terms of use
TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
This page (together with the documents referred to on it)
tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website , whether
as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully
before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you
accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not
agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
By accessing this website, you agree:
- that you will access its contents solely for your own
private use. - to comply with all applicable laws and regulatory
requirements relating to your use of this website. - to comply with all reasonable instructions we give you
relating to this website. - not to use this website to distribute any information
or data in contravention of any regulation or legislation (including, but
not limited to, regulation or legislation governing financial services,
money laundering or anti-terrorism).
You are responsible for all telecommunications charges
relating to your use of this website.
ACCESSING OUR SITE
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right
to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see
below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any
time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our
entire site.
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, and 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
opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of
use.
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, and
that they comply with them.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
We (or our suppliers or third parties who have granted us permission to
reproduce their material on this website) 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 reference and you may draw the attention of others
within your organization to material 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 material
on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes
without obtaining a licence to do so (including payment by you of any relevant
licence fee) 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.
MATERIAL PROVIDED BY YOU
You agree to ensure that all material you send or upload to this website
(including, but not limited to, e-mails, text, graphic files, still or moving
images, or responses to any questionnaire available through this website) (Your Material) is legal, decent and truthful,
complies with all laws and regulations, does not infringe the Intellectual
Property Rights or other rights of us or any third party, is not defamatory,
unreliable or misleading or otherwise objectionable and is free of bugs, worms
or viruses.
You are solely responsible for Your Material. If we consider that any part of
Your Material exposes us to the risk of a claim or complaint by a third party,
we may block access to all or part of this website and remove all or part of
Your Material. You must provide all reasonable assistance in this respect.
You agree not to use this website to advertise or sell any goods or services to
other users of this website.
You agree not to publish any information or personal data relating to a third
party.
·RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to
advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability
and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any
visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
·OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If
the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely.
Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we
are under no obligation to update such material.
OUR LIABILITY
We cannot guarantee that this website will operate in accordance with your
expectations or will be uninterrupted or error free. We are not obliged to
update this website but we may do so from time to time and we reserve the right
to modify, restrict access to or close this website at any time.
From this website you may be able to access websites operated by others. We do
not endorse those other websites nor do we accept responsibility for their
content or for damage or loss you may suffer arising out of accessing those
websites, including, but not limited to, damage or loss arising from your use
of documents or other information found on those websites. We do not monitor or
maintain these links. Please read all copyright and legal notices on each site
before downloading or printing items to ensure that you are permitted to do so
under the third party site’s copyright notices, legal notices or terms of use.
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees,
conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law,
we, other members of our group of companies and all third parties connected to
us hereby expressly exclude:
- All conditions, warranties and other terms which might
otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity. - Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential
loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in
connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our
site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including,
without limitation any liability for: - loss of income or revenue;
- loss of business;
- loss of profits or contracts;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of data;
- loss of goodwill;
- wasted management or office time; and
- for any other loss or damage of any kind, however
arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of
contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition
shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property
or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any
of the categories set out above.
To avoid doubt, we are not liable for any damage or loss that may be caused to
any equipment or software due to any viruses, defects or malfunctions in
connection with accessing or using this website, its contents or Your Material.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from
our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or
misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which
cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
·INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR WEBSITE
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data
provided by you is accurate.
·VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
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 unauthorized 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.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed
denial-of-service attack, viruses 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
material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
·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, but 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 from any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site. We reserve the right to withdraw
linking permission without notice.
·LINKS FROM OUR SITE
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third
parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control
over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for
them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
· COOKIES
Please click here to read our Cookie Policy.
·JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising
from, or related to, a visit to our site.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection
with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual
disputes or claims) shall
be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
If a provision of these Terms of Use or of another section of any legal notices
is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that does
not affect:
- the legality, validity or enforceability in that
jurisdiction of any other provision of these Terms of Use or of another
section of any legal notices; or - the legality, validity or enforceability in other
jurisdictions of that or any other provision of these Terms of Use or of
another section of any legal notices.
Nothing in these Terms of Use is to be taken to constitute a partnership
between you and us, nor constitute either of you or us the agent of the other
for any purpose.
A person who is not a
party to these Terms of Use may not enforce any of the terms under the
Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
A failure by you or us to enforce a provision of these Terms of Use or a breach
of a provision by the other or default by the other in performing a provision
does not constitute a waiver and does not prevent you or us from subsequently
enforcing that provision or from acting on such breach or a subsequent breach
of the provision by the other party or default by the other party in performing
that provision.
·TRADEMARKS
All company, product or service names referenced in this website are used for
identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Our
trademarks may be used only with permission of and having been granted a
license from us.
·VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use 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
made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these
terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published
elsewhere on our site. Any modification or amendment of these terms of use will
be effective upon post on the website.
·CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
Except as expressly provided, any non-personal information or material sent to
us will be deemed not to be confidential. By sending us any non-personal
information or material, you grant us an unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty
free, perpetual license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit
and distribute those materials or information, and you also agree that we are
free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for
any purpose. However, we will not release your name or otherwise publicise the
fact that you submitted materials or other information to us unless: (a) you
grant us permission to do so; (b) we first notify you that the materials or
other information you submit to a particular part of a website will be
published or otherwise used with your name on it; or (c) we are required to do
so by law.
Thank you for visiting our site.