1. Introduction
These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity, and Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd., operating under the trade name HillStop. This agreement governs your access to and use of the website located at https://www.hillstop.lol, as well as any associated mobile applications, software platforms, application programming interfaces, tools, and services offered by HillStop in connection with its computer systems design and related services business.
HillStop is a provider of professional services in the field of computer systems design and related services, including systems architecture consulting, cloud infrastructure engineering, systems integration, cybersecurity assessment, data engineering, and technology strategy advisory. Our registered business address is Room 102, Building 2, Rongxingli Lane, Yicheng Road, Yingjiang District, Anqing - 246000, China (CN). Throughout these Terms, references to HillStop, we, us, or our refer collectively to Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd. and its affiliated entities, agents, and representatives.
By accessing, browsing, or using any part of our website or services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service in their entirety. If you do not agree with any provision contained herein, you must immediately cease all use of our website and discontinue any interaction with our services. These Terms apply to all visitors, users, clients, and others who access or use our platform.
2. Acceptance of Terms
Your access to and use of the HillStop website and services is expressly conditioned upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms of Service. These Terms apply to all users of the platform, regardless of the capacity in which you interact with our services, including visitors who simply browse the public content on our website, registered users who have created an account, and clients who have entered into a service agreement with us.
By accessing or using our website in any manner, you represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen years of age and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement. If you are accessing the website or using our services on behalf of a company, organization, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms of Service. In such cases, references to you in these Terms shall also refer to that entity.
We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time in accordance with Section 16 of this document. Your continued use of the website after any modifications to the Terms constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. It is your responsibility to review these Terms periodically for any changes, as they are binding on you. If you do not agree to any modifications, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the website and services.
3. Description of Services
HillStop provides a range of professional services in the computer systems design and related services industry. Our service offerings include, but are not limited to, the following categories: systems architecture design and review, where we analyze technical requirements and produce detailed architectural blueprints for complex software and hardware systems, cloud infrastructure engineering, encompassing the design, deployment, and management of cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure across major public cloud platforms, systems integration, involving the connection of disparate enterprise systems through APIs, message queues, and service bus architectures, cybersecurity engineering, including vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and security architecture design, data engineering, covering data pipeline construction, warehouse design, and analytics platform development, and technology strategy consulting, which includes digital transformation roadmapping, technology stack evaluation, and technical debt assessment.
We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of our services at any time without prior notice. Descriptions of services provided on our website are for informational purposes only and do not constitute a binding offer to provide any particular service. All service engagements are governed by separate written agreements executed between HillStop and the client, which shall take precedence over any general descriptions published on our website.
4. User Obligations
As a user of the HillStop website and services, you agree to comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations governing your use of our platform. You are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account or through your use of our website, and you agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security.
You agree not to misuse our services or help anyone else to do so. This includes refraining from any activity that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of our website or interfere with any other party use of our services. You further agree not to attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of our website, the server on which our website is hosted, or any other systems or networks connected to our website through hacking, password mining, or any other illegitimate means.
You acknowledge that the information and materials provided on our website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, and you agree to verify any critical information with us directly before relying upon it for decision-making purposes. HillStop makes no commitment to update the content on its website, though we strive to maintain accurate and current information to the best of our ability.
5. Account Registration
Certain features and services offered through our platform may require you to create an account by completing a registration form and providing certain personal information. When you register for an account, you agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as prompted by the registration form, and to maintain and promptly update your registration data to keep it accurate, current, and complete.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials, including your username and password. You agree to accept full responsibility for all activities that occur under your account, whether authorized by you or not. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security, you must notify us immediately at info@hillstop.lol. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at our sole discretion if we believe that your account has been compromised, used fraudulently, or is being used in violation of these Terms.
HillStop employs reasonable security measures to protect account information, but we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security measures. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.
6. Intellectual Property Rights
All content, materials, and features available on the HillStop website, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio clips, video clips, data compilations, software code, page layout, design elements, and the overall look and feel of the website, are the exclusive property of Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd., its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by applicable copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws in China and internationally.
The HillStop name, the HillStop logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd. or its affiliates. You may not use such marks without the prior written permission of HillStop. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans appearing on this website are the trademarks of their respective owners, and their use does not imply endorsement of, or affiliation with, HillStop.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use our website for your personal, non-commercial use or for legitimate business evaluation purposes. This license does not include any right to reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our website except as incidental to normal web browsing.
7. User-Generated Content
Our website may allow you to submit, upload, publish, or otherwise transmit content, including but not limited to comments, feedback, suggestions, project specifications, technical documents, and other materials. By submitting any content to or through our website, you grant HillStop a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content in connection with providing our services and operating our business.
You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to the content you submit, that such content is accurate and not misleading, and that the use of such content by HillStop will not violate the rights of any third party, including intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or publicity rights. You further warrant that your content does not contain any viruses, malware, or other harmful code that could damage or interfere with the operation of our systems.
We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor, review, remove, or refuse to post any user-generated content at our sole discretion. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any content posted by you or any third party. The views and opinions expressed in user-generated content do not necessarily reflect the views of HillStop.
8. Prohibited Activities
In using the HillStop website and services, you agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities. This list is illustrative and not exhaustive, and we reserve the right to determine, in our sole discretion, whether any activity constitutes a violation of these Terms.
You may not use our website or services for any unlawful purpose or in furtherance of any illegal activity. You may not transmit any material that is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable. You may not impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity. You may not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the proper working of the website, including but not limited to distributing viruses, worms, Trojan horses, corrupted files, or any other destructive or malicious code.
Additional prohibited activities include: engaging in unauthorized data mining, scraping, or harvesting of any data from our website, using any automated means to access or interact with our systems in a manner that sends more request messages to our servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period, circumventing any technical measures we use to protect our website or services, reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any aspect of our software or platform, and using our services to build a competing product or service or to copy any features, functions, or graphics of our platform.
9. Payment and Fees
Certain services offered by HillStop are subject to fees, which will be outlined in a separate service agreement, statement of work, or proposal document provided to you before the commencement of any paid engagement. All fees and charges are exclusive of applicable taxes, unless otherwise stated, and you are responsible for payment of all taxes, levies, and duties imposed by any governmental authority in connection with the services.
Payment terms, including invoicing schedules, accepted payment methods, and due dates, will be specified in the individual service agreement between HillStop and the client. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, all payments are due within thirty calendar days from the date of the invoice. Late payments may be subject to interest charges at the rate of one and a half percent per month, or the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, whichever is lower.
We reserve the right to change our fees and pricing structure at any time, provided that such changes will not retroactively affect service agreements that are already in effect. Any fee changes for ongoing engagements will take effect at the start of the next billing cycle following notice to you. If you do not agree with a fee change, your sole remedy is to terminate the affected services in accordance with the termination provisions of your service agreement and Section 10 of these Terms.
10. Termination
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the HillStop website and services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. Grounds for termination may include, but are not limited to, breach of any provision of these Terms, conduct that we believe could harm our reputation or business interests, extended periods of account inactivity, or requests from law enforcement or other governmental authorities.
You may terminate your agreement with these Terms at any time by ceasing all use of our website and services and, if applicable, closing any account you hold with us. Termination of your account does not relieve you of any obligation to pay outstanding fees or charges that accrued prior to the effective date of termination.
Upon termination, all rights and licenses granted to you under these Terms shall immediately cease. The provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination shall do so, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, disclaimer of warranties, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, and any other provisions that are necessary to interpret the respective rights and obligations of the parties following termination.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
The HillStop website and all services, content, and materials provided through it are furnished on an as is and as available basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, HillStop, Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd., and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, and licensors expressly disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the website will operate uninterrupted, error-free, or free from viruses or other harmful components, that defects will be corrected, that the website or the server that makes it available is free of viruses or other harmful components, or that the content and information provided on the website is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. We make no representations or warranties regarding the use of, or the results of the use of, the website or services in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise.
No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from HillStop or through our website or services, shall create any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms. You acknowledge and agree that any reliance on the materials and information presented on our website is at your own risk and discretion.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall HillStop, Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd., or its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, successors, or assigns be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, including but not limited to damages for loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of data, loss of goodwill, business interruption, procurement of substitute goods or services, or any other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the website or any services provided by us.
This limitation of liability applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other legal theory, even if HillStop has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose. In jurisdictions that do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Without limiting the foregoing, the total aggregate liability of HillStop to you for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms of Service or your use of the website and services, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, shall not exceed the greater of one hundred United States dollars or the total amount of fees, if any, paid by you to HillStop during the twelve-month period immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
13. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless HillStop, Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd., and its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and contractors from and against any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in any way connected with your access to or use of the website and services, your violation of these Terms of Service, or your infringement of any intellectual property, privacy, or other right of any person or entity.
This indemnification obligation includes, but is not limited to, claims arising from any content or data that you submit, post, transmit, or otherwise make available through our website, your conduct in connection with our services, your violation of any applicable laws or regulations, and your use of any services or products purchased through our platform. HillStop reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you shall cooperate fully with us in asserting any available defenses.
14. Third-Party Links and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, applications, or services that are not owned or controlled by HillStop. These links are provided solely for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by HillStop of the content, products, services, or practices of these third-party platforms. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, terms of service, or practices of any third-party websites or services.
You acknowledge and agree that HillStop is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods, or services available on or through any such third-party websites or services. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that you visit. Your interactions with third-party organizations found on or through our website are solely between you and the third party, and you agree that HillStop shall not be responsible for any loss or claim of any nature whatsoever arising from such interactions.
15. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms of Service and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter, whether of a contractual or non-contractual nature, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the People Republic of China, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law principles that would result in the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, including the breach, termination, or validity thereof, shall first be attempted to be resolved through amicable negotiations between the parties within a period of thirty calendar days. If the dispute cannot be resolved through negotiation, either party may submit the dispute to the competent courts located in Anqing, Anhui Province, China, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all matters arising from these Terms.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, HillStop reserves the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property rights, confidential information, or other proprietary interests. You waive any objection to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.
16. Changes to Terms
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify, amend, or replace these Terms of Service at any time without prior notice. Changes may be made to reflect updates to our business practices, adjustments to comply with new legal or regulatory requirements, or improvements to the clarity and usability of these Terms. When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page.
For material changes that we determine, in our reasonable judgment, to significantly affect your rights or obligations under these Terms, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you through one or more of the following methods: posting a prominent notice on our website, sending an email to the address you have provided to us, displaying a notification within your account dashboard, or other communication channels we deem appropriate for the nature of the change.
Your continued use of the HillStop website and services following the posting of any revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, your sole recourse is to discontinue your use of our website and services. It is advisable to review these Terms periodically to ensure that you understand and agree with the current version.
17. Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law so as to give effect to the original intent of the provision, and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall continue in full force and effect.
The failure of HillStop to enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision. No waiver of any term or condition set forth in these Terms shall be considered a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by an authorized representative of HillStop to be effective. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and HillStop regarding your use of our website and services and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, and representations, whether written or oral, concerning the subject matter hereof.
18. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback regarding these Terms of Service, or if you need to contact us for any reason related to your use of our website or services, we encourage you to reach out through any of the contact channels listed below. We value communication with our users and strive to respond to all inquiries in a timely and professional manner.
Company Name: Anqing Zhicen E-commerce Co., Ltd.
Registered Address: Room 102, Building 2, Rongxingli Lane, Yicheng Road, Yingjiang District, Anqing - 246000, China (CN)
Email Address: info@hillstop.lol
Phone Number: +16616881435
Website: https://www.hillstop.lol
For legal notices, service of process, or formal correspondence, please use the registered address provided above and direct your communication to the attention of the Legal Department. We aim to acknowledge all inquiries within three business days and to provide a substantive response as promptly as circumstances permit. For time-sensitive matters, we recommend contacting us by email for the fastest response.