Software files, text, sounds or other information (collectively, "Content") transmitted, posted, linked or uploaded on or through the Service by Members may not be abusive, defamatory, obscene, fraudulent, in violation of applicable laws, or otherwise offensive to other Members, and must comply with SiteMaze.com's Netiquette Rules.

By transmitting, posting, linking or uploading Content to any part of the Service, you represent and warrant that neither your content nor any parts thereof infringe upon the copyright or any other statutory or common-law intellectual property rights (including without limitation trademark, service mark, and trade name rights), proprietary rights (including without limitation trade secrets), or rights of privacy or publicity of any third party.

You hereby grant to SiteMaze.com a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual fully paid-up license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, transmit and display such Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such Content.

You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to distribute your Content, the Service is acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and SiteMaze.com is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any Content or activities of its Members. SiteMaze.com cannot prevent Members from placing prohibited content on the Service. Furthermore, SiteMaze.com may elect at its sole discretion to monitor some, all, or no areas of the Service for adherence to these terms of service or other terms and conditions that may be published by SiteMaze.com from time to time. Upon notification of inappropriate material, SiteMaze.com reserves the right, but not the responsibility to remove the Content from the Service. SiteMaze.com further reserves the right to stop a member from accessing the Service upon receipt of complaints about the member's contributions and participation on the Service.

You and any person who have access to the Service must evaluate, and bear the risk associated with, the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any Content posted by you to the Service. SiteMaze.com does not pre-screen Content as a matter of policy, but SiteMaze.com reserves the right, but not the responsibility, to remove Content which is deemed in SiteMaze.com's sole discretion harmful, offensive, inaccurate or otherwise in violation of the Terms of Service or any rules or policies SiteMaze.com has in place at the time.

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Everything you see or read on the Service is owned by us or used with permission. You may not copy, use, or retransmit anything for the Service without our express written permission. Furthermore, you are not allowed to post or distribute any material you do not own or which you do not have permission to use. Violation of this policy may result in copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights violation and subject you to civil or criminal penalties.

SiteMaze.com respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. SiteMaze.com is in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In order to protect the intellectual property of people from misuse we ask you to help us. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible on the Service, please provide SiteMaze.com's Copyright Agent the following information:

1. An electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.
2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed including the URL (i.e., Internet address) or other specific location on the Service where the material that you claim is infringing is located, including enough information to allow us to locate the material and why you believe an infringement has taken place.
3. A description of the location where the original or an authorized copy of the copyrighted work exists, for example the URL (i.e., Internet address) where it is posted or the name of the book in which it has been published.
4. Your address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement by you made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

   SiteMaze.com's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:

   Copyright Agent
   c/o SiteMaze.com
   51B Nanyang Valley,
   Singapore 639704.
   By email: copyright@SiteMaze.com

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These Terms of Service constitute the entire understanding of you and SiteMaze.com with respect to the subject matter hereof. There are no understandings, agreements, conditions or representations, oral or written, express or implied, with reference to the subject matter hereof that are not merged herein, expressly referenced herein, or superseded hereby.

Nothing contained in these Terms of Service shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, joint venture or other form of joint enterprise between you and SiteMaze.com.

The provisions of these Terms of Service are independent of each other and the invalidity of any provision or a portion thereof shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any particular provision is found to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed to have been replaced with a valid and enforceable provision that approximates as closely as possible the intent of you and SiteMaze.com as reflected in the original provision.

Any delay or failure on the part of SiteMaze.com to enforce any rights hereunder to which it may be entitled shall not be construed as a waiver of the right and privilege to do so at any subsequent time.

You indemnify and hold harmless SiteMaze.com, and the officers, directors, employees, partners, principals, agents and representatives of SiteMaze.com, from, against and in respect of any and all demands, claims, actions or causes of action, liabilities, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to any breach by you of any covenant, representation or warranty made pursuant to these Terms of Service.

All provisions which must survive in order to give effect to their meaning, shall survive any expiration or termination of these Terms of Service, including without limitation all of your representations, warranties and indemnification obligations.

The Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Singapore, without regard to conflict of laws principles. You and SiteMaze.com consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the high courts located in Kolkatta, India for resolution of any and all disputes arising out of or related to the Terms of Service.

To the full extent permissible under the applicable law, SiteMaze.com shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use the Service.

Subject to applicable law, under no circumstances, including negligence, will WOWchinese be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this Web Site, even if WOWchinese or a WOWchinese-authorised representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. WOWchinese is also not liable nor responsible for any material provided by third parties with their own respective copyright and shall not under any circumstances, be liable for any loss, damages or injury arising from these materials. The total liability (if any) of WOWchinese for all damages, losses, costs and expenses under whatever causes of action, whether in contract, tort or otherwise will not exceed any amount paid by you for accessing this Web Site.

Any WOWchinese publication may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes may be made to these publications from time to time and incorporated in new editions of these publications. At any time without notice, these publications are subject to improvements and changes in service by WOWchinese.

In no event shall SiteMaze.com have any liability for any incidental, consequential, or indirect damages (including, but not limited to, damages relating to loss of business, profits, goodwill, data, programs or information, and the like) arising out of the use of or inability to use the Service or any information, advice, or services provided on or downloaded from the Service or accessed on the Internet from the Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages and regardless of the cause of action under which such damages are sought, including, without limitation, breach of contract, negligence or other tort. Even though some countries do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation of liability for sequential or incidental damages, the above exclusions and limitations still apply to you. In such countries, people should join WOWchinese at their own risk.

The Service contains links to third-party World Wide Web sites and other resources. SiteMaze.com assumes no responsibility for the availability or content of these outside sites and resources. Therefore, any concerns a member may have regarding any other site should be directed to the relevant site administrator or Webmaster.

The information, advice, facts, opinions or other content appearing on the Service posted by Members or third parties are those of the respective authors and do not reflect the views of SiteMaze.com. SiteMaze.com assumes no responsibility or liability for these materials.

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Everything on the Service is provided to you "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE." SiteMaze.com does not make any express or implied warranties, representations or endorsements whatsoever (including, without limitation, warranties of title or non-infringement or the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose) with respect to the Service, any products, merchandise, information or services provided through or advertised on the Service, or the accuracy or results obtained from the use of any products, merchandise, or information or services provided through or advertised on the Service. SiteMaze.com does not guarantee or warrant that any files available for downloading through the Service will be free of infection by viruses or other code that may contain contaminating or destructive properties.

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Any third-party sites to which the Service may link are not under SiteMaze.com's control, and SiteMaze.com does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information, content, communications or materials available on such third-party sites. Absent express language to the contrary, SiteMaze.com does not intend links contained on the Service to be referrals to, or endorsements of, the linked third-party sites or the entities that operate them, and such links are provided for convenience only.

SiteMaze.com believes that communities can only truly be built through interaction and participation among community Members based on trust, privacy and freedom of expression.

SiteMaze.com wants all Members to have the freedom to express themselves, however at the same time, SiteMaze.com wants all Members to feel secure.

The following Privacy Policy demonstrates our intent and commitment to protect Members' rights online.

1. Profile information will be used to create personalized content, service, and advertise on the Service. SiteMaze.com may also use your profile to generate aggregate reports and market research.
2. All profile data stored by the Service has been entered solely by the respective member.
3. Members can modify registration data associated with their account, and can control selected private information from being disclosed on their member page.
4. Communication transcripts of online chats are not retained except for scheduled chat sessions.
5. E-mail communications are only accessible by the designated recipients, except that SiteMaze.com personnel involved in maintenance of the system may have access to the Service mail communications.

Personally identifying information, or personal information, includes your name, home or other address (like the school you attend), email address, or any other information that tells another person who you are. When you register as a Member, we ask for some personal information such as your email address.

We do collect IP address on our web site and other informatin that you voluntarily choose to give it to us via an electronic mail message, a phone call, by signing up as a Site Moderator or a member, or by postal mail. Even when you choose to give us information, we keep it confidential.

We maintain some records of individuals who contact us for further information or help in case we need to contact them later or provide further information to them in the future. However, we do not provide this information to anyone else unless you give us your permission, and we do not use this information for other purposes.

Our site is hosted on a variety of servers. Information in our website logs is not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link that information with the individuals that actually browse the site. The server collects information about the date and time in which our web site was accessed and the internet address of the server from which you linked to our site. We may also track, anonymously, a user's movement within the site. We use this data to improve our site performance and to evaluate traffic statistics, such as the times of day and days of week at which we see peak traffic, and to assess the relative popularity of different areas of the site.

All of your information you provide in your profile is shown to people you have chosen to make it available. Any other information is limited to our offices and site moderators. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our event management officers) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, all WOWchinese Site Moderators who handle membership information are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Our employees are notified and reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our supporters' information is protected.

Your email is not sold to any spammers, we have even taken steps to conceal your email from other members. But we cannot guarantee that our webhost will not use your emails.

Our policy regarding this information is simple: Except as provided in this statement, WOWchinese may use this information to send you offers and information we think you would be interested in from WOWchinese and it's partners but not without your explicit permission. WOWchinese will also give you an opportunity to opt out of this service at any time. We make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy wherever we ask you for personal information.

We also collect other information at registration such as your birthday, city where you live, hobbies, and interests. This information cannot be used to identify you. We place this information in your SiteMaze.com profile, which is publicly available or limitedly available depending on the settings you set so that other Members who share your interests can connect with you.

Some of our services, such as email are offered in conjunction with partner companies. In order to provide these services, we must disclose certain information to our partners including your Username and email address. Our content partners may also ask you for some additional personal information. Our partners are all upstanding companies that will treat your personal information responsibly. But, since we don't own these companies, we can't speak for them on privacy issues.

WOWchinese will be sending you email about recent announcements and important notices, by signing up as a member, you accept to receive such emails.

Other companies also may sponsor promotions, contests and sweepstakes running on the Service. These companies may choose to collect personal information from you. If you don't want your information collected by these sponsors, you can decide not to participate in the promotion, contest or sweepstakes. You should be aware that our advertisers or Web sites that have links on the Service may collect personally identifiable information about you. This privacy statement does not address the information practices of those Web sites or advertisers.

One last thing to keep in mind: Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on forums, through email, or in chat areas, that information can be collected and used by others. If you post personal information in public places, others may send you unsolicited email messages. Always be smart about the information you provide online.

Always be smart about the information you provide online.

Finally, we may disclose Member information when we are required to by law, or when have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other Service Members, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.

Your Member profile is password-protected so that you and only you have access to this information. In order to maintain this protection, do not give your password to anyone. Also, we recommend that, if you share your computer with other people, you sign out of your Account and close your browser window when you are done. Signing off will protect your information if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library.

We make every effort to ensure that your information is secure on our system. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

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In our effort to provide you services customized to your interests, we use cookies to keep and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to: access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver better and more personalized services; estimate our audience size for our advertisers; track the number of entries in our promotions, sweepstakes and contests; identify which areas of the Service you have visited. You should also be aware that companies that advertise on the Service might use their own cookies. This privacy policy does not cover how these companies use their cookies.

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The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13. The Service will prohibit registration by and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13.

Note to Parents: If you have any concerns about the Service or its related services, wish to find out if your child is a member of one of our services, or wish to cancel your child's membership, please contact Support.

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You are responsible for paying any applicable taxes and for all hardware, software, service and other costs you may incur in connection with the Service, including costs incurred in connecting to the Service via the Internet. SiteMaze.com reserves the right, at any time, to charge fees for access to the Service, and will notify you of any such fees by posting information regarding such fees on the Service.

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You are entirely responsible and liable for all of your activities on SiteMaze.com. Listed below are some, but not all, violations that may result in termination of your access to SiteMaze.com. By using SiteMaze.com, you agree NOT to do any of the following:

1. Post, transmit, promote, or distribute content that is illegal, that encourages illegal activity, or that infringes upon the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, publicity right or other intellectual property or proprietary right of any third party.
2. Transmit or facilitate distribution of content that is libelous, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, pornographic, obscene, defamatory, or objectionable in a reasonable person's view.
3. Pretend to be anyone whom you are not. You may not impersonate another member, a WOWchinese staff member, or anyone else.
4. Attempt to get a password, other account information, or other private information from a member, or harvest email addresses or other information.
5. Post any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation.

Pornography, obscenities, rude, and defamatory postings are not allowed anywhere on SiteMaze.com. Postings of this kind will be removed immediately, and a violation will be issued to the Member responsible for the posting (several violations will result in the termination of your account). If you see any pornographic, obscene or defamatory postings, please Alert Us immediately.

Postings which violate the intellectual property rights of third parties are not allowed anywhere on SiteMaze.com. Postings of this kind will be removed immediately, and a violation will be issued to the Member responsible for the posting (several violations will result in the termination of your account). If you see any content which you believe infringes upon the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, publicity right or other intellectual property or proprietary right of any third party, please Alert Us immediately by emailing copyright(at)SiteMaze.com.

In the Forums area, please try to keep your postings relevant to the discussion. Postings that are irrelevant to Forum discussions, or that are designed to promote personal pages, voting polls, or third parties may be removed. If you see postings that contain foul language or that are intended to harass other Members, please Alert Us immediately.

Intentional disruption of the flow of content or discussion by repeatedly posting the same message or image or posting excessively large images is not permitted. Members who cause disruption of this kind will be issued a violation that can result in the termination of their account. If you see another Member disrupting a chat room or forum discussion, please Alert Us immediately.

Harassment of another SiteMaze.com member via Notes, Email, Pages, or postings is not permitted. Harassment means: saying bad things about them; sending them unwanted messages; attacking their race, heritage, etc. Unsolicited "spam" messages are also not permitted unless expressly authorized by the recipient. While we encourage you to introduce yourself to other Members, please respect their wishes if they do not want you to send them mail. If you feel that another Member is harassing you, please Alert Us by filling out a member violation report.

Please remember that not everyone likes being put on a Friend's list. Please comply with a Member's wishes if they request to be removed from your Friend's list. As a Member, you have the right to refuse being saved to someone else's Friend's list. If another Member refuses to remove you from their Friend's list, please Alert Us and we will remove your name for you.

Our site is huge, we cannot monitor every content, we will take the appropriate steps when any member have Alerted Us to questionable content.

We can, whenever we want, edit or delete any content displayed, uploaded to, distributed, or otherwise published through the Service.

We reserve the right to remove content at any time, including any content that violates these standards. We are not responsible for any objectionable material posted by Members that you may encounter while using the Service.

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SUGGESTIONS, COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK

If you respond to an WOWchinese published document with information including feedback data, such as questions, comments, suggestions, or the like regarding the content of any such WOWchinese document, such information will be deemed to be non-confidential and WOWchinese will have no obligation whatsoever with respect to such information and may reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without limitation.

Any communications you send to this Web Site or otherwise to WOWchinese by electronic mail are on a non-confidential basis, and WOWchinese may reproduce, publish or otherwise use them in any way for any purpose. WOWchinese may use the content of any such communications, including any ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques or know-how disclosed herein, for any purpose, including the developing, manufacturing and/or marketing of goods and/or services.
Further, WOWchinese may use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever including developing and marketing services incorporating such information.

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