Terms of Service | Meson Technology

LAST UPDATED: May 23, 2024

Your use of meson.technology (the "Website") or by accessing an content on Website in any manner, including the use of any digital application connected to IMAGINE Consultants Ltd (“MESON”) (each a “Digital Application”), is conditioned upon Your acceptance of these legal terms of use including our privacy policy. MESON reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify or update these legal terms of use from time to time with immediate effect and without advance notice to You. It is Your responsibility to review these legal terms of use periodically for updates. AFTER READING THESE LEGAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE, IF FOR ANY REASON YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OR CANNOT ABIDE BY THESE TERMS OF USE OR OUR PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE EXIT THIS WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY. OTHERWISE, BY ACCESSING AND USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO THESE TERMS OF USE AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY.

Rights to Content and Intellectual Property

The copyrights to all original materials, content, selection, and arrangement of MESON Content, any Digital Application (including text, user, and visual interfaces, images, look and feel, design, sound, etc. and any underlying software and computer codes), and any material e-mailed to You or otherwise supplied to You in conjunction with MESON Content and/or a Digital Application (collectively, “MESON Content”, is proprietary to MESON, its affiliates, subsidiaries, or third party licensors. You may not copy, reproduce, post on any other website or digital application, republish, upload, encode, modify, translate, publicly perform or display, commercially exploit, distribute or transmit any portion of MESON Content, or make any derivative works from such content in any way without the express prior written consent of MESON. Any name, logo, trademark, service mark, patent, design, copyright, domain name or other intellectual property connected to any MESON Content is owned or licensed by MESON or its affiliates, or subsidiaries and may not be used by You without the prior written consent of MESON or the appropriate owner. Your use of MESON Content does not grant You any right, title, interest or license to any such intellectual property provided by MESON and any unauthorised use of such content may subject You to civil or criminal penalties.

Use of this Website

MESON Content is designed for Your personal information and education. However, all copying (whether electronic, hard copy, or other format) is prohibited and may breach intellectual property laws and other laws worldwide. All commercial use of all or part of MESON Content is prohibited except under MESON’s express written consent. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to MESON. You may not use any computer program tools, including, but not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, harvesters, or any other automatic device, program, algorithm, or methodology, or any similar equivalent process ("Tools") to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of MESON Content or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of MESON Content to obtain or attempt to obtain materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through by MESON. Tools that use MESON Content shall be considered agents of the individuals who control or author them.

Registration, Passwords and Responsibilities

You are responsible for keeping Your information and passwords up to date and confidential.

Certain areas or features of MESON Content and/or Digital Applications may only be open to registered users or subscribers. By registering on MESON Content or participating in any of its community chat groups and not also becoming a subscriber, You will become a customer of MESON as a “Registered User”. Being a Registered User shall entitle You to certain benefits. You should check the benefits page on a regular basis as this page will be updated from time to time. MESON reserves the right to amend or vary the content available to Registered Users from time to time. In addition, and if You allow us to when registering Your details as a Registered User, we will contact You from time to time in accordance with Your preferences and our Privacy Policy.

You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of and access to MESON Content and MESON Content and/or Digital Applications using Your user name and/or password. You agree to immediately notify MESON if You become aware of the loss, theft or unauthorised use of any password, user ID or e-mail address or of any MESON Content. You will provide MESON with accurate, complete registration information and inform MESON of any changes to such information. For the purpose of confirming Your compliance with these Terms, MESON reserves the right to monitor and record activity on MESON Content and Digital Applications, including access to MESON Content.

Each registration and subscription is for the personal use of the Registered User or subscriber only. You may not share Your log-in details or password with any other person. You may not share or transfer Your subscription. MESON does not allow multiple users (networked or otherwise) to access MESON Content and/or any Digital Application through a single name and password and may cancel or suspend Your access to MESON Content and/or a Digital Application if You do this, or breach any of these Terms without further obligation to You.

Changes to MESON Content and Digital Applications

MESON reserves the right, in its discretion and at any time, to suspend, change, modify, add or remove portions of MESON Content available on MESON Content and/or on a Digital Application at any time and to restrict the use and accessibility of MESON Content and its Digital Applications.

No Warranties

MESON DOES NOT REPRESENT THAT MESON CONTENT, SERVICES OR FEATURES IS OR WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT YOUR USE OF MESON CONTENT WILL PROVIDE SPECIFIC RESULTS. MESON CONTENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ON AN "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR ACCURACY. MESON assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for any damages caused by viruses or other forms on contamination or destructive features that may affect Your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of Your access to, use of, or browsing of MESON Content or Your downloading of any materials, text, images, video or audio from such content.

Limitation of Liability

In no event shall MESON, its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers, its licensors, or the officers, directors, employees, shareholders, or agents of each of them, be liable for any damages of any kind, including without limitation any direct, special, incidental, indirect, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages, including lost profits, whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages, and on theory of liability what so ever, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of, or Your browsing in, or Your links to other websites from, MESON Content. You acknowledge by Your use of MESON Content, that Your use is at Your sole risk. Certain laws do not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages: if these apply to You, some or all of the above disclaimers may not apply, and You might have additional rights.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold MESON harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising from or related to Your use of MESON Content.

Additional Terms and Conditions

Additional terms and conditions may apply to purchases of goods and services and to specific portions of features of MESON Content, including but not limited to sales, licenses, contests, sweepstakes, invitations, or other similar features (each an "Application"), all of which additional terms and conditions are made a part of these legal terms of use by this reference. You agree to abide by such Application terms and conditions. If there is a conflict between these Terms of Use and the terms of the Application, the terms of the Application will control as relating to the Application.

Communications with MESON Content

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate the law. MESON will fully cooperate, including but not limited to, maintaining and disclosing any transmittals or communications that You have had with MESON Content, disclosing Your identity or helping to identify You, with any applicable law or regulation, law enforcement authorities, court order, or governmental authority. Any communication or material You transmit to MESON or by interacting with MESON Content, by email or otherwise, including data, questions, comments, or suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. MESON cannot prevent the harvesting of information from MESON Content, and You may be contacted by MESON or unrelated parties, by email or otherwise, within or outside of MESON Content. Anything You transmit may be edited by or on behalf of MESON, may or may not be posted as MESON Content at the sole discretion of MESON and may be used by MESON or its affiliates for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, MESON is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication You send to MESON or provide through an interaction with MESON Content, for any purpose what so ever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products use of such information. If You transmit any ideas, concepts, materials or other communications to MESON or through an interaction with MESON Content, You accept that it will not be treated as confidential and may be used by MESON without compensation in any manner whatsoever, including without limitation to reproduction, transmission, publication, marketing, product development, etc. Although MESON may from time to time monitor or review discussion, chats, postings, transmissions, and bulletin boards, and the like on or through MESON Content, MESON is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations, on MESON Content. MESON assumes no responsibility or liability for any actions or communications by You or any related third party within or outside of MESON Content.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

If You believe that Your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide a Notice with the following information to the MESON’s Copyright Agent:

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
A detailed description of the copyright work that You claim has been infringed;
A description of precisely where the material that You claim is being infringed is located on MESON Content;
Your address, telephone number, and email address;
A statement by You that You have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
A statement by You, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in Your Notice is accurate and that You are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

MESON's Copyright Agent for Notice is:

IMAGINE Consultants Ltd

ATTN: Copyright Agent

admin@meson.technology

We may give notice to our users by means of a general notice on MESON Content, electronic mail to a user's email address in our records, or by written communication sent by first-class mail to a user's physical address in our records. If You receive such a notice, You may provide counter-notification in writing to the designated Copyright Agent. To be effective, the counter-notification must be a written communication that includes the following:

Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access had been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
A statement from You under the penalty of perjury, that You have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake to misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
4. Your name, physical address, and telephone number, and a statement that You consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which Your physical address is located, or if Your physical address is outside of Hong Kong, for any judicial district in which MESON may be found, and that You will accept service or process from the person who provided notification of alleged infringing material or an agent of such person.

MESON may terminate user accounts that have been the subject of five (5) separate infringement notices. In the event a user's materials are removed due to an infringement notice and then subsequently restored due to the filing of a infringement notices counter-notification, MESON will treat the underlying infringement notice as withdrawn. MESON reserves the right to terminate user accounts that are the subject of fewer than five (5) infringement notices in appropriate circumstances - such as where the user has a history of violating or willfully disregarding MESON's Terms of Service.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Trademark Infringement

If You believe that Your work has been copied in a way that constitutes trademark infringement, please provide a Notice with the following information to the MESON's trademark Agent:

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the trademark interest;
A detailed description of the trademark work that You claim has been infringed;
A description of precisely where the material that You claim is being infringed is located on MESON Content;
Your address, telephone number, and email address;
A statement by You that You have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the trademark owner, its agent or the law; and
A statement by You, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in Your Notice is accurate and that You are the trademark owner or authorised to act on the trademark owner's behalf.

MESON’s Agent for Notice is:

IMAGINE Consultants Ltd

ATTN: Legal Department

admin@meson.technology

Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access had been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
A statement from You under the penalty of perjury, that You have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake to misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
Your name, physical address, and telephone number, and a statement that You consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which Your physical address is located, or if Your physical address is outside of Hong Kong, for any judicial district in which MESON may be found, and that You will accept service or process from the person who provided notification of alleged infringing material or an agent of such person.

MESON may terminate user accounts that have been the subject of five (5) separate infringement notices. In the event a user's materials are removed due to an infringement notice and then subsequently restored due to the filing of an infringement notice counter-notification, MESON will treat the underlying infringement notice as withdrawn. MESON reserves the right to terminate user accounts that are the subject of fewer than five (5) infringement notices in appropriate circumstances - such as where the user has a history of violating or willfully disregarding MESON's Terms of Service.

Force Majeure

MESON will not be held responsible for circumstances beyond its control.

MESON, its affiliates and its information providers will not be liable or deemed to be in default for any delay or failure in performance or interruption of the delivery of MESON Content that may result directly or indirectly from any cause or circumstance beyond its or their reasonable control, including but not limited to failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect problems, computer viruses, unauthorised access, theft, operator errors, severe weather, earthquakes or natural disasters, strikes or other labour problems, wars, or governmental restrictions.

Termination

At its sole discretion, MESON may modify or discontinue MESON Content, or may modify or terminate Your account or Your access to this MESON Content, for any reason, with or without notice to You and without liability to You or any third party.

Unaffiliated Products, Websites, and Digital Applications

Descriptions of, or references to, products, publications, websites or digital applications not owned by MESON or its affiliates do not imply endorsement of any such content provided therein. MESON has not reviewed all material linked to MESON Content and is not responsible for the content of any such material. Your linking to any other products, publications, websites or digital applications not controlled by MESON is at Your own risk.

Linking Policy

MESON may provide, as a convenience to You, links to websites owned or operated by parties other than MESON. Each linked website may have its own terms and conditions of use, as described in that website's legal notice/terms of use. Those terms and conditions may be different than these legal terms of use, and we urge You to read each website's legal notice/ terms carefully before You use that website. MESON does not control, and is not responsible for the availability, content or security of these external Websites, nor Your experience interacting or using these external websites. MESON does not endorse the content, or any products or services available, on such websites.

Hong Kong Governing Law / Void Where Prohibited

These Terms shall be governed by, and Your browsing in and use of MESON Content shall be deemed acceptance of and consent to, the laws of Hong Kong, without regard to principles of conflict of laws. Notwithstanding the foregoing, MESON Content may be viewed internationally and may contain references to products or services not available in all countries. References to a particular product or service does not imply that they are appropriate or available to all persons of legal purchasing age in all locations, or that MESON intends to make such products or services available in such countries. Any offer for any product, feature, service, or application made by MESON is void where prohibited. Your information will be transferred to MESON in Hong Kong, which may be outside of Your own country, and by providing us with Your information, You are consenting to such transfer. Although we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of any personal information collected, we will not be liable for disclosure of personal information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorised acts of third parties.

Changes to These Terms

MESON may, in its sole discretion, change these Terms (including those that relate to Your use of the website, Digital Applications and/or MESON Content). Whenever the Terms are changed, MESON will notify You by e-mail or by publishing the revised terms on MESON Content. If You use MESON Content and/or a Digital Application after MESON has published or notified You of the changes, You are agreeing to be bound by those changes. If You do not agree to be bound by those changes, You should not use MESON Content or a Digital Application any further after they are published. Access to certain the MESON Content may be subject to additional terms and conditions.

Assignment of Agreement

This agreement is personal to You and Your rights and obligations under these Terms may not be assigned, sub-licensed or otherwise transferred. This agreement may be assigned to a third party by MESON.

Non-Waiver

No delay or omission on the part of either party in requiring performance by the other party of its obligations will operate as a waiver of any right.

Notices

Notices to MESON must be given in writing, by letter, and sent to IMAGINE Consultants Ltd at:

IMAGINE Consultants Ltd

31/F, Tower Two, Times Square

1 Matheson Street

Causeway Bay

Hong Kong

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, such will not render all the Terms unenforceable or invalid. Rather, the Terms will then be read and construed as if the invalid or unenforceable provision(s) are not contained therein.

Whole Agreement

Save as expressly referred to herein, any representation, warranty, term or condition not expressly set out in these Terms shall not apply.