These terms and conditions (these “Terms”) are between:
(Sleek and You are hereinafter referred to individually as a “Party,” and collectively as the “Parties.”)
1.1 Users may engage Sleek to provide certain business services. These services may include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
1.2 By appointing Sleek as the User’s company secretarial service provider, Sleek shall carry out, or appoint one of its employees to carry out, the duties of a company secretary in accordance with Singapore law. Sleek commits to promptly deliver the Services elected and validly paid for by the User pursuant to these Terms.
1.3 Sleek shall only provide company secretarial services as requested by the User from time to time orally, in writing or any other manner in which Sleek may accept. The User agrees that Sleek shall assume no liability to the User for any loss or damage arising out of or in relation to Sleek providing company secretarial services in accordance with the User’s instructions.
1.4 SleekSign is a Sleek Service which allows Users to send and sign documents electronically. Users may use SleekSign in conjunction with other Services or as a standalone service in accordance with these Terms and any other Terms and Conditions which may be added or amended from time to time.
1.5 The User shall indemnify Sleek (and/or any of its affiliates) against any and all actions, judgements, claims, demands, costs, taxes and expenses (including legal and/or professional fees) howsoever incurred by Sleek in the course of and pursuant to its duties and obligations provided by any of the Services in accordance with Your instructions or these Terms.
1.6 Sleek may require that, in order for the performance of the Services (including the services of acting as nominee director for a company), the User shall enter into any supplemental agreements or carry out any acts required by Sleek or by law in order for Sleek to provide the Services. Sleek shall not be obliged to provide any of the Services if the User fails to enter into a supplemental agreement or carry out any acts required by Sleek or by law.
1.7 If Sleek, in its sole and absolute discretion, is obliged to meet any of the User’s requirements or legal obligations, the User agrees that Sleek is authorised and empowered to take any steps that it may in its reasonable discretion deem necessary to comply with such obligations or requirements, which includes seeking professional legal advice or other administrative recourse in accordance with applicable laws at the expense of the User.
1.8 At the request of Sleek, the User shall provide Sleek with all documents and information as required by Sleek in order for Sleek to comply with its internal policies, any applicable law or guidelines issued by any relevant regulatory authority and/or for any other reason that Sleek may consider necessary from time to time.
1.9 The provision of document templates to Users such as an employment agreement template does not constitute legal advice. Sleek is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal services. Any document templates provided to Users, including but not limited to employment agreement templates, are for general informational purposes only and do not constitute legal advice. You should seek independent legal counsel for any legal matters.
1.10 In connection with the Services, the User shall provide Sleek with all necessary co-operation in relation to the Services and all necessary access to such information as may be required by Sleek. In the event of any delays in the User’s provision of such assistance as agreed by the parties, Sleek may adjust any agreed timetable or delivery schedule as reasonably necessary.
1.11 The User represents and warrants that it will not use the Services for any unlawful purposes, including but not limited to money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, or other illegal activities. The User shall indemnify and hold Sleek harmless from any loss, damage, or liability arising from any breach of this clause.
1.12 The User acknowledges that accurate and timely submission of information is essential for regulatory compliance and the provision of Services by Sleek. The User shall be solely responsible for ensuring that all information, instructions, and documents provided to Sleek are accurate, complete, and submitted in a timely manner.
1.13 If the User provides inaccurate, incomplete, or delayed information that results in regulatory non-compliance, penalties, fines, or late filing fees; errors in statutory filings, tax computations, or corporate governance documents; or delays or failures in the provision of Services, the User assumes full liability for any resulting losses, fines, penalties, or damages.
1.14 If Sleek is required to rectify any errors due to incorrect or incomplete information provided by the User, Sleek may charge additional fees for the time and effort required to amend the filings, resubmit documentation, or liaise with regulatory authorities.
1.15 Sleek shall not be held responsible for any negative consequences arising from the User’s failure to review and approve documents before submission; the User’s failure to provide required regulatory information within prescribed deadlines; or any errors in tax filings, accounting records, or statutory submissions caused by incorrect data provided by the User.
1.16 The User shall indemnify and hold Sleek harmless from and against all claims, penalties, fines, damages, or liabilities arising from the User’s failure to provide accurate and timely information.
2.1 To access and use the Services, You must be a registered user on the Platform. The Services are strictly for the use of the registered company and its authorised representatives. You shall not allow any unauthorised third party to access or use the Services under Your account.
2.2 If Sleek detects or reasonably suspects that the Services are being accessed or used by any individual who is not a registered User or authorized representative of the company, Sleek reserves the right to suspend or terminate Your access to the Services; charge additional fees for each unregistered or unauthorised user at Sleek’s sole discretion; and take legal or other necessary actions to enforce compliance.
2.3 Sleek reserves the right to audit and verify Your usage of the Services to ensure compliance with these Terms. This may include reviewing account access logs, user activities, and company records. If Sleek reasonably determines that You have exceeded the permitted number of users or violated usage restrictions, Sleek may request immediate corrective actions, including the registration of additional users; charge additional fees for excessive or unauthorised usage; and suspend or terminate access if corrective actions are not taken within a reasonable timeframe.
2.4 By creating a user account and paying for any of the Services the User affirmatively and unconditionally accepts these Terms.
2.5 In order to use the Platform and the Services, the User must provide all information and documents requested by Sleek (“User Personal Data”). The User undertakes and warrants that the User Personal Data provided to Sleek shall at all material times be accurate, up-to-date and complete.
2.6 In case of any change in the User Personal Data upon registration the User shall be responsible to update this information without delay. Sleek shall not in any way be held responsible or liable in the event that the User fails to update the User Personal Data or fails to notify Sleek of any change of User Personal Data.
2.7 A User registering on the Platform has access to the Platform through the combination of a username and a password. The combination username and password is strictly private and shall be kept confidential by the User.
2.8 In case of a loss of password, the User will be able to reinitialise its password on the Platform.
3.1 Sleek may at any time suspend or discontinue any of the Services or any feature of any Sleek Service, including support enabling the use of the Platform.
3.2 Sleek will make every effort to ensure that the Services are available, however, such services may be interrupted to conduct maintenance, repairs, upgrades, or network or equipment failures.
3.3 The operation of the Services may be affected by external events including but not limited to epidemics, strike, blockade, war, acts of terrorism, riot, natural disaster, failure or reduction of power, or any force majeure events.
3.4 Sleek will not be liable for any delay or failure to perform its obligations under these Terms if the delay or failure is due to the User or third party connected with the User or any such events or causes referred to in Clause 3.2 and Clause 3.3 above, or any other event beyond Sleek’s reasonable control.
4.1 Definition of Confidential Information
In connection with their performance under these Terms, each party may from time to time make certain information available to the other party that is not generally known to the public at the time of its disclosure and is either identified as, or should reasonably be understood by the receiving party to be, proprietary or confidential (the “Confidential Information”). Confidential Information specifically includes, but is not limited to, the terms of any order form(s) entered into by the parties, User Content, business plans, product plans, roadmaps, strategies, forecasts, projects and analyses, the results of any audit related to the Services (including but not limited to any security audit), financial information and fee structures, business processes, methods and models, and technical documentation. Confidential information does not include information that: (a) is or becomes publicly available without breach of these Terms by the receiving party; (b) was known to the receiving party prior to its disclosure by the disclosing party; (c) is or was independently developed by the receiving party without the use of any Confidential Information of the disclosing party; or (d) is or was lawfully received by the receiving party from a third party under no obligation of confidentiality.
4.2 Protection of Confidential Information
Without the express prior written permission of the disclosing party, or as required by law, the receiving party will not disclose, transmit, or otherwise disseminate to any third party any Confidential Information of the disclosing party and will use at least the same degree of care and discretion with respect to the Confidential Information received from the disclosing party as it uses with its own similar information, but in no event less than a reasonable degree of care. The receiving party may disclose the disclosing party’s Confidential Information to its employees, affiliates, consultants, subcontractors, agents, or advisors (collectively known as “Representatives”) who have a strict need to access the Confidential Information for the purpose of performing under these Terms and only to those who are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of such Confidential Information under terms that are at least as protective as the terms set forth in these Terms. Either party may disclose these Terms to potential parties to a bona fide fundraising, acquisition, or similar transaction solely for the purposes of the proposed transaction, provided that any such potential party is subject to written non-disclosure obligations and limitations on use that are no less protective than those set forth herein.
4.3 Unauthorised use of Sleek Personnel Information
Without the express prior written permission of the individuals involved, any use of Sleek personnel information including but not limited to the nominee director and company secretary’s personal information including but not limited to name, identification number, email address and contact number for the registration of any accounts or for any other purposes is prohibited (“Sleek Personnel Information”). Sleek reserves the right to take legal action and also to terminate our services should such a situation arise.
4.4 Equitable Relief
The receiving party acknowledges that the remedy at law for breach of these confidentiality provisions may be inadequate and that, in addition to any other remedy the disclosing party may have, it shall be entitled to seek equitable relief, including, without limitation, an injunction or injunctions (without the requirement of posting a bond, other security or any similar requirement or proving any actual damages), to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of these confidentiality provisions by the receiving party or any of its Representatives and to enforce the terms and provisions of this Clause 4 in addition to any other remedy to which the disclosing party is entitled at law or in equity.
4.5 Compelled Disclosure
The receiving party may access and disclose Confidential Information of the disclosing party if legally required to do so in connection with any legal proceeding or regulatory requirement; provided, however, that in such event the receiving party will, if it is lawfully permitted to do so, provide only that portion of the Confidential Information that is legally required to be disclosed, and shall maintain the confidentiality of any Confidential Information so disclosed for all purposes other than such legally compelled disclosure.
4.6 Compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act
Sleek shall comply with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) of Singapore in the collection, use, disclosure, and processing of User Personal Data. By using the Platform and Services, You acknowledge and consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of Your Personal Data in accordance with the Sleek Privacy Policy.
4.7 Notification of Data Disclosure
Sleek shall not disclose any User Personal Data to third parties except as required by law, regulatory obligation, or with Your express consent. If disclosure is legally required, Sleek shall, where permitted by law, provide You with prior written notice of such disclosure and take reasonable steps to minimise the extent of disclosure.
4.8 By using and/or accessing the Platform, Website or any of the Services, You acknowledge that You have read and agree to the Sleek Privacy Policy, which shall be read together with and shall form an integral part of these Terms. You consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure or handling of the User Personal Data for the purposes set out in the Sleek Privacy Policy.
4.9 By using the Platform, Website and any of the Services You acknowledge and agree that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message, information or User Personal Data submitted through the Platform may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission (for example, credit card information) is encrypted.
4.10 Subject to the Sleek Privacy Policy, Sleek will maintain certain User Personal Data strictly for internal purposes, including but not limited to managing the performance and functionality of the Website, information security, prevention and detection of spam, fraud, and abuse, troubleshooting, and to improve or enhance the Services by, among other things, to train computational models and algorithms and generating outputs and data sets, and other related machine-learning purposes. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing purposes shall not involve the use, processing or exchange of User Personal Data externally or through the public domain unless required pursuant to any statutory order or legal obligation.
5.1 By agreeing to these Terms, You agree to only subscribe to the use and access of the Services. You acknowledge that You have a limited right to access and use the Services and that no ownership rights are transferred to You under these Terms. Provided that the User complies with these Terms, Sleek hereby grants the User a worldwide, limited non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable and revocable license to use the Platform in order to gain access to the Services.
5.2 The Parties acknowledge and agree that all rights, title and interest (including but without limitation to intellectual property rights) in and to the Services (including the Platform, underlying software and any software or documentation made available to the User through the Services, which includes any enhancements, modifications or derivative works associated thereto), and Sleek’s trademarks, names and logos, processes, know-how, data, documents and any other materials created or provided by Sleek or obtained from Sleek in connection with these Terms (“Sleek IP”) belong solely and exclusively to Sleek.
5.3 Sleek IP shall not be reproduced, modified, adapted, distributed, published, translated, altered, displayed, uploaded, broadcast, transmitted or hyperlinked in any manner and in any form without the Sleek’s prior written approval.
5.4 The User shall not challenge the validity or Sleek’s ownership of or right to Sleek IP.
5.5 Save for the rights expressly granted to the User under these Terms, the User shall have no other rights, title or interest in or to the Services (including any software or documentation made available to the User through the Services) and to Sleek IP.
5.6 Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Sleek, the User shall not combine, merge, subsume or otherwise, whether directly or indirectly, incorporate or permit to be incorporated the whole or any part of the Services and/or Sleek IP into another software, database, program or service not authorised by Sleek; and create, cause to be created or permit to be created any derivative works based on any of the Services and/or Sleek IP.
5.7 Sleek makes no warranties or representations whatsoever in relation to the Sleek IP. Sleek shall not be liable for any damages, loss, expenses or costs in the event that the Sleek IP or any part of it infringes or is alleged to infringe the rights of any third party. Sleek shall have control of all proceedings in any court of law or tribunal in respect of any infringement of the Sleek IP. If Sleek wishes to bring or defend such proceedings, the User shall, at the Sleek’s request, render such assistance as may be reasonably required of the User in relation to such proceedings.
5.8 Without prejudice to Clause 5.2 above, the Parties acknowledge and agree that all of the benefit, right, title and interest in and to all Foreground IP, including the right to sue for damages and other legal and equitable remedies in respect of infringement and all other rights of action, powers, and benefits arising from ownership of the Foreground IP, will be the sole and exclusive property of Sleek, and will constitute Sleek IP. “Foreground IP” means all rights to inventions, patents, know-how, trademarks, registered designs, copyright and related rights, database rights, design rights, trade secrets, confidential information, rights to use and protect confidential information, in each case whether registered or unregistered, including any rights to apply for and be granted applications for any of the foregoing and any renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, those rights, and any similar right recognised from time to time in any jurisdiction, together with all rights of action in relation to the infringement of any of the foregoing, that is generated, invented, developed, obtained, reduced to practice or produced during the course of, or as a result of entering into these Terms.
5.9 The marks ‘Sleek’ and its logo, and ‘SleekSign’ and its logo are trademarks of Sleek, and nothing in these Terms gives User the right to use those trademarks without Sleek’s prior written approval.
5.10 Sleek and the User may use third party software and application programming interfaces (“APIs”) when using the Platform or the Services. Sleek does not guarantee the reliability of such third-party software or APIs. The User agrees that Sleek is not liable for any loss or damage arising out of the use of such third-party software or APIs to access any information, the Platform or the Services.
5.11 You retain full ownership and responsibility for all documents, data, and content created, uploaded, or submitted by You through the Platform (User Content). However, by using the Platform, You grant Sleek a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to process, store, and use such content solely for the purpose of providing the Services. Sleek shall not claim ownership of User Content nor use, modify, distribute, or disclose such content for any purpose other than delivering the agreed Services, unless required by law or with Your explicit written consent.
