Terms of Use
General
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Welcome to ScamShield provided by the National Crime Prevention Council (“NCPC”) and the Government Techology Agency of Singapore (“GovTech”). These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of ScamShield. Please read these Terms carefully as any non-compliance may result in civil or criminal liability.
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By accessing and using any part of ScamShield, you agree to be bound by these Terms. You may access and use ScamShield in the manner permitted under these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use ScamShield.
Use of ScamShield
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Unless otherwise authorised by NCPC or GovTech, we grant you a non-exclusive, limited, revocable, non-sub-licensable and non-transferrable right to use ScamShield for your personal non-commercial use only.
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You agree that you will not, directly or indirectly —
(a) modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, adapt, publish, redistribute or interfere with or intercept any transaction which is part of ScamShield; (b) use ScamShield for any commercial purpose or for the benefit of any third party (save where authorised by NCPC or GovTech), including renting, selling, leasing or directly or indirectly charging others for the use of ScamShield; (c) remove, circumvent, impair, bypass, disable or otherwise interfere with any feature of ScamShield; (d) access, submit or use any data that is not yours, or which you are not validly authorised to access, submit or use; (e) misrepresent or make false or misleading claims regarding ScamShield; (f) use ScamShield for any illegal activity, unlawful purpose, or purposes prohibited by these Terms or in breach of these Terms; (g) use any device, software, exploits, or routine, including any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, robot, spider, data-mining or data scraping tool or cancel bot intended to damage or interfere with the proper operation of ScamShield or to intercept or expropriate any data from ScamShield; (h) use ScamShield in any manner that could damage, disrupt, disable, overburden, or impair the operation of ScamShield or interfere with any person's use of ScamShield; (i) while using ScamShield, upload, post or transmit any material of any type that 1. is contrary to any law, statute or subsidiary legislation; 2. is false, offensive, defamatory, inaccurate, misleading or fraudulent; or 3. infringes or violates the rights of any person; (j) use ScamShield to access data not intended for you. 1. You agree that data collected by ScamShield may be shared with NCPC, GovTech, and the Singapore Police Force (SPF), and be used for detecting, reporting and blocking of potential scam calls and messages. You further agree that the contents of scam messages collected may be shared with the Singapore Police Force for investigative purposes. 2. You agree to comply with any and all guidelines, notices, operating rules and policies and instructions pertaining to the use of ScamShield, including any amendments to the foregoing, issued by NCPC or GovTech from time to time, as well as any applicable laws and regulations.
Disclaimers against Warranty, Representation and Liability
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ScamShield is provided on an “as-is” and “as available” basis without warranty of any kind. The accessibility and operation of ScamShield may rely on technologies outside our control. To the extent permitted by law, NCPC and GovTech does not make any representation or warranty of any kind whatsoever in relation to ScamShield and disclaim all express, implied and statutory warranties of any kind to you or any third party, whether arising from usage or custom or trade or by operation of law or otherwise, including any representation or warranty
(a) as to the accuracy, completeness, correctness, currency, timeliness, reliability, availability, interoperability, security, non-infringement, title, merchantability, quality or fitness for any particular purpose of ScamShield; or (b) that ScamShield or any associated function or feature will be continuously accessible, uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected or that ScamShield and their servers are and will be free of virus or other malicious, destructive or corrupting code, programme or macro.
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NCPC and GovTech will not be liable to you or any third party for any damage or loss of any kind whatsoever and howsoever caused, including any direct or indirect, special or consequential damage, loss of income, revenue or profit, lost or damaged data, or damage to your device, software or any other property, whether arising directly or indirectly in connection with any of the following
(a) your use of ScamShield; (b) any loss or unavailability of use of ScamShield, howsoever caused; (c) any breakdown or malfunction of any equipment system or software used in connection with ScamShield, whether belonging to us or not, including any electronic terminal, server or system, or telecommunication or other communications network or system; (d) your device, computer or other electronic hardware not working or functioning properly; (e) any inaccuracy or incompleteness in, or error or omission in the transmission of data or any other content made available or accessible via ScamShield; (f) any delay, failure, or interruption in the transmission of data or any other content made available or accessible via ScamShield, whether caused by delay, failure, or interruption in transmission over the internet or otherwise; (g) any decision made or action taken by you or any third party in reliance upon ScamShield or any data or any other content made available or accessible via ScamShield; or (h) any virus or other malicious, destructive or corrupting code, programme or macro in ScamShield.
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You acknowledge that your use of ScamShield contains the possibility of human and machine errors, inaccuracies, omissions, delays, unavailability and losses, including the inadvertent loss of data which may give rise to loss or damage suffered by you, and you agree that you will not hold NCPC or GovTech liable in any way whatsoever for the said loss or damage. You agree that you use ScamShield at your own discretion and risk and that you will be responsible for any loss or damage suffered by you and to your device, or loss, damage to or corruption of data that results from the use of ScamShield.
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You will not rely on ScamShield to claim or assert any form of legitimate expectation against NCPC or GovTech.
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Without prejudice to the foregoing, no action may be brought by you against NCPC or GovTech, under these Terms or related to ScamShield.
Reservation of Rights
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NCPC and GovTech reserves the right to change, modify or supplement these Terms at our discretion and at any time, by posting the changed, modified or supplemented Terms on or through ScamShield, or through such other means as NCPC or GovTech may deem appropriate. Your continued use of ScamShield following the posting of any change, modification or supplement will constitute your acceptance of such change, modification or supplement. If you do not agree to any change, modification or supplement to these Terms, please do not use ScamShield.
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NCPC and GovTech reserves the right to:
(a) update, enhance, upgrade, reduce, or otherwise modify or vary ScamShield, at any time, for any reason, with or without notice to you. These Terms will apply to all such updates, enhancements, upgrades, reductions, modifications or variations to ScamShield; (b) suspend the use of ScamShield, during times of maintenance (whether scheduled or unscheduled), without notice or liability to you whatsoever; (c) deny or restrict the use of ScamShield to you without ascribing any reasons and without liability to you whatsoever; (d) discontinue or terminate ScamShield, at any time without notice or liability to you whatsoever, whereupon all rights granted to you under these Terms will also terminate immediately; and (e) if your use of ScamShield is in breach of these Terms, we may immediately disable your use of ScamShield without notice and to take all such action as we consider appropriate, desirable or necessary. <br>
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NCPC and GovTech retains the discretion in determining whether or not to provide maintenance and support services for ScamShield, and if so, the type and nature of such maintenance and support services.
Intellectual Property
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You acknowledge that NCPC and GovTech owns all titles, rights and interest, including intellectual property rights, in and to ScamShield, including any software therein. You will not do or permit any act which is directly or indirectly likely to limit our titles, rights or interest in and to the same. Unless otherwise expressly permitted by law, you agree not to modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, or decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from, ScamShield. Without limiting the foregoing, you will not use in any way and will not reproduce any trademark, logo, trade name and similar mark that is associated with ScamShield, without NCPC or GovTech’s prior written consent.
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NCPC and GovTech does not represent or warrant that the use of ScamShield by you will not constitute an infringement or misuse of any third party right, including intellectual property rights.
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No part of ScamShield may be reproduced or reused without NCPC or GovTech’s prior written permission.
Indemnity
- You agree to indemnify NCPC and GovTech and hold NCPC and GovTech harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including but not limited to legal costs and expenses on a full indemnity basis) made against or suffered or incurred by NCPC or GovTech howsoever arising directly or indirectly out of your access to or use of ScamShield, or your breach of any of these Terms.
Governing Law
- These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with laws of the Republic of Singapore.
Privacy Statement
- Privacy information submitted via ScamShield will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Statement. In using this application, you agree to be bound by the Privacy Statement.