Conditions of Use
Web site Terms & Conditions for Pets-Plus WEB SITE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
Welcome to the Pets-Plus web site (“Web Site”). The Web
Site is operated by AW Agencies, Towerburn Cottage, Hawick TD9 8TB.
Your access to and use of the Web Site is subject to these terms (“Terms of Use”).
Every
time you go to the Web Site, you agree to access and use the Web Site, and the material
on the Web Site, in accordance with the Terms of Use. The Terms of Use are a legally
binding agreement between you and us.
1 Changes to the Terms of Use
1.1 From time to time, we may need to change these Terms
of Use to reflect our changing business. We may change the Terms of Use at any time
by posting the changed Terms on the Web Sites, and by posting a notice to users on
our homepage stating that a change has occurred.
1.2 Any change in the Terms of Use
will not affect the terms of any pre-existing agreement between you and us regarding
your acquisition of any products or services from the Web Site.
2 Usage rules
2.1 The content and information on the Web Site is provided for your
personal use only.
2.2 Unless expressly stated otherwise on the Web Site, you may
download the content and information on the Web Site onto your personal computer,
but only to the extent necessary to allow you to view that content and information.
You may also print hard copies of that content and information, but only for your
own personal use and reference. You must not reproduce or permanently store any content
or information in any medium or form whatsoever.
2.3 You must use the Web Site in
a responsible manner, and in compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, standards
or codes.
2.4 If you are under 18 years of age, you must obtain a parent or guardian’s
consent before accessing or using the Web Site.
2.5 You must not:
(a) store in any
electronic or other medium, publish, distribute, communicate to the public, change,
modify, adapt, manipulate, reverse engineer, decompile, distort or enhance any of
the content or information on the Web Site;
(b) incorporate or merge any of the content
on the Web Site with any other material, including advertising or promotional material;
(c)
create HTTP links from the Web Site to any other web site on the Internet; or
(d)
send, post, communicate or transmit to or via the Web Site (including any chat rooms)
any information or material which infringes a third party's rights (including intellectual
property rights), or which is obscene, indecent, inflammatory, pornographic, defamatory,
illegal, misleading or deceptive;
(e) use the Web Site or any facilities available
on or via the Web Site (including any chat rooms) to defame, harass, threaten, menace
or offend any person, or in a way which inhibits another person from using or enjoying
the Web Site or those facilities;
(f) tamper with, hinder the operation of, or make
unauthorised modifications to the Web Site or any content on the Web Site;
(g) knowingly
transmit any virus, worm, trojan horse or other disabling feature to or via the Web
Site;
(h) use the Web Site to send commercial, unsolicited or bulk electronic messages
to anyone.
(i) use another person’s name, username or password on the Web Site or to access
any content on the Web Site; or
(j) attempt to do, or permit another person to do,
any of the above acts.
3 Operation of the Web Site
3.1 We will use reasonable efforts to make sure that you
can access and use the Web Site at all times. However, despite our efforts, the Web
Site may not be accessible at all times and you may experience interruptions, delays,
errors or faults in your use of and access to the Web Site. We will not be responsible
to you or anyone else if these things occur.
3.2 When you are using the Web Site,
we may require you to re-authenticate yourself from time to time - for example, if
there has been a period of inactivity on the connection between your internet browser
and our servers. We will not be responsible for any information you may lose if your
access to the Web Site is suspended or terminated in these circumstances.
3.3 To enable
you to access certain content on the Web Site, we may provide you with a username,
password or some other type of identifier. You agree that you are responsible keeping
such identifiers secret and that you will responsible for the conduct of any person
who uses your identifiers, whether or not you have authorised that use.
4 Linked Sites
4.1 The Web Site may contain links to other web sites which are not
maintained or controlled by us. These links are provided by us solely for your convenience.
We do not accept any responsibility for broken or redirected links.
4.2 We have not
checked the accuracy, completeness or suitability of the content of, or the goods
and services available from, any linked sites. Also, we do not review or monitor
any linked sites. You must therefore make your own enquiries about the content, goods
or services available from any linked site before relying on that content, or buying
or using any of those goods or services. We will not be responsible for any loss
or damage you suffer as a result of relying on, buying or using any content, goods
or services from a linked site.
4.3 The presence of links on the Web Site should not
be taken to imply that we endorse, sponsor or approve of any linked site, or any
content, products or services available from that linked site, or that we are affiliated
or associated with the owner or operator of any linked site.
5 Changes to the Web Site
5.1 We (or our suppliers) may change the content, information,
products and services provided on the Web Site, and the prices for those things,
at any time.
5.2 If you purchase any products or services from the Web Site, you
will be charged the price that applies and is displayed at the time you request those
products or services.
6 Our liability to you
6.1 To ensure that we can continue to provide you with quality
content and services via the Web Site, we and our related companies need to try to
minimise the costs associated with operating the Web Site.
6.2 As a result, neither
we nor any related companies can accept liability for any loss or damage you suffer
as a result of using or accessing the Web Site or any content, information, products
or services available on or from those Web Site, except to the extent that we are
required to by law.
6.3 In particular, except to the extent required by law, we and
our related companies do not accept, and specifically exclude, liability for any
business losses, or losses of data or profits, or any other direct, indirect or consequential
loss or damage, which you may suffer in connection with our supply, non-supply or
defective supply of the Web Site, or any content, information, products or services
available on or from the Web Site.
7 Your liability to us
7.1 To minimise the costs associated with operating the Web
Site, we also require that you take responsibility for any harm we or our related
companies suffer as a result of your use of the Web Site.
7.2 You therefore agree
to indemnify us and our related companies from and against any loss, damage, costs
or expenses suffered by any of us arising out of or in any way connected to the use
of the Web Site by you or someone using your name and password.
8 Termination and suspension
8.1 If we reasonably believe that you have breached any
of these Terms of Use, we may immediately suspend, terminate or limit your access
to the Web Site.
9 Trade marks, copyright and other intellectual property
9.1 All intellectual property
relating to the Web Site, including any trade marks used on the Web Site, the design
or the Web Site and any content on the Web Site, is owned by us, our related companies
or our licensors.
9.2 For this reason, you must not do anything with the Web Site
or anything on the Web Site (including trade marks and content) that is not expressly
authorised by these Terms of Use.
9.3 Importantly, you must not use or apply any of
our trade marks without our consent. Our trade marks include our name, our logos,
our slogans and the names of our competitions.
10 General matters
10.1 If we need to notify you of any matter relating to these Terms
of Use and you have given us your contact details, we ask, and you agree, that we
may use post, fax or email to the relevant contact details notified to us. If we
do use email, you will be taken to have received the email if it leaves our servers,
unless we receive evidence to the contrary.
10.2 These Terms of Use are governed by
United Kingdom law.
10.3 If any of these Terms of Use are invalid, unenforceable or
illegal in a particular jurisdiction, that term will be struck out for that jurisdiction
only and the remaining terms will remain in full force.
10.4 If we do not act in
relation to a particular breach by you of these Terms of Use, this will not be treated
as a waiver by us of our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.