Terms and Conditions of Use
1.Introduction
- 1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our
website.
- 1.2 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.
- 1.3 If you register with our website, we will ask you to expressly
agree to these terms and conditions.
- 1.4 You must be at least 13 years of age to use our website; by using
our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at
least 13 years of age.
- 1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to
these
terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy policy.
2.Copyright notice
- 2.1 Copyright © 2011 DigiBright Ltd.
- 2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and
conditions:
- (a) 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
- (b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our
website and the material on our website are reserved.
3.Licence to use website
- 3.1 You may:
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- (a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
- (b) download pages from our website for caching in a web
browser;
- (c) print pages from our website;
- (d) stream audio and video files from our website; and
- (e) use our website services by means of a web browser
- subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
- 3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other
provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save
any such material to your computer.
- 3.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business
purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.
- 3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you
must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
- 3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material,
you
must not:
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- (a) republish material from our website (including republication
on
another website);
- (b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
- (c) show any material from our website in public;
- (d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose;
or
- (e) redistribute material from our website.
- 3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter
in
print and electronic form to any person.
- 3.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website,
or
indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to
circumvent
or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
4.Acceptable use
- 4.1 You must not:
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- (a) 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 or accessibility
of
the website;
- (b) 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;
- (c) 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;
- (d) 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;
- (e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any
robot,
spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
- (f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our
website; or
- (g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing
activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct
mailing).
- 4.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact
individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
- 4.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through
our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and
non-misleading.
5.Affiliate links
- 5.1 Our website includes links to third party merchant websites
supplying goods and/or services.
- 5.2 DigiBright Ltd is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates
Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn
advertising
fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk.
- 5.3 We may earn affiliate fees from a merchant if you click on that
merchant's link on our website and subsequently make a purchase on the merchant's website.
- 5.4 You acknowledge that:
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- (a) we do not vet third party merchants;
- (b) we do not check, audit, monitor or control: the identity,
credit worthiness or bona fides of third party merchants; the security of third party merchant
websites; or the accuracy of the information published on third party merchant websites;
- (c) we are not party to any contract for the sale or purchase of
goods or services entered into between you and a third party merchant; and
- (d) our website contains information supplied by third party
merchants, and we do not check, audit or monitor the accuracy of that information,
- and accordingly we will not be liable to you in relation to any loss or damage arising out of any
use of a third party merchant website, any information supplied by a third party merchant, any offer
made by a third party merchant, or any contract with a third party merchant.
- 5.5 We are not responsible for the enforcement of any obligations
arising out of a contract between you and any third party, and we will have no obligation to mediate
between the parties to any such contract.
- 5.6 The provisions of this Section 5 are subject to Section
15.1.
6.Registration and accounts
- 6.1 To be eligible for an account on our website under this Section
6,
you must be at least 13 years of age.
- 6.2 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.
- 6.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access
the website.
- 6.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of
any unauthorised use of your account.
- 6.5 You must not use any other person's account to access the
website,
unless you have that person's express permission to do so.
7.User login details
- 7.1 If you register for an account with our website, you will be
asked
to choose a display name and password.
- 7.2 Your display name must not be liable to mislead and must comply
with the content rules set out in Section 12; you must not use your account or display name for or in
connection with the impersonation of any person.
- 7.3 You must keep your password confidential.
- 7.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of
any disclosure of your password.
- 7.5 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.
8.Cancellation and suspension
of account
- 8.1 We may:
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- (a) suspend your account;
- (b) cancel your account; and/or
- (c) edit your account details,
- at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.
9.Social networking
- 9.1 Registered users will have access to such additional features on
our website as we may from time to time determine, which may include:
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- (a) facilities to complete a detailed personal profile on the
website and to publish that profile on the website;
- (b) the facility to post and publish text and media on the
website.
- 9.2 You acknowledge that we cannot be held responsible for the
behaviour of our users, either on or off the website, and we cannot guarantee that any information
provided by a user is true, accurate, complete, current and not misleading; and subject to Section
15.1
you will not hold us liable in respect of any loss or damage arising out of any user behaviour or user
information.
- 9.3 You agree to the publication of posts relating to you, by others,
on our website; you acknowledge that such posts may be critical or defamatory or otherwise unlawful;
and, subject to Section 15.1, you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such posts,
irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such posts.
10.Personal profiles
- 10.1 All information that you supply as part of a personal profile on
the website must be true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
- 10.2 You must keep your personal profile on our website up to
date.
- 10.3 Personal profile information must also comply with the
provisions
of Section 4 and Section 12.
11.Your content:
licence
- 11.1In 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.
- 11.2You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive,
royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content
in
any existing or future media.
- 11.3You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed
under
Section 11.2.
- 11.4You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of
the rights licensed under Section 11.2.
- 11.5You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the
maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights
in
your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
- 11.6You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the
editing
functionality made available on our website.
- 11.7Without 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.
12.Your content: rules
- 12.1You warrant and represent that your content will comply with
these
terms and conditions.
- 12.2Your 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).
- 12.3Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance
with
these terms and conditions, must not:
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- (a)be libellous or maliciously false;
- (b)be obscene or indecent;
- (c)infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade
mark
right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
- (d)infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right
under data protection legislation;
- (e)constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent
statement;
- (f)constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for
the
commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
- (g)be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court
order;
- (h)be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination
legislation;
- (i)be blasphemous;
- (j)be in breach of official secrets legislation;
- (k)be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any
person;
- (l)depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous
manner;
- (m)be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
- (n)be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
- (o)consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other
information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or
any
other loss or damage;
- (p)constitute spam;
- (q)be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive,
harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
- (r)cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any
person.
- 12.4Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord
with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.
- 12.5You must not use our website to promote or link to any website or
web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the
provisions of these terms and conditions.
- 12.6You must not submit to our website any material that is or has
ever
been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
13.Report abuse
- 13.1If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website,
or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.
14.Limited warranties
- 14.1We 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.
- 14.2We 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.
- 14.3To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to
Section 15.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these
terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
15.Limitations and exclusions of liability
- 15.1Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
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- (a)limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury
resulting from negligence;
- (b)limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent
misrepresentation;
- (c)limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under
applicable law; or
- (d)exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under
applicable law.
- 15.2The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this
Section
15 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
-
- (a)are subject to Section 15.1; and
- (b)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.
- 15.3To 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.
- 15.4We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out
of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
- 15.5We 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.
- 15.6We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption
of any data, database or software.
- 15.7We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect
or
consequential loss or damage.
16.Indemnity
- 16.1You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified,
against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation
legal
expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or
suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our website or any breach by you
of
any provision of these terms and conditions.
17.Breaches of these terms and
conditions
- 17.1Without 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:
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- (a)send you one or more formal warnings;
- (b)temporarily suspend your access to our website;
- (c)permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
- (d)block computers using your IP address from accessing our
website;
- (e)contact any or all of your internet service providers and
request that they block your access to our website;
- (f)commence legal action against you, whether for breach of
contract or otherwise; and/or
- (g)suspend or delete your account on our website.
- 17.2Where 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).
18.Third party websites
- 18.1Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and
operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
- 18.2We have no control over third party websites and their contents,
and subject to Section 15.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may
arise from your use of them.
19.Trade marks
- 19.1Our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks
are
trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may
constitute an infringement of our rights..
- 19.2The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or
service
marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these
terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such
rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.
20.Competitions
- 20.1From time to time we may run competitions, free prize draws
and/or
other promotions on our website.
- 20.2Competitions will be subject to separate terms and conditions
(which we will make available to you as appropriate).
21.Variation
- 21.1We may revise these terms and conditions from time to
time.
- 21.2The 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.
22.Assignment
- 22.1You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or
otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
- 22.2You 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.
23.Severability
- 23.1If 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.
- 23.2If 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.
24.Third party rights
- 24.1A 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.
- 24.2The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these
terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
25.Entire agreement
- 25.1Subject to Section 15.1, these terms and conditions, together
with
our privacy policy, 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.
26.Law and
jurisdiction
- 26.1These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with English law.
- 26.2Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be
subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
27.Statutory and regulatory
disclosures
- 27.1We subscribe to the Data Protection Act 1998, which can be
consulted electronically at https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act
28.Our details
- 28.1This website is owned and operated by DigiBright Ltd.
- 28.2You can contact us at [email protected]