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| Monthly updates of the latest research on China on the industries
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| A dedicated service to address our clients' individual needs across
various industries. |
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| Preview our most latest reports and special offers. |
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| Download FREE sample research reports to enhance your library. |
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| Data obtained from the State Statistics Bureau of China covering
555 industrial and consumers goods sectors in China. |
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About Chinareference.com
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The Site is operated by Asian Information Resources Limited
("AIR") which provides information service
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and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") set
out below. If you have entered into a separate written agreement
with AIR governing your access to and use of the Site and/or
Information, the terms of such written agreement, in case
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You represent you have the legal authority to accept the
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If any provision of the Terms and Conditions is held to be
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of the Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge that AIR may
impose limits on certain features and services or restrict
or terminate your access to parts or the entire Site without
notice or liability.
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You are granted a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable,
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in whole or in part from time to time available to you. No
resale, reissue, loan, transfer, publication or other form
of exploitation of the Information is allowed whether or not
for monetary reward. This permission terminates automatically
if you breach any of the Terms and Conditions.
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You may display the Information on the screen of a terminal.
You may print or download reasonable portion of the Information
for carrying out your own business management or decision
making purposes.
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To the extent permitted by applicable copyright
law, you may, on an occasional and irregular basis, make copies
of the printout of the Information to a limited number of individuals
within your company provided always that copyright notices of
AIR and/or its affiliates and/or its suppliers and original
source attribution whenever providing any copies of the printout
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Except as specifically provided in this
clause 1, you are prohibited from downloading, storing, reproducing,
transmitting, displaying, copying, distributing, modifying,
altering, abridging or using or otherwise exploiting any of
Information retrieved from the Site. |
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This revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable,
non-sublicensable, limited license is for single user. Except
as expressly permitted in this clause 1, you may not, directly
or indirectly, allow any other person to use or share your user
name or password, or to have access to the Information. Any
breach of this restriction may result in immediate termination
of your access to the Site and/or Information and/or liability
for damages. |
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Except as expressly permitted in this clause
1, you may not (i) reproduce or store in or transmit to any
other web site, newsgroup, mailing list, electronic bulletin
board, local area or wide area network or regularly or systematically
store in electronic or print form, all or any part of the Information
or (ii) modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer
or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute,
perform, display, or in any way exploit all or any part of the
Information (including use as part of any library, archive or
similar service) without the prior written consent of AIR. |
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Any use of the Information not specifically
permitted by this clause 1 is expressly prohibited. You shall
use all best endeavor to protect the Information from any use
that is not permitted under the Terms and Conditions and shall
notify AIR immediately in writing of any such use of which you
become aware. Requests for permission for other uses may be
sent to Chief Development Officer of Asian Information Resources
Limited by ordinary pre-paid post, by e-mail
or by facsimile as set out in clause 10.5 of these Terms and
Conditions and may be subject to a fee. |
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You may be required to register with AIR and/or the Site
in order to access certain parts of the Site ("Sub-Site").
Where you are required to register:
- you must provide AIR and/or the Site with accurate, complete
and updated registration information (including your email
address) and inform AIR of any changes to such information
from time to time;
- you must safeguard any user name log-in password, I.D.
which we provide to you, and immediately notify AIR if you
become aware of any loss or theft of any log-in password
or I.D.; and
- you authorise us to assume that any person using the Site
with your user name and password is either you or is authorised
to act for you.
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You acknowledge that your use of Sub-Site may be governed
by additional terms and conditions. Where this is the case,
you will be notified accordingly, and those additional terms
and conditions:
- will apply to your use of such Sub-Site in addition to
these terms and conditions; and
- will prevail over these terms and conditions to the extent
of any inconsistenc
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Services |
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You acknowledge that AIR may, in our sole discretion and
with or without notice,
- ary the Site or any part of the Site (including any Sub-Site
for which you are required to register); and
- modify or discontinue this Site, any part of the Site
and the services available on it without notice
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Intellectual Property Protection |
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The contents of the Site, including but not
limited to the Information, are protected by copyrights under
the copyright laws of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
of the People's Republic of China ("Hong Kong")
and other countries. All rights, title and interest (including
all copyrights and other intellectual property rights) of the
Information, the Site and all materials found in or distributed
in conjunction with the Information and the Site, including
documentation (in both print and machine-readable forms) belong
to AIR, or its affiliates or its third party Information suppliers.
You acquire no proprietary interest in or to the Site, the Information
or copies thereof by access to the Site or otherwise. |
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You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone
to use or reproduce any trademarks (such as "AIR"
and "Asian Information Resources Limited") or other
trade names appearing on the Site or in the Information for
any reason without prior written permission from AIR. The database
and software contained in or used by the Site constitute valuable
intellectual property rights of AIR and/or its third-party suppliers.
You specifically agree as a pre-condition to accessing and using
the Site and/or the Information to protect the copyrights and
all other proprietary rights of AIR and/or its suppliers in
the database and software. The software through which the Site
is operated is a proprietary software and you may not use it
except as expressly allowed under the Terms and Conditions.
You must not copy, reverse engineer, modify, alter or otherwise
deal with the software. |
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Except as specifically provided herein, you
must not use the Site or Information in any fashion that infringes
or may infringe the copyrights or proprietary interest therein. |
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You must not remove or obscure the copyrights
notice or other notice contained in the Information retrieved
from the Site. |
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4.5 |
Other provisions that govern your use of
the Site and Information are set forth in online descriptions
of files, online notices following file selection, and individual
documents retrieved from the Site (collectively, the "Additional
Terms"), all of which are incorporated by reference into
the Terms and Conditions. |
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Fee and Payment |
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Access to the Information may be subject to the payment of
a fee. All payments (including applicable taxes) must be made
in full when due.
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The Information can be purchased in whole or in part, if
applicable, at the price listed on the Site current at the
date of placement of orders. Alternatively, user may subscribe
(the "Subscriber") for the Information by
paying a subscription fee and on such other terms stipulated
in the subscription agreement. Pricing plans for the services
are customized to accommodate the needs of each user. Due
to this customization, exact pricing plan information is not
available on the Site.
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All new scale of charges and revised payment terms, if any,
will be posted in the Site. You shall pay all applicable taxes
relating to use of the Site and/or Information through your
user account. All charges incurred in connection with your
user account will be billed to the credit card you designate.
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If your use of the Site is terminated by AIR, you will be
entitled to receive a refund of any charges or pre-payments
that remain unused at the time of termination unless such
use is terminated because you are in breach of any provision
of the Terms and Conditions. You will continue to be responsible
for any fees or other charges incurred by you prior to such
termination.
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Terms and Termination |
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AIR may, in its sole discretion, terminate
or suspend your access to all or part of the Site with or without
cause by delivering notice to you. |
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Where you are required to register with the
Site, you may cancel such registration by providing written
notice no later than 60 days prior to cancellation. |
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Without prejudice to the generality of the
aforesaid, if you fail to comply with any of your obligations
hereunder, AIR may suspend or discontinue providing your access
to the Site and the Information without notice to you and pursue
any other remedy legally available to it. The rights of termination
are in addition to all other rights or remedies of AIR provided
in this Agreement or by law. In the event this Agreement is
terminated, your right to access and use the Information will
cease immediately. |
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The Use of the Site Is At Your Risk |
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You use the Site at your risk. You must evaluate,
and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Information,
including reliance on the accuracy, completeness or usefulness
of any Information. In particular, where Information relating
to companies, law, investments or securities is provided on
or via the Site, such information is provided for information
purposes only. You should seek your own independent advice with
respect to any Information. |
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AIR endeavour to provide a convenient and
functional Site, but AIR exercise no editorial control over
much of the Information on the Site and in many cases other
persons provide the Information on the Site or operate parts
of the Site or other Internet sites you may view or access through
the Site (Third Party Providers). AIR do not guarantee that
the Information will be error free or that the Site or the server
that operates it are free of viruses or other harmful components. |
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If your use of the Site results in the need
for servicing or replacing property, material, equipment or
data, AIR will not be responsible for such costs. |
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Without limiting the above provisions, everything
on the Site is provided to you "as is" and "as
available" without warranty or condition of any kind, either
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, any implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
or non-infringement. AIR exclude all representations and warranties
to the fullest extent permissible under any Applicable Law. |
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If a jurisdiction does not allow the exclusion
of implied warranties in accordance with clause 7.4 but allows
limitations of a certain maximum extent then AIR limit our warranties
to that extent. |
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Changes to these Terms and Conditions |
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By accessing this Site and using the facilities and/or services
offered through this Site, you agree that Hong Kong law shall
govern such access and the provision of such facilities and/or
services and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the Hong Kong courts. AIR may update revise or withdraw
the Information, in whole or in part, at any time without
notice. AIR may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions
by updating this posting. The scale of charge and payment
terms may be revised or changed from time to time in accordance
with the applicable price schedule. AIR will notify you by
e-mail or by publishing details of such changes on the Site.
By using the Site, you agree to be bound by any such revisions
and you agree to periodically visit this page to determine
the then current Terms and Conditions or the scale of charge
(as the case may be) to which you are bound.
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Third Party Providers |
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You acknowledge that:
- parts of the Site; and
- parts of the Information, are provided or maintained by
Third Party Providers and not by AIR.
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Your correspondence or dealings with any Third Party Provider
are solely between you and that Third Party Provider, and
you agree that AIR will not be liable or responsible for any
loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of such
dealings.
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Links to Third Party Web Sites |
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AIR makes no representation whatsoever about
any other web sites which you may access through the Site. When
you access a non-AIR web site, please understand that it is
independent from AIR, and that AIR has no control over the content
on that web site. In addition, a link to a non-AIR web site
does not mean that AIR endorses or accepts any responsibility
for the content, or the use, of such web site. It is up to you
to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your
use is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses and
other items of a destructive nature. AIR makes no representation
or warranty as to any third party products. |
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No Warranty, Disclaimer of Liability and Indemnity |
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Whilst every effort has been made to ensure
the high quality and accuracy of the Information, AIR makes
no warranty, express or implied concerning the use, validity,
accuracy or reliability of, or the results of the use of, or
otherwise respecting the Information, the Site, the software
or products or services available through the Site, which are
provided "as is" and "as available". To
the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, AIR expressly
disclaims all warranties expressed or implied, including but
not limited to warranties of fitness for a particular purpose
and warranties of merchantability. You expressly agree that
your access to the Site or use of the Information is at your
sole risk. AIR does not warrant that the Site, its servers,
or e-mail sent from AIR are free of viruses or other harmful
components. AIR will not be liable for any damages of any kind
arising from the access of the Site or use of the Information,
including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental,
punitive, and consequential damages. |
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If a jurisdiction does not allow the exclusion
or limitation of liability in accordance with this clause, but
allows a limitation of a certain maximum extent then our liability
is limited to that extent. |
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To the fullest extent permissible under
applicable law, a Covered Party (as defined below) shall not
be liable for any loss, injury, claim, liability, or damage
direct, special, incidental, or consequential (including, without
limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption,
loss of business information or other pecuniary loss) of any
kind resulting in any way from (a) any errors inaccuracy, misrepresentation
or omissions in or from the Site or the Information, (b) the
unavailability or interruption of the Site or any features thereof
or any Information, (c) the use of (or failure to use) or reliance
on the Site or Information (regardless of whether you received
any assistance from a Covered Party in using the Site), (d)
your use of any equipment, software, products or services in
connection with the Site, (e) the content of Information, or
(f) any delay or failure in performance beyond the reasonable
control of a Covered Party. |
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"Covered Party" means
(a) AIR, the provider of the Site and/or Information and its
affiliates, and their respective officer, director, employee,
subcontractor, agent, successor, or assign or its affiliates;
and (b) each third party Information supplier and its affiliates,
and their respective officer, director, employee, subcontractor,
agent, successor, or assign. |
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11.5 |
In no event shall any liability of AIR,
its affiliates, agents and licensors, if any, arising out of
any kind of legal claim (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise)
in any way connected with the Terms and Conditions, the Site
or the Information exceed the amount paid to AIR. Your right
to monetary damages if awarded shall be exhaustive and in lieu
of all other remedies which you may have against the Covered
Party, if any under this agreement or otherwise in respect of
the particular Information to which the claim relates. |
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You agree to defend, indemnify and hold
harmless AIR from any claims and expenses, including legal fees
on a full indemnity basis, related to any breach of any of the
provision of the Terms and Conditions by you or any breach of
any of the provision of the Terms and Conditions by your use
of the Site or the Information. |
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Force Majeure |
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AIR, its affiliates and other providers
of the Information will not be liable or deemed to be in default
for any delay or failure in performance or interruption of the
delivery of Information resulting directly or indirectly from
any cause or circumstance beyond its or their reasonable control,
including but not limited to failure of electronic or mechanical
equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect
problems, computer viruses, unauthorized access, theft, operator
errors, severe weather, earthquakes, or natural disasters, strikes
or other labor problems, wars, or governmental restrictions. |
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Miscellaneous |
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You shall be responsible for the proper
payment of all taxes that may be levied or assessed based on
your use of the Information, the Site, or on any payments by
you to AIR hereunder, other than AIR's income taxes. |
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13.2 |
The Site may contain advertising or other
third party content. Advertisers and AIR's content providers
are responsible for ensuring that materials submitted for inclusion
on the Site complies with applicable law. AIR shall in no event
be held responsible for any error, omission or inaccuracy in
such materials. |
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13.3 |
The information that you provide about yourself
to AIR will only be used in accordance with Privacy Policy of
the Site. |
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13.4 |
No delay or omission on the part of either
party in requiring performance by the other party of its obligations
will operate as a waiver of any right. |
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Notices to AIR shall be given in writing by letter and sent
to AIR's head office in Hong Kong for the attention of Chief
Development Officer, Asian Information Resources Limited at
its address set out below. Notices to you may be given in
writing by letter or by email at your address provided by
you on registration or such other address you subsequently
notify to AIR in writing. Letters with postage prepaid will
be deemed received on the date of dispatch if sent by fax
(or on the following business day, if faxed after the recipient's
normal business hours) or on the expiry of 4 business days
from the date of posting if sent by overnight post. Emails
sent by AIR will be deemed received 3 hours from the time
they are posted (or on the next business day, if sent after
the recipient's normal business
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Tel: (852) 3181 1688
Fax: (852) 3181 1698
E-mail: info@chinareference.com
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