Graphex Group Terms and Conditions of Use
Effective date: February 19, 2021
Acceptance of Terms
These Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”) are entered into by and between you and Graphex Group Limited and its affiliated companies (collectively, “Graphex,” “we,” “us” or “our”), relating to the information on, and your use of, https://www.graphexgroup.com/. For the purpose of these Terms, “you” or “your” refers to anyone using this Site.
These Terms incorporate and refer to our Privacy Policy, which can be found at https://www.graphexgroup.com/privacy-policy/. Together with the Privacy Policy, these Terms are the agreement you make with us when you use the Site and constitute the entire agreement between you and Graphex with respect to the subject matter hereof. If you use the Site, then you’re consenting to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy; if you don’t or cannot agree, or if you do not meet the requirements for agreement, then please do not use the Site.
To reiterate: if you use the Site, you’re acknowledging that you have read these Terms and agree to them. That is an important acknowledgment because it has legal consequences. For instance, by agreeing to the Terms (that is, by using the Site) you’re agreeing to resolve any dispute you have with us through binding arbitration (as discussed immediately below). If you do not want to agree to that, you cannot use the Site.
Arbitration Agreement
Mandatory Binding Arbitration of Disputes. By agreeing to these Terms, you agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof or the use of the Site (collectively, “Disputes”) will be resolved solely by binding, individual arbitration and not in a court of law in any jurisdiction and not in a class, representative or consolidated action or proceeding, as set forth further below.
You and Graphex agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) governs the interpretation, applicability, enforceability or formation of this Arbitration Agreement, including any claim that all or any part of this Arbitration Agreement is void or voidable, notwithstanding any choice of law or other provision in these Terms. It is the intent of the parties that the FAA and JAMS Rules shall preempt all state laws to the fullest extent permitted by law. If the FAA and JAMS Rules are found to not apply to any issue that arises under this Arbitration Agreement or the enforcement thereof, then that issue shall be resolved under the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and Graphex further agree that the arbitrator (“Arbitrator”), and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have exclusive authority to resolve any disputes concerning the interpretation, applicability, enforceability or formation of this Arbitration Agreement.
Class Action Waiver. YOU AND GRAPHEX AGREE THAT EACH PARTY IS WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
Changes to Terms
We may modify or replace these Terms, in our sole discretion, at any time. In some cases, we will post a banner on the Site to notify you of a proposed change if the changes are substantial (that is, if we are announcing an important change in how the Site operate, rather than just clarifying language in the Terms). The updated Terms will be effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of the Site after the changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes. If you object to any such changes, the only recourse is to not use the Site, which is why it is important to read the Terms every time they change.
International Transfers
Using the Site also means that you agree to transfer any personal information you submit to the United States, which is where Graphex and the Site are hosted. Although the Site are not intended for use by anyone outside the United States, using the Site waives any objection you have to transferring your personal data to the U.S., and subjects you to U.S. law. Other countries may have laws or regulatory requirements that differ from those in the United States. If you use the Site, you do so at your own risk, and you must comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations in doing so. We may limit the availability of the Site at any time, in whole or in part, to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction that we choose.
Governing Law
These Terms are made under, and governed by, the laws of the State of California, as such laws apply to contracts between California residents entered into and performed entirely in California, notwithstanding your place of residency or California’s conflicts of law provisions. By using the Site, you’re agreeing that the courts of the State of California have exclusive jurisdiction over any matters, disputes, and claims relating to the content, use of, or any other matter relating to our Site.
Children
The Site are not directed to children. You must be at least 18 years of age to use our Site. We do not knowingly collect or store any personal information about individuals under 18 years of age.
License to Use and Access Site
Graphex grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-assignable, revocable, limited license (without right of sublicense) to use and access the Site for your personal use. You agree and understand that the Site may be modified by Graphex, in its sole discretion, at any time without prior notice. Any enhancements or modifications to the Site, as well as any new features or materials added to the Site after your initial access to them, shall be subject to these Terms (unless any such modified or new feature or material is accompanied by a separate agreement). All license rights granted to you under these Terms will immediately terminate if you violate any of these Terms.
To access the Site or some of the resources they offer, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Site that all the information you provide on the Site is correct, current, and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with the Site or otherwise, including but not limited to through the use of any interactive features on the Site, is governed by our Privacy Policy, and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Policy.
If you choose, or are provided with, a user name, password, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to the Site or portions of them using your user name, password, or other security information. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security. You also agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information. Without limiting any rights which we may otherwise have, we reserve the right to take any and all action, as we deem necessary or reasonable, to ensure the security of the Site and any of your information. Notwithstanding the above, we may rely on the authority of anyone using your password and in no event and under no circumstances shall we be held liable to you for any liabilities or damages resulting from or arising out of (i) any action or inaction of us under this provision, (ii) any compromise of the confidentiality of your password and (iii) any unauthorized use of your password.
The security of your personally-identifying information is important to us. While there is no such thing as “perfect security” on the Internet, we will take reasonable steps to help ensure the safety of your personally-identifying information. However, you understand and agree that such steps do not guarantee that use of the Site is invulnerable to all security breaches, and that we make no warranty, guarantee, or representation that use of the Site is protected from viruses, security threats or other vulnerabilities.
We have the right to disable any user name, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms.
Acceptable and Prohibited Use
The Site may only be used in accordance with these Terms and for lawful purposes. The Site, including materials and information contained in or generated by them, may not be used, sold, reproduced, distributed or in any way disseminated by persons not affiliated with Graphex. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Site in any way or use it in a way that, in our opinion, restricts, inhibits or interferes with the ability of any other user to enjoy the Site or that infringes on the privacy or other rights of any other party, including by means of hacking or defacing any portion of the Site, or by engaging in spamming, flooding, or other disruptive activities.
Intellectual Property
The Site and its content, including artwork, graphics, images, screenshots, text, audiovisual and audio files, digitally downloadable files, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress rights, logos, product and character names, slogans, and the compilation of the foregoing (collectively, the “Content”) is the property of either Graphex or its licensors, and is protected in the United States and internationally under trademark, copyright and other intellectual property laws. Graphex shall retain all applicable intellectual property rights in and to the Site, and all goodwill accruing to your use of the Site.
You acknowledge and agree that the Content is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws, and is the sole property of Graphex or third-party content providers. You are only permitted to use the Content as expressly authorized by us or the specific content provider. You may not copy, reproduce, modify, republish, upload, post, scrape, transmit, translate, sell, offer for sale, create derivative work based on or distribute any Content, documents or information from the Site in any form or by any means without prior written permission from us or the specific content provider, and you are solely responsible for obtaining permission before reusing any copyrighted material that is available on through the Site.
You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive, reconstruct, identify or discover any source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques or algorithms, of the Site by any means; or remove any proprietary notices, labels or marks from the Site. Any unauthorized use of the materials appearing or provided on the Site may violate copyright, trademark and other applicable laws and could result in criminal or civil penalties.
Information submitted to the Site
Your submission of information to the Site is governed by these Terms. You grant to Graphex a limited, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license, under your rights in any data or information that you provide, use, or maintain on or through the Site, to use any such data or information as is necessary or useful in connection with the provision of the Site and for any other lawful purpose. The foregoing license shall survive any termination of these Terms or of your access to the Site.
You represent and warrant that you own or control any information you provide to the Site and have all applicable consents that may be needed to provide such information to the Site. Any information or material that you submit to the Site including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like is, and will be treated as, gratuitous, unsolicited, unrestricted, non-confidential and non-proprietary to you, and does not place us under any fiduciary or other obligation. Graphex is under no obligation to return or destroy any such information, unless otherwise required by applicable law.
Feedback
If you choose to provide technical, business or other feedback to Graphex concerning the Site (collectively, “Feedback”), Graphex will be free to use, disclose, reproduce, license, or otherwise distribute or exploit such Feedback in its sole discretion without any obligations or restrictions of any kind, including intellectual property rights or licensing obligations. You understand and agree that the incorporation by Graphex of Feedback into the Site does not grant you any proprietary rights therein.
DMCA Notice
If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by something on our Site, please notify Graphex at the following address: legal@graphexgroup.com.
The notice should include the following information:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of or a representative list of the work you believe has been infringed;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Graphex to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit Graphex to contact you;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Disclaimer of Warranty
THIS SITE AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS,” AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE IS WITH YOU, AND ALL WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OR LACK OF VIRUSES OR ERRORS ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED. NO INFORMATION CONVEYED BY THE SITE SHALL CREATE SUCH A WARRANTY.
Graphex MAKES NO GUARANTEES AND DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SITE OR CONTENT ACCURACY, RELEVANCE, TIMELINESS OR COMPLETENESS, AND DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS IN ANY RESPECT, OPERATE SECURELY OR BE AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES, OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS OR ERRORS IN THE SITE OR NONCONFORMITY TO ITS DOCUMENTATION CAN OR WILL BE CORRECTED. WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ANY VERSION OF THE SITE, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH ANY HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE VERSIONS OR APPLICATIONS (INCLUDING ANY FUTURE VERSIONS OR UPDATES OF YOUR DEVICE, TABLET, COMPUTER OR ITS OPERATING SYSTEM) OR PROVIDE THE SAME FUNCTIONALITY THAT IS PROVIDED BY THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE SITE.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION WILL Graphex OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR CAUSED BY OR RELATED TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DEFECTS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, LINE FAILURE, AND ALL OTHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS, YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE OR ACCESS THE SITE, THE INACCURACY OR LOSS OF ANY DATA GENERATED OR MADE AVAILABLE BY THE SITE OR YOUR RELIANCE ON ANY SUCH DATA, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND WHETHER OR NOT Graphex HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, Graphex’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT OR LINKS, SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).
THE LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMERS IN THESE TERMS DO NOT PURPORT TO LIMIT LIABILITY OR ALTER YOUR RIGHTS AS A CONSUMER THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
You acknowledge and agree that Graphex has offered the Site and entered into these Terms in reliance upon the warranty disclaimers and the limitations of liability set forth herein, that the warranty disclaimers and the limitations of liability set forth herein reflect a reasonable and fair allocation of risk between you and Graphex, and that the warranty disclaimers and the limitations of liability set forth herein form an essential basis of the bargain between you and Graphex. To the extent that Graphex may not, as a matter of applicable law, disclaim any implied warranty or limit its liabilities, the scope and duration of such warranty and the extent of Graphex’s liability will be the minimum permitted under such applicable law.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Graphex, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and third party partners from and against all any actual or threated claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements (including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees) resulting (or alleged to result) from your use of the Site or Content or resulting from any violation by you of these Terms, to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Links to Third Party Web Site
The Site may display, include, or make available content, data, information, applications or materials from third parties or provide links to certain third party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Graphex. Graphex has no control over, and assumes no responsibility or liability for, the availability, content, privacy policies, practices, or performance of the website of, or the services or materials provided by, any third party listed, described or discussed on the Site. Graphex is providing these materials and links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any materials or links does not imply endorsement or association by Graphex of such third party, or any goods or services available through the third party.
Termination
WE MAY TERMINATE OR SUSPEND YOUR ACCESS TO THE SITE IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE OR LIABILITY, FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IF YOU BREACH ANY PROVISION OF THESE TERMS, OR Graphex DECIDES TO NO LONGER PROVIDE ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE SITE TO YOU OR GENERALLY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE PRECEDING SENTENCE, WE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION TO SUSPEND OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE SHOULD WE CONSIDER YOUR USE OF THE SITE TO BE ILLEGAL, OBSCENE, DEFAMATORY, THREATENING, INFRINGING OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, INVASIVE OF PRIVACY, INJURIOUS, OBJECTIONABLE, OR OTHERWISE IN VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS OR APPLICABLE LAW. ALL PROVISIONS OF THE TERMS, WHICH BY THEIR NATURE SHOULD SURVIVE TERMINATION, SHALL SURVIVE TERMINATION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, OWNERSHIP PROVISIONS, WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS, INDEMNITY AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms are found to be invalid or unenforceable, they will be enforced to the extent permissible and, to the extent invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed modified to the most limited extent necessary to be valid and enforceable, in accordance with applicable law, while still as fully as possible carrying out the intent of the original provision, and the remainder of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Waiver
Failure by Graphex to enforce any right or provision of these Terms or otherwise prosecute any right with respect to a default hereunder will not constitute a waiver by Graphex of the right to enforce rights with respect to the same or any other breach.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
Graphex Group Limited
11/F COFCO Tower
262 Gloucester Road
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Phone: 852 2559 9438
legal@graphexgroup.com
Last updated: February 19, 2021