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Terms of Use

Read carefully the Terms of Use. If you are not amenable to these terms, please do not use the website.

General Provisions

The following terms are entered by and between the User/Member and Royal Institution. By accessing and browsing this website, the user/member agrees to be bound by these terms.

Royal Institution reserves the right to amend these Terms which shall take effect immediately upon notice in the website. The subsequent use of the user/member is deemed acceptance of such amendments.

1. Warranties and Submission

Members are required to submit a hard copy of their credentials to Royal Institution for purposes of evaluating and approval of their membership. The members hereby warrant the veracity or truthfulness of their credentials. Information posted on the members’ profile shall initially be uploaded by Royal Institution to which it does not warrant that the contents are error-free. Any update on the members’ profile and its accuracy shall be the members’ responsibility.

2. Password Protection

Members are advised to keep their password confidential and shall be held liable for its unauthorized use. Members are responsible for the use of their Accounts and shall ensure that any use of which must be in compliance with these Terms. Royal Institution must be notified immediately of any unauthorized use of Account.

3. Members Behavior Online

The following are the prohibited activities:

• for multilevel marketing, junk mails, spamming, chain letters  or otherwise to provide unwanted solicitations or promotional messages (unless otherwise allowed in the Terms of Use or upon consent of the member concerned);

• to harm, abuse, embarrass, offend, insult or to any other forms of inappropriate behavior which violates the right of  others;

• to upload, publish or otherwise circulate within the  Royal Institution’s website any pornographic, indecent, or otherwise inappropriate materials either in the form photos, videos, messages or discussions;

• to infringe or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of others whether a member or not;

• to introduce any program or software including malaware or malicious or disruptive programs including viruses. It also includes spy ware, scripts processes or software or programs designed to gather or collect information in the website or to obtain source code of the website;

• to provide contact details such as telephone number, mobile number and email address in the inappropriate fields which are allotted for public viewing or to otherwise include contact details in the public profile which is available to all members viewing the same.

Contact details may be placed in the fields appropriately reserve for such;

• to directly compete with Royal Institution’s networking platform.

• to do any action or operation which will unduly strain, interfere or disrupt the normal capacity or operation of the website;

• to misrepresent the true identity of the member, which includes using pen name or pseudo name or to otherwise misrepresent important details such as the current work, previous jobs held etc. To post pictures or images for the public profile other than that of the member which includes but is not limited to cartoon characters, famous celebrity etc;

• to violate any applicable laws, rules and regulation; and

• to impair the professional culture of Royal Institution or to promote notoriety or be associated with organizations with dubious character or otherwise outlawed.

Depending on the degree, severity and habituality of the violation, Royal Institution reserves the right to impose disciplinary actions against erring members using the website. The penalties or disciplinary actions may range from suspension of privileges for a repeated offense or to be banned from accessing their Account in case of severe and flagrant violations. Royal Institution reserves the right to remove the content which is contrary to the Terms of Use without notifying the member concerned. Royal Institution will however notify the members of the violations and be heard accordingly before any sanctions of suspension or expulsion is imposed. Ban or expulsion from the website may result to termination of membership in Royal Institution depending on the severity or frequency of violations.

4. Royal Institution’s Rights & Duties

Royal Institution strives to provide a professional networking platform and all the secondary services it may offer in its website.

Royal Institution will strive to provide all the services available to all members to which they are entitled without any disruptions. However, Royal Institution will not be liable for any service interruptions due to fortuitous events beyond its control, or causes such as technical repairs, systems check up or any forms of renovation nor is it liable for malfunction or interruptions that cannot be prevented by exercise of reasonable diligence.

Royal Institution may post links of third parties in its website. Once the member decides to go to such website, Royal Institution is free from any liability, as it does not exercise control or supervision over third party websites.

Royal Institution reserves the right to alter, modify or to withdraw the services online which it may have been initially offered upon joining and registration of the member concerned. Royal Institution will not be responsible for any of the subsequent changes or withdrawal of service.