JD Terms of Service

Last Updated: 23 February 2020

BT International Ltd. ("BT International Ltd.", "we", or "us") operates the JD mobile app (“JD App”) and related website www.JD-date.com (“Website”). JD App and Website shall hereinafter be collectively termed as "JD", however, the use of the term “JD” in the provisions hereafter shall refer to both Website and JD App as well as either the Website or the JD App, i.e.  such aforesaid provisions shall apply to all parts/components of JD. By accessing, downloading, installing or using JD in any way, you accept these Terms of Service ("Agreement"). We also reserve the right to amend any provision of this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion without any prior notice to you, and you agree that it is your responsibility to check for the updated terms of this Agreement on the JD Website regularly.  By your continued use of JD, you will be deemed to have accepted all amendments to this Agreement implemented by BT International Ltd.  If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement, do not use JD.

Contents

  • Who May Use JD
  • License to Use JD
  • Privacy
  • Registration
  • Term and Termination; Account Deletion
  • Disclaimers; Limitation of Liability
  • Code of Conduct; Prohibited Activities
  • Content Restrictions
  • Licenses Granted by You
  • Your Representations and Warranties
  • Indemnification
  • Third Party Copyrights and Other Rights
  • JD VIP (Paid) Subscription, JD App Likes and In-App Purchases
  • Personal Data
  • Third Party Websites
  • General Provisions

1. Who May Use JD

You must be at least 18 years old to use JD.  In the event that you are under 18 and you wish to use JD, please see consent from your parents or legal guardian.   We will not be howsoever whatsoever liable for any results or consequences arising from any prohibited use of JD.  We will immediately suspend access to JD without any prior notice if it is suspected that any JD user is below 18, however, it is the duty of parents and legal guardians to ensure that their children/wards are not using JD without parental/legal guardian consent.  Except as represented to us based on the information provided to us, we are not able to verify nor monitor the age of JD users.   By using JD, you represent and warrant that you are above 18 years of age, have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement, be fully bound by and abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, have never been convicted of a felony, and are not required to register as a sex offender with any government entity.  You agree that should any of the aforegoing representations be untrue at any point in time, you will fully defend, hold harmless and indemnify BT International Ltd., its related entities, each of their respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders, agents and subcontractors (collectively “Indemnified Persons”) from any and all damages, costs and losses howsoever resulting from any claims against any Indemnified Persons arising from your breach of your representations, including but not limited to fines, penalties, settlement amounts, judgements, and legal costs (on a client-solicitor basis).

2. Intellectual Property and License to Use JD

a. All content, including any write-ups, diagrams, charts, layout, photographs and drawings, as displayed on JD and in the related marketing materials (which shall include but is not limited to electronic mailers and banners) (JD and the related marketing materials shall hereinafter be collectively referred to as our “Materials”) made available to you are protected by copyright, design registrations, trade mark registrations and/or other intellectual property rights (whether owned by us or licensed to us).  You agree therefore that without our prior written consent, you are not permitted to reproduce, copy, download, extract, store, distribute, sell, modify or create derivative works from, any part of the content found in our Materials.  We reserve our rights to take legal action against you for any such unauthorised use of our content and/or Materials.
b. All company names (including BT International Ltd.,  the company names of our affiliated entities and our advertisers), logos, trade marks, service marks, brands (collectively the "Branding") represented in the Materials belong to BT International Ltd. or to third parties who have agreed to display their Branding in the Materials.  You are therefore not permitted to copy, replicate, modify, extract, download or howsoever use any such Branding for any purpose whatsoever without our prior written consent.
c. JD is the property and asset of BT International Ltd., including all inherent intellectual property rights.  BT International Ltd. grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use JD for your own personal, non-commercial purposes only. Except as expressly permitted by BT International Ltd. in writing, you will not reproduce, redistribute, sell, create derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble JD (or any part thereof). Nor will you take any measures nor assist any third parties to interfere with or damage JD, including but not limited to its functions, usability, accessibility and security. All rights not expressly granted by BT International Ltd. in this Agreement are reserved.

3. Privacy

Your privacy rights are set forth in our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), which forms a part of this Agreement. Please review our Privacy Policy to learn about: What information we may collect about you, What we use that information for What third-party information, if any, you are agreeing to share by using JD; and With whom we share that information.  In the event that you do not agree with any terms of our Privacy Policy, please stop using JD immediately.

4. Registration

To use JD App, you must register an account with your E-mail address, meaning you are authorizing us to send you E-mails related to JD App.

5. Term and Termination; Account Deletion

a. This Agreement begins on the date you first use JD and continues until terminated in accordance with the provisions hereof or when you completely stop all use of JD (including ceasing to access the Website), whichever is the later. BT International Ltd. may without prior notice to you suspend, disable, or delete your account (or any part thereof) to the JD App or stop your access to the Website if BT International Ltd. determines that you have violated any provision of this Agreement or that your conduct or content would tend to damage BT International Ltd.'s reputation,  goodwill, or security. If BT International Ltd. deletes your account to the JD App for the foregoing reasons; you may not re-register under a different name. 
b. BT International Ltd. may at any time terminate at its convenience this Agreement in relation to your JD App.
c. Upon termination, all licenses granted by BT International Ltd. hereunder this Agreement will terminate. In the event of account deletion for any reason, content that you submitted may no longer be available. BT International Ltd. shall not be responsible for the loss of such content.
d. In the event that you have a paid subscription to the JD App which you signed up for via GooglePlay/AppStore, termination of your paid subscription must be done on your end via GooglePlay/AppStore.  Should you fail to do so, you will still continue to be charged for your paid subscription for which you are fully responsible for paying and no refunds (in whole or in part) will be made to you by BT International Ltd.

6. Disclaimers; Limitation of Liability

a. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER JD USERS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BT INTERNATIONAL LTD. CURRENTLY DOES NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON ITS USERS. BT INTERNATIONAL LTD. ALSO DOES NOT INQUIRE INTO THE BACKGROUNDS OF ALL OF ITS USERS OR ATTEMPT TO VERIFY THE STATEMENTS OF ITS USERS. BT INTERNATIONAL LTD. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE CONDUCT OF USERS, THE MESSAGES THAT AN USER SENDS TO OTHER USERS (INCLUDING ICEBREAKERS SENT AUTOMATICALLY BY ACTIVATING CERTAIN APP FEATURES), OR THEIR COMPATIBILITY WITH ANY CURRENT OR FUTURE USER. BT INTERNATIONAL LTD. RESERVES THE RIGHT (BUT IS NOT OBLIGATED) TO CONDUCT ANY CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK OR OTHER SCREENINGS (SUCH AS SEX OFFENDER REGISTER SEARCHES), AT ANY TIME AND USING AVAILABLE PUBLIC RECORDS.
b. IN NO EVENT SHALL BT INTERNATIONAL LTD. BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, GENERAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, COMPENSATORY, CONSEQUENTIAL, AND/OR INCIDENTAL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE CONDUCT OF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF JD, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, BODILY INJURY, HARRASSMENT, DEATH, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, AND/OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES RESULTING FROM COMMUNICATIONS, ICEBREAKING MESSAGES SENT AUTOMATICALLY VIA CERTAIN APP FEATURES, OR MEETINGS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE JD SERVICE OR PERSONS YOU MEET THROUGH JD. YOU AGREE TO TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS IN ALL INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SERVICE, PARTICULARLY IF YOU DECIDE TO MEET OFFLINE OR IN PERSON.  YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ULTIMATELY YOU DECIDE ON YOUR COURSE OF ACTION AND SCOPE OF INTERACTION IN RELATION TO OTHER JD USERS AND THEREFORE YOU AGREE THAT YOU TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY AND ALL CONSEQUENCES AND WILL NOT HOLD BT INTERNATIONAL LTD. HOWSOEVER WHATSOEVER LIABLE AS BT INTERNATIONAL LTD. IS MERELY PROVIDING A MOBILE SOCIAL PLATFORM. 
c. BT International Ltd. reserves the right to modify JD at any time without prior notice to you. You are responsible for providing your own hardware and connectivity to access JD. BT International Ltd. has no obligation to screen or monitor any content input by other JD users and does not guarantee that any content available on JD is suitable for or pleasing to all users.
d. BT International Ltd. provides JD on an "as is" and "as available" basis. You therefore use JD at your own risk. BT International Ltd. expressly disclaims any and all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose (even if BT International Ltd. has been advised in advance of such purpose), non-infringement, security, and any other warranty that might arise under any law. Without limiting the foregoing, BT International Ltd. makes no representations or warranties:
  • i. That JD will be permitted in your jurisdiction;
  • ii. That JD will be uninterrupted or error-free;
  • iii. Concerning any content submitted by any user;
  • iv. Concerning any third party's use of content that you submit;
  • v. That any content you submit will be made available on JD or will be stored by BT International Ltd.;
  • vi. That BT International Ltd. will continue to support any particular feature of JD;
  • vii. That you will meet with like-minded individuals or find a partner by using JD;
  • viii. Concerning sites and resources outside of JD, even if linked to or from JD. 
e. To the extent any disclaimer or limitation of liability does not apply, all applicable express, implied, and statutory warranties will be limited in duration to a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which you first used JD, and no warranties shall apply after such period.  Furthermore, in the event that any exclusion of liability herein this Section 6 is not permitted under any applicable law, you agree that BT International Ltd.’s aggregate liability to you for any and all claims howsoever arising from this Agreement or your use of JD shall not exceed S$100, and payment by BT International Ltd. of the said S$100 to you shall satisfy all claims that you may have against BT International Ltd. and you will not be entitled to seek any other remedies against BT International Ltd.

7. Code of Conduct; Prohibited Activities

In using JD, you must behave in a civil and respectful manner at all times. Further, you will not: Harass or stalk any other person; Harm or exploit minors; Act in a deceptive manner by, among other things, impersonating any person; Collect information about others without their specific consent; You will not express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by BT International Ltd. without our specific prior written consent. You will not distribute spam, and will not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data mine", or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of JD or its contents. You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information on, via, or from the Materials or JD without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. You will not interfere with or disrupt the services or the Website or the servers or networks connected to JD. You will not post, upload, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment howsoever related to JD. BT International Ltd. has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor all conduct on and content submitted to JD.

8. Content Restrictions

a. You are solely responsible for the content that you publish, upload, display or transmit (hereinafter, "post" or “submit”) on JD, or to other JD users. You will not submit on JD, or  to other users, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party's rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity). You will not provide inaccurate, misleading or false information to BT International Ltd. or to any other user. If information provided to BT International Ltd., or another user, subsequently becomes inaccurate, misleading or false, you will promptly notify us of such change. The following is a non-exhaustive list of content you may not submit to, on or via JD: is patently offensive to the online community, such as content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; harasses or advocates harassment of another person; promotes information that is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous; provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 18; contains sexually explicit content; provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"; promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated images, audio or video, or links to pirated images, audio or video files; solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes; infringes any third party's copyrights or other rights (e.g., trademark, privacy rights, etc.). 
b. Your use of JD, including but not limited to the content you post on JD, must be in accordance with any and all applicable laws and regulations. 
c. You may not include in your user profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs, contact details/userids of other messaging applications that you are using or email addresses.
d.  You understand that you are granted a personal, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to use JD for the purpose of allowing you to socialize via JD and as permitted by this Agreement.  Accordingly, you hereby undertake not to:
use JD (or any content therein) for any commercial purposes without our prior written consent.
duplicate, copy, amend, modify, vary, transmit, create any derivations or translations from, make use of, or reproduce in any way any part of JD or its content without our prior written consent.
create any impressions (directly or indirectly) expressly or by implication that any content you post, or that you are, howsoever endorsed by JD.
use any spider, crawler, scraper, robot, bot, site searcher, retrieval application, proxy or other manual or automatic device, application, method or process to access, retrieve, index, “data mine,” or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of any part of JD or any of its contents. interfere with, interrupt, disrupt or howsoever prejudice the functioning of any part of Patkro or its related servers or networks, whether via your use of JD or otherwise.
introduce viruses, worms, trojans or other malicious code or otherwise compromise the security of any part of JD or its networks.
falsify titles or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content uploaded on, transmitted to or through JD.
“mirror” or “frame” any part or content of JD without our prior written consent.
use meta tags or code or other devices containing any reference to JD or BT International Ltd. (or any branding, slogan, trade mark, trade name, service mark, or logo of JD) to direct any person to any other application or website regardless of purpose.
vary, amend, modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, create derivative works, reverse engineer, decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of JD, or cause or assist others to do so.
use or develop any third-party applications that interact with JD or the data, information or content of other JD users without our prior written consent.
utilize, access, or publish the JD App’s application programming interface without our prior written consent.
probe, scan or test the vulnerability of JD or its related network or system.
assist, encourage or promote any acts that would likely constitute a breach of any provision of this Agreement.
You agree that we are fully entitled to conduct investigations and take any actions against you should you be suspected of any of the above activities and/or other unauthorised or illegal usage of JD, including but not limited to suspending or terminating your access to JD immediately without notice.

9. Licenses Granted by You

a. You grant BT International Ltd. and its affiliates a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license and right to copy, duplicate, reproduce, retain, store, use, transmit, transfer overseas, distribute, publicly perform and display (through all media now known or hereafter created), and make derivative works from your content submitted to or transferred through JD. In addition, you waive any so called "moral rights" in your content. You further grant all users of JD permission to view your content for their personal, non-commercial purposes. If you make suggestions to BT International Ltd. on improving or adding new features to JD, BT International Ltd. shall have the right to use your suggestions without any compensation to you.
b. Accordingly, you warrant that all content, information, data and suggestions submitted by you to JD and/or BT International Ltd. fully belongs to you, is accurate and truthful and you have full rights to submit such content, information, data and suggestions to JD and to grant the licence thereunder clause 9.a to BT International Ltd..
c. You understand and agree that we may monitor or review any content, information or data that you upload to or transmit through JD, and where we are of the opinion (in our sole discretion) that any such content, information or data breaches any provision of this Agreement or any applicable laws or regulations, we are entitled to delete any such content, information or data in whole or in part immediately without prior notice or liability to you. 
d. You agree to be courteous and respectful when communicating with any of our personnel, our agents or other users of JD.  In the event that your conduct or speech (written or spoken) towards any of our personnel, our agents or any other user of JD is deemed by us (in our sole discretion) to be offensive, disrespectful, threatening or harassing, we reserve the right to immediately suspend or terminate your access to JD without any prior notice or liability to you.  
e. You agree that we, our affiliates, and our third-party business partners may place advertisements on any part of JD and you shall raise no objections or complaints thereto. 
f. You agree that we may access, preserve and disclose your content, data, and information submitted to JD and/or BT International Ltd.  if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with legal process; (ii) enforce this Agreement; (iii) respond to allegations that any of your content, data or information infringes the rights of third parties; (iv) respond to your requests for services or products; or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of BT International Ltd. any other person.

10. Your Representations and Warranties

For each piece of content that you submit, you represent and warrant that: (i) you have the right to submit the content to BT International Ltd. and grant the licenses set forth above in Section 9; (ii) BT International Ltd. will not need to obtain licenses from any third party or pay royalties to any third party; (iii) the content does not infringe any third party's rights, including intellectual property rights and privacy rights; and (iv) the content complies with this Agreement and all applicable laws.

11. Indemnification

You will fully indemnify, defend, and hold harmless BT International Ltd., its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, subcontractors and agents, from and against all third party actions that: (i) arise from your activities on JD; (ii) assert a violation by you of any term of this Agreement; or (iii) assert that any content you submitted to JD violates any law or infringes any third party right, including any intellectual property or privacy right.

12. Third Party Copyrights and Other Rights Copyright Policy

BT International Ltd. respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Each user is responsible for ensuring that the content, files and other materials (collectively, “User-Submitted Materials”) they submit to JD do not infringe any third party copyright. BT International Ltd. will promptly remove User-Submitted Materials if properly notified that any of the User-Submitted Materials infringe a third party's copyright. In addition, BT International Ltd. may, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts of alleged repeat copyright infringers (whether proven in Court or otherwise). 

13. JD VIP (Paid) Subscription, JD App Likes and In-App Purchases

a. In the event that you pay for subscription or are rewarded with or purchase any credits from JD for use with the JD App or any other functions or features available via JD or for any products or services or events made available by BT International Ltd. and/or its related companies, you must use up all credits within the time-frame stipulated at the time of your purchase or subscription.  In the absence of any stipulation of time-frame at the point of purchase or subscription, all credits must be utilized latest within three (3) months from the date that you received the credits in your account.
b. No refunds (whether in full or in part) will be given for any unutilized expired credits (regardless of whether you were given the credits as a gift or purchased the credits for monetary consideration or otherwise).
c. In order to access certain premium features of the JD App, a paid subscription is required.  In order for you to subscribe to the premium features of the JD App, you would have to sign up via AppStore or GooglePlay (whichever is applicable).  Accordingly, when you decide to terminate your paid subscription to the JD App or your account for the JD App, you must terminate your paid subscription via AppStore or GooglePlay (whichever is applicable). BT International Ltd. bears no responsibility or liability whatsoever if you fail to terminate your paid subscription via AppStore or GooglePlay (whichever is applicable) and you agree that you will continue to pay all charges incurred until you terminate your paid subscription as per the aforegoing.

14. Personal Data

a. Personal Data refers to all information that can be used either on its own, or together with other information, to identify an individual.  Personal Data includes, but is not limited to date of birth, name, address, personal identification numbers such as NRIC, email address, telephone number, gender, and other personal identifiers.  b. Your Personal Data submitted to JD is governed by the Privacy Policy of BT International Ltd., a copy of which is accessible on the Website. 
However, as JD is a social platform, your disclosure of Personal Data to other users of JD is subject to the risk that your Personal Data may be misused or disclosed to third parties by other JD users.  We are not able to monitor or sanction the acts of other JD users, therefore any Personal Data that you choose to disclose to other JD users is entirely at your own risk and responsibility, and you agree not to hold BT International Ltd. howsoever liable for any consequences that may ensue.
c. In addition, you agree that JD may share your Personal Data with other related entities of JD in order to provide you with offers, updates, promotions and services that are related to dating (offline or online), personal grooming and personal attractiveness, which can be reasonably deduced to be of interest to you as you are using JD. In the event that you are not agreeable to any of the aforegoing uses of your information, please email us your specific objections to goJD.app@gmail.com, failing which you are deemed to have agreed to our use of your information as per the aforegoing.

15. Third Party Websites

a. BT International Ltd. does not control any links, services, products or resources provided by other third parties referenced or linked to JD, even if such third party’s website or applications may be co-branded with ours by bearing our logo or name. You acknowledge that BT International Ltd. is unable to control or influence any third parties' actions even if their websites or applications are hyperlinked to JD.  Accordingly, should you decide to use or access such third parties’ websites or applications, all use and access are at your sole risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use of the said third parties.  If you have any query on the terms and conditions of use of such third parties’ websites and applications or their services or products, please contact the third parties directly.
b. You agree that we may employ cookies, action tags or other legal technological means to record your anonymised accessing of JD for the purpose of providing better services and enhancing your user as well as browsing experience.

16. General Provisions

DISPUTES:
Any action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or your use of JD must be commenced in in the Courts of Singapore (and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of those courts).  In addition, you hereby agree that you also waive your right to howsoever participate in a class action suit or other class proceedings against BT International Ltd. and any of its affiliates, including but not limited to any past, pending, present or future class action suits.  
INTERPRETATION; SEVERABILITY; WAIVER; REMEDIES:
Headings are for convenience only and shall not be used to construe the terms of this Agreement. If any term of this Agreement is found invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, that term will be severed from this Agreement. No failure or delay by BT International Ltd. in exercising any right hereunder will waive any further exercise of that right. BT International Ltd.'s rights and remedies hereunder are cumulative and not exclusive. 
SUCCESSORS; ASSIGNMENT; NO THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES:
This Agreement is binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of both parties and their respective successors, heirs, executors, administrators, personal representatives, and permitted assigns. You may not assign this Agreement or any of its rights or obligations without BT International Ltd.'s prior written consent. BT International Ltd. is entitled to assign this Agreement or any part thereof at any time without prior notice to you.   No third party shall have any rights hereunder.
MODIFICATION; ENTIRE AGREEMENT:
You may not amend any term of this Agreement except with the prior written consent and signature of an authorized representative of BT International Ltd. on the written amendments. This Agreement, together with any amendments by BT International Ltd., constitutes the entire understanding between BT International Ltd. and you concerning the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings regarding the same.  Any revisions of the Terms of Service by BT International Ltd. will be effective as of the date it is posted on the Website.   By continuing to use JD, you thereby agree to be fully bound by all Terms of Service as may be revised.