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Last revised: September 2026. These terms bind every visitor and every enquirer who engages the compliance press room.
This document states the terms on which you may use this website and on which SKY VICTORY MANAGEMENT LIMITED offers botanical compliance research, its monograph archives, and its documentation systems. Reading the site in full is a fair step before you send us anything, because these terms form the frame around every service we describe.
When you browse this website, accept an estimate we prepare for you, or instruct us to carry out compliance work, a set of rules comes into force between you and SKY VICTORY MANAGEMENT LIMITED. These terms, together with any written scope we agree and, where relevant, the privacy policy, form that agreement in full.
Nothing on this site is a standing offer to every passer by. Each service is agreed separately. Land on this page, take a quiet read, and you have not agreed to buy anything by the act of reading alone.
We reserve the right to decline an instruction where we think the work sits outside our skill, where a conflict would arise, or where the intended use of a botanical would place us on uneasy ground. A refusal here is a courtesy, not a slight, and it is always explained with the same candour we use for a released monograph.
The services are aimed at businesses and at adults responsible for a retail or wholesale product line. You confirm when you instruct us that you have the authority to bind the entity you represent and that you are able to form a binding contract under the law where you sit.
We do not knowingly serve individuals below the age of majority, and we do not market the compliance press to children. If an engagement is made on behalf of a company, partnership, or trust, the natural person who signs it promises that the organisation itself will stand behind the agreement and its payment terms.
It is your responsibility to make sure the information at the head of an engagement, such as your name, your registered details, and your billing address, is accurate at the start and kept current as the work runs.
We begin by asking what you steward: the botanical name, the region, the intended form, and the certificates or labels you already hold. From that we prepare a short scope, which is not a price list but a plain description of the leaves that will go into the file and the tests that may be needed.
An estimate remains open for a period we state on the quote. We may revise an estimate if the facts change mid exploration, for example when a new sourcing region appears or when a test uncovers a marker no one anticipated. Any revision is shown to you before further fees accrue, and you are never bound to continue on terms you have not seen.
The engagement begins when you accept a written scope, whether by returning our note, by email, or by signing a copy. Until that point we are still two parties talking across the desk, and neither of us owes the other the duties that come only with a live brief.
Fees for commissioned work are stated in the currency agreed on the quote. Payment terms, usually a deposit followed by a final amount on release, are also set out there. We do not begin substantial work until the agreed deposit clears, so the press room and the client start the run on the same footing.
On release we send an invoice with enough detail to satisfy your own records. Payment falls due on the date the invoice shows, and where an invoice is late we may pause new work without affecting the files already delivered.
Quoted amounts relate to the work described in the accepted scope. Travel, rush handling, re-testing caused by a client change, or extra leaves that grow beyond the agreed pages are billed only after we agree them with you, never behind your back in the small print.
The heart of the delivery is the monograph and its companion ledgers. For a commissioned line we produce a folder that reads cleanly: botanical identity, source trail, test results, change record, and approved label wording, each sheet dated and marked by the reviewer who handled it.
We deliver files in the format agreed, typically a portable document the client may print, share, and keep beside the physical batch. The goal is a record that a regulator, an auditor, or a demanding retail buyer can follow without tripping over a missing page.
Where a piece of evidence cannot be found, we say so plainly rather than filling the gap with an assumption. A press room that invents a result to please a client has stopped being useful to that client, and honesty about a gap is part of the value we sell.
Delivery dates in a scope are estimates made in good faith. We do everything reasonable to hit them, but a delay caused by a slow laboratory, a slow supplier, or an event beyond our control does not of itself end the engagement or make us liable for the cost of the delay.
Good records are a partnership. As the client you promise to give us accurate material at intake, to disclose what you know about a source, and to tell us when a formula or a label changes. An archive is only as sturdy as the grain that goes into it.
If you hold back a quality alert, a recall, or a change that affects the batch we are documenting, the record we build may inherit that silence. We therefore ask you to treat the press room as you would want a colleague to treat you: plainly, and without a reserved drawer.
You also agree to review drafts we send and to return comments within the time a scope allows, so that a quiet silence does not hold the file open past its season. Where we wait beyond reason, we may close the draft and note that the client did not reply.
What we prepare is compliance-oriented research and documentation. A monograph record is a careful statement of what we gathered, tested, and arranged, and it is offered as evidence of diligence. It is not legal advice, and it is not a promise that any particular regulator will accept a product.
Opinions in a file are reasoned from the sources cited, not guaranteed outcomes. We aim for the conclusion you would reach with calm eyes and the full record, but we neither hold nor offer the power to bind a government agency or to forecast its every decision.
If your situation needs a formal legal opinion, a notarised statement, or a response to a specific regulator, we will point you to the right kind of adviser rather than stretch our own sheet past its honest edge.
The manuscripts and claims we review describe products that exist for their stated wellness purpose. Nothing in a monograph, a label review, or a line on this website should be read as a diagnosis of a condition, a prescription for a treatment, or a cure for an illness.
We do not advise any person to take or to stop taking any substance for a health reason. Questions of that nature belong with a qualified health practitioner who knows the person behind the query, and we will always say as much rather than guess.
Where a client wishes to make a health-style claim about a product, our label review compares the wording against the evidence on file and against the rules of the target market. A claim that lacks the evidence to stand is corrected before it ships, because a strong label never outran its own monograph.
Ownership of the working record follows a simple rule. The facts you hand to us, such as your batch numbers, your certificates, and your source receipts, remain your information, and we treat it as yours throughout. The press room does not claim ownership of your raw material data.
The skill we bring, meaning the arrangement of the monograph, the framing of the tests, the format of the review, and the wording of the assessment notes, remains our method and our authored work, even while it is woven through your file.
On completion you receive the assembled dossier for your own use. We also retain a working copy in line with the retention practice in the privacy policy, so that the record you rely on still has a caretaker if a question arrives long after the herbs have left your shelves.
We keep confidential the non-public details you share, with the same care a press room gives a not-yet-released specimen. Your source names, your pending formulas, and the inner workings of your products do not travel beyond the people who need them for the engagement.
Confidentiality has a quiet limit. We may disclose what the law obliges us to disclose, what we must share with a processor bound by contract, or what is needed to defend our own rights in a genuine dispute. Outside those narrow cases, your confidence holds.
You agree that nothing we disclose to you about our methods, templates, or review standards is confidential to us in a way that stops you using the finished file for its intended purpose. The record you paid for is yours to use; how we work generally is ours to keep.
We review a label you present, but you remain the maker and the responsible party for the product and for how it is presented in each market. A label review is a check that the words match the evidence, not a guarantee that every agency on earth will clear the panel.
Where your product crosses several borders, it is your duty to tell us which rules apply and where you intend to sell. Different markets write different limits for the same herb, and we review against the standards you name rather than guess at all of them at once.
If a regulator objects to a label after our review, we will reopen the file with you, revisit the evidence, and help you answer plainly. That is the behaviour of a partner in the record, not the defensive shrug of a firm that sold a page and walked away.
You may read this site, follow its links, copy a reasonable amount for your own reference, and send the contact form with genuine enquiries. You may not misuse the site in ways that would trouble a well run press room.
We may suspend access to anyone we reasonably believe is breaking these rules, and we may report genuine wrongdoing to the authorities where the law expects it. Good manners cost nothing, and they keep the shelf pleasant for every visitor who follows you.
The look of this site, its wording, its illustrations of the press bench, and the shape of its service descriptions belong to SKY VICTORY MANAGEMENT LIMITED and, where noted, to the developer SkyVictory. Nothing here hands you a licence to rebuild the site or to pass off its content as your own.
You may keep and use the finished dossier we prepare for you for its intended business purpose. You may not resell our authored material, fold our templates into a rival service, or reuse our written descriptions to present yourself as the same press room.
If you wish to quote or republish a fragment, such as a line for a case study, ask first. More often than not the answer is a willing yes, because a record of good work gains nothing from being hidden, and credit keeps the shelf honest.
General pages of this site describe services and share a little philosophy about botanical documentation. We write them with care, but they are not a tailor-made professional opinion for your particular problem, and they do not guarantee a result for any specific herb.
Standards and pharmacopoeia entries shift with revisions, and the general words on this site may lag behind the latest release. For a decision that matters, ask us to check against the current edition rather than acting on a sentence from a page that may be a season old.
We keep the general content accurate as a matter of pride, yet we do not promise that every general statement is defect free or suitable for a purpose you have not told us. The file we prepare under a commission is the carefully bound record; the public pages are the invitation to begin one.
Where a claim arises from an engagement, our responsibility toward you is limited so that neither side stands under an open sky of liability. To the fullest extent the law permits, our total responsibility for any single engagement is capped at the amount you paid us for that engagement.
We are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of data you held elsewhere, or indirect or consequential harm, even where such loss follows from a gap in a record we prepared. A compliance press records evidence; it does not insure your commercial outcomes.
Nothing in these terms excludes liability that the law does not allow us to exclude, such as responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or for fraud. Where a law closer to home gives you stronger protections, the stronger protection wins.
Either side may end a commissioned engagement on fair written notice once work is reasonably settled and paid for. If you stop the work mid run, you owe the fee for the leaves already pressed and any agreed release portion, so that the effort already spent is not shouldered alone.
We may end an engagement if you fail to pay, if you ask us to document something that crosses an honest line, if you do not provide the material the work needs, or if running the file would place us in conflict or in fear of a legal wrong.
On closure we return your raw material files and hand over the work completed to the point of the stop, each clearly dated. These terms about ownership, confidentiality, and limiting liability survive the end of an engagement and keep their grip on both shelves afterward.
These terms, and any service they govern, are read under the law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, where SKY VICTORY MANAGEMENT LIMITED is registered at Rm 1809 18/F ETON TWR, 8 HYSAN AVE, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (HK).
We would rather settle a difference by conversation than by writ, and we ask the same of you. Before any legal step we will discuss the matter in good faith, because most disagreements in a press room are arguments about gaps, and gaps can be filled together.
If a dispute cannot be resolved by discussion, either side may refer it to the courts of the Hong Kong SAR, which hold exclusive jurisdiction over these terms, subject to any mandatory consumer protections that a law closer to your home would not let us waive.
If a court holds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest remains standing. A single cracked page does not unseat the binding of the whole book, and an unenforceable clause is treated as though it were never written.
Little time gaps in our side do not count as a waiver of a right taken later. We may assign or transfer these terms in the honest course of business, while you may not pass a signed engagement to another party without our written agreement.
These terms, alongside the accepted scope and the privacy policy, form the entire agreement between us about a service, and they replace any earlier conversation, draft, or estimate that does not match them. No silence on our part alters what is written here.
We only learn to serve better when a reader points out where a line reads oddly. A note to the desk about a confusing term is welcomed, read properly, and answered, because a contract and a monograph are alike only in that each improves with a second pair of calm eyes.
Questions about these terms, a worry about a clause, or a request to see the shape of a scope before you decide are all welcome at the contact points below. The desk answers during business hours and replies to written messages within one working day.
Close the loop by writing to us with the word Terms in the subject line if your message concerns this document. A real reviewer will take your point, weigh it against the way the press room actually runs, and either adjust the shelf or explain plainly why the rule stands.
That is the agreement, laid flat like the best of our sheets. It protects you from surprises, protects us from being overreached, and leaves both parties free to do the only thing that matters: press clean, dated, honest records for the botanicals entrusted to our care.