Definitions Used

1. “Service Provider”, “We” or “Us” refer to Hills Creative Arts Pte Ltd.
2. “Service” refers to TAXI, the online design portfolio directory owned by Hills Creative Arts Pte Ltd.
3. “End-user”, “You” or “Your” refers to the submitting front-end user.
4. “Account” refers to the TAXI account registered under the name of the End User.
5. “Site” refers to any web site registered and owned by Hills Creative Arts Pte Ltd. This includes, but is not limited to, any residing pages on http://www.hillscreativearts.com, http://www.asterik.net and http://www.designtaxi.com

General Provisions
The following Terms and Conditions are applicable to all information and properties submitted, used and other transactions between Hills Creative Arts Pte Ltd and the submitting End-user. Other conflicting terms and conditions with those stated within this agreement shall be regarded as invalid unless approved by the Service Provider in official writing.

By proceeding the registration wizard, you warrant that you are agreeable to all the terms and conditions set forth and that all the information you have submitted is true and accurate. Also, by registering an TAXI account, you enter into a contract of registration with the Service Provider. If you do not agree to any terms and conditions set within, please do not use our web site or service.

Registration of Accounts

1. The End-user agrees that any registration of Account under the Service Provider should be carried out with sole intent of self-promotional purposes. Unless authorized with written permission by the Service Provider, there should be no third-party representatives allowed to register any Account or Service provided by the Service Provider. In the event of this happening, it will be regarded and legally treated as cases of impersonation, fraud or similar.
   
2. To prevent unauthorized intrusion of illegal users, End-users are encouraged to complete the registration wizard within a maximum duration of 20 minutes. The registration process has been 128-bits SSL secured, but the Service Provider does not warrant against any unauthorized interception of illegal third parties. These include, but are not limited to, hackers, ‘spam robots’ and web ‘spiders’.
   
3. The User ID and Password will be automatically generated and sent to the End-user via the provided email address. You are advised to check your email, print out the reference email and delete it off immediately to prevent any illegal access to your account before, during and after the registration process. The End-user, and NOT The Service Provider, will be held responsible in cases of loss and damages in the event of such happening.
   
4. End-users are also advised to log out of their account immediately after required use of account.
   
5. For offline corporate account registration, an additional service charge of US$15.00 will be charged to the corporate account. Users are also warned of unexpected delay that may arise due to any inefficiency caused by the postage and courier services. The Service Provider does not warrant receipt of the delivered documents and properties, including but not limited to portfolio works, due to cases of inconsistency in delivery services, human errors and custom regulations. The application documents and properties shall be shipped at the expense and risk of the End-user. The Service Provider does not hold any responsibility to states of conditions of articles before, during and after delivery.
   
6. End-users who wish to register offline will have to make sure all required documents (including crossed cheque payments) have been submitted and any failure to do that, the Service Provider will return the documents upon payment of express courier service by the End-user. Should payment remains outstanding for more than 30 days from the day of receipt, the Service Provider will dispose of the documents without notification of the End-user.
   
7. Posted articles will only be returned on request after payment of US$35.00 for express courier service has been settled. The End-user should allow up to ten (10) working days for the articles to be delivered. The Service Provider does not hold any responsibility to states of conditions of articles before, during and after delivery.

Terms of Payment

1. The registration rates stated on the TAXI web site is subject to increase on a quarterly basis. Current prices and rates are binding and will not be increased during the period of continuance of the contract.
   
2. Payment is due immediately on receipt of invoice. The End-user shall be in default if he fails to settle payment within a maximum of 30 days after date of invoice issued.
   
3. Preferred mode of payment is credit card transactions, namely VISA and MASTERCARD, carried out online by WORLDPAY. The Service Provider will not be held liable for any loss caused by technical errors or faults over at WORLDPAY. Please also note that Hills Creative Arts Pte Ltd and WORLDPAY Ltd are two different companies and they do not represent each other in any way. If you encounter any difficulties during the payment process, contact WORLDPAY directly at

   Customer Service HOTLINE (For U.S.) +1 703 547 6250
   Customer Service HOTLINE (For U.K.) +44 (0) 870 742 7002

   OR mail to them at

   WORLDPAY Limited
   Units 270 -289
   The Science Park
   Milton Road
   Cambridge CB4 0WE

4. The End-user shall have no recourse to the remedies to the remedies of withholding or offsetting payment or the defence of non-performance unless the End-user’s counterclaims have been established by process of law or are undisputed or are acknowledged by the Service Provider.

5. Timely payment is a compulsory condition set for account registration. This includes offline registration.
   Payment of crossed cheque (made out to HILLS CREATIVE ARTS PTE LTD in US Dollars) for offline registration should be sent to:

   HILLS CREATIVE ARTS PTE LTD
   51A Neil Road
   Singapore 088829
   Singapore
   
   To faciliate the registration process, please quote your user id on the back of the cheque.

Responsibilites
By using this web site or by proceeding the TAXI registration wizard, you agree that you will not:

1. commit or encourage a criminal offence;
2. send proactively, receive, upload, download, use or re-use any information or material which is offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing, or in breach of confidence, copyright, privacy or any other rights;
3. do anything which is contrary to the acceptable use policies of any connected networks and Internet standards;
4. insert or knowingly or recklessly transmit or distribute a virus;
5. seek unauthorized entry into back office;
6. hack into any aspect of the Service;
7. corrupt data;
8. circumvent, or attempt to seek to circumvent, any of the security safeguards of the Service Provider;
9. use the Service to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to End-users or front-end viewers or others;
10. send or provide any unsolicited advertising or other promotional material, commonly referred to as "spam" by email or by any other electronic means; or
11. send email or any other type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance or functionality of any computer facilities;
12. hold the Service Provider liable in relation to the accuracy, reliability, availability and performance of resources accessed through the Internet which, you acknowledge, are beyond their control and are not in any way warranted or supported by the Service Provider;
13. use the service other than for your personal use, and you acknowledge that the Service Provider shall not in any way whatsoever be liable to you or to any third party for any business losses (including without limitation any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings or for any destruction of data) suffered in any way whatsoever by you or any third party;
14. use the Service in a way that does not comply with the terms of any legislation or any license applicable to you or that is in any way unlawful;
15. use any software application, device or other service to maintain a connection to the Service even though you are not actively using the Service;
16. access your user account from more than one computer simultaneously;
17. use the Service in any way, which, in the Service Provider's opinion, is, or is likely to be, detrimental to the provision of the Service to any other users. This includes, but is not limited to, running any application or program that places excessive bandwidth demands on the Service;
18. employ a misleading email address or name or falsify information in the header, footer, return path or any part of any communication, including without limitation any email transmitted through the Service;
19. directly or indirectly act or omit to act in any way which may infringe, damage, or endanger any intellectual property rights (or any goodwill attaching thereto) which may now or in the future subsist in any part of the world of us or any third party;
20. impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
21. permit any third party to do any of the above.

The Service Provider does not warrant and will not be held liable against any failure of achievements of expectations set by the end-user, in terms of reach, circulation and frequency. Results may be subjected to external conditions such as quality of submitted content and user preference. In event of dissatisfaction, end-users may contact us for further discussion.

Property Rights

1. Intellectual property rights in all software and the Site (including the design, text, graphics, and any other material appearing on the Site) supplied to you remains the property of the Service Provider or its licensor or other content owner. You will comply with the terms of any agreement required by the owner of intellectual property rights in all software and content supplied to you as notified to you. You may store, manipulate, analyze, reformat, print and display the content supplied solely for your own personal use.
   
2. Publishing, re-transmission, re-distribution or reproduction of any of the content supplied to you or which appears on the Site in any format is forbidden and you are prohibited from using any such content in connection with any business or commercial enterprise.
   
3. The Service Provider reserve all rights to remove and delete accounts that it believes infringes property rights. These include, but are not limited to, trademarks, patents, and copyrights. Should you believe information and content owned by you has been copied or misused by other End-users on the Site, please write to [email protected].
   
4. The Service Provider must also be notified if any submitted information or portfolio works is subject to legal proceedings.
   
5. The End-user, and NOT the Service Provider, shall be liable for any damages arising from the infringement of property rights. This includes, but is not limited to, claims of third parties.

Third Parties

1. Links to third parties and their content, including hypertext links, from the Site to other external web sites, resources, advertisements or sponsorships, either directly or indirectly through the contractual partners, are not under our control. Information contained on the Site which has been provided by third parties and/or information on any other website which is accessed via the Site has not been independently verified by the Service Provider.
   
2. The Service Provider accepts no responsibility for these links and do not endorse their contents and we shall have no liability to you for any failure on the part of the operator of the linked site or any of its suppliers to fulfill any obligation owed to you or for any defective or deficient product or service any of them might supply to you.
   
3. The Service Provider will not be responsible for any loss or damage suffered as a result for any dispute that occurs between the End-user and any third party due to use of the Site.
   
4. The Service Provider also do not represent or guarantee the validity, reliability and accuracy of information and content that appears on any third-parties’ web sites.
   
5. If you decide to visit these third-party web sites, you agree to do it at your own risk.

Termination

1. The End-user shall not terminate the Service until the expiry of the subscribed duration of service.
   
2. In the event when a need of termination arises, the Service Provider may terminate the service any time, with appropriate notification to the End-user.
   
3. If the End-user wishes to change account plans or duration after confirmation, the End-user shall give written notice to the Service Provider. There will also be a service charge of 20% for such requests. Requests may be faxed over to +656 227 0213.
   
4. Alteration of account information can be accessed by End-user via the login page, but change of account plans have to be done manually by the service provider. Change will take place immediately after service charge of 20% has been paid.

Final Provisions
The End-user shall be bound by and shall fully observe and comply with all the General Terms as well as such other terms and conditions as may be agreed or accepted by the End-user. The Service Provider reserves all rights to alter the terms and conditions set within this agreement any time, with an announcement of change on TAXI main page.