Terms and conditions of use
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Introduction
- These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.
- By
using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full;
accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part
of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website or any services provided within.
- If
you register with our website, submit any material to our website or
use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to
these terms and conditions.
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Copyright notice
- Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
- we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and
other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on
our website; and
- all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material
on our website are reserved.
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Permission to use website
- You may:
- view pages from our website in a web browser;
- download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
- print
pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use,
providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;
- stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and
- use our website services by means of a web browser,
subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
- Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you
must not:
- republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
- sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
- show any material from our website in public;
- exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
- redistribute material from our website.
- We
reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to
areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may,
for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or
when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or
attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the
website.
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Misuse of website
- You must not:
- use
our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause,
damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability,
accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
- use our
website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or
in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose
or activity;
- hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
- probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
- circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our
website;
- use
our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or
distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware,
computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other
malicious computer software;
- impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage
capacity and processing capacity);
- decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
- conduct
any systematic or automated data collection activities (including
without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data
harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written
consent;
- access or otherwise interact with our website using
any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of
search engine indexing;
- use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
- violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
- use
data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity
(including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing,
telemarketing and direct mailing); or
- do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
- You must not use data collected from our website to contact
individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
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Registration and accounts
- You
may register for an account with our website by completing and
submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on
the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.
- You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the
website.
- You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any
unauthorised use of your account.
- You must not use any other person's account to access the website,
unless you have that person's express permission to do so.
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User login details
- If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to
choose a user ID and password.
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user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content
rules set out in Section 9; you must not use your account or user ID
for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.
- You must keep your password confidential.
- You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any
disclosure of your password.
- You
are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any
failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for
any losses arising out of such a failure.
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Cancellation and suspension of account
- We may:
- suspend your account; and/or
- cancel your account,
at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.
- We will usually cancel an account if it remains unused for a
continuous period of 36 months.
- You may cancel your account on our website using your account's
settings panel on the website.
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Our rights to use your content
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these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and
materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio
material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and
files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication
on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.
- You
grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free
licence to reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish
your content on and in relation to this website.
- You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under
Section 8.2.
- You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the
rights licensed under Section 8.2.
- You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing
functionality made available on our website.
- Without
prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you
breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we
reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in
any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
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Rules about your content
- You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these
terms and conditions.
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content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's
legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action
against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any
applicable law).
- Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with
these terms and conditions, must not:
- be libellous or maliciously false;
- infringe
any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design
right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;
- infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection
legislation;
- depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
- constitute spam;
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Limited warranties
- We do not warrant or represent:
- the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
- that the material on the website is up to date;
- that the website will operate without fault; or
- that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
- We
reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website
services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole
discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent
expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not
be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the
discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop
publishing the website.
- To the maximum
extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 11.1, we
exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject
matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our
website.
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Limitations and exclusions of liability
- Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
- limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
- limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
- limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
- exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
- The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 11
and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
- are subject to Section 11.1; and
- govern
all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to
the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities
arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of
statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in
these terms and conditions.
- To
the extent that our website and the information and services on our
website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss
or damage of any nature.
- We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of
any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
- We
will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including
(without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use,
production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial
opportunities or goodwill.
- We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of
any data, database or software.
- We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or
consequential loss or damage.
- You
accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of
our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you
acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you
will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in
respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or
these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude
the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and
omissions of our officers and employees).
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Breaches of these terms and conditions
- Without
prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you
breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably
suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we
may:
- send you one or more formal warnings;
- temporarily suspend your access to our website;
- permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
- block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
- contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your
access to our website;
- commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
- suspend or delete your account on our website.
- Where
we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of
our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension
or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating
and/or using a different account).
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Variation
- We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
- The
revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from
the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the
website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be
notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.
- If
you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we
will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and
conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised
terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will
disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using
the website.
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Assignment
- You
hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise
deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and
conditions.
- You may not without our
prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal
with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and
conditions.
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Severability
- If
a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or
other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the
other provisions will continue in effect.
- If
any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and
conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted,
that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision
will continue in effect.
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Third party rights
- A
contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your
benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third
party.
- The exercise of the parties'
rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject
to the consent of any third party.
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Entire agreement
- Subject
to Section 11.1, these terms and conditions shall constitute the entire
agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and
shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation
to your use of our website.
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Law and jurisdiction
- These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with English law.
- Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject
to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
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Our details
- You can contact us:
- using our website contact form; or
- by email, using the email address published on our website.