1. Introduction

Welcome to our website. These terms and conditions govern your use of our website and by using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

2. Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

3. License to Use Website

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • (a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
  • (b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  • (c) show any material from the website in public;
  • (d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
  • (e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
  • (f) redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organization.

4. Acceptable Use

You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not 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.

You must not 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.

You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

Restrictions

You are specifically restricted from all of the following:

  • (a) publishing any Website material in any other media;
  • (b) selling, sublicensing, and/or otherwise commercializing any Website material;
  • (c) publicly performing and/or showing any Website material;
  • (d) using this Website in connection with illegal, immoral, or offensive activities;
  • (e) engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting, or any other similar activity in relation to this Website;
  • (f) accessing without authority, interfering with, damaging or disrupting:
  • (g) any part of the Website;
  • (h) any equipment or network on which the Website is stored;
  • (i) any software used in providing the Service; or
  • (j)any equipment, software, or website owned or used by a third party.

Breaches of these Acceptable Use Policies

When we determine a breach of these policies has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with these policies constitutes a material breach of the Terms and Conditions upon which you are permitted to use our website, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

  • (a) immediate, temporary, or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our website;
  • (b) immediate, temporary, or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our website;
  • (c) 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;
  • (d) disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary; and/or
  • (e) any other actions which we reasonably deem to be appropriate.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this Acceptable Use Policy. The responses described in this policy are not exhaustive, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

5. User Content

In these Terms and Conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material, and audio-visual material) that you submit to us, for whatever purpose.

You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant us the right to sublicense these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaints.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, at any time without notice. Notwithstanding this right, we do not undertake to review materials before they are posted on the website.

6. Limited Warranties

We do not warrant or represent:

  • (a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
  • (b) that the material on the website is up to date; or
  • (c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available for use.

We reserve the right to discontinue any aspect of the website at any time. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through our website shall create any warranty not expressly stated in these terms and conditions.

7. Limitations and Exclusions of Liability

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for fraud, death, or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any liability under s2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, or any other liability to the extent that it may not be excluded or limited as a matter of law.

Subject to the foregoing paragraph, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms which may apply to our website or any content on it, whether express or implied.

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 agree not to use our website 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.

8. Third-Party Websites and Resources

Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites that are owned and operated by third parties. We have no control over the contents of those seed references on their privacy policies and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. When accessing a site operated by a third party you will be subject to their terms and conditions of use.

9. Uploading Information to our Website

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload information to our website, or to make contact with other users of our website, you must comply with the content standards set out in clauses 10 and 11 below. You warrant that any such contribution does not infringe any copyright, database right, or trademark of any other person or otherwise violate these Terms and Conditions.

You hereby grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to publish and otherwise use your contribution in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

In relation to all of your user content, you also grant each user of our website a non-exclusive license to access your user content in accordance with these Terms and Conditions and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such user content solely for their personal, non-commercial use.

The accuracy of the information contained within user content is the sole responsibility of each individual user – you acknowledge that all user content will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we shall have no obligations in respect of such user content. We reserve the right to remove or edit all or any part of any user content uploaded by you that we consider, in our absolute discretion, does not comply with these Terms and Conditions.

10. Content Standards

These content standards apply to any and all material that you contribute to our website (“Contribution”), and to any interactive services associated with it.

The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

  • Be accurate (where they state facts).
  • Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  • Comply with applicable law in any country from which they are posted.

11. Prohibited Uses

You may not use our website for any of the following purposes:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect. For example, you may not use our website to commit or facilitate the commission of a crime, such as money laundering or fraud.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards (see clause 10).
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • 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.

You also agree not to access without authority, interfere with, damage, or disrupt:

  • Any part of our website;
  • Any equipment or network on which our Website is stored;
  • Any software used in the provision of our website; or
  • Any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

12. Limitation of Liability

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions will:

  • Limit or exclude our liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
  • Limit or exclude our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • Limit any of our liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
  • Exclude any of our liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law. The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this clause 12 and elsewhere in these Terms and Conditions:
  • Are subject to clauses 12; 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.

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.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us and our officers, directors, employees, and agents fully against all claims arising out of your use of our website and/or breach by you of these Terms and Conditions.

14. Breaches of these Terms and Conditions

Without prejudice to clause 12 (Limitation of liability), if you breach these Terms and Conditions in any way:

  • We may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to our website, prohibiting you from accessing our website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing our website, and/or contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to our website; and
  • We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by such action.

15. Variation

We may vary these Terms and Conditions:

  • From time to time; and
  • Without prior notice to you.

You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to check these Terms and Conditions periodically for any changes. Your continued use of our website after a change has been made is deemed as an acceptance of those changes.

16. Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these Terms and Conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these Terms and Conditions.

17. 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 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.

18. Exclusion of Third-Party Rights

These Terms and Conditions are for the benefit of you and us and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these Terms and Conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

19. Entire Agreement

These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, superseding all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

20. Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions will be governed by law, with the courts having non-exclusive jurisdiction over disputes relating to these Terms and Conditions.

Last updated: June 1st, 2022