Terms of Use

Terms and Conditions

By accessing Sigma-Solutions.com (hereinafter referred to as Sigma Solutions) Web pages you agree to be bound by the following:

The Sigma Solutions' logo, brand names, trademarks and servicemarks, as well as that of its subsidiaries and affiliates, shall remain the property of Sigma Solutions and or its subsidiaries and affiliates.

Reproduction, transfer, distribution or storage of part or all of the contents in any form without the prior written consent of Sigma Solutions is strictly prohibited except under the following conditions.

Sigma Solutions allows you to store on your computer or to print copies of extracts from these pages for your personal non-commercial use only. Information obtained from this Web site shall not be modified without the express written permission of Sigma Solutions . Additional terms may be imposed on individual documents posted on our Web pages. If you breach any of these Terms, your authorization to use Sigma Solutions Web pages automatically ceases and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.

The contents of Sigma Solutions 's Web pages are provided "as is" and "as available". Except as required by applicable law no warranty of any kind, either express or implied, is made in relation to the correctness, accuracy, reliability or otherwise of the content of these pages. Sigma Solutions does not warrant that its pages or server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Any Sigma Solutions documentation may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes and additions may be made by Sigma Solutions to any information contained herein. Sigma Solutions reserves the right to revise the pages or withdraw access to them at any time.

In no event will Sigma Solutions or other third parties mentioned at this site be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, those resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption) arising out of the use, inability to use, or the results of use of Sigma Solutions Web pages, any websites linked to this site, or the materials or information or services contained at any or all such sites, whether based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not Sigma Solutions has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Sigma Solutions assumes no responsibility for material owned, created or published by third parties that Sigma Solutions 's Web pages contain a link to. By linking to such third-party site, you shall review and agree to that site's rules of use before using such site. A link to a non-Sigma Solutions site does not imply that Sigma Solutions endorses the site and the products or services referenced in such third-party site.

Acknowledgment and Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions comprise the entire agreement between the Member (JobSeeker. Corporate, Training Provider) and the Company (Sigma Solutions.com Pte Ltd).

By completing the registration process, you are indicating your agreement to be bound by all of the following terms and conditions of the Company.

Definitions

In this Agreement where the context so admits the following expressions shall have the following meanings namely :-

"Agreement" means the completed application form (and its attachment(s) and the terms and conditions herein.

"Commencement Date" means the date specified by the Company in writing in its notice to the Member either through Sigma Solutions.com email and/or conventional mail indicating the acceptance of the application by the Member to the Service.

"Company" means Sigma Solutions.com Pte Ltd.

"Date of Termination" means the expiry date of the notice of termination given.

"Sigma Solutions.com" means the internet web site of the Company at http://www.sigmasearch.com.

"Member" means an individual subscriber for the Services, including the job-seeker, or corporate subscriber for the Services and Training Providers, and their authorized representatives, whose particulars are contained in the application form and includes their successors and permitted assigns.

"Services" means the services to be provided by the Company to the Member at Sigma Solutions.com including the provision of facilities for the following :

in the case of a Jobseeker, to make postings of resumes or curriculum vitae of the Member submitted by the Member or compiled from the personal data and information submitted from time to time by the Member and transmitted to Sigma Solutions.com pursuant to the terms and conditions hereunder for the purpose of seeking employment through the Company's internet network at Sigma Solutions.com and its internet links;

in the case of a Corporate who wishes to secure applicants through Sigma Solutions.com and its internet links, to insert advertisements at Sigma Solutions.com and to access Sigma Solutions.com and its internet links for said purposes.

in the case of a Corporate who wishes to secure the services of Training Providers through Sigma Solutions.com and its internet links, to insert the training forecast at Sigma Solutions.com and to access Sigma Solutions.com and its internet links for said purposes.

In the case of a Training Provider who wishes to secure participants through Sigma Solutions.com and its internet links, to insert the training schedule at Sigma Solutions.com and to access Sigma Solutions.com and its internet links for said purposes.

"Services Guide" means the information and description of the Services for the Member from time to time provided by the Company and contained in Sigma Solutions.com.

"Registration Data" means all particulars and information of the Member requested on initial application and subscription, including but without limiting to the Member's name, mailing address, email address, account and telephone number.

Words importing the singular shall include the plural and words importing one gender shall include the other.

Commencement of Service

The Service shall commence on the Commencement Date.

Fees (Applicable for where appropriate)

The subscription fees for the Services shall be at the applicable rate indicated in the Services Guide or such other rates as may be prescribed by the Company from time to time upon posting the same at Sigma Solutions.com or otherwise in writing in accordance with this Agreement.

Liability for the Subscription Fees shall accrue from the Commencement Date.

The Member shall pay and maintain such deposits with the Company as the Company may require and shall increase such amount of such deposits from time to time when so required by the Company.

Payment

Where Subscription Fees are payable, it shall be payable at or within such time as is stated in the invoice(s) issued by the Company to the Member.

The Member who is liable to pay Subscription Fees, shall pay the Subscription Fees on demand notwithstanding that the Member disputes the same for any reason. In the event that a dispute is decided by the Company in the Member's favour, the Company shall refund to the Member any excess amount paid by the Member free of interest.

In the event of late payment by the Member of any sums due under this Agreement, the Company shall have the right to charge interests on the outstanding amount (at the rate specified in the Company's bill) from the due date until the date of full payment.

Member's Obligations

The Member shall:-

be responsible for the set-up or configuration of his equipment for access to the Service;

comply with all notices or instructions given by the Company from time to time in respect of the use of the Service;

be solely responsible for obtaining, at his own cost, all licenses, permits, consents, approvals and intellectual property or other rights as may be required for using the Service;

comply with the rules of any network or network service provider through which the Member accesses the Service;

be solely responsible for all information retrieved, stored and transmitted through the Service by him;

be solely responsible for the accuracy of the Registration Data given to the Company on initial application for the Service;

be solely responsible for the maintenance of confidentiality of and the Member's password and user ID and all activities and transmission performed by the Member through his user ID;

immediately notify the Company of any unauthorised use of the Member's account or any other breach of security known to the Member; and

where Subscription Fees are payable, to pay the same promptly on demand and as required by the Company from time to time.

Prohibited Use

The Member undertakes:-

to comply with all applicable laws (and shall not contravene any applicable law) of the Republic of Singapore relating to the Services, including without limitation, the Broadcasting and Television Act, Common Gaming House Act, Computer Misuse Act, Copyright Act, Electronic Transactions Act, Films Act, Indecent Advertisements Act, Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act, Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, including any regulation made pursuant thereto and any items and conditions of any license granted to the Company by the local internet service provider;

where it is a corporate Member, not to allow any person other than the authorised person(s) named in the application form to use the Service;

not to use the Service for any unlawful purpose including without limitation criminal purposes;

not to use the Service to send or receive any message which is offensive on moral, religious, racial or political grounds or of an abusive, indecent, obscene, defamatory or menacing nature.

not to persistently send messages or make postings on Sigma Solutions.com or to any other Member or third party who access Sigma Solutions.com without reasonable cause or for causing any threat, harassment, annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to any person;

not to introduce, post or transmit any information or software which contains a virus, worm or other harmful component into the internet or Sigma Solutions.com network system;

not to infringe any intellectual property rights of any person or retain information in any computer system or otherwise with an intention to do so;

not to print, download, duplicate or otherwise copy or use any personal information of any Member which is identifiable and/or available on Sigma Solutions.com, including in particular the Registration Data;

not to delete, vary or amend any data and information posted by any other Member on Sigma Solutions.com except such data and information which is posted by the particular Member himself;

not to violate, or attempt to violate the security of Sigma Solutions.com and/or any web sites linked to Sigma Solutions.com or gain unauthorised access to any computer system connected to the internet or any information regarded as private by other Members or persons, including but without limitation to accessing data and information not intended for them or logging onto a server or account which the Member is not authorised to access, attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or attempting to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;

not to share the Service with any person without the prior written approval of the Company and shall use the Service only for the purpose for which is subscribed; and

not to do anything or cause anything to be done which may be in breach of the Internet Code of Practice, any regulations, guidelines, instructions, etc in whatsoever form that the Singapore Broadcasting Authority may issue from time to time relating to the Service or otherwise.

Security and other features

The Member shall take all such measures as may be necessary (including without limitation changing his password from time to time) to protect the secrecy of his user ID and/or password and shall not reveal the same to any other person(s).

Where a user ID is necessary to access the Service, the Member shall use only his own user ID.

The Member acquires no rights to any mailbox number, the user ID, circuit reference and any codes assigned to him by the Company and except as otherwise proved herein, the Company reserves the right to change or re-assign the same to the Member at its sole discretion without being liable to the Member in damages or otherwise.

In the event of theft or loss of user ID, password or security word, the Member must notify the Company immediately by telephone and concurrently provide the Company with a written notice to that effect. The Member shall remain liable for use of the Services by any third party until such theft or loss is notified to the Company.

Maintenance of Service

The Company may at any time deactivate or suspend the Member's access to Sigma Solutions.com and/or the Services (as the case may be) without notice to carry out system maintenance, upgrading, testing, repairs and other related work. Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company shall not be liable for any loss and damage, costs and expense that the Member may suffer or incur, and no fees or charges payable by the Member to the Company shall be deducted, refunded or rebated, as a result of such deactivation or suspension.

Termination of Service

Either the Company or the Member may terminate this Agreement by giving prior notice in writing of 30 days.

The Company may in its sole discretion waive or accept in writing a shorter period of notice from the date given by the Member.

Notwithstanding the notice given by the Member, the Company may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect:-

if in the opinion of the Company, the Member has breached any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement (including without limitation clauses 6 and 7;

if the Member has provided any false or incomplete information to the Company;

if, in the opinion of the Company or any regulatory authority, it is not in the public interest to continue providing the Service to the Member for any reason; or

Liabilities for Subscription Fees upon termination

In the event of termination of this Agreement, without prejudice to any other remedies available to the Company, where Subscription Fees are payable, the Member shall be liable for Subscription Fees until the Date of Termination.

The above amounts payable by the Member upon termination shall be payable within 30 days of the relevant Date of Termination.

Upon termination of this Agreement, the Company may use such deposits (paid by the Member) as may be held by the Company to offset any amount due from the Member under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Company and the Member, and the balance thereof shall be refunded to the Member free of interest.

Suspension of Service

Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies of the Company and notwithstanding any waiver by the Company of any previous breach by the Member, the Company may suspend the Service or any other service provided by the Company in the event that any monies payable by the Member for the Service or that other service is not settled in full or any deposit or increase thereof required by the Company is not paid by the Member.

Upon such suspension, the Service or such other service shall be deemed to be terminated as from the date of suspension stipulated by the Company and the Member shall be liable for all charges and fees incurred up to and including the date of such suspension and clauses 11(iii) and 11(iv) shall apply.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon subsequent payment by the Member of such sums as demanded by the Company, the Company may if it deems feasible at its sole discretion and subject to such terms as it deems proper, reconnect the Services or services, as the case may be, in which event this Agreement shall continue as if the same has not been terminated.

Other charges

In the event that the Company's employees or agents are called upon to attend to a fault at the Member's premises, the Company reserves the right to impose charges for the service if the fault is not directly attributable to any of the Company's equipment or networks. the Company's invoice shall be conclusive evidence of the Member's request for such services.

Disclaimer

Whilst every care is taken by the Company in the provision of the Service, the Company shall not be liable for any loss of information howsoever caused whether as a result of any interruption, suspension, or termination of the Service or otherwise, or for the contents, accuracy or quality of information available, received or transmitted through the Service.

The Member shall be solely responsible, and the Company shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever, for ensuring that in using the Service, all applicable laws, rules and regulations and all the terms prescribed by Singapore Telecommunications Limited and the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore for the use of any telecommunications systems, service or equipment shall be at all times complied with.

The Company makes no representations and warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the Services and in relation to the accuracy or quality of any information transmitted or obtained through the Services or Sigma Solutions.com. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company disclaims any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, as to the title, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, accuracy or standard of quality of Sigma Solutions.com, the Services and/or any database content (whether contained in Sigma Solutions.com or otherwise), and no warranty whatsoever is given that Sigma Solutions.com will be uninterrupted or error free, or in relation to the database content obtained or to be obtained from or through use of Sigma Solutions.com and/or the Services unless otherwise specifically mentioned in this Agreement.

The Company's liability under this Agreement shall not in any event exceed the total amount of fees and charges paid by the Member to the Company for the period immediately preceding two (2) months prior to the incident giving rise to the relevant claim.

The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damages sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the Member's account and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed nor does it endorse any opinion expressed by any Member on Sigma Solutions.com.

The Company does not warrant that Sigma Solutions.com or any of the web sites linked to Sigma Solutions.com will be free of any operational errors nor that it will be free of any virus, worm, or other harmful component.

The Member acknowledges that it is not the Company’s policy to exercise editorial control over and to edit or amend any data or contents of any emails or posting or any information that may be inserted or made available or transmitted to a third party in or through Sigma Solutions.com.

Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company may refuse, suspend, terminate, delete or amend any artwork, materials, information or content of any data or information or posting, or refuse such data or information to be posted at Sigma Solutions.com, so as in the sole opinion of the Company, if it is of the view that such posting is inappropriate for whatever reasons, to comply with the legal or moral obligations as placed on the Company and to avoid infringing a third party’s rights or any other rules, standards or codes of practices that may be applicable to the posting or Sigma Solutions.com or the internet.

Use of Data

The Member hereby agrees and irrevocably authorise the Company to:

use any data and information supplied by the Member in connection with this Agreement for the Company's own internal and marketing purposes, to its supplying such data and information to any other associated companies or selected third parties to use for such purposes, and to its supplying such data and information to such third parties as may be necessary for the operation of Sigma Solutions.com.

allow all data and information supplied by the Member in using the Service to remain at Sigma Solutions.com for the use of the Company in accordance with clause 15(i) herein, notwithstanding the termination or suspension of the Service to the Member herein. Unless the Member informs the Company to delete all such data and information following the termination or suspension of the Service to the Member, such data and information remain in the Company's property, records and databases.

Indemnity

The Member shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company at all times against all actions, proceedings, costs, claims, expenses, demands, liabilities, losses and damages whatsoever including without limitation for defamation, infringement of intellectual property rights, death, bodily injury, property damage or pecuniary losses howsoever arising which the Company may sustain, incur, suffer or pay arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service by the Member or any act or omission of the Member thereof.

Confidentiality

Both parties hereby agree not to divulge nor communicate to any person (other than those whose province it is to know the same) nor use or exploit for any purpose whatsoever (other than that contemplated in this Agreement) any confidential information which may or may have come to his knowledge by reason of or in connection with this Agreement, and hereby further agrees that they shall use all reasonable efforts to prevent their employees, officers, agents and consultants from so acting, except where the prior written consent of the other party is obtained or where required to be disclosed pursuant to any applicable law or legal process issued by any court or the rules of any relevant regulatory body.

The Company maintains a policy of strict confidentiality of all data and information submitted by the Member and the Company shall not, save as provided for under clause 15 herein, release such data and information to any persons without the prior consent of the Member.

The Member is entitled to access to his own data and information stored in the Company's database and at Sigma Solutions.com (subject to prior confirmation of identity) and may edit or amend such data and information at any time.

Variation

The Company reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions contained herein and in the Services Guide at any time upon notice (in such form as may be determined by the Company) to the Member.

If the amendments are effected by posting the changes as a start-up screen prior to the Member's subsequent use of the Service. If the Member agrees to be bound by the amendments, variations, adding to and/or modifications, the Member must again click the "I Accept" button that will follow the posted changes. If the Member does not click the "I Accept" button, the Company may terminate the Member's use of the Service immediately without further notice to the Member.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Member's continued use of the Service following the amendments constitutes an affirmation and acknowledgement of the amended terms and conditions and also constitute an agreement by the Member to abide and continue to be bound by the terms and conditions herein as amended or varied.

Without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, this Agreement is deemed to be varied to the extent that the Member requests for any variation in the Service and such is agreed to in writing by the Company.

Modification to Service

The Company also reserves the right to modify or discontinue the Service with or without notice to the Member. Save for paid service, a pro-rated refund shall be effected for the remaining unused period.

The Company shall not be liable to the Member or any third party should the Company exercise its right to modify or discontinue the Service.

Assignment

The rights and obligations under this Agreement shall not be capable of assignment by the Member without the prior written consent in writing of the Company, but subject thereto, shall be binding on and enure for the benefit of his successors and permitted assigns.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Singapore and the Member and the Company hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.