Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement
The use of all websites operated by Woburn Media Ltd (unless explicity stated
on individual sites) shall be governed by the following terms and conditions.
Sites are published and operated by Woburn Media Ltd, 433c Midsummer House,
Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes MK9 3BN.
Access to particular areas of the Website may be subject to additional terms
to which you must consent in order to use those areas.
- BY ENTERING THE WEBSITE
YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS THEN PLEASE
LEAVE THE WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY.
- Links. No metatags hyperlinks or other
forms of linkage whatsoever to any other site may be imposed on the website
without the prior express written consent of the Publisher.
- Viruses.
If you knowingly send or infect the Website with a virus, Trojan horse,
worm, etc then the Publisher retains the right at its sole discretion to
pursue you for all legal fees (including its own and those of any third
party), damages and other expenses that may be incurred by it as a result
of your actions.
- Liability. The Publisher accepts no liability in respect
of the content of any third party material appearing on the Website or
in respect of the content of any other website to which the Website may
be linked from time to time. The Publisher makes no warranty in respect
of the contents of this Website and accepts no liability for any loss or
damage whatsoever and however arising whether directly or indirectly as
a result of access to and use of this Website including without limitation
acting or failing to act in reliance on any information contained herein.
- Indemnity. You understand that you are personally responsible for your
behaviour while on the Website, and agree to indemnify and hold the Publisher,
all other companies within Woburn Media Ltd, their parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees and agents harmless
from and against any loss, damage, liability, cost or expense of any kind
(including legal fees and costs) that they may incur in connection with
a third party claim or otherwise, in relation to your use of the Website,
access to the Website, your violation of either these Terms or the rights
of any third party, disclosure of membership passwords and any other matter
in connection with your participation in the services on the Website.
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Force Majeure. The Publisher does not warrant that functions contained
in the Website content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects
will be corrected, or that the Publisher or the server(s) that makes it
available are free of viruses or bugs.
- UK Law. Save where specifically
indicated otherwise, the Website and its contents are targeted only at
UK residents and goods and services offered are available only to UK residents.
Any legal proceedings arising as a result of content of or use of the Website
shall be subject to the laws of England and Wales.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND
LICENCE
- Ownership. Except in the case of content you create,
the copyright of website contents belongs to the Publisher,
or has been included with the consent of other copyright owners. Reproduction
in any form, printing or downloading of part or all of the contents is
forbidden save in accordance with the licence granted below.
- Licence
to copy for personal use: You may print copies of any item in hard copy
provided that you do not edit alter amend or delete any part of it or combine
it with other material. You may recopy the material to individual third
parties for their personal information only if you acknowledge the Website
as the source of the information by including such acknowledgement and
the address of the Publisher and the Website in the copy of the material
AND you inform the third party that the material may not be copied or reproduced
in any way. You may not supply the material to any third party for commercial
gain.
- No Transmission. No part of the Website or the contents thereof
may be reproduced on or transmitted to or stored in any other web site
or other form of electronic retrieval system.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE
OF ADVERTISEMENTS (WEBSITE AND PUBLICATION)
The Publication and the Website
are produced and published by the Publisher. Orders for insertion of advertisements
in the Publication and/or the Website are accepted subject to the following
conditions. For the avoidance of doubt, in this section the words "published" or "Publication" shall
mean published in any publication and/or on any Website(s) owned and produced
by the Publisher.
- Warranty. The placing of an order constitutes a warranty
from the advertiser and/or advertising agency to the Publisher:
- that
the advertisement is legal, decent, honest and truthful, complying with
the British Codes of Advertising and Sales Promotion, with any relevant
codes of practice and with the requirements of current legislation; and
- that the advertisement is not defamatory and does not infringe the copyright
moral rights or any other rights of any third party.
- Links. No hyperlinks
or metatags may be included in any advertisements save with the express
prior permission of the Publisher.
- Indemnity. The advertiser and/or
advertising agency agrees to indemnify the Publisher in respect of all
costs, claims, damages, or other charges arising directly or indirectly
as a result of the publication of the advertisement(s).
- No Guarantee.
While every endeavour will be made to meet the wishes of advertisers, the
Publisher does not guarantee the publication of any particular advertisement
or its publication on any particular date.
- Errors. It is the responsibility
of the advertiser/advertising agency to check the first appearance of any
series of advertisements and notify the Publisher immediately of any errors.
The Publisher assumes no responsibility for the correction of errors unless
notified by the advertiser. In the event of any error, misprint or omission
in the Publication or the Website of an advertisement or part of an advertisement
(however caused) the Publisher will either re-publish the advertisement
or relevant part of the advertisement as the case may be or make a reasonable
refund of or adjustment to the cost. No re-publication, refund or adjustment
will be made where the error, misprint or omission does not materially
detract from the advertisement.
- Limitation on Liability. In no circumstances
shall the total liability of the Publisher for any error, misprint or
omission exceed: o the amount of a full refund of any price paid to the
Publisher for the advertisement in connection with which liability arose;
or o the cost of a further or corrective advertisement of a type and
standard reasonably comparable to that in connection with which liability
arose.
- Save as
set out above, the Publisher accepts no liability in respect of any loss
or damage occasioned directly or indirectly as a result of publication
of any advertisement or any loss or damage occasioned directly or indirectly
by any total or partial failure (however caused) of publication of any
advertisement or of any title or website in which any advertisement is
scheduled to appear.
- Without prejudice to the foregoing, the Publisher
accepts no liability in respect of any loss or damage alleged to have arisen
through delay in forwarding or omitting to forward replies to box numbers
to the advertiser (however caused). The advertiser hereby authorises the
Publisher to return to its originator or destroy any communication which,
in the reasonable opinion of the Publisher, should not be delivered to
the advertiser.
- Refusals and Amendments. The Publisher reserves the
right to:
- Refuse any advertisement or if already accepted to cancel the
order at any time by giving reasonable notice before the next insertion,
but in that event the advertiser/advertising agency shall not be liable
for payment of the difference (if any) between the rates for the series
specified in the order and the usual price for the series of insertions
which has appeared when the order is stopped; and
- require any alteration
it considers necessary or desirable in any advertisement.
- Cancellation. An advertising agency may cancel any unexpired part of an order without
penalty in the event of the death or failure of its client. Orders cannot
be cancelled once the Publisher has commenced to carry out the order in
accordance with the first publication date requested by the advertiser.
In other cases the Publisher will require four clear working days’ notice
of cancellation of any order or unexpired part of an order, or in the case
of an advertisement which by reason of its position is chargeable at a
premium rate, not less that twenty-eight clear working days’ notice. All
cancellations must be notified in writing. Email notification of cancellation
is not acceptable.
- Copyright. The copyright for all purposes in all
artwork, copy and other material which the Publisher or his employees have
originated, contributed to or reworked shall vest in the Publisher.
- Consents. The placing of an order by an advertiser, or an advertising
agency on behalf of a client, constitutes an assurance that all necessary
authority and consents have been secured in respect of the use in the
advertisement(s) (a) of pictorial or other representations of (or purporting
to be of) living persons, and of references to any words attributed to
living persons and (b) any material the copyright in which vests in a
third party.
- Risk. Any material submitted by the advertiser is held
by the Publisher at the advertiser’s risk and should be insured by the
advertiser against loss or damage from whatever cause. The Publisher
reserves the right to destroy without notice all such property after
the date of its last appearance in an advertisement unless the advertiser
has given instructions to the contrary.
- Rates. The rate payable for
transmission of any advertisement shall be in accordance with the Publisher's
current rates from time to time save as otherwise agreed with the Publisher.
- Payment Terms. Unless credit terms have been agreed,
payment must be received in full no later than 7 days prior to insertion.
Payment may be made by cheque or BACS transfer.
- Disclosure of Identity. The Publisher reserves the right to disclose the name and address of
advertisers and/or agencies to the police, trading standards officials,
or any other relevant authority and, where the Publisher in its sole
discretion deems it reasonable, to other third parties.
- Advertising
Orders. Advertising orders are issued by an advertising agency
as a principal and must be on the agency’s official form. When copy instructions
not constituting an official order are issued, they shall be clearly marked "Copy
instruction - not an order".
- The Newspaper Society. The terms of the Recognition agreement
between the Newspaper Society and the Publisher, or between the Newspaper
Society and the Newspaper Proprietors Association and recognised advertising
agencies are deemed to be incorporated in these conditions of acceptance
of advertisement orders for the publication and transmission of all advertisements
accepted from the recognition advertising agency. Without prejudice to
the generality of these terms, these conditions of acceptance specifically
extend to any personal guarantee given by the Directors or any other
person on behalf of a recognised agency at the time of recognition in
respect of any unsatisfied liabilities of the agency in the event of
the agency’s liquidation or insolvency.
Such guarantee is part of these conditions of acceptance.
- Acceptance.The placing of an order for the insertion of an advertisement shall amount
to an acceptance of the above conditions and any conditions stipulated
on an agency’s or advertiser’s order form or elsewhere by an agency or
an advertiser shall be void insofar as they are in conflict with them.
Privacy Statements
- The Publisher is committed to protecting your privacy. The Publisher
knows that you care how information about you is used and appreciates your
trust in it to do that carefully and sensibly. At times you will be asked
to submit personal information about yourself (name, email address, postcode
etc.). By entering your details in the fields as requested you enable the
Publisher to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide
such personal information, the Publisher will treat that information in
accordance with this notice and policy. All email correspondence includes
instructions on how to ‘unsubscribe’ from
the service to which you have subscribed. Our services are designed to
give you the information that you want to receive not to bombard you with
information you do not want. The Publisher will act in accordance with
current legislation. This notice and policy do not apply to companies that
the Publisher does not own or control.
- Use of Data. The Publisher will
use your personal details and information it obtains from other sources
to provide you with its goods and services, for administration and customer
services, for credit scoring, for marketing, to analyse your purchasing
preferences and to ensure that the content, services and advertising that
it offers are tailored to your needs and interests. The Publisher may keep
your information for a reasonable period for these purposes. The Publisher
may need to share your information with its service providers and with
its agents for these purposes. The Publisher may disclose personal data
in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
- What are Cookies? Cookies are small pieces of information
that a website might store on your computer or access device. They allow
websites to remember who you are. Typically your browser will store each
cookie as a small text file. A cookie will always contain the domain name
of the originating website. For security, only the originating website
has permission to read the cookie.
- How Cookies are Used. When you log
in to the Website the Publisher may set a cookie containing a randomly
generated unique reference number. This anonymous number allows the Publisher
to identify you. The Publisher will never store your personal information
directly as a cookie. By default, user cookies will be session cookies.
Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser.
- Third Party Cookies. Occasionally our advertising partners may also
wish to set cookies.
- Why does the Publisher use Cookies? Cookies allow
the Publisher to see how the Website is being used. This information forms
the basis of future development work, and so enables the Publisher to continually
improve its Website to best suit its users. They also allow the website
to remember you when you log-in.
- Disabling Cookies. Cookies can be easily
deleted or disabled at any time through your browser’s preference menus
so please refer to the instructions for your file management software to
locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Further information on
controlling cookies is available at http://www.aboutcookies.org. Please
be aware that if you do choose to disable cookies you may not be able to
fully access certain areas of the Website
- IP Address. When you visit
our site, we may also log your IP address, a unique identifier for your
computer or other access device.
- Web Beacons. The Publisher may also
includes web beacons (also known as clear GIFs or web bugs) in its emails
to track the success of its marketing campaigns. This means that if you
open an email from the Publisher it can see which pages of the Website
you visit. The Publisher’s
web beacons do not store additional information on your computer, but by
communicating with the cookies on your computer, they can tell the Publisher
when you have opened its email. If you object to web beacons, the Publisher
recommends you follow the instructions for deleting existing cookies and
disabling future cookies in paragraph 8. The Publisher will still know
how many of its e-mails are opened and will automatically receive your
IP address, a unique identifier of your computer and other access device,
but this will not identify you as an individual.
- Credit References. In assessing your application for credit, to prevent fraud, to check your
identity and to prevent money laundering, the Publisher may search the
files of credit reference agencies who will record any credit searches
on your file. This may include using N2Check or an equivalent company.
The Publisher may also disclose details of how you conduct your account
to such agencies. The information will be used by other credit grantors
for making credit decisions about you and the people with whom you are
financially associated, for fraud prevention, money laundering prevention
and occasionally for tracing debtors. Information used for these purposes
will include publicly available information such as electoral roll, county
court judgments, bankruptcy orders or repossessions.
- Credit Reference
Agencies. The Publisher may ask credit reference agencies to provide
a credit scoring computation. Credit scoring uses a number of factors to
work out risks involved in any application. A score is given to each factor
and a total score obtained. Where automatic credit scoring computations
are used, acceptance or rejection of your application will not depend only
on the results of the credit scoring process.
- Sharing Data. The Publisher
may also share your information with its business partners in the travel,
property, automotive, financial services, leisure, entertainment, advertising,
media, retail and mail order business for marketing purposes or it may
send you information about other organisations’ goods and services. The
Publisher or its business partners may contact you by mail, telephone,
fax, e-mail or other electronic messaging service with offers of goods
and services or information that may be of interest to you e.g. holidays,
cars, property, financial and leisure services, entertainment, media products,
advertising, clothing or household goods. By providing the Publisher with
your fax number, land line and/or mobile telephone numbers or email address
you consent to being contacted by these methods for these purposes. If
you do not wish to receive marketing information from the Publisher or
from the Publisher’s business partners tick the appropriate box on the
form you complete.
- Sensitive Personal Data. By providing the Publisher
with your personal information, you consent to it processing your sensitive
personal data, such as health data, for the above purposes.
- Transfer
of Personal Data out of the UK. By providing the Publisher with
your personal information you also consent to the Publisher transferring
your information to countries or jurisdictions which do not provide the
same level of data protection as the UK, if necessary for the above purposes.
If the Publisher does make such a transfer, it will, if appropriate, put
a contract in place to ensure that your information is protected.
- Third
Party Data. If you provide the Publisher with information about another
person, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them, to consent
to the processing of their personal data including sensitive personal data
and that you have informed them of the Publisher’s
identity and the purposes (as set out above) for which their personal data
will be processed.
- Secure Server Software. The Publisher may offer
the use of a secure server when you place orders or access your account
information. SSL (the secure server software) encrypts your information
before it is sent to us. The Publisher also takes appropriate measures
to ensure that the information disclosed is kept secure, accurate and up
to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for
which it is used.
- Links to Third Party Sites. The Publisher links to
a wide variety of other sites and may display advertisements from third
parties on the Website. The Publisher is not responsible for the content
or privacy policies of these sites and third party advertisers, nor for
the way in which information about their users is treated. In particular,
unless expressly stated, the Publisher is not an agent for these sites
or advertisers nor is it authorised to make representations on their behalf.
- Requests. You are entitled to ask for a copy of the
information the Publisher holds about you (for which the Publisher may
charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.
If you wish to exercise your rights to this information please forward
your request, in writing, to Data Protection Officer, Woburn Media Ltd,
433c Midsummer House, Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes MK9 3BN
- Monitoring. For quality control and training purposes, the Publisher may
monitor or record your communications with it.
- Changes in Your Data. If your personal
details change, if you change your mind about any of your marketing preferences
or if you have any queries about how the Publisher uses your information,
please let the Publisher know online where appropriate, or by contacting
its Data Protection Officer Woburn Media Ltd, 433c Midsummer House, Midsummer
Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes MK9 3BN or email
- Changes to this Policy. This data protection notice may change and therefore you
should review it regularly. The Publisher will of course notify you of
any changes where we are required to do so.
Disability Access Statement
The Website has been built in compliance with W3C WAI standard Single A,
to ensure accessibility to all users, irrespective of their physical ability.
Great effort has been employed to ensure old content meets the above standards.
Due to high volumes of content not all old content meets the W3C WAI standards.
The Publisher is dedicated to supporting all users. If you experience any
difficulties using the Website please contact the Publisher at