Special Notes:
Please read carefully and fully understand the content of the terms of this Agreement, including but not limited to the provisions of exclusion or limitation of liability, before you use the services provided by the official website of Tsinghua (Qingdao) Academy of Arts and Science Innovation Research (“TASA”). You may voluntarily suspend/terminate your use of the services provided if you do not agree to this Service Agreement and/or any changes to it at any time; By using the services provided by TASA, you are deemed to have understood and fully agreed to the contents of this Service Agreement, including any modifications made to it from time to time, and to have become our user.

Terms of Service

1. Confirmation and acceptance of the terms of service 

The official website of TASA reserves the right of ownership and operation of the services provided by TASA. The services provided must be performed strictly in accordance with its published terms of service, operating rules and relevant laws and regulations. By completing the registration process and clicking on the "Agree to Terms of Service" button, the user reaches an agreement with the official website of TASA and accepts all the terms of service. 

2. Introduction to the Service 

The official website of TASA uses its own operating system to provide users with various services (including ordinary individual members, free enterprise members and fee-paying enterprise members) through the Internet, and when users register, they must agree to: 

(1) Provide true, accurate, current and complete personal/corporate information. At the same time, maintain and update the registration information according to the change of circumstances to ensure its authenticity, accuracy, timeliness and integrity. 

(2) Once the official website of TASA discovers that a user's information contains inaccurate or even false content, the official website of TASA reserves the right to suspend or terminate the service to the user. 

3. User's Account, Password and Security 

(1) Once you have successfully registered, you will become a legal user of the official website of TASA, and receive a password and a user name. You agree to accept the services provided by the official website of TASA. If you fail to keep your user name and password properly, you will be fully responsible for any damage caused to you, the official website of TASA or any third party. In addition, each user is fully responsible for all activities and events in his/her user name. You can change your password and icon at any time, or cancel an old user name and re-register a new one. 

In order to avoid any infringement of users' legal rights, users should immediately notify the official website of TASA of any illegal use of user name or security vulnerabilities. 

4. Modification and Amendment of the Terms of Service 

The official website of TASA reserves the right to modify the terms of service when necessary. Once the terms of service of the official website of TASA are changed, the users will be notified of the modified content on the page before they proceed to the next step of use. If the user agrees to the change, he/she should activate the "I agree" button again, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in the terms of service. If the user does not accept, the official website of TASA reserves the right to modify or discontinue the service at any time without further notice to the user. The user accepts the right of the official website of TASA to modify or discontinue the service, and that the official website of TASA does not need to be held responsible for the user or any third party. 

5. User Privacy 

Respecting the privacy of users is a fundamental policy of the official website of TASA, which believes in good faith that the disclosure of such information is necessary in the following circumstances. 

(1) Comply with relevant laws and regulations, including providing the services used and the information uploaded by the users on the official website of TASA when inquired by relevant state authorities. 

(2) Comply with the product service procedures on the official website of TASA. 

(3) Maintain the trademark ownership and other intellectual property rights of the official website of TASA. 

(4) In case of emergency, make every effort to maintain the privacy and security of individual users/enterprises and the public. 

(5) In accordance with the provisions of Article 11 or under any other circumstance deemed necessary by the official website of TASA. 

6. Refusal to Provide Warranties and Disclaimers of Liabilities 

The users expressly agree that any risk arising from the use of the service on the official website of TASA is borne by the user alone. The service is provided on a free basis. The official website of TASA explicitly states that it does not provide any type of warranty, whether explicit or implicit. The official website of TASA does not guarantee that the service will meet the user's requirements, nor does it guarantee that the service will not be interrupted, nor does it guarantee the timeliness, safety, authenticity, or the occurrence of errors in the service. The official website of TASA disclaims all warranties, including that the information will be accurate, timely and smoothly transmitted. The users understand and accept that any information downloaded or obtained through the official website of TASA is at the users' own discretion and that the users bear the risk of system damage, data loss, and any other risks. The official website of TASA does not provide any guarantee for any merchandise shopping service, transaction process, or recruitment information obtained on the service website. The users will not receive verbal or written advice or information from the official website of TASA, nor does the official website of TASA make any explicit guarantee herein. 

7. Limited Liability 

The official website of TASA will not be liable for any direct, indirect, accidental, special and consequential damages or any other damages resulting from the users' improper use of the service, including but not limited to: improper use of product services, online transactions, illegal use of the service or information transmitted by the users. At the same time, TASA reserves the right to pursue legal responsibility for any damage caused by these damages to the image of the official website of TASA. 

8. Storage and limitation of information on the official website of TASA 

The copyright of all the articles on the official website of TASA is jointly owned by the original authors and the official website of TASA (unless otherwise agreed), and any person wishing to reproduce or use the articles must obtain the official and written authorization from the original authors or TASA. 

9. User Management 

The users are solely responsible for the content of their posts. Their use of the service shall be in accordance with all local, national and international legal standards applicable to the service. User Commitment: 

(1) The use of the services of the official website of TASA must comply with the relevant Chinese laws and regulations (please see the appendix for some of the laws and regulations), and the users may not use the service of the official website of TASA to produce, reproduce, publish or disseminate the following information: 

(a) Opposing the fundamental principles laid down in the Constitution; 

(b) Endangering national security, divulging State secrets, subverting State power or undermining national unity; 

(c) Harming the honor and interests of the State; 

(d) Inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination or undermining national unity; 

(e) Undermining the State's religious policy and propagating heresies and feudal superstitions. 

(f) Spreading rumors, disturbing social order and undermining social stability; 

(g) Spreading obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terror or abetting crime; 

(h) Insulting or defaming others and infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of others; 

(i) Containing other contents prohibited by laws and administrative regulations. 

(2) The use of the services of official website of TASA must also comply with the laws and regulations of other relevant countries and regions as well as the relevant provisions of international law. 

(3) Not to use the service on the official website of TASA to engage in the following activities: 

(a) Unauthorized access to the computer information network or use of resources in the computer information network; 

(b) Unauthorized deletion, modification or addition of functions in the computer information network; 

(c) Unauthorized deletion, modification or addition of the data and applications that are stored, processed or transmitted in the computer information network; 

(d) Intentionally producing or spreading destructive programs such as computer viruses; 

(e) Other acts endangering the security of the computer information network. 

(4) Not to interfere in any way with the services of the official website of TASA. 

(5) Comply with all other rules and procedures on the official website of TASA. 

The users are legally responsible for their own actions while using the services on the official website of TASA. The users understand that if the information transmitted on the official website of TASA is clearly one of the contents listed in paragraph (1) above, the official website of TASA is obligated, under Chinese law, to immediately stop the transmission, save relevant records, report to relevant state authorities, and delete the address or directory containing such content or shut down the server. 

10. Guarantee 

The users agree to protect and safeguard the interests of all members of the official website of TASA, and be responsible for paying the legal fees incurred by TASA in defending its rights and interests due to the users' violation of the law or breach of contract, the compensation for damages caused by the users' violation of the terms of service, and the recourse fees for other people's use of the users' computers, accounts and other intellectual property rights. 

11. End of Service 

The service may be interrupted at any time by the users or the official website of TASA depending on the actual situation. The official website of TASA is not liable to any individual or third party for any interruption of service at any time. If a user objects to any proposals of the terms of service or subsequent modifications to the terms of service, or is dissatisfied with the services on the official website of TASA, the user has only the following recourse rights: 

(1) No longer using the service on the official website of TASA. 

(2) The right to end the user's eligibility to use the services of the official website of TASA. 

(3) Notify the official website of TASA to discontinue the service of the user. 

Once the service is ended, the user’s right to use the service on the official website of TASA will be terminated immediately, and the official website of TASA will no longer bear any obligation to the user. 

12. Notification 

All notices to users may be delivered by e-mail or regular mail. The official website of TASA will send messages to the users via email service to inform them of changes to the terms of service, service changes, or other important matters. At the same time, the official website of TASA reserves the right to place commercial advertisements on users' registered email addresses. 

13. Ownership of the Content 

The definition of content includes: texts, software, sounds, photographs, videos, diagrams; the entirety of the contents in the advertisements; the entirety of the contents in the emails. All of these contents are protected by copyright, trademark, labeling and other property ownership laws. Therefore, the users may only use these contents with the authorization of the official website of TASA and the advertisers, and may not, without authorization, copy or recreate these contents, or create derivative products related to these contents. 

14. Laws 

The users and the official website of TASA agree that any dispute arising from this Agreement and the use of the service on the website of TASA shall be referred to the local court of the domicile of TASA. If any of the terms of service conflict with the law, then these terms will be reinterpreted as close as possible, while the other terms will remain in full force and effect to the users. 

 

Attachments:

Telecommunications Regulations of the People's Republic of China 

Administration of Internet Information Service 

Regulations on the Management of Internet Electronic Bulletin Service 

Provisional Regulations of the Administration of International Networking of Computer Information in the People's Republic of China 

Implementation Rules for Provisional Regulations of the Administration of International Networking of Computer Information in the People's Republic of China 

Regulations of the Peoples Republic of China for Safety Protection of Computer Information Systems 

Measures for the Administration of Internet Security Protection of Computer Information Networks 

 

Your continued registration is conditional upon your unconditional acceptance of all above terms of service.