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The following terms and conditions are for your use of any awards website (THE SITE) for an awards competition and ceremony organized by Haymarket Events (THE ORGANISERS) a division of Haymarket Business Media Limited (THE COMPANY):
You may access THE SITE in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web, PDA, mobile phone and RSS feeds. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access THE SITE, on whatever device.
By using THE SITE you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.
1. Permitted Use
Subject to what is said below, material from THE SITE may be downloaded, viewed, listened-to, printed, copied on the hard disk of your computer (but not photocopied) and used for: your own personal, non-commercial purposes; internal business purposes; or the non-commercial purpose of using THE SITE as a personal information resource in good faith ONLY. Single copies of pages from THE SITE may be printed out for the sole purposes of enabling the person printing the page to retain a copy for their own personal records. Any other type of use (and, in particular, any copying or distribution of material from THE SITE for any commercial or business purpose) requires the prior written agreement of THE ORGANISERS.
1.1 You agree that you will not use THE SITE: for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect; in any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of THE SITE by any person; which will compromise the privacy or data protection rights of any person; for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation; for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes material downloaded from THE SITE; to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from THE SITE to any third party; or in any way that might bring THE ORGANISERS, THE COMPANY or any of their related companies, brands or employees into disrepute.
2. Registration
This Clause 2 shall apply where you register with THE ORGANISERS for use of THE SITE.
2.1 You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as requested by THE ORGANISERS in the registration form. You agree to maintain and promptly update the Information on the registration form to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. You agree to keep any password for your access to THE SITE confidential and agree not to permit anyone else to have access to it. Furthermore you agree to be fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password.
2.2 You agree to immediately notify THE ORGANISERS of any unauthorised use of your password.
3. Removal of material and cancellation of access to THE SITE
3.1 THE ORGANISERS shall have the right to cancel your registration and/or refuse you access to the THE SITE at any time and for any reason without giving you any advance notice and THE ORGANISERS shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever (other than losses or damages for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of THE ORGANISERS, THE COMPANY or their employees) arising from your inability to access any of the pages on THE SITE.
3.2 THE ORGANISERS shall have the right at any time and for any reason to remove from the pages on THE SITE any material posted, uploaded, emailed or otherwise transmitted by you without giving you any advance notice and THE ORGANISERS shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever (other than losses or damages for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of THE ORGANISERS, the site owner or its employees) arising from the removal of such material.
3.3 THE ORGANISERS will not view or edit or pre-screen any contribution that you or anyone else make to the interactive pages of THE SITE and therefore, unless THE ORGANISERS are specifically notified of the nature of any item of content, you cannot assume that they are responsible for having made it available on THE SITE. THE ORGANISERS shall have the right (but not the obligation) to refuse or remove any content that is posted to, or made available on, the forums or the website without the need to give any reasons for doing so.
3.4 If you object to the publication of any material placed on THE SITE please let THE ORGANISERS know by calling +44 (0) 8267 4433 or by sending an appropriately worded letter addressed to the Awards Director, Haymarket Events, 174 Hammersmith Road, London W6 7JP UK and they will take whatever action they deem appropriate.
4. Rights Clearances
The copyright, and other rights, in some of the material appearing on THE SITE may belong to a third party. It is your responsibility to obtain any licences or permissions that may be required to use such material and you agree to pay any costs or expenses incurred by THE ORGANISERS that arise as a result of your failure to obtain such licences and permissions.
5. Submitting Content
We accept no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy. If you want to submit material to THE ORGANISERS for publication on THE SITE, you may do so on the following terms and conditions:
5.1 THE ORGANISERS may publish and make available to the public by any means any material that you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to them or to THE SITE at their sole discretion and they shall be entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication.
5.2 You warrant to THE ORGANISERS that any material you submit to THE SITE is your own original work or is work that you or your company have commissioned and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights.
5.3 You warrant that the material you submit and the language that you use is not obscene, abusive, hateful, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal.
5.4 You agree not to post material that is deliberately intended to upset other users, to breach confidence, to compromise privacy or to process personal data in an unauthorised manner.
5.5 You agree not to post material that may encourage criminal conduct or which may give rise to civil liability, or which is otherwise unlawful.
5.6 You agree not to place any links on THE SITE where those links take users to unlawful material or material that contravenes these terms.
5.7 You agree that, except where expressly permitted by THE ORGANISERS, you will agree not to place on THE SITE advertisements nor make commercial solicitations nor use THE SITE for any commercial purposes (which would include using THE SITE to promote or encourage the sale of your goods/services).
5.8 You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause THE ORGANISERS damage or loss and you agree to indemnify THE ORGANISERS in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.
5.9 THE ORGANISERS reserve the right to remove your access to individual services completely if THE ORGANISERS believe that you are abusing the services in any way.
6. Liability
6.1 Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information provided by THE ORGANISERS and its employees in these pages, the contents of THE SITE reflect the opinions of the writers, they do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of THE ORGANISERS or any of its brands, they are personal to the writer and are naturally subject to change from time to time. It is the responsibility of users to check the accuracy of relevant facts and take appropriate professional advice before entering into any commitment based upon them.
6.2 THE ORGANISERS cannot guarantee that your use of THE SITE will be free from error and/or uninterrupted. THE ORGANISERS and THE COMPANY, their directors, their employees and their representatives exclude, in so far as it is legally possible, all liability and responsibility for any damages (other than liability for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of THE ORGANISERS, THE COMPANY or their officers) including, but not limited to, indirect or consequential damages, damages for loss of opportunity or chance, or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of, or in connection with, any information on THE SITE or any other Internet sites or the use thereof.
6.3 Some of the pages on THE SITE include material posted by third parties. THE ORGANISERS accept no responsibility for the content of material posted by third parties, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.
6.4 On some of the pages of THE SITE users may be given the opportunity of entering into agreements with third parties. THE ORGANISERS are not a party to those agreements, do not act as an agent for those third parties (who, in turn, do not act as agents for THE ORGANISERS) and THE ORGANISERS are not liable in relation to, and take no responsibility for, any contract entered into by users with any third party.
7. Links
7.1 Some of the pages on THE SITE include links to external websites. These links are included to give users the opportunity to access other pages that it is felt may be of assistance to them. THE ORGANISERS are not responsible for the content of these Internet sites.
8. Viruses
8.1 Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the pages of THE SITE are free from viruses, THE ORGANISERS give no warranties that they are indeed free from viruses and users are responsible for ensuring that they have installed adequate virus checking software.
8.2 THE ORGANISERS exclude, in so far as it is legally possible, all liability and responsibility (other than liability for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of THE ORGANISERS or its officers) for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material transmitted with or as part of:
1. the pages on THE SITE or any other Internet sites; or
2. any material downloaded from THE SITE or any other Internet sites.
9. Intellectual Property
The names, images and logos identifying THE ORGANISERS or third parties and their products and services, are the proprietary marks of THE ORGANISERS, and/or may be the proprietary marks of third parties. Any use made of these marks may be an infringement of rights in those marks and THE ORGANISERS reserves all rights to enforce such rights that it might have.
10. Variations
These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use THE SITE after any variation has been posted.
11. Severability
If any of these terms and conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the terms and conditions and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
12. Jurisdiction
12.1 Every endeavour has been made to ensure THE SITE is suitable for users world wide but THE ORGANISERS cannot guarantee its content may be appropriate or lawful outside the United Kingdom. Users from outside the UK should therefore verify for themselves whether or not it is appropriate for them to access THE SITE
12.2 The terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising from matters relating to THE SITE shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
13. THE COMPANY
Haymarket Business Media Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under number 1468220 whose registered office is at 174 Hammersmith Road, London W6 7JP UK.
14. Privacy and Data Protection
THE ORGANISERS are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy sets out the basis on which your personal data will be processed by THE ORGANISERS as the data controller of your personal data for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act"). Please read the following carefully to understand THE ORGANISERS. views and practices regarding your personal data and treatment of such data..
14.1 Information THE ORGANISERS may collect from you
THE ORGANISERS may collect and process the following data about you:
1. Information that you provide by filling in forms on the site. This includes information provided at the time of registration or at the time of posting material or requesting further services. THE ORGANISERS may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by THE ORGANISERS or when you report a problem with the site.
2. If you contact THE ORGANISERS, they may keep a record of that correspondence.
3. THE ORGANISERS may also ask you to complete surveys that they use for research purposes although you do not have to respond to them.
4. Details of your visits to the site and the resources that you access.
14.2 IP Addresses and Cookies
THE ORGANISERS may collect information about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration and to report aggregate information to advertisers. These are data about users' browsing actions and patterns and do not identify any individual. For the same reason THE ORGANISERS may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help to improve THE SITE and to deliver a better and more personalised service. Cookies and the information contained in your IP address enable THE ORGANISERS:
1. to estimate audience size and usage pattern;
2. to store information about your preferences and to customise THE SITE according to your individual interests;
3. to speed up your searches;
4. to recognise you when you return to THE SITE.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser, which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of THE SITE. If you want to find out more about how to disable cookies please see this external third party website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/ Please note that advertisers on THE SITE may also use cookies over which we have no control.
14.3 Transfer of Personal Data Outside the EU
The data collected from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area where the laws on data protection are not necessarily as strong as they are within the EU. By submitting your personal data you agree to this transfer. THE ORGANISERS will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
14.4 Risks Involved in Transmitting Personal Data Over the Internet
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. So, whilst THE ORGANISERS will do their best to protect your personal data, they cannot ensure the security of data transmitted by you to THE SITE. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once THE ORGANISERS have received your information security procedures and features will be employed to prevent unauthorised access to it.
14.5 Uses made of the information
THE ORGANISERS may use information held about you in the following ways:
1. to ensure that the content of THE SITE is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
2. to provide you with information, products or services that you request from THE ORGANISERS or which they feel may interestyou;
3. to allow you to participate in interactive features of THE SITE where you choose to do so;
4. to notify you about changes to THE SITE.
THE ORGANISERS may disclose your personal information to any member of THE COMPANY which means subsidiaries, any ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries as defined in section 736 of the Company Act 1985.
THE ORGANISERS may disclose your personal information to third parties:
1. in the event that THE COMPANY offers to sell any assets in which case they may disclose your personal data to the potential purchaser of such assets;
2. if substantially all of THE COMPANY’S assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by THE COMPANY about customers will be transferred to such third party;
3. if required to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply these Terms and Conditions or any other agreement; or protect the rights, property, or safety of THE ORGANISERS or THE COMPANY, customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for protection against credit risk and fraud. THE ORGANISERS and THE COMPANY may also use your data or permit selected third parties to use your data to provide you with information about goods and services, which may be of interest to you unless you have notified THE ORGANISERS that you do not wish to receive such information. THE ORGANISERS do not disclose individual information to advertisers, but may provide them with aggregate information about users. THE ORGANISERS may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. THE ORGANISERS would comply with advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience using the personal data have collected from you and from others.
14.5 Your Rights
You have the right to request THE ORGANISERS not to disclose any of your personal data or information or to pass information to third parties. THE ORGANISERS will usually inform you before collecting your data, if they intend to disclose your information to any third party and you can exercise that right by checking certain boxes on the forms used to collect your data. You can also notify THE ORGANISERS by contacting them using the unsubscribe feature on THE SITE.
14.6 External Links
The site may from time to time contain links to and from partner and/or affiliate websites. If you follow a link to their sites, please note that these sites have their own privacy policy and that THE ORGANISERS do not accept any responsibility or liability for protection of personal data which you may submit to a third party's site. You are recommended to check the wording of the relevant privacy policies before you submit any personal data to those sites.
14.7 Access to information
The Act gives you various rights including the right to access information held about you. Questions about this privacy policy can be addressed to THE ORGANISERS at THE COMPANY.S registered address
15. Accessibility
THE ORGANISERS aim to provide advertising, marketing, media and PR information that is accessible to all user groups. The following features aim to enhance navigation for screen reader users, keyboard navigation and users of text-only browsers.
15.1 Structured, semantic markup
This site's markup (HTML) is semantically correct, using HTML elements for their given purpose. Well-structured HTML has semantic meaning for a wide range of user agents (browsers without style sheets, text browsers, PDAs, search engines etc.)
15.2 Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes.
15.3 Font sizes
You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser: In Safari, select View, then Make Text Bigger/Smaller. In Firefox select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size. In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.
15.4 Style sheets
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the use of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.
15.5 Forms
All forms follow a logical Tab sequence.
16. Content of All Advertisements
16.1 All advertisements must comply with the following terms and conditions:
1. You warrant to THE ORGANISERS that any advertisement are your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights;
2. You warrant that any advertisement that you submit and the language that you use in it is not obscene, abusive, hateful, obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of THE SITE by any person;
3. You agree not to post any advertisement which is deliberately intended to upset other users, to breach confidence, to compromise privacy or to process personal data in an unauthorised manner;
4. You agree not to post any advertisement which may encourage criminal conduct or which may give rise to civil liability, or which is otherwise unlawful;
5. You agree not to place within any advertisement any links where those links take users to unlawful material or material that contravenes these terms;
6. You agree not to post any advertisement that contravenes the relevant codes of conduct imposed by the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK and any other relevant standards authority in other countries or territories;
7. You agree not to post, upload or otherwise transmit any advertisement which:
1. infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;
2. will compromise the privacy or data protection rights of any person; or
3. may bring THE ORGANISERS into disrepute.
8. You agree not to use the Service for:
1. the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", "affiliate schemes", or any other so called "business opportunity" or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;
2. for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
16.2 You acknowledge that any breach of the terms/warranties given above may cause THE ORGANISERS damage or loss and you agree to indemnify THE ORGANISERS in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage that it incurs as a result of publishing material that you submit to it, including consequential losses.
16.3 THE ORGANISERS may publish and make available to the public by any means any advertisement that you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to it at their sole discretion and they shall be entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication.
16.4 If your advertisement links to another website via THE ORGANISERS. external apply online option or otherwise, you are responsible for maintaining the links and for the content of your advertisement and the linked website. THE ORGANISERS may remove from THE SITE any advertisement which contains content or links to a website which, in THE ORGANISERS' opinion, is defamatory, illegal or objectionable or will bring THE ORGANISERS or THE COMPANY into disrepute. You will indemnify THE ORGANISERS and THE COMPANY from and against any claims or liability arising from the content of websites, which you have linked to your advertisement.
16.5 THE ORGANISERS reserves the right to remove your advertisements completely if THE ORGANISERS believes that you are abusing the Service in any way.
Company's registration details:
Haymarket Publishing Services Ltd
Registered in England
174 Hammersmith Road, London W6 7JP
Registered number: 813651
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