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This page and all other documents herein referred to define the terms by which you may make use of
this website, whether as a guest or a registered user.
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Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By
using our site, you agree that you accept these terms of use and that you will
to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you are not
authorised to use this site. |
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ACCESSING OUR SITE
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Access to this site is granted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right
to remove or otherwise amend this service without notice. 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,
to users who have registered with us.
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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.
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When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use
policy below. 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.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
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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.
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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 organisation 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.
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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 (we
reserve the right to refuse to license any party) 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.
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RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED |
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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. |
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OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY |
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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. |
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OUR LIABILITY |
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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 third parties connected to us hereby
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All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by
statute, common law or the law of equity. |
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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:
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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; |
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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.
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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. |
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INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE |
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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. |
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UPLOADING MATERIAL TO OUR SITE |
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Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our
site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the
content standards set out in our acceptable use policy below. You warrant that
any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for
any breach of that warranty. |
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Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and
non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to
third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to
disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material
posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their
intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. |
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We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or
accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site. We have
the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our
opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our
acceptable use policy below. |
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VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES |
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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. |
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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. |
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LINKING TO OUR SITE |
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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. |
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Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any
part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw
linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must
comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use
policy below. If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than
that set out above, please
Contact Us
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LINKS FROM OUR SITE |
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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. |
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VARIATIONS |
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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. |
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YOUR CONCERNS |
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If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please
Contact Us
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This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you
may access this 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 terms of website use. |
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PROHIBITED USES |
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You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site: |
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In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or
regulation. |
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In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent
purpose or effect.
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To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which
does not comply with our content standards. |
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To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised
advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation
(spam). |
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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. |
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You also agree: |
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Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in
contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use above. |
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Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt: |
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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. |
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SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION |
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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. |
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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: |
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Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site. |
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Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by
you to our site. |
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Issue of a warning to you. |
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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. |
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Further legal action against you. |
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Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably
feel is necessary. |
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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. |
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CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY |
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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. |