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Terms of Website Use

The terms on which you may use www.rossnet.uk. By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms and agree to comply with them.

This terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms on which you may make use of our website www.rossnet.uk ("our site"), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.

Please read these terms carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree, you must not use our site.

www.rossnet.uk is operated by Rossnet Consultancy Limited — a company registered in England and Wales (CRN: 12866659) at 3 Palatine Close, Torquay, TQ1 1RD. www.rossnet.org.uk is operated on behalf of Rossnet Research Centre Limited, a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (CRN: 16814317) at the same address.

1Other applicable terms

These terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

  • Our Privacy Notice (www.rossnet.uk/privacy), which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us.
  • Our Acceptable Use Policy (www.rossnet.uk/use), which sets out the permitted and prohibited uses of our site.
  • Our Cookie Policy (www.rossnet.uk/cookies), which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

2Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time — changes are binding on you.

3Changes to our site

We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at any time. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

4Accessing our site

Our site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our site will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice and will not be liable to you if our site is unavailable at any time.

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. If you choose to access our site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so at your own risk.

5Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and 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 use and may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site. You must not modify any materials you have printed or downloaded, and you must not use any part of our content for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence from us.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

6No reliance on information

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.

7Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these terms 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 which may apply to our site or any content on it. 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 from use of, or inability to use, our site or reliance on any content displayed on it.

If you are a business user, 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 or data due to your use of our site. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site.

8Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site or make contact with other users, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy (www.rossnet.uk/use). You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain ownership rights in your content, but grant us a limited licence to use, store, copy, distribute and make it available to third parties. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party claiming that content you posted violates their intellectual property rights or right to privacy.

9Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology and platform to access our site and should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other malicious material. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any connected server, computer or database. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack. Such a breach would constitute a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and we will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities.

10Linking 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 a way that suggests any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. Our site must not be framed on any other site.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact [email protected].

11Third party links and resources

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.

12Applicable law

These terms, their subject matter and formation, are governed by English law. If you are a consumer, the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction (residents of Northern Ireland and Scotland may also bring proceedings in their respective jurisdictions). If you are a business, we both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

13Contact us

To contact us, please email [email protected] or write to us at 3 Palatine Close, Torquay, TQ1 1RD.