Vskit Terms of Use

        Last updated: June 2022

        Version: 20220630V1



        Preamble

        Welcome to Vskit and its services!

        This Vskit Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as "this Agreement") is a binding legal agreement between you and COIHUB TECHNOLOGY LIMITED (hereinafter referred to as “Vskit”, "we", “us”, or “our”) regarding the license and the operation management service of Vskit. We hereby remind you to read This Agreement carefully and fully understand the terms and conditions herein, especially the Disclaimers, Limitation of Liabilities, Privacy Policy, Usage Rules, Applicable Law, Dispute Resolution and other sections which may have been highlighted in bold or in capital letters for your attention. You must have reached the age of majority for the legal jurisdiction that you reside in to access and sign this Agreement. If you have not reached the age of majority, your guardian must agree to or sign this Agreement and you shall not use Vskit or relevant services unless your guardian has given explicit consent.

        You agree that by clicking the “Agree” button on the webpage/pop-up window or accessing or using Vskit and its services, you are deemed to have read, understood and agreed to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree with this agreement, please do not use Vskit or its service.

        If you have any questions or comments regarding this Agreement, please contact us via Vskit->ME->Setting->Feedback or feedback@vskit.tv. We will be happy to answer your questions.


1. General Terms

  • 1.1The Service under this Agreement: refers to the comprehensive services that we provide you via Vskit, such services including but not limited to posting audios, videos and pictures, sending personalized content, commenting, communication through private messages.
  • 1.2Scope of this Agreement. This Agreement applies to all the products and services provided by Vskit, including applications, mini-programs, websites, SDK for third-party websites or applications, APIs and other forms that may have in the future, and please refer to the specific services provided by Vskit.
  • 1.3Protection of minors. If you are under the age of 18 (or under the age of majority in the jurisdiction where you use Vskit and Service), you represent that you have reviewed this Agreement with your parent or legal guardian and that you and your parent or guardian understand and consent to this Agreement. If you are a parent or guardian permitting a Minor to use Vskit and the Services, you agree to: (i) supervise the Minor’s use of Vskit and Service; (ii) assume all risks associated with the Minor’s use of Vskit and Service, including the transmission of content to and from third parties via the Internet; (iii) assume any liability resulting from the Minor’s use of Vskit and Service; (iv) ensure the accuracy and truthfulness of all information submitted by the Minor; and (v) assume responsibility and are bound by this Agreement for the Minor’s access and use of Vskit and Service.
  • 1.4Updates of this Agreement. In order to improve your user experience or enhance product safety performance, we will continue to work hard to develop new software and services, and provide you in a timely manner with software updates (including but not limited to software version upgrades, modifications, and functional perfection) or repairs. We reserve the right to modify this Agreement as necessary in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. The updated Agreement will shall supersede the original Agreement and shall come into effect after the expiration of the period stipulated by applicable law. If there is no special provision in applicable laws, the Agreement shall become effective on the date of renewal. The updated Agreement will be announced on Vskit for your reference at any time. Your continued access or use of Vskit or Service will be deemed as you have read and agreed to be bound by the updated Agreement. If you do not accept the updated Agreement, please stop using Vskit or Service.

2. Permitted License Uses

        Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Vskit grants you a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, personal, revocable, limited license to access and use this Software and Service. You may install, use, display, and run the Software and Service on your legally owned device for non-commercial purposes. We reserve all rights not expressly authorized to you regarding Vskit in this Agreement. If you wish to obtain other rights with regard to the use of Vskit, you shall separately obtain a formal written permission from us.


3. What information we collect and how we use it in Vskit

  • 3.1Vskit is an application independently developed by us to provide services that include but are not limited to:
  • 3.1.1 Vskit provides you with a registration channel. You are entitled to use your phone number to register for Vskit and its related services. After you log in to your account, you may view and change your personal information in the account at any time. With your consent, your profile picture, nickname and other personal information in your account will be displayed to other users on Vskit;
  • 3.1.2 You may also browse, add to favorites or like the works of other users or follow them on Vskit. You may also leave comments below your own or other users’ works. Vskit will recommend works you may be interested in according to your preference;
  • 3.1.3 Vskit provides you with audio/video sharing service. You may share with Vskit audios/videos created by you or authorized legally so that they will be shared with more users;
  •         Please understand and acknowledge that our services may be adjusted and updated from time to time according to your demands or our operational needs. Please refer to the real-time display of our service and features on the webpage of Vskit or other service interfaces (if any).
  • 3.2You understand and agree that we may send you relevant information, advertisements or brand promotion services for you during your use of this Software and related Services, we will also display commercial advertisements, promotions or information (commercial or non-commercial) regarding this Software and Service and/or third-party providers or business partners. If you do not wish to receive personalized advertisement notifications, you can turn off such personalized advertisement notification, but you may still receive non-personalized advertisements in our App. If you receive advertisements via emails or text messages, you have the right to unsubscribe them.
  • 3.3You understand and agree that the Software and Service may be suspend ed or stopped by us based on our own business development or as required by judicial, regulatory and supervisory authorities.
  • 3.4Unless permitted by applicable law and with our written authorization, you may not use or otherwise export or re-export this Software and Service.

4. Restrictions on the use of This Software and Service

  • 4.1You shall not take any of the following actions when using this Software and Service, including but not limited to:
  • 4.1.1 Releasing, transmitting, spreading or storing contents which violate laws and regulations, policies, public order and good custom, and social ethics, such as insults, defamation, violence, or violation of religion, etc; releasing, transmitting, spreading or storing fabricated information or advertising information for the purpose of misleading or deceiving others; directly or indirectly spreading obscene or pornographic content, and displaying obscene or pornographic items; propagating or displaying pornographic content, drugs, guns or controlled knives; displaying or propagating any content that involves smoking, excessive drinking or harms the physical and mental health of the actor himself or others; or posting content that infringe upon others’ privacy through Vskit;
  • 4.1.2 Renting, lending, copying, modifying, linking, reprinting, compiling, issuing or publishing this Software and similar acts;
  • 4.1.3 Jailbreaking, reverse engineering, disassembling, decompiling, acquiring the content of this application through “spider”, crawler and other illegal means without permission or otherwise attempting to destroy this Software; or, accessing or disturbing this Software by the use of plug-ins, add-ons, or third-party tools/services that are not authorized by us;
  • 4.1.4 Copying, modifying, adding, deleting, operating in the form of mounting, or creating any derivative works of data of the Software, data released into any terminal memory in the course of the operation of the Software, interactive data of the client and server side in the course of the operation of the Software, and system data necessary for the operation of the Software; or adding, deleting or changing the functions or operative effect of software by modifying or fabricating the instructions and data that occur in the course of the operation of the software; or operating or publicly diffusing the software and method used for the above purposes, whether commercially or otherwise;
  • 4.1.5 Capturing, doing statistics of or acquiring relevant trending key words, hit rate, classification, search volume, click rate, views and other relevant data without our written consent, or modifying our source pages in any manner, or interfering with them through blocking, inserting, pop-ups, etc.;
  • 4.1.6 Carrying out other acts which violate laws and regulations, policies, public order and good custom, and social ethics or acts which are not authorized by us in writing.
  • 4.2You may not, and you agree not to or enable others to, copy (except as expressly permitted by this Agreement), decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, decrypt, modify, or create derivative works of Vskit or any services provided by Vskit or any part thereof (except as and only to the extent any foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law or by licensing terms governing the use of open-source components that may be included with Vskit). You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notices (including trademark and copyright notices) that may be affixed to or contained within Vskit.

5. Intellectual Property; Ownership

        We reserve the intellectual property rights to this Software and Service and all related information content (including but not limited to UI interface design, pictures, fonts, audio, etc.) and all rights not expressly granted to you. The above intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright, trademark and patent rights, are protected by applicable intellectual property rights, anti-unfair competition and other respective laws, regulations and relevant international treaties. For matters not expressly authorized in this Agreement, such as commercial sales, reproduction, and permission for any third party to use this Software, you should separately obtain formal written permission from us.

        The intellectual property rights to the texts, pictures, videos, software, performances and other original works uploaded by you through our platform and service shall be vested in you (or otherwise agreed between you and the third-party provider). However, out of operational needs, you acknowledge that your posting and uploading of such information will be deemed as your authorizing us to use, copy and spread the intellectual property rights. To better facilitate information sharing and promotion, you authorize us to use the aforementioned works in this application and our related products and to authorize a third party to use the aforementioned works for promotional purposes. The aforementioned authorization you give us and our affiliates does not change the ownership of the posted content or the intellectual property ownership. Neither does it affect your legal rights to the posted content. We are entitled to independent use of the competitive data acquired based on legal processing of data, unless otherwise specified by laws and regulations.


6. Considerations on Your Use of This Software and Service

  • 6.1You fully understand and agree: when you use a specific service of this Software, relevant permissions and interfaces of your device may be required in order to achieve the corresponding features, while a separate user agreement may also be required for certain services. Please read the afore-mentioned relevant agreements and rules carefully before using this service;
  • 6.2We have the right to display all kinds of information to you in the process of providing this Service, including but not limited to prompts for authorization, advertising information and promotional information, etc. The information may appear in the form of system messages or pop-up windows. If you do not agree to receive certain information, you can cancel the relevant service, which may eventually lead to unavailability of the relevant service function;
  • 6.3You understand and agree: We will make commercially reasonable efforts to protect your data storage security during your use of this Service, but we cannot provide a complete guarantee, including but not limited to the following situations:
  • 6.3.1 To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for your deletion or storage failure of relevant data in this Software and Service;
  • 6.3.2 We will retain the data according to the minimum retention period required for business development, unless you agree to extend the retention period or otherwise permitted by law. We also have the right to decide at our discretion the maximum storage space of data in Vskit. You may back up relevant data in this Software and Service by yourself according to your own needs;
  • 6.4When you use this Service, the specific content displayed may differ depending on the version of the Software you use. You understand and agree: when you are using a certain version of this Software or entering the relevant pages of an application developed by us, in order to provide you with a better service experience, the necessary information such as the installation location, size, and UI interface of the installed application on your terminal device may be adjusted, depending on the actual version provided by us.
  • 6.5You fully understand and agree that, if you need to register an account when using this Software, you will be responsible for keeping the security of the registered account information and account password properly, and you will be responsible for all acts that occur under the account you registered, including any contents that you publish and any consequences arising therefrom.
  • 6.6Vskit services may contain opinions, comments and statements from third-party individuals or organizations. You shall judge by yourself the contents that you access while using this Service and bear the risks arising from the use of such contents, including risks arising from the dependence upon the correctness, completeness or practicability of the contents. The information displayed on Vskit does not represent our opinions. We are unable to and will not bear any responsibility for any loss or damage suffered by you due to the above risks.
  • 6.7If we find or receives a report from others that you violated the terms of this Agreement, we shall have the right at any time without notice to: delete and shield relevant contents; suspend or terminate your use of the corresponding account or all of the Service; investigate legal responsibility and take other measures. If you violate any terms of this Agreement, thus causing damage to any third party, you shall solely bear all responsibilities arising therefrom and compensate us for any losses suffered by us arising therefrom (including but not limited to possible administrative penalties, lawyer fees, and investigation and evidence collection fees).

7. Updates

        In order to better provide you with relevant Service and to guarantee the security of this Software, we may update this Software and relevant Services from time to time (including but not limited to software modification, software upgrades, partial function disabling, function strengthen, new service development, software replacement and function improvement). You may choose whether to upgrade to the corresponding version based on your needs. In order to facilitate your experience of a better service of Vskit, and in compliance with applicable laws, this Software may enable automatic upgrade and update function for you by default. You can choose whether to enable this function in software settings. In case of such updates, we will notify you in an appropriate manner (including but not limited to system notifications, site messages, announcements, application store update notifications, etc.), and you have the right to choose whether to accept the updated version. Updating to the latest version may improve your user experience. If you decide not to accept the updated version provided by Vskit, you understand that you may place the Software under serious security risk or cause the Software to be unusable or unstable. Failure to update the software may cause some of the functions of the Software to be limited or rendered unusable.


8. Software and Services Provided by Third Parties

  • 8.1In order to facilitate your use of Vskit, this Software or this Service may use third-party software or services, and the results of such use and access are provided by the third party (including but not limited to the services and contents provided by the third party that you jump to through this Software, this Service, or accessed by said third party through Vskit’s open platform). In addition to the terms of this Agreement, you shall comply with the user agreements of third parties in using software or services provided by third parties. We cannot guarantee the security, accuracy and validity of the services and contents provided by third parties and other uncertain risks, and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you shall solely bear relevant risks and responsibilities arising therefrom.
  • 8.2Whether the third-party software or services are pre-installed in Vskit or activated or subscribed by yourself, you understand and agree that we disclaim all express or implied warranties with respect to the security, accuracy and validity of the services and contents provided by third parties and other uncertain risks.
  • 8.3Any dispute between you and the above third-party software and services providers shall be settled by you and such third party with you taking relevant responsibilities, if any.

9. Fees and Advertisement

        You understand and agree that although this Software and Service are currently offered to you free of charge, however, along with the continuous renewal of our Service, you may need to pay for some part of the Software or Service provided by Vskit. We reserve the right to add fee-charging features and functionalities in future Service. We also reserve the right to display advertisements in connection with the Software and Service to you. We will clearly notify you in case of any paid software and service in this Software before your use and you may choose whether to accept or use such paid software or service. At that time, please use such paid software or service according to our instructions (including but not limited to service fee standards, payment terms and service rules). You can use such paid software and services once you have explicitly agreed to the relevant agreement and are willing to pay the fees.

        Your use of this Software and Service will consume your device, bandwidth, traffic and other resources. Fees for the above resources such as Internet access fees, SMS fees, and payment for the Software's value-added services shall be borne by yourself.


10. Privacy Policy

        When you are using Vskit and Services, we may need to collect personal data to provide you the Services. we pay great attention to the protection of your personal data and has made Vskit Privacy Policy (you may refer to the Privacy Policy for detail), which states the detailed information of the way Vskit collects, uses, stores, transfers, and discloses your personal data. You may refer to the details of the "Privacy Policy" at “Vskit->ME->Setting->About us->Terms-> / Privacy / Community Policy”, which forms an integral part of this Agreement. By downloading, installing or using the Services, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and its Privacy Policy, and we will protect your privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy.


11. Termination and Breach of Contract

        We have the right to judge whether your behavior complies with the terms of this Agreement. If you are deemed to have violated relevant laws and regulations or fail to comply with any terms and conditions of this Agreement or related rules, based on the severity of your violation, Vskit and our licensors shall have the right to delete the content in violation, to limit, to suspend or to terminate your use of this Software and Service without notice, and to take other measures that we consider appropriate. And you will be held liable for your incompliance behavior. Once it is terminated, we will continue to retain the information you stored in Vskit according to requirements of applicable laws and regulations and delete the information generated during your use of this Software in our database in a reasonable period. You agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we shall not be liable to you for such deletion.


12. Indemnification

        You will indemnify, release and hold harmless us, our licensors, agents, and all senior managements, directors, employees thereof from and against any and all third party claims, actions, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees (collectively, "Claims") arising out of (i) any use of the Services or products appearing on the Services by you or by any person that is not in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (ii) any breach of this Agreement by you or by any person that you allow to use the Services; or (iii) any violation of any laws, regulations or the rights of any third party by you or by any person that you allow to use the Services or products appearing on the Services.


13. DISCLAIMERS

  • 13.1DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES OF ANY KIND OR NATURE, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY (IF ANY) IMPLIED WARRANTIES, DUTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OF ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF RESPONSES, OF RESULTS, OF WORKMANLIKE EFFORT, OF LACK OF VIRUSES, AND OF LACK OF NEGLIGENCE, ALL WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE AND SERVICE.
  • 13.2THIS SOFTWARE DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY MALICIOUS CODE DESIGNED TO DESTROY YOUR DEVICE DATA OR TO OBTAIN YOUR PRIVACY INFORMATION. WE WILL ALSO DO OUR UTMOST TO ENSURE THE SAFE, PROMPT, EFFECTIVE, ACCURATE, RELIABLE AND CONTINUOUS OPERATION OF THIS SOFTWARE AND SERVICE, BUT WITH THE LIMITATION OF THE EXISTING TECHNOLOGY, THIS SOFTWARE AND RELATED SERVICE MAY BE AFFECTED BY VARIOUS UNSTABLE FACTORS, WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS THAT THE SOFTWARE IS COMPATIBLE WITH ALL SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE SYSTEMS, OR IS ERROR-FREE, CAN OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE OR RELATED SERVICE CAN BE CORRECTED. IN CASE OF CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH AS INCOMPATIBILITY OR SOFTWARE MALFUNCTION, PLEASE CONTACT US FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT. IF THE COMPATIBILITY PROBLEM CANNOT BE SOLVED, YOU CAN DELETE THIS SOFTWARE. WITHIN THE MAXIMUM SCOPE PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, WE ARE EXEMPT FROM ANY OF YOUR LOSSES CAUSED HEREIN.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES

        TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL US, OUR AFFILIATES, SENIOR MANAGEMENT, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR ANY OTHER INTANGIBLE DAMAGES OR LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS, HOWEVER CAUSED, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY (CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES: (1) YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE;(2) THE UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (3) THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO USE YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE; (4) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; AND (5) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY, OR OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

        AT THE SAME TIME, OUR MAXIMUM COMPENSATION FOR ALL YOUR LOSSES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR USING/PURCHASING THE CORRESPONDING SOFTWARE OR SERVICES (IF PAID SERVICE IS INVOLVED) WITHIN 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE DATE OF INITIATING THE CLAIM. IF THE LAW OF YOUR REGION DOES NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THROUGH AN AGREEMENT. IN THIS CASE, THE APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS SHALL APPLY.


15. Governing Laws and Dispute Resolution

  • 15.1Governing Laws. The execution, performance, interpretation, modification and disputes settlement of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, excluding its conflict-of-law provisions. You agree that this Agreement is signed in Hong Kong.
  • 15.2Arbitration. Any dispute or controversy between you and us based on this Agreement shall be first settled through friendly negotiation. If no settlement can be reached through friendly negotiation, you unconditionally consent and agree that any claim, dispute or controversy (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) you may have against any of our entities, the directors, agents, and employees of any of our entities shall be submitted to Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC) for settlement before one (1) arbitrator in accordance with the rules of HKIAC. The arbitration shall take place in Hong Kong, China, and the arbitration proceedings and all pleadings and written evidence shall be in the English language, and judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. You will only be permitted to pursue claims against us on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action or proceeding.

16. Miscellaneous

  • 16.1Heading. The headings of all terms of this Agreement are for reference purpose only, have no actual meanings themselves, and shall not be used as a basis for interpreting the meanings of this Agreement.
  • 16.2Severability. If any term or provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by any judicial or administrative authority for any reasons, such determination shall not affect the validity of enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of the Agreement hereof, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms.
  • 16.3Languages. If this Agreement is made in English, Arabic and other languages. In case of any discrepancy, the English version hereof shall prevail.
  • 16.4No Waiver. Our failure to enforce at any time any of the provisions of Vskit Services, or our failure to require at any time performance by you of any of the provisions of Vskit Services, shall in no way be construed to be a present or future waiver of such provisions, nor in any way affect our right to enforce such provision thereafter. Our express waiver of any provision, condition or requirement of the Vskit Services shall not constitute a waiver of any future obligation to comply with such provision, condition or requirement.
  • 16.5Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and us governing your use of the Software and supersedes any prior agreements between you and us relating to the use of Vskit. You may also be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase open-source software, third-party content, or other services.