Terms of Use / Privacy Policy

TERMS OF USE

• Must be at least 13 years old (with some limited exceptions)
• May need to register with us to access and use some of our services and websites
• Must not initiate or participate in any activities on our services that are illegal, harmful, or interfere with anyone's use of our services, including the sending of e-mail or instant messaging spam (Read below)

1. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS
   1. By using this Site, you agree to these Terms of Use ("the Terms"). If you do not agree to the Terms, please do not use the Site. In the course of navigating through the Site, if you are brought to another website, you will no longer be bound the Terms but by the terms of that website (if any).
   2. The Terms are applicable even if you do not have an online membership with InCinemas.sg, and your use of the Site’s services means that you consent to these Terms. 
   3. CNS reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove any of the Terms at any time without prior notice, including publishing changes on or via the Terms, and you agree that your continued use of the Terms after such update or modification will constitute your acceptance of an agreement to be bound by the updated or modified Terms.
       
2. CHANGES TO THE TERMS 
   1. If any of the Terms are changed, CNS will upload a notice on the Site's homepage to inform you that changes have been made. At the same time, CNS will upload the new Terms onto the Site.
   2. You MUST read the new Terms before using the Site. Your continued usage of the Site after the posting of the new Terms deems that you accept the new Terms.
   3. We may, in its sole discretion and in addition to any other remedies available to the Site, with or without cause withdraw, suspend or discontinue at any time and from time to time any Materials, information, content or services available on the Site, your user name and password, and any functionality or features in or on the Site, including, but not limited to, the cessation of all activities associated with the Site, with or without notice. We shall have no liability to you or any third party for such withdrawal, suspension or discontinuance.
       
3. PROPRIETORY RIGHTS
   1. The intellectual property rights of the products, technology, and/or processes described and/or used on this Site may belong to CNS and/or other third parties.
   2. All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, and software, either belongs to CNS or any of CNS's content suppliers.
   3. The compilation of all content on the Site is the exclusive property of the Site and is protected by Singapore and international copyright laws.
   4. All software used on the Site belongs to CNS and/or its software suppliers and are protected by Singapore and international copyright laws.
   5. The copyright of the Site, its logo, and other marks indicated thereon belongs to CNS. All other trademarks not owned by CNS or its affiliates that appear on the Site belong to their respective owners.
       
4. COPYRIGHT TERMS
   1. All software used on the Site belongs to CNS and/or its software suppliers and are protected by Singapore and international copyright laws.
   2. The copyright of the Site, its logo, and other marks indicated thereon belongs to CNS. All other trademarks not owned by CNS or its affiliates that appear on the Site belong to their respective owners.
   3. You may browse the Site for your personal, non-commercial use. All materials published on this website are protected by copyright, and owned by CNS or the party credited as the provider of the materials.
   4. You may not modify, publish, transit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create new works from, reproduce or in any way exploit any of the content in whole or in part; unless it is for personal use only, and provided that all copyright and notices are contained therein. 
   5. If you want to use any of the published materials on the Site for commercial use, either by copying or storing from this website is prohibited. Written permission may be obtained by emailing to editor@incinemas.sg. Permission is granted solely by, and at the discretion by US or the original copyright holder of the content.
   6. Copyright Takedown Request
      1. CNS and the Site has a policy of respecting the intellectual property rights of others. We may investigate complaints of copyright infringement upon its sole discretion. If any person believes that their work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide the following information and send them to reachus@incinemas.sg.
      2. A physical and electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
      3. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
      4. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information is reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
      5. Information that is reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, and electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
      6. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agents, or the law; and
      7. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
          
5. MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION
   1. By using the Site, you agree to comply with all of the terms and conditions hereof. The right to use the Site is personal to Subscriber and is not transferable to any other person or entity. Subscriber is responsible for all use of Subscriber's Account (under any screen name or password) and for ensuring that all use of Subscriber's Account complies fully with the provisions of this Agreement. Subscriber shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of Subscriber's password(s), if any.
   2. In consideration of your use of the Terms, you represent that you either are of legal age to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws applicable to your location or other applicable jurisdiction, or have obtained the prior consent of your parent or legal guardian to use the Service subject to and in accordance with the Terms.
   3. Some of the services offered on the Site are only available to parties who have registered, as registered users of the Site with CNS and InCinemas.sg and, using the application forms available and posted on the Site, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and you warrant that all information provided by you, including all information provided in the application form(s) is true, correct and complete and you have the capacity and power to enter into this 
       
6. PARTICIPATION OF PROMOTIONS, CONTESTS AND/OR GIVEAWAYS ON THE SITE
   1. Participation of contests and/or giveaways on the Site are available to registered members of the Site. 
   2. When you enter any contests and/or giveaways conducted by the Site, you consent that all information (such as your Name, Identification Number, E-mail Address, Contact Number) are accurate, true and complete. 
   3. Any incomplete fields or failure to comply with the Terms may result in a forfeit of the prize(s), unless otherwise stated. 
   4. The Terms and Conditions of all promotions, contests and giveaways on the Site includes, but not limited to:
      1. Prizes are non-transferable and not exchangeable for cash in part or full.
      2. Organisers' decision is final and no further correspondence will be entertained.
      3. Promotion, Contest, or Giveaway is subject to all applicable laws and will be void where prohibited.
      4. Promotion, Contest, or Giveaway is open to residents residing in Singapore only. For prize redemption purposes, those residing out of Singapore may not take part in any of the promotion, contest or giveaway, unless otherwise stated. 
      5. CNS and/or the third party organiser reserve the right at any time in our absolute discretion to cancel or modify the contest or substitute, withdraw or cancel any prize without prior notice and without having to disclose any reason.
      6. By taking part in the promotion, contest, or giveaway, you agree to the Terms and Conditions stated.
   5. In the event that the redemption of prize(s) is not fulfilled, CNS and the organiser reserve the right to forfeit the prize with no prior notice, and no substitution of prize(s) will be allowed. 
       
7. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
   1. CNS has adopted the following Acceptable Use Policy in order to assure that the Site's forum and/or blog are used in a lawful and appropriate manner.
   2. While the Site does not ordinarily monitor the content of the User's posts on the blog and/or forum, CNS reserves the right to investigate reports of misuse of its service and to protect its property and assets.
   3. Below is a non-exhaustive list of prohibited conduct prohibited on the Site:
      1. The posting of harassing, abusive, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or contrary to public interest, or national harmony in all relevant jurisdictions text, videos or images;
      2. The posting of obscene or pornographic content, hyperlinks, videos or images;
      3. The posting of defamatory and/or libellous text;
      4. The posting of viruses or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files by any means;
      5. The sending of text in furtherance of any unlawful, criminal, or fraudulent activity;
      6. The attempt to conceal or misrepresent the identity of the sender;
      7. The posting of any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others;
      8. The posting of content that is invasive of privacy rights;
      9. The sending or posting which contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. 
   4. Violations of this Acceptable Use Policy will not be tolerated and may result in you being blocked from accessing the Site and/or posting messages on the Site’s blog and forum. We reserve the right to terminate your use of the Site if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms and Conditions, violated the rights of us or any third party, or for any other reason whatsoever with or without notice to you. 
   5. Certain data transmissions between your computer and the Site are conducted through secure servers and protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Certain services further require you to register, use passwords and/or digital signatures. While CNS and the Site will use reasonable endeavours to provide reasonable precautions to protect any information or material that is confidential in nature, we do not guarantee that information transmitted through the internet is secure or that such transmissions will be free from delay, interruption, interception or error.
   6. Where you subscribe for any of the services on the Site that relates to any advertisement or other similar services, whether as a potential seller or buyer, you hereby expressly acknowledge and agree that the Site acts as a venue only and the Site is not involved nor responsible for the correctness, accurateness or truthfulness of any information that is posted by other users of the Site or the posting, provision, delivery of such information from CNS and the Site to you. 
       
8. SPAM
   1. CNS reserves the right to limit, in its sole discretion and without prior notice to you, the number of posts on the Site’s forum and/or the blog that you may post.
   2. You are solely responsible for your actions and communications undertaken or transmitted using this Site. Neither we nor our affiliates exercise editorial control over your postings. However, we reserve the right to review your uploads and postings to ensure full compliance with the Terms.
       
9. LICENSE TO USE SITE
   1. CNS grants you a conditional license (“the License”) to access the Site subject to the following conditions:
      1. Robots and Screen Scraping:
         1. You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent.
         2. We do allow the limited use of robots and crawlers, such as those from search engines.
      2. Framing:
         1. You may not frame or utilise framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of CNS and our affiliates without our written consent.
      3. Meta Tags:
         1. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising the Site’s name or trademarks without the written consent of CNS.
         2. Any unauthorised usage of meta tags immediately terminates the License.
      4. External linking to the Site:
         1. You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the site so long as the link does not portray the site, CNS, its affiliates, or their services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner.
         2. You shall not use any of the Site’s logos or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the hyperlink without CNS’s written permission.
   2. In appropriate cases, identification may be based on data identifying your mobile telephone or communications subscription, such as your subscription number or MSISDN (Mobile Service Integrated Services Digital Network) number provided by your network operator. You agree that such information may be collected and disclosed to us and used in accordance with the Terms, including our Privacy Policy (see PRIVACY POLICY below).
       
10. ACCURACY OF INFORMATION
    1. CNS and its affiliates are not liable for any inaccurate information displayed on the Site that are gathered from third party sources.
        
11. APPLICABLE LAW & JURISDICTION
    1. By visiting the Site, you agree that the laws of the Republic of Singapore, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws, will govern these Terms and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and InCinemas.sg or its affiliates.
    2. In the event of any dispute, you and CNS agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Republic of Singapore.
    3. If any provision of these terms and conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Any failure to act by CNS and the Site with respect to any breach by you or others of any of the provisions of these terms and conditions does not waive our rights to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. 

PRIVACY POLICY

• As of 13 November 2015, the Site will be functioning on a new platform, and therefore details of the collection of PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION has been changed. Untapped Data such as your Residential Address, Place of Birth and Marital Status are no longer needed. 
• The untapped Data from previosuly registered members will be deleted. 
• You may update your particulars when you log on to the new Site.

1. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS 
   1. We guarantee to comply with the standards, procedures and requirements laid down in the Singapore government to ensure ensure that your personal information is kept secure and processed fairly and lawfully.
   2. By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use by CNS of any personal and other information the User provides whilst using the Site in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
   3. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site. Your continued use of the Site will mean you accept those changes. Please see the section titled "Changes to the Privacy Policy" below.
   4. This Site, however, contains links to other websites, advertisers and other third parties. By clicking on any of these links, you are leaving the Site. CNS has no control over the information collected from or about you by any third party after you have left the Site. 
   5. This Privacy Policy does not cover the data collection and use practices of any third party web site linked to CNS. We assume no liability and is not responsible for any practices of any third party web sites, including their privacy practices or content.
       
2. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
   1. CNS only collects your personal information ("Personally Identifiable Information") when you register as a member of the Site.
   2. Your Personally Identifiable Information can include name, NRIC number, e-mail address, contact number, some demographic information about you (eg. gender and age) as well any other information you voluntarily provide.
   3. Our goal in collecting information from and about you is to provide you with the best web experience possible, including providing proper formatting for our web pages and to provide you with information on topics of greatest interest to you.
   4. CNS will take reasonable efforts to protect the safety and integrity of your personal information and privacy. However, TAKE NOTICE that all information disclosed on the Site is done at your own risk. (Read SECURITY below)
   5. When you register with CNS/InCinemas and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. 
   6. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to: 
      1. Immediately notify the Site of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security. An email to reachus@incinemas.sg is required for us to take necessary action.
      2. Ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. CNS cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this.
          
3. DATA COLLECTION
   1. When you visit this Site, we may collect the IP address of the computer you are accessing from. We may also record other information that identifies your computer to this Site and tracks your behaviour on the Site (eg: how many times you have visited the Site and your navigation within the Site).
   2. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information in the manner mentioned in Clause 3.1 above. However, if you provide us with Personally Identifiable Information, we may associate the information provided with the information that has already been collected.
   3. Methods used to collect this information may include "cookies" and "clear GIFs" (also known as "pixel tags" or “beacons"):
      1. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Most browsers allow users to block the receipt of cookies, but doing so may compromise your ability to use certain features of this Site.
      2. A clear GIF is a small graphic image, typically used in connection with cookies, that is placed on a web site or in an email message. A clear GIF can monitor certain user behaviour, such as usage of the web site, whether an email message has been opened or whether a URL in an email message has been clicked upon.
          
4. USAGE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
   1. CNS does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies. 
   2. We may use your Personally Identifiable Information to better understand the needs of our users with the sole intention of improving the Site. For example, we may use this information to determine what portions of the Site are most popular and the general demographics of our users.
   3. When you participate in any contests or giveaways from the Site, we may use Your Personally Identifiable Information (Name, Identification number, E-mail address, contact number, birth day) to communicate and verify the prizes won by you on the Site. 
   4. Cookies and other user information also enable us to customise the User's experience on the Site.
   5. We may use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers or to administer the Site. We may also use IP addresses to help identify a user during a particular session and to gather data regarding use of the Site.
   6. We may use it to send you information, promotions and updates including marketing and advertising materials in relation to our goods and services and those of third party organizations selected by CNS or the Site.
       
5. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
   1. We will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to anyone outside of CNS or its affiliates, except as described in this clause.
   2. We may disclose aggregated anonymous statistics about many users to advertisers, content and service providers and other affiliated and unaffiliated companies.
   3. We may disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information (Name, Identification Number, Contact Number, E-mail address) to third parties solely for the contests and prize redemption purposes only.
   4. We sometimes engage third parties to perform services for us, which may be incidental and/or connected to this Site, that require us to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to them. If we make any such disclosure, we will require such parties to keep the information disclosed to them confidential and to use it only to perform the agreed services.
   5. We may from time to time wish to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties that wish to market, or provide information about, their products and services to you. We will only do so after obtaining your written permission.
   6. The following are the only other times we may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information collected on this Site:
      1. In the event of an asset sale, merger, consolidation, restructuring, reorganisation, liquidation or other similar transaction involving CNS and/or this Site, we may transfer some or all of your information, including Personally Identifiable Information to the successor company.
      2. We will also disclose your Personally Identifiable Information in the event when we are required, or believed to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
      3. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of CNS terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
   7. CNS does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
   8. Who you may choose to share your User Content with: Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose to the Service, such as User Content (e.g. written posts, comments, or other submissions) becomes available to the public, subject to the sole discretion of CNS. In addition, CNS allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the Service. If you remove information that you posted to the Service, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other Users have copied or saved that information.
       
6. SECURITY
   1. We use reasonable security safeguards to protect Personally Identifiable Information we collect on the Site from unauthorised access, use, modification or disclosure.
   2. Except for the necessary staff of CNS, no other party, including employees of CNS and the Site, can change your information. All information gathered by CNS and the Site are stored in systems that may only be accessed by authorised staff of CNS using assigned user ids and passwords.
   3. We cannot guarantee that communications between you and our servers will be absolutely free from unauthorised access by third parties.
   4. User must remember to log off from your account and close the browser window after use so that no unauthorised party can have access. You must not, at all time, divulge your password to any third party. 
       
7. RIGHT OF ACCESS AND CHANGE OF INFORMATION
   1. You may view and update information that you previously submitted to this Site by visiting the registration page for this Site. However, a request to change information may not be accommodated if the request conflicts with legal requirements and/or result in incorrect information.
   2. Requests to view or change personal information may take a few days to process.
   3. You can also stop receiving promotional email communications from us by unchecking on the “subscribe to newsletter” provided in such communications; the notification tab on your member's page; or by sending an email message to reachus@incinemas.sg with the subject header as "No email".
   4. Opting out may prevent you from receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements, or offers. You may not opt out of certain Service-related notices.
   5. If you have any questions about reviewing or modifying your account information, you can contact us directly at reachus@incinemas.sg.  
   6. Following termination or deactivation of your User account, CNS may retain your profile information and User Content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, or audit purposes.
       
8. CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
   1. If any of the terms in this Privacy Policy are changed, CNS will upload an notice on the Site’s homepage to inform you that changes have been made to the Privacy Policy. At the same time, CNS will upload the new Privacy Policy on the Site.
   2. You MUST read the new Privacy Policy before continuing using the Site. Your continued usage of the Site after the posting of the new Privacy Policy deems acceptance of the terms therein.
       
9. USE OF SITE BY CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13
   1. The Site is a general audience web site and is intended to be used by adults and teenagers interested in the Site. It is not intended for children, and CNS does not want to collect any personal identifiable information for users who are under the age of 13. 
   2. The safety of children is very important to us, and we recommend that parents review this Privacy Policy and understand its terms, so that this Site is used only by persons age 13 and over.
       
10. GOOGLE ADSENSE
    1. The Site hosts ads from Google and uses cookies for Ads Personalisation. By using the Site, you agree to the use of advertising cookies.
    2. You can use Ad Settings to manage the Google ads you see and opt out of Ads Personalisation. Even if you opt out of Ads Personalisation, you may still see ads based on factors such as your general location derived from your IP address, your browser type, and your search terms.
    3. Alternatively, you can manage cookies in your web browser but this can affect your experience on the Site.

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