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Terms and Conditions
IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE
ATTENTION:
These terms and conditions apply to the entire contents of this website
under the domain name www.scottishinnovators.com (the “Website”)
and to any correspondence by e-mail or webmail between us and
you. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before
using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept
these terms and conditions regardless of whether or not you
are registered with us. If you do not accept these terms and
conditions, do not use the Website.
Special words and phrases
1. In these terms and conditions:
“the Club” means the Scottish Innovators’ Network, a Scottish unincorporated
association with an office at 6 The Beaches, Dalgety Bay, KY11 9SN, Scotland
and “we”, “us” and “our” refers to the Club and its members;
“Website Information” means any data, images, text or other material displayed
on the Website; and
“you” means any person who has viewed, downloaded, used or otherwise accessed
the Website and/or Website Information, and “your” refers to you.
Operator of the Website
2. The Website is operated and maintained by us. You can contact us at: Scottish
Innovators’ Network, 6 The Beaches, Dalgety Bay, KY11 9SN, Scotland; Tel: [INSERT
PHONE NO]; Fax: [INSERT FAX NO]; Email: chairman@scottishinnovators.com; secretary@scottishinnovators.com or
treasurer@scottishinnovators.com.
Application of these terms and conditions
3. These are the terms and conditions for the use of the Website. By viewing,
downloading, using or otherwise accessing any part of the Website and/or Website
Information, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions in full
without modification or amendment. These terms and conditions will form a legally
binding contract between you and us. If you do not accept these terms and conditions
in full without modification or amendment, you must leave the Website immediately
and you may not make use of any of the Website Information or services we provide
through it.
4. We reserve the discretion to amend these terms and conditions
from time to time, in each case with effect from the date on which the amendment
is posted on the Website. You should check the Website from time to time to review
the then-current terms and conditions. If you continue to use the Website, you
will be deemed to have accepted the changes to the terms and conditions. Some
of these terms and conditions may be augmented by expressly designated legal
notices or terms posted by us on the Website.
5. You agree that we shall at all
times have the discretion to decide whether or not to grant you access to the
Website. We reserve the right from time to time to alter or limit the categories
of Website Information which you may access and view using the Website. You agree
that we may in our discretion alter, modify, add to or delete any Website Information
from time to time, without having to give you prior notice.
6. Nothing contained
in the Website shall constitute or form an offer or any other part of any contract,
the prices and other information relating to properties featured on the Website
being merely invitations to treat.
Accuracy of Website Information
7. The Website Information is given as general guidance only. The Club exists
to facilitate communication between inventors and innovators and to provide information
on likely sources of further support. However, members and those using any of
the Club’s facilities (including the Website) must apply normal caution and business
practises in respect of any information supplied to them. The Club and its organising
committee are not responsible the outcome of any use of such information. If
in any doubt, we recommend that you take independent advice from a qualified
professional.
8. The Website Information is provided “as is” and we make no representation,
endorsement or warranty as to its accuracy, completeness or fitness for any particular
purpose. We will not be liable for any action taken (or not taken) in reliance
upon the Website Information and such action is taken entirely at your own risk.
We reserve the right to make changes to the Website Information to correct any
errors or omissions (or for other reasons at our discretion) without notice and
without liability to you.
Scottish Innovators’ Forum
9. We do not actively monitor or moderate exchanges between users of the “Scottish
Innovators’ Forum” section of the Website (the “Forum”), nor do we edit or amend
these. Opinions expressed within the Website Information and the Forum in particular
are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent our opinions. In the
unlikely event that you find any inaccurate information on our Website or have
any complaint about what is contained in the Website or in the Forum please e-mail
us at chairman@scottishinnovators.com; secretary@scottishinnovators.com or treasurer@scottishinnovators.com.
We will investigate on receipt and reserve the right to take such action which
we, in our sole discretion, determine as being appropriate having regard to all
the circumstances. This action may include the deletion or removal of any offending
material which we shall be entitled to delete or remove in our discretion.
Your
use of the Website
10. You warrant to us that when using the Website (including
but not limited to the Forum) you will not:-
• copy, alter or delete any of its content except to the extent permitted by
these terms and conditions;
• introduce any computer viruses, macro viruses, trojan horses, worms or anything
else designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures
of a computer or to surreptitiously intercept, access without authority or expropriate
any system, data or personal information;
• disclose to any other person any confidential or proprietary or personal
information obtained from the Website unless required to do so by law or with
our prior consent; or
• cause the Website to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or
such that the effectiveness or functionality of the Website is in any way impaired.
Copyright, trade marks and your licence to use the Website
11. The Website Information, images, graphics, text, software, applets and scripts
operating the Website are either owned by us, or used by us with the permission
of their respective owners or as permitted by law. Where practicable, we acknowledge
the owners of all trade marks which are referred to in the Website. Reference
to a trade mark owned by a third party does not constitute any claim by us to
own that trade mark or that we have rights in it.
12. You may view, print and
download our Website Information in a web browser for your own personal use only.
Copying Website Information into a computer cache or storage device for private
on or off-line browsing purposes is also permitted, as is caching of the Website
by an information service provider in the normal course of its business to the
extent permitted by the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.
You may not publish, make a copy of, incorporate into any other web site, or
electronic information storage or retrieval system or reproduce the Website Information
or any part of it for any purpose other than your own personal use without our
prior written consent, which may be granted at our discretion. Where we do not
own the copyright or other intellectual property rights in the Website Information,
you must approach the owner(s) for such consent. Nothing in these terms and conditions
or on the Website constitutes a licence to use or copy the Website Information
except as expressly provided for in these terms and conditions.
13. You may not
use any material, electronic method or any type of process which collects, disseminates,
removes or scrapes information or material from the Website for commercial purposes
including without limitation screen aggregators, robots, spiders and scrapers
or any other automated means. If you breach any of the terms in these terms and
conditions, your permission to use the Website automatically terminates and you
must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Website.
14. Any rights not expressly granted in these terms and conditions are reserved
to us.
15. In the event you obtain access to details of another user of the
Website, you may only use such information in accordance with all prevailing
data protection and privacy laws. Such information must not be used for spam
or unsolicited commercial communications.
16. You are prohibited from posting
or transmitting to or from the Website any material (including but not limited
to doing so by way of your contributions to the Forum):
• that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive,
pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial or religious hatred, discriminatory,
menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in
breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
• for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals;
or
• 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
• which is technically harmful or causes the Website to be technically interrupted
or rendered less efficient or such that the effectiveness or functionality of
the website is in any way impaired (including, without limitation, computer viruses,
logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other
malicious software or harmful data, robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated
means to access the Website without our express written permission).
If we conclude
you have breached this condition, we may terminate your access and use of the
Website at any time without notice and/or may terminate or limit your rights
to access, use or contribute to the Forum. In any case we may remove any material
posted or transmitted to or from the Website in breach of this condition.
Privacy,
cookies and data protection
17. Please see our privacy policy for full details
of the information we collect from you as part of your use of the Website. By
accepting these terms and conditions, you also agree to accept the terms of our
privacy policy.
Links to and from other websites
18. Links to third party websites
on the Website (including but not limited to advertisements) are provided solely
for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave the Website. We have
not reviewed these third party websites and do not control and are not responsible
for these third party websites or their content or availability. We therefore
do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found
there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. Unless otherwise
expressly stated on the Website, we do not endorse or recommend any products,
services or events referred to in any advertisement. If you decide to access
any third party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own
risk.
19. If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so if you
first obtain our express permission. Please e-mail us at chairman@scottishinnovators.com;
secretary@scottishinnovators.com or treasurer@scottishinnovators.com
stating the URL details to which you wish to link and the URL of the page on
which you will be displaying the link. We may in our discretion refuse consent,
or grant consent subject to conditions.
20. We expressly reserve the right to
revoke at any time any permission granted to link to the Website, and to take
any consequent action we deem appropriate. You agree to indemnify us for any
loss, injury, damage, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from your
failure to adhere strictly to the terms of any permission granted to link to
the Website.
Internet Service Interruption, Viruses etc.
21. We have no control over the Internet, which is a global public network of
computers and the method by which you access the Website. As a consequence we
take no responsibility for service interruption or the transmission of viruses
or other malicious computer code through the Website.
22. We will require to
carry out routine maintenance on our servers and equipment. While we seek to
keep disruption to a minimum, we do not guarantee that any part of the Website
will be available for access at any particular time or times. Access to the Website
may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure,
maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control.
Our liability to you
23. Nothing in this Agreement shall limit or exclude our liability for fraudulent
misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence
or the negligence of our agents or employees. Subject to the foregoing, we will
not be liable for any economic losses (including, without limitation, loss of
revenues, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings), any loss of goodwill
or reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential damages (however arising,
including negligence) arising out of or in connection with your use of our Website
or your use of the Forum. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of incidental
or consequential damages, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. To the
fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability to you in contract,
delict or negligence (other than negligence by us which gives rise to personal
injury or death.)
24. We also exclude liability of any sort (including liability
for negligence) for the acts or omissions of providers of telecommunications
services through which you might access the Website or for faults in or failures
of their networks and equipment. Your liability to us
25. By using the Website and/or Website Information, you undertake to fully indemnify
us (and keep us fully indemnified) in respect of all liabilities, losses, costs,
damages, expenses or other claims suffered or incurred by us which arise from
your use of the Website and/or Website Information, or arising from your breach
of any of these terms and conditions.
General conditions
26. If we fail to exercise or delay in exercising any right or remedy provided
under these terms and conditions or by law, that will not constitute a waiver
of our rights or remedy nor shall it prevent us from exercising that right or
remedy in whole or in part in the future.
27. Unless specifically provided otherwise,
our rights arising under these terms and conditions are cumulative and do not
exclude our rights provided by law.
28. These terms and conditions and the documents
referred to in it are between and for the benefit of you and us (and our successors
and assignees) and are not intended to benefit or be enforceable by anyone else.
29. If any provision of these terms and conditions (or part of a paragraph or
provision) is found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, the other provisions shall remain in
force.
30. If any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provisions would be valid,
enforceable or legal if some part of them or it were deleted, the provision shall
apply with whatever modification is necessary to give effect to the original
intention of these terms and conditions.
31. Where any indemnity, or any exclusion or limitation of liability, is expressed
in these terms and conditions to be in favour of the Club, it shall be deemed
also to be in favour of each of the office-bearers, organising committee and
members of the Club.
32. References to any statute or statutory provision in
these terms and conditions shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed
as a reference to that statute or statutory provision as from time to time amended,
consolidated, modified, extended, re-enacted or replaced.
33. In these terms
and conditions, references to one gender include the other genders, and to the
singular include the plural and vice versa.
34. Headings will not affect the
interpretation of these terms and conditions.
35. These terms and conditions
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Scots law. Disputes arising
in connection with these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Scottish courts.
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