Terms & Conditions

These terms and conditions govern the Reader/Visitor/Client/Subscriber’s (“You/you/Yours/yours”) use of this website. By visiting this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full.  If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these website terms and conditions, you must not use this website. This website uses cookies and by visiting/using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent use of cookies in accordance with these terms and conditions of Ascend Star Investment LLC (ASCEND STAR) and the privacy policy statement.

 

License to use Website

Unless otherwise stated, Ascend Star and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights of the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for reading purposes only, and print pages or other contents from this website for your own personal use only, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions. 

 

You must not: (a) republish any material from this website (including republication on another website); (b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website; (c) show any material from the website in public; (d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose; (e) copy, edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or (f) redistribute material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution). Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed for your personal use.

 

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity. You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software. You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Ascend Star’s express written consent. You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications. You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without Ascend Star express written consent.

 

Restricted Access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. Ascend Star reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Ascend Star's sole discretion.

 

User Content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose. You grant Ascend Star a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant Ascend Star the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights. Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Ascend Star or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint. Ascend Star reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Ascend Star servers, or hosted or published upon this website. Notwithstanding Ascend Star’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Ascend Star does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

 

No Warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Ascend Star makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website, or the information and materials provided on this website.  Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Ascend Star does not warrant that (a) this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or (b) the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading. Nothing on this website shall constitutes or is meant to constitute an advice of any kind.  If you require advice in relation to any legal, tax or financial matters you should consult an appropriate professional.

 

No Liability

Ascend Star will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website: (a) to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss; (b) for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or (c) for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

 

Disclaimer

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only and should not be treated as advice or opinion. The information is provided by Ascend Star and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related photos, graphics contained in the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. In no event will Ascend Star be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website. Through this website, you may be able to link to other websites which are not under the control of Ascend Star. Ascend Star have no control over nature, content and availability of those websites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them. Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Ascend Star takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond Ascend Star’s control. The sole purpose of this website is to provide information to the reader, and it is not intended to form the basis of any investment decision or reliance on the contents of the website.

 

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions, Indemnities, liabilities, and warranty set out in this website are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

 

Other Parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, Ascend Star has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.  You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Ascend Star officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website. Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Ascend Star officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Ascend Star.

 

Unenforceable Provisions

If any provision of this website is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website.

 

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify Ascend Star and undertake to keep Ascend Star indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Ascend Star to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Ascend Star legal adviser) incurred or suffered by Ascend Star arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

 

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to Ascend Star’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Ascend Star may take such action as Ascend Star deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bring court proceedings against you.

 

Variation

Ascend Star may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time.  Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

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Assignment

Ascend Star may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Ascend Star’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 

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Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

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Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions, together with other documents constitute the entire agreement between you and Ascend Star in relation to your use of this website and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.