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Terms and Conditions

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:00:29 GMT

Terms and Conditions

This web site ("Web Site") is owned, operated and maintained by or for Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited. ("SCEH").

Please read these terms and conditions of use ("Terms and Conditions") carefully before accessing and browsing this Web Site. You can use this Web Site only if you agree to and accept the Terms and Conditions without limitation or reservation. The Terms and Conditions will be deemed to have been accepted by you if and when you use this Web Site.

SCEH may, at its sole and exclusive discretion, change, alter, modify, add, and/or remove portions of the Terms and Conditions at any time by updating the contents of this page. So you are requested to visit this page and check the then-effective Terms and Conditions periodically.

This Web Site is linked to other web sites, also operated by SCEH, its parent company Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ("SCEI") or its affiliates ("SCEH Site"). In addition to this Terms and Conditions, use of each SCEH Site shall also be subject to the terms and conditions particular to such SCEH Site. In the event that any of the terms, conditions, and/or notices contained in this Terms and Conditions conflict with the terms and conditions particular to such SCEH Site, then the terms and conditions particular to such SCEH Site shall prevail and govern such SCEH Site.

Limitation of use

All rights (including, but not limited to, copyright) pertaining to all the materials and information that are displayed and/or made available from this Web Site (e.g., contents made available for download) are managed, owned, or used with permission by, SCEH.

Except for personal, non-commercial, internal use, you are prohibited from using (including, without limitation, coping, modifying, reproducing in whole or in part, uploading, transmitting, distributing, licensing, selling and publishing) any of the materials, without obtaining SCEH's prior written permission. Please also note that some materials or information may have terms and conditions particular to such materials or information, in which case, you are required to accept such terms and conditions when accessing those materials and information.

Trademark Usage

"","PlayStation","","","","PS3","PSP","PS2","PS one",

"","DUALSHOCK","SIXAXIS","UMD","" , and any other product names, service names or logos of SCEH used, quoted and/or referenced in this Web Site are trademarks or registered trademarks of SCEH, its parent company SCEI or its affiliates. "" is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Other product names, service names, logos and/or company names used in the Web Site are trademarked and copyrighted properties of their respective owners and/or licensors.

Prohibited Conduct

Following acts are not allowed when using this Web Site:

(1) Infringing the legal rights (including, but not limited to, the rights of privacy and publicity) of others

(2) Causing any damages or disadvantage to others

(3) Disturbing public order

(4) Criminal act

(5) Uploading or distributing any third parties' private information without obtaining approval from such third parties

(6) Using this Web Site for any commercial purpose

(7) Defaming, disgracing or libeling others

(8) Uploading files that contain viruses, or corrupted files that may damage the operation of others' computers

(9) Any other activities that are unlawful or prohibited by any applicable laws

(10) Any other activities that SCEH deems inappropriate

Links to Non-SCEH Sites

Third parties' web sites (other than SCEH Sites) linked to or from this Web Site ("Linked Sites") are independently operated and maintained by such third parties and are not under the control and/or supervision of SCEH. Use of the Linked Sites shall be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated by the operator of each Linked Site. SCEH will not be responsible for any loss or damage, however caused, in connection with the use of any Linked Site, and your access to any of the Linked Sites shall be at your own risk.

Nothing contained in this Web Site shall be interpreted as a recommendation and/or endorsement by SCEH of the contents of the Linked Sites and any products and/or services appearing on and/or provided through such Linked Sites. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or the like between the operators of the Linked Sites and SCEH.

Public Information

Be aware that anything sent in, posted or disclosed to SCEH and/or on our PlayStation Blog can be reproduced, disclosed, transmitted, published, broadcast or posted somewhere else. SCEH, SCEI or its affiliates can use without compensation to you any ideas, concepts or techniques that you send, post or disclose, including anything having to do with the development, manufacturing and marketing of our products. If you have rights in anything you send in, post or disclose, you grant to SCEH, SCEI and its affiliates the licenses necessary to use it.

Personal Information

SCEH may ask you to provide personal information, meaning individually identifiable information such as your name, address, e-mail address, Sony Entertainment Network sign-in ID, Sony Entertainment Network password etc. through this Web Site, in order for you to participate in certain activities ("Personal Information"). Personal Information will be used only for the purposes indicated by SCEH when each Personal Information had been solicited. If SCEH wishes to use your Personal Information for purposes that had not been indicated, SCEH will inform you of such new purpose. SCEH will take great care in maintaining the security of the Personal Information and in preventing unauthorized access to it, through the use of reasonably appropriate technology and internal procedures.

SCEH will not share the Personal Information with any third party without your approval, except in the following cases: (This section shall not apply to anonymous information, such as statistical data, from which an individual cannot be identified.)

(1) to persons or companies with whom SCEH engages to carry out or provide support for the operations of certain activities or business, (In such case, SCEH shall require such persons or companies to strictly maintain such Personal Information and not to use it for purpose other than is necessary), or

(2) as may be required by law or court order.

If you wish to review, revise or delete your Personal Information, SCEH will quickly correspond to your request.

Membership

You may register for free membership at this Web Site in order to enjoy our member benefits, which may include, but are not limited to, free e-newsletter and promotional offers. To become our member, you must be 18 years old or above. You affirm you are 18 years old or above by registering for and using our member service. SCEH reserves the right to deny any registration request at its sole discretion and for any reason.

You provide your Personal Information to SCEH in becoming our member. You expressly consent to SCEH to use your Personal Information collected for the purpose of communicating with you in relation to member benefits, promotional offers and any other information of the membership program in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You authorize SCEH to share your Personal Information with persons or companies with whom SCEH engages to carry out operation or provide support for the abovementioned purposes.

SCEH reserves the right to terminate your membership at its sole discretion and for any reason. To terminate your membership, please request in writing to Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited, Suites 1501-1506, 15/F, Sun Life Tower, The Gateway, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Disclaimers of Warranties

EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, SCEH AND/OR SCEI AND/OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES RIGHTS AND/OR SAFETY OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS WEB SITE, AND ANY REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES RELATING THERETO ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.

EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, SCEH AND/OR SCEI AND/OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR ACCESS, OR INABILITY TO USE OR ACCESS, THE WEB SITE.

SCEH MAY CHANGE AND/OR ALTER THE CONTENTS OF THIS WEB SITE, OR MAY SUSPEND OR DISCONTINUE THE SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT ANY PRIOR NOTICE. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, SCEH OR SCEI OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY ALTERATION OR CHANGE OF THE CONTENTS.

Applicable Laws and Jurisdiction

This Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China unless otherwise expressly provided. All controversies and disputes arising out of or relating to the Web Site and this Terms and Conditions shall be submitted to the courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China.

This Terms and Conditions is not intended to limit in any way your rights under the consumer protection statutes. If any portion of this Terms and Conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, such portion shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining portion.

In the event of discrepancies between the English and Chinese versions of the Terms and Conditions, the English version shall prevail.

Comment policy

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:01 GMT

We want to hear from you and encourage comments, critiques, questions and suggestions. We ask that you simply stay on topic, respect other people’s opinions, avoid profanity, offensive statements, illegal content and anything else that might violate our standard terms and conditions. Be aware that anything sent in, posted or disclosed to Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited (“SCEH”) can be reproduced, disclosed, transmitted, published, broadcast or posted somewhere else. SCEH, its parent company Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ("SCEI") and its affiliatescan use without compensation to you any ideas, concepts or techniques that you send post or disclose, including anything having to do with the development, manufacturing and marketing of our products. If you have rights in anything you send in, post or disclose, you grant to SCEH, SCEI and its affiliates the licenses necessary to use it.

Please understand that we reserve the right to edit or delete comments for any reason we deem appropriate. This is a moderated blog and comments will appear if and when they are approved. We will review the queue several times daily, so please don’t resubmit if your comment doesn’t appear immediately.

The opinions expressed here are not necessarily the opinions of SCEH and we assume no responsibility for such content.

Please do not post any private information. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information.

Privacy Policy

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:01:35 GMT

Privacy Policy

Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited ("SCEH") respects the privacy rights of users of this site. No personal information is required to access this site but where personal information is required to be submitted for certain purposes stated in this site, you are required to enter true and accurate information. SCEH's Privacy Policy is formulated in accordance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486 of Laws of Hong Kong).

Purpose of collection of personal information

When you visit this site, you need not supply any personal information to access or use the site but SCEH may collect personal information from you if you register for product warranty and maintenance services, register for membership, enroll, sign up or register for any competitions, elections or other promotion or marketing activities held by SCEH or its associated companies, if you request for any promotional brochures or materials from SCEH, or if you participate on our PlayStation Blog.

Personal information collected from users of this site may also be used by SCEH to:

provide product warranty and maintenance services;
send you newsletter and communicate with you, if you register for membership;
contact users regarding the competitions, elections or other promotion or marketing activities for which the personal information are

supplied as well as for other marketing purposes;

design contents, services and other materials for posting on the site or otherwise for users or customers;
perform statistical analysis of users behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the contents of the site.

PlayStation Blog

Our PlayStation Blog allows users to share their comments, critiques, questions and suggestions about the PlayStation brand. A Sony Entertainment Network account is required to participate on our PlayStation Blog. We prohibit blog participants from disclosing their own personally identifying information other than their own Sony Entertainment Network Online IDs. We ask our users to respect the privacy of others. Disclosure of phone numbers, addresses, age or other personally identifying information that may violate someone else's privacy is prohibited. Encouraging or asking users to disclose publicly their personally identifying information is also prohibited.

Confidentiality

Personal information held by SCEH relating to the users of this site will be kept confidential but SCEH may provide this information to third parties including but not limited to SCEH's advertisers, associated companies, contractors, agents or other network operators who perform certain tasks for SCEH in connection with the provision of the contents of this site or who are engaged by us for and in relation to any of purpose for which your personal information was collected, as set out in this Privacy Policy. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to the disclosure of your personal information to such third parties, and to any use of your personal information by such third parties which would, if the use was by us, be permitted by or under this Privacy Policy. Any comments, suggestion or information other than personal information sent or posted to this site by users will be considered voluntarily provided to SCEH on a non-confidential and non-proprietary basis. SCEH reserves the right to use, reproduce or otherwise deal with such information.

Safety of personal information

SCEH will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that any personal information held by it on this site is stored in a secure and safe place. SCEH may use "cookies" on this site in order to enable users to keep browsing certain contents and to build users profiles. If you want to disallow cookies, you can do so on your Web browser.

Links

This site may contain links to other sites. By activating a link, you leave this site and SCEH does not exercise control over personal information or any other information you give to any other entity.

Right of access to personal information

If you wish to request access to your personal information or to correct it, you may write to Data Protection Officer, Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited, Suites 1501-1506, 15/F, Sun Life Tower, The Gateway, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

In the event of discrepancies between the English and Chinese versions of the Privacy Policy, the English version shall prevail