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Website Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions (“the Terms and Conditions”) govern your (“the User” / “You”) use of The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd. (SPP) website located at the domain name www.selfpublishingpartnership.co.uk (“the Website”). By accessing and using the Website, the User agrees to be bound by the Terms and Conditions set out in this legal notice. If the User does not wish to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, the User may not access, display, use, download, and/or otherwise copy or distribute any Content obtained from the Website. These Terms and Conditions become effective when you access the site for the first time and constitute a binding agreement between SPP and the User, which will always prevail. The current version of these Terms and Conditions will govern our respective rights and obligations each time you access this site.

Privacy and Security

SPP receives various types of information (“the Information”) from Users who access the Website. SPP makes every effort to protect any Information received by it. Despite such undertaking, it is possible for Internet-based communications to be intercepted. Without the use of encryption, the Internet is not a secure medium and privacy cannot be ensured. Internet e-mail is vulnerable to interception and forging. SPP will not be responsible for any damages the User or any third party may suffer as a result of the transmission of confidential or personal information that the User submits to SPP through the Internet, or that the User expressly or implicitly authorises SPP to receive, or for any errors or any changes made to any transmitted information.

Updating of these Terms and Conditions

SPP reserves the right to, amend, change, modify, add to or remove from portions or the whole of these Terms and Conditions from time to time. Changes to these Terms and Conditions will become effective upon such changes being posted to the Website. By accessing the Website You are bound to the version of the Terms and Conditions published here at the time of any visit to the Website. You agree to view the current version each time you access the Website. The User’s continued use of this Website following the posting of changes or updates will be considered notice of the User’s acceptance to abide by and be bound by these Terms and Conditions, including such changes or updates.
SPP reserves the right to make any changes to the Website, the Content, or to products and/or services offered through the Website at any time and without notice.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights

SPP provides certain information (“the Content”) on the Website. Content currently or anticipated to be displayed at this Website is provided by SPP, its affiliates and/or subsidiary, or any other third party owners of such content, and includes but is not limited to Literary Works, Musical Works, Artistic Works, Sound Recordings, Cinematograph Films, Sound and Television Broadcasts, Program-Carrying Signals, Published Editions and Computer Programs. All such proprietary works, and the compilation of the proprietary works, are copyright of SPP, its affiliates or subsidiary, or any other third party owner of such rights (“the Owners”), and is protected by United Kingdom and International copyright laws. Accordingly, any unauthorised copying, reproduction, retransmission, distribution, dissemination, sale, publication, broadcast or other circulation or exploitation of the Content or any component thereof will constitute an infringement of such copyright and other intellectual property rights; save that you may use the materials or any component thereof for your own internal purposes and for the purposes of ordering service/s from SPP.
Without limiting the generality of the aforementioned, the User is authorised to view, download and copy to a local hard drive or disk, print and make copies of such printouts, provided that:
* the Content is used exclusively for considering the use of the Online Services and for no other commercial purposes; and
* any reproduction of the proprietary Content from the Website or a portion/s of it must include SPP’s copyright notice in its entirety.
The trademarks, names, logos and service marks (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed on the Website are the unregistered Trademarks of SPP. Nothing contained on the Website should be construed as granting any license or right to use any Trademark without the prior written permission of SPP. Except as specified in these Terms and Conditions, the User is not granted a license or any other right including without limitation under Copyright, Trademark, Patent or other Intellectual Property Rights in or to the Content and Trademarks. All rights in and to the Content and Trademarks is reserved and retained by SPP and/or the Owners, as the case may be.
Irrespective of the existence of Copyright, the User acknowledges that SPP and/or the Owners, as the case may be are the proprietors of all the Content and Trademarks on the Website, whether it constitutes confidential information or not, and that the User has no right, title or interest in any such material.

Limited License to General Users

* SPP grants to the User, subject to the further terms of these Terms and Conditions, a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited and revocable right to access, display, use, download and otherwise copy the current and future Content for personal, non-commercial and information purposes only. * This Website and the Content may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, resold, visited or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without the express prior written consent of SPP.

* The license does not allow the User to collect product or service listings, descriptions or other information displayed here, and does not allow any derivative use of this Website or the Content for the benefit of another merchant.

* The User may not frame nor use framing technologies to enclose the Website or the Content nor any part thereof without the express written consent of SPP

* The User is restricted to use the Website and Content, only for lawful purposes and warrants that he/she shall not: o use the Website to transmit material which is in violation of any law or regulation, which is obscene, threatening, racist, menacing, offensive, defamatory, in breach of an duty of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property rights, or otherwise objectionable or unlawful; and o other than for personal and non-commercial use, store on a computer, or print copies of extracts from the Website, and other than for personal and non-commercial use, “mirror” or cache any of the Content of Website on a server, or copy, adapt, modify or re-use the text or graphics obtained from the Website, without the prior written permission of SPP.

* SPP, their affiliates or subsidiaries reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit Content at their sole discretion. * Any unauthorised use terminates this license.

Permission for Hyperlinks, Deep Linking, Crawlers and Metatags

No User may establish a hyperlink, frame, metatag or similar reference, whether electronically or otherwise (collectively referred to as “Linking”), to the Website or any subsidiary pages before receiving SPP’s prior written approval, which may be withheld or granted subject to the conditions SPP may specify from time to time.
An application for Linking must be submitted to douglas@selfpublishingpartnership.co.uk. Once received SPP will do its best to respond and enter into further discussions with the User. If the User does not receive a written response from SPP within five business days, the User must consider the request as having been rejected.
A breach of this provision entitles SPP to take legal action without prior notice to the User and the User agrees to reimburse SPP with the costs associated with such legal action, on an attorney and own client scale.

Hyperlinks

Notwithstanding the fact that hyperlinks exist, in the Terms and Conditions, to facilitate access to notices, policies and legislation that are incorporated into the Terms and Conditions, the User agrees that in those instances, where some or all of the hyperlinks malfunction or are not operational, such occurrence shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the Terms and Conditions. The User undertakes to, at their own convenience and discretion, review and acquaints themselves with necessary documents and/ or terms.

External Links

External links may be provided for your convenience, but they are beyond the control of SPP and no representation is made as to their content. Use or reliance on any external links provided is at the User’s own risk. When visiting external links you must refer to that external website’s terms and conditions of use. No hypertext links shall be created from any website controlled by you or otherwise to the Website without the express prior written permission of SPP.

Crawlers and Spiders

The User undertakes not to use any technology to search and /or gain information from the Website without SPP’s written consent.

Termination, Suspension and Limitation

SPP reserves the right to:

* modify, suspend or discontinue the Website, whether temporarily or permanently, without notice;
* impose limits or conditions on certain services, features or functions; and
* restrict access to parts of or all of the services on the Website.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

Although SPP has taken reasonable care to ensure that the Content on the Website is accurate and that the User will not suffer loss or damage as a result of their use of the Website, the Website is provided on an “as is” basis. Use of the Website is entirely at the User’s own risk. The User assumes full responsibility for any loss or damage resulting from their use of the Website and their reliance on any of the Content or a part/s thereof, contained on the Website.
The Website and all Content on the Website, including any current or future offer of services, are provided on an “as is” basis, and may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. SPP makes no warranty or representation as to the availability, accuracy or completeness of the Content. Neither SPP nor any holding company, affiliate or subsidiary of SPP, shall be held liable for any direct or indirect, special, consequential or other damage of any kind whatsoever suffered or incurred, related to the use of, or the inability to access or use the Content or the Website or any functionality thereof, or of any linked website, even if SPP is expressly advised thereof.

Without derogating from the generality of the above, SPP will not be liable for

* any interruption, malfunction, downtime or other failure of the Website or related database, system or network, for whatever reason;
* any loss or damage in respect of customer data or other data, directly or indirectly, caused as a result of any malfunction of the Website or related database, system or network, power failures, unlawful access to or theft of data, computer viruses or destructive code on SPP’s Website or related database, system or network, programming defects or negligence; or
* any event over which SPP has no direct control.

Indemnity:

The User unconditionally and irrevocably indemnifies and holds SPP harmless against all and any loss, liability, actions, lawsuits, proceedings, costs, demands and damages of all and every kind, (including direct, indirect, special or consequential damages), and whether in an action based on contract, negligence or any other action, arising out of or in connection with the failure or delay in the performance of the services offered on the Website, the use of the services offered on the Website, the Content available on the Website or any other matter, directly or indirectly, related to the User’s use of the Website, whether due to SPP’s negligence or not.

Choice of Law

This Website is controlled, operated and administered by SPP from its offices within the United Kingdom. SPP makes no representation that the Content is appropriate or available for use in any other locations or countries. Access to the Website from territories or countries where the Content is illegal, is prohibited. The User may not use this Website in violation of United Kingdom export laws and regulations. If the User accesses this Website from locations outside of the United Kingdom, that User is responsible for compliance with all local laws. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of the United Kingdom and the User consents to the jurisdiction of the High Court, in the event of any dispute.
If any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions are found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to give effect to the intent of these Terms and Conditions, and the remainder of these Terms and Conditions shall continue in full force and effect.

General

The headings of the clauses in the Terms and Conditions are provided for convenience and ease of reference only and will not be used to interpret, modify or amplify the terms of the conditions.
The Terms and Conditions are severable, in that if any provision is determined to be illegal or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, then such provision shall be deemed to have been deleted without affecting the remaining provisions of the Terms and Conditions.
SPP’s failure or delay to exercise any particular right or provision of the Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision, whether this is done expressly or implied, nor will it affect the validity of any part these Terms and Conditions or prejudice SPP’s right to take subsequent action against the User, unless acknowledged and agreed to by SPP in writing.
Neither the User nor SPP, shall be bound by any express, tacit or implied representation, warranty, promise or the like not recorded herein. These Terms and Conditions supersede and replace all prior commitments, undertakings or representations, whether written or oral, between the User and SPP in respect of the subject matter hereof.
SPP shall be entitled to cede, assign and delegate all or any of its rights and obligations in terms of these Terms and Conditions.
Should SPP be prevented from fulfilling any of its obligations to you as a result of any event of force majeure, then those obligations shall be deemed to have been suspended to the extent that and for as long as SPP is so prevented from fulfilling them and your corresponding obligations shall be suspended to the corresponding extent. In the event that force majeure continues for more than fourteen days after it has first occurred then SPP shall be entitled (but not obliged) to terminate all of its rights and obligations in terms of or arising out of these Terms and Conditions by giving notice to the User. An “event of force majeure” shall mean any event or circumstance whatsoever which is not within the reasonable control of including, without limitation, vis major, casus fortuitus, any act of God, strike, theft, riots, explosion, insurrection or other similar disorder, war (whether declared or not) or military operations, the downtime of any external telecommunications line, power failure, international restrictions, any requirement of any international authority, any requirement of any government or other competent local authority, any court order, export control or shortage of transport facilities

The Terms and Conditions, as varied by SPP from time to time, constitutes the entire and sole agreement between SPP and the User with regard to the use of the Content and this Website.

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