7. USER CONDUCT

Any Contents posted to or accessed via the Websites, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Contents originated. This means that the Users from whom Contents originate, not ESDlife, are entirely responsible for all the Contents that they upload, post, email, offer or otherwise transmit via the Services. ESDlife does not control the Contents posted via the Services and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Contents. For the Users accessing Contents via the Services, they understand and acknowledge that by so using the Services, they may be exposed to Contents that are offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will ESDlife be liable in any way for any Contents for, including but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Contents, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Contents posted, emailed, offered or otherwise transmitted via the Services.

You undertake not to use the Services to:

1. upload, post, email, offer or otherwise transmit any Contents in respect of which you have no right (either proprietary, contractual, or fiduciary) to transmit or which is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory or otherwise objectionable;
2. impersonate any person or entity by way of transmitting any forged or manipulated Contents through the use of any Services.
3. upload, post, email, offer or otherwise transmit any Contents that infringe any proprietary rights or intellectual property rights including, without limitation, patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright of any party;
4. upload, post, email, offer or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except when expressly authorised to do so by us;
5. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Contents that contain software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs that would interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Websites and/or computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment constituting them;
6. interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks through which the Services is provided, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of such networks;
7. collect or store personally identifiable information about other Users.

You acknowledge that ESDlife does not have any obligation to pre-screen Contents, but that ESDlife has the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse or remove any Contents that is available via the Services. Without limiting the said right, ESDlife has the right to remove any Contents that, in its opinion, violate the T&C or are otherwise, in its opinion, objectionable. You undertake to evaluate, and agree to evaluate and to bear all risks associated with the use of any Contents, including any reliance on the presumed accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Contents. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Contents created by ESDlife or submitted to ESDlife, including, without limitation, information contained in chat room, forum, auction sites and Cybermall and all other parts of the Services.

You acknowledge and agree that ESDlife may preserve Contents and may also disclose Contents if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to, without limitation: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce its rights; or (c) respond to claims that any Contents violate the rights of third-parties.

8 ． MERCHANDISE

All merchandise, products or services offered, introduced or mentioned in the Websites by third parties ("Merchandise") are not offered or provided by us. You make no reliance whatsoever on ESDlife regarding the accuracy or reliability of any of the information that may be accessed via the platform provided through the Websites concerning such Merchandise. The contracts for the purchase, acquisition or obtaining of the Merchandise and/or the Public Services will be formed between you and the third parties selling, offering, or providing the same. ESDlife is not a party to those contracts and is simply providing a platform through which the effecting of commercial activities can be facilitated and/or on-line payments effected. You are strongly encouraged to make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction (either on-line or off-line) with any of the said third parties. ESDlife, accordingly, makes no and/or disclaims all representations and warranties, express or implied, with respect to availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, any implied warranties arising from course of performance or course of conduct in relation to the Merchandise. ESDlife shall not be responsible and shall in no event be liable for any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, costs of procurement of substitute goods or services, lost profits, lost data or any direct, indirect, special, punitive, incidental, exemplary or consequential damages relating to the unavailability, use, inability to use, performance or non-performance of the Merchandise that is offered, introduced, mentioned or provided in or via the Websites.

In the case of any on-line payment in the purchase or obtaining of any Merchandise offered, introduced or mentioned in or via the Websites being effected by the payment platform provided by us, notwithstanding anything herein contained, ESDlife shall not be liable to you for and in respect of any loss or damage (including indirect and consequential losses and damage) suffered by you in connection with any on-line payments made by you by reason of (a) any failure, delay, interruption, suspension or restriction of the transmission of any information or message from any payment gateways of the relevant banks and/or third party merchants for processing credit/debit/smart card or other payment facilitating mechanism, (b) any error in or omission from any information or message transmitted from the said payment gateways, (c) any breakdown, malfunction or failure of those gateways and (d) anything arriving out of or in connection with them.

9. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

Before you send any Contents, Other Information or personally identifiable information, you must check whether you are sending it in the public area of the Websites. If you are sending it in the public area, you acknowledge that you are doing so voluntarily and that (a) ESDlife is granted a world-wide, royalty free licence to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish such Contents for as long as you elect to continue to include such Contents in the Websites and (b) any person may use such Contents for the purpose of exchanging email/ emails or chatting between or amongst Users or introducing you to Users. All such Contents you voluntarily make available in the public area are not to be regarded as being collected by ESDlife.

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