Terms and Conditions
Ebook Use terms and conditions
1. Introduction
1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern the sale and supply of the ebooks through our website https://www.weichenbooks.com, and the use of those ebooks.
1.2 You will be asked to give your express agreement to these terms and conditions before you place an order on our website.
1.3 This document does not affect any statutory rights you may have as a consumer.
2. Interpretation
2.1 In these terms and conditions:
(a) “we” means Libra Halo Ltd company (and “us” and “our” should be construed accordingly);
(b) “you” means our customer or prospective customer under these terms and conditions (and “your” should be construed accordingly);
(c) “ebooks” means those ebooks that are available for purchase on our website; and
(d) “your ebooks” means any such ebooks that you have purchased through our website (including any enhanced or upgraded version of the ebooks that we may make available to you from time to time).
3. Order process
3.1 The advertising of ebooks on our website constitutes an “invitation to treat” rather than a contractual offer.
3.2 No contract will come into force between you and us unless and until we accept your order in accordance with the procedure set out in Section 3.
3.3 To enter into a contract through our website to purchase ebooks from us, the following steps must be taken: you must submit the payment forms for the ebook(s) you wish to purchase and then proceed to the checkout; you must provide the data required to process the order: name and surname, email address, country of residence; you must consent to the terms of this document and our privacy policy; you will be transferred to our payment service provider’s website, and our payment service provider will handle your payment; we will then send you an initial acknowledgment; and we will either send you an order confirmation (at which point your order will become a binding contract) or we will confirm by email that we are unable to meet your order.
4. Prices
4.1 Our prices are quoted on our website.
4.2 We will from time to time change the prices quoted on our website, but this will not affect contracts that have previously come into force.
5. Payments
5.1 You must, during the checkout process, pay the prices of the ebooks you order.
5.2 Payments may be made by any of the permitted methods specified on our website from time to time.
6. Licensing of ebooks
6.1 We will supply your ebooks to you in the format or formats specified on our website, and by such means and within such periods as are specified on our website.
6.2 Subject to your payment of the applicable price and compliance with these terms and conditions, we grant to you a worldwide, non-expiring, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to make any use of your ebooks permitted by Section 6.3, providing that you must not in any circumstances make any use of your ebooks that is prohibited by Section 6.4.
6.3 The “permitted uses” of your ebooks are:
(a) downloading a copy of each of your ebooks from our email sent to you;
(b) making, storing, and viewing copies of your ebooks on not more than 3 desktop, laptop or notebook computers;
(c) making, storing, and viewing copies of your ebooks on not more than 3 ebook readers, smartphones, tablet computers, or similar mobile devices; and
(d) printing a single copy of each of your ebooks solely for your own use.
6.4 The “prohibited uses” of your downloads are:
(a) the publication, sale, licensing, sub-licensing, renting, transferring, transmission, broadcasting, distribution, or redistribution of any ebook (or part thereof) in any format;
(b) the editing, modification, adaptation, or alteration of any ebook (or part thereof), and the creation of any derivative work incorporating any download (or part thereof);
(c) the use of any ebook (or part thereof) in any way that is unlawful or in breach of any person’s legal rights under any applicable law, or in any way that is offensive, indecent, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable;
(d) the use of any ebook (or part thereof) to compete with us, whether directly or indirectly;
(e) any commercial use of any ebook (or part thereof); and
(f) the circumvention or removal of, or any attempt to circumvent or remove, the technological measures applied to any ebook for the purpose of preventing unauthorized use.
6.5 You warrant to us that you have access to the necessary computer systems, media systems, software, and network connections to receive and enjoy the benefit of your ebooks.
6.6 All intellectual property rights and other rights in the ebooks not expressly granted by these terms and conditions are hereby reserved.
6.7 You must retain, and must not delete, obscure, or remove, copyright notices and other proprietary notices on or in any ebook.
6.8 The rights granted to you in these terms and conditions are personal to you, and you must not permit any third party to exercise these rights.
6.9 If you breach any provision of these terms and conditions, then the license set out in this Section 6 will be automatically terminated upon such breach.
6.10 You may terminate the license set out in Section 6 by deleting all copies of the relevant ebooks in your possession or control.
6.11 Upon the termination of a license under this Section 6, you must, if you have not previously done so, promptly and irrevocably delete from your computer systems and other electronic devices all copies of the relevant ebooks in your possession or control, and permanently destroy any other copies of the relevant ebooks in your possession or control.
7. Distance contracts: cancellation right
7.1 This Section 7 applies if and only if you offer to contract with us, or contract with us, as a consumer – that is, as an individual acting wholly or mainly outside your trade, business, craft, or profession.
7.2 You may withdraw an offer to enter into a contract with us through our website or cancel a contract entered into with us through our website, subject to our Refund Policy.
8. Warranties and representations
8.1 You warrant and represent to us that:
(a) you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts;
(b) you have full authority, power, and capacity to agree to these terms and conditions; and
(c) all the information that you provide to us in connection with your order is true, accurate, complete, current, and non-misleading.
8.2 We warrant to you that:
(a) your ebooks will be of satisfactory quality according to reasonable person standard;
(b) your ebooks will be reasonably fit for any purpose under these terms and conditions
(c) your ebooks will match any description of it given by us to you; and
(d) we have the right to supply the ordered ebooks to you.
8.3 All of our warranties and representations relating to ebooks are set out in these terms and conditions. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all other warranties and representations are expressly excluded.
9. Variation
9.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
9.2 A revision of these terms and conditions will apply to contracts entered into at any time following the time of the revision, but will not affect contracts made before the time of the revision.
10. Assignment
10.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions – providing, if you are a consumer, that such action does not serve to reduce the guarantees benefiting you under these terms and conditions.
10.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
11. No waivers
11.1 No breach of any provision of a contract under these terms and conditions will be waived except with the express written consent of the party not in breach.
11.2 No waiver of any breach of any provision of a contract under these terms and conditions shall be construed as a further or continuing waiver of any other breach of that provision or any breach of any other provision of that contract.
12. Severability
12.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
12.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
13. Third party rights
13.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
13.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
14. Entire agreement
14.1 These terms and conditions shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the sale and purchase of our ebooks and the use of those ebooks and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to the sale and purchase of our downloads and the use of those downloads.
15. Law and jurisdiction
15.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Chinese law.
15.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of China.
16. Statutory and regulatory disclosures
16.1 We will not file a copy of these terms and conditions specifically in relation to each user or customer and, if we update these terms and conditions, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our website. We recommend that you consider saving a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.
16.2 These terms and conditions are available in the English language only.
17. Our details
17.1 This website is owned and operated by Libra Halo Ltd, United Kingdom
17.2 We are registered in the UK, and our registered office is at Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7DE United Kingdom
17.3 Our principal place of business is at JiaRun Mansion, International Office Building, 5-2-401, Hangzhou, China
17.4 You can contact us:
(a) by post, using the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.