1Changes to these terms
We may amend these website terms of use without notice. Please check for the most up to date version each time you use the website.
2Changes and access to our website
We may update and change our website from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users’ needs and our business priorities. We may suspend or withdraw our website without notice.
Our website is made available “as is”. We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business and operational reasons.
Our website is directed to people resident in the United Kingdom only. Other exclusions apply as stated in our service terms of use.
3How you may use material on our website
You must not use any part of the content of our website for commercial purposes.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
4Prohibited uses
You may use our website only for lawful purposes. You may not use our website:
- In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
- In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
- For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
- To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
- To knowingly transmit, send or upload any data that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
- Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our website in contravention of the provisions of these website terms of use.
- Not to take any action that in our sole discretion places an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or other infrastructure;
- Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any:
- Part of our website;
- Equipment or network on which our website is stored;
- Software used in the provision of our website; or
- Equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
5Information on this website
The content of our website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content of our website.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website is accurate, complete or up to date. If we change our website, we shall not inform you.
We are not responsible for websites we link to.
Where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or the information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.
6Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
Please note that we only provide our website for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.
7We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.
8Rules about linking to our website
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with our reasonable requirements in terms of content standards.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact support@hopemacy.com.
9The service available from our website
Regarding the Hope Macy service which can be accessed through our website by registration:
Warranties
We use all reasonable endeavours to provide you with the service. The service is dependent on numerous other parties. We cannot therefore guarantee that the service will be available at all times, or without interruption, or will be error free.
The service is provided to you on an “as is” basis and all warranties, representations, conditions and such other similar terms implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, excluded.
Liability
Except as expressly and specifically provided in these terms you are solely responsible for your use of our website and the service. We shall have no liability for any damage caused by errors or omissions in any information, instructions or scripts provided to us by your account providers in connection with the service.
Nothing in this agreement is intended to exclude our liability for matters which the law states cannot be excluded by contract such as liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Subject to the above:
(a) we shall not be liable whether in tort (including for negligence or breach of statutory duty), contract, misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise for any loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses or loss or corruption of data or information, or pure economic loss, or for any special, indirect or consequential loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses however arising under the Agreement; and
(b) our total aggregate liability in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, arising in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of the Service shall be limited to the total fees paid during the 12 months immediately preceding the date on which the claim arose.
10The country laws that apply to disputes
Please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
11Our intellectual property
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Images, agreements, text, icons and other content provided as part of our delivery of the service and the way it is arranged is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. You are not granted any licence to use this content or its arrangement or any of our trademarks or those of our partners other than as required in your use of the website and/or service.
We do not sell or license you our software and technology used to deliver the service. We do not give you the right to access or view the software used to provide the service. You must not attempt to download, view, reverse engineer or decompile our software, data or file structures.
You must not infringe our or any of our business partner’s or other third party’s intellectual property rights in the way you use the service.
12Use of our website
You must not:
- Inject content or code or otherwise alter or interfere with the way any part of the service is rendered or displayed in a user’s browser or device;
- Copy, republish, frame, download, transmit, modify, adapt, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, license or sublicense the service;
- Use the service in a way that we reasonably believe might harm us or our ability to provide the service;
- Take any action that in our sole discretion places an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or other infrastructure; or
- Use the service in any way which may cause, or be likely to cause, access to or use of the service to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.