Terms of Use
1) General
This Website is owned by the Government of the Republic of Singapore. Access to any area of this Website is governed by the terms and conditions below ("Terms"). By accessing and using any area of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be legally bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to any of these Terms, please do not use this Website. In these Terms, the words “we", “our" and “us" refers to the Government of the Republic of Singapore.
We may revise these Terms at any time by updating this page. You should visit this page from time to time and review the current Terms because they are binding on you. We may modify or discontinue any information or features that form part of this Website at any time, with or without notice to you, and without liability.
2) Access to this Website
The accessibility and operation of this Website relies on technologies outside our control. We do not guarantee continuous accessibility or uninterrupted operation of this Website.
3) Relying on Information
We provide this Website as a general information source only and we are not involved in giving professional advice here. This Website may not cover all information available on a particular issue. Before relying on this Website, you should do your own checks or obtain professional advice on your particular circumstances.
4)Security
Where appropriate, we use available technology to protect the security of communications made through this Website. However, we do not accept liability for the security, authenticity, integrity or confidentiality of any transactions and other communications made through this Website.
Internet communications may be susceptible to interference or interception by third parties. Despite our best efforts, we make no warranties that this Website is free of infection by computer viruses or other unauthorised software.
You should take appropriate steps to keep your information, software and equipment secure. This includes clearing your Internet browser cookies and cache before and after using any services on this Website.
You should keep your passwords confidential. Please note that we will never ask you for your SingPass or any other login password.
5) Hyperlinks
This Website contains hyperlinks to websites which are not maintained or controlled by us. We shall not be responsible for the contents of any hyperlinked website or any hyperlink contained in a hyperlinked website, and shall not be liable for any damages or loss arising from access to those websites. Use of the hyperlinks and access to such hyperlinked websites are entirely at your own risk.
All hyperlinks to other websites are provided as a convenience to you as a user of this Website. The inclusion of any hyperlink does not imply any endorsement by us of such websites. Under no circumstances shall we be considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia or other devices used or appearing on websites to which this Website is hyperlinked.
Except as set forth below, caching and hyperlinks to, and the framing of this Website or any of its contents are prohibited:
- You must make a specific request for, and secure permission from us prior to hyperlinking to, or framing, any page or part of this Website, or engaging in similar activities. We reserve the right to impose conditions when permitting any hyperlinking to, or framing of any page or part of this Website or any of its contents.
- Your hyperlinking to, or your framing of this Website or any of its contents constitutes acceptance of these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, you must discontinue linking to, or framing of this Website or any of its contents.
- Under no circumstances shall we be considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia or other devices used or appearing on websites that link to this Website or any of its contents.
- We reserve all rights to disable any links to, or frames of any website containing inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topics, names, material or information, or material or information that violates any written law, any applicable intellectual property, proprietary, privacy or publicity rights.
- We reserve the right to disable any unauthorised links or frames to this Website and disclaim any responsibility for the content available on any other website reached by links to or from this Website or any of its contents.
6) Intellectual Property
All material displayed on this Website, including the images of people or places, is either the property of us, or has been used with the permission of the relevant rights holder.
Accordingly, downloading, reproduction or use of such material by any other person, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, unless such downloading, reproduction or use complies with the Terms contained within this Website, and prior consent in writing is obtained from us, and from the relevant rights holder (if applicable).
We maintain this Website for the information and education of its users. As such, users may only download, reproduce or use materials displayed on this Website for strictly non-commercial and personal purposes, and are strictly prohibited from downloading, reproducing, modifying, distributing, re-posting, framing or using any such materials, including but not limited to text, images, photographs, and audio and video files or programs, for any public or commercial purpose, including for sale, unless prior written permission is first obtained from us.
7) Privacy Policy
Please click here to view this Website’s Privacy Statement.
8) Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability
We will not be liable for any loss or damage (i) that you may incur on account of using, visiting or relying on any statements, opinion, representation or information in this Website, (ii) resulting from any delay in operation or transmission, communications failure, Internet access difficulties or malfunctions in equipment or software, or (iii) the conduct or the views of any person who accesses or uses this Website.
9) Applicable Law
Use of this Website and these Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore. Any claim relating to the use of this Website shall be heard by Singapore Courts.