This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells
you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website
whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these
terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. When
you use, access or browse our site and/or register your details
with us, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that
you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these
terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
1. INFORMATION ABOUT US
www.houghtons.com (our site) is a site operated by
Houghton-Parkhouse Limited (we or us). We are registered in
England and Wales under company number 03858584 and have our
registered office at Houghton-Parkhouse Coachworks, Grisleymire
Lane, Milnthorpe, CumbriaLA7 7RF. Our VAT number is
734143945.
2. ACCESSING OUR SITE
2.1 When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of
these terms of use at all times.
2.2 Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we
reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on
our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable
if, for any reason, our site is unavailable at any time or for any
period.
2.3 From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of
our site, or our entire site, both to users who have registered
with us and to guest users.
2.4 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary
for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible
for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your
internet connection are aware of these terms and that they comply
with them.
3. REGISTRATION
3.1 You may register your details with us, in order to receive
additional information and services for registered users and to
access some areas of our site which is restricted to registered
users. When registering your details with us you must not
provide any false information or impersonate any other person.
3.2 By registering on our site, you agree that:
3.2.1 your account and password are personal
to you and may not be used by anyone else to access our site;
3.2.2 you shall be responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality and security of your username, password(s) and
any other piece of information which you choose, or are provided
with, as part of our security procedures. You shall not share
or disclose such information to any third party or do anything
which would assist anyone else to gain access to your account
and/or services for registered users;
3.2.3 you shall notify us immediately if you
become aware of any authorised use of your account and/or password;
and
3.2.4 we may use your details to provide you
with additional information and/or services for registered users in
accordance with our privacy policy.
4. TERMINATION AND/OR SUSPENSION OF REGISTRATION
4.1 If you no longer wish to have a registered account, you may
terminate your account at any time by sending an email to
sales@houghtons.com
4.2 We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your registered
account at any time if you fail to comply with any of the
provisions of these terms of use or for any other reason, at our
sole discretion.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
5.1 We are the owner or 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.
5.2 You may print off, and you may download extracts, of any
page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw
the attention of others within your organisation to material posted
on our site.
5.3 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 material on our site must always be
acknowledged.
5.4 You must not use any part of the materials on our site for
commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or
our licensors.
5.5 If you print off, copy or download 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.
6. RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on our 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 our site or by anyone who may be informed of any
of its contents.
7. OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY
We aim to update our site regularly and may change the content
at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our
site or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our
site may be out of date at any given time and we are under no
obligation to update such material.
8. OUR LIABILITY
8.1 The material displayed on our site is provided without any
guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To
the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of
companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly
exclude:
8.1.1 all conditions, warranties and other
terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or
equity; and
8.1.2 any liability for any direct, indirect
or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection
with our site or in connection with the use, ability to use or the
results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any
materials posted on it including, without limitation, any liability
for loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or
contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of
goodwill, wasted management or office time and for any other loss
or damage of any kind however arising and whether caused by tort
(including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if
foreseeable,
but nothing in these terms of use affects our
liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence
or our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or
misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter or any other liability
which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
9. INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO
OUR SITE
We process information about you in accordance
with our privacy
policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing
and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
10. PROHIBITED USES AND OFFENCES
10.1 You may use our site only for lawful
purposes. You may not use our site:
10.1.1 in any way that breaches any applicable
local, national or international law or regulation;
10.1.2 in any way that is unlawful or
fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or
effect;
10.1.3 for the purpose of harming or
attempting to harm minors in any way;
10.1.4 to transmit, or procure the sending of,
any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material
or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
10.1.5 to knowingly transmit any data, send or
upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms,
logic bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other
harmful programs, materials or similar computer code designed to
adversely affect the operation of any computer software or
hardware;
10.1.6 to 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; or
10.1.7 to attack our site via a
denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service
attack.
10.2 You also agree:
10.2.1 not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or
re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of
these terms of use; and
10.2.2 not to access without authority,
interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our site, any
equipment or network on which our site is stored, any software used
in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or
software owned or used by any third party.
10.3 By breaching the provisions of clauses
10.1.5, 10.1.6 and/or 10.1.7 above, you may 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 (maybe by disclosing your
identity to them). In the event of such a breach, your right
to use our site will cease immediately.
10.4 We will not be liable for any loss or
damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or
other technologically harmful material that may infect your
computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary
material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any
material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
11. INDEMNITY
You shall indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims and all
direct, indirect or consequential liabilities (including loss of
profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and similar
losses), costs, proceedings, damages and expenses (including legal
and other professional fees and expenses) awarded against, or
incurred or paid by, us as a result of or in connection with any
breach by you or any user of your account of these terms of use or
our privacy
policy.
12. LINKING TO OUR SITE
12.1 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.
12.2 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. The website from which you are linking must
comply in all respects with these terms of use.
12.3 If you wish to make any use of material on our site other
than that set out above, please address your request to
sales@houghtons.com
13. LINKS FROM OUR SITE
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources
provided by third parties these links are provided for your
information only. We have no control over the contents of
those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or
for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
14. JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any
claim arising from or related to a visit to our site although we
retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of
these conditions in your country of residence or other relevant
country. These terms of use are governed by English
law.
15. TRADE MARKS
"Houghton Parkhouse" is the trade mark of Houghton Parkhouse
Limited.
16. VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this
page. You are expected to check this page from time to time
to take notice of any changes we make as they are binding on
you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use
may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere
on our site.
17. YOUR CONCERNS
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our
site, please contact sales@houghtons.com
Thank you for visiting our site.
