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USE OF WEBSITE
The Costslawreports.co.uk website is owned and managed by Class Publishing Limited.
Class Legal is a trading name of Class Publishing Ltd. Registered in England No. 2993127. VAT No: GB 503 5208 87. Registered Office: 7 Melrose Terrace, London W6 7RL, UK.
By using costslawreports.co.uk , the user agrees to the terms and conditions of the licence, to the disclaimer and limitation of liability and to the copyright and database rights. If the user does not agree to the terms they should leave the site immediately.
The user should also read the Class Publishing Limited Privacy Statement Disclaimer
Disclaimer
This web site and the content on it ("Content") are provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of performance, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, omissions, completeness, timeliness and delays.
Third party content may also appear on this web site or may be accessible via links from it ("Third party Content").
The Content does not constitute legal or other professional advice and should not be relied upon as such.
Any reliance on the Content is therefore solely at the user's own risk.
Class Publishing may make improvements and/or changes to the features, functionality or Content on this web site at any time without notice.
Class Publishing shall not be liable for:
- a) any loss, injury, claim, liability, or damage of any kind resulting from, arising out of or any way related to (a) any errors in or omissions in this web site and the Content; (b) any Third Party Content; (c) the unavailability of this web site, the Content, or any part thereof; (d) your use of this web site or the Content; or (e) your use of any equipment or software in connection with this web site or the Content; and
- b) for any special, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential damages of any kind whatsoever (including, without limitation, lawyers' fees) in any way due to, resulting from, or arising in connection with the use of or inability to use this web site or the Content or any Third Party Content.
Your Account
If you use the website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner. Please ensure that the details you provide us with are correct and complete and inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering. You can access and update much of the information you provided us with in the Your Account area of the website. Class Publishing reserves the right to refuse access to the website, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at our discretion. If we cancel an order, it will be without charge to you.
Privacy
Please look at our Privacy Policy, which also governs your visit to costslawreprots.co.uk, to understand our practices.
Access to costslawreports.co.uk
We will do our utmost to ensure that availability of the website will be uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Also, your access to the website may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.
Licence for website access
Class Publishing grants you a limited licence to access and make personal use of this website, but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Class Publishing. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of this website or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this website or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
This website or any portion of this website may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent.
You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Class Publishing and its affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising Class Publishing's names or trademarks without the express written consent of Class Publishing. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or license granted by Class Publishing.
You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Home page of Class Publishing as long as the link does not portray Class Publishing, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Class Publishing logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without our express written consent.
Your conduct
You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.
You understand that you, and not Class Publishing, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the website for lawful purposes only.
You must not use the website for any of the following:
- a) for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity
- b) to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any "spam"
- c) to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety
Support request submission
Users of this website may submit a support request, as long as the content is not illegal, obscene, abusive, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties, or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any content. Class Publishing reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit any content.
If you do submit a support request, you
- a) grant Class Publishing a non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully sub licensable rights to use, modify, and publish such; and
- b) Class Publishing the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose.
You agree that the rights you grant above are irrevocable during the entire period of protection of your intellectual property rights associated with such content and material. You agree to waive your right to be identified as the author of such content and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such content. You agree to perform all further acts necessary to perfect any of the above rights granted by you to Class Publishing, including the execution of deeds and documents, at the request of Class Publishing.
You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that, as at the date that the content or material is submitted to Class Publishing: (i) the content and material is accurate; (ii) use of the content and material you supply does not breach any applicable Class Publishing policies or guidelines and will not cause injury to any person or entity (including that the content or material is not defamatory). You agree to indemnify Class Publishing and its affiliates for all claims brought by a third party against Class Publishing or its affiliates arising out of or in connection with a breach of any of these warranties.
Copyright, authors' rights and database rights
All content included on the website, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, and software, is the property of Class Publishing or its content suppliers and is protected by English and international copyright, authors' rights and database right laws. The compilation of all content on this website is the exclusive property of Class Publishing and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. All software used on this website is the property of Class Publishing or our software suppliers and is protected by Luxembourg and international copyright and authors' rights laws.
You may not systematically extract and/or re-utilise parts of the contents of the website without Class Publishing's express written consent. In particular, you may not utilise any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to extract (whether once or many times) for re-utilisation of any substantial parts of this website, without Class Publishing's express written consent. You also may not create and/or publish your own database that features substantial parts of this website without Class Publishing's express written consent.
Electronic communications
When you visit costslawreports.co.uk or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. We communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on the website. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
Losses
Class Publishing will be responsible for any losses you suffer as a result of us breaching these conditions if the losses were reasonably foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the website, or a contract for the sale of goods by us to you was formed. We will not be responsible for any business loss (including loss of profits, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure) or any other indirect or consequential loss that is not reasonably foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the website. Class Publishing does not limit in any way our liability by law for death or personal injury caused from our negligence or breach of duty or caused by our gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Conditions
We reserve the right to make changes to our website, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. You will be subject to the policies and Conditions of Use & Sale in force at the time that you use the website or that you order goods from us, unless any change to those policies or these conditions is required to be made by law or government authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you). If any of these conditions is deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
Events beyond our reasonable control
We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
Waiver
If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these conditions.
Termination
This agreement will terminate if the user or Class Publishing Limited are in material breach of any of its terms and if the breach is not remedied within a period of twenty working days after written notice of it has been given to the party in breach.
On termination of the agreement in relation to any service, the user will take reasonable steps to delete that service and any part of it from their electronic media, including their intranet and electronic storage devices. The user is not required to delete any part of the service which has indistinguishably merged into their organisation's know-how. The user is not required to delete specimen clauses or precedents which have been incorporated before termination into drafts or agreements relating to any transaction on which the user may be advising: these may be used to complete the transaction and to keep records of it, but no further use may be made of such materials. The user is not required to delete or destroy printouts or copies from print outs.
Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by English law and users and visitors submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
PAYMENTS AND PROVISION OF SERVICES
Payment
Online
If the user pays through RBSWorldPay™, they will be sent an email automatically on receipt of confirmation from RBSWorldPay™ that the transaction has been completed successfully. Class Publishing Limited will send a VAT invoice containing details of the order directly to the user by email. Receipt of this email by the user constitutes a contract between Class Publishing Limited and the user. The user's subscription account will be updated as soon as the user has received email confirmation of a successful transaction. Due to the nature of the Internet it cannot be guaranteed that access to the content will be granted immediately.
The user is advised to read the terms and conditions set out by WorldPay (www.rbsworldpay.com).
Telephone
If the user pays by phone they will be sent an email automatically on receipt of confirmation from RBSWorldPay™ that the transaction has been authorised successfully. Class Publishing Limited will send a VAT invoice containing details of the order directly to the user by email. Receipt of this email by the user constitutes a contract between Class Publishing Limited and the user. The user's subscription account will be updated within one working day of the payment being authorised
Post
If a user pays by cheque, once the cheque has been cleared, the requested subscription account will be authorised within 2 working days. A VAT invoice containing details of the order will be emailed to the user by Class Publishing Limited. Receipt of this email by the user constitutes a contract between Class Publishing Limited and the user.
Direct Debit
If you wish to pay by Direct Debit please contact us
Cancellation & Refunds – Online Services
The contract between Class Publishing Limited and the user is concluded when the user has received email confirmation of payment for a subscription. The user can cancel this contract up to seven working days after the conclusion of the contract, starting with the day after the day on which the contract for services is concluded, provided the user has not accessed the services.
In the event of a user wishing to cancel a contract with Class Publishing Limited, the user must contact Class Publishing Limited by email on: info@classlegal.com.
On the cancellation of a contract, any sum paid by the user will be repaid by Class Publishing Limited as soon as possible, and in any case, within 30 days of cancellation. Class Publishing Limited will not impose any charge on the user for the exercise of this right.
Where payment has been made through RBSWorldPay™, refunds will be made through RBSWorldPay™ to the relevant credit or debit card.
Where payment has been made by post, Class Publishing Limited will refund the user by cheque.
Where fraudulent use has been made of a users payment card (to include credit and debit cards) in respect of a contract made with Class Publishing Limited, the user will be entitled to cancel any payment which has been made as a result of such fraudulent use.
Cancellation, Refunds & Returns – Printed Products
The contract between Class Publishing Limited and the user is concluded when the user has received email confirmation of payment for a subscription. The user can cancel this contract up to seven working days after the conclusion of the contract, starting with the day after the day on which the contract for services is concluded, provided the user has not received the printed goods of having done so agrees to return them in an unused condition in the original packaging.
In the event of a user wishing to cancel a contract with Class Publishing Limited, the user must contact Class Publishing Limited by email on: info@classlegal.com.
On the cancellation of a contract, any sum paid by the user will be repaid by Class Publishing Limited as soon as possible, and in any case, within 30 days of cancellation. Class Publishing Limited will not impose any charge on the user for the exercise of this right.
Where payment has been made through RBSWorldPay™, refunds will be made through RBSWorldPay™ to the relevant credit or debit card.
Where payment has been made by post, Class Publishing Limited will refund the user by cheque.
Where fraudulent use has been made of a users payment card (to include credit and debit cards) in respect of a contract made with Class Publishing Limited, the user will be entitled to cancel any payment which has been made as a result of such fraudulent use.
Despatch and Delivery of Goods & Services
Online Services
If you pay online, access to online services will be usually be immediate but, due to the nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee such provision. If there is a problem, please contact us.
If you pay over the phone using a payment card, access will be granted within one working day of the payment card being cleared by the relevant authority.
If you pay by cheque, access will be granted within one day of the cheque claering through our bank
Printed Products
All printed products will be depatched within 14 days of cleared payment. If you have paid for an annual subscription you will receive all issues published within a 365 day period from clearance of your payment.
Prices
The price of subscriptions and printed products may change from time to time. Prices and description of services suppied and can be viewed on the website here. If paying online, the user will be informed of the price before they commit to the purchase. All prices will indicate the net, the VAT and the gross amounts.
Class Publishing Limited is committed to respecting your privacy and we recognise your need to know that your personal information is being lawfully processed and held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
This Privacy Statement is designed to help you understand how we may use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us in this website.
This website may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this site.
In general you may browse this website without providing any personal information. The information we collect on an aggregate basis, as you and others browse our website, is not is not used to identify you in any way.
However, if you register as a user and/or order products from us we may collect the following personal information from you:
- Your name and title
- Your company name
- A postal and DX address
- A telephone and fax number
- Your email address
Information Use
The details you enter will be kept on our administrative database and we will use the information in future to contact you about matters including (but not exclusive to) software updates; annual licence renewal; information about new legislation; and mailings on our other products for family lawyers.
If you do not wish to be mailed, please contact us and we will ensure you do not receive marketing letters in the future.
We will also use the details you give us to provide the products and services you have purchased.
If you purchase a product on our site you may then call us to provide us with your credit card details. These details will only be used to process your purchase. We will not disclose your credit card details to any third parties for marketing purposes under any circumstances.
You may opt out of receiving information or advertisements from us at any time by contacting us.
Access to your information
At any time you may ask us to
- send a copy of your information
- remove your information from our records
- correct or update any of your information
If you have any questions or comments please contact Customer Services
Changes to policies
All changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted here. Please visit this page regularly to stay up to date. Your continued use of the site following changes to the Privacy Statement will indicate your acceptance of them.
Complaints
We are committed to working with you to resolve, quickly and fairly any complaints you may have about privacy. If you have any questions or comments please contact us through one of the methods given in the "Contact us" section of the website.
How to reach us
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