Please read these Terms and our Privacy Policy before using our websites, mobile applications, or services. By viewing and/or using any Content, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

We reserve the right to modify or to update these Terms and our Privacy Policy at any time and at our sole discretion. Please review these Terms and our Privacy Policy on a regular basis as any modification thereto becomes effective upon publication on the website.

For the purposes of these Terms and our Privacy Policy, unless the context indicates otherwise: “you”, “your”, “they”, “their”, “viewer(s)”, shall refer to any person accessing our website; “Sportsseier”, “we”, “our”, “us” shall refer to Sportsseier and, when applicable, Sportsseier's subsidiaries and/or partners.

1. Ownership of the website and the Content

As between Sportsseier and you, Sportsseier (including its subsidiaries and partners) is the sole owner of the website, all its components, databases, features, and of any content (text, photos, videos, audio material, still and animated graphics, multimedia content, fact-check articles, metadata, and any other content whatever its form) displayed or available on the website and on any other third party website displaying Sportsseier content and linking back to this website (hereinafter the “Content”). The website (including its design, URLs and any Sportsseier trademarks and logos appearing thereon) and the Content are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties.

2. Permitted use of the website and the Content

You may only view the website and the Content and reproduce short extracts of Content (provided you do not extract any third-party material that is included therein, which shall not be disassembled and used separately from the Content), without any alteration, for strictly personal and private purposes, or for the purpose of illustration for teaching or scientific research, to the exclusion in each case of any commercial use, and only to the extent and as permitted by Hong Kong copyright law. Any such reproductions of the Content shall maintain all intellectual property notices, including all disclaimers contained therein.

Any other use of the website and/or the Content, in particular (by way of example and without limitation) any reproduction, communication to the public, distribution, storage, modification, translation, decompilation, extraction of the website and/or the Content, in whole or in part, for any purpose, without Sportsseier’s prior written consent, is strictly prohibited.

Any access to or use (such as but not limited to reproduction, aggregation and archiving) of the website and/or of the Content, for any systematic or automated activities related to text and/or data scraping, mining, extraction, aggregation, analysis, exploration or harvesting, through any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper”, or any other automated device, program, technique, tool, process or method, carried out in order to create, develop, train, test, evaluate, modify, and/or support software, algorithms and machine learning/artificial intelligence models or for any other purpose, without Sportsseier’s prior written consent, is strictly prohibited.

3. Limitations and disclaimers of liability

The website, the Content and, as for fact-check articles, any third-party materials included in or used to carry out the fact-checking, are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of third-party rights. You are responsible for making your own verification and assessment of the Content and are solely responsible for the consequences of any decision made or transaction carried out on the basis of any Content available on the website (or on any other third-party website linking back to this website). Your use of the website and the Content is under your sole and full responsibility.

Sportsseier holds no authorization or release from the individuals or entities who may be depicted in the Content, or from the owners of any featured trademarks, works, events, audio material, or from any other individual or entity who may hold intellectual property rights, neighboring rights (including, without limitation, moral rights and performers’ rights), publicity rights, privacy rights or any other rights in and to the subject matter of the Content or in and to the Content itself.

Furthermore, when the Content is a fact-check article, any third-party materials included therein or used to produce such fact-check article are done so to the extent necessary for the verification to be carried out in such fact-check article. Sportsseier holds no license in and to any such third-party materials, whatever their form: text, photos, videos, audio material, graphics, protected works, trademarks, logos, emblems, software, tools, programs or any components thereof, etc. Likewise, Sportsseier holds no authorization or release from the individuals or entities who may be depicted in such third-party materials, or from the owners of any featured trademarks, works, events, audio material, or from any other individual or entity who may hold intellectual property rights, neighboring rights (including, without limitation, moral rights and performers’ rights), publicity rights, privacy rights or any other rights in and to the content included in such third-party materials.

References made to third-party websites on the website shall by no means be construed as an approval or endorsement by Sportsseier of these websites or their content.

The access to or the availability of the website and/or the Content may be totally or partially interrupted or run slowly due to causes beyond Sportsseier’s control or may be totally or partially modified, suspended, interrupted or restricted by Sportsseier at any time.

Sportsseier does not guarantee that the website and the Content are provided without interruption, server downtime or delay or free from errors or any breach of security due to hackings, security intrusions, bugs, viruses, malwares, etc., that may affect your hardware, software or data.

In no event shall Sportsseier be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or related to your access to or use of, or your impossibility to access or use, the website and/or the Content.

4. Indemnification

You hereby undertake to access and use the website, its features and the Content in strict compliance with these Terms, the applicable laws, and the terms of use applicable to any third-party features integrated into the website but operated by third parties.

You hereby undertake to defend, indemnify and hold Sportsseier harmless from and against all expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable legal fees and expenses), costs, losses, liabilities, damages, arising out of or in connection with any claim, demand, action, proceeding, directly or indirectly resulting from or based on a breach by you (or your staff) of these Terms.

5. Trademarks and logos

Sportsseier and its logo are registered trademarks and the exclusive property of Sportsseier. They may only be used, in whole or in part (including as a hyperlink to the website), with Sportsseier’s prior written consent and in strict compliance with Sportsseier’s graphic charter.

Any third-party trademarks, logos or other distinctive signs appearing on the website and/or in the Content may only be used with their respective owner’s prior approval.

6. Governing law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and any dispute arising thereof shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Hong Kong law, without regard to conflict of law principles.

7. Severability - No waiver

If one or more provisions of these Terms are held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable under any applicable law or rule, or declared invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect.

Any failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision of these Terms or right of Sportsseier.