Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms and Corporate Identity

1.1 These Terms of Use ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you (the "Visitor", "you", or "your") and SCSP Pte. Ltd., a private limited company incorporated in the Republic of Singapore, trading under the registered business name Auberique (together with its subsidiaries, holding entities, and operational affiliates, "Auberique", "we", "us", or "our").

1.2 By accessing, browsing, viewing, interacting with, or submitting data through the website located at auberique.com (the "Website"), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to these Terms in their entirety, your revocable licence to access this Website terminates immediately, and you must cease all access to the Website.

2. Nature of Services and Professional Boundaries

2.1 Corporate Service Provider Status: SCSP Pte. Ltd. (trading as Auberique) is a registered Corporate Service Provider governed by the Corporate Service Providers Act 2024 and regulated by the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA). Auberique is not a licensed financial institution, broker-dealer, or fund manager, and does not hold a Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence or Financial Adviser's licence under the Securities and Futures Act 2001 (SFA) or the Financial Advisers Act 2001 (FAA).

2.2 No Legal, Tax, or Investment Advice: The contents of this Website (including structural diagrams, articles, regulatory summaries, workflows, and interactive tools) are published solely for general informational purposes. Nothing on this Website constitutes legal advice under the Legal Profession Act 1966, formal tax advice, financial analysis, investment recommendations, or an offer or solicitation of securities or collective investment schemes.

2.3 Independent Legal Services: Corporate secretarial administration, entity formation, and operational structuring support are delivered directly by Auberique. Where bespoke legal advice, formal legal opinions, transaction-specific agreements, or regulatory applications are required, those services are engaged directly through and provided independently by our associated, licensed law firm in Singapore.

2.4 No Offer to Contract: Website content, price indicators, and digital materials do not constitute a formal commercial offer, underwriting commitment, or binding contract. A professional engagement is formed solely upon the mutual execution of an official Engagement Letter, agreed scope of work, and satisfaction of statutory Customer Due Diligence (CDD) procedures.

3. Permitted and Prohibited Conduct

3.1 Revocable Licence: As a Visitor, you are granted a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and limited licence to view and evaluate materials on this Website solely for your internal business assessment.

3.2 Prohibited Cyber Conduct: You expressly agree that you shall not:

• Deploy the Website, its contact channels, or onboarding portals to facilitate money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation financing, sanctions evasion, or fraudulent enterprises;
• Conceal beneficial ownership or submit deliberately false, forged, or misleading documentation;
• Interfere with, bypass, or attempt to disable any technological measures, rate limits, robot exclusion headers, or access controls implemented on the Website;
• Attempt to introduce malware, logic bombs, trojans, or disrupt the integrity of the Website's hosting architecture;
• Engage in any conduct that breaches the Computer Misuse Act 1993 of Singapore or the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030).

3.3 Prohibition of Competitor Access, Mystery Shopping, and Pretexting:

(a) Warranty of Bona Fide Intent: You represent and warrant that your access to the Website, your interaction with our onboarding intake forms, and your communications with our advisory team are conducted solely as a genuine, bona fide prospective client seeking corporate, fund administration, or structuring services for a legitimate, verifiable commercial business which you own or directly represent.

(b) Absolute Competitor Restriction: You are strictly prohibited from submitting inquiries, scheduling consultation calls, requesting fee quotations, or initiating onboarding workflows if you are an employee, director, officer, partner, contractor, consultant, or agent of:

• Any competing corporate service provider, fund administrator, trust company, or company formation platform;
• Any legal technology, equity management, or syndicate software provider; or
• Any corporate intelligence, market research, or mystery shopping agency acting on behalf of, or funded by, any such competing enterprise.

(c) Prohibition on Fictitious Entities: You shall not deploy aliases, personal non-corporate email domains, fictitious venture capital or startup entities, straw persons, or any form of false pretexting to elicit commercial intelligence, pricing schedules, process blueprints, or transactional templates from Auberique.

(d) Trade Secret Classification: You expressly acknowledge that all fee structures, rate cards, proposals, workflow diagrams, statutory guides, and customized structuring recommendations communicated by Auberique (whether via digital correspondence, intake portals, or oral consultation) constitute proprietary confidential information and protected trade secrets under Singapore common law and the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (18 U.S.C. § 1836). Any competitor or agent who induces disclosure of such information through pretexting, misrepresentation, or concealment of their commercial affiliation:

• Obtains such information through unlawful means in breach of confidence and in breach of these Terms;
• Shall hold all such materials and notes on constructive trust for the exclusive benefit of SCSP Pte. Ltd.;
• Is strictly enjoined from disseminating, benchmarking, commercialising, or using such information to develop, market, or adjust competing service offerings; and
• Shall be liable to SCSP Pte. Ltd. for an account of profits, immediate injunctive relief, and all legal costs incurred in enforcement, without prejudice to SCSP Pte. Ltd.'s right to claim common law damages for fraudulent misrepresentation.

(e) Sanctions and Trade Restrictions Warranty: You represent and warrant that you are not, nor are you acting on behalf of, any individual or entity that is: (i) located in, established in, or a resident of a comprehensively sanctioned country or territory; or (ii) identified on any sanctions or restricted parties list maintained by the United States (OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the United Kingdom (HM Treasury), or the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

3.4 Anti-Phishing, Brand Spoofing, and Cybersecurity:

You shall not create, register, deploy, or maintain any internet domain name, social media account, electronic mail address, application, or digital interface that mimics, imitates, or incorporates the "Auberique" name, any confusingly similar typographical variation, or any associated logos or trade dress. Any attempt to intercept communications, establish phishing infrastructures, deploy fraudulent look-alike portals, scrape client verification pipelines, or alter transmission headers constitutes a direct violation of the Singapore Computer Misuse Act 1993, the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030), and international cybercrime legislation, subjecting the offending party to immediate civil ex-parte injunctions, statutory damages, and criminal referral.

4. Prohibition of Automated Scraping, Data Mining, and Artificial Intelligence Training

4.1 Express Reservation of Rights: Auberique expressly reserves all rights in respect of the Website, its contents, data structures, and code. Pursuant to Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market, and equivalent international frameworks, Auberique and SCSP Pte. Ltd. expressly and unambiguously reserve all text and data mining rights.

4.2 Strict Ban on AI Model Ingestion: You shall not, directly or indirectly, and shall not authorise, assist, or permit any third party, automated crawler, digital agent, or commercial tool (including bots operated by or on behalf of large language model providers, generative artificial intelligence platforms, or data brokers, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, or similar entities) to:

• Scrape, crawl, harvest, extract, compile, or aggregate any text, data, workflow diagrams, fee structures, comparative matrices, or software code from the Website;
• Ingest, process, store, reproduce, or feed any part of the Website's content into any artificial intelligence engine, machine learning model, neural network, or large language model (LLM);
• Use any content, data, or proprietary frameworks from this Website for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, developing, validating, benchmarking, or commercially exploiting any algorithmic system, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline, or artificial intelligence application.

4.3 Deprivation of Lawful Access: Any circumvention of robot exclusion headers, security challenge tokens, CAPTCHAs, rate limits, or terms of access strips the accessing party of "lawful access" under Section 244 of the Singapore Copyright Act 2021 and transforms subsequent access into an unauthorised computer intrusion under Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1993 and 18 U.S.C. § 1030.

5. Trademarks, Brand Protection, and Passing Off

5.1 Ownership of Marks: The trade name "Auberique", the Auberique corporate logo, geometric monograms, service marks, domain names, and trade dress (whether registered or unregistered) are the exclusive intellectual property and proprietary trade marks of SCSP Pte. Ltd.

5.2 Absolute Restriction on Use: You are strictly prohibited from using, copying, displaying, reproducing, framing, embedding, or referencing the "Auberique" name, trading style, or any confusingly similar variations or phonetic equivalents in any manner, including:

• In connection with the marketing, offering, or distribution of any corporate service, fund formation, legal structuring, or administrative product;
• As meta-tags, keywords, ad-group triggers, or search engine targeting parameters on any digital platform without our prior written consent;
• In any manner likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistaken affiliation among market participants, or that constitutes common law passing off or trade mark dilution.

5.3 Prohibition on Unauthorised Inbound Linking and Framing: You shall not establish any hyperlink to this Website, frame any portion of this Website, or utilise Auberique's branding on any external platform in a manner that suggests any form of association, approval, regulatory oversight, or endorsement by SCSP Pte. Ltd. where none formally exists. We reserve the absolute right to withdraw linking permission without notice and demand the immediate removal of any unauthorised digital associations.

6. Intellectual Property

6.1 All software code, graphical assets, workflow diagrams, proprietary structuring matrices, documentation templates, brand assets, and written commentary published on the Website are the exclusive intellectual property of SCSP Pte. Ltd. (trading as Auberique) or its licensors, protected under the Copyright Act 2021, the Trade Marks Act 1998, and applicable international conventions.

6.2 No licence, title, or interest in any intellectual property is transferred to you by virtue of your access to the Website. Any commercial exploitation, redistribution, public display, or derivative creation without express written permission from Auberique is strictly prohibited.

7. Interactive Simulators and Third-Party Links

7.1 Any numerical calculators, fee estimators, structuring charts, or interactive tools made available on the Website provide non-binding, illustrative outputs only. Auberique disclaims all liability for commercial decisions, capital deployments, or expenditures made in reliance on such calculations.

7.2 The Website may contain hyperlinks to third-party platforms, statutory registers (including ACRA or MAS), or partner institutions. These links are provided solely for convenience. Auberique exercises no operational control over external websites and accepts no responsibility for their content, reliability, or privacy practices.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Website and all accompanying materials are provided strictly on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Auberique expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and continuous uninterrupted or error-free operation.

9. Limitation of Liability and Evidentiary Estoppel

9.1 Evidentiary Estoppel and Non-Reliance: You acknowledge and agree that you do not access this Website in reliance upon any representation, warranty, collateral contract, workflow diagram, indicative pricing, or statutory interpretation published herein. This provision operates as a binding contractual estoppel under Singapore law: in any subsequent proceeding, arbitration, or commercial negotiation, you shall be legally estopped from asserting that you placed commercial reliance on any statement, diagram, or answer published on the Website prior to the execution of a written Engagement Letter.

9.2 Exclusion of Damages: Under no circumstances shall SCSP Pte. Ltd., Auberique, its associated law firm, directors, officers, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, lost revenue, commercial interruption, loss of business reputation, loss of deal execution opportunities, or loss of data, arising out of or in connection with your access to, or inability to access, this Website.

9.3 Monetary Liability Cap: To the fullest extent permitted under Singapore law, Auberique's aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to your access to the Website, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall be strictly capped at One Hundred Singapore Dollars (SGD 100.00).

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SCSP Pte. Ltd., its directors, officers, employees, and associated entities from and against any claims, regulatory penalties, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and legal expenses arising from your violation of these Terms, unlawful conduct, or infringement of intellectual property or third-party rights.

11. Modifications and Severability

11.1 Auberique reserves the right to amend these Terms at any time by publishing the revised document on the Website. Your continued access to the Website following such revisions constitutes binding acceptance of the modified Terms.

11.2 If any provision of these Terms is determined to be unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable under Singapore law, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to achieve its original intent, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

11.3 Survival: All provisions of these Terms which by their nature should survive the termination of your access to the Website—including, without limitation, intellectual property ownership provisions, trade secret classifications, warranty disclaimers, evidentiary estoppels, indemnities, limitations of liability, and dispute resolution/arbitration agreements—shall survive such termination and remain in full force and effect.

12. Third-Party Rights

A person who is not a party to these Terms shall have no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001 to enforce or enjoy the benefit of any provision herein.

13. Governing Law, Arbitration, and Injunctive Relief

13.1 These Terms, including any non-contractual disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Singapore.

13.2 Any dispute, controversy, difference, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, including the existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach, or termination thereof, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC Rules) for the time being in force, which rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference in this clause.

13.3 The seat of the arbitration shall be Singapore. The tribunal shall consist of one arbitrator nominated by the President of the Court of Arbitration of the SIAC. The language of the arbitration shall be English.

13.4 Preservation Orders and Emergency Injunctions: Notwithstanding Clause 13.2, SCSP Pte. Ltd. reserves the right to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction (including state or federal courts within the United States, the courts of England and Wales, and the courts of the Republic of Singapore) for immediate interim or preliminary injunctive relief, asset preservation orders, emergency search orders, or digital takedown remedies to restrain breach of intellectual property, enforce anti-pretexting covenants, or halt unauthorised computer system intrusion.

13.5 Waiver of Class and Representative Actions: To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you and SCSP Pte. Ltd. agree that any dispute resolution proceedings, whether in arbitration or court, will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, collective, or representative action. You expressly waive any right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration against SCSP Pte. Ltd., its directors, officers, or affiliates.