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Terms and Conditions

TERMS OF USE

These terms of use ("terms") (together with any documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use of our website (directaccessportal.co.uk) (our Website), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our Website includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our Website.

Please read these terms carefully before you use our Website. We recommend that you print a copy for future reference.

By using our Website, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms you must not use our Website.

OTHER APPLICABLE TERMS

These terms refer to our Privacy Statement which also apply to your use of our Website.

INFORMATION ABOUT US

Our Website is operated by Prothera Limited ("We"). We are registered in England & Wales under company number 08038418 and have our registered office at Ryecroft, 25 Manor Park Road, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 7SQ.

CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

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

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you.

CHANGES TO OUR SITE

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 However, please note that any of the content on our Website may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

ACCESSING OUR SITE

We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or uninterrupted. Access to our Website is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our Website without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Website.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms and other applicable terms, and that they comply with them.

YOUR ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at david@directaccessportal.co.uk.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

The contents of the Website including the website design and all other materials on the Website are copyright of Prothera.

We permit you to copy, download, reproduce and/or electronically save part or parts of the contents of this website solely for personal use. Any other use of the contents of this Website is strictly prohibited.

NO RELIANCE ON INFORMATION

The content on our Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to any advice on which you should reply. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Website.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

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 Website; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Website.

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

loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
business interruption;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

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 Website or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our Website. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Website, or to make contact with other users of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or any website linked to it, you must comply with the content standards.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

Any content you upload to our Website 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 the Website a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Website 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 Website.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in these terms of use.

The views expressed by other users on our Website do not represent our views or values.

PROHBITED USES

You may use our Website only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Website:

in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards;
to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree not to:

reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website in contravention of the provisions of these terms; or
access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
- any part of our Website or any equipment or network on which our Website is stored;
- any software used in the provision of our Website; or
- any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

CONTENT STANDARDS

These content standards apply to all and any material which you contribute to our Website ("contributions") and to any interactive services associated with it.

Any contributions you make must be accurate, be kept up to date and comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country form which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
promote sexually explicit material, violence, discrimination or any illegal activity;
infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
be likely to deceive any person;
be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
be threatening, abuse or invade anotherâ€™s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
be likely to harass, upset, embarrass alarm or annoy any other person;
be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person/organisation;
give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; or
advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as copyright infringement or computer misuse.

SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms of use through your use of our site. When a breach of these terms of use has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with these terms of use is a material breach and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Website;
immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Website;
issue of a warning to you;
legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
further legal action against you; and/or
disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms of use. The responses described in this section are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

VIRUSES

We do not guarantee that our Website 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 must not misuse our Website 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 Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website 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 Website will cease immediately.

LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE

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 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 to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our website 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.

If you wish to make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact david@directaccessportal.co.uk

THIRD PARTY LINKS AND RESOURCES IN OUR SITE

Where our website 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 to the exclusive jurisdiction of England & Wales.

CONTACT US

To contact us, please email david@directaccessportal.co.uk.