TERMS OF SERVICE

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• Hobbes & Co., Ltd. Membership Agreement Welcome to join Hobbes & Co., Ltd. membership. Before you register and become one of Hobbes & Co., Ltd. Members, we would like to remind you to read carefully the terms and regulations, which you have to agree upon and hereby abide by in order to join Hobbes & Co., Ltd. Membership. 1. Guideline
  2. Service Guidelines
  3. Member's Registration
  4. Member's Privacy
  5. Member's Content, Responsibility and Risk
  6. Laws and Regulations
  7. Modifying and Alteration
  8. Termination of Service
  9. Advertising and Promotional Activities
  10.Members and Data Safety
  11.Free of Responsibility
  12.Limitation of Indemnity
  13.Indemnification
  14.Termination of Member Details
  15.Linkages
  16.Intellectual Properties
  17.Other Guideline
• 1.Agreement This agreement will describe member's status rights and obligations in a more detailed fashion. When Hobbes & Co., Ltd. membership applicant has read this agreement and proceed on to press the agreement button, he/she will be obliged to comply with and be taken as accepting the regulations defined by Hobbes-Group web site.
• 2.Service Guidelines (1). When accessing to any web site or services provided by Hobbes & Co., Ltd., member will need to self-prepare all Internet connection items like PC system, peripherals and software plus other internet connection charges.
  (2). Currently, Hobbes & Co., Ltd. Service family includes Hobbes product registration, Hobbes product FAQ, Hobbes innovative proposal and Hobbes product driver download. For the benefit of providing better services, Hobbes & Co., Ltd. will add, remove, or modify any of the current services and functions.
• 3.Member's Registration Member shall provide true, accurate, current and complete personal information as prompted in the registration form. If there are any changes into the personal information, (e.g. address, phone numbers, etc), an update and amendment of the personal information shall be made promptly. Any information that is false, inaccurate, out-of-date or incomplete, Hobbes & Co., Ltd. has the right to suspend or terminate member account and refuse any or all of current or future use of Hobbes-Group web service (or any portion thereof).
• 4.Member's Privacy Members will need to be responsible for the security of their personal login names, passwords and other relevant personal details. They will also need to be fully responsible for accessing their own account under Hobbes-Group web site. Members are prohibited to give or share their password or credit card details with any third party. If there are reports on vandalism of credit account, please contact the webmaster of Hobbes-Group web site immediately.
• 5.Member Responsibility in Uploading Content (1). When uploading, posting, delivering and transmitting from and/or onto Hobbes-Group web site, members are fully responsible for the content involved.
  (2). Hobbes & Co., Ltd. will not preview any of the content uploaded by the member. Hobbes & Co., Ltd. thus cannot guarantee the reliability, accuracy, completeness and/or quality of the content.
  (3). Members should not publicize, upload, post, send, and transmit any illegalities, threats, indecency, slander, porn, fraud, damaging, infectious, racial discrimination, or affecting others right and intellectual properties.
  (4). When using any of the Hobbes-Group web Services, member agrees to voluntarily take any unexpected risk involved.
• 6. Laws and Regulation Members need to abide by all related laws in Taiwan, Republic of China and other Internet standards and formalities. Since Internet transcends national boundaries, members will also have to comply with the laws and regulations in their residing country. If members use other International web site provided by Hobbes & Co., Ltd., they will also need to follow the domestic laws and regulations and Internet standards and formalities that the region specified in Hobbes-Group web site.
• 7. Modification and Alteration. (1). Hobbes-Group web site will update and amend the guidelines or rules from time to time without prior notice. Members will be subject to any posted guidelines and rules applicable to this service which may be updated from time to time. If such amendment is not acceptable to any Hobbes & Co., Ltd. member, he/she may cease using Hobbes & Co., Ltd. service pages at any time. If he/she continues to use Hobbes-Group web services that will be regarded as an acceptance to the newly modified content.
  (2). It is prohibited to modify any guidelines and regulations by any member as stated in any part of Hobbes & Co., Ltd. service.
• 8. Termination of Service (1). Hobbes & Co., Ltd. holds the right to terminate or modify at its sole discretion, any or all of the related service contents at any time without notice, for any reason whatsoever. Any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by the termination would not be responsible by Hobbes & Co., Ltd. and/or its associate businesses.
  (2). Hobbes & Co., Ltd. will terminate the service in, but not limited to, the following situations:
  　　a. Abnormal behaviors occurred in e-mail system server.
  　　b. A natural disaster which cause breakdown in services.
  　　c. When Hobbes-Group web site is under the process of maintenance or construction.
• 9. Advertising and Promotional Activities Members will be informed with information on any commercial, advertising or promotional activities offered by Hobbes & Co., Ltd. The content of such advertising and promotional activities may be provided by external advertising agents or product suppliers, so Hobbes & Co., Ltd. will not be responsible for the content. In addition, members agree that any transaction done on line between members, or between members and third parties, advertising agents and source providers bind solely the parties to the transaction. As a result, members agree not to hold Hobbes & Co., Ltd. and its associate business entities responsible or liable for any loss or risks incurred as the result of such transactions.
• 10. Members and Data Safety (1) Hobbes & Co., Ltd. will not disclose user's personal information in any form without member's prior consent. Provided that the following situations will not apply to this condition:
  　　Required by laws and regulations;
  　　Order by a court or governmental authority.
  (2). For any personal information provided by Hobbes & Co., Ltd. member, members agree that Hobbes & Co., Ltd., Hobbes & Co., Ltd. Branch Offices and Hobbes & Co., Ltd. partners make use of them. Including without limitation collecting, processing, restoring and transmitting for information retrieval, service, statistical analysis, or study, research and other legal purposes.
  (3). Although Hobbes-Group web site and other Hobbes & Co., Ltd. branch web sites will protect member's personal information, however, there may be loopholes for information processing on the Internet. Members agree to take the risks themselves inherent with online data transmission.
  (4). Hobbes & Co., Ltd. Server may leave a cookie file (an insignificant file) in the reader's system when the user visits Hobbes-Group web site. The purpose of this is to record information, which the reader has browsed previously, so when the user visits the web site again, the web site will provide the user with much more personalized services. The cookies will not collect reader's name, his/her e-mail address and other personal information.
• 11. The Responsibility and Liability Hobbes-Group web site cannot guarantee any connection free from stability, safety, error-free,
  permanent connection or other related issues. Other issues applied to the validation of the article posted, and the safety of online trading on WEB. With members usage on Hobbes-Group web site and its respective web sites, Hobbes & Co., Ltd. will be not be responsible for any service failures resulting from direct, indirect, additional, unexpected or deliberate damage. If some part of the services provided in this and/or any other related Hobbes-Group web sites experience temporary disconnection, time delay, failure to transmit or restore data, or any loss resulted from infiltration by any third party, member agrees to not claim for compensation from Hobbes-Group web site and Hobbes & Co., Ltd.
• 12. Limitation of Liability Except the terms set forth in Section11, Hobbes & Co., Ltd., Hobbes & Co., Ltd. branch offices, and/or its associate entities shall not held any responsibility and liability for the issue set forth in Section 11. The limitation of liability, if any, shall not exceed the amount equivalent to the value of the purchased product. If any dispute involved no product purchased, then the maximum liability shall not exceed NT $1,000.
• 13. Indemnification The member shall agree to indemnify and hold Hobbes & Co., Ltd. harmless from any dispute and/or lawsuit filed by any third party due to the breach of this agreement by the member. And such member required to pay any damages resulting from the above-mentioned lawsuit, dispute based on the agreement breached by the member.
• 14. Termination of Member Details (1). Members may suspend or terminate their accounts at anytime with Hobbes & Co., Ltd. web Service. Hobbes & Co., Ltd. may ask member to complete a brief survey, stating the reasons for membership termination.
  (2). Members agree that Hobbes-Group web site, in its sole discretion, may terminate his/her password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the service, and remove member's password and account details. Upon termination of using Hobbes-Group web site, member's right will immediately cease. Member will not be entitled to any form of compensation.
  (3). Members agree that termination of any part of Hobbes-Group web service may take place at any time without prior notice. Upon termination of using Hobbes-Group web site, member's right will immediately be suspended. Members will not be entitled to any form of compensation.
• 15. Linkages Based on sharing network resources, each Hobbes & Co., Ltd. web site or third party can supply any linkages of information or web site using Internet. For efficiency and effectiveness, all linkages from each individual Hobbes & Co., Ltd. web site can be utilized for member's query and information gathering. Members must be aware that Hobbes & Co., Ltd. cannot hold control over the contents of each article within every web page. Accordingly, Hobbes & Co., Ltd. does not guarantee that each article is accurate and validate. In addition, Hobbes & Co., Ltd. will not be held liable for any direct or indirect responsibility associated with content editorship and monitoring.
• 16. Intellectual Properties Title to and interest in any logos, images, photos, files, illustrations, software, or relevant information appeared in Hobbes-Group web site, its intellectual properties belongs to Hobbes & Co., Ltd. or its source provider. The members shall not duplicate, reproduce, transfer, modify or edit in any way for any third party or individual benefits without Hobbes & Co., Ltd. or source provider's prior written consents.
• 17. Other Guideline (1). The outline of this agreement is governed by the laws and regulations of Taiwan, Republic of China.
  (2). When any of the part specified in the agreement become obsolete or is declared to be invalid will not affects the rest of the agreement.
  (3). In the event of any dispute arising out of or in connection with this agreement, both Hobbes & Co., Ltd. and its members agree to subject to the jurisdiction of Taipei District Court as the court of first instance.