Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions of Use

ASEAN Smart City Financing Toolkit is intended to provide the ASEAN Smart Cities Network and other ASEAN cities with knowledge and understanding of various options available for funding and financing smart city initiatives. By accessing and using any part of the ASEAN Smart City Financing Toolkit (“Toolkit”), those who visit this Toolkit (“User”) are deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions of Use.

  1. Permission is granted to User to download the information, documents and materials (collectively, “Materials”) from the Toolkit for User’s personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell or redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom, subject to the terms and conditions outlined below, and also subject to more specific restrictions that may apply to specific Material within this site. Users who use Materials from the Toolkit must mention ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat as the source. 
  1. The Materials published on this Toolkit is for informational purposes only. Any summaries, findings, interpretations, explanatory materials, and description contained in this Toolkit are not intended to be exhaustive or official, and do not affect the rights and obligations of ASEAN Member States. 
  1. The Toolkit, the Materials, features, content and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of the ASEAN Member States or ASEAN Secretariat and its staff (collectively, “Toolkit Organiser”).
  1. Unauthorised use of any Materials from this Toolkit may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence. Users are prohibited from using information and report results from the Toolkit as marketable claims or collateral for their own commercial purposes.
  1. Permission is granted to Toolkit Organiser to use any data and information resulting from or in connection with the activities under this Toolkit for non-commercial purposes.
  1. This Toolkit contains copyrighted materials which are owned by or licensed to use. These materials include, but is not limited to, the text, design, layout, look, appearance, and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than with Toolkit Organiser’s written consent.

Disclaimers

  1. The contents of the Toolkit may contain views, advice, opinions and statements of various information providers. The Toolkit Organiser makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this Toolkit, and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this Toolkit. Reliance upon any such advice, opinion, statement, or other information shall also be at User’s own risk. The Toolkit is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, whether express or implied. 
  1. All trademarks reproduced in this Toolkit, which are not the property of, or licensed to the Toolkit Organiser, are acknowledged on the Toolkit.
  1. Information contained in this Toolkit does not imply the expression of any opinion or whatsoever concerning the legal status of any country or of its authorities. The Toolkit and other references included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory or boundary.
  1. While translation to eight languages of the ASEAN Member States is available, the Toolkit Organiser is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate translation and will not be held responsible for any damage or issues that may result from using the translation services.
  1. User must not rely on the information provided in this Toolkit as an alternative to legal advice from lawyers or other professional legal service providers. If you have any specific questions about any legal matter, you should consult to your lawyer or other professional legal service providers.
  1. This Toolkit may contain links and references to third-party websites or external references, including the URLs or author and organisational names. The linked sites are not under the control of the Toolkit Organiser, and the Toolkit Organiser is not responsible for the contents of any linked sites or any link contained in a linked site. The Toolkit Organiser provides these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link or reference does not imply the endorsement of the linked sites by the Toolkit Organiser. 
  1. The Toolkit includes interactive features that allow User to discuss with other users to share ideas and experience (collectively, “Discussion Board”), to ask questions through AI Chatbot as well as translation to eight languages from the ASEAN Member States. The AI Chatbot will enable users to obtain summarised information and links from within the Toolkit as well as on a shortlisted list of custom websites. Any translations made in the Toolkit and by the AI Chatbot are not under control of the Toolkit Organiser. Therefore, the Toolkit Organiser is not responsible for any misinterpretation or the accuracy of the translation and the information provided by AI Chatbot.
  1. User must not use the Discussion Board and AI Chatbot to seek any advice, including financial and investment advice, from the Toolkit Organiser. User agrees to use the Discussion Board only to send and receive messages and materials that are proper and related to the Toolkit. By way of example and not as a limitation, User agrees that when using Discussion Board and AI Chatbot, he or she shall not do any of the following: 
  1. Unlawful or promoting unlawful activity;
  2. Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; 
  3. Publish, post, distribute or disseminate any defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information; 
  4. Upload or attach files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy and publicity) unless the User owns or controls the rights thereto and consents to share or has received all consents therefor as may be required by law; 
  5. Upload or attach files that contain viruses, corrupted files or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer; 
  6. Delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any file that is uploaded; 
  7. Impersonating any person or entity including the Toolkit Organiser and its employees or representatives;
  8. Falsify the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; 
  9. Advertise or offer to sell any goods or services, or conduct or forward surveys, contests or chain letters, or download any file posted by another user of a forum that User knows, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner. 
  1. User acknowledges that all discussions on the Discussion Board are public and not private communications. Further, User acknowledges that chats, postings, and other communications by other Users are not endorsed by the Toolkit Organiser, and that such communications shall not be considered to have been reviewed, screened or approved by the ASEAN Member States. The Toolkit Organiser reserves the right to remove, without notice, any content of the Discussion Board received from Users if deemed reasonable by Toolkit Organiser. The Toolkit Organiser reserves the right to deny in its sole discretion any User access to this Toolkit or any portion thereof without notice. 
  1. The use of this Toolkit is at User’s sole risk. As a condition of use of this Toolkit, User agrees to indemnify the Toolkit Organiser from and against any and all actions, claims, losses, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of User’s use of this Toolkit, including, without limitation, any claims alleging facts that if true would constitute a breach by User of these Terms and Conditions. If User is dissatisfied with any Materials on this Toolkit or with any of its Terms and Conditions of Use, User’s sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Toolkit. 
  1. The Toolkit Organiser reserves the rights to add, change, improve, or update the information and materials on this Toolkit without notice to the Toolkit’s Users. The Toolkit Organiser reserves its exclusive right in its sole discretion to alter, limit or discontinue the Toolkit or any Materials in any respect. The Toolkit Organiser shall have no obligation to take the needs of any User into consideration in connection therewith.

Preservation of Immunities 

Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or a waiver of the privileges and immunities of the Toolkit Organiser, which are specifically reserved. 

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