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1. While care has been taken in preparing the information and materials contained in this SMILE-NET Website (hereinafter called "Website") by all those involved (hereinafter called “the SMILE-NET team”), these information and materials are provided without warranty of any kind either express or implied. In particular, no warranty regarding non-infringement, security, accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose or freedom from computer virus is given in conjunction with such information and materials. All information in this Website are to be considered as provided for general information or illustration purposes only, are not warranted to be accurate or current, are not intended to convey any form of professional advice nor as a resource applicable to any specific circumstance and should not be relied upon or used as such. Despite efforts there are no warranties whatsoever that the Website or its contents will be uninterrupted, up-to-date or error free; nor is there any warranty whatsoever as to the results that may be obtained from use of the Website, or as to the accuracy, reliability or contents of any information, service, or product obtained from, or following information received from the site. There is also no warranty whatsoever on retrieval of any archived or lost data/information/messages.

2. It is a specific condition of accessing this Website that neither SMILE-NET team, nor any related groups such as the SMILE Review Board, nor the SMILE-NET Editorial Panel, nor China Trend Building Press Ltd, nor the Centre for Infrastructure and Construction Industry Development, nor the University of Hong Kong, nor any of their agents, employees, contractors, or members of any committees/boards involved, nor the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, nor the Trade and Industry Department, nor the collaborating/ supporting/ partner organizations of SMILE-NET will in any way be liable to any person, persons and/ or organization for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to any damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, productivity problems, quality issues, health and safety problems, environmental issues, computer failure or malfunction or any damages or losses), that may be alleged to arise from the accessing of this Website.

3. The information, suggestions, views and opinions, findings, conclusions, any suggested approaches, recommendations, tools, guidelines, and/or 'solutions' in this Website do not necessarily represent the views of SMILE-NET team, nor any related groups such as the SMILE Review Board, nor the SMILE-NET Editorial Panel, nor China Trend Building Press Ltd, nor the Centre for Infrastructure and Construction Industry Development, nor the University of Hong Kong, nor the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, nor the Trade and Industry Department, nor the collaborating/ supporting/ partner organizations of SMILE-NET.

4. By posting any information in the Website and/or participating in any discussion forum in this Website or communicating with SMILE-NET team, the user of the Website grants the SMILE-NET team an irrevocable, transferable and worldwide right to use, reproduce, publicly perform and display, distribute, sublicense, and transmit to third parties any data, information, suggestion, ideas, drawings or concepts communicated to the SMILE-NET team for any purpose whether public, commercial, or otherwise, without any compensation to the user of the Website.

5. In case of any discrepancies between the English and Chinese versions of any notices or any other parts of this website, the English version shall apply and prevail.

Furthermore,

6. I agree to hold the SMILE-NET team, related groups such as the SMILE Review Board, and the SMILE-NET Editorial Panel, China Trend Building Press Ltd, the Centre for Infrastructure and Construction Industry Development, the University of Hong Kong, and all their agents, employees, contractors, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Trade and Industry Department, the Vetting Committee for the SME Development Fund and the collaborating/ supporting/ partner organizations of SMILE-NET harmless and indemnify each and everyone of the aforesaid parties against all claims and demands (including legal costs) made by any third party due to or arising out of the content I submit, post to, or transmit through the Website (including without limitation, any computer viruses), my use of the Website, violation of this Notice of Disclaimers and Conditions of Use, or violation of any rights of any another person or entity.

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