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HIGHAM PRESS – dog.biz
- BROADBENT
Standard Terms & Conditions for dog.biz users
(see also Privacy Policy)
The Website
The dog.biz website is operated by Higham Press Limited, UK
(Registered Number 01109108).
It is set up primarily to be used for dog showing and dog related
matters.
Higham Press Ltd has taken considerable time and effort designing
the functionality of the services available on the web site. Higham
Press:
- makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of
the content or the suitability or reliability of the services;
- is not responsible for the timeliness, deletion or failure
to store any user communications or personalisation and website
customisation settings.
- is not responsible for the timeliness or otherwise of the
content or any services being made available to you
By using the dog.biz website you agree to be bound by the following
terms and conditions.
The terms and conditions may be updated from time to time without
notice so please check back on a regular basis.
The copyright, operation and design of www.dog.biz is owned
by Higham Press Limited.
Your use of the Website
Your use of the Website does not confer on you any access to
the Internet. In order to use the Website, you must obtain your
own access to the Internet, including paying any fees associated
with such access.
You acknowledge that your use of the Website and any content
or services available on or accessible through it is entirely
at your own risk. By providing you with access to content or services
on or through the Website, dog.biz is not advising you in any
way in connection with such content or services. You should always
obtain professional advice before making any decision that may
have legal, medical and financial or other personal implications.
Dog.biz does not specifically recommend or endorse anything
advertised on this website.
Where the Website provides you with access to any discussion
forum or email service, you acknowledge that any material posted
or sent using the Website are the responsibility of the person
from whom that material originated. This means you are solely
responsible for any content you post or send using the Website.
Dog.biz does not exercise any editorial control over any content
posted or sent using the Website, nor does it monitor that content.
Notwithstanding this, dog.biz may, in its sole discretion, remove
any content that you post or send using the Website. You release
dog.biz from any liability arising in connection with material
posted or sent using the Website.
You must not use the Website to transmit or display any content
that:
- is unlawful, misleading, defamatory, obscene, threatening,
offensive, abusive, hateful, objectionable or pornographic;
- harasses or is harmful to another person;
- invades another person’s privacy or amounts to a breach
of confidence; or
- infringes a third party’s rights (including intellectual
property rights).
You must not use the Website to:
- send junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid selling schemes
or other forms of solicitation (except where we expressly permit
you to do so);
- transmit or post any material containing a software virus,
or
- interfere with or negatively affect any other user’s use
of the Website.
You agree to comply with all local rules that may apply to
your use of the Website. In particular, you agree to comply
with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of data from
the
USA, the UK and the country in which you reside.
Registering on the Website
You agree to provide dog.biz with current, accurate and complete
information about yourself when registering for the services
provided on the Website.
You are solely responsible for keeping this Personal Data current
and accurate.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your account designation and password and for all activities
that occur using your account designation and password.
You agree to notify dog.biz immediately if there is any unauthorised
use of your account or password.
You release dog.biz from any liability that may arise in connection
with any use of your account designation and password whether
by you or any third party.
Privacy Policy
See dog.biz Privacy Policy
Third Party Links
The Website provides links to websites operated by third parties.
Dog.biz does not control these websites and accepts no responsibility
whatsoever for the activities or operations of these websites
or the accuracy, copyright, compliance, legality or decency
of any content or services available on these websites.
Warranties and Liability Disclaimer
To the maximum extent permitted by law, dog.biz disclaims all
warranties, express or implied, relating to the content or services
available on or accessible throughout the Website, including
any implied term of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness
for a particular purpose and any term as to the provision of
services to a standard of reasonable care and skill as to non-infringement
of any intellectual property right.
To the maximum extent permitted by law and except of death
or personal injury arising out of dog.biz’s negligence,
dog.biz will not be liable for any loss, damage, cost or expense
of any kind incurred by you arising in connection with your use
of, or inability to use, the Website and you release dog.biz from
all such liability.
Intellectual Property
You acknowledge that intellectual property rights subsist in
the Website (including content and services) and any software
used in connection with the Website. These intellectual property
rights are owned by Higham Press Ltd or third parties, as the
case may be.
You may print or download one copy of the content on the Website
for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not otherwise
use the Website, it’s design or its content or services
in any way without our express permission, or the permission of
the relevant third party.
Except as permitted by law in any applicable jurisdiction,
you must not:
- decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce
to human-readable form any software used in connection with the
Website, nor permit any third party to do so; or
- copy, modify, adapt or create a derivative work based on
any of the software used in connection with the Website.
Termination
Dog.biz may at any time change, delete, suspend or discontinue,
temporarily or permanently, the content or services offered
on the Website and restrict or terminate your access to the
Website, without notice or liability.
Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions are governed by English law and
you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
Standard Terms & Conditions for dog.biz users:
1. Definitions
In this Agreement:
“Account Details” means the user-identity and password
used to login to the Service;
“
Agreement” means the contract between you and us incorporating
these Conditions, the Sign-up Information, Billing Policy, Privacy
Policy and the Price List;
“
Billing Policy” means the Billing Policy published on the
Website;
“
Content” means data, information, video, graphics, sound,
music, photographs, software and any other material (in whatever
form) which may be made available to you as part of the Service;
“
Credit Card” means any of the following payment methods:
Visa, Master Card, Switch, Visa Electron, Solo, JCB and Delta.
“
Internet” means the world-wide data network comprising interconnected
networks;
“
login” means an authentication process that must be passed
using your Account Details prior to accessing the Service;
“
dog.biz”, “we”, “our” means Higham
Press Limited (Registered Number 01109108)
“
us”
“
Personal Information” means your name, address, contact
details, Sign-up Information, résumé content, billing,
transaction.
“
Price List” means the list of charges for the Service published
on the Website;
“
Privacy Policy” means the privacy policy published on the
Website;
“
Sign-up Information” means the information you must provide
before you can access the Website;
“
Service” means the service provided to you by us enabling
you to access the Website including Content and any other services
and applications used by you in connection with the service;
“
Service Period” means the period of 12 months from the commencement
of this Agreement.
‘
Third Party Information’ means any material (in whatever
form) which you enter, upload, or make available on the Website.
“
Webpage” means an individual screen of Content at the Website;
“
Website” means the Content located at www.dog.biz
“
you” means the person we make this Agreement with;
“
your information” means any material (in whatever form)
which you enter, upload, or make available on the Website.
2. Commencement of this Agreement
This Agreement starts on the day when we accept your sign-up
for the Service following completion of the Sign-up Information.
3. Provision of the Service
3.1 We agree to provide you with the Service on the terms and
conditions of this Agreement which constitutes the entire understanding
between you and us with respect to the provision of the Service
and supersedes all prior agreements between you and us.
3.2 You acknowledge that by accepting the terms and conditions
of this Agreement you will be deemed to be consenting to immediate
provision of the Service by us to you. Accordingly, you will have
no right to cancel the provision of the Service under the Consumer
Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
3.3 We will use reasonable offers to make the Service available
twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week, but from
time to time faults may occur which effect the functionality and
availability of the Service. We cannot guarantee that the Service
will never be faulty but we will correct reported faults as soon
as we reasonably can.
3.4 We may temporarily suspend the Service because of an emergency
or for operational reasons, maintenance or improvements.
3.5 We may, from time to time, vary the Service and Content
offered to you without notice.
3.6 We reserve the right to check from time to time the data
entered or uploaded by you, to ensure that the data is not in
breach of this Agreement.
4. Charges
4.1 You agree to pay all charges for the Service as specified
in the Price List.
4.2 You agree to make all payments using a Credit or Debit
Card.
4.3 Unless otherwise specified in the Price List, all charges
are payable in advance. Unless we notify you to the contrary,
liability for charges will start on the day we first make the
Service available to you.
4.4 Unless the Price List specifies otherwise, all charges
for the Service are inclusive of Value Added Tax.
4.5 You authorize WorldPay to charge your Credit Card account
all charges for the Service as specified in the Price List.
4.6 You warrant that you are an authorized user of the Credit
Card you are using to pay for the Service.
5. Security
5.1 In order to access the Service you will create unique Account
Details. You are responsible for the security and proper use
of your Account Details and must take all necessary steps to
ensure the Account Details are kept confidential, secure and
are used properly.
5.2 You must inform us immediately if you have any reason to
believe that your Account Details have become known to someone
not authorized to use them or if the Account Details are being
or are likely to be used in an unauthorized way.
5.3 If we have reason to believe that there is likely to be
a breach of security or a misuse of the Service:
5.3.1 we may change your Account Details and notify you; and
/or
5.3.2 suspend your access to the Service
5.4 You confirm and warrant that all the Sign-up Information
supplied by you when you sign-up on-line for the Service, or amended
by you, is true, complete and accurate in all respects.
5.5 You acknowledge that any instruction given to us or any
action taken by someone other than you who is using your Account
Details will be treated by us as an instruction from you or an
action taken by you.
5.6 Any instruction or instructions sent to us from you by
electronic mail must originate from the e-mail address given by
you in the Sign-up Information or amended by you. Additional proof
of your identity may be required by us (at our discretion) depending
upon the nature of the instruction or instructions being given
by you.
6. Use of Service
6.1 You are the only person authorized to use the Account Details
to gain access and use the Service.
6.2 You must not use the Service:
6.2.1 fraudulently or in connection with a criminal offence;
6.2.2 to store, send, knowingly receive, upload, download,
use or re-use any material which is offensive, abusive, indecent,
defamatory, obscene or menacing, or in breach of copyright, confidence,
privacy or any other rights;
6.2.3 to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
6.2.4 to send SPAM mail. Where Spam mail means an electronic
message to promote directly or indirectly the sale or other distribution
of products or services to the recipient, which is:
6.2.4.1 addressed to a recipient with whom you do not have
an existing personal or business relationship; and
6.2.4.2 not sent at the request or with the express consent
of the recipient.
6.3 If anyone other than you uses the Service with or without
your knowledge or approval in contravention of any of clauses
6.1 and 6.2 we can treat such contravention as a breach of this
Agreement by you for the purpose of clause 8 which shall apply.
6.4 You must tell us immediately if any third party makes or
threatens to make any claim or issue legal proceedings against
you relating to your use of the Service and you will at our request
immediately stop the act or acts complained of. If we ask you
to, you must confirm the details of the claim or claims in writing. 7. Restrictions on use
7.1 The Service is provided solely for your own use. You must
not re-sell or attempt to re-sell the service (or any part or
facility of it) to any third party.
7.2 We may give you instructions about the use of the Service
concerning health and safety, or the quality of the Service to
other customers. Such instructions form part of this Agreement
and you agree to observe them.
7.3 If we detect that your use of the Service:
7.3.1 impairs the integrity of the system and/or the network
used to provide the Service; or
7.3.2 causes detrimental performance of the Service to you
or any other customer
we reserve the right to suspend your access to the Service
(without prejudice to our right to terminate this Agreement under
clause 8.1) until we receive an acceptable assurance from you
that you will not use the Service in such a manner. We will give
you prior notice of such a suspension where practicable.
7.4 Where we provide you with services which involve us providing
storage space on our systems we reserve the right to impose limits
(which we may vary from time to time) on the storage space we
provide to you. We reserve the right to reject material which
exceeds the relevant limit.
7.5 The Content may only be used for your own purposes and
is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property
rights. You must not permit anyone else to copy, store, adapt,
modify, transmit, distribute externally, play or show in public,
broadcast or publish part of the Content.
7.6 We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the
Content and your use of the Content (for whatever purpose) is
at your own risk.
8. If you break this agreement
8.1 We can suspend the provision of the Service to you or end
this Agreement (or both) with immediate effect on giving you
notice if:
8.1.1 you breach any of the terms of this Agreement and (if
such breach is remediable) fail to remedy such breach within seven
(7) days of being asked to do so;
8.1.2 we believe the Service is being used in a manner prohibited
under clauses 6 and 7 even if you are unaware that the Service
is being used in such a way; or
8.1.3 bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings are brought against
you or if you do not make any payment under a judgement of a court
on time, or you make an arrangement with your creditors, or a
receiver of administrator is appointed over any of your assets
or you go into liquidation of if you take or suffer any similar
or analogous action in correspondence of debt in any jurisdiction
in the world.
8.2 If we suspend the Service for breach of this Agreement
by you, we will not restore the Service until we receive an acceptable
assurance from you that there will be no further breach. While
the Service is suspended under this clause you must pay the charges
for the Service until the Agreement is terminated.
8.3 If we end this Agreement under clause 8.1 you must pay
us all the charges which are due for the Service under this Agreement,
including any unpaid charges for the remainder of the service
period.
8.4 We reserve the right not to accept your sign-up to use
the Service or if you are using the Service to end this Agreement
where we reasonably believe that you have previously been in breach
of this Agreement.
8.5 If we fail to exercise or enforce any right conferred upon
us by this Agreement that failure shall not be deemed to be a
waiver of any such right or operate so as to bar the exercise
or enforcement thereof at any time or times thereafter. If we
waive a breach of this Agreement by you, that waiver is limited
to that particular breach.
9. Ending this Agreement after the Service is provided
9.1 At any time after the Service has been provided this Agreement
or the provision of the Service may be ended:
9.1.1 by immediate notice from us to you; or
9.1.2 by you using the Delete My Account feature provided on
the site
You must pay the charges for the Service up to your expiry
date.
9.2 If you give us notice under clause 9.1 any payments you
have already paid in advance for the Service at the time you give
notice to us are not refundable.
9.3 Termination of this Agreement, however caused, shall not
affect any rights or liabilities accrued at the date of termination
nor the continued existence and validity of the rights and obligations
of the parties under those clauses that are expressed or implied
to survive termination.
10. Our Liability
10.1 We accept liability for death or personal injury caused
by our negligence. The limitations in clauses 10.2 and 10.3
do not apply to liability under this clause 10.1.
10.2 We have no liability in contract, tort or otherwise (including
liability for negligence) for any loss, nor any loss (whether
direct or indirect) of business revenue, profit, or savings you
expect to make, wasted expenditure or date being lost or harmed.
10.3 Our liability in contract, tort or otherwise (including
liability for negligence) under or in connection with this Agreement
is limited to the total charge made to you for the provision of
the Service.
10.4 You acknowledge that we have no control over the information
which can be accessed by using the Service and that we do not
examine the use to which you put the Service or the nature of
the information you store, send or upload. We exclude all liability
of any kind for the transmission or reception of such information
of whatever nature.
10.5 We have no liability in contract, tort or otherwise (including
liability for negligence) or otherwise for the acts of omissions
of other providers of telecommunications or Internet services
or for faults in or failures or their networks and equipment.
10.6 We will not be liable if we cannot do what we have promised
in this Agreement because of something beyond our reasonable control
such as but not limited to lightning, flood, or exceptionally
severe weather, fire or explosion, civil disorder, war or military
operations, natural or local emergency, power cuts or network
failure, or anything done by governments or other competent authority
or industrial disputes of any kind (including those involving
our employees).
10.7 All terms, conditions, warranties and representations
expressed or implied, by statute, common law or otherwise in relation
to this Agreement are hereby excluded.
10.8 Each provision of this clause 10 operates separately in
itself independently of the others.
11. Changes to this Agreement
11.1 We may change the terms and conditions of this Agreement
including our charges for the Service at any time. We will give
you a minimum of fourteen (14) days notice of any such change
before it takes effect.
11.2 By using the Service on or after the day the change or
changes to the Agreement come into effect you will be deemed to
be consenting to the change or changes to the Agreement.
12. Assignment
You may not assign, transfer, charge or deal in any other manner
with this Agreement or your rights under this Agreement or any
part of this Agreement, nor purport to do any of the same, nor
subcontract any or all or your obligations under this Agreement.
13. Notices
Any notice required to be given pursuant to this Agreement
shall be given by completing an on-line form or by electronic
mail sent to:
13.1 us at notices@dog.biz
13.2 you at the electronic mail address contained in the Sign-up
Information.
Such notice shall be deemed to have been duly given on the
date of dispatch.
14. General
14.1 In this Agreement a reference to:
14.1.1 persons includes a reference to any body corporate,
unincorporated association or partnership;
14.1.2 a person includes a reference to that person’s legal
representatives, successors and permitted assigns;
14.1.3 a clause is a reference to a clause of this Agreement
14.1.4 an agreement or other documents or Webpage is to that
agreement or document or Webpage as from time to time supplemented
and/or amended; and
14.1.5 a provision of a statute is a reference to that provision
as amended, re-enacted or extended at the relevant time.
14.2 The headings of this Agreement shall not affect the interpretation
of this Agreement.
14.3 Except as expressly stated in this Agreement, the rights
and remedies contained in this Agreement are cumulative and not
exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
15. Third party rights
A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right
under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce
any terms of this Agreement but this does not affect any right
or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart
from that Act.
16. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with English Law. The courts of England shall have exclusive
jurisdiction to hear any claim, controversy or dispute which
may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and, for
such purposes, each party irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction
of the English courts.
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