Terms of use

Welcome. By accessing, browsing, submitting forms, downloading materials, using on-site chat, or otherwise interacting with this website, you confirm that you have read and understood these terms and agree to be bound by them. If you use the site on behalf of a company or other organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.

We may revise these terms when required by law, product changes, or operational needs. The updated version takes effect when posted on this page unless we state otherwise. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance. If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will provide a reasonable notice on the site, by banner, email, or another appropriate channel. Where the law requires separate consent, we will obtain it.

These terms govern your relationship with the site operator regarding use of the website only. Purchases, trials, professional services, or other transactions may also be governed by separate contracts, orders, statements of work, or service descriptions. Where those documents conflict with these terms for a specific transaction, the separate documents prevail for that transaction.

Unless expressly licensed, text, layout, logos, user interface elements, charts, images, compilations, and related copyright, trade mark, trade secret, and other intellectual property rights on this site are reserved by the operator or licensors. You must not remove or alter proprietary notices, watermarks, technical protection measures, or attribution.

Without written permission, you may not sublicense, rent, lend, mirror, deep-link in a way that circumvents paywalls, or build a competing database using site content. For open-source or third-party components, the accompanying licence applies and prevails over these terms to the extent of any conflict.

If you believe content on this site infringes your rights, contact us using the footer details with proof of ownership and specific URLs. After reasonable verification, we may remove, disable access, or take other steps required by law and may request further information.

Subject to these terms and applicable law, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to view and retrieve publicly available information for personal learning, internal business purposes, or good-faith commercial discussions with us, at a reasonable human-driven pace and in line with any published robots rules, without imposing an unreasonable load on this site or related systems or disrupting other users.

Without written consent, you must not, among other things:

• systematically or mechanically scrape, harvest, or cache public pages for model training, data resale, competitive indexing, or other uses clearly at odds with our legitimate interests;
• defeat, bypass, tamper with, or interfere with authentication, access controls, rate limits, CAPTCHAs, or other security measures;
• upload or distribute malware, conduct phishing or fraud, or use the site for unlawful gambling, privacy violations, defamation, or other illegal activity;
• impersonate others, forge headers, manipulate reviews or rankings, or spread false or misleading information;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract non-public APIs, source code, or algorithms except where mandatory law permits and only to that extent.

Downloadable software, toolkits, sample code, or images, if offered, are governed by their separate end-user licence or installer text where provided, including any update and support obligations.

When you post comments, reviews, forum topics, event registrations, or other user-generated content, it must be truthful, lawful, and respectful of third-party reputation, privacy, and intellectual property rights, and must not include harassment, hate speech, obscenity, graphic violence, unlawful political advocacy, malicious links, or deceptive inducements. You must not use bots to spam, astroturf, or disrupt community order.

We may hide, delete, restrict access, suspend accounts, or report to authorities when content clearly violates law or these terms. We are not obliged to pre-moderate all user content and are not a guarantor of disputes between users, though we may assist with evidence retention where reasonable.

If you send us suggestions, ideas, or feedback, unless we agree otherwise in writing, you grant us the right to use non-confidential, generally applicable portions for product improvement and communication without owing you compensation, without transferring any proprietary rights you validly retain.

Product specifications, solution diagrams, indicative pricing, lead times, case studies, press releases, and white-paper excerpts may change with markets, supply chains, or releases and are for general information only. They are not a promise of any particular outcome or performance and do not constitute a binding offer or invitation to treat. Commercial terms, technical boundaries, acceptance criteria, pricing, and taxes are agreed in writing or through confirmed email, electronic orders, or contract schedules.

Forward-looking statements may appear on the site; they reflect current expectations, involve uncertainty and risk, and should not be the sole basis for investment or major procurement decisions.

If any provision of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the fullest extent permitted, and the invalid portion should be replaced by a valid provision closest in economic intent.

Materials you send via forms, email, instant messaging, chat, or file uploads are treated as non-confidential unless we explicitly agree in writing to confidentiality or you clearly mark content as confidential and we acknowledge that marking through a secure channel. Do not send third-party trade secrets or sensitive personal data through unsecured public channels; if you must, state confidentiality requirements first and use an agreed secure method.

You represent that you have the rights or authorisations needed to share the content and that your submission and our processing will not infringe third-party rights or breach your duties to others. You allow us to store, copy, and share the information with affiliates and processors bound by appropriate obligations for responding to enquiries, improving products and services, performing contracts, security and compliance reviews, analytics, and internal training, within reasonable bounds.

Personal data is handled under our Privacy Statement. If you withdraw consent or request deletion, we will act in line with that statement and applicable law where not overridden by legal retention duties.

This site may be viewed from many countries. Some products, services, promotions, or payment methods are only available in selected jurisdictions. Language, currency examples, or illustrations do not guarantee the same catalogue, pricing, or regulatory treatment where you are located.

You are responsible for confirming that accessing the site, downloading materials, or transacting with us complies with local laws, including export controls, sanctions, consumer protection, cross-border data rules, and sector-specific regulation. Where mandatory local law conflicts with part of these terms, that mandatory law applies to the conflicting extent only, without affecting the remainder where possible.

Links or embeds to third-party websites, app stores, social networks, maps, video hosts, or payment gateways are provided for convenience. Those services are operated independently; we do not control their content, availability, fees, privacy practices, or security, and a link is not an endorsement. After you leave this site, assess risk yourself and read third-party terms and privacy notices.

If a third-party outage affects features here, we will help troubleshoot within reason but, except where the law says otherwise, we are not obliged to substitute performance for third-party failures.

You may use plain text links to our homepage or clearly public sections, provided you do not misrepresent sponsorship or partnership, frame pages in a misleading layout, harm our reputation, or associate the site with unlawful promotion. We may require correction or removal of inappropriate links, especially when accompanied by defamation, malware distribution, or search-engine manipulation.

Without written consent, you must not use our trade marks or logos as part of your own product or service naming, or register confusingly similar domain or social handles.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, this site and its materials are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, uninterrupted operation, error-free operation, freedom from malware, or availability.

Internet transmissions carry inherent risks; you should maintain backups, antivirus protection, and access controls. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions; in those cases, those exclusions apply only to the maximum extent permitted.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages (including loss of profits, goodwill, data, or business interruption) arising from use or inability to use this site, reliance on its content, or following links to third parties, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our aggregate liability for claims relating to use of this site is limited to the greater of (a) amounts you have actually paid and we have confirmed for the specific matter giving rise to the claim, or (b) five hundred (500) Chinese yuan equivalent if no such payment exists. These limits do not apply to death or personal injury caused by wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or to categories that cannot lawfully be limited by contract.

You agree, to the extent permitted by law, to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, losses, and reasonable legal fees arising from your breach of these terms, infringement of third-party rights, or misuse of the site.