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Terms and Conditions for Site Use
In using this website, you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") set out below. If you do not agree to the Terms then you may not use this website or the Community.
ITRI Limited reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to amend these Terms from time to time. Please ensure that you check this page regularly.
1. Definitions:
"Website" means www.itri.co.uk, www.soldertec.com and/or www.tinplategroup.com
"Community" means the web based business network operated by VBN upon which the Website is hosted.
"You/Your" means you, the user of this Website.
"User Information" refers to information provided by you via the Website and/or the Community.
"We/Us/Our" means ITRI Limited who provide this Website and Virtual Business Network Limited (VBN) who provide the Community.
2. Registration
| 2.1 | If You wish to take advantage of enhanced access to the Website then You may register on the Website. You are not obliged to register in order to use the general Website.
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| 2.2 | You warrant, represent and undertake that the User Information which You are required to provide when You register is true, accurate, current and complete in all respects and You agree to notify Us as soon as possible of any changes to the User Information.
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| 2.3 | You will be required to select a username and password during the registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password and are fully responsible for all activities which occur under them during Your use of the Website. We require that you do not allow other people to use your username and password.
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| 2.4 | You agree to notify admin@itri.co.uk immediately of any unauthorised use of Your username or password or any other breach of security of which You become aware. We cannot be liable to any person for any loss or damage which may arise as a result of any failure by you to protect your password or account.
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| 2.5 | We reserve the right to decline any application from You to subscribe to the Website and/or the Community at Our sole discretion.
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| 2.6 | You agree not to impersonate any other person or to use a false name or a name that You are not authorised to use.
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3. Your use of the Website and the Community
| 3.1 | Your use of the Website and the Community carries with it no rights in relation to copyright, trade marks or other intellectual property rights of Ours. Your use of the Website and the Community is governed by these Terms and any Additional Terms to which You have agreed, regardless of whether such use is in connection with or otherwise related to Your use of the Website or the Community.
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| 3.2 | All right, title, and interest (including all copyrights and other intellectual property rights) in the Website and the Community as between You and Us belong to Us. You acquire no proprietary interest in the Website or the Community. You may not remove or obscure the copyright notice or other notices contained in the Website or Community or anything retrieved or downloaded from the Website or Community.
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| 3.3 | You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, rent, lease, loan, sublicense or create derivative works from the Website or the Community, which includes the information and software made available therein.
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| 3.4 | Registered users of the Website are permitted to use the Website and its contents for Your own personal, non-commercial use, and any other use of this Website or its content is prohibited without the express prior permission of ITRI Limited.
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| 3.5 | If You subscribe to a membership package You are permitted to reproduce portions of the site for distribution to colleagues within Your organisation, in accordance with the terms of Your membership package. Any such documents must not be modified in any way or taken out of context and ITRI Limited must be acknowledged.
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| 3.6 | You acknowledge that by posting any materials on the Website You grant to Us and Our licensors and assigns an irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free licence to use the materials within the Website. We may remove them from the Website at any time without notice to You.
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4. Your Obligations
| 4.1 | You agree that You will only use the Website and the Community in a manner that is consistent with these Terms and any Additional Terms and in such a way as to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, Your local law).
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| 4.2 | You agree that You will not, in respect of the Website and the Community:
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| 4.2.1 | post material which is offensive, derogatory or defamatory in nature, or which may, in Our judgement, cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to any person;
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| 4.2.2 | post material which is obscene or pornographic in nature;
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| 4.2.3 | post material containing profanity, vulgarity, hate speech, or threats of violence;
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| 4.2.4 | make repetitive postings or perform other actions which may interfere with the operation of the Website and/or the Community;
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| 4.2.5 | post contact or personal information about any other individual without the permission of that individual;
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| 4.2.6 | post material without the permission of the owner of that material;
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| 4.2.7 | send e-mail or postal correspondence to any other user of the Website or Community after being requested to stop doing so by that user;
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| 4.2.8 | use any computer code, program or routine to extract or to attempt to extract any part of the database comprising all postings of the Website and/or Community;
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| 4.2.9 | post any material containing any virus or other computer programming routine which may damage or interfere with the Website and/or Community;
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| 4.2.10 | use the Website and/or Community in such a way that You cause the whole or part of the Website and/or Community to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or in any way impaired;
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| 4.2.11 | refuse to follow a reasonable instruction or direction from Us.
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| 4.3 | To the extent to which Your use or the use by any person who may be authorised by You or for whom You are responsible (for example, as employer) causes loss or damage to Us or any person, You agree to indemnify each of ITRI Limited and VBN immediately on demand in relation to any such losses or damages attributable to them, including where necessary any legal, administrative or technical charges that may arise from such use.
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5. Our Obligations to You and Limitations on Liability
| 5.1 | We cannot guarantee that the Website and/or the Community will always be fully operational or error free and so We do not accept responsibility for any defects that may exist or for any costs, loss of profits, loss of data or consequential losses arising from Your use of or inability to access the Website and/or the Community.
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| 5.2 | We make no warranty that the Website and/or the Community will meet Your requirements or will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials or as to results or the accuracy of any information obtained by You through the Website and/or the Community.
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| 5.3 | Whilst We take reasonable precautions to ensure that any downloads We make available will be virus free We do not warrant that any downloads will be virus free and will not cause interruptions with Your computer systems.
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| 5.4 | We do not review, assess or endorse any of the material submitted to Us and/or posted on the Website or the Community including the accuracy or reliability of any text, information, data, photographs, graphics, advertisements, promotions, representations, statements or other material whatsoever.
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| 5.5 | We exclude, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, and save in respect of death or personal injury arising from Our negligence, all liability for any claims, losses, demands and damages arising directly or indirectly out of or in any way connected with the Website or the Community. This exclusion shall apply in respect of, without limitation, any interruption of service, lost profits, loss of contracts or business opportunity, loss of data, or any other consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages, even if We have been advised of the possibility of such damages, whether arising in contract, tort, under statute or otherwise.
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| 5.6 | We may provide links to other Websites or resources and may post, accept the posting of or make available content provided by third parties (Third Party Content) whether or not that Third Party Content is hosted within the Community. We do not accept responsibility for the Third Party Content and do not and cannot be deemed to have endorsed any Third Party Content. In particular, You acknowledge that We will not be party to any transaction or contract with a third party that You may enter into and that We shall have no liability to You in respect of any such transaction, whether arising in contract, tort, under statute or otherwise. You undertake that You will not involve Us in any dispute between Yourselves and the third party.
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| 5.7 | We will at all times comply with Our Privacy Policy.
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6. Our Rights
| 6.1 | We reserve the right to:
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| 6.1.1 | deny or suspend Your access to the Website and/or the Community or any part thereof if Your use of the Website and/or Community or that part is deemed by Us abusive, excessive, or against the interests of other users or in breach of these Terms;
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| 6.1.2 | modify or withdraw, temporarily or permanently, the Website and/or the Community (or any part thereof) with or without notice to You and You confirm that We shall not be liable to You or any third party for any modification to or withdrawal of the Website or the Community;
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| 6.1.3 | change these Terms from time to time, and Your continued use of the Website and/or the Community (or any part thereof) following such change shall be deemed to be Your acceptance of such change. It is Your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether the Terms have been changed. If You do not agree to any change to the Terms then You must immediately stop using the Website and/or the Community; and/or
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| 6.1.4 | refuse to place any content or material provided by You onto the Website and/or the Community in Our sole discretion and to remove any content or material from the Website and/or the Community once uploaded in Our sole discretion.
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7. GENERAL
| 7.1 | If any part of the Terms shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed to be severable from the Terms and shall not effect the validity and enforceability of any of the remaining provisions of the Terms.
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| 7.2 | No waiver by Us shall be construed as a waiver of any proceeding or succeeding breach of any provision.
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| 7.3 | Each provision of the Terms shall be construed as separately applying and surviving even if for any reason one or other of those provisions is held to be inapplicable or unenforceable in any circumstances.
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| 7.4 | The Terms (as amended from time to time) contain the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter covered and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, written or oral, between the parties in relation to such matters. No oral explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter the interpretation of the Terms. You confirm that, in agreeing to accept the Terms, You have not relied on any representation save insofar as the same has expressly been made a representation in the Terms and You agree that You shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation which has not become a term of the Terms save that Your agreement shall not apply in respect of any fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation whether or not such has become a term of the Terms.
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8. Law
The Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
Please note: This Policy only applies to this Website and the Community, but not to the websites of other companies, individuals or organisations to which We provide links. You should refer to their privacy policy for information on how they collect and process personal data.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all personal information obtained from visitors to Our Website. All personal information is collected, held and used in strict compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Our aim in collecting such information is to understand what You want from the Website and the Community and to improve Our services to You.
This Privacy Policy outlines the information that We may collect, and how We use this information. By using the Website You indicate Your consent to the collection and use of such information in accordance with the following Privacy Policy.
1. Definitions
"Website" means www.itri.co.uk, www.soldertec.com and/or www.tinplategroup.com
"Community" means the web based business network operated by VBN upon which the Website is hosted.
"You/Your" means you, the user of this Website.
"We/Us/Our" means ITRI Limited who provide this Website and Virtual Business Network Limited (VBN) who provide the Community.
2. What information will be requested? How will it be used?
| 2.1 | If you wish to become a registered user or a member You will need to submit Your e-mail addresses and some other personal details. Submission of Your e-mail address enables us to contact you and gives Us the potential to set up targeted newsletter services and other e-mail based services to enhance your Community experience. If you do not wish to receive such services, You may unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to admin@itri.co.uk You are not obliged to register in order to use the general Website.
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| 2.2 | We may also collect aggregate data based upon site usage. These data allow Us to assess the popularity of certain areas of the Website and Community and raise the level of service performance which We provide for you. Such information also allows Us to inform potential advertisers and selected third party service providers of areas of the Community which are most suitable for displaying their banners, products and services. These data are collected using 'cookies'.
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| 2.3 | A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on Your computer's hard drive by Your web browser. On revisiting the Website and/or Community Our computer server will recognise the cookie, giving Us information about Your last visit. Cookies do not store or reveal any personal information about You. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually You can alter the settings of Your browser to prevent automatic acceptance. Prohibiting the use of cookies will reduce your networking experience.
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3. Disclosure to outside parties
| 3.1 | We do not pass, sell, trade or rent personal details entered on this Website or the Community to others. We may chose to do so in the future, but only with selected third parties who provide goods and services which We deem of interest to users. We will only provide the personal details of those users who have given consent on registration. You may change this at any time via the edit facility under the 'My Account' option of the Website. We may also provide aggregate statistics about users, their usage behaviour and related site information to reputable third parties.
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| 3.2 | We reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable lasw and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly or to protect ourselves or our users. We also reserve the right to disclose individually identifiable information to third parties where a complaint arises concerning Your use of the Website and/or community, and that use is deemed by Us inconsistent with these Terms and/or the Additional Terms.
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4. Customer Feedback and Complaints
We welcome Your questions and comments about privacy issues. Additionally, on payment of a small fee, You may request details of all personal information held by Us ("subject access request") so as to contest inaccurate or incomplete data, verify the information or have it corrected as appropriate. Should You have such a request, comments or have a complaint about how We are using Your personal data, please send an e-mail to dataprotection@itri.co.uk.
5. Updates
Please note that our Policy may be amended from time to time, so please ensure You check this page regularly for any updates or changes.
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