1.Definition
Hong Leong Yamaha (hereinafter defined as “Hong Leong Yamaha”, “we”, “us”, “our”) provides a web site located on the Internet at https://www.yamaha-motor.com.my. (the “Site”) that allows registered customer (hereinafter defined as “Member”, “you”, “your”) to offer Mechanical and Electrical products or services for sale, search available products or services, post or search inquiries, engage in negotiations and close transactions with other Members and to gain access to relevant industry information and services using the Site.
2.Types of Membership
- There are different types of membership:
Ordinary Member is able to gain access to relevant industry information, news and content available on the Site.
- Associate Member is a Buyer.
- Professional Member can be both a “Buyer” and “Seller”.
Seller is defined as a Member who offers products or services for sale or responds to an inquiry.
Buyer is defined as a Member who responds to an offered product or service, or posts an inquiry for the purchase of products or services. To become a Buyer or Seller, you may have to register by filling out a more detailed on-line application.
3.Membership Eligibility
The Site is available to any qualified participants in the worldwide Mechanical and Electrical Industry who is capable of forming legally binding contracts under applicable law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, we may refuse to accept an application for membership in our sole discretion and/or limit a Member’s use of the Site at any time in our sole discretion.
4.Membership Registration
- To become a Member, you must submit a completed registration form. By either clicking the “I ACCEPT” button or signing a hard copy of the application and faxing it to the number indicated, you represent and warrant:
that you are 18 years of age or over, and you personally are signing up as a Member,
- or that you are signing up as a Member on behalf of an entity you have identified in the registration form and are authorized to sign for and bind that entity,
- and the information on the registration form is current, complete, and accurate.
Member must update registration information to ensure that it continues to be current, complete, and accurate. Hong Leong Yamaha reserves the right to accept or reject Member registrations. Upon acceptance of Member’s registration form, Hong Leong Yamaha shall provide to Member a User Name and Password.
9.Privacy
We recommend that you review our Privacy Policy which is part of these Terms of Use. If at any time you are not in compliance with the policy, we have the right to terminate your rights of use and access to the Site. Unfortunately, we cannot insure that all personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in the Privacy Policy. We may be required by law to disclose information to government authorities, law enforcement or to third parties upon subpoena, and you authorize us to disclose information as we believe, in our sole discretion, is necessary or appropriate.
10.Information Posted on Site
Member is solely responsible for information which it posts on the Site. Hong Leong Yamaha does not endorse any information posted on the Site by Members or third parties. Member agrees that Hong Leong Yamaha has no obligation to monitor the content on the Site, or links to other web sites, and expressly disclaims any responsibility of Hong Leong Yamaha to filter any such content. However, we may take any action with respect to such information we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion if we believe such information may give rise to liability to us or other parties or interfere or impair our relationship with any Member. Information posted on the Site:
- must not be fraudulent or involve the sale of stolen items;
- must not infringe any third party’s rights, including but not limited to copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
- must not violate any applicable law, statute, rule or regulation;
- must not be obscene, indecent or contain pornography;
- must not be defamatory, trade libelous, threatening or harassing; and
- must not link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of products or services that
(i) are prohibited by this Agreement or
(ii) are concurrently listed for sale on a web site other than the Hong Leong Yamaha. In addition, you may not post or sell on the Site any product or service which, by paying us our Transaction Fee, could reasonably be expected to result in a violation of any applicable law, statute, rule or regulation.
11.Ownership
Member acknowledges that all data (including but not limited to copyrights, trademarks and service marks) developed and/or collected by Hong Leong Yamaha in connection with the operation of the Site shall be the exclusive property of Hong Leong Yamaha. You may not, and these Terms of Use do not give you permission to, reproduce, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or create derivative works with respect to the Site.
Certain content is licensed from third parties and all such third party content and all intellectual property rights related to the content belong to the respective third parties. You may not remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or proprietary notice or legend contained on the Site or its content.
Hong Leong Yamaha’s use of such data will be made in accordance with the Privacy Policy, but no information concerning Member shall be shared with any third parties without the prior written consent of Member, except
- for the fact that Member is a member of Hong Leong Yamaha,
- pursuant to the license granted below, and
- for data derived from Transactions.
License for Member Contents
To enable us to use information provided by you in connection with the operation of the Site and the advertisement thereof by the Company without violating any rights you have in the information, Member grants to Hong Leong Yamaha one of the following two types of licenses:
- For Member Content including, but not limited to, documents, files, images or other material stored on the Site, you hereby grant Hong Leong Yamaha a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to reproduce and modify, for purposes of formatting, maintenance, or Site administration only, such Member Content. This license will be in effect until such Member Content is removed from the Site. By virtue of this license, Hong Leong Yamaha does NOT obtain any right, title, or interest to any copyright, patent, trademark, or other intellectual property right in or to the Member Content.
- For Member Content such as comments to the discussion forums, you grant Hong Leong Yamaha an unrestricted, worldwide, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit, and distribute such Member Content, and you also agree that Hong Leong Yamaha is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques that you send us for any purpose. However, we will not release your name or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted such Member Content to us unless:
(i) you grant us permission to do so;
(ii) we first notify you that the Content you submit to a particular part of the Site will be published or otherwise used with your name on it; or
(iii) we are required to do so by law. Hong Leong Yamaha may establish general practices and limits on the use of any Service, including, but not limited to, limits on retention time, file size, and storage space for Member Content.
Hong Leong Yamaha shall have no liability or responsibility for the deletion or failure to store any information or materials in connection with any Service. The foregoing license will terminate upon the termination of Member’s membership in Hong Leong Yamaha.
12.Third Party Content and Links
The Site may contain news and information published by third party providers. The Terms and Conditions of the respective third parties are posted, and may be updated from time to time, on the Site. Each member is responsible to review these Terms of Use. If at any time you are not in compliance with these Terms of Use, we have the right to terminate your rights of use and your access to the Site. This Site may also contain links to third-party web sites not under the control or operation of Hong Leong Yamaha. These links are provided as a convenience and we do not endorse and we are not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, including the Web sites of our Associates. When you access any Web sites through a link, you do so at your own risk and Hong Leong Yamaha is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice, or statements made on these sites; or for the quality of any products or services available on such sites; or for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused through or in connection with use of or reliance on the content, goods, or services available on or through any such link, site, or resource.
14.Relationship between Us and Members
We do not perform any of the activities for ourselves or on behalf of any Visitor or Member. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer, franchisor-franchisee or other similar relationship is intended or created by your acceptance of this Member’s Terms of Use, use or participation of the Site. These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and us and are not intended to be for the benefit of any third party.
15.Terms and Conditions between Members
The specific terms and conditions of a Member’s purchase or sale of products or services (such as pricing, warranties from Sellers, delivery, etc.) through the Site are established between Buyer and Seller, subject to compliance with the Transaction Rules. Each Buyer or Seller with whom you do business on the Site has the option to add its own terms and conditions.
Although Sellers will post products or services and Buyers will post inquiries, Hong Leong Yamaha is merely a venue for Buyers and Sellers to agree upon the terms of transactions. Hong Leong Yamaha does not set nor endorse the price, contract terms, quality, safety, conformance or legality of the products and services advertised or offered for sale, the ability of Sellers to sell products or services or the ability of Buyers to buy products or services. We cannot and do not control whether Sellers will complete the sale of products or services they offer. We are not responsible with respect to payment or collection for orders made and bids placed on the Site.
Sellers determine, in their sole discretion, which Buyers are authorized to do business with them, which Buyers can view their products and services and which Buyers may bid on or place orders for their products and services.
16.Notices
Except as explicitly stated otherwise or required by law, you shall provide any notices to Hong Leong Yamaha by e-mail to marketing@yamaha-motor.com.my . We shall provide any notices to you by e-mail to the e-mail address you provided during your registration as a Member. E-mail notices will be deemed given within twelve (12) hours of delivery by us.
17.Applicable Law
Member agrees to comply with all applicable local, state, federal, and international laws, statutes, rules and regulations relating to Member’s use of the Site, or your ordering of, bidding on or purchase of products and services, if applicable, and posting and retrieval of information (including without limitation those governing antitrust, unfair competition, false advertising, tax and export control). Without limiting the foregoing, Members are responsible for observing all applicable tariffs and trade laws. THE PARTIES DESIRE AND AGREE TO COMPLY FULLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS. SPECIFICALLY, THE PARTIES AGREE THAT THE SITE AND THE EXCHANGE ARE NOT TO BE UTILIZED TO FACILITATE COLLUSION OR OTHER CONDUCT IN VIOLATION OF THE ANTITRUST LAWS.
18.No Warranty and Disclaimer
Hong Leong Yamaha provides the Site and our services “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE”, and without any warranty or condition of any kind, expressed, implied or statutory. We expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, including, but not limited to:
- the implied warranties of merchantability;
- fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement;
- that service will be continuous, uninterrupted and/or error-free;
- as to the quality, identity or reliability of any Buyer or Seller and whether you should do business with such Buyer or Seller, and;
- as to the accuracy of postings made on the site by or on behalf of Seller or Buyer.
Member agrees that use of the Site and Marketplace is at member’s sole risk. The Marketplace acts as the venue for Members to purchase and sell Mechanical and Electrical products and services. Hong Leong Yamaha is not involved in the actual Transactions between Members. Accordingly, we have no control over the truth or accuracy of postings, the ability of Sellers to sell listed products or services or Buyers to purchase products. Because we are not involved in Member-to-Member Transactions, in the event of any dispute between you and another Member, you release Hong Leong Yamaha, its agents and employees from any claims and damages of every nature (including, without limitation, actual, special, incidental and consequential), known and unknown, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such dispute.
19.Limitation of Liability
Because we are not and cannot be involved in transactions and communications between users of the Site, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users, Member agrees that neither Hong Leong Yamaha, nor any officer, affiliate, director, shareholder, agent or employee of Hong Leong Yamaha will be liable to Member or any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential loss of profits, loss of earnings, loss of business opportunities, damages, expense, or costs resulting directly or indirectly from, or otherwise arising in connection with:
- the use of the Site by the Member, including but not limited to damages resulting from or arising from Member’s reliance on the Marketplace, or the mistakes, omissions, interruptions, errors, defects, delays in operation, non-deliveries, mis-deliveries, transmissions, eavesdropping by third parties, or any failure of performance of the Marketplace;
- the termination of Member’s membership by Hong Leong Yamaha pursuant to the Member’s Terms of Use;
- the failure, or alleged failure, of any product purchased or transferred pursuant to the Marketplace to conform to any specifications or terms, whether published on the Marketplace or not;
- the breach, or alleged breach, of any warranty, express or implied, relating to any such product or shipment; or
- government restriction, strikes, war, any natural disaster or force majeure, or any other condition beyond Hong Leong Yamaha’s reasonable control.
The limitations set forth in this section do not apply to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Hong Leong Yamaha and its affiliates (excluding Members), subcontractors, employees, and agents, which, but for this provision, would give rise to a course of action in contract, or any other legal doctrine.
20.Indemnification
Without limiting the generality or effect of other provisions of this Agreement, as a condition of membership, each Member shall, at its own expense, agree to indemnify, hold harmless, and defend Hong Leong Yamaha and its subsidiaries, and each of its respective associates, sub-contractors, officers, agents, and employees against all third party claims, liabilities, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), incurred or allegedly incurred by Hong Leong Yamaha:
- related in any way to a transaction or dispute between Member and any third party, arising out of such Member’s engagement in transactions on the Site, including but not limited to any product or service sold on the Marketplace for failure of a product to meet specifications, pricing, delivery or breach of warranty,
- based on or caused by unauthorized access to the Site through Member’s account,
- is based on facts or alleged facts that would constitute a breach of any of Member’s representations, warranties, or covenants under this Agreement, or
- arising out of a request for Hong Leong Yamaha to remove or disable access to any Member Content in or on the Site.
22.Entire Agreement
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Membership Agreement and supersedes and replaces any and all prior written or verbal agreements. Headings are for references only.