Terms and Conditions
Disclaimer
This
Disclaimer applies solely to the HiREB Ethics online ("the website").
The software and web services are provided by Infonetica Ltd
(“Infonetica”).
Reference to "we" are to HiREB and/or Infonetica.
By
accessing the Website the user agrees to these Terms and Conditions and
the Website's Privacy Policy and consent to the collection, use and
transfer of the information that you provide in the use of the Website
HiREB
and Infonetica provide the Website to you without any conditions,
warranties or guarantees (whether express or implied), including but not
limited to any implied warranties or conditions as to the satisfactory
quality of fitness for a particular purpose, which are expressly
excluded to the extent permitted by law.
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Your use of the Website
You
may only use the Website for lawful purposes. You may not use, and
shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that no other person uses, the
Website in a way that does not comply with the terms of any laws
applicable to you or that is in any way unlawful.
You agree:
1. To comply with any legal notices contained on the Website;
•To
respect and comply with the legal rights of others, in particular our
rights (including our rights in copyright and trade marks), and the
rights of our licensors; and
•Save where acting as agent or employee
of a third party in connection with an application on this Website, not
to use this Website for any personal commercial gain, nor to sell or
trade in any of the content or other material copied or downloaded from
this Website without our express written permission;
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Liability Statement
HiREB
and Infonetica try to make sure that all information on the Website is
correct, and (without giving any warranty or undertaking in this regard)
HiREB will and will procure that Infonetica will use all reasonable
care and skill to do so. However, subject to the paragraph entitled
‘Exclusions by Law’ below, neither HiREB nor Infonetica accept liability
for any error or omission and exclude all liability, either jointly or
severally, for any action you may take or loss or injury you may suffer
(whether direct, indirect or any consequential or special loss)
howsoever arising out of or in connection with the use of this Website.
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Exclusions by Law
Nothing
in these Terms and Conditions or the Website's Privacy Policy shall or
shall be deemed to exclude or limit liability for death or personal
injury caused by HiREB or Infonetica’s own negligence or for any fraud
perpetrated by HiREB or Infonetica.
For the avoidance of doubt,
to the extent that HiREB or Infonetica are liable by operation of the
above Exclusions by Law paragraph, such liability shall not be several
and not joint.
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Availability of the Website
HiREB
and Infonetica make reasonable endeavors to ensure that the Website is
generally available but neither makes any representation or guarantee
as to such availability. Neither HiREB nor Infonetica take
responsibility for and will not be liable for the website or any
interfaces with other systems being temporarily unavailable, or
resulting in loss or corruption of data due to technical issues beyond
the reasonable control of HiREB and Infonetica.
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Privacy
Any
information generated by you visiting the Website will be handled in
accordance with these Terms and Conditions, the Website's Privacy Policy
and where applicable the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Virus protection
While
HiREB and Infonetica make every effort to check and test material at
all stages of production, HiREB and Infonetica are unable to guarantee
that the Website will never be faulty, free of viruses and/or errors,
nor that it will work continuously, nor that it will be maintained in a
fully operational condition. It is always wise for you to run an
anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the internet. HiREB
and Infonetica cannot accept any liability for any loss, disruption or
damage to your data or your computer system, which may occur whilst you
are using the Website or material derived from the Website.
Users
must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans,
worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or
technologically harmful. Website users must not attempt to gain
unauthorized access to the Website, the server on which the Website is
stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website.
Users must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a
distributed denial-of service attack.
If you breach this
provision, you will have committed a criminal offense under the Computer
Misuse Act 1990. HiREB and/or Infonetica will report any such breach to
the relevant law enforcement authorities and will co-operate with those
authorities by disclosing the website user’s identity to them. In the
event of such a breach, the website user’s right to use the Website will
cease immediately.
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Changes to the Website
We
may make changes to and means of accessing the Website at any time and
without prior notice. If the need arises, the HiREB and Infonetica
reserve the right to suspend access to or close the Website permanently
without prior notice. Whilst every effort is made to keep the Website up
to date, any of the material on the Website may be out of date at any
given time.
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Copyright and intellectual property
You
acknowledge that all rights in copyright, patents, design rights, trade
marks and other intellectual property rights (whether registered,
capable of registration or otherwise) throughout the world ("IP Rights")
in the Website (including all content) are owned by HiREB and/or its
licensors for the full duration of such rights.
Except for your
use of the Website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions and the
Website's Privacy Policy, you are granted no IP Rights in respect of
the Website or its content.
As an individual or organization, you
may print paper copies and make copies to your hard drive of any of the
names, images and logos identifying the Website provided that in doing
so you comply with the following conditions:
1. You must ensure that the resource which you copy is used for research, training, private study or information only and is not used for direct commercial gain;
•You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way; and•You must ensure that the Website is referred to as the source of the resource that you have copied.
•You must not change any of the text or images contained in this Website or merge it with any other text or images, or forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content.
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Amending theses Terms and Conditions and/or the Website's Privacy Policy
From time to time HiREB may at its sole discretion amend these Terms and Conditions and/or the Website's Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to any changed Terms and Conditions and/or Website's Privacy Policy. HiREB will ensure that details of any such changes are posted on the Website in a timely manner.
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Enforceability
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such provision shall not affect the validity, legality and enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions.
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Governing Law
The Canadian courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, the use of this Website. These Terms and Conditions, the Website's Privacy Policy and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Canada.