Important Notices

By accessing the Smart Government Innovation Lab ("SGIL") portal or any of its web pages (the "SGIL Website"), 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 ("Government") without prior notice. Please check this web page regularly for any modifications or supplements which may be made.

Disclaimer

All materials and information on the SGIL Website are for general information only. They are not comprehensive or serving as other professional advice and shall not be relied on as such. Users shall make their own judgement as regards the use of any materials and information obtained from the SGIL Website.

Software and related tools mentioned in the SGIL Website are for general reference and illustration purpose only and not listed with quality rating. The SGIL Website 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 SGIL Website 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 SGIL Website be held liable for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages to any third party, including users of the SGIL Website and other external websites maintaining hypertext links to the SGIL Website, who may choose to rely on the information, data or software in this website for any purposes.

The Government does not make any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose or use of, or assume any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, data, software, tools and whatsoever in the SGIL Website.

The SGIL Website may contain materials contributed by third parties. To facilitate access to information provided by or via third parties, The SGIL Website may provide or assist in providing links to external websites through its web pages. The provision or assistance in provision of any such materials or links to external websites shall not constitute any form of approval, endorsement, co-operation by or affiliation with the Government of any such third parties or external websites. Likewise it does not give rise to any statement, representation, approval, endorsement or warranty, express or implied, that the Government agrees or does not disagree with the contents of any such materials or external websites.

The SGIL Website and its contents may be referred to or hyperlinked by other external websites. The contents of those external websites and their operations are provided by other organisations. The Government accepts no responsibility for the contents of those websites, any information or hyperlinks related to SGIL Website contained in those websites, or any changes or updates of those websites.

The Government will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss (including without limitation of profits or anticipated profits, incomes, revenue, anticipated savings, business or goodwill), 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 of any such materials or external websites delivered on or via the SGIL Website or inability to use any of them.

The Government reserves the right to omit, suspend or edit all information compiled by the Government on the SGIL Website at any time in its sole discretion without giving any reason or prior notice.

If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between the Traditional Chinese version and the Simplified Chinese version of SGIL Website, 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 materials found on the SGIL Website, including but not limited to all text, graphics, drawings, diagrams, photographs and compilation of data or other materials, are subject to copyright owned by the Government or third parties, as appropriate.

The information available within the SGIL Website and owned by the Government may be re-disseminated or reproduced, provided that the source of information and the copyright status are acknowledged, meeting the information sharing requirements where appropriate, and that the re dissemination or reproduction is for non-commercial use. Besides, the materials must be reproduced and re-disseminated accurately and must not be used in a manner adversely affecting the rights of the Government. Any other reproduction, adaptation, distribution, dissemination or making available of the information available within this website for commercial use is strictly prohibited unless prior written authorisation is obtained from the Government. Such requests should be addressed to the Digital Policy Office via email: smartlab@digitalpolicy.gov.hk.

For the avoidance of doubt, the permission given in the paragraph above does not extend to any materials on the linked websites or any contents on the SGIL Website, 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 unless otherwise indicated.

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, the SGIL Website endeavours to conform to Level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). However, the SGIL Website may contain third-party materials that have not incorporated all Level accessibility features. If anyone has any problems accessing information on the SGIL Website, please contact us by:

Email : smartlab@digitalpolicy.gov.hk