Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions are for use of the Softei.com and Weartechdesign.com websites (the Sites) which is owned by Softei.com Ltd part of the Marjonmedia Group. You may access the Sites in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web, PDA, mobile phone and RSS feeds. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access the Sites, on whatever device.

By using the Sites you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

 

1. Permitted Use
Subject to what is said below, material from the Sites may be downloaded, viewed, listened-to, printed, copied on the hard disk of your computer (but not photocopied) and used for: your own personal, non-commercial purposes; internal business purposes; or the non-commercial purpose of using the Sites as a personal information resource in good faith only. Single copies of pages from the Sites may be printed out for the sole purposes of enabling the person printing the page to retain a copy for their own personal records. Any other type of use (and, in particular, any copying or distribution of material from the Sites for any commercial or business purpose) requires the prior written agreement of Marjonmedia Group.

1.2 You agree that you will not use the Sites:
for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect; in any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Sites by any person; which will compromise the privacy or data protection rights of any person; for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail”, “spam”, “chain letters”, “pyramid schemes”, or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation; for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes material downloaded from the Sites; to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from the Sites to any third party; or in any way that might bring Marjonmedia Group or any of its related companies or employees into disrepute.

2. Registration
This Clause 2 shall apply where you register with softei.com or weartechdesign.com for use of the Sites.

2.1 You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as requested by softei.com and weartechdesig.com in the registration form (“the Registration Information”). You agree to maintain and promptly update the Registration Information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. 

3. Removal of material and cancellation of access to the Site
3.1 Marjonmedia Group shall have the right to cancel your registration and/or refuse you access to the Sites at any time and for any reason without giving you any advance notice and Marjonmedia Group shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever (other than losses or damages for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of Marjonmedia or its employees) arising from your inability to access any of the pages on the Sites.

3.2 Marjonmedia Group shall have the right at any time and for any reason to remove from the pages on the Sites any material posted, uploaded, emailed or otherwise transmitted by you without giving you any advance notice and Marjonmedia Group shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever (other than losses or damages for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of Marjonmedia Group or its employees) arising from the removal of such material.

3.3 Marjonmedia Group will not view or edit or pre-screen any contribution that you or anyone else make to the interactive pages of the Sites and therefore, unless Marjonmedia Group is specifically notified of the nature of any item of content, you cannot assume that they are responsible for having made it available on the Sites. Marjonmedia Group shall have the right (but not the obligation) to refuse or remove any content that is posted to, or made available on, the forums or the website without the need to give any reasons for doing so.

3.4 If you object to the publication of any material placed on the Sites please let Marjonmedia Group know by sending an appropriately worded email to info@softei.com and we will take whatever action we deem appropriate.

4. Rights Clearances
The copyright, and other rights, in some of the material appearing on the Sites may belong to a third party. It is your responsibility to obtain any licences or permissions that may be required to use such material and you agree to pay any costs or expenses incurred by Marjonmedia Group which arise as a result of your failure to obtain such licences and permissions.

5. Submitting Content
You may submit material for publication on parts of the Sites, including blogs, forums, PR etc. We accept no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy. If you want to submit material to Marjonmedia Group for publication on the Sites, you may do so on the following terms and conditions:

5.1 Marjonmedia Group may publish and make available to the public by any means any material that you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to them or to the Sites at their sole discretion and they shall be entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication.

5.2 You hereby grant Marjonmedia Group a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and worldwide licence to republish any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to them or to the Sites in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format.

5.3 You hereby waive all of the moral rights that you have under Chapter IV of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 in respect of any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to Marjonmedia Group or to the Sites.

5.4 publication of any material you submit to us will be at Marjonmedia Group’s sole discretion. Marjonmedia Group reserves the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication

5.5 you warrant to Marjonmedia Group that any material you submit to the Sites is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights

5.6 you warrant that the material you submit and the language that you use is not obscene, abusive, hateful, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal

5.7 you agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users, to breach confidence, to compromise privacy or to process personal data in an unauthorised manner.

5.8 you agree not to post material which may encourage criminal conduct or which may give rise to civil liability, or which is otherwise unlawful.

5.9 you agree not to place any links on the Sites where those links take users to unlawful material or material that contravenes these terms.

5.10 you agree that, except where expressly permitted by Marjonmedia Group, you will not place on the Sites advertisements nor make commercial solicitations nor use the Sites for any commercial purposes (which would include using the Sites to promote or encourage the sale of your goods/services).

5.11 you acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause Marjonmedia Group damage or loss and you agree to indemnify Marjonmedia Group in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.

5.12 Marjonmedia Group reserves the right to remove your access to individual services completely if Marjonmedia Group believes that you are abusing the services in any way.

6. Liability
6.1 Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information provided by Marjonmedia Group and its employees in these pages, the contents of the Sites reflect the opinions of the writers, they do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Marjonmedia Group or any of its brands, they are personal to the writer and are naturally subject to change from time to time. It is the responsibility of users to check the accuracy of relevant facts and take appropriate professional advice before entering into any commitment based upon them.

6.2 Marjonmedia Group can not guarantee that your use of the Sites will be free from error and/or uninterrupted. Marjonmedia Group, its directors, its employees and its representatives exclude, in so far as it is legally possible, all liability and responsibility for any damages (other than liability for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of Marjonmedia Group or its officers) including, but not limited to, indirect or consequential damages, damages for loss of opportunity or chance, or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of, or in connection with, any information on the Sites or any other Internet sites or the use thereof.

6.3 Some of the pages on the Sites include material (including, but not limited to, advertisements) posted by third parties. Individual users and advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising and other material which they submit to Marjonmedia Group and for ensuring that such content complies with all relevant legislation. Marjonmedia Group accepts no responsibility for the content of material posted by third parties, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

6.4 On some of the pages of the Sites users may be given the opportunity of entering into agreements with third parties. Marjonmedia Group is not a party to those agreements, does not act as an agent for those third parties (who, in turn, do not act as agents for Marjonmedia Group) and Marjonmedia Group is not liable in relation to, and takes no responsibility for, any contract entered into by users with any third party.

7. Links
7.1 Some of the pages on the Sites include links to external websites. These links are included to give users the opportunity to access other pages that it is felt may be of assistance to them. Marjonmedia Group is not responsible for the content of these Internet sites.

8. Viruses
8.1 Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the pages of the Sites are free from viruses, Marjonmedia Group gives no warranties that they are indeed free from viruses and users are responsible for ensuring that they have installed adequate virus checking software.

8.2 Marjonmedia Group excludes, in so far as it is legally possible, all liability and responsibility (other than liability for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of Marjonmedia Group or its officers) for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programmes designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material transmitted with or as part of:
(a) the pages on the Sites or any other Internet sites; or
(b) any material downloaded from the Sites or any other Internet sites.

9. Intellectual Property
The names, images and logos identifying softei.com and weartechdesign.com (both part of the Marjonmedia Group) or third parties and their products and services, are the proprietary marks of Marjonmedia Group, and/or may be the proprietary marks of third parties. Any use made of these marks may be an infringement of rights in those marks and Marjonmedia Group reserves all rights to enforce such rights that it might have.

10. Variations
These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the Sites after any variation has been posted.

11. Severability
If any of these terms and conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the terms and conditions and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

12. Jurisdiction
12.1 The Sites have been created with UK users in mind and therefore its content may not be appropriate or lawful outside of the UK. Users from outside of the UK should therefore verify for themselves whether or not it is appropriate for them to access the Sites.

12.2 The terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising from matters relating to the Sites shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Content of All Advertisements
2.1 All Advertisements must comply with the following terms and conditions:

1. You warrant to Marjonmedia Group that any Advertisement is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights;

2. You warrant that any Advertisement that you submit and the language that you use in it is not obscene, abusive, hateful, obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Sites by any person;

3. You agree not to post any Advertisement which is deliberately intended to upset other users, to breach confidence, to compromise privacy or to process personal data in an unauthorised manner;

4. You agree not to post any Advertisement which may encourage criminal conduct or which may give rise to civil liability, or which is otherwise unlawful;

5. You agree not to place within any Advertisement any links where those links take users to unlawful material or material that contravenes these terms;

6. You agree not to post any Advertisement which contravenes the relevant codes of conduct imposed by the Advertising Standards Authority;

7. You agree not to post, upload or otherwise transmit any Advertisement which:
a. infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;

b. will compromise the privacy or data protection rights of any person; or

c. may bring Marjonmedia Group into disrepute.

8. You agree not to use the Service for:
a. the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail”, “spam”, “chain letters”, “pyramid schemes”, affiliate schemes, or any other so called business opportunity or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;

b. for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

2.3 You acknowledge that any breach of the terms/warranties given above may cause Marjonmedia Group damage or loss and you agree to indemnify Marjonmedia Group in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage that it incurs as a result of publishing material that you submit to it, including consequential losses.

2.4 Marjonmedia Group may publish and make available to the public by any means any Advertisement that you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to it at their sole discretion and they shall be entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication.

2.5 If your Advertisement links to another website via our external apply online option or otherwise, you are responsible for maintaining the links and for the content of your Advertisement and the linked website. Marjonmedia Group may remove from the Sites any Advertisement which contains content or links to a website which, in Marjonmedia Group’s opinion, is defamatory, illegal or objectionable or will bring Marjonmedia Group into disrepute. You will indemnify Marjonmedia Group from and against any claims or liability arising from the content of websites that are linked to from your Advertisement.

2.6 Marjonmedia Group reserves the right to remove your Advertisements completely if Marjonmedia Group believes that you are abusing the Service in any way.

 

Marjonmedia Group

Riverside Business Centre, River Lawn Road, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1EP

Tel – +44 (0)1732 783544

Email – info@softei.com

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