This website is owned by Sing Tao Limited (hereinafter referred to as "the Company"). All contents on this website are owned and controlled by the Company and/or the party credited as the provider of such contents and are protected by worldwide copyright laws. You are not allowed to copy or use the contents therein unless upon prior written authorization of the Company or the party credited as the provider of such contents.

The contents of this website and its ownership or any part thereof are governed by the “Terms of Use” posted on this website and this Copyright Notice must be read in conjunction with the “Terms of Use”.

If you want to enquire about licence to use our copyrighted content, please send in your application letter to the attention of our Information Services Manager. To facilitate processing, please enclose a photocopy of the requested article or photo together with your application letter. For enquiry, please contact us.

You clearly understand and agree that notwithstanding any grant of licence by us to you, the use of websites, applications, advertising services, products, services or technologies (referred to as "the Service") of the Company and its subsidiaries is at your own risk. The information content, data, products and/or services provided by the Company are provided on a "As Is" and "As Available" basis.

To the greatest extent permitted by the current law, the Company clearly express that it does not provide any express or implied guarantee, including but not limited to merchantability, quality assurance, applicability for specific purposes, and non-infringement of the rights of third parties.

The Company does not guarantee that the information content, data, products and/or services provided by the Service will meet your requirements, nor does it guarantee that the use and access of such information content, data, products and/or services will not be interfered, or will be provided in a timely, safe and reliable manner, or free from errors. The Company does not guarantee that the results obtained from the use of the information content, data, products and/or services provided by the Service are correct, reliable, complete or timely. The Company also does not guarantee that any errors in the software and hardware will be rectified.

The Company does not guarantee for any products, services or transactions purchased or obtained through or via the Service.

Whether to download or obtain any information through the Service should be subject to your decision and at your own risk, and you should be fully responsible for any damage or loss of data to your computer system. The Company is not responsible for and does not assume any damage or loss caused or derived as a result.

The Company is not responsible for, and does not assume any accidents, errors, omissions, negligence, interference, errors in transmission or reception, failure of communication lines, interception of online communications, computer virus infections, defamation, breach of contract, copyright or intellectual property infringement, negligence or any loss caused by any other factors arising from the use of the Service.

The Company has no control over any linked web pages; the Company is not responsible for the linked web pages or contents of any individually linked web pages, or any changes or updates in these web pages; the Company does not monitor the content of (any) linked web pages. The Company will not be responsible for the "webcasting" received from any linked web pages or the transmission of information by any other means; the Service provides these links for your personal convenience; any installation/attachment to links does not mean that it has been approved by the Company, or the Company has confirmed the connection with its operator. You agree that the Company will not be responsible, or bear legal liability, for any loss or damage caused by the use of any linked web pages’ services or contents. Any questions about linked web pages should be addressed to the responsible web owner.

The Company will not give any legal advice regarding whether the information in the Service is suitable for use or available for use in jurisdictions outside Hong Kong SAR (“Hong Kong”). If you are in other regions, you should decide whether you can access the Service at your discretion, and you must also take full responsibility for complying with the laws and regulations of your region. You confirm that you have obtained all the necessary approvals for the use of the internet and online ethics.

The Company does not guarantee whether the Service can be accessed uninterrupted, continuously or definitely. The Company reserves the right, for different reasons including emergency system maintenance or upgrade, to take any part or all of the Service offline.

The Company is not responsible for, and does not assume any loss or damage due to force majeure, such as fire, flood, rainstorm, typhoon, lightning, earthquake, riot, commotion, war or other natural disasters, pandemic, etc., uncontrollable incidents, or related to the formulation or change of laws or regulations and restrictions by the government or relevant agencies, or circumstances beyond the Company’s reasonable control (including but not limited to delays or errors in the transmission of information content), which cause the Company’s failure to perform its obligations under agreement or to provide services.

The Company, and those persons involved in the production, publication, and provision of any information content, data, products and/or services of the Service, shall not be responsible for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, derivative or punitive damages as a result of any such information content, data, products and/or services of the Service (even if the Company has been notified of the possibility of compensation beforehand), such as: (i) The content and information provided by the Service are incorrect, invalid or incomplete; (ii) The use or unavailability for use of the Service; (iii) Any product, data, information or service purchased or obtained through the Service, or information received, or the costs of purchase of alternative products and services derived from transactions conducted; (iv) Your data transmission or data has been accessed or altered without authorization; (v) And other related matters of the Service, including but not limited to revenue, profit, operation, goodwill, use, loss of data, or other intangible losses. Without derogating the generality of the foregoing, if the Company is held to be liable under any applicable current law of a related claim (whether based on contract, negligence or other liability theories), the amount of the claim will be limited to your payment to the Company for the service related to the claim.

The Service may include information content posted by web users, advertisers, co-branded merchants, partners or other third parties, and such content has not been revised and reviewed by the Company. The Company is not responsible for any loss or damage caused by the information content posted by the above persons. Unless otherwise specified, all information content in the Service does not reflect any opinions of the Company or its group companies.

The Company reserves the right to modify this "Copyright Policy & Licence" without prior notice.

If certain terms of this "Copyright Policy & Licence" are found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court or a tribunal with jurisdiction, those terms will be severed, and the rest of the terms of this "Copyright Policy & Licence" will continue to be valid and enforced. The terms in this "Copyright Policy & Licence" are independent and separate terms.

This "Copyright Policy & Licence" is governed by the laws of the Hong Kong and in accordance with its interpretation, both you and the Company agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Hong Kong.