This Legal Notice governs the access of the Ling Kee Publishing Group's websites at www.lingkee.com, ubl.lingkee.com, lkbs.lingkee.com, wle.lingkee.com, bla.lingkee.com) ("Sites") by users ("Users" or "you"). Please note that this legal notice may be subject to other privacy policies and legal notices appearing on our other websites, and to any expressly designated terms located on particular pages of our Sites. By using our Sites, you are accepting the practices described in this statement.

You may access certain parts of our Sites without registering or providing the Ling Kee Publishing Group and/or its affiliates or subsidiaries (collectively referred to as "LING KEE", "we", "us" or "our") with your details.

As the information on our Sites may be incomplete, out of date or inaccurate and may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, we reserve the right to update our Sites at our sole discretion. Thus, such information may be changed or updated without notice.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Legal Notice. Any changes we may make to this Legal Notice will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, we will also notify you by e-mail. Certain provisions of this Legal Notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms locate d on particular pages of our Sites.

Where you have registered on our Sites and have been provided with a username and password, you agree not to make available your username and/or password to anyone.

If there has been a disclosure of your username and/or password, you agree to notify us promptly of such disclosure, so that LING KEE can take appropriate security measures and provide you with a new username and password.

We may suspend or cancel your registration immediately at our sole discretion without giving you any reasons.

You can cancel your registration at any time by logging on and following the instructions stated on the Sites.

All materials on our Sites are the copyright of LING KEE or are reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. All rights are reserved. The materials on our Sites may be retrieved and downloaded solely for personal use. No materials may otherwise be copied, modified, published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written permission of LING KEE.

Ling Kee Publishing Ltd., Ling Kee Book Store Ltd., Unicorn Books Ltd., Ward Lock Educational Ltd. and BLA Publishing Ltd. and/or any other names of products or services provided by LING KEE and referred to on our Sites are either trademarks or registered trademarks of LING KEE.

All materials on or available through our Sites are (unless otherwise stated) copyright of LING KEE and its licensors. All rights are reserved.

Users are permitted to view, print and download the material for personal, non-commercial and classroom use only, but in so doing are not permitted to remove or amend any trademark, copyright or other proprietary notice. Classroom use refers to non-commercial uses by a qualified teacher during a class of students registered in a qualified educational institution ("classroom use").

Users are not entitled to modify the contents of our Sites or reproduce, republish, distribute, transmit, link, frame or deep-link it on any other website without the express permission of LING KEE. Users may not distribute, transmit, reproduce or publish by electronic or any other means any part of the data without the prior written permission of LING KEE. Users may not create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the contents. All other rights reserved.

All trademarks used on our Sites are the property of their respective owners. The use of any trademark on our Sites does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement of our Sites by such owners.

LING KEE makes no warranties or representations of any kind concerning the accuracy or suitability of the information contained on our Sites for any purpose. All such information is provided "as is" and with specific disclaimer of any warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose, title and/or non-infringement. LING KEE makes no warranties or representations of any kind that the services provided by our Sites will be uninterrupted, error-free or that our Sites or the servers that host our Sites are free from viruses or other forms of harmful computer code.

In no event shall LING KEE, its employees or agents be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of opportunity, loss of data, loss of goodwill, loss of anticipated savings or loss of profits resulting from the use of our Sites even if LING KEE has been advised of such loss.

Neither party's liability for personal injury or death caused by negligence or for fraud is excluded or limited.

The exclusions set out in this Legal Notice only apply to the extent permitted by law.

Links to other websites are provided by LING KEE in good faith and for information only. LING KEE disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any websites linked to our Sites.

In addition, a link to a non-LING KEE website does not mean that LING KEE endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such website or the products and/or services offered on such website. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojans and other items of a destructive nature.

While we endeavour to ensure that our Sites are normally available 24 hours a day, we shall not be liable if for any reason our Sites are unavailable at any time or for any period.

Access to our Sites may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control.

Portions of our Sites may allow users to post their own materials. Materials posted by users do not necessarily reflect the views of LING KEE. By posting materials on our Sites, you represent that you have all necessary rights in and to such materials and that such materials will not infringe any personal or proprietary rights of any third parties, that such material is not technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data), nor will such materials be defamatory, unlawful, threatening, obscene or otherwise objectionable.

LING KEE reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to review, edit or delete any materials posted by users that LING KEE deems defamatory, unlawful, threatening, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, LING KEE expressly disclaims any responsibility or liability for any material communicated by third parties through our Sites.

You recognise the global nature of our Sites and you agree to comply with all applicable local laws in your jurisdiction when using our Sites.

Information we publish on our Sites may contain references or cross-references to services and/or products offered that are not announced or available in your country. Such references do not imply that we intend to announce or make available such services and/or products in your country.

You agree that this legal notice shall be exclusively governed by the laws of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong SAR of the People's Republic of China. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Legal Notice will preclude LING KEE from applying to any court to bring an action for the infringement of its intellectual property rights.

If you have any concerns about the materials which appear on our Sites, please contact mmg@lingkee.com.

This Legal Notice may be revised from time to time. If there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese version of this Statement, the English version shall prevail.