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Terms of Service

Womenin-Construction UK CIC Terms & Conditions

Effective as of 1 Jan 2021

The following Terms of Use apply when you use of Women in Construction UK CIC community platform and resource hub which is provided through the use of online access, whether in the capacity of a registered member, user, a resource partner, collaborator, or a service user, via our website https://www.womenin-construction.co.uk

Use of our website provided by Women in Construction UK CIC, by you as an individual (“you” a “user”), business, officers, employees, and any service contained within constitutes acceptance of these Terms of Use.

Please review the following terms carefully. By using our community platform and resource hub, you signify your agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use in their entirety, you may not access or use the Service.

Privacy Policy

The Company respects the privacy of its Resource Partners, Users and Members. Please refer to the Company’s Privacy Policy (found here: https://womenin-constructionco.uk) which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Website, you signify your agreement with the Privacy Policy as well as these Terms of Use.

User Restrictions

Your permission to use the Website is conditioned upon the following use as a user; to post, provide content; that is deemed appropriate to the industry via written, audio, video or images, sharing appropriate and relevant information for the users of the website, provide information about your business (but not direct selling), engagement with users, searching the site for members:

You agree that you will not under any circumstance undertake the following:

access the website for any reason other than your service use solely;
collect or harvest any personal data of any user of the Website;
use the Website or users for the solicitation of direct selling of your business;
distribute or copy any part or parts of the Website, content or user information or other resource partner or services without our explicit written permission (from time to time we may grant the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of creating publicly-available searchable indices but retain the right to revoke this permission at any time on a general or specific basis);
use the Website for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;
attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another user, resource partner, member, or the company;
use another resource partner or user’s account without permission;
intentionally allow another user to access your account, who does not have a user or resource partner account;
provide false or inaccurate information when joining as a user, member, service provider or resource partner;
interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Website;
make any automated use of the Site, the Service or the related systems, or take any action that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or network infrastructure;
bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Website, or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Website or harvest or manipulate data;
circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security-related features of the Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of content, or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content accessible via the Service; or
publish or link to malicious content of any sort, including that intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser or computer.
Our Website is only intended for use by adults, as defined as those aged 18 or over and who have sufficient capacity to enter into a binding agreement.

Member Account Integrity

As part of the registration process you will need to create an account, including a username & password. It is your responsibility to ensure that the information you provide is accurate and not misleading. You cannot create an account or username & password using the names and information of another person or using words that are the trademarks or the property of another party or vulgar, obscene or in any other way inappropriate.

You are responsible for maintaining your own username and password via our Website. You should ensure that you store your username and password securely and that the details required to access your customer account are not provided to another party.

You are responsible for your account and any actions taken within it. If you are aware or suspect that your account username and password or other details have become known to a third party, you should inform us immediately.

Backup & Data Storage

For administrative reasons, data and email subscription data may be passed to and stored securely with third party service providers located outside the EEA (European Economic Area). This is done to backup and preserve your data where it is needed to carry on offering a service to you.

Pricing

We make every effort to ensure that the pricing on our Website is correct. However, if an error in the pricing of a service is found we reserve the right to either cancel your order or contact you to arrange payment of any extra sum due or refund any over-payment made by you (as applicable).

We reserve the right to alter all pricing and will advise all registered resource partners/users/members of any changes.

Card & Payment Processing Data

We use third-party payment providers to handle card and payment processing data securely.

https://stripe.com/en-gb

We never see or store any card or payment information. In accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) any other data is only used to process your purchase securely. In accordance with Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we need to retain data related to all purchases to fulfil our existing legal obligations to account for aspects in accordance with HMRC requirements.

Subscription Period & Free Trials

After satisfactory payment or completion of payment details for your registration to access the Website the subscription details will be stored. You will then be issued with a username & password for access to the Website for the period of your subscription, if the subscription is based on a rolling monthly basis, the subscription will continue to take payment on the anniversary of the completion of the processing of the payment details.

To avoid any disruption of service your subscription will automatically renew at the end of each subscription period, you will receive monthly confirmation.

Payment for monthly or annual subscriptions will be taken by an automated online payment system in advance and payment will continue to be taken unless the subscription is cancelled by the user, member or resource partner, there is a minimum 30 days notice period. Refunds are not granted.

For annual subscriptions, you will automatically receive an email notification before your subscription expires notifying you of your forthcoming renewal and providing details of how to cancel your subscription renewal.

Where we are unable to renew your subscription we will automatically suspend your registration and access to the Website and notify you via email and allow you to update your payment details or take out a new subscription. Please note in this instance you may lose any previous discount or special offer related to your previous subscription.

Where you are given a free-trial period, at the end of the trial period the subscription payments will automatically begin, unless you unsubscribe and cancel the payment details within your account on the website.

Cancellation Rights and Refunds

Full or partial refunds will only be given where the product or service provided by the Company is found to be defective.

Refunds will not be given where we are unable to replicate the issue or the issue stems from the user or their equipment.

In the case of a defective provision on the Website we reserve the right to offer an additional free period or issue a partial or full refund at our sole discretion.

Where a refund is offered and accepted by the user, member, resource partner, or service user it will be made within seven working days of receiving your acceptance of a refund.

Monthly contracts will be paid monthly by an automated online payment system in advance and payment will continue to be taken unless cancelled within your Womenin-Construction UK CIC account subscription, with 30 days notice. Refunds are not granted.

Annual contracts will be paid annually by a automated online payment system in advance and payment will continue to be taken on an annual basis unless cancelled within your Womenin-Construction UK CIC account subscription, with 30 days notice. Refunds are not granted on annual contracts.

All Users, Resource Partners, Members on the Website must have a corresponding payment details mandate. If a mandate is cancelled, then we reserve the right to remove access to the website.

Suspensions or Termination

We the Company reserve the right to remove (with or without notice) content and suspend or terminate (with or without notice) the account of any Resource Partner, user or member who in our sole judgment is in breach of these Terms of Use.

If a resource partner, user or member is suspended the length of the suspension period and any reactivation will be at the Company’s sole discretion.

Posting, Listing and Conduct Restrictions

When a user, member or resource partner posts a profile or a comment or leaves a review, or engages directly with users of the Website you will be providing (“User Content”) to the website. You are solely responsible for the User Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Website.

You agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content. The Company, however, reserves the right to remove any User Content from the Website at its sole discretion, if deemed inappropriate or otherwise offensive or seen as harassment.

We grant you permission to use and access the Website, subject to the following express conditions surrounding User Content. You agree that failure to adhere to any of these conditions constitutes a material breach of these Terms of Use and could lead to the removal of your content or listing or your account/subscription. No refunds are issued in this event.

By transmitting and submitting any User Content while using the Website, you agree as follows:

You are solely responsible for your account/user content and the activity that occurs while signed in to or while using your account in the capacity of a user, member or resource partner;
You will not post information that is malicious, libellous, false or inaccurate;
You will not post any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libellous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive;
By submitting, posting or displaying your content on the website you agree to grant a non-exclusive royalty-free licence to us to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and distribute such content on the website. This allows us to place your content on the website and let all users view your content. It also allows us to compress or alter the size of any files you may post onto the Website to ensure that they can be readily displayed for other users.
As this is a non-exclusive licence you as a user are free to provide your content to other websites or other parties, without restriction.
This licence is also royalty-free, which means that the content is provided free of charge to us and we will not pay for the content or account for any advertising revenue generated on the website or on any specific content pages.
This licence means we can use the User content you provide on other Company online channels, such as social media.
This licence also applies worldwide because the website can be accessed from anywhere in the world, at any time.
Also you agree that any content provided by you does not belong to a third party whose rights have been violated by the content being posted on to the website. Furthermore if any content is owned by a third party you agree to pay all royalties owed to that party, without seeking any contribution from us.
You will not submit content that is copyrighted or subject to Third Party proprietary rights, including privacy, publicity, trade secret, or others, unless you are the owner of such rights or have the appropriate permission from their rightful owner to specifically submit such content; and
All content you submit in your User content including images and graphics, is with the full agreement you have the full ownership and rights, licenses, copyright and ownership to do so. If there are any actions taken against content, images or graphics which you have submitted in your User Content and added to the Website, is with your full knowledge and as the issuer of the User Content on the Website you take full liability and responsibility for any action taken. Any action taken in regards to your image(s) or User Content is for you the user/members/Resource Partner to resolve and settle. Any fines or charges related to any action taken against the use of the content, images/graphics you upload is for you to settle in full and resolve without the involvement of Womenin-Construction UK CIC. You agree there is no recourse to Womenin-Construction UK CIC or there associated businesses, partners, employees or subsidiaries.
You hereby agree that we have the right to determine whether your User Content submissions are appropriate and comply with these Terms of Use, remove any and/or all of your submissions, and terminate your account with or without prior notice.
You will not pose as another user, member or third party or organisation or one of our employees for the purposes of obtaining user or third party information.
You will not transmit or transfer any viruses, trojans, worms or any other malicious programs or code intended to spy on, gain control over, disrupt, destroy or in any other way impair any computer hardware, software, the Website or any other equipment.
You will not attempt to gain access to our servers or other equipment in order to disrupt, impair, overload or otherwise hinder or compromise the safety, security or privacy of any of the services provided by or relied upon by us and other users.
You will not load or provide access to content on the Website or link to other content from the Website, which infringes the trademark, patent, trade secret or any other proprietary right of the Company, or infringes any intellectual property law.
If you breach these Terms of Use by sending any unsolicited bulk email, (spam) or any other bulk communications to users your actions will cause harm to us and our website. Such harm is difficult to quantify and as such you agree to pay us the sum of £50 for each and every individual email or other communication sent to a user or third party, which is transmitted outside of the Website platform.
We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Website or the Service that is supplied in a Resource partners listing, also referred to as User Content, nor do we adopt nor endorse, nor are we responsible for, the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, service or statement made by other parties, resource partners, users or members. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any User Content that you or any other user or Third-Party posts or sends via the Website. Under no circumstances will we be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone’s reliance on information or other content posted by a Resource Partner, user or member to users, member/subscribers or their user content.
The above list is not intended to be exhaustive.

Though we strive to enforce these Terms of Use, you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate or objectionable when you use or access the Site or the Service. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor the materials posted in the community areas of the Site or the platform or to limit or deny a user’s access to the website or take other appropriate action if a user violates these Terms of Uses or engages in any activity that violates the rights of any person or entity or which we deem unlawful, offensive, abusive, harmful or malicious. Emails, messages, posts and communication sent between you and other participants, members, users or resource partners that are not readily accessible to the general public will be treated by us as private to the extent required by applicable law. The Company shall have the right to remove any material that in its sole opinion violates, or is alleged to violate, the law or this agreement or which might be offensive, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. Unauthorised use may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution under National, State and local law. If you become aware of a misuse of our Website or the Service or violation of these Terms of Use, please contact us at info@womenin-construction.co.uk

You understand and agree that any liability, loss or damage that occurs as a result of the use of any User Content that you make available/submit on the Website is solely your responsibility. The Site is not responsible for any misuse of your User Content.

The Site does not, and cannot, pre-screen or monitor all User Content. However, at our discretion, we, or technology we employ, may monitor and/or record your interactions with the Service or with other Users.

Whilst every effort is made to monitor statements and information submitted by users, members and resource partners of Womenin-Construction UK CIC, the information compiled on profiles/listings on the Website is based on information supplied by others and not directly from the Company and it does not represent the views of Womenin-Construction UK CIC. Womenin-Construction UK CIC cannot be held responsible for any omissions or inaccurate claims that may appear on a resource partner, user, or member profile/listing.

Resource Partners and Users of the Website do hereby represent, understand and expressly agree that Womenin-Construction UK CIC does not make any warranty or guarantee over the quality, timing, integrity, responsibility, legality or any other aspect whatsoever of the materials or services offered or delivered by its Resource Partners.

By using Womenin-Construction UK CIC Website you hereby expressly agree not to hold the Company or its representatives liable for any instruction, advice or services delivered by a Resource Partner to a User or Member, which originated through the website or associated Services. The Company expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any damage, suits, claims, and/or controversies that have arisen or may arise, whether known or unknown related to any disputes of services provided by a Resource Partner of the Website.

Access

Women in Construction UK CIC takes all reasonable steps to ensure the Website is available and functioning fully at all times. However, we do not accept any responsibility for “down-time” or poor performance of our file servers or where the website or any associated service is unavailable for any reason, whether within or outside our direct control.

Links to other sites and/or materials

As part of the Service, we may provide you with convenient links to Third Party website(s) (“Third Party Sites”) as well as content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (the “Third Party Applications, Software or Content”). These links are provided as a courtesy to Service subscribers. We have no control over Third Party Sites or Third-Party Applications, Software or Content or the promotions, materials, information, goods or services available on these Third-Party Sites or Third-Party Applications, Software or Content. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Site or any Third-Party Applications, Software or Content does not imply our approval or endorsement. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies, including these Terms of Use, no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any Third-Party Site to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or install from the Third-Party Site.

We are not responsible for any links to third party websites from our website and the inclusion of any link does not imply an endorsement of a third party website by us.

Copyright & Copyright Complaints

All content, databases, graphics, buttons, icons, logos, layouts and look & feel are the copyright of Womenin-Construction UK CIC unless expressly acknowledged as otherwise or provided by a user, member as part of user content submission.

We reserve the right to terminate infringer Accounts/User Content. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and require that the Website users/members do the same. We have adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of members of the Service who are repeat infringers. We may terminate access for users/members who are found repeatedly to provide or post protected Third-Party content without necessary rights and permissions.

If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe, in good faith, that any materials provided on the website infringe upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification by sending the following information in writing to our designated copyright agent at:

info@womenin-construction.co.uk

The date of your notification;
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
A description of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and information sufficient to enable us to locate such work;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and/or email address;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

User Licence

We grant you a licence to access the Website for business or professional use only.

This licence allows you to download and cache (using your browser) pages from our website.

This licence does not allow you to make our website available via an intranet, where our website or a substantial part of it is hosted locally on the intranet in question.

Our website design, layout, content or text cannot be copied, edited or otherwise manipulated without our express prior written permission.

Our website cannot be placed within the frame-set of another website or online platform.

Third parties are not allowed to “deep link” to pages within our website, without our express prior written permission. All links (unless expressly permitted by us) should be to the main index page of our website. Furthermore, the content of such links, whether graphic or text should not be misleading, false, derogatory or in any other way offensive.

The restriction on “deep linking” does not apply to affiliate partners who wish to send customers directly to a particular page or product in order to increase their affiliate sales.

If you have a dispute with one or more users, members or resource partners with the provision of information, user content and services are undertaken on the Website whilst or as a result of using the Website, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Intellectual Property

All Users and members of the site acknowledge and agree that Women in Construction UK CIC retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the community platform and resource hub and the Website, including applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights. Other product and company names that are mentioned on the website may be trademarks of their respective owners. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you under these Terms of Use.

Notice

Communications made through the Website system/instant chat/Online community will not constitute legal notice to the Site, the Service, or any of its officers, employees, agents or representatives in any situation where legal notice is required by contract or any law or regulation.

User consent to receive communications in electronic form

For contractual purposes, you as the member, user, resource partner of the Website: (a) consent to receive communications from us in an electronic form via the email address you have submitted at registration, this could be one or a number of email addresses; and (b) agree that all Terms of Use, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.

We may also use your email address to send you other messages, including information about the Site or the Company and special offers. You may opt out of such email by selecting the “Unsubscribe” option on electronic communication, or by sending an email to info@womenin-construction.co.uk

Opting out may prevent you from receiving important messages regarding the Site, the Company or other information.

Modification of Terms of Use

We can amend these Terms of Use at any time. It is your sole responsibility to check the Website from time to time to view any such changes in this agreement. Your continued use of the Website and the Service signifies your agreement to our revisions to these Terms of Use. We will endeavour to notify you of material changes to the Terms by sending communication to you, or posting a notice on the main group, website or news feed. For this additional reason, you should keep your contact and profile information current. Any changes to these Terms of Use (other than as set forth in this paragraph) or waiver of our rights hereunder shall not be valid or effective except in a written agreement bearing the physical signature of one of our officers.

General Terms

If any part of these Terms of Use is held or found to be invalid or unenforceable, that portion of the agreement will be construed as to be consistent with applicable law while the remaining portions of the agreement will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on our part to enforce any provision of this agreement will not be considered a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this agreement survive any transfer or termination of this agreement.

You agree that any cause of action related to or arising out of your relationship with Womenin-Construction UK CIC must commence within 6 months after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.

These Terms of Use shall be interpreted, construed and enforced in accordance with English and Wales law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

We may assign or delegate these Terms of Use/or our Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, to any person or entity at any time with or without your consent. You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy without our prior written consent, and any unauthorised assignment or delegation by you is void.

Waiver

Failure by us to enforce any accrued rights under these Terms of Use is not to be taken as or deemed to be a waiver of those rights unless we acknowledge the waiver in writing.

Limitation of Damages

To the extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the Website or Womenin-Construction UK CIC, its affiliates, directors, trustees, volunteers or employees, be liable to you for any loss of profits, data or any other incidental, indirect, consequential damages, arising or that result from;

(A) THE USE, DISCLOSURE, OR DISPLAY OF YOUR USER CONTENT;

(B) YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE;

(D) ANY OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH USE OR WITH ANY OTHER USER OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Entire Terms of Use

These Terms of Use set out the entire agreement and understanding between you, (the member, resource partner, website user) and us (The Company) Women in Construction UK CIC. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use at any time, without giving notice.

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