(Last revised on June 29,2026)
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE, AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT HOW YOU MAY USE THIS WEBSITE
1. The terms on which you may use our Website
1.1 These Terms of Use (together with the other documents referred to below) set out the terms on which you may access and use our website, https://scan2030.hku.hk/ (the “Website”).
1.2 You should read these Terms of Use carefully before using our Website, as by using our Website you are confirming that you accept these Terms of Use and that you will comply with them.
1.3 By accessing or using the Website, you confirm that you understand that the information on the Website: (a) is technical in nature, concerning medical and health economics and outcomes research and health technology assessment; and (b) is intended only for: (i) facilitating research and development in relation to medical and healthcare related policies; and (ii) medical and healthcare researchers, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders, including medical practitioners, pharmacists, and medical and para-medical staff of public and private hospitals or other accredited medical facilities and institutions involved in research relating to medical and health economics and outcomes, health technology assessment and development of medical and healthcare related policies (the “Target Users”). You also confirm that you are a Target User.
1.4 We may deny, suspend, restrict or terminate access to all or any part of the Website at any time if we reasonably believe that you are not a Target User, are using the Website otherwise than for facilitating non-profit research and development in relation to medical and healthcare related policies, or are otherwise in breach of these Terms of Use.
1.5 If you do not accept these Terms of Use you should leave our Website immediately.
1.6 The following policies also apply to your use of our Website:
1.6.1 HKU Privacy Policy Statement: By using our Website you are consenting to us processing any personal data that you provide to us or that we collect from you as a result of your use of our Website. Our privacy policy sets out what we do with that personal data.
1.6.2 HKU Intellectual Property Rights Policy.
1.7 You are responsible for ensuring that anyone else who accesses our Website through your internet connection is aware of these Terms of Use and the policies referred to above and that they comply with them.
2. Changes to these Terms of Use and our other policies
2.1 We may amend these Terms of Use at any time by updating this page. You should therefore check these Terms of Use whenever you return to our Website to see whether any changes have been made, as those changes will be binding on you from the date of posting.
2.2 We may also update, vary, suspend, withdraw or discontinue any part of the Website, and amend any policy referred to in these Terms of Use, at any time and without prior notice.
3. About us
3.1 We, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (“HKU”, “we”, “us” or “our”), operate this Website at https://scan2030.hku.hk/. We are a higher education institution established in Hong Kong under the University of Hong Kong Ordinance (Cap. 1053) of the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”). Our principal office is at The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
3.2 You can contact us:
By email at scan2030@hku.hk.
4. Restrictions on your use of our Website
4.1 You may only use our Website for lawful purposes, in accordance with these Terms of Use, and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation laws relating to intellectual property, data protection, privacy, confidentiality, sanctions and export controls.
4.2 In addition, you must not:
4.2.1 use the Website or any content, data, materials, outputs, features or functionality on it for any commercial purpose, for profit, or in a manner inconsistent with the Website’s stated non-profit research and policy-development purpose;
4.2.2 use our Website to send or transmit, whether directly or indirectly, unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material, chain letters or pyramid selling schemes;
4.2.3 use our Website for mail bombing or flooding or to make deliberate attempts to overload a system;
4.2.4 use our Website to post content or link to content where you know that or ought to have known that the owner of that content has not consented to or authorised that posting or linking or where that posting or linking infringes the rights of that owner;
4.2.5 knowingly or recklessly introduce to our Website, or use our Website to transmit, any application, material or ware (such as viruses, spyware, malware or adware) which are malicious or harmful;
4.2.6 attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server, equipment or network on which our Website is stored, any server, computer or database connected to our Website or any software;
4.2.7 use our Website to attempt to gain unauthorised access to any other Website, internet account, server, computer, equipment, system, network, data or information;
4.2.8 use our Website to monitor data or traffic on any network or system;
4.2.9 use our Website to collect or use information, including without limitation email addresses, screen names or other identifiers, by deceit (such as phishing, internet scamming, password robbery, spearing, scraping and harvesting);
4.2.10 use our Website to distribute software;
4.2.11 copy, scrape, crawl, mine, extract, harvest, index, download in bulk, republish, sell, license, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative databases or datasets from the Website or any content on it, whether manually or by using any robot, spider, bot, script, software or other automated means, except to the limited extent expressly permitted by these Terms of Use or by applicable law that cannot lawfully be excluded;
4.2.12 carry out a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack on our Website or use our Website to carry out any such attack on any other Website;
4.2.13 interfere with, damage, disrupt, impair or compromise the operation, security, integrity or performance of the Website, or probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Website or any related system or network;
4.2.14 use our Website:
4.2.14.1 for any purpose which; or
4.2.14.2 to send, transmit, publish, upload, download, use, store, reproduce or knowingly receive any material that
does not comply with the content standards set out in paragraph 7;
4.2.15 use our Website to groom, harm or take advantage of minors in any way or to attempt to do so; or
4.2.16 use our Website in violation of export laws, controls, regulations or sanction policies of Hong Kong or any other country.
4.3 If you breach any term of these Terms of Use your access to and use of our Website will immediately end. In addition we may take such other actions including, without limitation, legal action as we consider appropriate.
4.4 If you breach any term of these Terms of Use, or if we receive a request from a law enforcement authority to do so, we may report your identity, details of any breach and any other information we consider necessary to relevant law enforcement authorities.
5. Our Website and its content
5.1 Our Website is made available to you free of charge, on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
5.2 We do not guarantee that access to the Website, or any content, feature or functionality on it, will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, compatible with your systems, or free from delay. Your access to the Website is provided on a temporary, revocable and non-exclusive basis only. We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to change, suspend, withdraw, restrict or discontinue all or any part of the Website and/or any content, feature or functionality on it, including by adding, removing or modifying content, materials, tools, datasets or services.
5.3 We regularly review the content on our Website. However, we cannot guarantee that all content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date. We therefore make no warranties, representations, undertakings or guarantees that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date.
5.4 We make no warranties, representations, undertakings or guarantees that our Website or any content on it will be free from errors or omissions.
5.5 The content on our Website is technical in nature, concerning medical and health economics and outcomes research and health technology assessment, and is intended only for: (a) facilitating research and development in relation to medical and healthcare related policies; and (b) Target Users. It is not directed to the general public. Although the information on the Website is provided in good faith, nothing on our Website constitutes medical advice, diagnosis, treatment advice, professional advice, investment advice, legal advice or any other advice on which you should rely, and we make no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability or completeness of any information on the Website. You should obtain appropriate specialist advice before taking, or refraining from taking, any action on the basis of any content on our Website.
5.6 We make no warranties, representations, undertakings or guarantees that our Website is secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for ensuring that the device from which you access our Website has suitable anti-virus software in place.
5.7 Without limiting the foregoing, we do not represent or warrant that the Website or any content on it is appropriate for use by any person, in any jurisdiction, or for any particular purpose, or that any content will satisfy your requirements or achieve any intended result.
6. Interactive features and user-submitted material
6.1 The Website is generally made available on a read-only basis and is not intended to permit users to upload, post or submit content for publication on the Website.
6.2 If we make available any feature that allows you to send materials, enquiries, feedback or other content to us through or in connection with the Website, you must ensure that any such material is lawful, accurate, non-confidential, does not infringe any third-party rights, and complies with any instructions that we specify for that feature.
6.3 If you submit any material to us through or in connection with the Website, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to receive, host, store, reproduce, adapt, modify, analyse, use and otherwise exploit that material for the purposes of operating, administering, securing, improving and promoting the Website and the SCAN2030 project, conducting related research and policy-development activities, and complying with legal or regulatory obligations.
6.4 You will indemnify us for any losses, liabilities, costs, expenses, claims or proceedings that we suffer or incur, or will suffer or incur, as a result of or in connection with any material submitted by you through or in connection with the Website, or any breach by you of your obligations in this paragraph.
6.5 We are not responsible for, and make no warranties, representations, undertakings or guarantees in respect of, any material submitted by you or any other person through or in connection with the Website.
6.6 We reserve the right to remove, ignore, reject or disable access to any material submitted through or in connection with the Website at any time and we are not obliged to provide reason for taking any such action.
7. Content standards
7.1 If you submit any material to us through or in connection with the Website, you should do so only where requested or permitted by us and should consider carefully whether it is appropriate to do so.
7.2 Any material you submit to us through or in connection with the Website must:
7.2.1 comply with all applicable laws;
7.2.2 be accurate (where it states facts); and
7.2.3 be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
7.3 You must not submit to us through or in connection with the Website any material which:
7.3.1 is defamatory, obscene, offensive, indecent, malicious, hateful or inflammatory;
7.3.2 is pornographic or sexually explicit;
7.3.3 exploits minors;
7.3.4 promotes violence or terrorism;
7.3.5 is discriminatory based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, gender, sexual orientation or age;
7.3.6 infringes any copyright, database right, trade mark or other intellectual property right of any other person;
7.3.7 solicits or attempts to solicit passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
7.3.8 is fraudulent or likely to deceive any person;
7.3.9 is made in breach of any legal duty owed to anyone else, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence or is content which is a trade secret where you are not the trade secret holder;
7.3.10 creates a risk to a person’s health or safety or public health or safety;
7.3.11 promotes or constitutes illegal or unlawful activity;
7.3.12 promotes any political activity;
7.3.13 compromises national security;
7.3.14 interferes with an investigation by a law enforcement or regulatory authority;
7.3.15 is threatening or abusive or invades another person’s privacy or causes annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
7.3.16 is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
7.3.17 impersonates any person or misrepresents your identity or affiliation with any person;
7.3.18 gives the impression it comes from us;
7.3.19 constitutes advertising material; or
7.3.20 advocates, promotes or assists any unlawful activity, including but not limited to copyright infringement or computer misuse.
8. Intellectual property rights
8.1 We, or our licensors, own all intellectual property rights in the Website and in all content, software, code, databases, compilations, designs, text, graphics, interfaces, audiovisual materials and other materials made available on or through it, other than content submitted by users or third parties where expressly identified.
8.2 “SCAN2030”, “SCAN-2030” and the associated names, logos, get-up, marks, trade names, brand assets and other indicia used on or in connection with the Website are our trade marks or brand assets (or those of our affiliates or licensors). Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you any right to use them, and you must not copy, reproduce, display, publish, distribute, communicate to the public, adapt, modify, incorporate into other materials or otherwise use any such names, logos, get-up, marks, trade names, brand assets or other indicia without our prior written permission.
8.3 Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, you may access and view the Website and may download or print reasonable extracts of content from the Website solely for your own lawful, internal, non-commercial and non-profit research, educational or policy-development purposes as a Target User. This limited permission is for personal reference only and does not permit any external, public-facing, promotional, publication, presentation, exhibition, event, social media, website, media, press, commercial or other dissemination or exploitation of any content, data, materials, screenshots, outputs, logos, brand assets or other intellectual property from or relating to the Website without our prior written permission.
8.4 Without limiting the foregoing, all databases, datasets, data compilations, data structures, taxonomies, tables, indexes, search results, metadata and other data or database content made available on or through the Website (including the Innovative Medicine Database) are protected by copyright, database rights (where applicable), trade secrets, contractual restrictions and/or other intellectual property or proprietary rights.
8.5 You may not access, use, extract, reuse, reproduce, republish, distribute, communicate, disclose, sell, license, rent, lease, transfer, make available, combine with other materials, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any substantial part of any database, dataset or data compilation made available on or through the Website, whether by manual or automated means, except to the limited extent strictly necessary for your own lawful, internal, non-commercial and non-profit research, educational or policy-development purposes as a Target User and in each case subject to these Terms of Use. For the avoidance of doubt, you must not use, reproduce, publish, disclose, distribute, communicate to the public, make available, display, incorporate or otherwise exploit any database, dataset, data compilation, table, index, search result, metadata, output or other data or database content from the Website in any conference presentation, academic or other publication, website, social media post, exhibition, public event, press or media material, marketing or promotional material, or any other public-facing activity without our prior written permission.
8.6 Without our prior written permission, you must not copy, reproduce, download, capture, screenshot, record, scrape, extract, publish, republish, display, distribute, communicate to the public, make available, adapt, modify, incorporate into other materials, create derivative works from, or otherwise use or exploit any Website content, materials, data, outputs, screenshots, screen captures, visual displays, logos, brand assets, trade marks, trade names, get-up or other intellectual property from or relating to the Website in any conference presentation, academic or other publication, website, social media post, exhibition, public event, press or media material, marketing or promotional material, or any other public-facing activity.
8.7 Without our prior written permission, you must not systematically download, copy, scrape, mirror, cache, harvest or extract data or other content from the Website to create or contribute to any separate database, dataset, repository or information service, whether commercial or non-commercial, or use any such data or content for training, testing, validation or benchmarking any algorithmic, statistical or artificial intelligence model or system.
8.8 Where we expressly permit you to download or use any data or database content from the Website, you must comply with any conditions that we specify, keep all copyright, trade mark, proprietary and source notices intact, must not misrepresent the content, data or its provenance, context or methodology, and must identify the Website as the source in any permitted internal use or other use expressly permitted or approved by us in writing.
8.9 We reserve the right at any time to restrict, suspend, condition or terminate access to any database, dataset or other data made available on or through the Website, and to modify, remove or update any such materials without notice.
8.10 If you use, download, print, reproduce, publish, distribute, communicate, make available, display or otherwise exploit any content, materials, data, database content, screenshots, logos, brand assets or other intellectual property from or relating to our Website in breach of these Terms of Use, your access and use of our Website will immediately end and you must return to us or destroy (at our option) all digital and paper copies of the relevant materials that you have made.
8.11 Nothing in these Terms of Use is intended to restrict any use of the Website or any content on it to the extent that such use is expressly permitted by applicable laws and cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted by contract. However, you remain responsible for ensuring that any such use complies with all applicable laws and does not exceed what is legally permitted.
9. Links from our Website to other websites
9.1 Our Website may contain links to other websites from time to time. These links are provided for your convenience only.
9.2 We have no affiliation with, control over, and no responsibility or liability to you for, those other websites or their content.
10. Links from other websites to our Website
10.1 You may create a link to our Website from another website, but only if you comply with the following conditions:
10.1.1 you may only link to the homepage of our Website. You must not create a link to any other page of our Website, nor frame any page of our Website;
10.1.2 you may only link to our Website from a website which you own and which complies with the standards set out in paragraph 7; and
10.1.3 you must not suggest that we have any association with you or that we approve or endorse your website or any of your contents, products or services unless we expressly agree in writing that you can do so.
10.2 We reserve the right to disable access from any link or require you to remove any link to our Website at any time and without giving you prior notice.
11. Our liability to you
11.1 Nothing in these Terms of Use limits or excludes our liability to you for:
11.1.1 death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
11.1.2 fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
11.1.3 any other matter for which we are not permitted by law to exclude or limit our liability.
11.2 As these Terms of Use govern your access and use of our Website, all warranties, conditions and other terms relating to our Website and/or its content which would otherwise be implied by law (whether by statute, common law or otherwise) are excluded.
11.3 To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable to you for any loss, damage, cost or expense arising out of or in connection with your access to, use of, inability to use, or reliance on the Website or any content on it, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, including any indirect, consequential, special or incidental loss, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of opportunity, loss of anticipated savings, loss or corruption of data, loss of goodwill, or business interruption.
11.4 You acknowledge that you are responsible for your own decisions, acts and omissions in reliance on any part of the Website, and that the Website is not intended to create any advisory, fiduciary, clinical, contractual or professional relationship between you and us.
12. Applicable law and dispute resolution
12.1 These Terms of Use and any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in connection with them (including any question regarding their existence, validity or termination), whether contractual or non-contractual, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong.
12.2 You agree that the courts of Hong Kong shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute, controversy or claim, and you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of those courts.
