1. Terms of use for website
These Terms and Conditions govern the use of this website. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before you use the site. By using the website you agree to these terms of use in full and you agree to abide by them. If you do not accept or do not agree with these terms and conditions or any part of them, you should not use this website. We reserve the right to update these Terms and Conditions at any time and post the updated version to the website.
2. Information about us
www.martindales.ltd.uk is a site operated by Martindales Limited (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 2821638 and have our registered office at Martindale House, Union Road, Bolton BL2 2HF. Our VAT number is 497936373. We are a limited company.
3. Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
4. Restricted access
Access to particular areas of our website is restricted. At our discretion we reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website.
Should you choose, or are provided with a user ID, password or any other identifier code to enable you to access restricted areas of our website, you must ensure that your user ID and password is kept confidential.
At our discretion we may disable your user ID and password without notice or justification. All users are subject to the Privacy Policy as displayed on the website.
You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your connection to the internet are aware of these terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
5. Acceptable use
You must not use our website in any manner that is illegal, unlawful, fraudulent or harmful; or in relation to any illegal, unlawful, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity; or in any way that causes, or may cause damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website.
You must not use our website to copy, store, transmit, host, send, use, publish or distribute any material that consists of or is affiliated to any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, root-kit or any other malicious computer software.
Without our prior express written consent you must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities including (without limitation) scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting on or in relation to our website.
You must not use our website for any objective related to marketing without our prior express written consent
6. Intellectual property rights
We are the sole owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and the material published on our site. The site and the material published on it are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All these intellectual property rights are reserved, subject to the licence below.
Subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions you may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use.
You are not permitted to:
If you breach these terms of use your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our request, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
7. Warranties
We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the site is kept up to date.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law in respect of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).
8. Limitations and exclusions of liability
Nothing in these terms of use will (a) limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence; (b) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or (d) exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in these terms of use: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms of use or in relation to the subject matter of these terms of use, including liabilities arising in contract, tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.
To the extent that the website and the information displayed on the website is provided free of charge, we will not be liable to you for:
9. Indemnity
You hereby agree to indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses, including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers, incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any of these Terms and Conditions.
10. Breach of terms and conditions
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions if you breach these terms in any way we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
11. Variation
We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. Revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website.
12. Assignment
We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You are not permitted to transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
13. Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision 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.
14. Exclusion of third party rights
These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
15. Payments
16. Privacy
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which you provide it or for other lawful purposes. We will only hold your information for as long as necessary for these purposes and will not pass it to any other parties unless required to do so by law. All employees who have access to your personal data or are associated with the handling of that data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.
17. Entire agreement
Subject to the first paragraph of section 8, these terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of our website.
18. Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
