Terms of website use
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells
you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website
www.southwestengland.com
(our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read
these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By
using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and
that you agree to abide by them.
Information about us
www.southwestengland.com is
a site operated by South West of England Regional Development
Agency ("We"). Our Corporate Headquarters is Sterling House, Dix's
Field, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1QA.
Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary
basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we
provide on our site without notice (see below). 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.
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.
Intellectual property rights
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.
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.
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 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.
Reliance on information posted
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.
Our site changes regularly
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.
Our liability
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 and third parties
connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms
which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law
of equity;
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:
- 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; 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.
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.
Information about you and your visits to our site
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.
Uploading material to our site
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 this Terms of Website Use document. You warrant that
any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you
indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
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.
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 this Terms of
Website Use.
Submission of material
You are solely responsible for the material
you submit to our site and by submitting any material you agree to
follow the following rules. You may not submit any material
which:
- reveals any confidential or sensitive information;
- breaches any applicable local, national or international law or
regulation in any way;
- contains or links to any unlawful, threatening, abusive,
defamatory or indecent material or material which is deliberately
intended to upset other users or cause annoyance, inconvenience or
needless anxiety;
- contains any material which you do not have permission to use
(including material which may be protected by copyright, trade
marks, database rights or any other form of intellectual property
right);
- contains viruses or any other components with harmful or
contaminating effects on the electronic notice board or any
equipment connected to it; or
- impersonates any living person.
You indemnify us from and against all loss
cost damage or expense suffered by us in respect of claims brought
against us by third parties arising out of your use of and/or
contribution to the our site (other than where we are in breach of
any applicable law where such breach has not been caused by your
use or contribution. For the purpose of this condition the
act of publishing any contribution by you shall be deemed to be
caused by you and not us).
You absolve us from and indemnify us against
all claims made by you or persons acting on your behalf or together
with you in respect of any liability whatsoever arising by reason
of actions taken by us or by our contractors agents or employees in
implementing these Terms of Website Use.
Suspension and termination
We will determine, in our discretion, whether
there has been a breach of these terms through your use of our
site. When a breach of these terms has occurred, we may take
such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with
these terms may result in our taking all or any of the following
actions:
- 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 site;
- issue of a warning to you;
- legal proceedings against you, including 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;
- trace your IP address, contact your service provider and ask
that you are blocked from accessing our site;
disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we
reasonably feel is necessary (e.g under the Computer Misuse Act
1990); and
- any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
Viruses, hacking and other offences
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. 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.
Linking to our site
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.
Our site must not be framed on any other site.
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 these Terms of Website
Use.
If you wish to make any use of material on our
site other than that set out above, please address your request to
enquiries@southwestrda.org.uk.
Links from our site
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.
Jurisdiction and applicable law
The English courts will have exclusive
jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to
our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against
you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or
any other relevant country.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim
arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter
or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall
be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England
and Wales.
Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material which
appears on our site, please contact enquiries@southwestrda.org.uk.
Thank you for visiting our site.