Terms of Use

Terms of Use

Agreement between User and Base Projects Limited., and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “Base Projects”). This web site is offered to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (“Terms”). Your use of this web site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices. Base Projects reserves the right to update the Terms at any time without notice to you. The most current version of the Terms can be reviewed by clicking on the “Terms of Use” hypertext link located at the bottom of our web pages.

 

Description of Services

Base Projects provides you with access to a variety of resources, including developer tools, download areas, communication forums, and product information (collectively “Services”). The Services, including any updates, enhancements, new features, and/or the addition of any related web properties, are subject to the Terms.

 

Copyright Notice

The contents of all material available on the site are copyrighted by Base Projects unless otherwise indicated. All rights are reserved by Base Projects and, except as permitted in any license grant, may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of Base Projects.

 

Legal Notice and Disclaimer

INFORMATION ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Base Projects (including its employees and agents) assumes no responsibility for consequences from the use of the information herein, or in any respect for the content of such information, including, but not limited to, delays, errors or omissions, the accuracy or reasonableness of information, the defamatory nature of statements, ownership of copyright or other intellectual property rights, and the violation of property, privacy or personal rights of others. BASE PROJECTS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR, DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF USE, REFERENCE OR RELIANCE ON SUCH INFORMATION.

IN NO EVENT SHALL BASE PROJECTS AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS, PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES.

 

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use

As a condition of your use of this web site, you warrant to Base Projects that you will not use this web site or any information contained on the web site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Base Projects server, or the network(s) connected to any Base Projects server, or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Base Projects server or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Services.

 

Personal and Non-Commercial Use of Services

Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.

 

Returns Policy

Base Projects does not accept returns of software, products, training, services, or any other item obtained from the Services.

 

Privacy and Protection of Personal Information

See the Privacy Statement disclosures relating to the collection and use of your information.

 

Links to Other Internet Sites

At certain places on this site, live “links” to other Internet addresses can be accessed (“Linked Sites”). Such Linked Sites contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of Base Projects. Base Projects does not endorse, approve, certify, or control these Linked Sites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness or correct sequencing of information that they contain. Use of Linked Sites is voluntary, and should only be undertaken after an independent review of the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness of the information contained therein. In addition, it is the user’s responsibility to take precautions to ensure that material selected from such Linked Sites is free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature. Base Projects is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of the use of such Linked Sites, or reference to or reliance on information contained therein.

 

Special License Restrictions for Non-Human Visitors

Special restrictions on a visitor’s license to access the Website apply to Non-Human Visitors. Non-Human Visitors include, but are not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, harvesters, or any other computer programs designed to access, read, compile or gather content from the Website automatically.

Email addresses on this site are considered proprietary intellectual property. It is recognized that these email addresses are provided for human visitors alone. You acknowledge and agree that each email address the Website contains has a value not less than US $50. You further agree that the compilation, storage, and/or distribution of these addresses substantially diminishes the value of these addresses. Intentional collection, harvesting, gathering, and/or storing this Website’s email addresses is recognized as a violation of this agreement and expressly prohibited.

 

Records of Visitor Use and Abuse

You consent to have your Internet Protocol address recorded. An email address may appear immediately below (the “Identifier”) if we suspect potential abuse. The Identifier is uniquely matched to your Internet Protocol address. Visitors agree not to use this address for any reason.

VISITORS AGREE THAT HARVESTING, GATHERING, STORING, TRANSFERRING TO A THIRD PARTY OR SENDING ANY MESSAGE(S) TO THE IDENTIFIER CONSTITUTES AN ACCEPTANCE AND SUBSEQUENT BREACH OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.

 

Notice Specific to Software Offered on this Web Site

Any software that is made available to download from the Services (“Software”) is the copyrighted work of Base Projects and/or its suppliers. Use of the Software is governed by the terms referenced on the Website with respect to each Software at the time of purchase, or at the time of download if no purchase is made (“License Agreement”). No permission is granted to install or use any Software without first agreeing to the License Agreement terms.

The Software is made available for download solely for use according to the License Agreement. Any reproduction or redistribution of the Software not in accordance with the License Agreement is expressly prohibited by law and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.

The official and complete documentation for Base Projects products is available upon request and includes these Terms of Use. The operation of software may vary by device, platform, and browser, in both functionality and performance. No operation is guaranteed to perform as presented and implementation results may vary.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED UNLESS SUCH REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED BY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT.

THE SOFTWARE IS WARRANTED, IF AT ALL, ONLY ACCORDING TO THE TERMS OF THE LICENSE AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS WARRANTED IN THE LICENSE AGREEMENT, BASE PROJECTS HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

 

Governmental Use

Any Software which is downloaded from the Services for or on behalf of the United States of America, its agencies and/or instrumentalities, is provided with Restricted Rights. Use, duplication or disclosure by the H.K. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or subparagraphs (c)(1) and (2) of the Commercial Computer Software – Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable. The manufacturer is Base Projects Ltd.

 

Notice Specific to Documents Made Available on this Web Site

Permission to use Documents (such as white papers, press releases, datasheets, and FAQs) offered as a part of the Services is granted, provided that (1) Base Projects’ copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear, (2) use of such Documents from the Services is for informational and non-commercial or personal use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or broadcast in any media, and (3) no modifications of any Documents are made.

Accredited educational institutions, such as K-12, universities, private/public colleges, and state community colleges, may download and reproduce the Documents for distribution in the classroom. Distribution outside the classroom requires express written permission. Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.

Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the Base Projects.com web site or any other Base Projects owned, operated, licensed or controlled site. Elements of the Base Projects web sites are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any Base Projects web site may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by Base Projects.

 

Services Requiring Member Accounts

If any of the Services requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete, and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You may also be required to choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Base Projects immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Base Projects will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Base Projects or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else’s account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

 

Restrictions on Use of Services

The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums, file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a “Communication Service” and collectively “Communication Services”). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send, and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Communication Services, you will not:

  • Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming, or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).
  • Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
  • Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material, or information.
  • Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same.
  • Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any party.
  • Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer or property of another.
  • Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically allows such messages.
  • Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
  • Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
  • Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
  • Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.
  • Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
  • Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
  • Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
  • Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.

Base Projects has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Base Projects reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Base Projects reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

Base Projects reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as Base Projects deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Base Projects’ sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about yourself or your children in any Communication Services. Base Projects does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Services and, therefore, Base Projects specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Services. Managers, hosts, and the Community Support Team are not authorized Base Projects spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Base Projects.

Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction, and/or dissemination; you are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.

 

Submissions to Base Projects and our Web Site

Base Projects does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Base Projects (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a “Submission” and collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting (“Posting”) your Submission you are granting Base Projects and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission (including, without limitation, all Base Projects Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Base Projects is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and Base Projects may remove any Submission at any time in its sole discretion.

By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in these Terms including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.

In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting a Submission that contains images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part (“Images”), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images, you are granting (a) to all members of your private community (for each such Images available to members of such private community), and/or (b) to the general public (for each such Images available anywhere on the Services, other than a private community), permission to use your Images in connection with the use, as permitted by these Terms, of any of the Services, (including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, making prints and gift items which include such Images), and including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without having your name attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Images.

The code shared by the users of this website is made available as-is and is not officially supported. Any such code is subject to the restrictions of the license for the related Base Projects product. Base Projects HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WITH REGARD TO ANY SUCH CODE.

Code posted by Base Projects is made available as is and is not officially supported. Any such code posted on Base Projects Forum is subject to the restrictions of the license for the related Base Projects product. Any such code posted on Try Base Projects, exclusive of Base Projects products is made available under MIT License. BASE PROJECTS HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WITH REGARD TO ANY SUCH CODE.

 

Claims of Copyright Infringement

Pursuant to Hong Kong Copyright Ordinance, notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to Legal [at] Baseprojects [dot] org.

 

UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY.

NEITHER BASE PROJECTS NOR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES ACCEPT OR CONSIDER UNSOLICITED IDEAS, INCLUDING IDEAS FOR NEW ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS, NEW PROMOTIONS, NEW PRODUCTS OR TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, MATERIALS, MARKETING PLANS OR NEW PRODUCT NAMES. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY ORIGINAL CREATIVE ARTWORK, SAMPLES, DEMOS, OR OTHER WORKS. THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY IS TO AVOID POTENTIAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS OR DISPUTES WHEN BASE PROJECTS’S PRODUCTS OR MARKETING STRATEGIES MIGHT SEEM SIMILAR TO IDEAS SUBMITTED TO Base Projects. SO, PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR UNSOLICITED IDEAS TO BASE PROJECTS OR ANYONE AT BASE PROJECTS. IF, DESPITE OUR REQUEST THAT YOU NOT SEND US YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS, YOU STILL SEND THEM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT BASE PROJECTS MAKES NO ASSURANCES THAT YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS WILL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY.

 

Trademarks

There are a number of proprietary logos, trademarks, and service marks (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed on our Website and via the Services. All such Trademarks (whether registered or not registered) are the property of Base Projects. By displaying any Trademarks, Base Projects is not granting you a license or the right to use any of the Trademarks nor should anything contained in any Services be construed or interpreted as granting you by implication or otherwise a license or any right to use any of the Trademarks without the prior express written permission of Base Projects.

 

General

Base Projects reserves the right to terminate this agreement at any time for any reason, including, but not limited to, violating any of the terms or conditions of this agreement.

By accessing you agree that disputes arising out of or relating to the contents or use of this web site are to be governed by Hong Kong laws. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts sitting in Hong Kong in all disputes arising out of or relating to the contents or use of this web site.

If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law, including without limitation, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provisions will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in full force and effect.

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Base Projects with respect to the use of this web site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between you and Base Projects with respect to this web site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.