Welcome to ADPL. By using the services on the ADPL websites (www.adeptdesigns.org) and other related websites where this agreement appears) you are agreeing to the following terms, including those available by hyperlink, with the general principles for the websites of our subsidiaries and international affiliates.

Before you may become a member of ADPL, you must read and accept all of the terms and conditions in, and linked to, this User Agreement and the Privacy Policy. We strongly recommend that, as you read this User Agreement, you also access and read the linked information. By accepting this User Agreement, you also agree that your use of some ADPL-branded websites or websites we operate may be governed by separate user agreements and privacy policies. The agreement that applies on any of our domains and sub domains is always the agreement that appears in the footer of each website.

Using ADPL
While using ADPL, you will not:
- post content or items in an inappropriate category or areas on our sites or services;
- violate any laws, third party rights, or our policies such as the Prohibited and Restricted Items policies;
use our sites or services if you are not able to form legally binding contracts, are under the age of 18, or are temporarily or indefinitely suspended from our sites;
- fail to deliver payment for items purchased by you, unless the seller has materially changed the item's description after you bid, a clear typographical error is made, or you cannot authenticate the seller's identity;
fail to deliver items purchased from you, unless the buyer fails to meet the posted terms, or you cannot authenticate the buyer's identity;
- manipulate the price of any item or interfere with other user's listings;
- circumvent or manipulate our fee structure, the billing process, or fees owed to ADPL;
- post false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, or libelous content (including personal information);
- take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of the sites or for using it for purposes unrelated to ADPL);
- transfer your ADPL account (including feedback) and User ID to another party without our consent;
- distribute or post spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
- distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm ADPL, or the interests or property of ADPL users;
- copy, modify, or distribute content from the sites and ADPL's copyrights and trademarks; or
- harvest or otherwise collect information about users, including email addresses, without their consent.

Abusing ADPL

Fees and Services
Joining ADPL and bidding on listed items is free. We do charge fees for using other services, such as listing items. When you list an item or use a service that has a fee you have an opportunity to review and accept the fees that you will be charged based on our Fees schedule, which we may change from time to time. Changes to that Policy are effective after we provide you with at least fourteen days' notice by posting the changes on the ADPL site. We may choose to temporarily change the fees for our services for promotional events (for example, free listing days) or new services, and such changes are effective when we post the temporary promotional event or new service on the site.
Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in Hong Kong Dollars. You are responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes associated with our sites and services in a timely manner with a valid payment method. If your payment method fails or your account is past due, we may collect fees owed using other collection mechanisms. (This includes charging other payment methods on file with us, retaining collection agencies and legal counsel, and for accounts over 180 days past due, deducting the amount owed from your PayPal account balance.)

Content
When you give us content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future.
For the convenience of sellers, we may offer catalogs of stock images, descriptions and product specifications, which are provided by third-parties. While we try to offer reliable data, we cannot promise that the catalogs will always be accurate and up-to-date. If you choose to include catalog content in your listings, you will be responsible for ensuring that your listings are accurate and do not include misleading information. You agree that you will not hold our catalog providers responsible for inaccuracies in their catalogs. The catalogs may include copyrighted, trademarked or other proprietary materials. You may use the catalogs only for informational purposes and only in connection with your ADPL listings. You may not use catalog content in a way that infringes or violates anyone’s proprietary rights.

Liability
You will not hold ADPL responsible for other users' content, actions or inactions, or items they list. You acknowledge that we are not a traditional auctioneer. Instead, the Sites are a venue to allow anyone to offer, sell, and buy just about anything, at anytime, from anywhere, in a variety of pricing formats and venues, such as stores, fixed price formats and auction-style formats. We are not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. We have no control over and do not guarantee the quality, safety or legality of items advertised, the truth or accuracy of users’ content or listings, the ability of sellers to sell items, the ability of buyers to pay for items, or that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction.
We do not transfer legal ownership of items from the seller to the buyer. Unless the buyer and the seller agree otherwise, the buyer will become the item's lawful owner upon physical receipt of the item from the seller. Further, we cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our services, and operation of the sites may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. Accordingly, to the extent legally permitted, we exclude all implied warranties, terms and conditions. We are not liable for any loss of money, goodwill, or reputation, or any special, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of your use of our sites and services. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you.
Regardless of the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable, our liability to you or to any third party is limited to the greater of (a) the total fees you paid to us in the 12 months prior to the action giving rise to the liability, and (b) HK$800.

Release
If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Access and Interference
Our sites contain robot exclusion headers. Much of the information on the sites is updated on a real-time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to ADPL by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the sites for any purpose without our express written permission.

Additionally, you agree that you will not: take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from the sites without the prior expressed written permission of ADPL and the appropriate third party, as applicable; interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the sites or any activities conducted on the sites; or bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the sites.

Privacy
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We use your information only as described in the ADPL Privacy Policy. We view protection of users' privacy as a very important community principle. We store and process your information on computers located in the United States that are protected by physical as well as technological security devices. You can access and modify the information you provide us and choose not to receive certain communications by signing-in to your account. We use third parties to verify and certify our privacy principles. For a complete description of how we use and protect your personal information, see the ADPL Privacy Policy. If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way please do not use our services.

Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees), harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

No Agency
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

Notices
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by post to ADPL International AG, forward by ADPL, address: Legal Department, 2145 Hamilton Ave., San Jose, CA 95125 (in the case of ADPL) or to the email address you provide to ADPL during the registration process (in your case). Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively, we may give you legal notice by mail to the address provided during the registration process. In such case, notice shall be deemed given three days after the date of mailing unless otherwise required by law.

Resolution of Disputes
If a dispute arises between you and ADPL, our goal is to provide you with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly, you and ADPL agree that we will resolve any claim or controversy at law or equity that arises out of this Agreement or our services (a "Claim") in accordance with one of the subsections below or as we and you otherwise agree in writing. Before resorting to these alternatives, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution by going to the About Customer Support help page. We will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation or arbitration, as alternatives to litigation.

Law and Forum for Disputes - This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Hong Kong. The laws of Hong Kong are applicable to agreements stipulated by Hong Kong residents and completely executed in Hong Kong. You agree that any claim or dispute you may have against ADPL must be resolved by a court located in Hong Kong, except as otherwise agreed by the parties or as described in the Arbitration Option paragraph below. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within Hong Kong for the purpose of litigating all such claims or disputes. Any one party can initiate legal procedure in courts under Hong Kong jurisdiction 30 days after any one party files notice to another party, and when no arbitration is filed within these 30 days.

Arbitration Option - For any claim (excluding claims for injunctive or other equitable relief) where the total amount of the award sought is less than HK$80,000, you or ADPL may elect to resolve the dispute through binding non-appearance-based arbitration. In the event a party elects arbitration, the arbitration can be preceded through the Short Form Arbitration Rules in accordance with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. But in the case when the above mentioned rules disagree with the terms of this Agreement, the arbitration shall be preceded in accordance with this Agreement, or in accordance with the guidance of the arbitrators. Upon written mutual agreement, the arbitration can be proceeded by any party entitled to proceed arbitration. The ruling of the arbitrators can be recorded in the courts of any jurisdictions.

Improperly Filed Claims - All claims between two parties (excluding compulsory requests when both parties agree that the request shall not contradict or undermine the effects of this Agreement on the binding effects of the arbitration agreement) must be resolved through the agreed dispute resolution mechanism started in this section. In case any party filing a lawsuit in violation of this section, the other party can claim legal and other costs on condition that the claiming party has issued notice to the other party, and that party has not withdrawn its claim.

Each of these policies may be changed from time to time. Changes take effect when we post them on the sites. When using particular services on the sites, you are subject to any posted policies or rules applicable to services you use through the sites, which may be posted from time to time. All such policies or rules are hereby incorporated into this Agreement. Your continued use of the sites after such changes have been posted constitutes your acceptance of the changes and your agreement to be bound by the revised policies.

General
If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. In our sole discretion, we may assign this Agreement in accordance with the Notices Section. Headings are for reference purposes only and do not limit the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. We do not guarantee we will take action against all breaches of this Agreement.
We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. Except as stated elsewhere, all amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted. Your continued use of our sites and services after such the changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the changes and your agreement to be bound by the Agreement as revised. Additionally, we will notify you through the ADPL Message Center. This Agreement may not be otherwise amended except in a writing signed by you and us. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof. The following sections survive any termination of this Agreement: Fees and Services (with respect to fees owed for our services), Release, Content License, Liability, Indemnity and Resolution of Disputes.