Terms of use

 

1 Introduction
Welcome to The Ideas Facility. Please read these Terms of Use carefully. They apply between you, the user of this Website and us, The Ideas Facility., the owners and providers of this Website.

These Terms of Use govern your use of this Website. By using this Website, you accept these Terms of Use in full. If you disagree with these Terms of Use or any part of them, you must not use this Website.

In these Terms of Use, the following terms have the following meanings:
“User/You/Your” means any party that accesses the Website that is not employed by us and acting in the course of their employment; “User Content” means material (including, without limitation, text, images, audio and video material) that you submit to this Website and when following us on social media for whatever purpose; “We/Us/Our” means The Ideas Facility. of 386 Old Road, Barlaston, Staffordshire, ST12 9EW; and “Website” means the website that you are currently using (www.theideasfacility.com) and any sub-domains of this site unless expressly excluded by their own terms.

2 License to use the Website
Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own all intellectual property rights in the Website and the material on the Website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only and print pages from the Website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms of Use.

You must not:
a) republish material from this Website (including republication on another website);
b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the Website;
c) show any material from the Website in public or for a commercial purpose;
d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this Website for a commercial purpose;
e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the Website; or
f) redistribute or use material from this Website except for content specifically and expressly made available for use or redistribution.

3 Acceptable use
You must not use this Website:
a) in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
b) to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
c) to conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, without limitation, scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this Website without our express written consent;
d) to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications; or
e) for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

4 Restricted access
We reserve the right to alter, suspend or discontinue any part (or the whole of) the Website or to restrict access to other areas of this Website, or this entire Website, at our discretion.

We reserve the right to carry out Website maintenance as necessary and will endeavour to advise you of this in advance where possible.

5 User content
You retain the rights in all User Content that you create while using the Website. However, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your User Content in any existing or future media. You also grant us the right to sub-license these rights and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your User Content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you, us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). You must not submit any User Content to the Website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

6 Links
This Website may include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience, to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

You may not create a link to this Website from another website or document without our prior written consent.

7 No warranties
We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this Website; nor do we commit to ensuring that the Website remains available or that the material on the Website is kept up-to-date.

We make every effort to keep the Website up and running smoothly, however we exclude any liability to you should the Website and/or any of the associated resources not be available to you at any particular time.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this Website and its use.

8 Limitations and exclusions of liability
Nothing in these terms of use will:
a) limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
b) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
c) limit or exclude any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law.

Subject to the above, as all information on the Website is provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever. For details of our liability for events booked via the Website, please refer to our Terms and Conditions.

Subject to the above, we will not be liable for any injury, loss or expense howsoever arising from your implementation and use of any of the subject matter taken from our Website.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software. We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

9 Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us and keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these Terms of Use.


10 Breaches of these terms of use
If you breach these Terms of Use in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the Website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the Website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the Website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

11 Variation
We may revise these Terms of Use from time-to-time. The revised version will apply from the date the revised Terms of Use are published on our Website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

12 Assignment
We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these Terms of Use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these Terms of Use.

13 Severability
Any part of these Terms of Use found to be unlawful, invalid or otherwise unenforceable would be severed from them. The validity and enforceability of the remaining parts of the Terms of Use would not be affected.

14 Exclusion of third party rights
These Terms of Use are between you and us. They are not intended to benefit any other person or third party in any way and no such person or party will be entitled to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use.

15 Entire agreement
These Terms of Use, together with our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our Website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this Website.

16 Law and jurisdiction
These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, and any disputes relating to these Terms of Use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.