These Terms of Service govern the use of the website summitlink.autos and the services provided by Summit Link Limited, a company registered in Hong Kong with its registered office at Rm F07 12/F WAICHEUNG IND CTR, 5 SHEK PAI TAU RD, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong (HK).
By accessing the website, by contacting the Company, or by engaging the services, you agree to be bound by these terms, together with any written agreement, proposal, or statement of work that applies to a specific engagement. If you are using the services on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have the authority to bind that organization to these terms.
The website and the systems behind it are developed and operated by the developer SummitLink. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you must not use the website or the services, and you should not provide any information to the Company.
Summit Link Limited provides computer systems design and computer integrated systems design services, including systems architecture, platform engineering, data and analytics, trading systems, security and compliance engineering, and managed operations.
The precise scope of each engagement is defined in a written proposal or statement of work that describes the deliverables, the schedule, the fees, and the responsibilities of each side. In the event of a conflict between these Terms of Service and a specific statement of work, the statement of work will prevail to the extent of the conflict, unless the parties agree otherwise in writing.
Nothing in these terms obliges the Company to provide any service that is not described in a written agreement. Work that falls outside the agreed scope may be undertaken separately, at additional cost agreed in advance by both parties.
Our services are intended for businesses, professional organizations, and individuals who are at least eighteen years of age and who are legally capable of entering into binding contracts. The website is not directed at children, and children under the age of thirteen are not permitted to provide personal information to the Company.
Where a client is a company or other legal entity, the individual placing the engagement confirms that they are authorized to act on behalf of that entity. The Company may, at its discretion, verify the identity and standing of a prospective client before accepting an engagement, and we may decline an engagement for any lawful reason.
If the Company becomes aware that a user does not satisfy these eligibility requirements, we may suspend or terminate that engagement, and the user agrees that the Company may do so without liability beyond the refund of any unused advance payments, where applicable.
Some parts of our service may require you to create an account or to register contact details. When you do so, you agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information, and to keep that information up to date.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any account credentials and for all activity that takes place under your account. You must notify the Company immediately if you suspect that your account has been accessed without authorization. The Company is not liable for any loss that results from your failure to protect your credentials.
The Company may suspend or close an account if the information provided is found to be false, if the account is used in breach of these terms, or if continued operation of the account would expose the Company or its clients to risk.
For every engagement, the client agrees to cooperate with the Company and to provide, in a timely manner, the access, information, decisions, and resources that the work reasonably requires.
The client is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the information it provides, and for ensuring that it has the rights to use and share any data, systems, or materials it supplies to the Company. The client is responsible for obtaining and maintaining any licenses, permits, or consents required on its side for the services to be delivered.
Where a decision is required from the client to keep the work on schedule, the client agrees to provide that decision within a reasonable time. Delays caused by the client may extend the schedule and may give rise to additional costs, which will be agreed before any additional work begins.
Before work begins on any substantial engagement, the Company prepares a proposal or statement of work that sets out the objectives, the scope, the deliverables, the timeline, the fees, and the terms of payment.
A proposal is an invitation to proceed, and it does not constitute a binding contract until it is accepted by the client and, where required, counter-signed by the Company. Any changes to the scope, schedule, or fees after acceptance must be agreed in writing by both parties, usually through a change order.
If the client requests changes that materially increase the effort required, the Company will prepare a revised estimate before proceeding. No obligation to perform additional work arises until the client has approved the revised terms in writing.
Fees for services are set out in the relevant proposal or statement of work. Unless stated otherwise, fees are quoted in the currency agreed between the parties and are exclusive of taxes and duties, which will be added where applicable.
Invoices are issued at the milestones set out in the statement of work, or monthly where no milestones are defined. Payment is due within thirty days of the date of the invoice, unless a different period is agreed in writing. Late payments may be subject to interest at the rate permitted by law.
The Company may suspend work if an invoice remains unpaid beyond the agreed period, after giving written notice. Suspension of work does not affect the obligation to pay for services already delivered. Any dispute about an invoice must be raised in writing within fifteen days of receipt.
All intellectual property created by the Company in the course of providing services, including designs, architectures, source code, documentation, reports, and methods, belongs to the Company until it is delivered under a written agreement.
Where a statement of work provides for the transfer of intellectual property, ownership of the deliverables described in that document will pass to the client upon full payment of the fees for those deliverables. Until payment is made in full, ownership remains with the Company.
The Company retains ownership of its pre-existing tools, frameworks, libraries, and internal know-how, and of any material that is not specifically identified as a deliverable in the statement of work. Nothing in these terms transfers rights in the trademarks, word marks, or branding of either party.
Where the Company retains ownership of a deliverable, the client receives a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to use the deliverable for the purpose for which it was commissioned, together with any documentation supplied with it.
The license is limited to internal business use by the client and may not be assigned, sublicensed, or made available to third parties without the prior written consent of the Company, except where the client transfers the license in connection with the sale of a business unit that uses the deliverable.
This license does not include the right to reverse engineer, decompile, or extract the source code of any software component, unless that right is specifically granted in the statement of work or is required by law.
The client grants the Company a license to use any data, systems, and materials the client provides, to the extent necessary for the Company to deliver the services. The client represents that it has all necessary rights to grant this license.
The Company will treat client materials as confidential and will use them only for the purpose of the engagement. On completion of the engagement, the Company will return or destroy client materials as directed by the client, subject to any legal retention obligations.
If the client provides feedback or suggestions about the services, the Company may use that feedback freely to improve its services, without any obligation to the client, unless a separate written agreement provides otherwise.
Both parties may receive confidential information from the other in the course of an engagement. Confidential information includes trade secrets, source code, business plans, financial information, client data, and any information that is marked as confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential.
Each party agrees to protect the confidential information of the other with the same degree of care it uses to protect its own confidential information, and in no case less than reasonable care. Confidential information may be disclosed only to those persons who need to know it to perform the engagement, and those persons will be bound to keep it confidential.
These confidentiality obligations do not apply to information that is publicly available through no fault of the receiving party, information that was lawfully in the possession of the receiving party before disclosure, or information that must be disclosed to comply with law. The obligations survive the end of the engagement.
The services may rely on, integrate with, or provide access to third-party services and content, such as exchanges, data providers, cloud platforms, and software libraries. The Company does not control those third parties and is not responsible for their performance, availability, or terms.
Any use of a third-party service by the client is subject to the terms and privacy policies of that third party, which the client should review before use. The Company will use reasonable efforts to select reliable providers, but it gives no warranty regarding any third-party service.
Where a third-party service is discontinued or changes its terms, the Company will work with the client to identify a suitable alternative, and any resulting changes to scope or fees will be agreed in writing.
The Company warrants that the services will be performed in a professional manner, by suitably qualified personnel, and in accordance with the statement of work and these terms.
The client warrants that it has the authority to enter into the engagement, that the information it provides is accurate and complete, and that its use of the services will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including the rules of any exchange or regulator that governs its business.
Both parties agree to comply with all laws applicable to the engagement. If the Company becomes aware of a defect in a deliverable, the Company will correct it within a reasonable time at no additional cost, provided that the client notifies the Company of the defect within the warranty period stated in the statement of work.
Except for the warranties expressly stated in these terms, the services and the website are provided on an as is and as available basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company disclaims all implied warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. The Company does not warrant that the services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or completely secure, or that the results obtained from the services will always be accurate.
Nothing in these terms excludes warranties that cannot be excluded under applicable law. In particular, the Company does not limit or exclude liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the aggregate liability of the Company arising out of or in connection with these terms or the services, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, will not exceed the total fees paid by the client to the Company in the twelve months preceding the event that gave rise to the claim.
Neither party will be liable to the other for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities, whether or not the party was advised of the possibility of such damages.
Each party will take reasonable steps to mitigate any loss it suffers. These limitations apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose, and they survive the termination of the engagement.
The client will indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising out of or in connection with the use of the services by the client, the client data, or any breach of these terms by the client.
The Company will indemnify the client against claims that a deliverable supplied under a statement of work infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party, provided that the Company is notified promptly of any claim and is given control of the defence.
The indemnified party will cooperate with the defence of any claim and will not settle a claim without the written consent of the indemnifying party, where consent may not be unreasonably withheld.
Either party may terminate an engagement by written notice if the other party is in material breach of these terms and fails to remedy the breach within thirty days of receiving notice.
The Company may suspend access to any service immediately, without notice, if the client fails to pay when due, if the client uses the services in breach of law, or if continued operation would create a risk to the security of the Company or its other clients.
On termination, the client will pay for all services delivered up to the date of termination, and any advance payments for services not yet delivered will be refunded. Provisions of these terms that by their nature should survive termination, including the provisions on confidentiality, intellectual property, limitation of liability, and indemnification, will continue to apply.
Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, epidemic, pandemic, power failure, telecommunications failure, regulatory action, or the failure of third-party networks or services.
The party affected by such an event will notify the other party as soon as reasonably possible and will take reasonable steps to resume performance as soon as it can. The obligations that are affected will be suspended for the duration of the event, and the schedule may be extended accordingly.
If an event of force majeure continues for more than sixty days, either party may terminate the affected engagement by written notice, and the parties will agree a fair settlement for work already performed.
These terms and any engagement made under them are governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.
The parties will first attempt to resolve any dispute arising out of these terms through good faith negotiation between senior representatives. If the dispute is not resolved within thirty days, either party may refer the matter to mediation in Hong Kong, conducted in English.
If the dispute is not resolved by negotiation or mediation, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Nothing in this clause prevents either party from seeking injunctive or other urgent relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.
The Company may update these Terms of Service from time to time to reflect changes in its services, in its business, or in applicable law. Material changes will be communicated by updating the effective date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, by notice through the website or by email.
For existing engagements, changes to these terms will take effect at the start of the next billing period or as otherwise agreed in writing. For users of the website, continued use of the website after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
We encourage you to review these terms regularly. If you do not agree with a revised version of these terms, you should stop using the website and notify the Company if you have an active engagement.
These terms, together with any statement of work, constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter, and they supersede all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral.
If any provision of these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be severed, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. The failure of either party to enforce any provision does not constitute a waiver of that provision.
The Company may assign these terms or any engagement to an affiliate or to a successor in the event of a merger, acquisition, or reorganization, upon written notice to the client. The client may not assign its rights or obligations under these terms without the prior written consent of the Company.
No term of these terms confers any benefit on any third party who is not a party to them, and no notice that may be given under these terms will be effective unless it is given in writing to the registered address of the recipient.
If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, or if you wish to discuss a proposed engagement, please contact the Company using the details below.
Summit Link Limited
Rm F07 12/F WAICHEUNG IND CTR, 5 SHEK PAI TAU RD, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong (HK)
Email: contact@summitlink.autos
Telephone: +16189128918
The Company will respond to any enquiry or concern within two business days, and we will treat every matter raised with the care it deserves.