Terms and Conditions
Leaderonomics.com (the “Website”) is an internet service owned and operated by Leaderonomics Media Sdn Bhd (969023-M) (hereinafter referred to as “Leaderonomics”). Leaderonomics is dedicated to providing visitors to the Website with a highly interactive and positive experience, while at the same time protecting our rights and the rights of our users. We have developed these Terms of Use to govern your use of the Website, and we, along with our affiliates, partners and advertisers, provide content and services to you subject to the following conditions. Your use of the Website tells us you have read and agreed to these Terms of Use. Please read them carefully. These Terms of Use are a binding contract between you and Leaderonomics, regarding your use of the Website. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please exit the Website.
The Website Content
- All of the information, content, services and software displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with the Website, including for example, advertising, directories, guides, articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, software, data, and all other matters related to the Website, including without limitation, the selection and arrangement of the aforementioned and the “look and feel” of the website (collectively, the “Content”), are protected under applicable copyrights and other proprietary (including but not limited to intellectual property) rights and are the intellectual property of Leaderonomics, and its affiliated companies, licensors and suppliers. Leaderonomics actively protects its rights to the Content to the fullest extent of the law. The copying, rearrangement, broadcast, rewriting for broadcast or publication, redistribution, modification, use or publication by you in any medium, directly or indirectly, of any such matters or any part of the Website, including the removal or alteration of advertising, except for limited rights of use granted hereunder, is strictly prohibited. You may not use such material except as provided in these Terms of Use.
- The Content includes logotypes, trademarks and service marks (collectively “Marks”) owned by Leaderonomics, and Marks owned by other information providers and third parties. For example, “Leaderonomics” is a registered trademark of Leaderonomics. No Marks may be used in any manner unless approved in advance, in writing by Leaderonomics.
- You may use the Content online and solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice contained in such Content. No other use is permitted unless otherwise expressly permitted by Leaderonomics. You may not, for example, republish the Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive or cache or store the Content in electronic form on your computer or mobile device unless otherwise expressly permitted by Leaderonomics. You may not distribute any of the Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you may not modify, copy, frame, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the Content without securing the prior written consent of Leaderonomics.
- Requests to use the Content for any purpose other than as permitted in this paragraph should be submitted as directed on the Website.
- Free access to the Content made available to you on the Website is possible due to Leaderonomics’ belief that good things are meant to be shared generously. In exchange for your free access to the Content, you agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to, remove, obstruct, modify or otherwise interfere with the delivery or display of advertorials and write-ups on the Website.
- You may not frame or utilise framing techniques that involve any trademark, logo, copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of the Website without our express written consent. You may not alter or modify in any way, the Website including but not limited to using any software to suppress or alter the display of advertising on the pages of the Website. In addition, you agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Website, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the Website in any way that affects the user’s experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of the Website.
- Leaderonomics respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing material placed by any third party on the Website, please contact our editor, in writing, either by email at editor@leaderonomics.com or by regular mail at Leaderonomics Media Sdn Bhd, Suite 9.08, 9.09, Block E, Pusat Perdagangan Phileo Damansara 1, No 9, Jalan 16/11, Off Jalan Damansara, 46350 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Attn: Editor, and provide the editor with the following information:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to locate the material;
- Information sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, including address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
- A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Please note that attachments cannot be accepted at the e-mail address for security reasons. Accordingly, any notification of infringement submitted electronically with an attachment will not be received or processed. Leaderonomics will terminate the account of any user that is determined to be a repeat copyright infringer.
House Rules
- Leaderonomics has a thriving user community and actively encourages commenting on articles and stories. We are dedicated to this community and strive to maintain a respectful, engaging and informative conversation. General guidelines for commenting are enforced 24/7 by a moderating system that features a team of staff and moderation tools.
- If in our absolute opinion, your comments intentionally make this community a less civil and enjoyable place to be, you and your comments will be excluded from it.
- Leaderonomics promotes a receptive, transparent and civil atmosphere for comments and users. Critical, in-depth and intelligent discussions and debates are encouraged.
- Advertising or promoting products or websites is not allowed anywhere on the Leaderonomics.com. This may include links to:
- Personal websites or forums
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Commercial websites or auction sites that mainly exist to sell products
- Details of charity or fundraising events
Risk Breaching Copyright Law
- Copyright law exists to stop someone from plagiarising another’s work.
- Please do not post large chunks of text copied from other sources, as this may be an infringement of copyright. Short quotes to illustrate a point may be permissible, although this is at our discretion.
- If you wish to refer to external sources of information, it’s better to include a link to an appropriate external website.
- Contributing material to Leaderonomics.com with the intention to commit a crime, break the law, or condone or encourage unlawful activity is strictly prohibited.
- Please ensure that you verify the information in your posting as true and accurate, especially when presenting negative statements as facts. Also, avoid jumping to conclusions, exaggerating or making subtle implications.
- We will remove comments where we have insufficient evidence to defend publication of your statement. This means the Leaderonomics.com moderators may err on the side of caution when considering some comments.
Spam and flood
- Spamming or flooding is not allowed on Leaderonomics.com. Spamming means submitting the same or very similar contribution many times across blogs or entries. Flooding comprises a resubmission of your contribution to the same site multiple times.
- Please do not use a signature beneath your comment to promote websites, services, products, or campaigns. This will cause your posts to be removed as spam.
- In some cases the moderator will edit out the link/s leaving the rest of the comment visible on the board.
Moderation Process
- Spamming or flooding is not allowed on Leaderonomics.com. Spamming means submitting the same or very similar contribution many times across blogs or entries. Flooding comprises a resubmission of your contribution to the same site multiple times.
- Be yourself, only yourself, and just one of yourself. Every person’s opinion is valuable and unique. Pretending to be someone else removes that unique value from you or from others. Don’t misrepresent yourself or others or spread misinformation.
- Personal identifiable information should never be posted to Leaderonomics.com comments section.