TERMS OF WEBSITE USE




ATTENTION: These terms, together with any documents referred to herein, apply to the entire contents of this website under the domain name www.softwarescience.co.uk (Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. www.softwarescience.co.uk is operated by Software Science (UK) Limited (Company). The Company is registered in England and Wales under company number 2941093 and have its registered office at Churchstyle, Stockland, Honiton EX14 9BR. Our VAT number is 634 5551 39. Please read these terms carefully before using the Website.

1. Introduction

1.1 You may access most areas of this Website without registering your details with us. Certain areas of this Website may only open to you if you register.

Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis and the Company reserves the right to withdraw or amend the service provided on the Website without notice.

1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted these terms. If you do not accept these terms, you must leave this Website immediately.

1.3 The Company may revise these terms at any time by updating the posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the current terms, because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these terms may be superseded by expressly designated terms located on particular pages at this Website.

2. Service access

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

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

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

3.1 Unless otherwise expressly stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all materials on this Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. For the purposes of these terms, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 3.2 below for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of these terms, without prejudice to our other rights at law or in equity your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

3.2 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:

(a) no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;

(b) no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and

(c) you comply at all times with the Company′s copyright, trade mark and other intellectual property notices and these terms.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way from the Website and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. The Company′s status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on the Website must always be acknowledged.

3.3 Subject to paragraph 3.2, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company′s prior written permission.

3.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

4.Visitor material and conduct

4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is governed by the Company′s Privacy Policy http://www.softwarescience.co.uk/privacypolicy.html, any material you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees shall be free to 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.

4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website 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).

4.3 You must not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).

4.4 You must not attack the Website via a denial of service attack or a distributed denial of service attack.

4.5 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 paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.

5. Links to and from other websites

5.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Company has not reviewed such 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 Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

5.2 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′s logo;

(b) you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;

(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 of the Company′s trade marks displayed on this Website 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.

5.3 The Company, without prejudice to its other rights and remedies, expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 above for breach of any these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.

5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company for breach of these terms.

6. Registration

6.1 In the event you are required to register to access the Website or any part of it, 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.

6.2 Responsibility for the security of any user names and passwords issued rests with you and you must treat such information as confidential. We have the right to disable any user names or passwords, whether chosen by you or allocated by the Company, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any provisions of these terms.

7. Disclaimer

7.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The Company may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material. Materials posted on the Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.

7.2 The material on this Website is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Website 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 these terms might have effect in relation to this Website.

8. Liability

8.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of it, 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 any way or in connection with:

(a) this Website;

(b) the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website;

(c) any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites;

(d) your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website; or

(e) viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website.

8.2 Nothing in these terms 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.

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

9. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.