HiTV Terms of Use

Last Updated: March 16, 2022

Preface
Welcome to use HiTV!

Thanks for using our products and/or services (hereinafter referred to as “HiTV Services”, “our services” or “services”). HiTV Services are provided by China Science And Technology International Co., Limited(hereinafter referred to as “HiTV” or “we”) with registered address at RM4,16/F, HO KING COMM CTR, 2-16 FAYUEN ST, MONGKOK KOWLOON,HONG KONG.

HiTV Services refer to relevant products, services and/or functions of HiTV, including but not limited to software, websites and services (including off-site services, such as the advertising services and plug-ins “applied or shared through our service” etc.). HiTV platform refers to the website and/or mobile/TV application of HiTV Services or other platform operated, managed or owned by HiTV (hereinafter referred to as “our platform” or “platform”).

Usage of our services will be deemed as acknowledgment and consent to this Agreement. If you do not agree to any clause of the Agreement, you shall avoid or cease using HiTV Services immediately.

The operation tips, Q&A guidelines, user help on our platform or rules, procedures and policies published on our platform or as may be delivered to you through notifications from time to time shall form part of the rules for your use of HiTV Services and shall form part of this Agreement.

China Science And Technology International Co., Limited


1. Our Services

1.1 We attach great importance to the protection of minors. Please read this Agreement under the guidance of guardian and use HiTV Services with the explicit consent of guardian. We reserve the right to request proof of guardian’s consent as deemed necessary.

1.2 We use various technologies to provide you with an optimal viewing experience. The quality of content may be affected by, among other factors, the format of the content, the devices used, the speed and/or bandwidth of your internet service; and may also be affected by your membership.

1.3 You acknowledge and agree that the availability of content may vary due to the country/region you are in and/or the service interest you may enjoy, and may be altered from time to time.

2. Use of Our Services

2.1 HiTV Account

2.1.1 You may create an account to access certain features and services of the platform. You may directly register on the platform to create an account, or you may also register through your account with certain authorized third parties (such as Facebook/Google).

2.1.2 To ensure a smooth use of our services, you acknowledge and agree that you must abide by the following rules while using your HiTV account:

(1) When registering an account for HiTV Services, you must provide us with complete, authentic, accurate and up-to-date personal information. You shall not use other persons’ identity, email address, mobile phone number etc. for your account registration. If any of the information changes, you should update your account promptly. The registration information such as the account name, profile photo and profile submitted by you shall not include any illegal or inappropriate information;

(2) Except that registering through the authorized third-party account, you shall only register through the channel officially provided by us. You shall refrain from obtaining an HiTV account via, including but not limited to purchasing, renting, borrowing, sharing, maliciously utilizing or destroying our registration system and/or other unauthorized channels;

(3) You only have limited rights to use the account and your account can only be used for personal and non-commercial purposes;

(4) You should keep, use and maintain your account number and password in a proper and secure manner, and shall not transfer, lend, rent, sell, share or authorize in any way other person to use the account; you are responsible for all actions conducted under and/or via the account owned by you.

2.1.3 If you are found to have conducted the following acts, we have the right to suspend or permanently terminate, cancel or withdraw your account, interrupt or end the provision of further HiTV Services to you without bearing any responsibilities:

(1) You applied so;

(2) You breached the clause of this Agreement;

(3) Required by relevant laws and regulations and regulatory policies;

(4) Where we have reason to believe that your usage has damaged (or may cause possible damage to) the lawful rights and interests of HiTV and/or others.

2.1.4 To protect the account security, we may verify your identity in a variety of ways periodically, including but not limited to short message or email verification, etc. If you are unable to complete the verification or refuse to verify or it is reasonable to suspect that your account has been stolen or your account activities are abnormal, we may suspend HiTV Services or take further actions we deem appropriate.

2.1.5 If your account number (or password) is lost for which you are not liable, and you need to retrieve it, you shall provide the corresponding information and proof as required by us, following the retrieving process officially provided by us. If the provided materials are not authentic or do not meet the requirements, which will fail our security verification, you may not be able to retrieve your account, and you shall bear the risks and losses arising therefrom.

2.1.6 Account Cancellation

You can cancel your account. You may email to [email protected] to cancel your account, except as otherwise provided by applicable laws and/or regulations or as otherwise agreed upon in this Agreement.

Please be noted that, once you cancel your account successfully:

(1) You will not be able to use your canceled HiTV account;

(2) You will be deemed to have automatically waived all of your rights and/or interests associated by using HiTV Services (including the existing rights but not be consumed, the expectation interests, etc.) and we will not be able to help you retrieve any content, information, data or record related to your account, except as otherwise provided by applicable laws and regulations and/or regulatory requirements;

(3) Your canceled account is permanently unrecoverable.

Except as otherwise agreed herein, your account needs to meet all of the following conditions if you voluntarily cancel your account:

(1) This account shall be owned by you;

(2) There are no ongoing deals or balance available in the account;

(3) There are no unsettled disputes (including but not limited to complaints, reports, litigation, arbitration, state authority investigations, etc.);

(4) Meet any other requirements to protect your account security and interests of your account.

Please be noted that your deletion of your account does not mean that you are released or exempted from any liabilities resulting from your use of the account.

2.2 Offline Viewing

2.2.1 We know that you may not always have internet connection. We may give you the option to temporarily download certain content so that you can watch it while you are offline (“Temporary Downloads”). Temporary Downloads may be limited by the following factors: (i) the memory storage of your device; (ii) how long Temporary Downloads will remain available to you; (iii) the limitation by the geographic location of HiTV Services; (iv) the limitation by the copyright holders; (v) the service interest you may enjoy; (vi) miscellaneous factors.

2.2.2 You acknowledge and understand that the Temporary Downloads can only be downloaded and watched using HiTV APP on your device.

2.3 You may share the content of HiTV Services to third-party platforms via HiTV account within the range we allow and the scope available by our technology and the permission of relevant copyright.

2.4 In order to protect the security of your account and prevent the theft of the account or malicious sharing of the account, you understand and agree that HiTV can limit the number of device terminals that can be logged in to the same account at the same time. Specific rules refer to the notes on relevant pages or the limitations actually imposed. HiTV has the right to change the aforementioned restriction rules, and the specific rules of HiTV (including this Agreement) shall prevail. If there is a conflict between the publicity rules or it does not conform to the HiTV actual restrictions, the restrictive behavior actually performed by HiTV shall prevail.

3. User Behavior

3.1 You should access and use HiTV Services upon abiding by this Agreement and relevant applicable laws and regulations. You can only use HiTV Services for personal and non-commercial purposes. The written consent of HiTV is required otherwise for commercial use. You agree that you will not conduct or use HiTV Services to conduct the following activities (nor providing facilitation or support for others in conducting such). Or otherwise you shall bear all responsibilities and consequences incurred therefrom, and where any loss and/or adverse impact is inflicted upon us, you shall compensate us in full and eliminate such adverse impact:

3.1.1 Harming minors and/or other persons in any way;

3.1.2 Engaging in activities, violations or crimes infringing upon the lawful rights and interests of HiTV and others, including providing assistance thereto;

3.1.3 Obtaining the services, contents or data (including the personal information of other users) of HiTV platform, personally or by an agent, in any way (including but not limited to, any automatic software such as robotic software, spider software and crawler software, script and software)and due to whatever cause, without the prior explicit written approval from HiTV;

3.1.4 Evading, removing, altering, obstructing, damaging or otherwise interrupting the security measures of HiTV for its services;

3.1.5 Displaying the service content of HiTV in part or whole in any public occasion, with or without charge, without explicit authorization from HiTV (except when the aforesaid behavior does not constitute an infringement);

3.1.6 Using HiTV Services in an improper way or in ways violating the principle of honesty and creditability (such as using the loopholes of rules and system, abusing member identity, black industry, speculation and other manners that go against the original purpose of HiTV Services);

3.1.7 Faking contents (including title) in any way to make people believe that they are transferred by us;

3.1.8 Uploading, posting, emailing or otherwise transmitting software virus, political propaganda, commercial solicitation (such as advertising letters and promotional materials), chain letter, bulk mail or other form of “spam”, and contents that infringing upon the patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights and/or unauthorized contents;

3.1.9 The content you produced, uploaded, copied, posted, transmitted or disseminated via HiTV shall not:

(1) Contain any advertising information, including but not limited to the title and introduction of advertisement, except for the one otherwise authorized by HiTV in written;

(2) Contain any content violating the lawful rights and interests of HiTV or others, relevant laws and regulations and the Agreement.

3.2 You shall be solely and remain completely responsible for all contents you produced, uploaded, copied, posted, transmitted, disseminated or used HiTV Services to produce, upload, post and disseminate, including but not limited to symbol, text, picture, audio and video, etc. Meanwhile:

3.2.1 Regarding contents violating this Agreement or applicable laws and regulations, infringing upon the lawful rights and interests of others or which we have reason to believe that have damaged the creditability and security of us or others, we have the right to, among others, direct deletion, blocking or deactivation, without prior notification;

3.2.2 We background records may be used as evidence for your violation of relevant laws and regulations, Agreement or infringement, or as proof for solving disputes.

4. Uploading and Sharing Your Content

4.1 You fully understand and agree that the platform provided for you to upload, post, share and disseminate information shall only be used by you to upload, post, share, transmit and obtain information. Any content transmitted by or through our platform does not reflect our viewpoints or policies and we therefore shall not be responsible for any liabilities arising therefrom. You should make your own determination on relying on the correctness, completeness or practicability of the contents which provided by other users on our platform and assume all risks arising therefrom, and we shall not be responsible for any liability arising therefrom.

4.2 You acknowledge and agree that, unless otherwise required by applicable laws and/or regulations, we do not store the content uploaded, posted and shared by you and you should have a backup; we will monitor and scrutinize content uploaded on our platform as required by applicable laws and/or regulations. You acknowledge that we do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any content, whether it is published or not, unless otherwise required by applicable laws and/or regulations.

4.3 If you upload, publish, share or transmit contents such as picture, text, audio and video on our platform, you will be deemed as its copyright owner or legally authorized person. Except as otherwise agreed to by us, your use of our platform to publish, disseminate and share shall be deemed that you have the right to the content and have agreed, in a permanent, irrevocable and free manner, to grant us a license to exercise all copyright rights of the content except those exclusive to the copyright owner worldwide (including but not limited to the rights of using, disseminating, modifying, operating, copying, publicly executing, publicly displaying or translating the content and the rights of creating derivative works thereof, including the right to transfer and safeguard). If you remove or delete such content, your authorization will still last for a period that’s reasonably proper commercially; meanwhile, you acknowledge and agree that HiTV might store your removed or deleted content on the server.

5. Protection of Your Personal Information

HiTV Privacy Policy introduces our collection, processing and protection of your personal information, and your control over such information while you’re using our services, please read it carefully.

6. Intellectual Property Rights

6.1 We reserve all rights concerning the contents you are using that are owned by us, or used by authorization and provided in HiTV Services or the ones protected by IPR as gained via HiTV Services, including but not limited to software, interfaces, interactive factors, LOGO, trademarks, logos, graphics, words, texts, sounds, audio, video, portraits, pictures, technologies, materials etc.

6.2 You may not copy, publish, rent, exhibit, show, project, broadcast, disseminate, shoot, adapt, translate, compile, create derivative productions of, provide for sales or usage of (unless explicitly authorized herein) HiTV Services and/or the contained contents or the contents obtained therefrom.

6.3 Software (and its technology) of HiTV Services

6.3.1 You may need to download our software in order to use HiTV Services. For such software, we only grant you revocable, limited, non-transferable and non-exclusive right to use. You may download and use the software to access / use HiTV Services for non-commercial purposes only.

6.3.2 To improve user experience and ensure security and conformity of products and services, we may update the software from time to time. We suggest you upgrade your software to the latest version.

6.3.3 You may not copy, modify, publish, sell or rent our services or any part of the software, nor obtain the source code through reverse engineering, decompilation, disassembling, or other similar methods.

7. Advertising and Third-party Links

7.1 You acknowledge and agree that, we reserve the right to display commercial advertisements (including advertising links) or other type of commercial information (including but not limited to display advertisement at any spot of HiTV platform or in the content you uploaded or disseminated) during provision of HiTV Services, as permitted by applicable laws and regulations.

7.2 HiTV may decide, by its own discretion, the form, time, position and content of advertisement, without any interference of third party, as permitted by applicable laws and regulations.

7.3 You acknowledge and agree that, we may send you product promotion or relevant commercial information via email, e-message or other methods and will at the same time provide ways for you to unsubscribe.

7.4 HiTV Services may provide links to other international Internet sites or resources. We will follow the provisions of applicable laws and regulations to urge advertisers to perform relevant obligations, and you acknowledge and agree that, we have no actual control over such advertisers and advertising contents and that you need to be prudent concerning the authenticity and reliability of such advertisement. You shall be personally responsible for any act between you and the advertiser or advertisement owner and settle relevant dispute of any kind there between. We shall bear no extra responsibilities in this regard unless so required for the advertisement publisher by applicable laws and regulations, and we will provide necessary assistance according to law.

8. DISCLAIMER, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, AND INDEMNIFICATION

8.1 NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY STATUTORY RIGHTS THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS ENTITLED TO AS A USER AND THAT YOU CANNOT CONTRACTUALLY AGREE TO ALTER OR WAIVE. THIS AGREEMENT AND ALL DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF OUR LIABILITY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL ONLY APPLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAWS AND/OR REGULATIONS.

8.2 YOU UNDERSTAND AND CONFIRM THAT, UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED HEREIN OR REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS, HiTV SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ACCORDING TO THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES AND CONDITIONS. WE MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLICIT PROMISES OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO HiTV SERVICES (INCLUDING TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION) PROVIDED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE SERVICE CONTENT, SPECIAL FUNCTION OF SERVICES OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY AND WHETHER THEY MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, BUT WE PROMISE TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE OUR SERVICE QUALITY AND SERVICE LEVEL. UNLESS OTHERWISE STIPULATED BY APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS AND WHETHER IT’S FORESEEABLE, WE ONLY BEAR THE RESPONSIBLITY FOR OUR SERVICES TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, DERIVATIVE OR PUNITIVE LOSSES AND/OR DAMAGES AND LOSS OF PROFIT, BUSINESS REPUTATION, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, DATA OR OTHER TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE LOSSES ARISING OUT OF THE SERVICES. WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DEFAMATION, OFFENSE OR OTHER ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY, AND WILL NOT BEAR ANY LOSS SUFFERED BY YOU.

8.3 WE MAY BE HELD LIABLE FOR THE DIRECT LIABILITY AGREED HEREIN ONLY. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED HEREIN OR STIPULATED BY THE APPLICABLE LAWS AND/OR REGULATIONS, IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE HELD LIABLE HEREUNDER EXCEEDING THE TOTAL SERVICE FEES CHARGED BY US FOR HiTV SERVICES.

8.4 YOU AGREE TO DEFEND (AT OUR OPTION), INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS EACH OF HiTV AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OR OTHER DISPUTES RESULTING FROM OR RELATED TO:

8.4.1 YOUR BREACH OF ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT;

8.4.2 YOUR VIOLATION, ALLEGED VIOLATION OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT; OR

8.4.3 CLAIMS OF ANY PERSON THAT YOUR ACTS DAMAGED THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF A THIRD PARTY.

   YOU SHALL USE YOUR BEST EFFORTS TO COOPERATE WITH US IN THE DEFENCE OF ANY SUCH CLAIM. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, AT OUR OWN EXPENSE, TO ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENCE AND CONTROL OF ANY MATTER OTHERWISE SUBJECT TO INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU.

8.5 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO FULLY COOPERATE WITH ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES OR COURT ORDER REQUESTING OR DIRECTING US TO DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE POSTING ANY CONTENTS THAT ARE BELIEVED TO VIOLATE THIS AGREEMENT. WE WILL USE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO NOTIFY YOU IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUCH INQUIRY; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE INQUIRY IN QUESTION IS NOT CONFIDENTIAL, AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT WE SHALL HAVE NO DUTY TO DISCLOSE SUCH INFORMATION AND THEREFORE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH ANY NON-DISCLOSURE.

   YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU WAIVE ALL RIGHTS AND AGREE TO HOLD US HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY US DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND / OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT OR REGULATORY AUTHORITIES.

9 Service Change and Termination

9.1 To the maximum extent permitted by the applicable laws and / or regulations, we have the right to, according to our business development, temporarily or permanently change or terminate HiTV Services (or any part). We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any change or termination of HiTV Services. In the event that your rights and interests are damaged as a result of the change or termination of HiTV Services (or any part thereof), we will make reasonable compensation to you based on the confirmed actual and direct loss upon your application.

9.2 We reserve the right to suspend, terminate, cancel or withdraw your account, or terminate the use of HiTV Services, or change, delete, or transfer the contents that are stored and published by you on our platform based on proper causes, to the maximum extent permitted by the applicable laws and / or regulations, this Agreement, and any other rules of our platform.

9.3 Any obligation which expressly or by their nature should continue after termination, cancellation, or expiration of the Agreement shall survive and remain in effect after such termination, cancellation or expiration.

10 Notifications and Contact Information

10.1 All of our notifications to you hereunder may be done via announcement posted on our websites, email, SMS or any other means by which you could reasonably obtain notice thereof, and such notifications shall be deemed to have been delivered to you at the time of sending. If we send notifications via several means above at the meantime, such notifications delivery time refers to the earliest time of sending.

10.2 If you have any questions relating to this Agreement or matters related to the use of HiTV Services (including inquiries, complaints, etc.), you can contact us (i) by sending an email to [email protected] ;(ii) other ways provided by HiTV. We will reply to you as soon as possible upon the receipt of your comments and suggestions.

11 About the Agreement

11.1 We may modify this Agreement from time to time and the modifications to this Agreement will take effect immediately after modification. If these modifications to this Agreement, in our sole discretion, make substantial reduction or significant alteration upon your rights hereunder, we will notify you via announcement posted on our platform, pop-ups, or any other means by which you could reasonably obtain notice before the modifications take effect. Please read the modifications to the Agreement carefully before continuing using HiTV Services. If you still choose to use HiTV Services, it shall be deemed that you have fully read ,acknowledge and agreed to be bind by this Agreement and the modifications.

11.2 YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TRANSFER OUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER IN WHOLE OR IN PART TO OUR AFFILIATE COMPANIES. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TRANSFER OUR RIGHT TO CLAIM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT TO OUR AFFILIATE COMPANIES. CONSEQUENTLY, SUCH COMPANIES WILL BE ENTITLED TO DEMAND CLAIMS (IF APPLICABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS AND / OR REGULATIONS) AS PER RELEVANT CLAUSES OF RIGHTS STIPULATED HEREUNDER. OTHER THAN THIS, NO OTHER PERSON OR COMPANY SHALL BE A THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARY OF THE AGREEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT IN CASE OF THE FORGOING TRANSFER, WE DO NOT NEED TO PROVIDE YOU ANY WRITTEN NOTICE OF SUCH TRANSFER. WE GUARANTEE THAT OUR AFFILIATE COMPANIES WILL CONTINUE TO PERFORM THE OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER AND YOUR RIGHTS AND INTERESTS HEREIN WILL NOT BE DAMAGED DUE TO SUCH TRANSFER.

11.3 The headings of this Agreement are only provided for convenience and readability and shall not affect the meanings or interpretations of any clause herein.

11.4 In any case any one or more of the clauses contained in this Agreement shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining clauses shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

11.5 Both parties agreed that this Agreement, as well as the execution and the interpretation of this Agreement, shall be subject to the laws of Hong Kong to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Any disputes that raised out of or related to this Agreement, including but not limited to carrying out the provisions of this Agreement, shall be negotiated by both parties through amicable settlement. In addition, both parties may also submit the dispute to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules in force when the Notice of Arbitration is submitted. For the avoidance of doubt, amicable settlement via negotiation is not the prerequisite condition of the arbitration mentioned above. The arbitration award shall be final and binding on both parties. The seat of arbitration shall be Hong Kong. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in Chinese.


Country/Region Schedule——Special Terms

Malaysia

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users may not produce, upload, copy, transmit and disseminate prohibited content, including:

1) Contain indecent, obscene, false, menacing or offensive; Contain discriminatory material or comment, which is based on matters of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, marital status, or physical or mental handicap; You shall ensure that all content and information provided to us or published on the platform by you is true, complete, accurate and up-to-date and that you have all the necessary authority and right to publish or provide such content and information. You warrant that our use of any such content and information will not infringe the right (including without limitation the intellectual property rights) of any third party.

2) You shall not transmit or post (or cause to be transmitted or posted) through or on the platform and/or services any content and/or information which is or may be unlawful, technologically harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which (i) encourages or may encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense; (ii) is offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person; (iii) may give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law; and/or (iv) violates or infringes or may violate or infringe the rights of others.”


Singapore

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users may not produce, upload, copy, transmit and disseminate prohibited content, including:

1) material depicting nudity or genitalia in a manner calculated to titillate;

2) material promoting sexual violence or sexual activity involving coercion or non-consent of any kind;

3) material depicting a person or persons clearly engaged in explicit sexual activity;

4) material depicting a person who is, or appears to be, under 16 years of age in sexual activity, in a sexually provocative manner or in any other offensive manner;

5) material advocating homosexuality or lesbianism, or depicts or promotes incest, paedophilia, bestiality and necrophilia;

6) material depicting detailed or relished acts of extreme violence or cruelty;

7) material glorifying, inciting or endorsing ethnic, racial or religious hatred, strife or intolerance.”


Vietnam

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users may not produce, upload, copy, transmit and disseminate prohibited content, including:

1) Posting and releasing information against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with contents that: (a) distort, defame and deny the people's government; (b) fabricate and cause panic among people; and (c) cause psychological warfare;

2) Posting and releasing information with content which: (a) causes division among classes of people, among the people with the people's government, the people's armed forces, political organizations, political - social organizations; (b) causes hatred, discrimination, divisions, ethnic separatism, infringement of equal rights of ethnic communities in Vietnam; (c) causes divisions between religious people and non-religious people, between the followers of different religions, division between religious believers with the people's government, political organizations, political - social organizations and insults religious beliefs; and (d) undermines the implementation of policies on international solidarity;

3) Posting and releasing information inciting war against the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

4) Distorting history; denying the revolutionary achievements; and offending the nation and national heroes;

5) Discloses information included in the list of state secrets, privacy and confidentiality of individuals;

6) Providing information advocating bad practices or superstitions; providing information about mysteries that cause confusion in society, adversely affecting the order and social safety and health of the community; Inciting violence; propagandizing depraved lifestyles; meticulously describing lewd acts or criminal behavior; providing information which does not match the habits and customs of Vietnam;

7) Providing false information, distorting, slandering or hurting the prestige of organizations, agencies, honor and dignity of individuals; or attributing guilt without a judgment from a court;

8) Providing information which affects the normal physical and spiritual development of children;

9) Printing, releasing, transmitting and broadcasting journalistic products, works or content in the journalistic works that has been suspended from release, revoked, confiscated, banned from circulation, removed, or destroyed, or content that has been corrected by the press agency;

10) Obstructing the printing, distribution, transmission and broadcasting of journalistic products or information products with legal journalistic characteristics to the public; and

11) Threatening or intimidating life, hurting the honor and dignity of journalists or reporters; or destroying or seizing vehicles, documents and obstructing journalists or reporters from professional activities in accordance with the regulations of law.”


Thailand

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users may not produce, upload, copy, transmit and disseminate prohibited content, including:

1) distorted or false content which is likely to cause damage to the general public with malicious intent;

2) false content which is likely to cause damage to the national security, public safety, national economic stability, or infrastructure for the public benefit, or cause panic to the general public;

3) content that constitutes a criminal offence relating to the national security, terrorism, the royal family, and the relationship with foreign nations as prescribed under the Penal Code;

4) content that constitutes a criminal offence under the law relating to intellectual property;

5) content, in its character, which is contrary to Thai public order or the good morals;

6) content that could impair religion, especially Buddhism;

7) content that promote consumption of narcotic drugs or alcoholic beverages;

8) obscene or pornographic content, including child pornographic;

9) content or false content that could cause defamation, or creates hatred to the royal family;

10) news or any information that could be harmful to the national security;

11) criticism to the NCPO’s operation in bad faith, or any false information which could impair the NCPO’s credibility;

12) voices, photos, and videos in relation to the confidential operation of government agencies;

13) information which could cause controversy or polarization in the country;

14) information that invite or assemble people in order to oppose NPCO’s officials, or people associated with the NCPO;

15) information that could be a threat to commit an act of violence against other people, or cause panic or fear to the general public.”


Indonesia

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users may not produce, upload, copy, transmit and disseminate prohibited content, including:

1) encouraging the general public to commit violence and gambling and abuse of narcotics, psychotropic substances and other addictive substances;

2) highlight pornography.

3) provoking conflicts between groups, between tribes, races and / or groups

4) defamation, harassment, and / or tarnish religious values.

5) encouraging the general public to act against the law.

6) degrading human dignity.”

11.About the Agreement: Clause 11.2 shall not apply and is hereby deleted in its entirety.


Canada

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users may not produce, upload, copy, transmit and disseminate prohibited content about harassment and cyberbullying, hate speech, impersonation, the promotion of firearms, nudity and sexual content, violent or graphic content, dangerous content, spam, the sale of illegal or regulated goods, violent criminal organizations, suicide or self-harm, and any content that links to or promotes third-party services that artificially inflate views, likes, subscribers, or other metrics is also prohibited. We strongly encourage educators to contact the owner of content before using it in classroom.

Users are prohibited from producing, uploading, copying, transmitting and disseminating any child pornography, any content showing a minor participating in dangerous activity or encouraging minors to engage in dangerous activities, any content that could cause minor participants or viewers emotional distress, such as exposing minors to mature themes, simulating parental abuse or coercing minors or violence, any content that misleads viewers by appearing to be family content, but contains sexual themes, violence, obscene, or other mature themes not suitable for young audiences, or any content that targets individuals for abuse or humiliation, reveals personal information, such as email addresses or bank account numbers, records someone without their consent, sexually harasses, or encourages others to bullying or harassment.”


U.S.A

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users are prohibited from uploading, posting or linking to (i) any material that is inappropriate, defamatory, infringing, obscene, vulgar, libelous, racially or ethnically hateful, objectionable, or unlawful (or promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities or communications that could reasonably cause damage, loss, harm, or injury to any individual or group); (ii) anything that promotes or distributes pyramid schemes or chain letters, (iii) anything that could potentially exploit or harm children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or information, or otherwise exposing them to materials or information which in any way could cause damage, injury, or harm of any kind, or (iv) other disruptive, illegal or immoral communications of any kind.

Users are prohibited from abusing, defaming, harassing, stalking, threatening, intimidating, or otherwise violating the rights of others.”


Philippines

3.Rules of Service Use: The following shall be added after the second sentence of Clause 3.1.9:

“3.1.10 Users may not produce, upload, copy, transmit and disseminate prohibited content, such as:

1) Those which tend to incite subversion, insurrection, rebellion or sedition against the State, or otherwise threaten the economic and/or political stability of the State;

2) Those which tend to undermine the faith and confidence of the people in their government and/or the duly constituted authorities;

3) Those which glorify criminals or condone crimes;

4) Those which serve no other purpose but to satisfy the market for violence or pornography;

5) Those which tend to abet the traffic in and use of prohibited drugs;

6) Those which are libelous or defamatory to the good name and reputation of any person, whether living or dead; and

7) Those which may constitute contempt of court or of any quasi-judicial tribunal, or pertain to matter which are sub-judice in nature.”