Terms & Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

About this website

These terms of use relate to the text, software, database, documents, format, graphic and written work and all other materials on our website ("our site") (together referred to as the “Content”) and tell you about how we allow use and access to it. Use of our site is for our own private use and includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site. These terms also apply to any services that we may provide in connection to our site, for example responses to contact requests or emails that we may receive via our site.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site, as these will apply to your use of our site. By using our site, you accept these terms of use and agree to them. These terms form a legal agreement and contain important information about your rights and obligations in relation to our site and any related services.

If you do not agree to these terms of use and/or any future updated version of them then you must not access or use our site.

Other applicable terms

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

Our Privacy Policy, including without limitation the section on cookies, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you acknowledge and consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Information about us

ptenresearch.org is a site operated by PTEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ("we"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 10529899 and have our registered office at 4th Floor, St James House, St James Square, Cheltenham, GL50 3PR.

We are a private company limited by guarantee.

Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page.

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. You acknowledge and consent that your continued access or use of our site after these terms of use have been updated is your acceptance of such updated terms.

Changes to our site

We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions. Our site and/or its Content are provided “as is” and on “as available” basis.

Accessing our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you or any third parties accessing or using our site and/or Content.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site including without limitation any costs associated with accessing the internet.

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.

Intellectual property rights

We, or third parties who have granted us permission to reproduce their material on our site, 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. Nothing in these terms of use gives you any right, title or interest in our site or its Content.

You may print off copies, 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 or use any automated means to circumvent this.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of our site or its Content for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors or use it for any competitive or fraudulent purposes to solicit, advertise or sell any goods or services to users of our site.

If you print off, copy, access, 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.

No reliance on information

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely or create any contractual relationships or constitute or imply any offer, solicitation or provision of any medical or other professional advice. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of our site and/or its Content.

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.

In particular:

you must not rely on the information on our site as an alternative to medical advice from your doctor or other professional healthcare provider;
if you have any specific questions about any medical matter, you should consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider;
if you think you may be suffering from any medical condition, you should seek immediate medical attention; and
you should never delay seeking medical advice, disregard medical advice or discontinue medical treatment because of information on our site.

Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for fraud or for death or for personal injury arising from our negligence, or for any other matter in respect of which it would be unlawful or in breach of regulation to limit or exclude liability. We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, regarding our site and/or its Content, or their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, suitability, reliability or availability or their fitness for any particular purpose or use.

We will not be liable to any user 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.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

loss of products, sales, business, or revenue;
business interruption;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of business opportunity, good will 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 product, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, 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 content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We do not endorse nor are we responsible for the contents of websites operated by others that link to our site or that are accessible form it.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy set out below. You warrant that any such content does comply with those standards, that you are responsible for any such content that you send to or upload to our site and you agree that you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer user, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of your promise to us.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties as set out in the Privacy Policy.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any posting you make to our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy set out below.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of our site.

Acceptable Use

You must not use our site for any unlawful, improper or illegal purpose or activity. In particular, you must not use our site in a way which causes or may cause:

damage to our reputation;
our site or the services offered through our site to be interrupted, damaged or impaired;
a virus or malicious code to be introduced into any part of our site;
offence or detriment to any other person who uses our site;
any invasion of another’s privacy or any breach of confidence;
any infringement of any of any intellectual property right or other proprietary right;
us, you or any other user of our site to be in breach of any law or regulation; or
detriment to any person who supplies services to us in connection with our site.

Except where otherwise expressed in these terms of use, you are prohibited from:

modifying, translating, decomposing, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling or otherwise attempting to gain access to the source code of all or any part of our site;
creating derivative works from any part of our site; copying any part of our site (including any related documentation); or
making commercial use of, leasing, charging, selling, publishing, sub-licensing, distributing, assigning or otherwise transferring any part of our site.

Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You agree not to misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which 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 agree not to attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 or other equivalent international legislation. 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.

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 agree not to establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy set out above.

If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact contact@ptenresearch.org.

Third party links and resources in 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.

Applicable law

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, 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, its subject matter and its 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.

Contact us

To contact us, please email contact@ptenresearch.org

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