General Conditions of Use
This website ("Website") has been set up by Bayer (South East Asia) Pte Ltd ("Bayer") as a community service project ("Project").
These terms and conditions ("General Conditions of Use") apply to you as a user of this Website.
Access to and use of this Website are subject to the General Conditions of Use. By accessing and using this Website, you are deemed to have accepted all the terms and conditions set out in the General Conditions of Use. If you do not accept any of these terms and conditions herein, please discontinue your access and use of this Website and its contents immediately.
This Website has been developed and administered by Bayer. Bayer reserves the right to discontinue, amend or to make partial or complete alterations, modifications, deletions or additions to this Website or to the General Conditions of Use from time to time at its absolute discretion and without prior announcement or notification.
You agree to review the General Conditions of Use periodically to be aware of such alterations, modifications, deletions or additions and your continued access and usage of this Website is deemed your conclusive consent to this Website and General Conditions of Use, as amended from time to time.
This Website and General Conditions of Use as amended from time to time shall be effective from the date of posting on this Website.
Intellectual Property
All content on this Website which shall include without limitation to written content, information, text and literature, drawings, diagrams, details, documents, illustrations, communications, software, images and sounds, music, photographs, videos, graphics, data, messages and materials contained on or available through this Website ("Contents") and all intellectual property in the Contents in the form of copyright, trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, patents, designs, industrial property software, technology know-how whether pending, registered or unregistered and intellectual property and proprietary rights of whatever form and nature ("Intellectual Property") belong to Bayer, its associated, related and/or affiliated companies in the Bayer group of companies or entities ("Bayer Group"), its content providers and/or third party licensors.
All rights are reserved and the Contents cannot be reproduced, modified, transferred, distributed, republished, downloaded, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means including but not limited to electronic, mechanical copying without the prior written permission of Bayer save that use of the Contents is permitted provided that:
- the use is for personal and educational purposes and not for commercial purposes, whether for profit or otherwise;
- the relevant copyright note is clearly displayed on all such copies, giving due recognition to ownership of the Contents by Bayer, the Bayer Group, its content providers and/or third party licensors; and
- the Contents is not altered or modified in any way including without limitation, that all illustrations on this Website are to be only used in conjunction with the accompanying text.
Any unauthorized use of the Intellectual Property or the Contents is expressly prohibited and constitutes a breach of the intellectual property rights of Bayer, the Bayer Group, its content providers and/or third party licensors in the Intellectual Property under applicable copyright laws, trademark laws, patent laws, design laws or other industrial property or intellectual property laws.
In the event of such breach, infringement and/or passing off of the Intellectual Property by any party, Bayer shall be entitled take the necessary steps to apply for the appropriate temporary or permanent injunctive relief to stop the breach, infringement and/or passing off and this is without prejudice to its rights to recover damages arising from such breach, infringement and/or passing off. If you are aware of any party that is infringing upon the Intellectual Property, you shall assist Bayer in the bringing of legal action against the infringer.
For the avoidance of doubt, your access to or use of this Website shall not be construed as granting any license or right to use the Intellectual Property including without limitation to the trademarks, trade names, logos or service marks appearing on this Website without Bayer's prior written consent.
You are also not permitted to modify, translate, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the computer systems and other technology that operate this Website or create derivative works based on this Website. For purposes of this General Conditions of Use, “reverse engineering” shall include the examination or analysis of this Website to determine the source code, structure, organization, internal design, algorithms or encryption devices of this Website's underlying technology.
Exclusion of Liability
Bayer has compiled the detailed information provided on this Website from internal and external sources to the best of its information, knowledge and belief, using reasonable diligence.
The information on this Website is purely for the purpose of educating the public about the importance of science literacy, supporting hands-on, inquiry-based science programs for students and teachers and encouraging employee volunteerism ("Objective").
Whilst Bayer endeavours to expand and update the information herein from time to time, no representation or warranty of any kind or nature is made or given, either expressly or tacitly, for the completeness, correctness or reliability of the information on this Website. In particular, without limitation to the foregoing, Bayer does not provide any warranties relating to the access and use of the Website and its contents and all other conditions, warranties, stipulations or other statements whatsoever, whether express or implied, by statute at common law or otherwise howsoever, relating to the access and use of the Website and its contents, are hereby excluded.
We therefore recommend that you conduct your own independent checks on any information you obtain from this Website prior to using it in whatever form. You are deemed to have agreed that the access to the Website and use of its contents are done so at your own sole risk and you are fully responsible for the consequences of using this Website and its contents.
Save as permitted by law, Bayer, the Bayer Group, Bayer's business partners, relevant third parties and their respective employees, servants and agents shall not be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, punitive, special, incidental or consequential loss or damage or for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business, whatsoever and howsoever caused (including without limitation to access and use of the Website and its contents and conducting of any of the experiments set out in this Website) and whether arising out of any negligence or breach of these terms and conditions or otherwise even if that loss or damage was foreseeable by, or the possibility of it was brought to the attention of Bayer, the Bayer Group, Bayer's business partners and relevant third parties.
Indemnity
You shall indemnify and hold Bayer, the Bayer Group, Bayer's business partners, relevant third parties and their respective employees, servants and agents harmless at all times against all actions, proceedings, costs, claims, expenses (including legal costs on a fully indemnity basis), losses (whether direct, indirect or consequential) and damages (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) whatsoever which Bayer, the Bayer Group, Bayer's business partners, relevant third parties and their respective employees, servants and agents may sustain, incur, suffer, or pay arising out of, in connection with or pursuant to, the access and use of this Website by you or any act or omission of by you thereof, in particular in relation to any breach and/or non-compliance by you of the terms and conditions herein. This indemnity shall be separate and independent obligation from any other obligation owing to Bayer, the Bayer Group, Bayer's business partners and relevant third parties.
Websites of third-party vendors/links
This Website contains links/references to third party websites.
By providing such links, Bayer does not in any way endorse, approve or guarantee the third party contents, products or services which you may access, use or acquire via this Website. Such third party contents, products or services are the sole responsibility of the party from which such contents, goods or services originated from. Neither does Bayer accept any form of responsibility for the availability of third party contents or products or services acquired through of such websites or for any liability for loss, damage, costs or injury whatsoever and howsoever resulting from the use of such third party contents, goods or services.
Links to other websites which shall include without limitation to the website of any entity in the Bayer Group or Bayer's business partners and relevant third party's websites are provided to you merely for convenience only and not for any other purpose. You access such websites at your own risk. You are to refer to these parties in respect of all matters arising from access and use of these websites. Likewise, you are solely responsible for all content that you transmit or make available via this Website.
Representations, Warranties and Undertakings
You represent, warrant and undertake the following:-
- That you are above 21 years of age and that if you are below 21 years of age, you are being supervised by your parents, legal guardian or another person who is of at least 21 years of age when accessing this Website and its contents, including without limitation, to conducting the experiments illustrated therein;
- That you provide accurate, complete and updated registration information and are fully responsible for the content and correctness of details you send to Bayer as well as for the legality and non-violation of any third-party rights that may be involved in such details.
- That you expressly give your consent for Bayer to :
- store such details;
- disclose the same to any entity in the Bayer Group and Bayer's business partners and relevant third parties who are involved in the Project; and
- use the same for the purpose of statistical analysis or for any other relevant purpose as may be permitted by relevant laws to further the Objective.
International users
This Website is operated and maintained by Bayer in Singapore. It is intended for use by your use in Singapore only. Should you access this Website or download its contents for use outside Singapore, please note that it is your own responsibility to ensure that you do so in compliance with the applicable local legislation of the relevant country.
Applicable law
Your access to or use of this website as well as the interpretation of the General Condition of Use and all matters in connection therewith shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Singapore. You agree to be bound by the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.
Waiver
Bayer's failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any of the provisions of the General Conditions of Use shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.
Severability
If any part of the General Conditions of Use is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable part shall be given effect to the greatest extent possible and the remainder will remain in full force and effect.