Welcome to HOUSELINK 2023. HOUSELINK is an online platform dedicated to the construction industry. We bring together the whole supply chain, including investors, consultants, designers, contractors, and suppliers. Through HOUSELINK, people can find projects, partners, design ideas, advice, products and services within the construction industry in Vietnam.
These Terms of Use (the “Terms” or the “Agreement”) set forth the binding legal agreement between you and HOUSELINK JSC. The Agreement governs your use of houselink.com.vn and all of the related websites, mobile apps, products and services offered by HOUSELINK, including our plug-ins and embedded content made available on other sites (collectively, the “HOUSELINK Platform”).
We refer to the e-commerce marketplace on the HOUSELINK Platform as the “HOUSELINK Shop.” If you visit or make a purchase or sale through the HOUSELINK Shop through houselink.com.vn or the related mobile app experience, then this Agreement is also between you and HOUSELINK Shop. HOUSELINK JSC and HOUSELINK Shop are collectively referred to as “HOUSELINK,” “we,” or “us” in this Agreement.
These Terms provide important information to you, including your agreement to grant rights to your content, our limitation of liability to you, your agreement to resolve any disputes by individual arbitration and to waive the right to participate in a class action (described in Section 8 below) and, if you choose to provide us with your phone number, your agreement to receive calls and text messages from us in accordance with applicable law. By agreeing to these Terms, you agree to resolve all disputes through binding individual arbitration, which means that you waive any right to have those disputes decided by a judge or jury, and that you waive your right to participate in class actions, class arbitrations, or any type of representative actions.
We encourage you to review this Agreement carefully. Any use of the HOUSELINK Platform, including browsing www.houselink.com.vn, shall be governed by the Agreement. If you do not agree to any of the Terms, you should stop using the HOUSELINK Platform.
a. Who can use it: You must be at least the age of majority in the state where you live to use the HOUSELINK Platform. Use of the HOUSELINK Platform by anyone under 18 years of age is strictly prohibited.
b. Registration: Access to certain functionalities of the HOUSELINK Platform will require you to register with us and to create a profile on our Platform. If you register with HOUSELINK, you agree to provide us accurate information and update it as needed for accuracy. We will treat personally identifiable information you provide as part of registration in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You also may have the option to register for an account by linking your Facebook or Google account.
c. Privacy Policy: Our privacy practices are set forth in our Privacy Policy. By using the HOUSELINK Platform in any way, you agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, regardless of whether you are a registered user.
d. Profile for Professionals: If you are a professional services provider, you may set up a Professional Profile. If you do, you give us the right to list your Professional Profile in our directory of service providers, and you will be able to connect with others on the HOUSELINK Platform while identified by your professional profile. Your professional profile is subject to our Professional Profile Policy.
e. Acceptable Use Policy: When using the HOUSELINK Platform, you agree to abide by common standards of etiquette and act in accordance with the law, as described further in our Acceptable Use Policy.
f. Prohibited Products Policy: If you are a professional, a vendor, or a seller, who is authorized to offer products through the HOUSELINK Shop, you agree to abide by the Prohibited Products Policy.
g. Termination: You may close your account at any time by going to account settings and disabling your account. We may permanently or temporarily suspend your use of the site or the service at any time for any reason, without any notice or liability to you. We may terminate your account at any time for any or no reason, including if you violate any HOUSELINK policy. Upon termination of your use of the service, certain provisions will survive termination, as detailed in Section 10(m).
h. Feedback: We welcome your feedback and suggestions about how to improve the HOUSELINK Platform. Feel free to submit feedback at houselink.com.vn/contact-us. By submitting feedback in this or in any other manner to us, you agree to grant us the right, at our discretion, to use, disclose and otherwise exploit the feedback, in whole or part, without any restriction or compensation to you.
a. Definition of Your Content: The HOUSELINK Platform enables you to post materials, including without limitation photos, profile pictures, messages, and commentary. You may also post reviews of third-party service providers, third-party products, or third-party services (“Reviews”). All materials that you post on the HOUSELINK Platform will be referred to collectively as “Your Content.” You acknowledge and agree that, as part of using the HOUSELINK Platform, Your Content may be viewed by the general public and will not be treated as private or confidential.
b. License and Permission to Use Your Content: You hereby grant to us and our affiliates, licensees and sublicensees, without compensation to you or others, a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, transmit and distribute Your Content, or any portion thereof, throughout the world in any format, media or distribution method for the duration of any copyright or other rights in Your Content. Such permission will be perpetual and may not be revoked for any reason, to the maximum extent permitted by law. Further, to the extent permitted under applicable law, you waive and release and covenant not to assert any moral rights that you may have in Your Content. If you identify yourself by name or provide a picture or audio or video recording of yourself, you further authorize us and our affiliates, licensees and sub licensees, without compensation to you or others, to reproduce, print, publish and disseminate in any format or media your name, voice and likeness throughout the world, and such permission will be perpetual and cannot be revoked for any reason, except as required by the applicable law. You further agree that we may use Your Content in any manner that we deem appropriate or necessary.
c. Ownership: We acknowledge and agree that you, or your licensors, retain ownership of any and all copyrights in Your Content, subject to the non-exclusive rights granted to us in the paragraph above. Further, with respect to Your Content in the form of photos, and subject to HOUSELINK product and user experience considerations: (a) we will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the attribution of such photos as submitted by you, and (b) we will not license or sublicense to third parties individual photos or collections of photos, except in each case for HOUSELINK Business Purposes.
d. Your Responsibilities for Your Content: By posting Your Content on the HOUSELINK Platform, you represent and warrant to us that you have the ownership rights, or you have obtained all needed licenses or permissions from any necessary parties, to use Your Content in this manner. You are responsible for ensuring that your content does not violate HOUSELINK’s Acceptable Use Policy, Prohibited Products Policy, or Copyright and Trademark Policy or any applicable law or regulation. You agree to pay all royalties, fees and any other monies owed to any person by reason of Your Content.
e. Limits: We reserve the right to edit, abridge, or remove Your Content, in whole or part, for any reason (which may include a reported violation of our Acceptable Use Policy or Prohibited Products Policy, or Copyright and Trademark Policy). We reserve the right to edit, refuse to post or remove Your Content submitted by you for any reason without notice. We do not guarantee that we will publish all of Your Content. If you seek to publish a Review, the requirements will be governed by our Review Policy.
Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY SINCE IT LIMITS THE LIABILITY OF HOUSELINK ENTITIES TO YOU. THE “HOUSELINK ENTITIES” MEANS HOUSELINK JSC., AND ANY SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, RELATED COMPANIES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS AND PARTNERS, AND THE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF EACH OF THEM.
a. THE HOUSELINK ENTITIES MAKE NO PROMISES WITH RESPECT TO, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FOR: (i) CONTENT POSTED BY ANY THIRD-PARTY ON THE HOUSELINK PLATFORM, (ii) THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS OR PRODUCTS, (iii) THIRD-PARTY SITES AND ANY THIRD-PARTY PRODUCT OR SERVICE LISTED ON OR ACCESSIBLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SITE, (iv) THE QUALITY OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD-PARTY YOU ENCOUNTER IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE.
b. YOU AGREE THAT UNDER THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE HOUSELINK ENTITIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, YOU AGREE THAT THE HOUSELINK ENTITIES SPECIFICALLY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, REPUTATIONAL HARM, OR LOSS OF DATA ARISING OUT OF AND IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE HOUSELINK PLATFORM OR PRODUCTS.
HOUSELINK JSC
Level 9 Sannam Building, Duy Tan Cau Giay, Hanoi Vietnam, 100000
Contact us: houselink.com.vn/contact-us