Terms and Conditions

Website Terms of Use

These Terms

These terms and conditions (“Terms”) govern your use of this website and your relationship with Sight Loss Councils (“we” or “us”).

Please read them carefully as they affect your rights and liabilities under the law. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use this website.

Please also see our Privacy Policy for information about how we collect and use your personal data.

Use of this Website

This website is provided to you for your personal use subject to these Terms. By using this website you agree to be bound by these Terms.

You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and that they comply with them.

Amendments

We may update these Terms from time to time for legal or regulatory reasons or to allow the proper operation of this website. Significant changes will be notified via a suitable announcement on this website.

If you continue to use this website after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of this website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Terms.

Intellectual property

The content of this website is protected by copyright, trademarks, database rights and other intellectual property rights. You may retrieve and display the content of this website on a computer screen, store such content in electronic form on disk (but not any server or other storage device connected to a network) or print one copy of such content for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content on this website without our written permission.

Some of the services we provide on this website may provide content that is protected by copyright, trademarks, database rights and other intellectual property rights owned by third parties. Such intellectual property rights are licensed to us and if you reproduce, modify, copy or distribute any of this content you may be infringing these third-party intellectual property rights.

We do not warrant as to the accuracy of any content that is supplied by a third party and which we can provide to you under licence.

Availability of this Website

Although we aim to offer you the best service possible, we make no promise that the services at this website will meet your requirements. We cannot guarantee that the services will be fault-free. If a fault occurs with this website you should report it to us and we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as we reasonably can.

Your access to this website may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to restore the service as soon as we reasonably can. Access to the website may be restricted whether or not you have registered with us.

Our liability

This website may provide content from other internet websites or resources and while we try to ensure that material included on this website is correct, reputable and of high quality, we do not make any warranties or guarantees in relation to that content. If we are informed of any inaccuracies in the material on the website we will attempt to correct the inaccuracies as soon as we reasonably can.

If we are in breach of these Terms, we will only be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a result to the extent that they are a foreseeable consequence to both of us at the time you use this website. Our liability shall not in any event include business losses such as lost data, lost profits or business interruption.

Commentary and other materials posted on this website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We shall not be liable for any losses that may be incurred by you or any visitor to this website or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents as a result of any reliance placed on such materials.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

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 to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that 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 must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would 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 by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Third Party Websites

As a convenience to you, this website includes links to other websites or material which are beyond its control. We are not responsible for content on any website outside this website.

Advertising and Sponsorship

Part of this website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on this website complies with relevant laws and codes. We will not be responsible to you for any error or inaccuracy in advertising and sponsorship material.

Miscellaneous

If you feel that any materials appearing on our website are offensive, objectionable or potentially defamatory please contact us by way of our contact page providing full details of the nature of your complaint and the materials to which the complaint relates.

You may not transfer any of your rights under these Terms to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these Terms to another business where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.

If you breach these Terms and we choose to ignore this, we will still be entitled to use its rights and remedies at a later date or in any other situation where you breach the Terms and Conditions.

We shall not be responsible for any breach of these Terms caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

Applicable Law

These Terms will be subject to the laws of England and Wales. We will try to solve any disagreements quickly and efficiently. If you are not happy with the way we deal with any disagreement and you want to take court proceedings, you must do so within the United Kingdom.

Contact Us

If you have any queries please contact us by email at: info@sightlosscouncils.org.uk or by telephone on: 0208 995 0880