We give you access to our website so that you can access our products, services and do business with us. This use is personal to you. You must not use, provide access to, or permit others to use it commercially, or via any other organisation providing a service to the public.
As per the above, access to our website may be withdrawn, restricted, or amended from time to time without notice to you. By using our website you confirm and agree you will not use it:
- 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;
- in any way that causes or may cause an infringement of the rights of a third party;
- to transmit, post or send any obscene, defamatory or otherwise harmful content or material;
- for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
- to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which we have not requested, or that does not meet the requirements we set out.
- to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam), any screen scraping or automated algorithms;
- 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; and/or
- to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorised access to any of our networks, accounts or information we hold about others.
You also agree:
- not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our website in contravention of the provisions of our terms and conditions;
- not to disclose confidential information of any person unless authorised in writing to do so, including our confidential information;
- 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.
Any material contributed to our site and any interactive services we provide including any social media services linked to us must comply with the following standards. You must comply with the letter and the spirit of the following standards. These standards apply to each party 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 the UK and in any country from which they are posted;
Contributions must not:
- contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
- contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
- promote sexually explicit material;
- promote violence;
- promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
- infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
- be likely to deceive any person;
- be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
- promote any illegal activity;
- be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
- be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
- be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
- give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case;
- advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
We will determine in our discretion whether you have breached these terms and when a breach has occurred we may take such action as we deem appropriate. This may include, but not be limited to:
- immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site;
- immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our website or other interactive services;
- issue a warning to you;
- 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;
- further legal action against you;
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
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.