Terms and conditions of use

1.   Introduction

1.1    These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2    By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3    If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4    You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

2.   Copyright notice

2.1    Copyright (c) of UK Business Events Limited trading as Housing Digital .

2.2    Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a)    we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b)    all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

3.   Permission to use website

3.1    You may:

(a)    view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b)    download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c)    print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use;

(d)    stream audio and video files from our website; and

(e)    use our website services by means of a web browser,

        subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2    You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.

3.3    Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.4    Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)    republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b)    sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c)    show any material from our website in public;

(d)    exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e)    redistribute material from our website.

3.5    Notwithstanding Section 3.4, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.

3.6    We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

4.   Feeds

4.1    You may access our RSS and Atom feeds using any compatible feed reader or aggregator.

4.2    By accessing our feeds, you accept these terms and conditions.

4.3    Subject to your acceptance of these terms and conditions, we grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable licence to display content from our feeds in unmodified form on any non-commercial website owned and operated by you, providing that you must not aggregate any of our feed content with any third party feed when displaying it in accordance with this Section 4.3.

4.4    It is a condition of this licence that you include a credit for us and hyperlink to our website on each web page where our feed content is published (in such form as we may specify from time to time, or if we do not specify any particular form, in a reasonable form).

4.5    We may revoke any licence relating to our feeds or feed content at any time, with or without notice.

5.   Social media platforms

5.1    Our website includes features that enable users to interact with social media platforms - including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn - directly from our website.

5.2    Using the social media features on our website, you may:

(a)    share data or content from our website; and

(b)    like or upvote content from our website.

5.3    You acknowledge that the use of the social media platforms is subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant platform operator and that the use of any personal data transferred to the platforms is subject to the privacy policy or notice of the relevant platform operator.

5.4    Subject to Section 16.1, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising out of:

(a)    your use of any social media platform; and

(b)    any act or omission of any social media platform operator.

5.5    When using social media features on our website or browsing pages on our website that incorporate social media features, the social media platforms may collect information about you and your use of our website and those features, including by means of cookies. For more information about these cookies and the use of personal data collected by us and by the platforms, see our privacy and cookies policy.

6.   News

6.1    Our website represents a range of different viewpoints, and a particular articles published on our website may not reflect our own views and opinions.

7.   Misuse of website

7.1    You must not:

(a)    use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

(b)    use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)    hack or otherwise tamper with our website;

(d)    probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;

(e)    circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;

(f)    use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(g)    impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

(h)    decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;

(i)     conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(j)    access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(k)    use our website except by means of our public interfaces;

(l)     violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;

(m)   use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

(n)    do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

7.2    You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

7.3    You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

8.   Registration and accounts

8.1    To be eligible for an account on our website under this Section 8, you must be resident or situated in the United Kingdom.

8.2    You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.

8.3    You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

8.4    You must not use any other person's account to access the website, unless you have that person's express permission to do so.

9.   User login details

9.1    If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.

9.2    Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 13; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

9.3    You must keep your password confidential.

9.4    You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

9.5    You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

10.   Cancellation and suspension of account

10.1  We may:

(a)    suspend your account;

(b)    cancel your account; and/or

(c)    edit your account details,

        at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.

10.2  We will usually cancel an account if it remains unused for a continuous period of 5 years.

10.3  You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the website.

11.   Comments feature

11.1  In order to use the comments feature on our website, you must register with the website.

11.2  Comments will not be reviewed or edited before publication; however, we reserve the right to edit or delete any comment published on our website.

11.3  For the avoidance of doubt, your comments constitute "your content" for the purposes of Section 12 and Section 13.

12.   Our rights to use your content

12.1  In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

12.2  You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this website.

12.3  You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 12.2.

12.4  You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 12.2.

12.5  You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

12.6  Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

13.   Rules about your content

13.1  You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

13.2  Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

13.3  Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a)    be libellous or maliciously false;

(b)    be obscene or indecent;

(c)    infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;

(d)    infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e)    constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(f)    be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;

(g)    be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(h)    be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(i)     be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(j)    depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(k)    be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

(l)     be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(m)   consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(n)    constitute spam;

(o)    be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(p)    cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

13.4  Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

13.5  You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.

13.6  You must not submit to our website any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

14.   Report abuse

14.1  If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.

14.2  You can let us know about any such material or activity by email to info@housingdigital.co.uk.

15.   Limited warranties

15.1  We do not warrant or represent:

(a)    the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b)    that the material on the website is up to date;

(c)    that the website will operate without fault; or

(d)    that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

15.2  We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

15.3  To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 16.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

16.   Limitations and exclusions of liability

16.1  Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a)    limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)    limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)    limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)    exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

16.2  The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 16 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a)    are subject to Section 16.1; and

(b)    govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

16.3  To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

16.4  We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

16.5  We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

16.6  We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

16.7  We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

16.8  You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

17.   Indemnity

17.1  You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

18.   Breaches of these terms and conditions

18.1  Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a)    send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)    temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c)    permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d)    commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(e)    suspend or delete your account on our website.

18.2  Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

19.   Third party websites

19.1  Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.

19.2  We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 16.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

20.   Variation

20.1  We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

20.2  The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

21.   Assignment

21.1  You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

21.2  You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

22.   Severability

22.1  If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

22.2  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

23.   Third party rights

23.1  A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

23.2  The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

24.   Entire agreement

24.1  Subject to Section 16.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

25.   Law and jurisdiction

25.1  These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

25.2  Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

26.   Our details

26.1  This website is owned and operated by UK Business Events Limited.

26.2  Our principal place of business is at Trinity Offices. 114 Northenden Rd. Sale. Manchester. M33 3HD.

26.3  You can contact us:

(a)    by post, to the postal address given above;

(b)    using our website contact form; or

(c)    by email, using info@housingdigital.co.uk.