Terms of Service

General

Helicap Labs Pte. Ltd. (“Helix”, “we”, “us”) owns and operates this website (the “Website”). These Terms of Service, together with our Privacy Policy and any other agreement(s) that you (“you”, “User”) agree to be bound by in the course of your use of the Website, govern your use of and access to the Website and the services provided therein. In the event and to the extent only of any conflict or inconsistency between any of these documents, the agreement for a particular service will prevail. In accessing or using the Website, you hereby agree to comply with and be bound by the provisions of these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, you should not use or access the Website.

Any reference in these Terms of Service to any provision of a statute shall be construed as a reference to that provision as amended, re-enacted or extended at the relevant time. In these Terms of Service, whenever the words “include”, “includes” or “including” are used, they will be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”. Unless expressly indicated otherwise, all references to a number of days mean calendar days. Clause headings are inserted for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of these Terms of Service.

Use of the Website

Helix provides a DeFi platform and service (the “Services”) on the Website. Any opportunities shall be conducted in accordance with these Terms of Service and the applicable agreements available on the Website (“Website Agreements” and/or “Platform Agreements”).

Helix shall be entitled to publish any notices or disclaimers on the Website in connection with a User, Company profile and/or opportunity in the manner and to the extent deemed necessary by Helix at its sole discretion (such as for the purposes of Helix’s internal operations, policy guidelines and/or regulations).

Information on the Website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors and may be changed or updated without notice. Helix may also make improvements and/or changes to the Website, at any time without notice. Your access to the Website may occasionally be restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services to the Website.

We will collect, use, disclose and/or process any personal data we may collect from you in connection with this Website in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that you have accessed and read the Privacy Policy and agree to the terms set out in it.

Helix may, at its sole discretion, deny you access to the Website and/or Services for any reason, including if Helix believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with these Terms of Service, any of the other Website Agreements or (where applicable) any Platform Agreement; or, if in Helix’s opinion or the opinion of any regulatory authority, Helix is not suitable to continue providing you access to the Website and/or Services.

Member Registration

Some pages of this Website are open to all Users and may be browsed by any visitor. However, access to and use of password-protected and/or secure areas of the Website is restricted to authorised users only. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorised access to such parts of the Website, or to any other protected information, through any means not intentionally made available by us for your specific use. In order to receive more information regarding the opportunities displayed on the Website, to submit an opportunity to the Website, or to submit binding offers in respect of an opportunity, you must create a user account in accordance with the instructions set forth on the Website. Even after you create a user account and sign in, you may not have access to the entirety of the Website. Helix reserves the right to determine which transactions Members are able to view and has full discretion to determine which Members are able to receive more information regarding opportunities displayed on the Website.


To be a registered member of the Website (“Member”), you must provide the information required in the registration form on the Website. You will need to provide a valid e-mail address and select a password upon completing the account registration process. Any password which you choose must not be harmful, abusive, racially or ethically offensive, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringe any intellectual property right, be invasive of personal privacy rights or otherwise be in breach of any applicable laws. Helix is entitled to change any password that is in breach of these Terms of Service.

When the user account has been verified and approved by Helix, you will become a Member. A Member can utilise the services provided by Helix. In order to be approved as an Investor, you must be accredited as set out in the applicable legislation and regulations in Singapore (or if you are based outside of Singapore, in accordance with the applicable legislation and regulations in your country of residence), and must confirm your accreditation status with Helix.

Members shall fully cooperate, where applicable, with Helix(including providing all requested information) to: (i) facilitate Helix’s onboarding process with respect to Members; (ii) enable Helix to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and other requirements (including ‘know-your-client’, anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism laws, regulations and requirements); (iii) and enable Helix to comply with requests by any regulator and/or its obligations under these Terms of Service and/or any term and conditions applicable to the Website and/or the Services.

Your account is not transferable and may not be assigned to any third party. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your e-mail address and password, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account whether or not actually or expressly authorized and/or used by you. You agree to immediately notify us if any unauthorised third party has access to your e-mail address or password or if there is any unauthorised use of your account or any breach of security known to you.

You agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as described in the registration form on the Website; and (b) maintain and promptly update such registration data to keep it accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if Helix suspects that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Helix has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Website (or any part thereof).

Helix has the right to cancel any user account if it is not accessed for a continuous period of 365 days. You agree that Helix shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to the Website or your account.

Member Materials

The Website may include content, information, text, graphics, logos, icons, images, sound clips, video clips, data compilations and/or other materials submitted by Members for inclusion in and/or posting through the Website or Services (the “Member Materials”).

Helix neither endorses nor assumes any responsibility in respect of the Member Materials. The Members submitting their Member Materials: (i) are solely responsible for their Member Materials; (ii) warrant and represent that they have the right and authority to submit their Member Materials and that their Member Materials do not infringe the intellectual property rights or any other rights of any third party; and (iii) hereby grant to Helix anon-exclusive, world-wide royalty free, irrevocable licence and right to host, transmit, distribute or use (which will include the right to copy, reproduce and/or publish) the Member Materials in connection with the operation of the Website and the provision of the Services to Users and for the purposes such Members have instructed or requested.

Without prejudice to the foregoing, Members shall not provide Member Materials that are defamatory, libelous, hateful, violent, obscene, pornographic, unlawful, or otherwise offensive in nature.

Rules of Conduct

You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Service. You shall strictly comply with all applicable laws, treaties, ordinances, codes and regulations in your access and use of the Website and/or Services.

You agree and warrant that you will not (and will not permit any third party to) publish, post, transmit, transfer, distribute or upload any content data, information and/or materials on or through the Website and/or the Services which:

  • is or may be false, indecent, misleading, untruthful or inaccurate;
  • promotes or encourages or may promote or encourage illegal activity (including the breach of any financial regulatory licensing requirements);
  • is or may be racially or ethnically or otherwise offensive;
  • constitutes or may constitute agitation against a minority (such as a national or ethnic group);
  • constitutes or may constitute defamation;
  • contains or may contain pornography or is in any other way sexually explicit
  • attacks or may attack sexual orientation or religion, or is or may be discriminating in any other way;
  • may not be lawfully disseminated under applicable laws;
  • you know or have reason to suspect contains any viruses or damaging components which may detrimentally interfere with the Website and/or the Services;
  • is or may in any way be harmful, abusive, offensive or illegal; or
  • infringes the rights of any third party (including intellectual property rights).

You agree and warrant that you will not (and will not permit any third party to):

  • use the Website and/or the Services to defame, harass, discriminate or threaten another person/company or in any other way violate rights;
  • distribute or reproduce all or any part of the Website and/or the Services;
  • alter, disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer any part of the Website and/or the Services, unless explicitly permitted by mandatory law;
  • use software that reads data on the Website and/or the Services automatically;
  • use the Website and/or the Services to request or encourage other users to breach any provision of these Terms of Service and/or any terms and conditions applicable to the Website and/or the Services;
  • abuse the Website and/or the Services;
  • use the Website and/or the Services for any unlawful or unauthorized purpose or other than in conformance with the acceptable use policies of any connected computer networks and any applicable Internet standards (which includes transmitting any computer viruses through the Website, orusing the Website and/or the Services in a manner which violates or infringes the rights of anyone else);
  • use any software or material or upload any materials which contains a virus or damaging component which may corrupt this Website’s data or interfere with the operation of this Website and/or the Services; or
  • broadcast, copy, download, frame, reproduce, republish, transmit in any manner whatsoever, any material on the Website except as is strictly necessary for the performance of the Services.

Helix reserves the right to immediately remove any Member Materials or other content from the Website that Helix at its sole discretion deems to be in breach of these Terms of Service and/or any terms or conditions applicable to the Website and/or the Services, or otherwise harmful for Helix or its Users.

Messaging

The Services may enable the Company to send messages to Investors who have indicated interest in an opportunity on the Website. Helix is not obliged to review such messages, and every Member is personally responsible for all messages the Member sends through the Services. The Member agrees and warrants that it will not send messages in breach of these Terms of Service and/or any terms and conditions applicable to the Website and/or the Services, and will in particular refrain from sending messages to harass or threaten other Members.

Intellectual Property and Confidentiality

Helix reserves all rights in its corporate names, service marks, logos, trade names, trademarks, websites and domain names and any other intellectual property rights (collectively "Marks") and nothing in these Terms of Service grants you the license to use such Marks. In particular, the name of Helicap or Helix may not be used in any way without the prior written permission of Helix. Additionally, other marks which appear on this Website may be marks of third parties that are not affiliated with Helix. Helix does not control or endorse the content of third party websites.

The Website may include, at any given time, content, information, applications, programmes, text, graphics, logos, icons, images, sound clips, video clips, data compilations and/or other materials displayed therein, as well as the Website’s page layout, underlying code and software (collectively, the “Content”). All of the Content is the property of or licensed by Helix, our related corporations and/or third parties with whom we do business, and is protected by Singapore and international intellectual property laws and other relevant laws. Any (i) commercial use of the Website and the Content found on the Website; or (ii) any reproduction, modification, copying, distribution or use of any of the materials and Content of the Website, is strictly prohibited, without Helix’s express and prior written consent. Any reproduction or redistribution of the Website, and any Content found on the Website, not in accordance with these Terms of Service herein are expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and/or criminal penalties.

For the purposes of these Terms of Service, “Confidential Information” shall mean information on the Website which is of a non-public, proprietary or confidential nature to Helix including, but not limited to (a)information relating to Helix, the Company and the Investors, including information relating to their identities, contact details, their businesses and their business activities, (b) information relating to investment opportunities, (c) information relating to funding opportunities; (d)information relating to the Services, and (e) information and content found in the password protected and/or secure areas of the Website. “Affiliate” shall mean directors, employees, subsidiaries and controlled entities.

You acknowledge and agree that the Confidential Information is disclosed by Helix to you only for the purpose of allowing you to use the Website and the Services and on condition that you shall maintain confidentiality of the Confidential Information strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions below:

  • All Confidential Information provided by Helix to you shall be kept in absolute confidence and not be disclosed by you to any party;
  • The Confidential Information shall be used only for the purpose of allowing you to use the Website and the Services;
  • You shall not allow any third party to directly or indirectly use any or all of the Confidential Information for any reason whatsoever;
  • You shall not make or allow copies of any Confidential Information to be made without the prior written consent of Helix;
  • You shall not make, assist or permit any person who has access to the Confidential Information through you or on your behalf to use, reproduce or disclose that Confidential Information other than in accordance with these Terms of Service; and
  • You and each of your Affiliates shall not contact the Company or its Affiliates, shareholders or advisors in respect of the Confidential Information or in connection with the proposed transaction without the prior written consent of Helix.

These Terms of Service do not prohibit the disclosure of theConfidential Information by you to:

  • Your bona fide legal, tax, accounting or other similar advisors who need to know such Confidential Information in order to assess the proposed transaction, subject to you notifying such advisors of the confidential nature of the Confidential Information and undertaking to procure that each such person to whom disclosure is made complies with all the applicable terms of these Terms of Service;
  • A regulatory authority or government agency with jurisdiction over you, pursuant to a relevant court order or formal request, and in each case only in respect of such Confidential Information specifically required to be disclosed, with a notification of each such request to be provided to Helix; and
  • Any party, where such Confidential Information is or becomes publicly available other than as a result of breach of the applicable terms of these Terms of Service, or was already in your possession at the time of disclosure to you

You, on behalf of yourself and each of your Affiliates, acknowledge that Helix, its Affiliates and professional advisors have not made and will not make any representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness or otherwise of the Confidential Information. None of Helix, its Affiliates and professional advisors shall have any liability arising in connection with the Confidential Information and/or the provision or disclosure thereof. You, on behalf of yourself and each of your Affiliates, agree to make your own assessment of the Confidential Information and satisfy yourself as to the accuracy and completeness of that Confidential Information.

In the event that you are in breach of these confidentiality obligations, or in the event that a breach appears to be imminent, Helix shall be entitled to all legal and equitable remedies afforded it by law, and in addition may recover its costs and fees (on a fully indemnity basis), including reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred in seeking such remedies.

Nothing contained in these Terms of Service may be construed as granting or conferring on you any intellectual property rights or any proprietary rights, licences or other rights in any of the Confidential Information.

You hereby acknowledge that the Confidential Information to be disclosed hereunder is of a unique and valuable character, and that the unauthorized dissemination of the Confidential Information would destroy or diminish the value of such Confidential Information. The damages to Helix that would result from the unauthorized dissemination of the Confidential Information would be impossible to calculate. Therefore, you hereby agree that Helix shall be entitled to injunctive relief preventing the dissemination of any Confidential Information in violation of the terms hereof. Such injunctive relief shall be in addition to any other remedies available hereunder, whether at law or in equity.

You shall notify Helix immediately upon discovery of any unauthorized use or disclosure of Confidential Information by you and will cooperate with efforts by Helix to help Helix regain possession of Confidential Information and prevent its further unauthorized use. All Confidential Information furnished to you is considered loaned for use solely in accordance with these Terms of Service, and shall be immediately delivered to Helix or destroyed by you and your Affiliates upon request by Helix. Upon such request, you shall certify that you (as well as any and all Affiliates and advisors)have destroyed all copies of the Confidential Information, including notes and reports thereon, in your possession or under your control. For the avoidance of doubt, the destruction of the Confidential Information does not release you from your applicable obligations under these Terms of Service.

Liability and Indemnification

Users and Members

You agree that you are solely responsible for the use of the Website and/or the Services and any decision to invest in any opportunity, and agree to be solely liable for all consequences arising therefrom.

You shall be liable for any damage caused to Helix or any third party due to your breach of these Terms of Service and/or any terms and conditions applicable to the Website and/or Services, including the access to or use of the Website and/or Services in breach of these Terms of Service and/or any terms and conditions applicable to the Website and/or Services. Furthermore, you agree to fully indemnify Helix and hold Helix harmless from and against all claims, costs (including reasonable legal costs), damages, expenses, liabilities and losses that Helix may sustain or incur, directly or indirectly, by reason of our having:

  • made available the Website and/or Services to you;
  • entered into the Website Agreements or Platform Agreements with you;
  • enforced or attempted to enforce our rights under the Website Agreements or Platform Agreements; or
  • acted upon any instructions which you may give in relation to the Website and/or Services, or any negligence, fraud and/or misconduct on your part or your breach of these Terms of Service and/or any terms and conditions applicable to the Website and/or Services.
Helix’s liability

The Website and Services are provided on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available ’basis. Helix does not make any warranty or representation (express or implied or otherwise) as to the accessibility, quality, suitability, accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the Website and/or Services, and expressly disclaims any liability for errors, delays or omissions in the Website and/or Services, as well as for any action taken in reliance on the Website and/or Services. No warranty of any kind, implied, express or statutory, including the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose, is given in conjunction with the Website and/or Services. Further, no warranty is given that the Website and/or Services are free from any computer virus or other malicious, destructive or corrupting code, agent, program or macros.

Helix does not warrant the security of any information transmitted by or to you through the Website and/or Services. You accept the risk that any information transmitted or received through the Website and/or Services may be accessed by unauthorised third parties and/or disclosed by Helix to third parties purporting to be you or purporting to act under your authority. Transmission over the Internet and e-mail may be subject to interruption, transmission blackout, delayed transmission due to Internet traffic or incorrect data transmission due to the public nature of the Internet.

You acknowledge and agree that user authentication on the Internet is generally difficult to establish, and hereby accept the risk that online activities may be subject to fraudulent or deceptive activity. Helix does not warrant and/or confirm: (i) each Member’s purported identity; and (ii) that Members have not misused the usernames or passwords or that Members have complied, fully or otherwise, with these Terms of Service or any terms and conditions applicable to the Website and/or Services. Helix consequently will not be held liable where there is a dispute or claim involving or relating to the identity of any Member.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall Helix be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, damages for loss of profits (even if you have been advised of the possibility of such damages or even if such damage is foreseeable), loss of anticipated savings, wasted expenditure, loss of privacy, loss of data, that result from the use of or the inability to use the Website or the Services, any changes to the Website or the Services and unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, any communication, transmission, material or data sent or received or not sent or received, any transactions entered into through the Website or the Services, or arising in connection with the fraudulent or unlawful acts of any third party.

Third Party Content, Systems and Transactions

This Website may contain, and/or the Services may provide, links toother websites or content on the Internet that are owned or operated by third parties. These other websites are provided to you only as a convenience. Unless we expressly say otherwise, you should assume that these other websites are not under the control of Helix or our related corporations. We shall not be responsible for the contents, products or services of any such website, including without limitation any link contained in such other website, including that relating to social networking sites such as Facebook and we do not endorse any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such other websites. If you decide to access and use any of these other websites, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Under no circumstances shall it be construed that, in case of your access to and use of systems (including messaging systems), services, content, materials, products, applications or programmes of any third party (“Third Party Systems”), Helix is a party to any transaction, if any, between you and such third party or that Helix endorses, sponsors, certifies, or is involved in the provision of such Third Party Systems accessible at the Website or through the Services. Helix shall not be liable in any way for your access to and use of the systems or for any products obtained and/or purchased from or services rendered by any such third party, and you agree that the same shall be your responsibility or that of the relevant third party.

You acknowledge and agree that you will be solely responsible for any access to or use of Third Party Systems through the Website or Services. If you access or use any Third Party Systems through the Website or Services, you must comply with the relevant terms and conditions for the access or the use of such Third Party Systems and be responsible for the registration and use of any user names or passwords required to connect to any Third Party Systems. In particular, should access to and use of Third Party Systems through the Website or Services be prohibited (whether in full or in part) by such third party terms and conditions, please discontinue any such access and use as soon as possible upon becoming aware of or receiving notice of such prohibition from the relevant third party.

Helix cannot and does not know nor does it warrant that your use of the Website or Services to access or use Third Party Systems is permitted or incompliance, fully or otherwise, with applicable third party terms and conditions. Accordingly, you shall not have any right or claim, and hereby waive any rights you may have (if any), against Helix in respect of any breach or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant third party in respect of your access to and/or use of such Third Party Systems through the Website or Services.

You authorise Helix and its agents to access Third Party Systems that you have designated to retrieve content or information requested by you or to process or access functionalities at your request (e.g., Facebook or LinkedIn). You hereby appoint Helix and its agents as your agent for theafore mentioned purpose. In addition, each time you submit your user name or password to access or use your designated Third Party Systems, you shall be deemed to have authorised Helix and its agents to process your request and use information submitted by you and which is retrieved using your user name or password.

Revisions

From time to time we may vary or update these Terms of Service to take into account changes in the law or for any other reason, such variation or update to take effect on the date Helix specifies. If we vary or update these Terms of Service, we will post a new version on the Website. You are responsible to check on the TOU posted on the Site from time to time. By continuing to use or access the Website after the new version is posted on the Website, you will be deemed to have agreed to the varied or updated version. If you do not accept the varied or updated version, you should stop accessing or using the Website.

General

Severability. In the event that any of these provisions are found to be or become unlawful, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, that provision is to be deemed severed from these Terms of Service and shall not affect the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Service. The Terms of Service shall continue in force as if such unlawful, invalid or unenforceable provision was severed from these Terms of Service.

No Waiver. Any failure or delay by yourself or Helix in exercising or enforcing any right or remedy contained in these Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver by the party responsible for such delay or failure. It shall also not constitute a bar to the exercise or enforcement at any subsequent time or times. Waiver of any right arising from a breach or non-performance of these Terms of Service or arising upon default under these Terms of Service shall be in writing and signed by the party granting the waiver.

Communications. If you wish to communicate with us about anything related to these Terms of Service, you may do so by sending an e-mail to admin.helix@heli-cap.com.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction. These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore in relation to any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Service.

Independence of Parties. Each Subscription Agreement is an agreement entered into directly and only between the relevant Company and an Investor investing in a funding opportunity. In no event shall Helix establish or be required to establish any Subscription Agreement with such an Investor.

The Company undertakes to ensure that representations and/or notices given to such an Investor are sufficient to inform the Investor that it is purchasing investing instruments solely from the Company pursuant to a Subscription Agreement between itself and the Company. The Company undertakes to fully indemnify Helix and all of its respective officers, employees, directors, agents, contractors and assigns against any and all claims made by any such Investor as a result of a breach of this provision.

Rights of Third Parties. A person or entity who is not a party to these Terms of Service shall have no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act, Chapter 53B of Singapore or any similar legislation in any jurisdiction to enforce any term of these Terms of Service, regardless of whether such person or entity has been identified by name, as a member of a class or as answering a particular description. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this provision shall affect the rights of any permitted assignee or transferee of these Terms of Service.