1. Acceptance of Terms
1.1 These Terms of Service (this "Agreement") between Bugworks Sdn Bhd ("we", "us" or "Bugworks") and you govern your access and use of our graphic design platform made available through www.bugworks.com.my (this "Site") and the subscription or other services we provide (the "Services"). By using this Site and accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Agreement.
1.2 This Site is controlled and operated by us from our office within Malaysia. We make no representation that materials in the Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from territories where its contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this site from locations outside Malaysia are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws.
1.3 We may update this Agreement from time to time. By continuing to use this Site and the Services after the update, you accept the update in its entirety. All updates are effective upon posting. We encourage you to check the "we suggest you do not use our Services for time-sensitive projects.Terms & Conditions" link on the home page each time you visit this Site, so you are aware of any updates.
2. Privacy Policy
2.1 Our privacy policy, which can be found at Privacy Policy page (the "Privacy Policy"), describes how we may use your personal information. By continuing to use this Site, you accept the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference. If you object to your personal information being used as described in the Privacy Policy, please leave this Site immediately. You must be at least age 18 to access this Site.
3. The Services
3.1 Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, as well as your subscription for an applicable plan and our timely receipt of your associated payment(s), we will make the applicable Services available to you during the term to which you have subscribed. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Services available subject to planned downtime and any unscheduled emergency maintenance. We may modify, replace, or discontinue the Services at any time, for any reason, without notice to you.
3.2 You may only access and use the Services in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. You agree to: (i) provide accurate, current, and complete information about you as may be prompted by any form on this Site ("Registration Data"); (ii) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data, to keep it accurate, current, and complete; (iii) maintain the security of any password and identification information; (iv) notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of your account; (v) accept sole responsibility for any and all activities that occur on your account. Each person who uses any Services must have a separate username and password. You must provide a valid email address for each person that you authorise to use your account. You agree to provide any other information that we reasonably request.
3.3 You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telecommunications, broadband, and computer equipment and services needed to access and use the Services and for paying all charges related thereto.
3.4 We may terminate your account without prior notice or liability to you, if we find, in our sole and exclusive discretion, that you: (i) have violated this Agreement; (ii) are not in alignment with our model; (iii) violate our core values; or (iv) are abusing our services or team in any way, including using our services for illegal purposes.
3.5 "Licensed Content" means content that we own or license, including artwork, stock photography, audio, typeface, videos, designs, and writings. While you are, and will be, the sole and exclusive owner of all rights, titles, and interests in and to your graphic design project, the Licensed Content incorporated in your graphic design project is subject to the license described in Section 5 below. No rights are granted to you other than as expressly set forth herein. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable right and license to commercially exploit in any manner any feedback, suggestions, or recommendations that you provide to us.
3.6 Subject to your continued compliance with this Agreement, including timely payment of associated amounts due, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to access and use the Services for your internal business purposes. You may not access or use the Services in order to monitor its availability, performance, or functionality for competitive purposes. You may not, and may not permit any third party to: (a) reverse engineer (except to the extent specifically permitted by statutory law), decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover source code, object code or underlying structures, ideas or algorithms of the Services, (b) modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Services, (c) use the Services for any purpose other than its own internal purposes; or (d) use the Services other than in accordance with the Agreement and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations (including but not limited to any applicable privacy and intellectual property laws).
4. Use of Services
4.1 While we accept unlimited requests for our Services, we reserve the right to attend to one request at a time and thereafter proceed with the subsequent request wherein our turnaround duration is between 1 to 2 days from date of receipt of such request. We will do our best to work with you to accommodate your timelines, but we suggest you do not use our Services for time-sensitive projects.
4.2 We do our best to minimise mistakes. However, due to the nature of creative design, we cannot guarantee all files delivered will be 100% error-free. You are entitled to make revisions at any time and we will do our best to cater to your requests provided your subscription with us is still active and subsisting.
4.3 You are the owner and/or controller of all of your information, data, or materials that you provide to us to use the Services (the "Customer Content"). By submitting Customer Content to us, you are representing that you are the owner of such Customer Content and/or have the necessary rights, licenses, and authorisation to distribute it. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to access, and use Customer Content to provide the Services.
4.4 In the course of providing the Services, we may use certain pre-existing materials. We and our licensors are, and will remain, the sole and exclusive owners of all rights, titles, and interests in and to any pre-existing materials. We grant you a perpetual, limited, royalty-free, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide license to use, display, and distribute any pre-existing materials to the extent incorporated in, combined with, or otherwise necessary for the use of the Services or orders. We expressly reserve all other rights in and to such pre-existing materials.
4.5 Bugworks does not support and will not tolerate its Service being used to discriminate against others, especially when based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin. You are not permitted to use the Service in a manner which would or would likely incite, promote, or support such discrimination and you must not use the Service to incite or promote hostility or violence. If we believe in our sole determination that your use of the Service is being used to discriminate, especially if based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin, we may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to the Service, without notice and liability for any reason.
5. Use of Stock Services
5.1 Subject to compliance with this Agreement and full payment of applicable amounts due, we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to the Licensed Content for your personal or professional use, limited to use in your own design project. Except as expressly permitted by us, you agree not to, directly or indirectly, stockpile, sell, lease, sublicense, distribute, copy, reproduce, republish, reverse engineer, download, data mine, or modify any Licensed Content made available through the Premium Stock Service.
5.2 To the extent that we license the Licensed Content from any third party, you agree to comply with the relevant third party license. Except with our written permission, you may not: (i) sell, resell, rent, lease, sublicense, assign, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use Licensed Content apart from a design order prepared by us or as part of a design product for your own personal use; (ii) change, alter, adapt, translate, convert, modify, or make any derivative works of any Licensed Content; (iii) falsely represent that you are the original creator of any Licensed Content; (iv) use Licensed Content in a pornographic, defamatory, or other unlawful manner; (vi) use Licensed Content in any way that allows others to download, extract, or redistribute Licensed Content as a standalone file or work.(vii) use Licensed Content that features models or property in connection with a subject that would be unflattering or unduly controversial to a reasonable person (for example, sexually transmitted diseases), must indicate: (1) that the content is being used for illustrative purposes only, and (2) any person depicted in the content is a model.
5.3 We and our licensors retain ownership over Licensed Content licensed from them, whether downloaded through our Stock Services or incorporated into your graphic design order. We reserve the right to terminate, revoke, or withdraw all licenses upon your failure to comply with any provisions of this Agreement. In the event of any termination, you will have no further right to make use of the Licensed Content, which may include the Licensed Content that we have included in your design order.
5.4 Bugworks does not support and will not tolerate its Service being used to discriminate against others, especially when based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin. You are not permitted to use the Service in a manner which would or would likely incite, promote or support such discrimination and you must not use the Service to incite or promote hostility or violence. If we believe in our sole determination that your use of the Service is being used to discriminate, especially if based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin, we may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to the Service, without notice and liability for any reason.
6. Fees
6.1 Use of our Services requires payment of recurring fees. Before we have any obligation to provide Services, you must pay the fees (as well as applicable taxes) in full, in such amounts and for such billing frequency as specified during registration, as updated (prospectively, not retroactively) by you from time to time. You agree that, upon registering for the Services, you authorize us to charge your method of payment (e.g., credit card) for the fees and applicable taxes from your registration date based upon monthly billing frequency. Overdue charges will accrue interest monthly at the rate of 1.5% of the then-outstanding unpaid balance, or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is lower. We reserve the right to terminate your account in the event of non-payment of amounts owed to us. All amounts owed under this Agreement are non-cancellable and non-refundable, except as specifically provided in this Section 6.
6.2 We reserve the right to change our fees upon 5 days’ advance notice. By continuing to use the Services, you accept such changes. We are not required to notify you of temporary promotions or reductions in fees.
6.3 We hope you are pleased with our Services. If, for whatever reason, you are not, you may cancel your subscription with us at any time as your sole remedy. Upon cancellation, you will continue to have access to the Services and your design files through the end of your current paid billing term. Once the billing term has ended after cancelation, you will no longer have access to the Services and may lose access to your design files through the Site.
6.4 You may request a refund from us if you cancel your subscription either: (i) within 14 days of signing up. After this 14-day window, we will not issue a refund. From time to time, we may refuse a refund request if, in our sole discretion, we find evidence of fraud, refund abuse, or other manipulative behavior. Promotions, upgrades, and adjustments to existing plans are non-refundable.
7. Confidential Information
7.1 For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Confidential Information" means non-public or proprietary information, including, without limitation, information relating to current or future business, products and services, research, images, development, design details and specifications, and marketing plans.
7.2 During the course of our relationship, you may disclose to us your Confidential Information. We agree to hold in confidence and not disclose to any third party any of your Confidential Information, except as approved or directed in writing by you, and will use your Confidential Information for no purpose other than for the Services. We will limit access to your Confidential Information to only those employees, officers, directors, contractors, representative, and agents who are involved in providing Services to you. We will be responsible to you for any breach of this provision by our employees, officers, directors, contractors, representative, and agents.
7.3 During the course of our relationship, we may similarly disclose to you our Confidential Information. You agree to hold in confidence and not disclose to any third party any of our Confidential Information, except as approved or directed in writing by us, and will use our Confidential Information for no purpose, except as permitted by this Agreement. You will limit access to our Confidential Information to only those employees, officers, directors, contractors, representative, and agents to whom it is necessary to disclose our Confidential Information. You will be responsible to you for any breach of this provision by your employees, officers, directors, contractors, representative, and agents.
7.4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the following is not Confidential Information: (a) information that was in the public domain at the time of its disclosure or has entered the public domain without breach of this Agreement; (b) information that was already in the rightful possession of a party at the time of disclosure; (c) information that is independently developed by a party without breaching this Agreement; or (d) information that becomes known to a party, without restriction, from a third party source not directly or indirectly involving a breach of this Agreement.
7.5 The confidentiality obligations under this Agreement will survive for five (5) years after the termination of this Agreement.
8. Portfolio Rights
8.1 You hereby grant us a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, royalty-free worldwide license to use, publish, and display any orders that we develop in connection with the Services for the purpose of marketing and advertising (the "Portfolio Rights License"). You may revoke the Portfolio Rights License at any time by sending written notice to hello@bugworks.com.my. If you revoke the Portfolio Rights License, we will stop using your orders for marketing and advertising purposes, however your orders may continue to exist elsewhere online such as where the orders have been used by others in accordance with the Portfolio Rights License.
9.1 Term and Termination
9.1 This Agreement will expire and terminate upon the expiration or termination of your account or subscription to a Service. All sections of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination will survive termination, including but not limited to, accrued rights to payment, confidentiality obligations, warranty disclaimers, and limitations of liability.
9.2 We may terminate this Agreement at any time upon notice if you default or breach this Agreement. Upon expiration or termination of your account or subscription to a Service, all rights under this Agreement relating to such Service will immediately terminate, you will lose all access to the applicable Service, including access to your account and Customer Content or other files. If we terminate the Agreement for your breach, any licenses to Licensed Content will also terminate.
10. Disclaimer of Warranties
The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Use of the service is at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Without limiting the foregoing, Bugworks, its subsidiaries, and its licensors do not warrant that the content, including without limitation User Content and Stock Media, is accurate, reliable or correct; that the service will meet your requirements; that the service will be available at any particular time or location, uninterrupted or secure; that any defects or errors will be corrected; or that the service is free of viruses or other harmful components. Any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the service is downloaded at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or mobile device or loss of data that results from such download or your use of the service.
Bugworks does not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party through the Bugworks service or any hyperlinked website or service, and Bugworks will not be a party to or in any way monitor any transaction between you and third party providers of products or services.
You use Bugworks as-is and at your own risk. We don’t provide any guarantees with respect to the Service.
11. No Waiver
11.1 No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and Bugworks’s failure to assert any right or provision under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
12. Indemnity
12.1 You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Bugworks and its subsidiaries, agents, licensors, managers, and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Service, including any data or content transmitted or received by you; (ii) your violation of any term of this Agreement, including without limitation your breach of any of the representations and warranties above; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any right of privacy, publicity, or Intellectual Property Rights; (iv) your violation of any applicable law, rule, or regulation; (v) any claim or damages that arise as a result of any content that is submitted via your account; or (vi) any other party’s access and use of the Service with your unique username, password, or other appropriate security code.
12.2 If Bugworks suffers damages or claims relating to your content, account, or use of the Service or your violation of these terms, any laws, or any other individual’s rights, you are responsible for all costs.
13. Links to Third Party Platforms
13.1 If this Site is available through any third party platform, or if we provide links from this Site to any third party platform, then we do not accept responsibility for any content or practices of such third parties.
14. Copyright Policy
14.1 If you are a copyright holder, or its agent, and you believe that any of the copyrighted material which is directly available via the Website or Services infringes your copyrighted work, please let us know. A notice of alleged copyright infringement may be sent to at the following address: Strand Mall, 57-1, Jalan PJU 5/21, Kota Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
15. Governing Law
15.1 These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Malaysia.
16. Arbitration
16.1 Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this contract, or the breach, termination or invalidity thereof shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Rules for Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC). The arbitral tribunal shall consist of a sole arbitrator, to be appointed by the Chairman of the AIAC. The place of arbitration shall be Malaysia. Any award by the arbitration tribunal shall be final and binding upon the parties.
16.2 We shall be entitled to commence legal proceedings for the purposes of protecting our intellectual property rights and confidential information of which the remedies entitled by us shall include, without limitation, damages, injunctive, or other equitable relief.
16.3 Nothing in this Section shall prevent either party from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief from the courts as necessary to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of that party’s data security, Intellectual Property Rights, or other proprietary rights. All claims must be brought in the parties’ individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding, and, unless we agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims.
THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES; OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
17. Assignment
17.1 This Agreement and the rights and obligations herein are personal to you, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any of your rights or obligations hereunder, without our prior written consent. We may freely assign this Agreement, including, without limitation, in connection with a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization, or sale of some or all of our assets or stocks.
18. Severability
18.1 If any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement are for any reason held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of this Agreement will be unimpaired and will remain in full force and effect, and the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision(s) will be replaced by a valid, legal and enforceable provision or provisions that comes closest to the intent of the parties underlying the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision(s).
19. Force Majeure
19.1 If we are unable to perform any obligation under this Agreement because of any matter beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to pandemic or widespread outbreak of infectious diseases, government shutdown, lightning, flood, exceptionally severe weather, fire, explosion, war, civil disorder, industrial/labor disputes (whether or not involving our employees), acts of government, loss of or problems with telecommunications, utility services or other third party services, and hostile network attacks (each, a "Force Majeure Event"), we will have no liability to you for such failure to perform; provided, however, that we will resume performance promptly upon removal of the circumstances constituting the Force Majeure Event.
20. Entire Agreement
20.1 If you have executed a separate agreement with us applicable to your access to and use of this Site or our Services, then the terms and conditions of that agreement prevail to the extent of any conflict with this Agreement. In all other cases, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties concerning its subject matter and supersedes all prior communications and proposals.