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Website Terms and Conditions

ATTENTION: These Terms and conditions apply to the entire contents of the website accessible at www.gardenforum.co.uk (the “Site”) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you.  Please read these terms carefully before using the Site.  Using the Site indicates that you accept these terms and conditions regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us.  If you do not accept these terms, do not use the Site.  This notice is issued by Gardenforum Limited (Company registration number 3931119) (the “Company”).  The Company controls and operates the Site from the United Kingdom and complies with English law.

Introduction

You may access most areas of the Site without registering your details with us.  Certain areas of the Site are only open to you if you register or subscribe.

By accessing any part of the Site, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full.  If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave the Site immediately.

The Company reserves the right to modify, add to or change these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice.  Any such modifications, additions or changes will be effective immediately on being posted to the Site and continued use of the Site is your acceptance of these.

Licence

You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Site for your own personal use on the following basis:

(a)    no documents or related graphics on the Site are modified in any way;
(b)     no graphics on the Site are used separately from accompanying text;
(c)   the Company’s copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies; and 
(d)    that you do not, sell, rent, lease, license, sublicense, grant any rights in, transfer, distribute, time-share or otherwise assign to any third party any portion of this Site.

You acknowledge that, the copyright, trade marks, service marks, patents, database rights and other intellectual property rights in all material on the Site (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from the Site other than in accordance with paragraph (a)-(d) above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use the Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Site. 

Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved. 

If you breach any of these Terms and Conditions, your authorisation to use the Sites automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.

Service access

While the Company endeavours to ensure that the Site is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company shall not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period. 

Access to the Site may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company’s control. 

Visitor material and conduct

Any material you transmit or post to the Site shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations and accepts no liability with respect to such material and reserves the right to reject the same. The Company and its designees shall be free to alter, copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. 

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Site any material:

(a)    that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
(b)     for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
(c)   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
(d)    which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

You may not misuse the Site (including, without limitation, by hacking). 

The Company shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of  paragraphs (a)-(d).

Privacy

The Company promotes the privacy of personal information and complies with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Links to and from other websites

Links to third party websites on this Site are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Site. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.

If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:

(a)    you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Company logo;
(b)     you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Site;
(c)   you do not in any way imply that the Company is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
(d)    you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;
(e) you do not otherwise use any Company trade marks displayed on this Site without express written permission from the Company;
(f) you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and
(g) your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted above and to take any action it deems appropriate.

You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company or any of its group companies for breach of the above terms.

Registration

Each registration is for a single user only. The Company does not permit you to share your user name and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network. Each registration assigned to an individual e-mail address is for a single user only.

Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you. 

Subscription

The Company reserves the right to introduce a subscription service in the future, whereby you will need to pay a subscription fee for certain services offered via the Site.

In order to receive such services, you will have to open an account via the Site. You will be entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account, including your password, and for any and all activity that occurs under your account.

The subscription fee, as set out on the Site, will be payable by you upon opening of the account. The subscription fee shall be paid in accordance with the methods specified on the Site. Your subscription may be renewed on a yearly basis.

Disclaimer

Whilst every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information on the Site is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on the Site. The Company may make changes to the material on the Site, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Site may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.

The material on the Site is provided on an “as is” basis, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Site on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to the Site. 

Liability

The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Site), and any of the Company’s group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Site, any websites linked to this Site or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Site or your downloading of any material from this Site or any websites linked to this Site. 

Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company’s liability for:

(a)    death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
(b)     fraud; or
(c)   misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or
(d)    any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

If your use of material on this Site results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof. 

Governing law and jurisdiction

This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Issue Date: January 2006

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