Terms of Use

Thank you for visiting the SINGAPORE COLLECTIONS ONLINE Website (http://www.sgcool.sg). By accessing and using any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted to be legally bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, kindly refrain from using this Website(s).

General

1. The Terms of Use for this Site shall also apply to all of this Website’s contents.
2. These Terms of Use may be changed from time to time. All changes will be posted on this page, and your use of this Website after such changes have been posted will constitute your agreement to the modified Terms of Use and all of the changes.

Proprietary & Copy Rights

3. This Site is owned and operated by the National Heritage Board (NHB).
4. Content (including, but no limited to, information, images, files, sounds and video clips contained on or available through the NHB network of Websites) is the property of the NHB and are protected by copyright, trademark and other forms of proprietary rights. All rights, title and interest in the contents are owned by, licensed to or controlled by NHB.

Privacy Policy

5. Click here to review this Website’s Privacy Policy.

Restrictions on Use of Contents

6. Except as otherwise provided, the contents of this Site shall not be reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise distributed in any way, without the prior permission of NHB. To use any parts of the Contents of this Site, the user must seek permission in writing, stating the Contents for use; intent of use; manner of use; time frame of use and identity of the user. NHB reserves the right to refuse permission without declaring reason(s); and/or if information submitted by user is deemed insufficient.
7. Modification of any of the contents or use of the contents for any other purpose will be violation of NHB’s copyright and other intellectual property rights. Graphics and images on this Site are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced or appropriated in any manner without written permission of NHB.
8. Intellectual Property Rights
9. Content (including, but no limited to, information, images, files, sounds and video clips contained on or available through the NHB network of Websites) is provided by the NHB. All rights are reserved.
10. The intellectual property rights to or over the contents contained in each Site belong to the NHB. The contents of the Site 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 photocopying or recording without the prior written permission of the NHB. You agree that the material and content contained within or provided by the Website is for your own personal use only and may not be used for commercial purposes or distributed commercially.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability

10. The contents of this Site are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, NHB does not warrant and hereby disclaims any warranty:
    (a) as to the accuracy, correctness, reliability, timeliness, non-infringement, title, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose of the contents of this Site;
    (b) that the contents available through this Site or any functions associated therewith will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected or that this Site and the server is and will be free of all viruses and/or other harmful elements. 
11. NHB shall also not be liable for any damage or loss of any kind caused as a result (direct or indirect) of the use of the Site, including but not limited to any damage or loss suffered as a result of reliance on the Contents contained in or available from the Site.

Right of Access

12. NHB reserves all rights to deny or restrict access to this Site to any particular person, or to block access from a particular Internet address to this Site, at any time, without ascribing any reasons whatsoever.

Links from this Site to other websites

13. This Site contains hyperlinks to websites which are not maintained by NHB. NHB is not responsible for the contents of those websites and shall not be liable for any damages or loss arising from access to those websites. Use of the hyper-links and access to such websites are entirely at your own risk.
14. Hyperlinks to other websites are provided as a convenience to the user. In no circumstances shall NHB be considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia or other devices used or appearing on websites to which this Site is linked.

Links to this Site from other websites

15. Except as set forth below, caching and links to, and the framing of this Site or any of the contents are prohibited.
16. Linking to the Homepage: You may link to the Homepage of this Site, upon notify NHB (see Contact Us) in writing.
17. Hyper-linking to an internal page of this Site: You must make a specific request for, and secure permission from NHB prior to hyper-linking to, or framing, this Site or any of the contents, or engaging in similar activities. NHB reserves the right to impose conditions when permitting any hyper-linking to, or framing of this Site or any of the contents.
18. Your linking to, or your framing of this Site or any of the contents constitute acceptance of these Terms of Use. This is deemed to be the case even after the posting of any changes or modifications to these Terms of Use. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, you must discontinue linking to, or framing of this Site or any of the contents.
19. Under no circumstances shall NHB be considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia or other devices used or appearing on websites that link to this Site or any of the contents.
20. NHB reserves all rights to disable any links to, or frames of any site containing inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topics, names, material or information, or material or information that violates any written law, any applicable intellectual property, proprietary, privacy or publicity rights.
21. NHB reserves the right to disable any unauthorised links or frames and disclaims any responsibility for the content available on any other website reached by links to or from this Site or any of the Contents.

Governing Law

22. These Terms of Use shall be governed and construed in accordance with laws of the Republic of Singapore.