(Updated February 1, 2018)
This site application is owned by
Hanyuchinese.com. References to “Hanychinese”, “Idobiz”, “we”, “us”, “our”
or similar refer to Hanyuchinese.com or whichever Hanyuchinese group company
is operating this site. Our “affiliated entities” mean companies which are
the control of Hanyuchinese or Idobiz.
The Hanyuchinese network and learning system
The Hanyuchinese method for
teaching Chinese is provided by Hanyuchinese.
Terms and Conditions
If you are under 18 years of age, please be sure to read these Terms and
Conditions with your parent or guardian and ask questions about things you
do not understand.
These Terms and Conditions apply to your use of this site, its features and
contents. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using
and/or registering to this site because by accessing or using this site or
by linking to it, you signify that you have read, understood and agreed to
be bound by these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions are a
legally binding agreement between you and us.
You are responsible for bringing these terms to the attention of anyone who
may read material on this site as a result of your access to it.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, add or delete
portions of the Terms and Conditions at any time. If we do this, we will
post the changes to these Terms and Conditions on this Terms and Conditions
page. We may send registered users and subscribers an email notifying you of
the change. Your continued use of this site after any such change whether or
not you received an email from us notifying you of any changes, constitutes
your acceptance of the new Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to
abide by these or any future Terms and Conditions, please do not use or
access (or continue to use or access) this site.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to make any changes to this
site and levels of service offered and to terminate access at any time.
You must not use data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or
extraction methods on any part of this site without our express prior
written consent.If there is a conflict between those more specific terms and
these Terms and Conditions, then the more specific terms shall apply.
Proprietary Rights in Content
All material on or available through this site is (unless otherwise stated)
copyright of Hanyuchinese. All rights are reserved.
Users are permitted to view, print and download the material for personal,
non-commercial and classroom use only but in so doing are not permitted to
remove or amend any trademark, copyright or other proprietary notice. Class
room use refers to non-commercial uses by a qualified teacher during a class
of students registered in Hanyuchinese courses.
Users are not entitled to modify the content of this site or reproduce,
republish, distribute, transmit, link, frame or deep-link it on any other
site without the express permission of Hanyuchinese. Users may not
distribute, transmit, reproduce or publish by electronic or any other means
any part of the data without the prior written permission of Hanyuchinese.
Users may not create a database in electronic or structured manual form by
systematically downloading and storing all or any of the content. All other
rights reserved.
All trademarks used on this site are the property of their respective owners.
Registration Data and Account Security
When you register for any services offered on this site requiring
registration, you are asked to provide specific information as set out in
the registration form (“Registration Details”). You must provide accurate
Registration Details and update your Registration Details as necessary so
that they maintain their accuracy. You must keep your password and
identification details secure and you are fully responsible for all use of
your account and for any actions that take place using your account.
You must not allow others to use your Registration Details or account, and
you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security
of your account. You agree to notify Hanyuchinese immediately of any
unauthorised use of your Registration Details or account. Hanyuchinese will
not be liable for any losses arising out of the unauthorised use of your
Registration Details and/or account and you agree to indemnify and hold
harmless Hanyuchinese or any associated companies, agents, affiliates and/or
licensors, as applicable, for unauthorised uses of your account.
Privacy
Registration Details or other information you provide to us as part of our
registration process will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
By using this site, you are consenting to have your personal data
transferred to and processed by us in line with our Privacy Policy which
forms part of these Terms and Conditions.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements to allow full access to this site are as
follows:
Browser: Internet Explorer 8+, Chrome 2+, Firefox 3.5+, and
Safari
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels
Hanyuchinese assumes no liability in the event that your hardware or software
does not comply with the minimum requirements specified above. Hanyuchinese
assumes no responsibility for the equipment and/or service providers (ISP,
telecom operator, etc) that you select to access to this site.
You can access your account from more than one device but we recommend that
you access your account from one device at a time only. If you have access
to your account simultaneously from more than one device the system may not
recognise or save properly certain content provided through this site and we
assume no responsibility.
User Conduct
The site and all its features, whether or not requiring password registration
or payment, is available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You
represent and warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted to
this site, including if you registered with us through your account, or
otherwise posted, transmitted or shared by you will violate or infringe upon
the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy,
publicity or other personal or proprietary rights or contain libellous,
defamatory or otherwise harmful material. You may not use this site or any
of its features for any illegal or unauthorised purpose. You agree to abide
by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and
regulations and are solely responsible for all your acts or omissions and
for all those that occur under your account.
By submitting any material to us you agree to abide by the following rules.
Hanyuchinese reserves the right but does not have an obligation to monitor
materials or any information which is posted on any part of this site, any
bulletin boards, discussion forums or any tools available on this site
allowing you to post comments, material, views, reviews or comment on
material posted by you, us or others or to interact with others or materials
in any way (“the Interactive Areas”) and on any part of this site requiring
registration or subscription allowing you to do any of the above.
We also have the right, but no obligation, at any time to delete, remove, or
suspend the whole or any part of the materials on this site or any content
posted on them including in any Interactive Areas and areas requiring
registration or subscription without notice and without incurring any
liability. No part of our site is meant for you to post third-party
copyrighted content. That includes the Interactive Areas including those
requiring registration and/or subscription. “Copyrighted content means
third-party copyright content such as songs, film clips, an episode of a TV
programme, parts of books, news articles, illustrations, photos or music
videos.
If you find objectionable or offensive material please let us know as soon as
possible.
The views, statements and opinions expressed in any of the Interactive Areas
in any form are those of the individual contributors or advertisers and not
the statements and opinions of Hanyuchinese.
By posting your comments or materials on the Interactive Areas, you grant us
a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide licence to
use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, make available,
distribute, include in other works, sub-license and display any content you
submit to us in any format now known or later developed. By submitting
material you acknowledge that you waive any moral rights you may have in it.
If you do not want to grant us these rights, please do not submit your
comments or materials to us.
You may use the Interactive Areas only to post content that is proper and
appropriate to such areas and you must not do any of the following:
- advertise, promote or offer to sell any goods or services even if you
are acting for a charity or non-profit organisation;
- post, transmit unsolicited promotional material “junk” mail or “spam”,
pyramid schemes;
- harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information or use
automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with
this site;
- reveal any confidential or sensitive information;
- reveal any personal information on other persons (for example, email
address, telephone number or postal address, credit card numbers, social
security numbers);
- post or link to any content that we deem unlawful, defamatory, obscene,
threatening, offensive, fraudulent, harmful or otherwise objectionable
(this includes but is not limited to text, graphics, video, programs or
audio);
- post content which you do not have permission to use, in particular,
material that contains the intellectual property rights of third
parties;
- upload, post share or otherwise make available any material that
contains software viruses, computer codes, worms, trojans or any other
components with harmful or contaminating effects to any user or
equipment;
- imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us;
- delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary
designations or labels in any content that is posted;
- falsify the origin or source of content that is posted;
- contribute content with the intention of committing or promoting an
illegal act;
- use inappropriate (e.g. vulgar or offensive) language or user names;
- impersonate any living person or purport to represent any organisation;
- use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without
authorisation, register for more than one account or register on behalf
of another individual, group or entity;
- reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of this
site, deep link into it without permission.
Please bear in mind that we will identify you with content you submitted and
may release that information to a court or other official if ordered to do
so.
We may refuse to grant you a username that impersonates someone else, is or
may be protected by trademark or other intellectual property rights, is
vulgar, offensive or otherwise inappropriate, as determined by us in our
sole discretion.
We do not undertake to keep or make available any material that you or anyone
else has contributed to this site for any length of time or at all. We may
delete, archive, make unavailable, modify or comment on any material, and
close or suspend any discussion topic at any time without notice.
You may not use the words “Hanyuchinese” or any other trademark used on this
site or belonging to us or our affiliated entities, in particular in any
meta-tags or other “hidden text”, in each case without our express prior
written consent.
User Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of this
site. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes
between you and other users.
Disclaimers
Although we try to ensure that the information we provide on this site is
correct, it is provided on an 'as is' basis, without warranties of any kind.
No warranty, express or implied, is given that any of the content of this
site is accurate, complete or up to date. Hanyuchinese does not accept any
liability for any error or omission of any content on this site, including
content provided by us or any affiliated entities or by any users or other
third parties.
Any and all representations and warranties whether express or implied,
including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose or non-infringement, whether implied by statute, common law, custom,
trade usage, course of dealing or otherwise are excluded to the fullest
extent permitted by law. We do not exclude any liability in respect of death
or personal injury caused by our negligence, liability for our fraud, or any
other liability that we cannot exclude by law.
We cannot guarantee and do not promise any specific results from use of this
site.
The use of this site and any content on any part of it whether requiring
registration and/or subscription or not is at your own risk. Hanyuchinese
will not be liable to any users of this site (whether registered users,
subscribers or not) and any third parties for any claims or losses of any
nature including, but not limited to, loss of profits, direct, indirect,
special or consequential damages arising from a user’s or third party's use
or inability to use this site or any part of it, including any loss of data
or lost profits or wasted time of management or employees even if
Hanyuchinese is aware of or has been advised of the possibility of such
damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
Hanyuchinese’s liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of
the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if
any, by you to us.
Hanyuchinese accepts no responsibility for the content on any third-party
app, website, survey, platform or other digital space to which a hypertext
link from this site exists or, after you have followed such hypertext link,
for any use of any data (including your personal data) by the third party
operating such app, website, survey, platform or other digital space. The
links are provided 'as is' with no warranty, express or implied, in relation
to the information they link to or provide.
All providers of a link into this site should note that Hanyuchinese does not
necessarily read, check or edit the content from such links and Hanyuchinese
accepts such material linked to its site purely on the basis of an
understanding that Hanyuchinese is a distributor (not a publisher) of such
material and by linking to this site, the provider of the link gives an
implied warranty that he/she/it will indemnify Hanyuchinese in the event of
any action arising as a result of such material appearing on or via this
site. All persons accessing this site are also put on notice of such fact.
While Hanyuchinese makes all reasonable attempts to exclude viruses or other
code with contaminating or disruptive properties from this site, it cannot
ensure such exclusion and no liability is accepted for viruses and any
computer code/software. You are recommended to take all appropriate
safeguards before downloading information from this site.
Information transmitted via this site will pass over public or private
telecommunications networks. Hanyuchinese makes no representation or
warranty that the operation of this site will be uninterrupted or error free
and disclaims all liability in this respect. The site may be temporarily
unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons.
Indemnity
You agree to hold harmless, indemnify, and at our request defend,
Hanyuchinese, its parents, subsidiaries and other affiliated entities and
their respective owners, officers, managers, agents and employees from and
against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your
material, your use of, conduct on this site, including any liability or
expense arising from all claims, liabilities, losses, damages (actual and
consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs, expenses and lawyers’
fees, for every kind and nature. In such a case, we will provide you with
written notice of such claim, suit or action to the address you registered
with us.
Termination
Hanyuchinese may immediately suspend or terminate your access to this site
without notice if any breach of these Terms and Conditions of use by you is
brought to our attention.
If you breach these Terms and Conditions and we take no action, we will not
be deemed to have waived any of our rights and may still use any rights and
remedies that were open to us when you broke them.
Your registration may be terminated and your profile and any content or
information that you have posted on this site may be deleted at any time. We
may prohibit you from using or accessing this site for any reason, at any
time in our sole discretion, with or without notice. These Terms and
Conditions shall apply to any use of this site, also after your registration
was terminated.
We reserve the right to deactivate user accounts and user names that have
been inactive for more than 180 consecutive calendar days.
