This document forms part of our data protection policies
Terms of website use
These terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tell you the terms on which you may make use of our website (our site). Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, registering or any other interaction that you may have with the site. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using our site. We recommend you print a copy of these terms for future reference. By making use of our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of usage and that you agree to comply with them. These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
Our privacy policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Our acceptable use policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this acceptable use policy.
Our cookie policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site. If you purchase goods from our site, our terms and conditions of supply will apply to the sales.
Variation to these terms We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to take notice of any such changes as they are binding on you.
Changes to site content We may update this site from time to time and may change the content at any time. Please note that any of our site content may be out of date at any time and we are under no obligation to update it. We additionally do not guarantee that our site or any content, will be free from errors or omissions.
Site access Our site is made available free of charge We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them. Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate or available in other locations. We may limit the availability of our site or any service or product described on our site to any person or geographic area at any time. If you choose to access our site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so at your own risk. The rights approved to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions: (a) you shall not sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Site; (b) you shall not change, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Site; (c) you shall not access the Site in order to build a similar or competitive website; and (d) except as expressly stated herein, no part of the Site may be copied, reproduced, distributed,republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means unless otherwise indicated, any future release, update, or other addition to functionality of the Site shall be subject to these Terms. All copyright and other proprietary notices on the Site must be retained on all copies thereof.
Site accounts and passwords If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. If you know or suspect that any persons other than you know your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us.
Intellectual property rights We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
User Content “User Content” means any and all information and content that a user submits to the Site. You are exclusively responsible for your User Content. You bear all risks associated with use of your User Content. You hereby certify that your User Content does not violate our Website Acceptable Use Policy. You may not represent or imply to others that your User Content is in any way provided, sponsored or endorsed by Company. Because you alone are responsible for your User Content, you may expose yourself to liability. We are not obliged to backup any User Content that you post; also, your User Content may be deleted at any time without prior notice to you. You are solely responsible for making your own backup copies of your User Content if you desire. You hereby grant us an irreversible, nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use and exploit your User Content, and to grant sublicenses of the foregoing rights, solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site. You hereby irreversibly waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Content.
Reliance on information The content of this site must be taken as being provided for general information only. It is not intended as advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action based on the content on our site. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.
Limitation of Liability Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied. We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: · Use of, or inability to use, our site; or · Use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site. If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for: · Loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; · Business interruption; · Loss of anticipated savings; · Loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or · Any indirect or consequential loss or damage. If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use.You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Viruses or Malware Although we use our best endeavours to ensure that our site is free from viruses, bugs and malware we do not guarantee that it will be so.You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the computer misuse act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately. You just additionally not use directory traversal or path traversal attacks
Linking to our site You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you. You must not create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. You must not ‘hotlink’ to any content on our site or otherwise frame any content on another site. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy. If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us
Third party links and resources in our site Our site may contain links to third party sites or resources. These are provided for informational purposes only and we have no control over the content of these sites or resources. Furthermore these third party sites or resources are not governed by our site policy documents but will be governed by their own site policies.
Applicable Law If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland. If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any noncontractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
This document forms part of our data protection policies
This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website. This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site. Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement “Our Website Terms of use” document. We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
Prohibited use You agree not to use the Site to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any User Content
That violates any third-party right or any intellectual property or proprietary right;
That is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another's privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
That is harmful to minors in any way
That is in violation of any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party.
In addition, you agree not to:
Upload, transmit, or distribute to or through the Site any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data;
Send through the Site unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or unsolicited messages;
Use the Site to harvest, collect, gather or assemble information or data regarding other users without their consent;
Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on servers or networks connected to the Site, or violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks;
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, whether through password mining or any other means;
Harass or interfere with any other user's use and enjoyment of the Site;
Use software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the Site, or to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to the Site.
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
Any part of our site;
Any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
Any software used in the provision of our site; or
Any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
Interactive Services Where we provide interactive services we will provide clear information to you about the service offered and also whether the service is moderated or not and also the type of moderation (whether this is provided by electronic means or human interaction) We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not. The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them. Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
Content standards These standards apply to any user submitted content to our site and also to any interactive services we may provide on our site.
If you wish to submit user content you agree that
It does not violate any third-party right or any intellectual property or proprietary right;
It is not unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another's privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
It is not harmful to minors in any way
It is not in violation of any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party or in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party whether contractual or a duty of confidence.
It is not likely to deceive any person
It is not likely to promote any activity which is illegal in the United Kingdom or the jurisdiction from where it is submitted.
You must not impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
It must not give the impression that it emanates from us, if this is not the case Additionally you agree that all content you submit to the site
Be accurate (where the content can reasonably be perceived to be stating facts)
Be a genuinely held belief (where they state a contributors opinion)
Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
Suspension and termination We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
Issue of a warning to you.
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Further legal action against you.
Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary. We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.