Terms of Use

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

The webpages available at www.absolutelyparents.com, whose URL (Uniform Resource Locator) links includes domain names www.absolutelyparents.com.sg, www.absolutelyparents.sg, and all linked pages under these domain names ("Site"), are owned and operated by Absolutely Parents Pte Ltd (AbsolutelyParents, we or us as the case may be), a Singapore registered company, and is accessed by you under the Terms of Use described below ("Terms of Use”).

By accessing this Site or using any part of the Site or any content or services (as each is defined below) on the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to all these Terms of Use, then you may not access the site or use the content or any services in the Site. By accessing or continuing to access this Site, you expressly assent to all of these Terms of Use.

2. MODIFICATIONS OF TERMS OF USE

We may modify these Terms of Use at any time at our sole discretion and such modification shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified Terms of Use on this Site. You agree to review the Terms of Use periodically to be aware of such modifications and your continued access to or use of the Site shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified Terms of Use.

3. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE

Subject to full compliance with the Terms of Use, AbsolutelyParents may offer to provide certain services and content, as described more fully on the Site. “Services” shall include, but not be limited to, any service and content AbsolutelyParents performs for you, as well as the offering of any materials displayed or performed on the Site (including, but not limited to hyper-links, text, user comments, votes, ratings, messages, information, data, graphics, news articles, photographs, images, illustrations, software, audio clips and video clips, also known as the "Insight” or “HIDI” (in short for “How I did it”) or “Q&A” or “Resources” or ”Content" as the context requires) on the Site. AbsolutelyParents may change, suspend or discontinue the Services including any Content for any reason, at any time, including the availability of any feature or Content. AbsolutelyParents may also impose limits on certain features and Services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability.

4. YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS

As a condition to using Services, you are required to register with AbsolutelyParents and select a password and screen name (“User name”). You shall provide AbsolutelyParents with accurate, complete, and updated registration information. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of the Terms of Use, which may result in immediate termination of your AbsolutelyParents account. You may not (i) select or use as a User name a name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use as a User name a name subject to any rights of a person other than you without appropriate authorization; or (iii) use as User name a name that is otherwise offensive, vulgar or obscene. AbsolutelyParents reserves the right to refuse registration of or cancel a User name in its discretion. You shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your AbsolutelyParents password.

Services are available only to individuals who are at least 21 years old, whether acting on their own behalf or as an authorized employee or representative of a corporation or other business entity. If you do not so qualify, do not attempt to register for or use the Services.

We can also suspend or terminate use of the Services by anyone who does not follow these Terms of Use.

5. USER CONDUCT

As a condition of use, you promise not to use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or Community Guidelines or Submission Guidelines of AbsolutelyParents.

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services:

  1. To abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate other AbsolutelyParents users or to impersonate anyone;
  2. To contribute any Content that is infringing, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, racially or religiously offensive or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party;
  3. For any illegal or unauthorized purpose. If you are an international user, you agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content;
  4. To post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any communication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password, account, or private information from any AbsolutelyParents user;
  5. To create or submit unsolicited email ("Spam") to any other AbsolutelyParents users;
  6. To violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws);
  7. To submit insights or comments or questions or answers promoting affiliate programs, multi-level marketing schemes, sites or blogs repurposing existing insights;
  8. With the exception of search engines or for accessing RSS feeds, you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not:
    1. Take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
    2. Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or
    3. Bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site;
  9. To create separate user accounts with the intention of artificially inflating or altering the ‘smile count’ (votes), comments, or any other AbsolutelyParents service, including by way of creating separate user accounts for the purpose of artificially altering AbsolutelyParents services.

AbsolutelyParents may remove any Content and accounts at any time, without giving any notice, for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content), or for no reason at all. To report Terms of Use abuse, please email: admin@absolutelyparents.com.

6. CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE SERVICE

The AbsolutelyParents site is dedicated to allowing parents to provide insights by writing an article, or posting a link or both on a new or a given topic, or to respond to such topics.

By uploading, submitting or otherwise disclosing or distributing Content of any kind at or on the Site or otherwise through the Services, unless source quoted, you represent and warrant that you own all rights in the Content and you agree that the Content will be subject to the

  1. Creative Commons Public Domain License available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ or
  2. Any of the other six Creative Common Licenses available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ you submit your Content with.

If you post anything, you guarantee to us that you have legal rights to post your material and it will not violate any law or the rights of any person.

AbsolutelyParents does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Site. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Site, you grant AbsolutelyParents the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:

  • With respect to text, photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Site, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available.

All information and materials of any kind, including graphics, text, or otherwise posted by someone on the Site ("Member Content") are subject to the following terms:

  1. You understand that we are not responsible for the truth, completeness, objectivity, or usefulness of any Content, nor do we endorse any Content;
  2. We do not verify the identity of people using our Site, and you assume the risk of believing any Content you read; and
  3. We do not screen, monitor, edit, or review Content. We do have the right to monitor or remove any Content at any time and without notice if we believe it will improve our Site.

You should also be aware that any message posted to our Site will become public and any basic personal information (ie user name, country, date of joining) you post in an article will be accessible to any visitors to the Site and other personal information (eg user name, real name, age etc) you choose to make public will be accessible by members and visitors.

7. NO MEDICAL ADVICE

The Contents of AbsolutelyParents, such as hyperlinks, text, graphics, images, information obtained from AbsolutelyParents’ licensors, and other material on the Site are for information only. The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health personnel with any questions you may have regarding a health or medical condition. AbsolutelyParents does not recommend, endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. Reliance on any information provided by AbsolutelyParents, AbsolutelyParents employees, others appearing on the Site at the invitation of AbsolutelyParents of other visitors to the Site is solely at your own risk. Never disregard or delay health-related or medical advice because of something you read on the Site.

8. USE OF WEB SPACE

AbsolutelyParents provides members with free web space for their parenting insights on the Site. Free web space, as defined by AbsolutelyParents, is comprised of hypertext mark-up language (html) and associated files, intended solely for the visual presentation of PARENTING RELATED CONTENT on the members' Content pages. The spirit of free web space is specifically not intended as a storage facility for members' personal digital files. Using it as such is a violation of the Terms of Use. Also please note that pictures are only saved for the purposes of display on AbsolutelyParents, not for storage or other purposes. Members cannot assume that AbsolutelyParents will preserve the quality or resolution of any picture uploaded to AbsolutelyParents.

9. COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

AbsolutelyParents respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please email admin@absolutelyparents.com.

10. PRIVACY POLICY

When you access the Site, we may collect the following information:

  • Anonymous web statistics collected as you browse the Site
  • Personal information you knowing provide us

Some portions of the Site may require that you provide your personal information. Personal information refers to all and any information relating to you (including, but not limited to your name, contact number, email address and mailing address) obtained by us via your access to or use of this Site.

We may use your personal information for planning, research, design and marketing of services, rending assistance to law enforcement, government or regulatory agencies, or complying with any applicable laws or any order of court.

Any information disclosed in the public areas of the Site (such as message boards and forums) becomes public information. You should exercise caution when disclosing your personal information in this way.

11. INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless AbsolutelyParents, its directors, officers, employees, panel of experts (qualified professionals in parenting and child-development), content partners (organizations contributing content in parenting and child development matters), suppliers, licensors, agents and any third party content providers, from and against any losses, damages, claims, cost, expenses, demands, and actions, due to or arising out of your use of the Site, your access or connection to the Site, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another. These obligations will survive any termination of your relationship with AbsolutelyParents or your use of the Site. AbsolutelyParents reserves the right to assume the defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you in which event you will cooperate with AbsolutelyParents in asserting any available defenses.

12. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

You acknowledge that AbsolutelyParents has no control over, and no duty to take any action regarding: which users gain access to the Site; what effects the Content may have on you; how you may interpret or use the Content; or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content. You release AbsolutelyParents from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Site. The Site may contain, or direct you to sites containing, information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. AbsolutelyParents makes no representations concerning any content contained in or accessed through the Site, and AbsolutelyParents will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Site. THE SERVICE, CONTENT, AND SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

13. LINKS

The Services may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because AbsolutelyParents has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that AbsolutelyParents is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that AbsolutelyParents shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

AbsolutelyParents does not assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed on the Site or other Contents accessible from the Site. To the maximum extent permissible by law AbsolutelyParents shall not be liable for any incidental, consequential, direct, indirect or any losses or damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss or corruption of data, loss of profits, goodwill, bargain or opportunity or loss of anticipated savings or business interruption or any other loss, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action), arising out of or in connection with the use of or inability to use the Site, delays, inaccuracies or errors in the information or in the transmission of the Site, or any information or transactions provided on or over the Site or downloaded or hyperlinked from the Site, or performance of the contents on this Site, even if AbsolutelyParents has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the Site, or with any of the Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site.

15. TERMINATION

AbsolutelyParents may terminate or suspend any and all Services and your AbsolutelyParents account immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you breach any of the terms or conditions of the Terms of Use. Upon termination of your account, your right to use the Services will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your AbsolutelyParents account, you may simply discontinue using the Services. All provisions of the Terms of Use, which by their nature should survive termination, shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

16. GENERAL

Your access to or use of the Site, as well as these Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Singapore laws and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.

AbsolutelyParents’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these Terms of Use shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. If any part of these Terms of Use is held to be unenforceable, the remainder will remain in full force and effect.

These Terms of Use are for the benefit of AbsolutelyParents and its directors, officers, employees, panel of experts (qualified professionals in parenting and child-development), content partners (organizations contributing content in parenting and child development matters), suppliers, licensors, agents, and any third party content providers to the Site. Each of these individuals or entities shall have the right to assert and enforce those provisions directly against you on his own behalf.

 

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