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Website Terms and Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

1.  What's in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website: www.abacusresources.co.uk  (the “site").

2.  Who we are and how to contact us

The Site is a site operated by Abacus Creative Resources Limited (“we”, “us” and “our“). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 14061541 and have our registered office at Unit 8 Oakwood Way, Carnforth Business Park, Carnforth, Lancashire, England, LA5 9FD.

To contact us, please email [email protected] or telephone our customer service line on 01524 730 240.

3.  By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. You should read these terms carefully before using the site. By using the site or otherwise indicating your consent, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you must not use our site should stop using the site immediately.

This site is provided by us to you free of charge for information purposes only. We make no promise that the site is appropriate or available for use in locations outside of the UK. If you choose to access the site from locations outside the UK, you acknowledge you do so at your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws where they apply.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

4.  There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

•    Our Privacy Policy. 
•    Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

If you purchase goods from our site, our Terms and conditions of supply will apply to the sales.

5.  We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. Our updated terms will be displayed on the site and by continuing to use and access the site following such changes, you agree to be bound by any variation made by us.

6.  We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our offerings, our users' needs and our business priorities.

7.  We may suspend or withdraw our site

We do not guarantee that our site, 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 site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions and that they comply with them.

8.  We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

9.  Our site is only for users in the UK

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

10.  You must keep your account details safe

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. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].

11.  How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated). You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

12.  No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

  • any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; and
  • any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).
This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

This site, its content and any services provided in relation to the same are only targeted to, and intended for use by, individuals located in the United Kingdom (the “Permitted Territory”). By continuing to access, view or make use of this site and any related content and services, you hereby warrant and represent to us that you are located in the Permitted Territory. If you are not located in the Permitted Territory, you must immediately discontinue use of this site and any related content and services.

13.  Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. All information on this site is subject to change. The specifications and prices of any items on this site may not be current at the time that you view it. Please contact us for the most up to date information. Because of the nature of technology, the colours of products shown on the site may not match the actual colours.

You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Commentary and other materials posted on the site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the site or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

All prices listed on the Site shall be exclusive of VAT unless specified.

14.  We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site 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 information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

15.  Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

  • The site is provided on an "as is" basis and to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, we disclaim any and all promises, warranties, conditions or representations relating to the site and its content, whether express, implied, oral or written.
  • 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.
  • Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which will be set out in our Terms and conditions of supply.

If you are a business user:

  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
  • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
    • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
    • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
  • In particular, we will not be liable for:
    • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
    • business interruption;
    • loss of anticipated savings;
    • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
    • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

  • Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site 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.
  • 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.

16.  How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

17.  Access to the site and Viruses

We try to make our site available at all times, but, of course, due to the inherent nature of online and Internet based services, we cannot guarantee this. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access the site.

We do not warrant that your access to our site will be uninterrupted, unrestricted, timely, secure and error-free and we do not make any promises about the availability or accessibility of the site or promise that your access to our site, the content on it or the services we provide will be delivered uninterrupted, in a timely manner or error-free (and we may suspend, restrict or terminate your access to the site at any time), or that our site and the server are free of computer viruses or other harmful applications. If a fault occurs in the service, you should report it to us and we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as we reasonably can.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them. We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You must not misuse our site 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 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 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 site will cease immediately.

18.  Rules about linking to our site

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. You must also not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us via https://www.abacusresources.co.uk/contact.

19.  Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, 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.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

 

Last Updated: 21 October 2022