Website Disclaimer
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By accessing this website and any pages thereof, you acknowledge that you have read the following information and accept the terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”) set out below and agree to be bound by such terms and conditions. If you do not agree to such Terms of Use, do not access this website, or any pages thereof.
General
This website is operated by 深圳市创谷信息咨询有限公司(“LQChina”). Any services offered from the mainland of the People’s Republic of China are offered by LQ China and its affiliates. Any services offered from Hong Kong are offered by LQ Pacific Partners Limited (“LQ HK”), a company licensed under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) (“SFO”) by the Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) in Hong Kong to carry on Type 1 (dealing in securities), Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities. Companies operating under the “LQ Pacific” brand name are independent firms and do not have the authority to bind each other. Together, LQ China, LQ HK and any other entity marketed under this brand name are referred to herein as “LQP Group”.
Fiduciary Disclosures
Each LQP Group entity operates independently from the others but may offer services to clients of other LQP Group entities or to other LQP Group entities acting for the same clients, either in connection with the same or a related matter or otherwise. Each LQP Group entity may act for a client whose interests conflict with the interests of the client of another LQP Group entity. LQP Group entities have no liability to account for any fees received by them in connection with services provided by them to their clients notwithstanding that other LQP Group entities may receive fees as a result of acting for the same clients or other persons whose interests conflict with such clients. Each LQP Group entity may obtain confidential information from its clients but, unless otherwise specifically agreed with their respective clients, has no duty to use or share such confidential information with or for the benefit of other LQP Group entities or their clients.
Hong Kong Disclosures
The license of LQ HK is subject to a condition that it may only provide services to a person who is a professional investor (“Professional Investor”) as defined in the SFO and its subsidiary legislation. Any information on this website relating to LQ HK is intended for use only by persons who qualify as a Professional Investor and LQ HK intends to prohibit any person other than a Professional Investor from accessing any service offered by it.
LQ HK is not licensed under the SFO by the SFC in Hong Kong to carry on Type 6 (advising on corporate finance) regulated activity. Except insofar as incidental to dealing in securities, LQ HK does not advise on the rules governing the listing of securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (“SEHK”), any offer to acquire or dispose of securities from or to the public in Hong Kong or any restructuring in respect of the securities of a Hong Kong public company (including a company listed on the SEHK) or any subsidiary of such a company.
The contents of this website have not been reviewed by any regulatory authority in Hong Kong. You are advised to exercise caution in relation to the information on this website. If you are in any doubt as to the contents of this website, you should obtain independent professional advice.
Investment Services
This website is not directed at or intended for distribution to any person in any jurisdiction where (by reason of that person’s nationality, residence or otherwise) applicable laws or regulations prohibit LQP Group from publishing this website or making it available, whether by subjecting LQP Group to any registration or licensing requirement or otherwise. Persons in such jurisdictions must not access this website. By proceeding, you are representing and warranting that LQP Group will not breach any such applicable laws and regulations.
No Advice
Nothing contained in this website constitutes investment, legal, tax or other advice. You should not rely upon the contents of this website as advice or to make any decision, whether to invest or otherwise. Before making any investment decision, you should obtain professional advice specific to your circumstances and obtain and read the terms and conditions and other information in the documentation relevant to any investment, including any offering memoranda. LQP Group has made no determination as to the suitability of any investment referenced in this website and makes no representation or warranty that any such investment is suitable for you. The fact that LQP Group has made information available on the website in respect of any investment neither constitutes a solicitation nor a recommendation that you acquire such investment. No account of your specific investment objectives or financial situation has been taken into account in including such information in this website. Any statement of the risks of any investment referenced in this website should not be regarded as a full disclosure of all risks.
No Offer of Investment
The contents of this website have been provided for information purposes only and do not constitute an advertisement, solicitation or offer, or advice or recommendation, to buy, sell or otherwise acquire or dispose of any interest in any investment. The information contained in this website does not constitute a distribution, an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy or otherwise acquire any investment in any jurisdiction, including Hong Kong.
No Warranties
No reliance may be placed for any purpose on the information provided in this website or the accuracy or completeness thereof and LQP Group accepts no responsibility from any person for any action taken on the basis of such information. While LQP Group believes in good faith that the information contained in this website is accurate, complete and up-to-date, LQP Group gives no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, completeness, or currency of such information or as to the merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of such information. Any forward looking information in this website constitutes an opinion and LQP Group gives no representations or warranties as to the standard of care in the preparation of such opinion.
Exclusion of Liability
LQP Group accepts no liability or responsibility (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) for any direct, indirect, consequential or special losses or damages of any kind whatsoever arising from or in connection with the use of this website including without limitation the use of any links on this website to other resources. LQP Group is not responsible for the content of any linked websites and accordingly accepts no liability or responsibility with respect thereto.
LQP Group accepts no liability for the failure of any connection or other communication service to provide or maintain your access to this website and makes no representations or warranties as to the security of this website. Transmission of information on the website may be delayed. Information stored on this website may be corrupted. LQP Group will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack or arising from viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any resource linked to this website.
These exclusions of liability do not apply to the extent that such exclusions are invalid or ineffective under any law or regulation applicable to LQP Group.
Use of Website
You undertake to use your best endeavors to use this website in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and to refrain from any conduct when using this website which may damage this website or cause any damage to LQP Group.
Monitoring
LQP Group may monitor your use of this website and may use information resulting from such monitoring for its internal business purposes.
Data Protection
You acknowledge and agree that LQP Group may collect and process personal data that has become available to LQP Group in the process of your use of this website or otherwise in accordance with LQP Group’s personal data privacy policy. Certain services may be unavailable if you do not provide personal data requested. You have no obligation to provide any data so requested but your failure to do so may mean that those services will be unavailable to you.
To the extent that we collect and process any personal data from you, we will only do so for such purposes and on such legal bases as set out below:
We collect what believe to be the minimum personal data necessary to allow us to achieve those purposes. We may collect and process your personal data for direct marketing purpose or for automated decision making. Your provision of your personal data whether by using this website or otherwise constitutes your consent to such usage. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Any personal data we collect or otherwise receive from you will be subject to security measures intended to ensure that your personal data will not be used illegitimately or fraudulently though no representation or warranty is given as to whether these measures will be successful.
We will not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which you provided that personal data, unless the law permits or requires that we retain for longer. The retention period varies depending on the purpose of the processing.
We may transfer your personal data to a third party to further the purposes for which we collected the data and to further our business needs. Categories of the third parties to which we may transfer your personal data include:
Some of these third parties may be located in countries without data protection laws equivalent to those in your own jurisdiction. Any transfer of data is intended to be carried out in compliance with the guarantees provided by the law. These third parties will process your personal data only under our instructions and will be obliged to return such data on our request.
Cookies used (if any) in any part of our website will not be deployed for collecting personal data. You may refuse to accept cookies by modifying the relevant Internet options or browsing preferences of your computer system, but to do so you may not be able to utilize or activate certain available functions in our websites.
Subject to any exceptions prescribed by the law, you have the right to:
The data controller for any personal data we hold about you is LQ HK of Level 43, Champion Tower, 3 Garden Road, Central.
If you believe that the processing of your personal data has been carried out unlawfully, you can file a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for compliance with the rules on personal data protection in your jurisdiction. In Hong Kong, you can present your complaint to the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (https://www.pcpd.org.hk/index.html).
Changes to the Website
LQP Group may update the website or change the content at any time and from time to time without prior notice. LQP Group may, at its sole and absolute discretion, suspend access to the website, or close it indefinitely. LQP Group has no duty to maintain or update the information in this website or to supply any corrections, updates or releases. Information on this website may be out of date. LQP Group may make changes to these Terms of Use at any time. Your continued access to or use of this website constitutes your agreement to any such changes.
Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, all information on this website is the property of LQP Group and except as expressly permitted herein, LQP Group reserves all rights to this information. You may not reproduce, distribute or publish such information, whether in whole or in part, in any medium and in any format for any purpose without prior express written consent from LQP Group save that you are permitted to access, store, display, modify, reformat, analyze or print such information for your own personal use. If you download any information from this website, you agree that you will not alter, obscure or remove any copyright, trademark, legends, disclaimers or notices that accompany or relate to such information.
Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
These terms of use are governed by the laws of Hong Kong. The courts of Hong Kong will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with these terms of use or their subject matter, save that LQP Group may enforce its rights in the courts of any jurisdiction having competence to issue an injunction directly enforceable against you.
Languages
In case of discrepancies between the English and Chinese language versions of these Terms of Use and content of this website, the English version shall prevail.