Website Terms and Conditions of Use

By accessing this website ('Site'), you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (the 'Terms'). Before using this Site, you should read carefully the Terms.

In these Terms

'Content' means all pages, screens, information and materials included in or accessible through this Site.
'you', 'your' and 'yours' means you, the person(s) accessing this Site.
'we', 'us' and 'our' means Halbis Capital Management (UK) Limited.
'HSBC Group' means HSBC Holdings plc, its subsidiaries and associated companies from time to time.

TERMS

These Terms cover your use of this Site. Products and services described on this Site may have their own terms and conditions (the 'Product Terms'). If you are interested in any of these products and services, you should read both the Product Terms and these Terms. To the extent that the Product Terms conflict with these Terms, then the Product Terms will prevail.

From this Site we may provide information or hyperlinks to other websites or pages provided by members of the HSBC Group or other parties. Your use of these other sites may be subject to their own terms and conditions. You should read them.

CHANGES TO OUR TERMS

We may change these Terms at any time by updating these pages.

You agree to review any applicable terms and conditions regularly and that your use of any part of this Site will be subject to any such changes once they are made.

AVAILABILITY OF SITE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

The content, including layout, of this Site or products or services available via this Site may be wholly or partially suspended, withdrawn or changed at any time.

We also reserve the right at any time to immediately suspend the provision of all or any part of this Site to you and/or block your access to this Site.

THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL SERVICES OR PRODUCTS

Not all the products and services that you may be able to view via the Site are available in all geographical locations. The relevant HSBC Group member reserves the right to make the final determination on whether or not you are eligible for any particular product or service.

If you choose to enter a website outside your country of residence, you are advised that it may not be legal in that jurisdiction for you to access or use the facilities available on that site and the legal requirements of that jurisdiction may prohibit you from dealing or otherwise transacting in that jurisdiction.

All products or services provided to you by us or any other HSBC Group member shall only be available in the jurisdiction/s within which the member providing the product or service is authorised to operate.

You agree that any of the products or services provided to you by us or any other HSBC Group member shall be deemed to be provided in the jurisdiction within which the member providing the product or service is authorised to operate.

NO OFFER

Information or opinions contained on this Site do not constitute investment advice or an offer to sell or a solicitation, or offer to buy, any securities or financial instruments.

Should you seek to rely in any way whatsoever upon any content contained on this Site, you do so at your own risk.

Before you make any decision or take any action that might affect you or your personal finances or business, you should always consult a suitably qualified professional adviser.

The following provisions under 'No Warranties' and 'Exclusion of Our Liability' exclude or limit our legal liability for this Site. You should read them carefully.

NO WARRANTIES

Other than the warranties and representations contained in these Terms, all other warranties and representations, whether express, implied or statutory are, to the fullest extent permitted by the law, excluded. Use of this Site is at your sole risk.

We do not represent that:

any information contained on this Site will be accurate, complete or up to date or meet your specific requirements,
this Site will be available,
access to this Site will be uninterrupted or that there will be no delays, failures, errors or omissions or loss of information as this Site is transmitted to you,
no viruses or other contaminating or destructive materials or elements will be transmitted or that your computer system will not be damaged.
We do not provide any guarantee about the accuracy, functionality or performance of any third party software, content or equipment used in connection with this Site.

EXCLUSION OF OUR LIABILITY

To the extent permitted by law, neither we nor any member of the HSBC Group shall be liable for any damage, loss or liability (whether arising in contract, tort, including negligence, or otherwise) arising out of or in connection with:

your use of this Site,
your reliance on or your inability to use the information, products or services on this Site, or
any failure or performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or line or system failure to this Site or your use or attempted use of it.
The above exclusions apply to any damage which is direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential or consists of loss of profits, business, opportunity or data.
All of the above exclusions apply even if you have advised us or any member of the HSBC Group of the possibility of the above types of damage, loss or liability.

YOUR OBLIGATIONS

Security - it is your sole responsibility adequately to

protect and back up your data and equipment,
undertake reasonable and appropriate precautions against any computer virus or other destructive materials or elements, and
ensure that your computers and your access to this Site are adequately secured against any unauthorised users.

Your use of this Site - you may not use this Site or permit others to use this Site

in any way (including via electronic means) and for any purpose which is unlawful, defamatory or libellous, offensive, abusive, indecent, menacing or threatening or in any way breaches any intellectual property rights or obligations of confidence, or
to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any other person or in any other way which is in violation of any applicable law or regulation in any jurisdiction in the world, or
to introduce a virus or other disruptive material or element or otherwise disrupt or impair this Site or any communication service.

THIRD PARTY SITES

Links to Third Party Sites - where we provide hypertext links to other locations on the Internet, we do so for information purposes only. We are not responsible for the content of any websites or pages of third parties linked to or from this Site. Following links to any websites or pages of third parties shall be at your own risk. We shall not be responsible or liable for any damages or in any other way in connection with such linking of those websites or pages.

Downloads from Third Party Sites - links to third party downloadable software sites are for convenience only and we are not responsible nor are we liable for any difficulties or consequences associated with downloading that software. You are responsible for obtaining all necessary authorisations to use such software and we give no implied licence or warranty in relation to the obtaining of or use of such software whatsoever.

No Endorsement of Third Parties - no endorsement or approval of any third parties or their advice, opinions, information, products or services is expressed or implied by any information on this Site or by any hyperlinks to or from any third party websites or pages.

LINKS TO OUR SITE

Neither you nor any other party may use any part of this Site on any other website, or link any other website to this Site, without our prior written permission.

We are not responsible for the set up of any link from a third party website to our Site.

Neither you nor any other party may deep link to, frame, spider, harvest or scrape the Content or otherwise access the Content for any purposes, or use any machine, electronic, web based or similar device to read or extract the Content by machine based or automated means, without our prior written permission.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our Rights - all intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, copyright, database rights, design rights, patents and trademarks) in the Content are owned by or licensed to us unless otherwise stated.

HSBC - HSBC and the HSBC logo are trademarks of HSBC Holdings plc and all rights and benefits in them vest in HSBC Holdings plc.

Copying by you and your access to the Site - you may print, copy, download or temporarily store extracts from this Site for your personal use or to help you use our products and services. You must not alter any extract contained on or obtained from this Site in any form. Any other use is prohibited unless you first get our written permission. Without limiting the above, unless you first get our written consent, you may not reproduce, modify, adapt, transmit, publish, broadcast, create derivative works of, store, archive or in any way exploit any of the Content. Without limitation, neither you nor any other party may do any of the following without prior written consent from us:

create any data base in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the Content; or
redistribute any of the Content (including by using it as part of any syndication, content aggregation, archive or similar service); or
remove the copyright or trademark notice from any copies of Content made in accordance with these Terms.

OUR MONITORING OF COMMUNICATIONS

To help us improve our service and in the interest of security, we may monitor and/or record communications (whether over the Internet, telephone or otherwise) between you and us.

CHILDREN

This Site is not intended to be used by minors.

GOVERNING LAW

These Terms are governed by and are to be interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

The courts in England will have non-exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute which may arise in connection with the Terms or your use of this Site.