Legal Notice for speakerstrust.org
IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE
Attention: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name speakerstrust.org (“Web Site”) and to any correspondence by e-mail between you and us. Please read these terms carefully before using this Web Site. Using this Web Site indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Web Site. This notice is issued by Speakers Trust Limited (“the Company”).
1. Introduction
1.1 By accessing any part of this Web Site, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Web Site immediately.
1.2 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Web Site from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Web Site.
2. Licence
2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Web Site on the following basis:
2.1.1 no documents or related graphics on this Web Site are modified in anyway;
2.1.2 the Company’s copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.
2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Web Site are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Web Site other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Web Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Web Site.
2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Web Site may be reproduced or stored in any other Web Site or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company’s prior written permission.
2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.
3. Service Access
3.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that this Web Site is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company will not be liable if for any reason this Web Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 Access to this Web Site may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company’s control.
4. Visitor Material and Conduct
4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this Web Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company will have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Web Site any material:
4.2.1 that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
4.2.2 for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals;
4.2.3 which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
4.2.4 which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
4.3 You may not misuse the Web Site (including, without limitation, by hacking).
4.4 The Company will fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraphs 4.2 or4.3.
5. Links to and from other Web Sites
5.1 Links to third party Web Sites on this Web Site are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Web Site. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party Web Sites and does not control and is not responsible for these Web Sites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party Web Sites linked to this Web Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
5.2 If you would like to link to this Web Site, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Web Site, and subject to the following conditions:
5.2.1 you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Speakers Trust Limited logo;
5.2.2 you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Web Site;
5.2.3 you do not in any way imply that the Company is endorsing any products or services;
5.2.4 you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;
5.2.5 you do not otherwise use any of the Company’s trademarks displayed on this Web Site without express written permission from the Company;
5.2.6 you do not link from a Web Site that is not owned by you; and
5.2.7 your Web Site does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
5.3 The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.
5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company for breach of paragraph 5.2.
6. Disclaimer
6.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on this Web Site is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Web Site. The Company may make changes to the material on this Web Site, or to the products described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Web Site may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.
6.2 The material on this Web Site is provided “as is” without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Web Site on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Web Site.
6.3 Users of this Web Site are to decide themselves whether or not the persons and services shown are adequate for their purposes. The persons and services publicised on this Web Site have not been verified by the Company and users accept all risk associated with the hiring of any such persons or services.
7. Liability
7.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Web Site), and the officers, directors, employees, or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third-party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages) arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with this Web Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Web Site, any Web Sites linked to this Web Site or the material on such Web Sites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Web Site or your downloading of any material from this Web Site or any Web Sites linked to this Web Site. Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company’s liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); (ii) fraud; (iii) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or (iv) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
7.2 If your use of material on this Web Site results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
8. Internet Purchases
8.1 Where services are purchased by credit card through the speakerstrust.org website the following additional terms apply:
8.2 UK Customers Only: Under the terms of The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, consumers have a “cooling off” period of 7 working days from the date that the order is placed in which they may cancel orders placed by distance contract. However, this right to cancel does not apply where service provision begins before the end of the cooling off period.
8.3 In the event that the Company is to refund full or partial payments, refunds will be made by the same means in which the original order was placed. Customers who paid by credit or debit card will be refunded directly to their credit or debit cards. Customers who paid by cheque will be refunded by cheque. All refunds will be made within 30 days of agreement to make a refund.
8.4 The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 do not apply to business-to-business transactions, nor to transactions with businesses or consumers outside the UK.
9. Governing law and jurisdiction
9.1 This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.