Website Terms & Conditions

Welcome to the Haw Par Singapore website ("Website"). Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this Website.

This Website is offered to you by Haw Par Corporation Limited ("HPC") on the condition that you accept the following terms, conditions, and notices ("Terms") without modification. Your use of this Website constitutes your agreement to the Terms. This Website is intended only for access from Singapore or other countries where there are no country-specific websites for HPC products and where access to this Website and/or the contents of this Website are not prohibited by the law of such country.

Your use of particular services or areas of the Website may also be subject to additional terms outlined elsewhere on the Website (the "Additional Terms"). You agree to be bound by these Additional Terms, and in the event that any of the Terms conflicts with the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms shall prevail to the extent of such conflict.

HPC reserves the right to change the Terms from time to time. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms to ensure your continuing compliance with these Terms.

Permitted Use

HPC grants you a limited licence to access and make personal use of this Website, but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of HPC. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of this Website or its contents.

The following activities are also specifically prohibited:

No part of this Website may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of HPC.

You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trade mark (including without limitation “HAW PAR” and derivatives), logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of HPC and its affiliates without its/ their express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising HPC's or its affiliates' names or trademarks (including without limitation “HAW PAR” and derivatives) without the express written consent of HPC. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or license granted by HPC with immediate effect.

You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the main Welcome page of HPC as long as the link does not portray HPC, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any HPC logo or other proprietary graphic or trade mark as part of the link without the express written consent of HPC or its affiliate(s).

User Conduct

You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the Website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.

You are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to HPC and you must use the Website for lawful purposes only.

Certain portions of the Website may allow you to forward material via email to addressees specified by you. By using such facility, you warrant and confirm that you have the consent of the recipient to send such emails.

If you post or upload content, you shall ensure the content is not illegal, obscene, abusive, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties, or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam".

Harassment in any manner or form on the Website, including via e-mail and chat or by obscene or abusive language is strictly forbidden. Impersonation of others, including a HPC employee, host, or representative or other members or visitors on the Website is prohibited. You must not upload to, distribute, or otherwise publish through the Website any content which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable, or which may constitute or encourage a criminal offence, violate the rights of any party or otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law. You may not upload commercial content on the Website or use the Website to solicit others to join or become members of any other commercial online service or other organization.

Intellectual Property

The entire content included in this Website, including but not limited to text, design, graphics, interfaces, or code and the selection and arrangements thereof is copyrighted and is the property of HPC or its licensors.

All trademarks, service marks, and trade names used on this Website (including without limitation “HAW PAR” and derivatives) are trademarks, service marks or trade names of and are proprietary to HPC, or their respective owners that have granted HPC the right and license to use such marks.

All of such intellectual property rights are retained by HPC and/or its licensors.

User Participation

Users of this Website may be permitted to post reviews, comments and other content; send communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, but HPC reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit any content.

If you do post content or submit material, you represent and warrant that:

  1. you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content or material that you post;
  2. the content and material are accurate;
  3. use of the content and material you supply does not breach any applicable laws and will not cause injury to any person or entity (including that the content or material is not defamatory).

You further grant HPC and its affiliates a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully sublicensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content and material throughout the world in any media (whether now known or in the future invented); and the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content.

You agree to waive your right to be identified as the author of such content and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such content.

You agree to perform all further acts necessary to perfect any of the above rights granted by you to HPC, including the execution of deeds and documents, at the request of HPC.

HPC does not and cannot review all communication and materials posted or created by users accessing the Website and is not in any manner responsible for the content of these communications and materials. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to view and distribute user-generated contents on the Website, HPC is merely acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any such contents or activities on the Website.

Any material, information or other communication (“Communication”) you transmit, upload or post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. HPC will have no obligations with respect thereto. HPC and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Communication and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied in such Communication for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

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

Notices and Procedures for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

HPC respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users and visitors to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide written notice to HPC with full details as prescribed in PART IXA to the Singapore Copyright Act, Cap 63, to be submitted to HPC’s designated representative, as follows:

Corporate Communication Manager, Haw Par Corporation Ltd @ 401 Commonwealth Drive, #03-03 Haw Par Technocentre, Singapore 149598. Tel: (65) 6337 9102 Fax: (65) 6262 3436 Email: InvestorRelation@hawpar.com

HPC will only process notices in the English language that comply with the Singapore Copyright Act, other applicable laws and these Terms. Any notices that do not comply with the above will be rejected.

Upon receipt of a compliant notice of infringement, HPC may take further steps in depending on the nature of the alleged infringement described in the notice, which may include the matters described in the Singapore Copyright Act as applicable to network service providers.

IMPORTANT NOTE: THE PRECEDING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED EXCLUSIVELY FOR NOTIFYING HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED THAT YOUR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL MAY HAVE BEEN INFRINGED. ALL OTHER INQUIRIES, SUCH AS PRODUCT OR SERVICE RELATED QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS, OR QUESTIONS ON PRIVACY, WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

Typographical Errors or Pricing Errors

In the event a HPC product or service is listed at an incorrect price due to typographical error or error in pricing information received from our suppliers, HPC shall have the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for product or service listed at the incorrect price. HPC shall have the right to refuse or cancel any such orders whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit card charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is cancelled, HPC shall issue a credit to your credit card account for the amount of the incorrect price.

Third-Party Links

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites which are not maintained by HPC. Hyperlinks to such websites are provided for your convenience. Use of the hyperlinks and access to such websites are entirely at your own risk. HPC is not responsible for the contents of such websites and shall not be liable for any damages or loss arising from access to such websites. These hyperlinks do not and should not be taken as implying an endorsement or approval by HPC of any kind of the content or reliability of such websites or the activities of the people, organisations and/or businesses responsible for such websites.

HPC reserves the right to disable any hyperlinks or frames from this Website at any time, and disclaims any responsibility for the content available on any other website reachable by hyperlinks to or from this Website.

Disclaimer

THIS WEBSITE AND THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SERVICES, AND PRODUCTS IN THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, PRODUCT LISTINGS, NEWS, ARTICLES AND LINKS, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW: (A) HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER MALICIOUS CODE, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE; (B) ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES ON THE PART OF HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED; (C) HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE WEBSITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. (D) HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS WEBSITE IN TERMS OF THEIR COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE.

HPC makes no representation that materials in the Website are appropriate or available for use in locations other than Singapore, and access to them from territories where any part of the contents of this Website is illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this Website from locations outside Singapore do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED BE LIABLE FOR ANY ECONOMIC LOSS, LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL, DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, EVEN IF HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION UNDER CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF LAW, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION, SERVICES, PRODUCTS, AND MATERIALS AVAILABLE FROM THIS WEBSITE.

YOU ALSO AGREE THAT HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED SHALL ALSO NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGE OR LOSS OF ANY KIND OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER CAUSED AS A RESULT (DIRECT OR INDIRECT) OF OR OTHERWISE IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY CLAIM, DAMAGE OR LOSS SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT CONTAINED IN OR AVAILABLE FROM THE WEBSITE.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless HPC, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from any violation of these terms and conditions, any breach of your representations or warranties, or any activity related to your conduct (including negligent or wrongful conduct), or any content or materials provided by you.

Applicable Laws

These Terms and your use of this Website shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Singapore. The U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply. You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.

Privacy Statement

This privacy statement applies to the Haw Par Singapore website (the “Website”) maintained by Haw Par Corporation Limited (“HPC”). By accessing and using this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to the following terms and conditions (the “Privacy Terms”). If you do not agree to these Privacy Terms, please do not use this Website.

These Privacy Terms may be changed from time to time at the absolute discretion of HPC. Changes will be posted on this page and your continued use of this Website after such changes have been posted will constitute your agreement to the modified Privacy Terms and all of the changes.

  1. The information collected by HPC about you may include one or more of the following:

    1. any information you enter on the Website or give HPC in any other way (including by e-mail);
    2. certain types of information whenever you interact with this Website. For example, "cookies" are used on this Website and HPC obtains certain types of information when your Web browser accesses the same. Cookies may be stored on your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable the HPC systems to recognize your browser, identity and other information;
    3. your IP address, geographic location, user preferences and activities whilst at our Website.
  2. You agree to HPC’s collection of such information and you also agree that HPC may disclose to its third party service providers information collected about you.

  3. HPC may release account and other personal information when it believes release is appropriate to comply with the applicable law, enforce or apply its terms of use and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of HPC, its users, or others.

  4. You agree to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer, and to sign off when you are no longer accessing the Website.

  5. The Website may include third-party advertising and links to other websites, which may cookies or employ certain technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites. This Privacy Statement accordingly does not apply to these advertisers and websites, so please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

  6. The Website may contain links to external websites whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from those set forth here. We are not responsible for the content and privacy practices of these other websites and encourage you to consult the privacy notices of those sites.

  7. These Privacy Terms and your use of this Website shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Singapore. You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.

Data Protection Policy

Your privacy is important to us. The purpose of this document ("Data Protection Policy") is to inform you of how ("Haw Par Corporation Limited") manages the personal data we hold. Please take a moment to read this Data Protection Policy so that you know and understand the purposes for which we collect, use and disclose your personal data.

By accessing and using the Haw Par Corporation Limited website, interacting with us, submitting information to us, or signing up for any products or services offered by us, you agree and consent to Haw Par Corporation Limited as well as its agents (collectively referred to herein as "Haw Par Corporation Limited", "us", "we" or "our") collecting, using, disclosing and sharing amongst themselves my/our Personal Data, and disclosing such Personal Data to the Haw Par Corporation Limited' authorised service providers and relevant third parties in the manner set forth in this Data Protection Policy.

This Data Protection Policy supplements but does not supersede nor replace any other consents you may have previously provided to Haw Par Corporation Limited nor does it affect any rights we may have at law in connection with the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Data.

Haw Par Corporation Limited may from time to time update this Data Protection Policy to ensure that this Data Protection Policy is consistent with our future developments, industry trends and/or any changes in legal or regulatory requirements. Subject to your rights at law, you agree to be bound by the prevailing terms of the Data Protection Policy as updated from time to time on our website.

1.   Your Personal Data
1.1   In this Data Protection Policy, "Personal Data" refers to any data or information about you from which you can be identified either (a) from that data; or (b) from that data and other information to which we have or are likely to have access. Examples of such Personal Data you may provide to us include (depending on the nature of your interaction with us):
   
  1. your name, NRIC, passport or other identification number, telephone number(s), mailing address, email address and any other information relating to you which you have entered on the Website, provided us in any forms you may have submitted to us, or in other forms of interaction with you (including e-mail);
  2. your payment related information, such as your bank account or credit card information, and
  3. information about your usage of and interaction with our website and/or services including computer and connection information, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views, and traffic to and from our website.
     
2.   Collection of Personal Data
2.1   Generally, we collect Personal Data in the following ways:
   
  1. when you interact with our customer service officers;
  2. when you use some of our services, e.g. websites;
  3. when you establish any online accounts with us;
  4. when you request that we contact you;
  5. when you are contacted by, and respond to, our marketing representatives and agents;
  6. when you respond to our request for additional Personal Data
  7. when you ask to be included in an email or other mailing list;
  8. when you respond to our promotions and other initiatives;
  9. via closed-circuit television surveillance when you visit our premises
  10. when we receive references from business partners and third parties, for example, where you have been referred by them;
  11. when you submit your Personal Data to us for any other reason;
2.2   When you browse our website, you generally do so anonymously but please see the section below on cookies. We do not at our website automatically collect Personal Data, including your email address unless you provide such information or login with your account credentials.
     
3.   Purposes for the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data
3.1   Generally, Haw Par Corporation Limited collects, uses and discloses your Personal Data for the following purposes:
   
  1. responding to your queries and requests;
  2. managing the infrastructure and business operations of the Companies and complying with internal policies and procedures;
  3. facilitating business asset transactions (which may extend to any merger, acquisition or asset sale) involving any of the Companies;
  4. matching any Personal Data held which relates to you for any of the purposes listed herein;
  5. resolving complaints and handling requests and enquiries; and
  6. preventing, detecting and investigating crime, and
  7. compliance with any applicable rules, laws and regulations, codes of practice or guidelines or to assist in law enforcement and investigations by relevant authorities.
3.2   In addition, Haw Par Corporation Limited collects, uses and discloses your Personal Data for the following purposes depending on the nature of our relationship:
3.3   If you submit an application to us as a candidate for an employment, or are an employee,  Haw Par Corporation Limited collects, uses and discloses your Personal Data for the following purposes:
   
  1. processing your application including pre-recruitment checks;
  2. providing or obtaining employee references and for background screening/vetting;
  3. collecting information about your suitability for the position applied for;
  4. organising training and staff development programs;
  5. assessing your performance;
  6. administrating benefits and payments or payroll processing;
  7. providing you with tools to facilitate or as required for you to do your job;
  8. communicating with you as required by Haw Par Corporation Limited to comply with its policies and processes, including for business continuity purposes;
  9. any other purposes relating to the aforesaid.
3.4   If you are an existing employee or representative, please also refer to the "Employee Handbook" that will be separately made available to you by Haw Par Corporation Limited for further information.
3.5   If you are a tenant or a visitor to our premises, Haw Par Corporation Limited collects, uses and discloses your Personal Data for the following purposes:
   
  1. monitoring and enhancing the security of the premises;
  2. contacting you in the event of emergencies and in other situations, where necessary; and
  3. managing, maintaining and administering the car park system; and
  4. any other purposes relating to the aforesaid.
3.6   You should ensure that all Personal Data submitted to us is complete, accurate, true and correct. Failure on your part to do so may result in delays in the processing of your application, or our inability to process your application.
3.7   In addition, where permitted under the Act, Haw Par Corporation Limited may also collect, use and disclose your Personal Data for the following purposes:
   
  1. providing services, products and benefits to you, including promotions, loyalty and reward programmes;
  2. matching Personal Data with other data collected for other purposes and from other sources (including third parties) in connection with the provision or offering of products and services, whether by Haw Par Corporation Limited or other third parties;
  3. administering contests and competitions, and personalising your experience;
  4. sending you details of products, services, special offers and rewards, either to our customers generally, or which may be of interest to you; and
  5. conducting market research, understanding and determining customer location, preferences and demographics for us to review, develop and improve our products, services and also develop special offers and marketing programmes.
3.8   If you have provided your Singapore telephone number(s) and have indicated that you consent to receiving marketing or promotional information via your Singapore telephone number(s), then from time to time, Haw Par Corporation Limited may contact you using such Singapore telephone number(s) (including via voice calls, sms, fax or other means) with information about our products and services (including discounts and special offers).
3.9   In relation to particular products or services or in your interactions with us, we may also have specifically notified you of other purposes for which we collect, use or disclose your Personal Data. If so, then we will collect, use and disclose your Personal Data for these additional purposes as well, unless we have specifically notified you otherwise.
     
4.   Disclosure of Personal Data
4.1   Personal Data will be protected and kept confidential but, subjective to the provisions of any applicable law, may be provided, for the purposes listed above (where applicable), to the following third parties:
   
  1. Haw Par Corporation Limited Affiliates;
  2. agents, contractors or third party service providers who provide operational services to Haw Par Corporation Limited, such as telecommunications, information technology, payment, payroll, processing, training, market research, storage, archival or other services to Haw Par Corporation Limited;
  3. any business partner, investor, assignee or transferee (actual or prospective) to facilitate business asset transactions (which may extend to any merger, acquisition or asset sale) involving any of the Companies;
  4. banks, credit card companies and their respective service providers;
  5. our professional advisers such as our auditors and lawyers; and
  6. relevant government regulators or authority or law enforcement agency to comply with any laws or rules and regulations imposed by any governmental authority.
     
5.   Use of cookies
5.1   When you interact with us on our websites, we may collect or analyse anonymised information from which individuals cannot be identified (“Aggregate Information”), such as number of users and their frequency of use, the number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on the website and common entry and exit points into website.
5.2   Haw Par Corporation Limited uses "cookies", where a small data file is sent to your browser to store and track Aggregate Information about you when you enter our websites. The cookie is used to track information such as the number of users and their frequency of use, profiles of users and their preferred sites.
5.3   The Aggregate Information collected is used to assist Haw Par Corporation Limited in analysing the usage of the website and improving the website.
5.4   Should you wish to disable the cookies associated with these technologies, you may do so by changing the setting on your browser. However, you may not be able to enter certain part(s) of our website.
     
6.   Data Security
6.1   Haw Par Corporation Limited will take reasonable measures to protect Personal Data in our possession or our control by making reasonable security arrangements to prevent unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks. However, we cannot completely guarantee the security of any Personal Data we may have collected from or about you, or that for example no harmful code will enter our website (for example viruses, bugs, trojan horses, spyware or adware). You should be aware of the risks associated with using websites.
6.2   While we strive to protect your Personal Data, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to us via our website, and we urge you to take every precaution to protect your Personal Data when you are on the Internet. We recommend that you change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and ensure that you use a secure browser.
6.3   You agree to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer, and to sign off when you are no longer accessing the Website. We are not liable for any damages resulting from any security breaches, on unauthorized and/or fraudulent use of your username and password.
     
7.   Contacting Us – Withdrawal, Access and Correction of your Personal Data
7.1   If you:
   
  1. have any questions or feedback relating to your Personal Data or our Data Protection Policy;
  2. would like to withdraw your consent to any use of your Personal Data as set out in this Data Protection Policy; or
  3. would like to obtain access and make corrections to your Personal Data records,

please contact Haw Par Corporation Limited's designated Data Protection Officer as follows:
Name: Kenneth Wan
Email: admin@hawpar.com

7.2   Please note that if you withdraw your consent to any or all use of your Personal Data, depending on the nature of your request, Haw Par Corporation Limited may not be in a position to continue to provide its products or services to you, administer any contractual relationship in place, may also result in the termination of any agreements with Haw Par Corporation Limited, and your being in breach of your contractual obligations or undertakings, and Haw Par Corporation Limited's legal rights and remedies in such event are expressly reserved.
     
8.   Governing Law
8.1   This Data Protection Policy and your use of this Website shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Singapore.
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