GIC Connect Terms of Use

1. Welcome to GIC Connect. The GIC Connect site (“the Site”) and network (collectively “the Service”) is operated and maintained by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd (“GIC”, “we” or “us”) and its appointed vendor. 

2. By accessing GIC Connect, you signify that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”). GIC  reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice. Your continued use of GIC Connect after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use.

3. You agree and continue to agree to use the Service in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with any guidelines set out in the Service.

Membership and Account Security

4. Membership in GIC Connect is non-transferable. In consideration of your use of GIC Connect, you agree to (a) provide accurate, current and complete information about you as may be prompted by any registration forms on the Site (“Registration Data”); (b) maintain the security of your password and identification; and (c) be fully responsible for all use of your GIC Connect account and for any actions that take place using your account.

5. Please notify us immediately if you suspect that there has been unauthorised use of your account.

Proprietary Rights in Site Content

GIC and Non User Generated Content

6. Except as otherwise expressly stated herein, the copyright and all other intellectual property in the contents of the Service which are posted by GIC (including, but not limited to, all design, text, images or links) are the property of GIC, its affiliates, and/or the respective third party proprietors identified in the Service. As such, they may not be appropriated or modified in any manner, or reproduced, transmitted, published, broadcast, stored, adapted, distributed, displayed, licensed, altered, hyperlinked or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without the prior written consent of GIC, its affiliates, or such third party proprietors. Save and except with GIC's prior written consent, you may not insert a hyperlink to the Site or any part thereof on any other web site, or "mirror" or frame the Site, any part thereof, or any information or materials contained in the Site on any other server, web site or webpage.

7. All trademarks, service marks, design marks and logos used in the Service are the property of GIC, its affiliates, and/or the respective third party proprietors identified in the Service. No licence or right is granted and your access to the Site should not be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any licence or right to use any trade marks, service marks or logos appearing on the Site without the prior written consent of GIC, its affiliates or the respective third party proprietors as the case may be. Save and except with prior written consent from the proprietor, no such trade mark, service mark, design mark or logo may be used as a hyperlink or to mark any hyperlink to any GIC site or any other site.

8. All intellectual property rights in User Content (as defined below) belong to the user who has generated said content. Except for your own User Content, you may not upload or republish any user generated content unless the user concerned has expressed his or her consent in the content, or you have obtained the prior written consent of said user.

9. You understand and agree that all User Content represents the views of the user who has generated said content alone and does not represent the views of GIC.

10. You understand and agree that the Service is available for your personal, non-commercial use only and you will not use the Service to collect email addresses or other contact information of other users for the purpose of sending unsolicited communications.

11. You are solely responsible for the content that you upload, publish or display (hereinafter, “post”) on the Site, or transmit to or share with other users (collectively the “User Content”). You may not post, transmit, or share User Content on the Site that you do not have permission to post. You represent, warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted through your account or otherwise posted by you on or through the Site will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party. In posting such material, you hereby grant GIC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual licence to reproduce and distribute any User Content. Please notify us if you wish to edit or remove any postings. You understand and acknowledge that, even after editing or removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your User Content.

12. In addition, you agree that you will not post any material which may expose GIC to any harm or liability of any type, including but not limited to material which falls within the following categories:

• Material which defames, abuses or threatens others
• Statements that are bigoted, hateful or racially offensive
• Material that advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them
• Unauthorised copyrighted or confidential material, including music or videos
• Material that contains vulgar, obscene or indecent language or images
• Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation

13. You understand and agree that GIC may review the Service and may delete or remove (without notice) any contents of the Site or User Content in its sole discretion.

E-mail Service

14. A free webmail account is provided to all members  with the address  “gicalum.com.sg”. This email address will be published in the Member Directory (see below) and may be published on GIC’s internal network.

15. You acknowledge that only you are authorised to use your mailbox. You agree not to resell your webmail account and to be fully liable for the use of your webmail account, including any unauthorised use of your webmail account by a third party. You further agree to notify GIC immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your mailbox.

16. GIC does not monitor any email communications and you are solely responsible for the content of your emails and for ensuring that email communications comply with all applicable laws.  All members are expected to use their discretion when contacting other alumni, and emails sent should not promote personal business or special interests (fundraising, political etc).  In addition, you are not permitted to transmit messages that (a) infringe on any third part’s intellectual property or proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy ; (b) violate any law, statute, ordinace or regulation; (c) are defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, abusive, or obscene; or (e) contain links to any sites that include any of that kind of content.

17. Spamming from or to the GIC alum webmail account is prohibited. GIC will determine in our sole discretion whether any of the messages you send are spam.  For your information, spamming generally includes sending any form of email that can be interpreted as junk email or bulk email that the recipient has not specifically requested from you.

18. You are reminded that communications on the Internet, by email or any other electronic communications systems are not secure and can give rise to legal action (e.g. claims of defamation, discrimination, harassment, breach of confidentiality) against the user concerned personally and that misuse of the Internet can in certain circumstances constitute a criminal offence. GIC assumes no responsibility for any such claims.

19. GIC reserves the right to terminate the webmail service at its discretion. If your webmail account is terminated, all emails, including any attachments will automatically be deleted.

Email Forwarding