Terms & Conditions

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before you start to use this Website. By using our Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and Conditions and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree, please do not continue to use our Website. These Terms and Conditions must be read together with all other notices or terms and conditions set out in other pages of our Website.

Terms and Conditions

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Website and Intellectual Property Rights

The MGS Alumnae Association (“MGSAA”, “we” or “us” or “our”) is the owner of our website (www.mgsalumnae.com) (the “Website”) together with all intellectual property rights connected with the Website, material published on it and material made available through it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world and other intellectual property rights. All such rights are reserved.
We are also the authorised and licensed to use all logos and images connected with “Methodist Girls’ School”, “MGS”.

Subject to the limited exceptions set out below, neither this Website nor any part of it may be copied, reproduced, modified, publicly displayed, republished, distributed, extracted or reutilised in any form, without our prior written permission

You may make copies, print or download material published on this Website or made available through it for your own personal use, provided that you name the author and specify the source where the copy was taken from and you do not modify the paper or digital copies of any material you have copied, printed or downloaded in any way, and you do not use any illustrations, photographs, video, audio sequences or any graphics, separately from any accompanying text.

You may also provide occasional copies of material published on this Website or made available through it, to others, for their personal use only, provided that: you do so free of charge, you do not modify any such copies, any copyright notices remain intact, our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of the material is always acknowledged, your communication of the material is not misleading or inaccurate and you inform the relevant third party that these Terms and Conditions apply to them.
You must not use any part of the material held on our Website or made available through it for commercial or business purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or the owner of any such rights.

If you print, copy or download any part of the material held on this Website or made available through it in breach of these Terms and Conditions, your right to use this Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

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Exclusion of Liability

Except as otherwise required under any applicable law, we do not accept any responsibility and shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever, arising under or in connection with

• any use of or reliance on any information, opinions, content and/or material held on this Website or made available in connection with this Website; or

• interruption or delay in access, use of, or inability to use or access, this Website,or

• any access to information by any third party which was transmitted to and/or by you through the Website;

• any loss or damage caused to your information technology, computer programmes, platform, data or other proprietary material arising in connection with your use of this Website.

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Account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with a username, password or any other piece of information in relation to your use of this Website, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any username and/or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

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Use of the Website

You must not in any way use our Website:
• to breach any law, rule, decree, decision, judgment or regulation, or that has any unlawful or immoral purpose or effect;
• to transmit, or procure the sending of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional material or similar communications;
• to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, publish, post, distribute, disseminate, transmit, use or re-use any material or information which is inaccurate, illegal, defamatory, libellous, obscene, offensive, abusive, hateful, threatening, inflammatory, harmful, infringing, pornographic, discriminatory, indecent, unsolicited, unauthorised, unlawful, objectionable or which may expose you or us to legal action or reputational damage; or
• to threaten, harass, stalk, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights of others.

You also agree not to:
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or sell any part of our Website;
• advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of this Website or to benefit commercially from its content; or
• access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt, any part of our Website; any equipment or network on which our Website is stored; any software used in the provision of our Website; or any equipment, network or software owned or used by any third party.
If you use a feature of this Website that allows you to upload or post material, or to make contact with other users of this Website, you must ensure that all such contributions are compliant with applicable law and that they do not breach any intellectual property, privacy or confidentiality rights of a third party, or any legal or contractual duty owed to a third party.

We have the right to remove any post you make on our Website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with these Terms of Use or otherwise within our complete discretion.

The views expressed by other users on our Website do not represent our views or values.

Any material that you upload to our Website will be considered non-proprietary.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any material posted by you or any other user of this Website.

We do not make any representations or give any warranties or undertakings in relation to the quality, accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose of the content of our Website.

When you are asked to provide information in connection with our Website, you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete details. It may not be possible to provide you with the relevant services or information if you do not provide the minimum mandatory information required.

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Viruses and compatibility

We have taken appropriate steps to detect computer viruses but we cannot guarantee that our Website is free from malfunctions, defects, bugs and viruses; or that the Website will operate correctly and as expected, at any given time. We shall not be liable for any loss or damage which occurs as a result of any virus, including without limitation any distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other materials.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our Website and for protecting these with your own anti-virus software, firewalls and any other technical measures. We give no warranties as to the compatibility of our Website with your information technology, computer programmes and platform.

You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing any viruses of any form and howsoever described)

You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack, or in any other way.

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Data Protection and cookies

Our Data Protection Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data.

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Cookies

Our website uses cookies to remember your preferences and help you obtain the right information. Cookies also allow us to see how our Website is being used.

By using this Website after accepting the cookie notice that appears when you first visit the Website, or by browsing our Website, after having been presented with this notice, you agree to the placement of cookies on your computer in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

[Our Cookies will expire upon your exit from the Website]

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No Linking

You are not permitted to make any links to this Website without our prior and express written Consent. This Website must not be framed on any other website.

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Termination

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or part of this Website with or without notice.

10

Severance

Should one or more provisions of these Terms and Conditions be or become invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, this shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions. In place of any provisions which are invalid or not incorporated in these Terms and Conditions the relevant statutory provisions shall apply. In all other cases, the parties shall agree a valid provision to replace the invalid or unenforceable provision which reflects as closely as possible the original economic purpose, provided a supplementary interpretation of these Terms and Conditions does not have precedence or is not possible.

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Waiver

Our rights under these Terms of Use may only be waived in writing.

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Governing law

These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of Singapore and you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore.

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Changes of these terms of use

We may change our Terms and Conditions from time to time. When we do so, we will publish the updated terms on our Website. Please check these Terms and Conditions regularly. Subject to applicable law, all changes will take effect as soon as we publish the updated Terms and Conditions, but where legally required to do so, we may take additional steps to inform you of any material changes to our Terms and Conditions and may request that you agree to these changes.

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Contact us

If you have any questions about these Terms and Condition, or if you would like to receive a hard-copy version of these Terms and Conditions or for other purposes, you can contact us via our Contact Page.