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TERMS OF USE

Acceptance of Terms

When you click the Sign up button, you agree and accept to comply with these terms of use strictly.

User's Consent

By accessing our website, you agree that we can use personal information given or provided by you through our website, or store or process by our computers. We collect information through our optional user registration form and by users' voluntary participation in our surveys and contests. The use of your personal information includes, but is not limited to, compiling statistics. We share these statistics with the companies in our group and with our advertising clients. We may share, but do not sell or rent, these statistics with our business partners or others.

Registration

To open member account to you, you agree to give your contact information and personal information to us. We will ask various questions such as your e-mail address, income level, place of residence, use of our website, and age. This information will be used to create statistical data. We do not ask for your ID card number or credit card numbers. Upon registration, if you give us any information that might be suspected to be untrue, inaccurate or belong to other persons. We have the right to suspend or cancel your account without notice and refuse to provide any service to you. You are responsible for keeping confidentiality of your password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password and account.

Privacy Policy

We consider your personal information on our website is of the utmost importance to us. We will use our best effort to protect the security of your personal information. However, for the security of your personal information, you must comply with these terms of use strictly. In the event that your personal information have been hacked, lost or damaged as a result of force majeure or whatever causes or reasons, we reserve the right to refuse all liabilities and responsibilities incurred thereby.

Private Right

We have a policy to respect to your private right. We will not check, monitor or change your personal information unless it is reasonably necessary to do so by laws or by the orders of governmental agencies, or to prevent and protect our rights or properties, or to enforce these terms of use, or to protect the interests of other members.

Member's Consent

In subscription, you agree that we can use personal information given, provided or posted by you through our website or stored or processed by our computers. We collect information by your registration form, by your voluntary participation in our surveys and contests, by server logs or by cookies. The use of your personal information includes, but is not limited to, compiling statistics. We share these statistics with the companies in our group and with our advertising clients. We may share, but do not sell or rent, these statistics with our business partners or others.

Limitation of Use

You agree that you will not use the website for any purpose that is unlawful or contrary to morality or these terms of use. You also must not use the website in any manner that could cause damages to us or to others and you must not impede, interfere or disturb any other person's use of the website or our services. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any person's personal information, computer systems or networks associated with the website without permission.

Conditions of Posting

You agree to be solely responsible for all information, data, messages, texts, software, sounds, music, photographs, graphics, pictures, video, or other materials ("Content"), whether privately transmitted or publicly posted by you on our website by any means. Such Content is the sole responsibility of member who transmits or posts such Content. We have no responsibilities for such Content. In addition, any Content on community board is considered as personal comment and in no event shall we are liable to such Content either. However, if we have been notified of any Content that is inappropriate, unlawful or immoral to be posted or published on the website, we will delete such Content from our website as soon as possible. In transmitting and posting Content, you agree that you will not and will not have permission to:

  • post or publish any Content that is libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, abusive, untrue, incited, inappropriate or unlawful, or make links whether in audio, video or writing form to other website that such contents are available or published;
  • post or publish any Content that is similar to money making, advertising, chain letter or trading any product or service;
  • threaten or defame other persons by posting or publishing disparage, abusive, mimic or vulgar language;
  • use or write any language that is defamatory or abusive of any person's color, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, age or inferiority;
  • express any comment in a manner that assaults other persons, or that other person's privacy and names;
  • express any comment, and otherwise act as the moderator;
  • express any comment, and post or publish any Content related to the King of Thailand and the dynasty;
  • express, post, publish any bad comments related to any religion;
  • post or publish any Content that infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any person; and
  • transmit or publish any Content that contains virus or harmful programs.

If we have found or been notified of such transmitting or posting, you agree that:

  • we have the right to cut off or delete any Content that we consider might cause any problem, and cancel member who we are unable to accept without notice; and
  • we have the right to disclose and provide your personal information to any governmental agency upon it requests without providing you a notice.

Other Conditions

  • Since we do not control or monitor over the Content transmitted or posted on the website, so there might have advertising, publicizing and selling Content of any product or service on the website, includes any terms and conditions associated with delivery, payment, warranty or representation, deal or agreement of such products or services and any communication among members. The aforementioned Content is solely responsible between you and the advertiser or among members. You have to carefully consider and be well aware of any communication, selling, buying or any other activities or agreements on the website. We have no relationship to such persons and are not responsible or liable for such Content and agreements, and any result incurred thereby, which includes but is not limited to communications, selling, buying, contacting and meeting among members.
  • Our website contains links to other websites. You may link other websites or blogs outside this website and other websites of our network. Once you leave our website, we are no longer responsible for the practices of privacy policies or terms of use of such other website, includes any loss or damage caused by such other website.

Our e-Newsletter

Our e-newsletters are sent to only those members who have requested them. You have the option at all times to unsubscribe.

Correction or Update of Personal Information

You may e-mail us if you need to update or change your personal information.

Limitation on Liabilities

We will not be responsible for your injury, loss or damages, including but not limited to those resulting from the loss or damage of personal information, the infringement of any terms of use contained herein and/or whatsoever resulting from any circumstances or reasons including, but not limited to, by hacking or by force majeure. You agree to waive your rights to claim us for any loss or damage caused by using this website, to hold us free from any claims or prosecutions by any person, and to be solely responsible for and to indemnify for any damage incurred thereby by yourself.

Warranties

This website is provided without warranty of any kind, including without limitation to the warranties that the website and any Content posted or published on the website will (a) perpetually post or publish at any time (b) correct, complete, free of defects or faults, or merchantable for your particular purpose (c) appropriate for ordinary persons and (d) non-infringement, you are borne to the entire risks from the use of the website.

Copyrights

All contents, photographs, images, pictures, sounds and all other materials of the website, include but are not limited to trademarks, service marks, names, trade names, patent, know-how and creative works of member which are created by using our intellectual properties and are published on our website are exclusively owned by us and are legally protected by the intellectual property law of Thailand. If any person or entity copies, reproduces, modifies, publishes, distributes, rents, leases or otherwise uses for any commercial or other unlawful interests or purposes, whether in any manner, the said intellectual properties without our prior consent, it constitutes infringement of our copyrights and intellectual properties. We reserve the right to promptly take legal action against any wrongdoers to the maximum extent allowed by the applicable laws.

Cancellation

  • We are entitled to cancel or suspend any service temporarily or permanently to member who violates or attempt to violate any clause of these terms of use.
  • We reserve the right to cancel your account and delete your information and Content immediately without notice if you do not use any service for 45 consecutive days.

Modifications and Alterations

  • We reserve the rights to change, modify, amend and alter these terms of use stated herein without prior notice by posting new terms of use. Your continued use of the website or any service implicitly affirms your agreement to comply with such change, modification, amendment and alteration.
  • We reserve the right to change, alter, modify, amend and temporarily or permanently suspend any service at any time without notice, and we are not responsible for any losses or damages incurred thereby.