ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name www.qubegb.com (the "Website") and to any correspondence by e-mail or webmail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website. This notice is issued by QubeGB Ltd (the "Company") of 303 Ettrick Riverside, Selkirk TD7 5EB.
1. Introduction
1.1 You may access most areas of this Website without registering your details with us. Certain areas of this Website are only open to you if you register.
1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Website immediately.
1.3 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded or augmented by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of this Website.
2. Licence
2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:
(a) no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
(b) no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and
(c) the Company's copyright and trade mark notices appear in all copies;
2.2 Unless otherwise stated, and subject to paragraph
2.3, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website. If you cease to be a client of the Company's, you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website 2.3 All trademarks used on this website are the property of the proprietor/s of those trademarks. The Company makes no claim to ownership of trademarks used on the website of which they are not proprietors.
2.4 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company's prior written permission.
2.5 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.
3. Service access
3.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company shall not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company's control.
4. Visitor material and conduct
4.1 Other than personal data, which is covered under the Privacy Policy , any material you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:
(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or (b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or (c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or (d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).
4.4 The Company shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3, and shall be entitled to report to any law enforcement authorities any breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.
5. Links to and from other websites
5.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
5.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:
(a) you obtain our prior consent;
(b) you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Company's logo;
(c) you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
(d) you do not in any way imply that the Company is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
(e) you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;
(f) you do not otherwise use any of the Company's trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from the Company;
(g) you do not otherwise use any trade marks other than those owned by the Company displayed on this Website without express written permission from the proprietor of that trademark;
(h) you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and
(i) your website does not contain 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.
5.3 The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke at any time the right granted in paragraph
5.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.
5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company or any of its group companies for breach of paragraph 5.2.
6. Registration
6.1 Each registration is for a single user only. The Company does not permit you to share your user name and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.
6.2 Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.
7. Disclaimer
7.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The Company may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.
7.2 The material on this Website is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website. The Company can be contacted at:
QubeGB Ltd
303 Ettrick Riverside
Selkirk
TD7 5EB
Tel: +44 (0) 333 240 1806
Fax: +44 (0) 896 804 888
Email: info@qubegb.com
8. Liability
8.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of the Company's partners and the officers, employees, contractors, or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in delict (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.
8.2 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company's liability for:
(a) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
(b) fraud; or
(c) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or
(d) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
8.3 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
9. Governing law and jurisdiction
This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Scots law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish courts.
Issue Date: 17th July 2009
QubeGB Ltd is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to www.qubegb.com. Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us.
By registering on this site or contacting us by email or through this site, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.
Information that we collect from you
When you visit or register your details on www.qubegb.com you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself including your name and contact details. We may also collect information about your usage of our website as well as information about you from messages you post to the website and e-mails or letters you send to us or information gathered during telephone conversations with you.
If you email, we will gather the information submitted by you concerning your personal details, organisation, contact details and other information set out in that form.
Use of your information
Your information will enable us to provide you with access to all parts of our site and to supply any goods or services you have requested. It will also enable us to contact you where necessary concerning your orders or your queries regarding our services. We will also use and analyse the information we collect so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our business.
In particular, we may use your information to contact you for your views on our services and to notify you occasionally about important changes or developments to the site or our services. Further, where you have consented, we might also use your information to let you know about other products and services which we offer which may be of interest to you and we may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by e-mail. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future, please let us know by contacting us at our contact details set out below.
We will use information submitted by you to assess our services to you and we may hold this information for a reasonable time after you submit it, or (if we engage you as a partner) for a reasonable time after you cease to be one of our partners. We may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by e-mail in relation to your application.
Disclosure of your information
The information you provide to us will be held on our computers in the UK and may be accessed by or given to our staff and the staff of our partner organisations outside the UK and third parties who act for us for the purposes set out in this policy or for other purposes approved by you.
We may also pass aggregate information on the usage of our site to third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.
Where you have consented when providing us with your details, we may also allow carefully selected third parties, including other QubeGB partners in our group, to contact you occasionally about products and services which may be of interest to you. They may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by e-mail. If you change your mind about being contacted by these organisations in the future, please let us know.
Finally, if our organisation enters into a joint venture with or is merged with another organisational entity, your information may be disclosed to our new business partners.
By submitting your information to us, you agree that it may be transferred outside the European Economic Area. Countries outside the European Economic Area do not always have strong data protection laws. However, we will always take steps to ensure that your information is used by third parties in accordance with this policy.
Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.
Security and data retention
We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires.
Accessing and updating
You are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do this, please contact us as we are the data controller for this information. We are entitled by law to charge a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes to our privacy policy in the future will be posted to the site and, where appropriate, through e-mail notification.
Contact
All comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your information are welcomed and should be addressed to:
QubeGB Ltd
303 Ettrick Riverside
Selkirk
TD7 5EB Tel: +44 (0) 333 240 1806
Fax: +44 (0) 896 804 888
Email info@qubegb.com