User Agreement

Please read this carefully before using the Website. By accessing the Website, you are agreeing to be legally bound by these terms as modified from time to time. Any use of the Website by you after such changes are posted constitutes your agreement to these Terms as modified. Before using the Website, it is your responsibility to read the Privacy Policy and to notify us in the manner set out in the Policy if you do not want us to collect information about you.

Use of Website
The Website is owned and operated by Hydrotech Research Institute of National Taiwan University(HRI). HRI reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Website at any time, with or without notice or explanation.

Rights
All intellectual property rights, including copyright, in the content displayed on the Website ("Content") belong to HRI or its licensors. All rights are hereby reserved.

Use of Content
The Website and the Content may only be used for your personal, non-commercial use. For this purpose alone you may retrieve and display the Content on a computer screen. You may also print out, but not photocopy, one copy of individual files on paper and store files in electronic form on disc, but not on any server or any other storage device connected to a network where the pages could be accessed by other users. Except as set out above, you agree not to download, copy, reproduce, modify, store, archive, show in public, redistribute or commercially exploit in any way any part of the Content without the prior written permission of HRI. You agree not to use the Content or the Website for any illegal or improper purpose, any purpose which might infringe the rights of others, or any action which might harass or cause inconvenience or distress to any person. You also agree to abide by all copyright notices and restrictions attached to the Content, not to remove or alter any such notice or restriction, or alter the Content in any way.

License to Reproduce Content
If you wish to re-publish, re-distribute or exploit the Content in any way you should address a request for permission to HRI at: singulai @mail.drc.ntu.edu.tw. HRI cannot guarantee that any such permission would be forthcoming or on what terms.

Links from Other Sites
Third parties are permitted to link to stories within HRI websites, by using the URL, and quoting the headline and the source website. Brief extracts from a story are permitted provided they are not substantive. Otherwise our material must not be reproduced on a third party site without express authorization from us. Requests for more extensive material should be directed to singulai @mail.drc.ntu.edu.tw. A third party must ensure that nothing on its own website suggests or could be understood to imply that any part of the Website is part of its own website unless the third party has obtained the prior written approval of HRI. HRI reserves the right to withdraw any permission without explanation or notice if in its sole judgment use of such links is excessive and/or inappropriate. HRI also reserves the right to change the location and nature of files within the Website without explanation or notice; it is the responsibility of the third party to check and update links as necessary.

Limitation of Liability and Disclaimer
HRI obtains the Content from a wide range of sources and it includes facts, views, opinions and information likely to be of interest to users of the Website. While all reasonable care is taken, we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, performance or fitness for any particular purpose of the Content or the Website, nor do we endorse or accept any responsibility for any views, advice, recommendations or opinions expressed on the Website or any website to which we link. You should note that any contact or arrangements made between you and any third party named on the Website, or any third party website linked from it (including without limitation any website with which we have a commercial association), is at your own risk, and Bedford accepts no liability. The Content should only be used for your general information and use and not by way of specific recommendation or advice, as every individual's circumstances are different. Before making any decision or taking any action based in whole or in part on the Content, you should always make your own independent checks of any information that is important in making such decision or taking such action. HRI does not give any warranties in respect of the Content or the Website, freedom from viruses or other contamination that the Website is compatible with any computer systems, software and browsers. All implied warranties or duties are excluded save if and to the extent that they may not lawfully be excluded. HRI shall not be liable for any claims, losses, injuries, penalties, damages, costs or expenses arising from the use of, or inability to use the Website or Content or from any action taken, or omitted to be taken, as a result of using the Website or Content, other than death or personal injury resulting from use of the Website directly caused by the negligence of HRI. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, you agree that HRI will not be liable to you and/or any third party for any consequential or incidental damages (including but not limited to lost profits, loss of privacy or for failure to fulfill any duty) or for any other indirect, special or punitive damages whatsoever that arise out of or related to the use of the Website or the Content, or to any breach of the Terms by HRI, even if HRI has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even in the event of fault or strict liability. You agree that your only recovery for any damages that you incur, and your exclusive remedy, shall be limited to the direct damages (if any) you actually incur in reasonable and exclusive reliance on the Website or Content, and for which we may be held liable for by a competent court, of up to a limit of the refund of the amount you paid (if any) in relation to the particular use of the Content in total during the month in which the damage first incurred.

Links to Third Party Sites
This Website contains links to other websites operated by parties who are wholly separate from HRI. Links to all third party sites are identifiable because clicking on them will display the third party's website URLs, or as otherwise signed as such by HRI. Such links are provided for your convenience and reference only and HRI cannot be held responsible in any way for the content, operation or availability of such websites.

Changes to these Terms
HRI reserves the right to make changes to any part of the Website and to add to or change these Terms or the Privacy Policy. It is your responsibility to refer to the Terms whenever you access the Website. Every time you access the Website you agree to be bound by the Terms and the Privacy Policy as varied or amended from time to time.