Terms and Conditions of Website
1. Licence to use the website
Unless otherwise stated, Minerva and/or its licensors own
the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.
Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are
reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages
from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out
below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
2. You must not:
2.1. republish material from this website (including
republication on another website);
2.2. sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
2.3. show any material from the website in public;
2.4. reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website
for a commercial purpose;
2.5. edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
2.6. redistribute material from this website except for content specifically
and expressly made available for redistribution.
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be
redistributed within your organisation.
3. Acceptable use
You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may
cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility
of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or
harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful
purpose or activity. You must not use this 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. You must not conduct any
systematic or automated data collection activities (including without
limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in
relation to this website without Minerva‘s express written consent. You must
not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without Minerva‘s
express written consent.
4. User content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means
material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video
material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for
whatever purpose. You grant to Minerva a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive,
royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and
distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to
Minerva the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action
for infringement of these rights. Your user content must not be illegal or
unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be
capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Minerva or a
third party (in each case under any applicable law). You must not submit any
user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any
threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint. Minerva
reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or
stored on Minerva‘s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding Minerva‘s rights under these terms and conditions in relation
to user content, Minerva does not undertake to monitor the submission of such
content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
5. No warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations
or warranties, express or implied. Minerva makes no representations or
warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials
provided on this website. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
paragraph, Minerva does not warrant that:
5.1. this website will be constantly available, or available
at all; or
5.2. the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or
non-misleading.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any
kind.
6. Limitations of liability
Minerva will not be liable to you (whether under the law of
contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use
of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
6.1. to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct
loss;
6.2. for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
6.3. for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated
savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or
goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if Minerva has been expressly advised
of the potential loss.
7. Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any
warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and
nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Minerva‘s liability in
respect of any:
7.1. death or personal injury caused by Minerva‘s negligence;
7.2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Minerva; or
7.3. matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Minerva to exclude or
limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
8. Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and
limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If
you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
9. Other parties
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, Minerva has
an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.
You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Minerva‘s
officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with
the website. Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the
limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will
protect Minerva‘s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors,
assigns and sub-contractors as well as Minerva.
10. Unenforceable provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found
to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the
enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
11. Indemnity
You hereby indemnify Minerva and undertake to keep Minerva
indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses
(including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Minerva to
a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Minerva‘s
legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Minerva arising out of any breach by
you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim
that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
12. Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to Minerva‘s other rights under these
terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way,
Minerva may take such action as Minerva deems appropriate to deal with the
breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from
accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing
the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they
block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
13. Variation
Minerva may revise these terms and conditions from
time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this
website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on
this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with
the current version.
14. Assignment
Minerva may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with
Minerva‘s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without
notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or
otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and
conditions.
15. Severability
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. If any unlawful and/or
unenforceable provision 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.
16. Entire agreement
These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement
between you and Minerva in relation to your use of this website, and supersede
all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
17. Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed
in accordance with English Law, and any disputes relating to these terms and
conditions will be subject to the [non-]exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of
England & Wales.
18. About these website terms and conditions
These website terms and conditions are based on a
Contractology website terms and conditions available at www.freenetlaw.com.
Premium Contractology forms include data protection statements.
19. Registrations and authorisations
Minerva’s VAT registration number is GB 427 2159 59.
Minerva’s details The full name of Minerva is Humber-Thames Marketing Limited
t/a Minerva. Minerva is registered in England & Wales under registration
number 1803671. Minerva’s registered address is 50 Seymour Street, London, W1H
7JG. You can contact Minerva by email to contactus@minervauk.com.
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