site Content”) and all intellectual property rights to the same are owned by North America Asean Consultants Inc., its affiliates and/or third-party licensors. All rights reserved.

Except for the limited use rights granted to you in these Terms, you shall not acquire any right, title or interest in the Site or any Site Content. Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms are expressly reserved.

User Conduct

This Site is provided for your information and personal, non-commercial use only unless other use by you is specifically permitted by the Company in writing. When using this Site, you consent to comply with all applicable federal, provincial, and local laws, including, without limitation, copyright law.

You may view, download for temporary storage purposes only and print pages from the Site for your own personal use subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms.

You must not:

  • use, reproduce, sell, rent, sub-license, republish, edit, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, or otherwise exploit material on this Site for any purpose whatsoever without obtaining prior written consent from us or, in the case of third-party content, its respective licensor. Where content is exclusively made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.
  • use this Site in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Site or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Site; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
  • use this Site to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
  • transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications and/or any purposes related to marketing; conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this Site without the Company’s express written consent.

User Content

In these Terms, “Your User Content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this Site, for whatever purpose.

You grant to North America Asean Consultants Inc. a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute Your User Content in any existing or future media. You also grant to the Company the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your User Content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or the Company or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any User Content to the Site that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

The Company reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this Site, or stored on the Company’s servers, or hosted or published upon this Site.

Notwithstanding the Company’s rights under these Terms in relation to Your User Content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this Site.

Registration and Access Restriction

You may be requested to complete an online registration form for access to restricted portions of this Site or other content or services. In such case, you agree to provide true, complete and accurate information as required on any registration form to which this Site may direct you, and keep the information current. On registration, we provide you with a user ID and password which you must keep confidential and secure; and you agree to be fully responsible for any and all activity that occurs on this Site under such user ID and/or password; and to notify the Company immediately of any unauthorized use of your user ID and/or password or any other breach of security. The Company reserves the right to disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation or restrict access to portions of this Site, or indeed this entire Site, at our discretion.

Linking to Site

We hereby extend you a non-exclusive, limited license, revocable at our discretion, for you to link to the Site home page from any site you own or control that is not a misrepresentation to this Site, and/or the Company. You must not use any inline linking technique to link to this Site and/or frame the Site Content using any framing or similar technology.

The website link or links must comply with all applicable laws and adhere to this Site Terms of Use. We do not endorse and cannot be held liable and makes no warranty or representation whatsoever as to the contents and/or offers contained on such websites. All of our rights and remedies are expressly reserved. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these Terms or applicable Additional Terms, we reserve the right to prohibit linking to the Site for any reason, in our sole and absolute discretion, even if the linking complies with the requirements described above.

Hyperlink and Third Party Websites

This Site may contain hyperlinks to websites owned or controlled by third parties. We strongly advise you to read the entire terms and conditions and privacy policy of any website that you visit as a result of following a link that is posted on our Site. We do not endorse or recommend any products or services offered by or contents contained in any of these third-party websites. We hereby disclaim all liability for all information, materials, or any failure of products or services posted, advertised or that may be accessed at any of the third-party websites linked to this Site.

No Warranties

This Site is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. The Company makes no representations or warranties in relation to this Site or the information and materials provided on this Site. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the Company does not warrant that:

  • this Site will be constantly available, or available at all; or
  • the information on this Site is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this Site constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter, you should consult an appropriate professional.

Limitations of Liability

The Company will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this Site:

  • to the extent that the Site is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
  • for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
  • for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if the Company has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this Site disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this Site disclaimer will exclude or limit the Company’s liability in respect of any:

  • death or personal injury caused by the Company’s negligence;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of the Company or
  • matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for the Company to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this Site, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this Site disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this Site.

Other Parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, the Company has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against the Company’s officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the Site. Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this Site disclaimer will protect the Company’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as the Company.

Unenforceable Provisions

If any provision of this Site disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this Site disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify North America Asean Consultants Inc. and undertake to keep the Company indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by the Company to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of the Company’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these Terms, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these Terms.

Breaches of these Terms

Without prejudice to the Company’s other rights under these Terms of Use, if you breach these Terms in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the Site, prohibiting you from accessing the Site, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the Site, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the Site and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Assignment

The Company may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with the Company’s rights and/or obligations under these Terms without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these Terms of Use.

Severability

If a provision of these Terms is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and North America Asean Consultants Inc. in relation to your use of this Site, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this Site.

Applicable Law

You agree that these Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia, and federal law in Canada as applicable (without applying conflict-of-law principles), and any disputes relating to these Terms of Use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in the province of British Columbia located in Vancouver.

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Terms of Use Effective Date: May 24, 2018