TERMS & CONDITIONS
1. Introduction
1.1. Welcome to www.24dash.com, a news resource for public sector and housing professionals. These Terms of Use together with any additional terms and conditions applicable to any “24dash” branded sites govern how you browse, use and access the www.24dash.com website and any “24dash” branded sites.
1.2.By accessing, browsing and using this website, via whatever device, you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by the Terms of Use that appear below. They are a legal agreement between you and us and can only be amended with our consent. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, stop using the Site and its Services immediately.
2. About us and our business
2.1.The Site is operated by 24dash.com ("24dash.com", “24dash”, "we", "our", “us” or “the Site”). 24dash.com is a division of allpay.net (“allpay”). Our address is: Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford HR1 3SE. allpay.net is a Limited company registered in England and Wales with the company number: 05512009. Our VAT number is: 666 9148 88.
3. Changes to these terms
3.1. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms of Use from time to time without prior notice by changing them on the Site. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting to the Site.
3.2. We encourage you to revisit these Terms of Use periodically to ensure that you are at all times fully aware of them. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to all such Terms and you shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any such modifications.
4. Content and services
4.1. Subject to full compliance with the Terms of Use, we may offer to provide certain services, features and content. Services shall include, but not be limited to text, news articles, the ability to submit content, email services, graphics, layout, logos, images, audio and visual material, product details and/or software published or otherwise available on the Site (including anything available for download).
4.2. We may change, suspend or discontinue the Services including any Content for any reason, at any time, including the availability of any feature, service or content. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability.
5. Registration
5.1. Access to our services and to some areas of the Site is restricted to users who have registered their details with us. We may also, from time to time, restrict access to some features or parts of the Site, or the entire Site, to users 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 registration and/or security procedures you must treat such information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password or user identification number. We reserve 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 of Use.
6. Use of the site
6.1. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into or otherwise disrupt the Site or any computer system, server, router or any other internet-connected device. We cannot guarantee that the Site will operate continuously or without interruptions or be error-free.
6.2. We make every effort to ensure the Site is as accessible as possible, however, you are entirely responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use the Site and is compatible with the Site.
6.3. You are entirely responsible for making all the necessary arrangements to have access to the site, and are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the site through the user's internet connection are aware of the terms of use and that they comply with those terms.
6.4. Neither we nor our content providers and affiliates gives any warranty or guarantee relating to the availability of the site or that any content on the Site or content produced by providers and/or affiliates will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties.
6.5. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the safety and reliability of data input and output.
6.6. We accept no liability for direct or indirect losses incurred as a result of any infection from viruses transmitted via this site or as a result of submitting, downloading or using any content or services on this site.
7. Data protection and privacy
7.1. When you provide personal information to 24dash.com, the data controller is allpay.net Limited.
7.2. Your privacy and security is of utmost importance to us and we respect and safeguard the privacy of the users of 24dash.com. allpay.net Limitedprocesses your information in accordance with our Privacy and Cookie policy.
7.3. By using our site you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
8.0. Accuracy of information
8.1. We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that information on the Site is accurate, but commentary and other material posted on the Site is not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We make no representation or warranty that any information is accurate, complete or up-to-date and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by any reliance placed on such information by you or anyone to whom you communicate such information.
8.2. If you find any inaccurate information on the Site please let us know and we will endeavour to correct it, where we agree, as soon as reasonably practicable.
9. Intellectual property rights
9.1. allpay is the owner or exclusive licensee of all intellectual property rights on the site.
9.3. You may download information from the Site for your own personal non-commercial use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without our express permission and that of the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyright material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trade mark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyright material.
9.4. The rights granted to you under these Terms of Use shall terminate immediately upon your breach of any of these Terms of Use.
9.5. allpay.net Limited reserves the right to be identified as author of any material on the site.
10. Links to this and other websites
10.1. We may provide hyperlinks from this Site to other internet sites which are operated by other organisations. We are not responsible for external websites that link to this Site or which are linked from it. That we include these hyperlinks does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association with their operators.
10.2. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to prohibit any link from another internet site to materials or information on this Site. Without prejudice to that right, if you wish to link to the Site, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of the Site, and subject to the following conditions:
10.3. you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of our logo;
10.4. you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the Site;
10.5. you do not in any way imply that we endorse any products or services other than our own;
10.6. you do not misrepresent your relationship with us nor present any other false or misleading information about us;
10.7. you do not otherwise use any of the trade marks displayed on the Site without our express written permission;
10.8. Any website from which you link to the Site does not contain any content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
11. Content that you submit to the Site
11.1. Where the facility is made available to you on the Site, you may send material (including, but not limited to, text, press releases, jobs, photographs or other images, audio material, films or other moving images) to us for publication on the Site.
11.2. Whilst you acknowledge that we do not necessarily pre-screen any material that you have submitted to the Site we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to reject or refuse to post any Content and to remove any Content from the Website, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.
11.3. We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the site, the content and the trademarks of all material attributed to 24dash.com. Any third-party content and content on the Site not attributed to 24dash.com is the property of its respective contributor and/or associated organisation and we accept no responsibility for this content. When you do send and/or publish any materials to us for publication on the Site, you do so in accordance with these Terms including, the following:
11.4. …you warrant to us that any material you submit to us is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights and/or you are authorised on behalf of your organisation to submit such material.
11.5. …you grant us a perpetual, royalty free, worldwide, and non-exclusive licence to use, copy, distribute, publish, syndicate, sub-license and transmit the whole or any part of such material in any manner and in any format and/or media, including archiving and making such material available on the Site.
11.6. …you agree that we may (at our sole discretion) disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material sent by you to the Site is defamatory, in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property or copyright, in breach of or violates any applicable law or regulation or code;
11.7. The following is a partial list of the kind of content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the Website or the Services. 24dash.com reserves the right to investigate and take action against any User who, in the opinion of 24dash.com violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Website or the Services, preventing access to the Website and the Services and/or terminating the Membership of such violators and/or reporting to law enforcement authorities or regulatory bodies. Prohibited content includes, but is not limited to content that, in the opinion of 24dash.com: Is obscene, threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, abusive, in breach of confidence, promotes racism, terrorism, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual, is pornographic, violent, contains a link to an adult website, is information that you know or have reason to believe is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is objectionable or libellous, is in breach of any intellectual property right (including, without limitation, copyright) or otherwise in breach of or violates any applicable law or regulation or code;
11.8. you acknowledge that any breach of the warranties set out in sections 11.6 or 11.7 above may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently on demand against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.
11.9. 24dash.com reserves the right, but is not obligated, to monitor any communications that are made via the Site and you consent to any such monitoring.
12. Our liability
12.1 Although we hope this Site will be of interest to users, we accept no liability and offer no warranties or conditions in relation to this Site or its content, to the fullest extent such liability can be excluded by law.
12.2 If you are a consumer and not a business user, we shall not be liable to you for any business losses and shall only be liable for any losses which are reasonably foreseeable.
12.3 If you are a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue or goodwill arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Site, its services or information on the Site. Except as provided in these Terms of Use, all terms implied by law are excluded.
12.4 We accept liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence and responsibility for fraudulent misrepresentation that cannot, under English law, be excluded.
13. General
13.1 Any formal legal notices should be sent to us at the address at the end of these Terms of Use by email and confirmed by post.
13.2. Failure by us to enforce a right does not result in waiver of such right. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms of Use.
13.3. If any part of these Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable as a matter of law, all other parts of these Terms of Use shall be unaffected and shall remain in force.
13.4. You and we agree that English law applies to these Terms of Use and that any dispute between us regarding the Site or arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use will only be dealt with by the English courts, unless you are resident in another part of the United Kingdom, in which case the applicable law of that part of the United Kingdom will apply and any dispute will be brought before the courts there.
14. How to contact us
If you experience problems with the Site or would like to comment on it, please feel free to contact us in any of the following ways:
by email at info@24dash.com by telephone on 01432 852 300 between the hours of 9am – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday.
by writing to us at: 24dash.com, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford HR1 3SE.
These Terms of Use were last updated on 19th December 2007.
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