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Important Notices

By accessing this Cyber Security Information Portal website (www.cybersecurity.hk) (CSIP) or any of its webpages, you unconditionally agree to the terms of this Disclaimer and Copyright Notice which may be modified or supplemented from time to time by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (the Government) without prior notice.  Please check this webpage regularly for any modifications or supplements which may be made.

 

Disclaimer

All materials and information on this Website are for general informational purposes only.  They are not comprehensive or other professional advice and shall not be relied on as such.

Software and related tools mentioned in the CSIP are for general reference and illustration purpose only and not listed with quality rating.  The CSIP does not endorse specific vendor products nor verify the accuracy of these software and tools.  It is important to note that the software and tools and their user agreements can be modified by their developers or vendors at any time.  If you have any question about these software and tools, please direct contact the developers or vendors.  Users are also recommended to read the user agreements and privacy policies of the security software and tools before download and use them.The CSIP makes no express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to any information, data or software whatsoever in this website.  Information published on this website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.  Information may be changed or updated without notice.  Under no circumstances will the CSIP be held liable for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages to any third party, including users of the CSIP and other external websites maintaining hypertext links to the CSIP, who may choose to rely on the information, data or software in this website for any purposes.

The CSIP has provided hypertext links to other external websites.  Users when connect to those websites via the links in the CSIP should understand that those websites are independent from the CSIP, and that the CSIP has no control over their contents.  Provision of such hypertext links is only as a convenience for users and does not imply that the CSIP endorses the content of any such external websites, nor does the CSIP have any responsibilities for that content.

The CSIP and its content may be referred by or hypertext linked in other external websites provided by other organisations.  Users should be reminded that information on those external websites has been compiled and published by those organisations.  The CSIP accepts no responsibility for the content of those websites, any information or hypertext links related to the CSIP contained in those websites, or any changes or updates with those websites.  The CSIP shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from or related to those external websites.

In no event will the CSIP be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of this website, or on any other hypertext linked websites, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on users' information handling system or otherwise, even if the CSIP is expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.

The Government is not responsible for any loss or damage whatsoever arising out of or in connection with any information on the CSIP. The Government reserves the right to omit, suspend or edit all information compiled by the Government on CSIP at any time in its sole discretion without giving any reason or prior notice. You are responsible for making your own assessment of all information contained on CSIP and shall verify such information by making reference, for example, to original publications and obtaining independent advice before acting upon it.

If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between the Traditional Chinese version and the Simplified Chinese version, the Traditional Chinese version shall prevail. This Disclaimer has been translated into Chinese.  If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between the English version and the Chinese version, the English version shall prevail.

Copyright Notice

Unless otherwise indicated, the Government is the owner of the copyright in all contents available on the CSIP, including but not limited to all text, graphics, drawing, diagrams, photographs and compilation of data or other materials.

To encourage wider distribution of the contents contained in the CSIP, you can, for any non-commercial purpose, freely browse, display, download and print in their original format any materials or contents on this website where the Government is the owner of the copyright in such materials or contents, provided that you give proper attribution to the Government, and acknowledgement must be also given to "www.cybersecurity.hk" as the source of such materials or contents and reproduce this Copyright Notice in all copies. The Government reserves all rights that are not expressly granted in this Notice. Prior written consent of the Government is required if you want to use the aforesaid materials in any way other than that permitted above. Such requests should be addressed to the Government via email to webmaster@cybersecurity.hk.

For the avoidance of doubt, the permission in the paragraph above does not extend to any materials on the linked websites or any contents on the CSIP, the copyright of which belongs to a third party.  Authorisation or permission to use such contents would need to be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

The Government will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect of any use or misuse of or reliance on the contents delivered on or via the CSIP.

This Copyright Notice has been translated into Chinese.  If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between the English version and the Chinese version, the English version shall prevail.

Accessibility Statement

To provide web contents that are accessible to all individuals, with or without disabilities, this website endeavours to conform to Level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0).  However, this website contains some materials that are owned by third parties, not all Level accessibility features have been incorporated.  If anyone has any problem accessing information on the website, please contact us –

Email : webmaster@cybersecurity.hk

 

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