User Agreement

Last updated: Dec 18, 2024

This User Agreement ("Terms") applies to your use of the website and application, emails, and other product and services (collectively, the "Services") provided by PDB PTE LTD ("PDB", the "Company", "we", "us", or "our").

Your access to and use of the Services is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Services (collectively, "you" or "users").

When using the Services, you will be subject to our Privacy Policy and additional rules and guidelines that are posted on the Services or made available to you. While the Terms provide a legal explanation of expectations, our rules and guidelines speak of the specifics of conduct in this community.

1. Your Access to the Services

You may only use our Service if you are over the age of 13, and over the minimum age required by the laws of your country of residence to access and use the Services.

If you are accepting these Terms on behalf of another legal entity, you represent that you have full legal authority to bind such entity to these Terms.

2. Your PDB Account

When you create an account with us, you must provide us information that is accurate, complete, and current at all times. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of the Terms, which may result in immediate termination of your account on our Services.

You are responsible for safeguarding the password that you use to access the Services and for any activities or actions under your password, whether your password is with our Services or a third-party social media service.

You agree not to disclose your password to any third party. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account.

You may not use as a username the name of another person or entity or that is not lawfully available for use, a name or trademark that is subject to any rights of another person or entity other than you without appropriate authorization, or a name that is otherwise offensive, vulgar or obscene.

You will not license, sell, or transfer your account without our prior written approval.

3. Privacy

Your privacy is important to PDB. Please see our Privacy Policy for information relating to how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information, and the choices and rights you have when you use the Services.

4. Your Content

Our Services allows you to post information, text, links, graphics, photos, or other materials ("Content"). You are responsible for the content that you post to the Services ("Your Content"), including its legality, reliability, and appropriateness.

You retain any and all of your rights to Your Content and you are responsible for protecting those rights.

By providing Your Content to the Services, you grant to PDB worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content in connection with the Services and PDB (and its successors' or affiliates') business, including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Services. You agree that this license includes the right for us to make Your Content available to other users of the Services, who may also use Your Content on our Services subject to these Terms.

You represent and warrant that: (i) the content is yours (you own it) or you have the right to use it and grant us the rights and license as provided in these Terms, and (ii) the posting of Your Content on or through the Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.

Any ideas, suggestions, and feedback about PDB or our Services that you provide to us are entirely voluntary, and you agree that PDB may use such ideas, suggestions, and feedback without compensation or obligation to you.

Although we have no obligation to screen, edit, or monitor Your Content, we may, in our sole discretion, delete or remove Your Content at any time and for any reason, including for violating these Terms, violating our rules and guidelines that are posted on the Services, or if you otherwise create or are likely to create liability for us.

Content Restrictions

The Company is not responsible for the content of the Services' users. You expressly understand and agree that you are solely responsible for Your Content and for all activity that occurs under your account, whether done so by you or any third person using your account.

You may not transmit any content that is unlawful, offensive, upsetting, intended to disgust, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Examples of such objectionable content include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Unlawful or promoting unlawful activity.
  • Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups.
  • Spam, machine – or randomly – generated, constituting unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, chain letters, any other form of unauthorized solicitation, or any form of lottery or gambling.
  • Containing or installing any viruses, worms, malware, trojan horses, or other content that is designed or intended to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software, hardware or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any data or other information of a third person.
  • Infringing on any proprietary rights of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity or other rights.
  • Impersonating any person or entity including the Company and its employees or representatives.
  • Violating the privacy of any third person.
  • False information and features.

The Company reserves the right, but not the obligation, to, in its sole discretion, determine whether or not any Content is appropriate and complies with this Terms as well as our rules and guidelines that are posted on the Services, refuse or remove this Content. The Company further reserves the right to make formatting and edits and change the manner any Content. The Company can also limit or revoke the use of the Services if you post such objectionable Content. As the Company cannot control all Content posted by users and/or third parties on the Services, you agree to use the Services at your own risk. You understand that by using the Services you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive, indecent, incorrect or objectionable, and you agree that under no circumstances will the Company be liable in any way for any Content, including any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any Content.

Content Backups

Although regular backups of Content are performed, the Company do not guarantee there will be no loss or corruption of data.

Corrupt or invalid backup points may be caused by, without limitation, Content that is corrupted prior to being backed up or that changes during the time a backup is performed.

The Company will provide support and attempt to troubleshoot any known or discovered issues that may affect the backups of Content. But you acknowledge that the Company has no liability related to the integrity of Content or the failure to successfully restore Content to a usable state.

You agree to maintain a complete and accurate copy of any Content in a location independent of the Services.

5. Prohibited Conducts

When using our Services, you must comply with these Terms and all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Please also review the Rules and Guidelines, which are an extension to the Terms and contain PDB's rules and guidelines about prohibited conduct. In addition to what is prohibited in the Rules and Guidelines, except and solely to the extent such a restriction is impermissible under applicable law, you may not do any of the following, without our written agreement:

  • Use our Services in any manner that could disable, disrupt, overburden, or otherwise impair the Services, including distribute to or through the Services any malicious code or other software.
  • Gain access to (or attempt to gain access to) any private portions of the Services, including another user's PDB account and the computer systems or networks used together with the Services;
  • Use the Services to violate applicable law or infringe any person’s or entity's intellectual property rights or any other proprietary rights;
  • Access, search, or collect data from the Services by any means except as permitted in these Terms;
  • License, sell, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services;
  • Modify, prepare derivative works of, disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer any part of the Services; and
  • Access the Services in order to build a similar or competitive product.

6. Copyright, DMCA, and Takedowns

Intellectual Property Infringement

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond to any claim that Content posted on the Services infringes a copyright or other intellectual property infringement of any person.

If you are a copyright owner, or authorized on behalf of one, and you believe that the copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement that is taking place through the Services, you must submit your notice in writing to the attention of our copyright agent via email at hello @ pdb.co and include in your notice a detailed description of the alleged infringement.

DMCA Notice and DMCA Procedure for Copyright Infringement Claims

You may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by providing us with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

  • An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright's interest.
  • A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., web page address) of the location where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work.
  • Identification of the URL or other specific location on the Services where the material that you claim is infringing is located.
  • Your address, telephone number, and email address.
  • A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

You can contact our copyright agent via email at hello @ pdb.co. Upon receipt of a notification, the Company will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged Content from the Service.

You may be held accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) for misrepresenting that any Content is infringing your copyright.

If we remove Your Content in response to a copyright or trademark notice, we will notify you via PDB's direct messaging system. If you believe Your Content was wrongly removed due to a mistake or misidentification in a copyright notice, you can send a counter notification to hello @ pdb.co.

7. Intellectual Property Rights

The Services are owned and operated by PDB. The visual interfaces, graphics, design, compilation, information, data, computer code, products, services, trademarks, and all other elements of the Services ("Materials") provided by PDB are protected by intellectual property and other laws. All Materials included in the Services are the property of PDB or its third-party licensors.

Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without the prior written consent of the Company. PDB reserves all rights to the Materials not granted expressly in these Terms.

8. Child Safety Standards Policy

Purpose: To ensure the safety and well-being of all children who interact with our organization, whether directly or indirectly.

Scope: This policy applies to all employees, volunteers, contractors, and any individuals involved in activities related to our organization.

Policy Statement: We are committed to protecting children from all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. We strive to create a safe environment for children and uphold the highest standards of child protection.

Key Principles:

  1. Do No Harm: We are dedicated to minimizing any harm that may inadvertently result from our activities.
  2. Child-Centered Approach: The best interests of the child are at the heart of all our decisions and actions.
  3. Transparency: We maintain open communication with children, their families, and our stakeholders about our child protection policies and practices.
  4. Accountability: We hold ourselves accountable for ensuring the safety and well-being of children in all our operations.

Procedures:

  1. Recruitment and Training: All staff and volunteers undergo background checks and receive training on child protection policies and procedures.
  2. Reporting and Response: We have clear procedures for reporting and responding to any concerns or incidents of child abuse or neglect.
  3. Monitoring and Evaluation: Regularly review and update our child protection policies and practices to ensure they remain effective and relevant.

Reporting: Any concerns or incidents should be reported immediately to hello @ pdb.app. Reports can be made anonymously if preferred.

Review: This policy will be reviewed annually and updated as necessary to reflect best practices and legal requirements.

9. Indemnity

Except to the extent prohibited by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold PDB, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, third-party service providers, and licensors (the “PDB Entities”) harmless from and against any claim or demand made by any third party, and any related liability, damage, loss, and expense (including costs and attorneys' fees) due to, arising out of, or in connection with: (a) your use of the Services, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of applicable laws or regulations, or (d) Your Content. We reserve the right to control the defense of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of these claims.

10. Disclaimers

"AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE"

You shall be fully responsible for any risks involved in using our Services. Any use or reliance on our Services will be at your own risk.

You acknowledge and agree that the Services is provided by PDB on an “AS IS” and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the Company, on its own behalf and on behalf of its affiliates and its and their respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the Services, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. Without limitation to the foregoing, the Company provides no warranty or undertaking, and makes no representation of any kind that the Services will meet your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, applications, systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.

Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Company nor any of the company's provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as to the operation or availability of the Services, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free; (iii) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content provided through the Services; or (iv) that the Services, its servers, the content, or e-mails sent from or on behalf of the Company are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain types of warranties or limitations on applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to you. But in such a case the exclusions and limitations set forth in this section shall be applied to the greatest extent enforceable under applicable law.

Limitation of Liabilities

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the Company or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, loss of data or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, loss of privacy arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the Services, third-party software and/or third-party hardware used with the Services, or otherwise in connection with any provision of this Terms), even if the Company or any supplier has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if the remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply. In these jurisdictions, each party's liability will be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

Third-Party Content

Our Services may contain third-party content including links to third-party web sites or services and sponsored third-party advertisements that are not owned or controlled by the Company.

The Company has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such third-party content.

We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that you visit.

11. Termination

We may terminate or suspend your PDB account immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach any of these Terms.

Upon termination, your right to use the Services will cease immediately. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply delete your PDB account and discontinue using the Services.

The following sections will survive any termination of these Terms or of your PDB account: Your Content, Prohibited Conducts, Intellectual Property Rights, Indemnity, and Disclaimers.

12. Other Terms

Legal Juridiction

This agreement shall be governed by the laws of Singapore. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre ("SIAC") in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre ("SIAC Rules") for the time being in force, which rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference in this clause. The seat of the arbitration shall be Singapore. The language of the arbitration shall be English.

Disputes Resolution

If you have any concern or dispute about the Services, You agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the Company.

For European Union (EU) Users

If You are a European Union consumer, you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident in.

United States Legal Compliance

You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to the United States government embargo, or that has been designated by the United States government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

No Waiver

Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of an obligation under this Terms shall not effect a party's ability to exercise such right or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall be the waiver of a breach constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.

Translation Interpretation

These Terms may have been translated if we have made them available to you on our Services. You agree that the original English text shall prevail in the case of a dispute.

13. Changes to These Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will make reasonable efforts to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use our Services after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, in whole or in part, please stop using the website and the Services.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, you can contact us by sending an email to hello @ pdb.co.