Terms & Conditions

These terms and conditions apply to the use of this web site, including the use of the information services offered on this website. In using this web site, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must refrain from using the web site.

Terminology

In these terms and conditions, the expressions “we”, “us” and “our” are a reference to Institute for Medical Research.

Amendments to Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions from time to time. Amendments will be effective immediately upon notification on this web site. Your continued use of the web site following such notification will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the terms and conditions as amended.

Membership

In order to be able to access the information offered on this web site, you must become a member. To become a member, you must complete your registration details in the manner describe don the web site. You agree to ensure that your registration details are true and accurate at all times. Specifically, you must notify us of any change to the registration details as originally supplied. Upon registration you will be provided with a password and account designation. You agree to pay for our services in the manner specified on the web site.

We reserve the right to terminate your membership at any time if you breach these terms and conditions.

Information Service

All information provided by us is provided in good faith. You accept that any information provided by us is general information and is not in the nature of advice. We derive information from sources which to the best of our belief is up to date as at the date of publication. We however reserve the right to update this information at any time. We do not make any representations or warranties that the information we provide is reliable, accurate or complete. We also do not make any representations or warranties that your access to that information will be uninterrupted or secure. We are not liable for any loss resulting from any action taken or reliance made by you on any information posted by us. You should make your own enquiries and seek independent advice from relevant industry professionals before acting or relying on any information which is made available to you pursuant to our information service.

You agree to use any information obtained from our information service for your own internal non-commercial purposes only.

You further agree to use our information service for lawful purposes only.

Disclaimer

We do not accept responsibility for any loss damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may directly or indirectly suffer in connection with your use of this web site or any linked web site, nor do we accept any responsibility for any such loss arising out of your use of or reliance on information contained on or accessed through this web site.

To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these terms and conditions is hereby excluded. Where legislation implies any condition or warranty, and that legislation prohibits us from excluding or modifying the application of, or our liability under, any such condition or warranty, that condition or warranty will be deemed included but our liability will be limited for a breach of that condition or warranty to one or more of the following: (a) if the breach relates to goods, (i) the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods, (ii) the repair of such goods, (iii) the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods or (iv) the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; and (b) if the breach relates to services, (i) the supplying of the services again or (ii) the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.

Exception to Disclaimer

This disclaimer set out in these terms and conditions does not attempt or purport to exclude liability arising under statute if, and to the extent, such liability cannot be lawfully excluded.

Specific Warnings

You must ensure that your access to this web site is not illegal or prohibited by laws which apply to you.

You must take your own precautions to ensure that the process which you employ for accessing this web site does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system. For the removal of doubt, we do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which arises in connection with your use of this web site or any linked web site.

Whilst we have no reason to believe that any information contained on this web site is inaccurate, we do not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of such information, nor do we undertake to keep this web site updated. We do not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance by you upon the accuracy or currency of information contained on this web site.

You recognize and acknowledge that any opinions or advice of third parties remain the responsibility of those third parties and we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of that content or its fitness for any particular purposes.

Where the information made available over this service contains opinions or judgements of third parties, we do not purport to endorse the contents of that opinion or advice nor the accuracy or reliability of that opinion or advice. We do not accept liability for loss or damage caused by your reliance upon any information obtained through this service and it remains your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of any such information.

Responsibility for the content of advertisements appearing on this web site (including hyperlinks to advertisers’ own web sites) rests solely with the advertisers. The placement of such advertisements does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement by us of the advertisers’ products and each advertiser is solely responsible for any representations made in connection with its advertisement.

Copyright

Copyright in this web site (including text, graphics, logos, icons, sound recordings and software) is owned or licensed to us.

You shall not in any form or by any means:

  • Store transiently or permanently on any medium, transfer, transmit, reproduce, rent, sell, lease, sub-license, disclose or loan to any third party, distribute, publish or otherwise exploit, modify, adapt, merge, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, create derivative works from or combine with other information or material the whole or any part of the information made available to you pursuant to our information service; or
  • Commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of this web site or any linked web site;

without our written permission.

You may display the information on screen and print off single screens and in each case, for non-commercial use only. At no stage must copies be made of a substantial part of the information.

Trade Marks

Except where otherwise specified, any word or device to which is attached the TM or ® symbol is a registered trade mark.

If you use any of our trade marks or any of our licensors’ trade marks in reference to any information made available to you through this web site, our activities, products or services, you must include a statement attributing that trade mark to us or to the relevant licensor as the case may be. You must not use any of the said trade marks:

  • in or as the whole or part of your own trade marks;
  • in connection with activities, products or services which are not ours or any of our licensors as the case may be;
  • in a manner which may be confusing, misleading or deceptive;
  • in a manner that disparages us or any of our licensors  or the information made available to you through this web site, our productsor our any of our licensors’ products or our services (including this web site) or any of our licensors’ web sites.

Restricted Use

Unless we agree otherwise in writing, you are provided with access to this web site only for your personal use. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not without our written permission on-sell information obtained from this web site.

Linked Web Sites

This web site may contain links to other web sites (“linked web sites”). Those links are provided for convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained.

We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices associated with linked web sites.

Our links with linked web sites should not be construed as an endorsement, approval or recommendation by us of the owners or operators of those linked web sites, or of any information, graphics, materials, products or services referred to or contained on those linked web sites, unless and to the extent stipulated to the contrary.

Security of Information

Unfortunately, no date transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst we strive to protect such information, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk. Nevertheless, once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable steps to preserve the security of such information.

Termination of Access

Access to this web site may be terminated at any time by us without notice. Our disclaimer will nevertheless survive any such termination.

Governing Law

These terms and conditions are governed by the laws in force in Malaysia.

General

We accept no liability for any failure to comply with these terms and conditions where such failure is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

If we waive any rights available to us under these terms and conditions on one occasion, this does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other occasion.

If any of these terms and conditions are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining terms and conditions shall nevertheless continue in full force.

Compliance with Terms and Conditions

You shall furnish all assistance reasonably necessary for us to determine your compliance or the extent of your non-compliance with these terms and conditions. During the term of your membership, and for twelve (12) months following expiration or termination thereof, you shall give us all reasonable assistance to inspect (either ourselves or by our representatives) on reasonable notice and during regular business hours the point or points at which the information is or was accessed. In the event that the points where the information is or was accessed by you are situated at different locations, you shall procure access for such inspection by us or our representatives to a reasonable number of such locations.

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