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Thank you for visiting the Website of the Adoption Portal (MSF). By accessing and using any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted to be legally bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use this Website.
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General |
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These Terms of Use may be changed from time to time. All changes will be posted
on this page, and your use of this website after such changes have been posted
will constitute your agreement to the modified Terms of Use and all of the
changes. |
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Proprietary Rights |
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This Website is the official MSF Adoption Portal Website. It is owned and
operated by MSF.
The materials located on this Website including the statistical data, reports,
charts, graphs, information and documentation (the Contents), are protected by
copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights. All rights, title
and interest in the Contents are owned by, licensed to or controlled by the
Government of Singapore
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Restrictions on Use of Contents |
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Except as otherwise provided, the Contents of this Website shall not be
reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise distributed
in any way, without the prior permission of MSF. To use any parts of the
Contents of this Website, the user must seek permission in writing, stating the
Contents for use; intent of use; manner of use; time frame of use and identity
of the user. MSF reserves the right to refuse permission without declaring
reason(s); and/or if information submitted by user is deemed insufficient.
Modification of any of the Contents or use of the Contents for any other purpose
will be a violation of MSF' copyright and other intellectual property rights.
Graphics and images on this Website are protected by copyright and may not be
reproduced or appropriated in any manner without written permission of MSF.
Provided permission is expressly granted by MSF, the Contents are available if
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(a) due acknowledgement is given to "MSF", citing the sources for the relevant
data extracted.
(b) the Contents are used for informational and non-commercial or personal use
only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or broadcast in
any media, and
(c) no alterations, additions or modifications of the Contents are made in any
way.
Any request to reproduce the Contents from this Web Site for publication or
commercial use should be addressed to:
Communications & International Relations Division
Ministry of Social and Family Development
512 Thomson Road, #13-00
MSF Building
Singapore 298136
Republic of Singapore
Fax : 65-6-258 8605
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Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability |
The Contents of this Website are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties
of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, MSF does not warrant and
hereby disclaims any warranty:-
(a) as to the accuracy, correctness, reliability, timeliness, non-infringement,
title, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose of the Contents of
this Website;
(b) that the Contents available through this Webite or any functions associated
therewith will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected
or that this Website and the server is and will be free of all viruses and/or
other harmful elements.
MSF shall also not be liable for any damage or loss of any kind caused as a
result (direct or indirect) of the use of the Website, including but not limited
to any damage or loss suffered as a result of reliance on the Contents contained
in or available from the Website.
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Right of Access |
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MSF reserves all rights to deny or restrict access to this Website to any
particular person, or to block access from a particular Internet address to this
Website, at any time, without ascribing any reasons whatsoever. |
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Links from this Website to other websites |
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This Website contains hyperlinks to websites which are not maintained by MSF.
MSF is not responsible for the contents of those websites and shall not be
liable for any damages or loss arising from access to those websites. Use of the
hyperlinks and access to such websites are entirely at your own risk.
Hyperlinks to other websites are provided as a convenience to the user. In no
circumstances shall MSF 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 linked.
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Links to this Site from other websites |
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Except as set forth below, caching and links to, and the framing of this Website
or any of the Contents are prohibited.
You must secure permission from MSF prior to hyperlinking to, or framing, this
Web Site or any of the Contents, or engaging in similar activities.
MSF reserves the right to impose conditions when permitting any hyperlinking
to, or framing of this Website or any of the Contents.
Your linking to, or your framing of this Website or any of the Contents
constitute acceptance of these Terms of Use. This is deemed to be the case even
after the posting of any changes or modifications to these Terms of Use. If you
do not accept these Terms of Use, you must discontinue linking to, or framing of
this Website or any of the Contents.
Under no circumstances shall MSF 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 the
Contents.
MSF reserves 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.
MSF reserves the right to disable any unauthorised links or frames and
disclaims any responsibility for the content available on any other website
reached by links to or from this Website or any of the Contents.
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Governing Law |
These Terms of Use shall be governed and construed in accordance with laws of
the Republic of Singapore.
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