Terms of Service
Acceptance of Terms
- CHANYI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., a company incorporated in Taiwan, ROC (hereinafter referred to as “CHANYI”), provides CHANYI services (defined below) subject to the following Terms of Service (“Terms”). By using CHANYI’s services, it is presumed that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms and provisions of the Terms. In addition, when using particular CHANYI services, you and CHANYI shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services. All such guidelines or rules (including but not limited to our Spam Policy) are incorporated by reference into the Terms.
- CHANYI reserves the right to revise or update the content of the Terms at any time. Therefore, it is recommended that you review the Terms regularly. By continuing to use our services after any revision or updates to the Terms, it is presumed that you have read, understood, and agreed to the revisions or updates. If you do not agree with the content of the Terms, or your country or area excludes our Terms, please stop using our services immediately.
- If you are under 18 years of age and you use or continue to use our services, it is presumed that a parent or legal guardian has read, understood, and agree to the content of the Terms and its subsequent revisions or updates.
Section 1 - Links to Third-Party Websites
- CHANYI or companies that help us provide services may provide links to external websites or online resources. By clicking on third-party links on CHANYI’s platforms, you acknowledge and agree that CHANYI is not associated with, responsible for, or endorses any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. All external websites operated by third parties are the sole responsibilities of their web operators and therefore beyond CHANYI’s control and responsibility. CHANYI cannot guarantee the appropriateness, reliability, timeliness, effectiveness, correctness, and completeness of external websites.
Section 2 - Your Registration/Purchasing Obligations
- In consideration of your use of CHANYI’s services, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as prompted by CHANYI’s registration/purchasing form; (b) maintain and promptly update the information mentioned above to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or there is reason to suspect, so CHANYI has the right to suspend or terminate your account and deny your use of all, or part, of our services.
Section 3 - User Security
- Upon completing the registration/purchasing process for using our services, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and login details (username and password). In addition, you agree to: (a) immediately notify CHANYI of any unauthorized use of your account or account login or any other breach of security; (b) ensure that you log out from your account at the end of each session.
Section 4 - Protection of Minors
- The Internet contains information that is not suitable for minors, such as those containing pornographic or violent content, which may result in mental, spiritual, or physical harm to minors. Therefore, to ensure safety on the Internet for minors and to avoid privacy breaches, a minor’s parent or legal guardian shall have an obligation to: (a) Review the website's Privacy Policy, and decide whether they agree to provide the requested personal data. The parent or guardian should regularly remind their children that they should not disclose any information about themselves or their family (including name, address, contact number, email address, pictures, credit or debit card numbers, etc.) to anybody. In addition, they should not accept any invitations or gifts from those friends they only communicate with online or agree to meet such friends alone. (b) Be cautious in selecting suitable websites for minors. Children under 12 years of age should only use the Internet under full supervision. Minors over 12 years of age should only visit websites that a parent or legal guardian has already approved.
Section 5 - User’s Legal Obligation and Commitment
- You agree to never use CHANYI’s services for any illegal purpose or in any unlawful manner and undertake to comply with related laws of the ROC (Taiwan) and all international practices for Internet use. If you are a user outside the ROC, you agree to comply with the laws of your country or region. You agree and pledge not to use CHANYI’s services to infringe on the rights or interests of others or for any illegal conduct. You agree not to use CHANYI’s services to:
- (a) upload, post, publish, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials (“Content”) that is libelous, defamatory, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, vulgar, obscene, false, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or that violates or incites violation of public order, or that is racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable;
- (b) upload, post, publish, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any Content that violates or infringes on another person’s reputation, privacy, trade secrets, trademark, copyright, patent rights, other intellectual property rights, or other rights;
- (c) upload, post, publish, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
- (d) impersonate any person or entity, including using another person’s name to use our services;
- (e) upload, post, publish, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses, or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, damage, or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment;
- (f) engage in illegal transactions, post false or erroneous messages, or post messages that induce others to commit crimes;
- (g) upload, post, publish, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas that are designated for such purpose;
- (h) harm minors in any way;
- (i) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through our services;
- (j) interfere with or disrupt our services, or servers or networks connected to our services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to our services including using any device, software, or routine to bypass our robot exclusion headers;
- (k) “stalk” or otherwise harass another, or collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in paragraphs “a” through “j” above; and/or
- (l) to conduct any other activity or behavior that CHANYI sees as inappropriate on reasonable grounds.
Section 6 - System Interruptions or Breakdowns
- When accessing CHANYI’s services, you may at times encounter interruptions or breakdowns. That may lead to inconvenience during use, loss of information, errors, unauthorized alteration, or other economic losses. Therefore, we advise that you take protective measures when using our services. CHANYI will not be liable for any damage caused by your use (or inability to use) our services unless it is caused by us intentionally or due to gross negligence on our part.
Section 7 - Information or Suggestions
- CHANYI does not guarantee the complete correctness and accuracy of information or suggestions acquired from your use of our services or other websites connected to our services (including but not limited to business, investment, medical, or legal information or suggestions). CHANYI reserves the right to modify or delete at any time any information or suggestion provided under our services. Before making plans and decisions based on information or suggestion obtained from our services, you must get professional advice in keeping with your individual requirements.
- CHANYI may cooperate at any time with third parties (“Content Providers”), which may provide news, information, articles, video, e-newsletters, or activities for posting on CHANYI. CHANYI will state the Content Provider in all cases at the time of posting. Based on the principle of respect for the intellectual property rights of Content Providers, CHANYI shall not perform any substantial review or revision of content from such Content Providers. You should make your judgments concerning the correctness or authenticity of such content. CHANYI shall not be held liable for the correctness or authenticity of this type of content. If you feel that certain content is inappropriate, infringes on other's rights, or contains falsehoods, please directly contact the Content Provider to state your views.
Section 8 - Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
- The programs, software, and all website content employed by CHANYI, including but not limited to product information, images, files, website frameworks, website interface infrastructure, and webpage designs, and user content, shall in all cases constitute intellectual property rights legally in possession of CHANYI or other rights holder. Such intellectual property rights shall include but not be limited to trademarks, patent rights, copyrights, trade secrets, and proprietary technologies. No persons willfully use, modify, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, publicly perform, adapt, disseminate, distribute, publish, restore, decode, or disassemble said intellectual property. You may not quote, reprint, or reproduce the programs mentioned above, software, and website content, without prior written permission from CHANYI or the copyright owner, except when clearly permitted by the law. You must fulfill your duty to respect intellectual property rights or bear full responsibility for any damage. In order to market and promote our services, product or service names, images, or other propriety materials related to these services belonging to CHANYI and its affiliates (“CHANYI Trademarks”) are protected by the Trademark Act and Fair Trade Act of 2010 (Taiwan) according to their registration or usage. You agree not to use CHANYI Trademarks in any way without prior written permission from CHANYI.
Section 9 - Notices
- CHANYI may communicate legal or other relevant regulatory notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, using but not limited to the following channels: email, postal mail, SMS, MMS, text message, postings on our services’ webpages, or other reasonable means now known or hereafter developed. You may not receive such notices if you violate these Terms by accessing our services in an unauthorized manner. Your agreement to these Terms constitutes your agreement that you are deemed to have received any, and all notices that would have been delivered had you accessed our services in an authorized manner.
Section 10 - General Information
- The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and CHANYI and govern your use of CHANYI’s services, superseding any prior version of this Terms between you and CHANYI with respect to CHANYI’s services. In all cases, the explanation and application of the Terms, and any disputes concerning the Terms, unless otherwise stipulated by law, shall all be handled according to the laws of Taiwan, and the Taiwan Taipei District Court shall be the court of first instance.
- The failure of CHANYI to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect. The section titles in the Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Please report any violations of the Terms to our Community Team.