Information about using our website

 Information about using our website

• This website is operated by UKARA Limited registered in England with number 12865652 (‘the Company’). We have our registered office at 20 Eversley Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex TN40 1HE. Our main trading address is 1 Cook’s Road, Stratford, London E15 2PW. We may be contacted at enquiries@ukara.org.

Changes to these terms and our site, and access to our site

• We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time as they are binding on you.
• We may update our site from time to time and change the content at any time. However, please note that any content on our site may expire at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.
• We do not guarantee that our site or any content will be free from errors or omissions.
• We do not guarantee that our site or any content will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware ofthese terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Security

• To ensure that this website remains available to all users, we may monitor network traffic to identify unauthorised attempts to upload or change information, or to otherwise cause damage to the site. Anyone using this site expressly consents to such monitoring.
• Unauthorised attempts to modify, alter, deface, destroy or corrupt any information stored on this site or this system, defeat or circumvent any security features, probe, scan or test for vulnerabilities, breach security or authentication measures, forge TCP/IP headers, install or attempt to install unauthorised software, mount denial-of-service attacks, or utilise this system for other than its intended purposes are expressly prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.
• Any possible criminal activity will be reported, together with any evidence that may be gathered, to the appropriate authorities.
• If you choose or are provided with a user identification code, password or any other piece of 2 information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
• If you know, or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at enquiries@ukara.org.

Copyright

• All content on this site, and all content of any documents provided to visitors or clients (in, for instance, newsletters) is our property, or that of another original copyright holder, unless stated otherwise.
• No user may copy, modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, display, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, except with our express written agreement or that of the original copyright holder. These copyright terms apply to all publications and other products purchased from this site, or acquired in any format by accessing our sites.
• You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content 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 content on our site must always be acknowledged.
• You must not use any part of the content 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.
  

Do not rely on information on this site

• The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
• Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

• Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
• We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content is not approved by us

• This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

How to complain about content uploaded by other users

• If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other users, please contact us on enquiries@ukara.org.

Free services

• The Company provides a number of free services from its site, such as press releases, articles and white papers. There is no contract with the Company for any free service, so no user can become a client by using any free service, and we are not liable to any user in any way resulting from the use of any free service.

Limitation of liability

• Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
• To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
• We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

⇒ use of, or inability to use, our site; or

⇒ use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

• If you are a business user, please note that, in particular, we will not be liable for:

⇒ loss of profits, sales, business or revenue;

⇒ business interruption;

⇒ loss of anticipated savings;

⇒ loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

⇒ any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

• We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programmes, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
• We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
• We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
• You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
• You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that 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.

How we may use your personal information

• We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy policy.

Uploading content to our site

• Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
• You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
• Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us (and other users of our site) a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you licence to us are described in Rights you are giving us to use material you below.
• We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
• We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy .
• You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
• We do not store terrorist content.
  

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

• When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content: (a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media (including to promote the site or the service) (to expire maximum eight years from the date when the user deletes the content from the site));

Rules about 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.
• 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 to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
• Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.
• We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
• The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
• If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact enquiries@ukara.org.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.