Website Disclaimer, Privacy Policy and Cookies

Website Disclaimer

  1. Introduction

1.1  This disclaimer shall govern your use of our website.

1.2  By using our website, you accept this disclaimer in full; accordingly, if you disagree with this disclaimer or any part of this disclaimer, you must not use our website.

1.3  Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to this disclaimer, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms set out below.

  1. Credit

2.1  This document is an SEQ Legal document from Website Contracts (http://www.website-contracts.co.uk).

  1. Copyright notice

3.1  Copyright (c) 2017 Marcus Mauger.

3.2  Subject to the express provisions of this disclaimer:

(a)   we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b)   all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

  1. Licence to use website

4.1  You may:

(a)   view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b)   download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; and

(c)   print pages from our website,

subject to the other provisions of this disclaimer.

4.2  Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of this disclaimer, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

4.3  You may only use our website for your own personal use, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

4.4  Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)   republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b)   sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c)   show any material from our website in public;

(d)   exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e)   redistribute material from our website.

4.5  We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

  1. Acceptable use

5.1  You must not:

(a)   use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b)   use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)   use our 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;

  1. Limited warranties

6.1  We do not warrant or represent:

(a)   the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b)   that the material on the website is up to date; or

(c)   that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

6.2  We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in this disclaimer, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

6.3  To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 7.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of this disclaimer, our website and the use of our website.

  1. Limitations and exclusions of liability

7.1  Nothing in this disclaimer will:

(a)   limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)   limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)   limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)   exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

7.2  The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 7 and elsewhere in this disclaimer:

(a)   are subject to Section 7.1; and

(b)   govern all liabilities arising under this disclaimer or relating to the subject matter of this disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in this disclaimer.

  1. Variation

8.1  We may revise this disclaimer from time to time.

8.2  The revised disclaimer shall apply to the use of our website from the time of publication of the revised disclaimer on the website.

  1. Severability

9.1  If a provision of this disclaimer is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

9.2  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of this disclaimer 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.

  1. Law and jurisdiction

10.1  This disclaimer shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

10.2  Any disputes relating to this disclaimer shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

Privacy Policy & Cookies

  1. Introduction

1.1  We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of [our website visitors and service users]; in this policy we explain how we will handle your personal data.

1.2  By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

  1. Credit

2.1  This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (http://www.seqlegal.com).

  1. How we use your personal data

3.1  In this Section 3 we have set out:

(a)   the general categories of personal data that we may process;

(b)   [in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data];

(c)   the purposes for which we may process personal data; and

(d)   the legal bases of the processing.

3.2  We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data“). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

  1. Providing your personal data to others

4.1  We may disclose usage data to our web developer insofar as reasonably necessary for optimisation of the site.

5. Retaining and deleting personal data

5.1  This Section 5 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

5.2  Usage data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

6. Amendments

6.1  We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

6.2  You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

7. Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

(a)   the payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and

(b)   the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

7.2  We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

7.3  You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

7.4  In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

8. About cookies

8.1  A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

8.2  Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

8.3  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

9. Cookies that we use

9.1  We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a)   security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(b)   analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and

(c)   cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

10. Cookies used by our service providers

10.1  Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

10.2  We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

11. Managing cookies

11.1  Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a)   https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b)   https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c)   http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d)   https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e)   https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f)   https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

11.2  Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

Our details

Marcus Mauger

45 Birch Grove
Upper Halliford
Surrey
TW17 8SS

E: info@marcusmauger.co.uk.