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notice. All changes will be posted on this page, and your
use of this Site after such changes have been posted will
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Terms of Use and all of the changes.
3. This Site is the official ESC
website. It is owned and operated by the Ministry of Finance.
("MOF"). 4. The materials located
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or
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any kind caused as a result (direct or indirect) of
the access to or use of the Site, including but not
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this Site and/or the availability of any Contents within
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of this Site or all or any part of the Contents for
any period of time, whether for the purposes of updating,
upgrading, system maintenance, or any other purpose
whatsoever without any prior notice.
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of any kind arising from access to those other websites.
Use of the hyper-links and access to such other websites
are entirely at your own risk, and you should check the
applicable terms of use contained in such other websites
which you may be bound by. 12. Hyperlinks to
other websites are provided as a convenience to the
user. Under no circumstances whatsoever shall MOF be
considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever
manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia
or other devices used or appearing on any other websites
to which this Site is linked.
13. Except as set forth below, caching
and links to, and the framing of this Site or any of the
Contents are prohibited. 14. Linking to the
Homepage: You may link to the homepage of this Site
upon notifying MOF in writing.
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from MOF prior to hyperlinking to, or framing, this
Site or any of the Contents, or engaging in similar
activities. MOF reserves the right to impose conditions
when permitting any hyperlinking to, or framing of this
Site or any of the Contents.
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any of the Contents constitutes acceptance to and agreement
of these Terms of Use. This is deemed to be the case
even after the posting of any changes or modifications
to these Terms of Use. If you do not accept and agree
to these Terms of Use, you must discontinue linking
to, or framing of this Site or any of the Contents immediately.
17. Under no circumstances whatsoever shall MOF be
considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever
manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia
or other devices used or appearing on any other websites
that link to this Site or any of the Contents.
18. MOF reserves all rights to disable any links to,
or frames of any other website containing inappropriate,
profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or
unlawful topics, names, material or information, or
material or information that violates any written law,
any applicable intellectual property, proprietary, privacy
or publicity rights.
19. MOF reserves the right to disable any unauthorised
links or frames and disclaims any responsibility for
(a) the content available on any other website reached
by links from this Site or (b) the content available
on any other website linking to this Site.
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These Terms of Use shall be governed and construed in
accordance with laws of the Republic of Singapore and
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to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore Courts
regarding any and all disputes relating to these Terms
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