TERMS OF WEBSITE USE AND PRIVACY POLICY
This website is owned and managed by ABW Architects Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 06565566 and we have our registered office at America House, 8A Rumford Court, Rumford Place, Liverpool L3 9DD.
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the terms and conditions on which you may use our website whether as a guest or a registered user and the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read these terms carefully before you start to use the site to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we treat it. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”), the data controller is ABW Architects Limited, America House, 8A Rumford Court, Rumford Place, Liverpool L3 9DD.
1. ACCESSING OUR SITE
1.1Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if, for any reason, our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
1.2From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site or our entire site, both to users who have registered with us and to guest users.
1.3If 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, and 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 opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
1.4You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site you are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who are access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms and that they comply with them.
2.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
2.1We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
2.2You may print off one copy, and you may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.
2.3You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
2.4Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
2.5You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes [without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors].
2.6If you print off, copy or download any part of any site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
3. RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
4.OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY
We aim to update our site regularly and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such material.
5. OUR LIABILITY
5.1The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
5.1.1 all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or equity; and
5.1.2 any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, ability to use or the results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it including, without limitation, any liability for loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill, wasted management or office time and for any other loss or damage of any kind however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable
5.1.3 but nothing in these terms of use affects our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
6.VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
6.1You must not misuse our site 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 site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
6.2By breaching this provision, you may 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 site will cease immediately.
6.3We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
7. LINKING TO OUR SITE
7.1 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 but 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.
7.2 You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
7.3 Our site 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. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
7.4 If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than set out above, please address your request to info@abwarchitects.co.uk
8. LINKS FROM OUR SITE
Where our site contains links to other site and resources provided by third parties there links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise form your use of them.
9. JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from or related to a visit to our site [although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or other relevant country]. These terms of use are governed by English law.
10. VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
11. YOUR CONCERNS
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact info@abwarchitects.co.uk.
12. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
12.1We may collect and process the following data about you:
12.2Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.abwarchitects.co.uk (“our Site”). This includes information submitted to us via the ‘Email Us’ link or when requesting further services. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with our site.
12.3If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
12.4We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
12.5Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
13. IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
13.1We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
13.2For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
13.2.1 to estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
13.2.2 to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
13.2.3 to speed up your searches; and
13.2.4 to recognise you when you return to our site.
13.3 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the settings of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will automatically issue cookies when you log on to our site.
14. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
14.1The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By using this site you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
14.2Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a username or password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping that username or password confidential. We ask you not to share your password or username with anyone.
14.3Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to endeavour to prevent unauthorised access.
15. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
15.1 We use the information held about you in the following ways:
15.1.1 to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for our clients;
15.1.2 to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
15.1.3 to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so; or
15.1.4 to notify you about changes to our service.
15.2We will not use your data to contact you for marketing purposes unless you tell us you wish us to do so.
16. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
16.1We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
16.1.1 in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
16.1.2 in the event that ABW Architects Limited or substantially all of its assets is acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers may be one of the transferred assets; or
16.1.3 if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ABW Architects Limited, or our customers, and users. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
17.YOUR RIGHTS
17.1You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at 16 Cook Street, Liverpool, L2 9RF (info@abwarchitects.co.uk)
17.2Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
