Terms and Conditions
Note: These terms and conditions are based on the guidelines at SEQ
Legal LLP (www.seqlegal.com).
1. Introduction
These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website. 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.
2. Copyright notice
2.1 Copyright (c) 2014 Academy Publication.
2.2 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:
(a) view pages from our website;
(b) download pages/files from our website;
(c) print pages from our website;
3.2 You may only use our website for your own personal and education
purposes, and you must not use our website for business purposes.
3.3 Unless you have got our written consent to use the material, you
must not:
(a) republish material from our website (including republication on
another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose.
3.4 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.
3.5 You must not:
(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) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing
activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing,
telemarketing and direct mailing).
4. Registration and accounts
4.1 You may register for an account with our website.
4.2 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any
unauthorised use of your account.
4.3 You must not use any other person's account to access the website,
unless you have that person's express permission to do so.
4.4 If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked
to choose a user name and password.
4.5 Your user name must not be liable to mislead and must comply with
the content rules set out in Section 5; you must not use your account or
user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.
4.6 You must keep your password confidential.
4.7 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any
disclosure of your password.
4.8 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.
4.9 We may:
(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.
4.10 You may cancel your account on our website by yourself.
5. Your content: licence and rules
5.1 In 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.
5.2 You grant to us an exclusive licence to use, reproduce, store,
adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or
future media.
5.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under
Section 5.2.
5.4 Without 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.
5.5 Your 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).
5.6 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with
these terms and conditions, must not:
(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.
6. Limited warranties
6.1 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.
6.2 We 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.
6.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to
Section 7.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to
the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the
use of our website.
7. Limitations and exclusions of liability
7.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
(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.
7.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section
7 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
(a) are subject to Section 7.1; 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.
7.3 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of
any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
7.4 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.
7.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of
any data, database or software.
7.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or
consequential loss or damage.
7.7 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal
liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that
interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you
agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers
or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the
website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit
or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the
acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
8. Breaches of these terms and conditions
8.1 Without 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:
(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 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.
8.2 Where 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).
9. Variation
9.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
9.2 The 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.
10. Assignment
10.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or
otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and
conditions.
10.2 You 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.
11. Severability
11.1 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.
11.2 If 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.
12. Third party rights
12.1 These terms and conditions are for our benefit and your benefit,
and these terms and conditions are not intended to benefit or be
enforceable by any third party.
12.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under these terms and
conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
13. Entire agreement
Subject to Section 7.1, 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.
14. Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with British law.
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