PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
These website terms and conditions (together with the documents referred to in them) set out the terms and conditions under which you, as a visitor, may use our website
www.adventcalendar.co.uk (our site). Use of our site includes accessing, browsing or registering to use our site.
By using our site, you confirm that you accept and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this page. Please check this page periodically to see if we have made any changes that affect you.
Other applicable terms
These Terms of Use refer to the following additional terms which also apply to your use of our website:
Our Privacy and Cookies Policy, which sets out the terms under which we process any personal data and provides information about the use of cookies on our site. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that any information you provide is accurate.
Changes to our site
We may update our site from time to time and change the content at any time. However, please note that some of the content on our site, other than our commercial offers, may be out of date at any time and we are under no obligation to update it.
We endeavour to provide accurate and timely information, but we do not warrant that our site or any content on it is free from errors or omissions.
Access to our site
We do not warrant that our site or any content on it will always be available or uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or modify the service we provide on our site without notice. We will not be liable if our site is unavailable for any reason at any time or for any period.
From time to time we may restrict access to parts or all of our site to registered users of our site.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary to access our site.
Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and the material published on it. These works are protected by copyright laws and treaties throughout the world. All such rights are reserved.
The materials and content displayed on our site are provided to you for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may download such materials and content onto a single computer hard drive for this purpose. Any other use of the materials and content on our site is strictly prohibited.
You may not modify in any way the paper or digital copies of any material you have printed or downloaded and you may not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of the content on our site must always be acknowledged.
You agree not to (and agree not to assist any third party to) copy, reproduce, transmit, publish, display, distribute, commercially exploit, create derivative works from or otherwise use any material, content or product obtained from our site in whole or in part.
If you use any material or content from any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use the site will cease immediately, you must return or destroy any copies you have made of the material and we reserve the right to seek damages.
Do not rely on information
The content of our website is for general information purposes only. It is not intended to constitute advice on which you should rely. You should obtain professional or specialist advice before taking or refraining from taking any action based on the content of our site.
Limitation of our liability
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising out of or in connection with
the use or inability to use our website; or
the use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
Please note that our site is provided for domestic and private use only. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purpose and we will not be liable to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption or loss of business opportunity.
Whilst we endeavour to ensure the security of our website, we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial of service attack or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, programs, data or other proprietary material on account of your use of our website or your downloading of any material from it or any website linked to it.
We are not responsible for the content of any site linked to our site. These links should not be construed as an endorsement by us of the linked sites. We are not responsible for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of such sites.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability apply to liability arising from our supply of goods to you as set out in our terms and conditions of supply.
Uploading content to our website
If you use a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, such as our “Write a Review” section, or to communicate with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in these Terms of Use.
You warrant that any such contribution complies with these standards, that you own all the rights to any content you post and that you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of this warranty. This means that you will be liable for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of this warranty.
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but by uploading content to our site you grant us a limited licence to use, store, copy, distribute and make available to third parties that content. The rights you grant us under this licence are described in the section below entitled “Rights you grant under this licence”.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who claims that any content you have posted or uploaded to our site infringes their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
We will not be liable in any way to any third party for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.
We have the right to remove any content posted by you on our site if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the content standards set out in these Terms of Use. Opinions expressed by other users on our site do not represent our opinions or values.
Prohibited uses
You may only use our site for lawful purposes. You must not
- Use our site in any way that violates any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
- Use our site in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
- Post, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or reuse any material that does not comply with our content standards.
- Transmit or cause to be transmitted any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
- knowingly transmit any data or send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keyloggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to damage the operation of any computer software or hardware.
- Use our site to harm or attempt to harm minors in any way.
You also agree not to
- Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our site in breach of these terms and conditions.
- Not to gain unauthorised access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
- (a) any part of our site
- (b) any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
- (c) any software used to deliver our site; or
- (d) any equipment, network or software owned or operated by any third party in connection with our site or your access to our site.
Content Standards
These content standards apply to all material you submit to our site (“Submissions”) and to any interactive services associated with our site.
You must comply with both the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The content standards apply to each part of a submission as well as to the whole.
Contributions must
Be accurate (when stating facts).
Be sincerely held (where opinions are expressed).
Comply with the laws of the UK and any country from which they are published.
Contributions must not
Contain anything defamatory of any person.
Contain anything obscene, offensive, hateful or abusive.
Promote sexually explicit material.
Promote violence.
Promote discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark right of any other person.
Be likely to mislead any person.
Breach a legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
Promotes any illegal activity.
Be threatening, abusive or invasive of another person’s privacy or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
Is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or distress another person.
Be used to impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
Imply that they are from us when they are not.
Advocate, promote or facilitate any illegal activity, such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer fraud.
Rights you grant under licence
If you upload or post content to our website, you grant us and any third parties who assist us in providing our website (including trusted service providers and delivery partners) a non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such content in any format, worldwide, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
Viruses
We do our best to ensure the security of our site, but we do not guarantee that our site is completely secure or free from bugs or viruses.
It is your responsibility to configure your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our site. We recommend that you use your own anti-virus software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other malicious or technologically harmful material. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site by means of a denial of service or distributed denial of service attack. If you breach this provision, you will be committing an 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 any such breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
Linking to our site
You may link to our home page provided that you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage or take advantage of our reputation. You must not link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement by us where this is not the case.
We reserve the right to withdraw permission to link without notice.
The website from which you link must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these Terms of Use.
Third party links and resources on our site
In order to provide added value to our customers, we may provide links to other ADVENT CALENDAR online services or resources or to third party websites. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
This website uses links to paid affiliate schemes.
Suspension and Termination
We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether your use of our site is in breach of these terms and conditions. In the event of a breach of these terms and conditions, we may take such action as we consider appropriate, which may include one or more of the following
Immediately, temporarily or permanently suspend your right to use our site.
Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of any publication or material you have uploaded to our site.
Issue a warning to you.
Take legal action against you to recover all costs (including, but not limited to, reasonable legal and administrative costs) arising from the breach.
Take any other legal action against you.
Disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably believe necessary.
We are not responsible for actions taken in response to violations of these Terms of Use. The actions described in these Terms of Use are not limited and we may take such other actions as we reasonably deem appropriate.
Compliance with the law
Our Site may only be used for lawful purposes and in a lawful manner. You agree to comply with all applicable laws, statutes and regulations in relation to our Site and any transactions conducted on or through our Site.
Governing Law
Please note that these Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation are governed by French law. We mutually agree that the courts of France shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction.
Site content & links
The Site contains various links to the websites of affiliated companies and a number of other companies. ADVENTCALENDAR receives compensation for certain products purchased from these companies through our Site.
ADVENTCALENDAR is not responsible for examining or evaluating these links and does not endorse or guarantee the products offered by these companies or individuals or the content of their websites. AdventCalendar accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the actions, products or content of these companies (prices, delivery times, additional costs, etc.).
Trademarks
ADVENTCALENDAR is a registered Community trademark.
How to contact us
To contact us, please send an email to hello(@)advebtcalendar.co.uk
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