Agreement to Terms 1001 STORYS is an online platform providing various literary, audiobooks, and comics. The services, including but not limited to the mobile application related, linked or otherwise connected, websites and any other media form therein(collectively, the "Site"), are provided by 1001 STORYS PTE. LTD. (hereinafter "the Company," "we," "us," or "our").1001 STORYS PTE. LTD. is a company registered in Singapore . Therefore, the effect of these Terms of Service shall be governed and operated under the laws of Singapore unless it is made clear under these Terms of Service that certain rights are protected by other relevant laws or regulations.
These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (hereinafter "you") and 1001 STORYS PTE. LTD..
By accessing the Site, you agree that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with all of these Terms of Service, please discontinue your use of our service immediately.
Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Site from time to time are expressly incorporated by reference. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Terms of Service from time to time. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last updated: “date” of these Terms of Service, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to check the Terms of Service prior to your use of our Site. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Terms of Service by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Terms of Service are posted.
Privacy Policy We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy: [https://1001novel.com/privacy_policy]. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms of Service.
Copyright All content or compilation of all content included in or made available through any Site of the Company, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is protected by the International Copyright Laws as they are deemed to be the property of the Company or its content suppliers.
Your Account By using the Site, you represent and warrant that:
(1) all
registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current,
and complete;
(2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information
and promptly update such registration information as necessary;
(3)
you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with the Terms
of Service;
(4) you are not under the age of 13;
(5) you are not a
minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you
have received parental permission to use the Site;
(6) you will not
access the Site through automated or non-human means, whether
through a bot, script, or otherwise;
(7) you will not use the Site
for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and
(8) your use of the
site will not violate any applicable law or regulation. If you
provide any information that is untrue, not current, or incomplete,
we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse
any and all current or future use of the Site (or any portion
thereof).
User Generated Contributions This Site may invite you to chat, contribute, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the Site, including but not limited to the text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, "Contributions"). Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Site and through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that: The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance,, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third-party.
a) Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate,
or misleading.
b) Your Contributions are not unsolicited or
unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes,
chain letters, spam, mass mailing, or other forms of solicitation.
c) Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy,
violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable
(as determined by us).
d) Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock,
disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
e) Your Contributions are not
used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any
other person or to promote violence against a specific person or
class of people.
f) Your Contributions do not violate any applicable
law, regulation, or rule.
g) Your Contributions do not violate the
privacy or publicity rights of any third-party.
h) Your Contributions
do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography or
otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.
i) Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are
connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or
physical handicap.
j) Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or
link to material that violates, any provision of these Terms of
Service, or any applicable law or regulation.
Use License If you access the Site via a mobile application, then we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the mobile application on wireless electronic devices owned or controlled by you, and to access and use the mobile application on such devices strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in the Terms of Service. You shall not:
(1) except as permitted by applicable law,
decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the
source code of, or decrypt the application;
(2) make any
modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or
derivative work from the application;
(3) violate any applicable
laws, rules, or regulations in connection with your access or use of
the application;
(4) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary
notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) posted by us
or the licensors of the application;
(5) use the application for any
revenue generating endeavor, commercial enterprise, or other purpose
for which it is not designed or intended;
(6) make the application
available over a network or other environment permitting access or
use by multiple devices or users at the same time;
(7) use the
application for creating a product, service, or software that is,
directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute
for the application;
(8) use the application to send automated
queries to any website or to send any unsolicited commercial e-mail;
or
(9) use any propriety information or any of our interfaces or our
other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture,
licensing, or distribution of any applications, accessories, or
device for use with the application.
Service Purchasing and Pricing Some of the services are provided to you free of charge, while other services and content may require payment prior to your access. The Company Content shall be deemed as a part of our services. Under certain conditions, e.g. license termination or disputable content, etc., some of the services may become time-limited. We will seek all possible methods to avoid this situation to fulfill your satisfaction. However, when necessary, we reserve the right to alter or terminate partial services with a reasonable notice period, regardless of whether the said service is provided online or downloaded in the local storage of your devices. You are responsible for all such payments and related payment obligations under this Agreement. You may be required to make applicable payments to us and satisfy applicable conditions in relation to the services, such as for your license to use certain portions of services. You acknowledge that subject to the policy of Apple Store and Google Play, we reserve the right, to change our terms of services, in whole or in part, or adjust pricing and availability for our services or any components thereof in any manner and at any time as we may determine in our sole and absolute discretion. We do not provide price protection or refunds in the event of a price adjustment or promotional offering, whether permanent or temporary. The payment shall be paid via Google Payments, Apple Pay, or any other form of payment that we make available to you from time to time for automatic, recurring, or subscription-based charges. Where we do so, you agree that (subject to applicable laws and regulations): Such purchases or payments are generally made by you on an advance basis; You authorize us to save your chosen payment method's information (e.g. credit card information) on our systems and bill your chosen payment method for the relevant time-periods; If any payment made via your chosen payment method is rejected, denied or returned unpaid for any reason, we may not provide you with, or suspend our provision of, the relevant content product or services until payment is properly processed; and you are liable to us for any fees, costs, expenses or other amounts we incur arising from such rejection, denial or return (and we may automatically charge you for such amounts). You agree to abide by any relevant legal agreement that applies to you, including but not limited to the Google payments terms of service. All such payments from you are subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant payment service (whether that payment service provider is a third-party or us), in addition to any other relevant terms of this Agreement. We bear no responsibility for any transactions processed by, or any payments made to, a third party, whether or not in connection with the relevant Services. All purchases may be subject to taxes and other fees, including, without limitation, foreign exchange fees or differences in prices based on location (e.g., exchange rates), and you are solely responsible for all fees and taxes associated with any services. You agree that any payments you make to us in relation to your use of any services are final and non-refundable, except where specified by us under this Agreement. Otherwise, under no circumstances will we be required to refund any payments made by you to us in relation to any services (whether used or unused). Please note that you are responsible for all third-party charges you incur (including any charges from your internet and telecommunication services providers) in relation to or arising from your use of the services. If you believe that we have charged you in error, and subject to applicable laws and regulations, you must contact us at service@1001novel.com within 30 days of the date of the relevant charge and no refunds will be given for any erroneous charges after such 30 days period. We may make all or some partpartsthe Site available to you without charge. In consideration of such, you acknowledge and agree that we may allow the display of third-party advertising, including advertising that is personalized to you, on or in connection with the Site. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more details on the use of your personal data in relation to third-party advertising. The advertising may contain links to third-party websites and online services that are not owned or controlled by the Company. The company has no control over such websites and online services, and we bear no liability in relation to the interactions you may decide to have with such advertising, including, without limitation, any reliance upon the advertising or any subsequent commercial transactions which may occur between you and the advertisers. We suggest you read the terms and privacy policy of each third-party website and online service that you visit.
Third-Party Website and Content This site may contain (or you may be sent via the Site) links to other websites ("third-party Websites") as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third-parties ("third-party Content"). Such third-party Websites and third-party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any third-party Websites accessed through the Site or any third-party Content posted on, available through, or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the third-party Websites or the third-party Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any third-party Websites or any third-party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Site and access the third-party Websites or to use or install any third-party Content, you do so at your own risk. You should review the relevant terms and policies of the third-party, including privacy and data gathering practice, and of any website to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or install from the Site. Any purchases you make through Third-Party Websites will be through other websites and from other companies, and we take no responsibility in relation to such purchases which are exclusively between you and the said third-party. You agree and acknowledge that we do not endorse the products or services offered or you have purchased through third-party Websites and you shall hold us harmless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products or services. Additionally, you shall hold us harmless from any losses sustained by you or harm caused to you relating to or resulting in any way from any third-party Content or any contact with third-party Websites. Advertisers We allow advertisers to display their advertisements and other information in certain areas of the Site, such as sidebar advertisements or banner advertisements. If you are an advertiser, you shall take full responsibility for any advertisements you place on the Site and any services provided on the Site or products sold through those advertisements. Further, as an advertiser, you warrant and represent that you possess all rights and authority to place advertisements on the Site, including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, publicity rights, and contractual rights. As an advertiser, you agree that such advertisements are subject to our Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") Notice and Policy provisions, and you understand and agree there will be no refund or other compensation for DMCA takedown related issues. We simply provide the space to place such advertisements, and we have no other relationship with advertisers.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability The site is provided on an as-is and as available basis. You agree that your use of the site and our services will be at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties. Express or implied, in connection with the site and your use thereof, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We make no warranties or representation about the accuracy or completeness of the Site's content or the content of any websites linked to the Site and we shall not be held liable or responsible for any
(1) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content
and materials,
(2) personal injury or property damage of any nature,
resulting from your access to and use of the Site,
(3) any
unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and
all personal information and/or financial information stored
therein,
(4) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or
from the Site,
(5) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like
which may be transmitted to you through the Site by any third-party,
and/or
(6) any errors or omissions in any content and materials or
for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use
of any content posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via
the Site.
Dispute Resolution You consent and agree that the Terms and interpretation hereof, and all matters arising out of or in connection with these Terms (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) and any dispute or claim arising out of, relating to, or in connection with these Terms shall be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Republic of Singapore without reference or regard to any choice or conflict of law principles, provisions or rules thereof that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than Singapore. You consent and agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and the Company arising in connection with or relating in any way to these Terms or to your relationship with the Company (whether based on contract, tort, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and regardless if the claims arise during or after the termination of the Terms) shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by Singapore International Arbitration Centre in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre in force when the notice of arbitration is submitted, which rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference in this clause. The seat of the arbitration will be Singapore. There will be one arbitrator only. The arbitration proceedings will be conducted in English. The arbitration award shall be final and binding upon you and us.
Indemnification You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made by any third-party due to or arising out of:
(1) your Contributions;
(2) use of the Site;
(3) breach of these Terms
of Service;
(4) any breach of your representations and warranties
set forth in these Terms of Service;
(5) you violation of the rights
of a Third-party, including but not limited to intellectual property
rights;
(6) any overt harmful act toward any other user of the
Site with whom you connected via the Site.
User Data We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Site for the purpose of managing the performance of the Site, as well as data relating to your use of the Site. Although we perform regular routine backups of data, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Site. You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data, and you hereby waive any right of action against us arising from any such loss or corruption of such data.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice and Policy We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material available on or through the Site infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please immediately notify our Designated Copyright Department at copyright@1001novel.com. A copy of your notification will be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the notification. Please be advised that, pursuant to federal law, you may be held liable for damages if you make misrepresentation in a notification. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Site infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney. All notifications should meet the requirement of DMCA and include the following information: A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works on the Site are covered by the notification, a representative list of such works on the Site; Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which the complaining party may be contacted; A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed upon.
Electronic Communications When you use the Sites of the Company, or send e-mails, text messages, and other communications from your desktop or mobile device to us, you may be communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically, such as e-mails, texts, mobile push notices, or notices and messages on this site or through the other Sites of the Company, such as our Message Center, and you can retain copies of these communications for your records. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
Contact Information If you have any questions about, or if you wish to send us any notices in relation to, these Terms, you may email us at the following email addresses: contact@1001novel.com
Effective Date March 24, 2023