Terms & Conditions
Terms of Use & Legal Restrictions
Please read these terms carefully before using this website. Using this website, whether as visitor or member, indicates that you accept these terms and the terms of the documents referred to in these terms. If you do not accept these terms and the terms of the documents referred to in these terms, do not use this website.
Who Are We?
North East Chamber of Commerce (“The Chamber”) operates this website. The Chamber is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales with company number 02938084 whose registered office is at Aykley Heads Business Centre, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5TS which is also our main trading address. Our VAT number is 454990806.
Use of Website
The Chamber authorises you to view and download the materials on this website for your personal and/or commercial use, provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copies of such materials. You may not modify the materials on this website in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public and/or commercial purposes.
Website Access
Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our website without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our website, or our entire website, to our members who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions.
Intellectual Property
For purposes of these terms, any use of these materials on any other website for any purpose is prohibited. The materials on this website are copyright protected and any unauthorised use of any materials on this website may violate copyright, and other intellectual property rights of The Chamber and/or its licensors. If you breach any of these terms, your authorisation to use this website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.
The Chamber logo, the Chamber Telecom and RITO are UK registered trademarks of The Chamber. Any unauthorised use of these trademarks will constitute a breach of our rights.
User Submissions
Other than personal data (such as personal data in the members forum), any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this website (including information in the members’ forum which is not personal data) will be considered non-confidential. The Chamber will have no obligations with respect to such communications. The Chamber will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the communications and all data and text embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user or any third party whether or not on your behalf on our website.
We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our website if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with these terms and conditions. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this website any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other harassing, distressing, offensive or illegal material that would violate the laws of England and Wales or any other relevant law or regulation.
You further warrant that any material or information posted on our website is your own work and you have the right to post it on our website, that the same is not defamatory and does not infringe any law and shall indemnify and keep indemnified The Chamber against all costs, damages and expenses incurred by us as a result of your breach of this warranty.
Members’ Forums
The Chamber may, but is not obliged to, monitor or review any areas on the website where users transmit or post communications or communicate solely with each other, including but not limited to the Members’ forums, and
the content of any such communications. The Chamber, however, will have no liability relating to the content or accuracy of any such communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. The Chamber retains the right to remove communication and/or information that include any material deemed abusive, defamatory, obscene or otherwise unacceptable.
Any member found to have acted contrary to these terms and conditions and who has had communications or information placed by it on our website removed may also have its membership revoked at The Chamber’s sole discretion and in the event, The Chamber exercises its rights under this provision and wishes to terminate a member’s membership on this basis, then it shall immediately notify the member concerned in writing.
Member Services
The Chamber reserves the right to alter the membership package and the Chamber services at any time without notice.
The Chamber reserves the right to suspend or revoke membership without notice. In this instance, details of the reason for suspending or revoking the membership will be provided in writing. In cases where the membership is revoked or is due to be suspended for a period of over one calendar month, the member would have the option to receive a credit for the period they are unable to use their membership
Links To Other Web Sites
Links to third party websites and micro sites operated by the Chamber members on this website are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this website. The Chamber has not reviewed all of these third party and micro sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of those third party and micro sites or their content.
Thus, the Chamber does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party or micro sites linked to this website, you do this entirely at your
own risk.
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, but 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.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
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 from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these terms and conditions.
If you wish to make any use of material on our website other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected]
Payment Terms for the Chamber Products & Services
All payment terms are listed on our Payment Terms page.
Data Products
North East Chamber of Commerce hereby grants you a non-exclusive right to use all or any part of the data sold to you for the purposes of your business only.
You may not sell or dispose of the data to any third party. You may not use the data in a manner that could cause any offence or distress to the data subjects or that may damage the reputation of the Chamber. We make every effort to ensure that the data is accurate, but we cannot guarantee accuracy.
We shall not be liable to you or any other person for losses incurred as a result of reliance upon the data. You will keep us fully indemnified against any losses incurred by us arising out of breach of these conditions.
You accept that the data may contain a number of goneaways and that unless the level of goneaways exceeds the relevant percentage of the Data you accept that no replacement Data or refund shall be due in respect of these goneaways. If the level of goneaways exceeds the relevant percentage or if any other fault arises in the Data, The Chamber and / or List Owner shall have the right to remedy such fault where possible by re-supplying all or the relevant percentage of the Data.
In the event that you do not advise the Chamber of any defect in the Data within ninety (90) days from the date of receipt thereof in the case of goneaways or thirty (30) days from the date of receipt thereof in all other cases, you shall be deemed to have accepted the Data. Addresses 6%, Telephone Numbers 10%
Disclaimer
THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION AND SERVICES PROVIDED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COMPATIBILTY, SECURITY OR ACCURACY.
The Chamber further does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the materials, information or services on this website, other than those specifically purchased from The Chamber as noted above and does not intend that any reliance be placed on them. All liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on the materials, information and/or services provided by the Chamber on our website, whether by a visitor, member or third party is disclaimed.
The Chamber may make changes to the materials, information and services detailed on this website, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice. The materials, information and services on this website may be out of date, and the Chamber makes no commitment to update the materials, information and services on this website. Information published on this website may refer to products, programs or services that are no longer available.
Consult your the Chamber Account Manager for information regarding the products and services that may be available to you. We aim to update our website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the
need arises, we may suspend access to our website or close it indefinitely.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL The Chamber, ITS SUPPLIERS, OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED ON THIS WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER WHETHER FORESEEN, FORESEEABLE OR NOT, (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM DIRECT, INDIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE, LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF INCOME, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF REPUTATION, LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE OF THIS WEBSITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE, OR THE MATERIALS OR INFORMATION OR SERVICES CONTAINED AT ANY OR ALL SUCH WEBSITES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE AND WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION OR
SERVICES FROM THIS WEBSITE RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF EQUIPMENT OR DATA, YOU ASSUME ALL COSTS THEREOF. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT OUR LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY ARISING FROM OUR NEGLIGENCE,
NOR OUR LIABILITY FOR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION OR MISREPRESENTATION AS TO A FUNDAMENTAL MATTER, NOR ANY OTHER LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED
UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Information About You and Your Visits to Our Website
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy . By using our website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences
You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which 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.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technology harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or
on any website linked to it.
Applicable Laws
The Chamber makes no representation that materials or services on our website are appropriate or available for use outside the United Kingdom, and access to them from territories where their content are illegal is prohibited. You may not use or export or re-export the materials or services on this website or copy or adapt in violation of any applicable laws or regulations including without limitation laws and regulations applicable in England and Wales. If you choose to access this website from outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
General The Chamber may revise these terms at any time by updating them. You should visit this page of our website from time to time to review the then-current terms because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages on this website.
Your Concerns
If you have any concerns about material information or services which appear on our website, please
contact [email protected]
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