Standard Chartered Cyber Space

YOUR USE OF THE SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE.

This Standard Chartered Cyber Space website (https://www.sc.com/en/cyber-space/) including all its features and content (“Site”) is made available by Standard Chartered Bank, or its affiliates (“we” or “us”) and all content, information, services and software provided on or through the Site (“Content”) is subject to the following terms and conditions (“Terms”).  Where we refer to “you”, we refer both to the individual who accesses the Site, and to the business for whom the individual works or who the individual represents; such business shall also be bound by these Terms.

1. Limited Licence  As a user of the Site and a client of ours, you are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited licence to access and use the Site and Content in accordance with these Terms. We may terminate this licence at any time for any reason.
2. Limitations on Use and Scope of Site and Content

• The Content on the Site is available for your appropriately skilled communication/ information and cyber security specialist employees to access, download, use, tailor and disseminate internally, solely for the purposes of training and raising awareness internally, among the employees of your business; but it is not for external use or publication, nor for commercial exploitation. You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, rent, lease, loan, sell, sublicense, or (save to the limited extent expressly permitted in these Terms) create derivative works from the Site or the Content. The use of any network monitoring or discovery software to determine the site architecture, or extract information about usage, individual identities or users is prohibited. You may not use any robot, spider, other automatic software or device, or manual process to monitor or copy our Site or the Content without our prior written permission. You may not use the Site to transmit any false, misleading, fraudulent or illegal communications. You may not copy, modify, reproduce, publish, republish, communicate to the public, distribute, display, make available or transmit for any purposes all or any portion of the Site or the Content, except to the limited extent and for the limited purposes expressly permitted above. Unauthorised use of the Site or its Content is prohibited.
• The Site and the Content is intended to provide information and cyber-security training and awareness resources which our clients can use internally to help them train their employees but does not purport to be exhaustive. The information and documents provided do not constitute compliance, legal or other advice.  You are responsible for considering whether the information on this Site and the Content are relevant and appropriate to the particular circumstances of your business. Matters which you consider to be important, or which may otherwise be considered important, to your particular circumstances or business may not have been addressed in the Content or may not have been addressed in sufficient detail for your purposes and requirements. Consequently, the Site and the Content cannot in any way act as a substitute for obtaining appropriate advice on information or cyber security, compliance, legal obligations and other matters, where relevant.

3. Accessing the Site 

By accessing and/or reviewing and/or using the Site, you confirm that:

• you have fully considered the provisions of these Terms, have obtained such legal advice as you consider appropriate and consider such provisions to be reasonable; and
• you have read and understood these Terms and you understand that they may affect your rights or responsibilities and you agree to be bound by these Terms.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

• We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in all elements of our Site, and in the Content. The Site and the Content comprise and include works protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
• Except as expressly provided in these Terms, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring on you or any third party any licence or right, to intellectual property rights in the Content or the Site.
• Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of Content on our Site must be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

5. Liability, indemnities and reliance

•  We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Site or the Content.
• You acknowledge and agree that these Terms are a condition to our agreement to provide you with access to the Site and that neither we nor any of our affiliates, officers, directors, employees or agents:
  • owe or accept any duty, responsibility or liability to you or any other party, whether in equity, contract, tort or otherwise, in respect of the Site or the Content, or in respect of any information contained in or derived from the Site or the Content;
  • shall be liable in respect of any direct or indirect losses (of whatever nature), costs, claims, demands, expenses (including, without limitation, legal expenses) or other liabilities incurred or suffered by you or any other party arising out of your use, or any other party’s use, of (or inability to use), or any reliance on, the Site or the Content, or any information contained in or derived from the Site or the Content, or our provision of access to the Site or the Content to you or any other party.
• You acknowledge and agree that you will not rely on the Site or the Content to ensure compliance with any laws or regulations, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (and similar or equivalent laws or regulations throughout the world); and will not bring any action, proceedings or claim against us and/or any of our affiliates where such action, proceedings or claim in any way relates to or concerns or is connected with your use, or the use by any other party, of the Site or the Content or any information contained in or derived from the Site or the Content.
• You acknowledge and agree that by making the Site and the Content available to you, neither we nor any of our affiliates are making any representation, statement, warranty or assurance in relation to whether (a) the Site or the Content or any matters mentioned or information contained in them are (i) accurate, complete, exhaustive, error-free, up-to-date, reliable, free of viruses or other harmful components, or (ii) relevant or appropriate to your needs or obligations, or (b) defects will be corrected or the Site or the Content will always be accessible.
• You agree to indemnify us, our affiliates, our officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers and any third-party information providers to the Site (“the Indemnified Parties”) and to defend and hold the Indemnified Parties harmless, against all actions, proceedings and claims brought or threatened against any Indemnified Party and against all direct or indirect losses (of whatever nature), costs, claims, demands, expenses (including, without limitation, legal expenses) and other liabilities which any Indemnified Party may incur or suffer from time to time arising out of or in connection with your failure, or that of any other person to whom you provide access to the Site or the Content in accordance with paragraph 6 below, to comply with these Terms.
• We may (at our sole discretion) make improvements and/or changes to the Site or the Content at any time.

6. No reliance on supplementary information or explanations

• If we, in our absolute discretion, agree to give information and/or explanations to you and/or your professional advisors (to whom we assume no duty or responsibility) in relation to the Site or the Content, you acknowledge and agree that any such information and/or explanations are given subject to these Terms.

7. No adviser/client relationship with you

• Our agreement to provide you with access to the Site and the Content does not constitute or create an adviser/client relationship between us (and/or between you and any of our affiliates) and you and/or those persons to whom you make the Content available in accordance with these Terms.

8. General

•  Liability limitation or exclusion
  • Nothing in these Terms shall be applicable to the extent that it constitutes a limitation or exclusion of liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or constitutes a limitation or exclusion of liability for our fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations.
• Applicable law and jurisdiction
  • These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, its subject matter or formation (including, without limitation, any non-contractual dispute or claim) are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law, and you irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim.
• Entire agreement
  • These Terms constitute the entire agreement and understanding between us in respect of their subject matter.
• Third-party rights
  • Except as provided in paragraph 5.5 above, nothing in these Terms shall confer any rights or other benefits on any third parties (whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise).
• Severance
  • If any provision or part-provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed deleted, but that shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of the Terms 
  • If any illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision of these Terms would be legal, valid or enforceable if some part or parts of it were deleted, such provision shall apply with the minimum deletion(s) necessary to make it legal, valid or enforceable.             
• Modifications to Terms
  • We reserve the right to change these Terms at any time. Updated versions of the Terms will appear on the Site and are effective immediately. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Terms. Continued use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your consent to such changes.

9. Privacy

Your use of the Site is subject to our Privacy Policy (Privacy policy | Standard Chartered (sc.com).