Acceptable Use of Website Policy

Reviewed and updated: 20 October 2017

This website www.wsabi.co.uk (“our site”, “this Website”) is owned and administered by Accretis Ltd (“us”, “we”); a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 7833321 and have our registered office and main trading address at:

The Raylor Centre, James Street, York, YO10 3DW, England

This document sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site you must comply with this Acceptable Use of Website Policy and other applicable terms which together form our terms of use.

We reserve the right to change this Acceptable Use of Website Policy at any time without prior notice to you, so please check it regularly.

By using or accessing our site, you agree to be bound by this Acceptable Use of Website Policy, our Terms of Website Use and our Privacy Policy which govern the relationship between us and users of our site and/or any associated services (“you”). Links to these and other terms and conditions and policies can be found here. If you do not agree to this Acceptable Use of Website Policy, and/or other applicable terms, do not use this website or its associated services.

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page and/or downloadable file.

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you.

The headings in this Acceptable Use of Website Policy are for convenience, and do not affect the interpretation of the provisions.

1 Use of this Website

1.1 By using this Website, Users undertake to use this Website and any Information contained therein, only for lawful purposes. You may not use this Website:

in any way, in any country of use, that breaches any applicable domestic or international law or regulation; is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect; or that commits any civil wrongdoing or civil harm;
for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors or other Users or third parties in any way;
to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our Acceptable Use of Website Policy;
to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or other form of similar solicitation (eg spam); or
to knowingly transmit, or link to, any Inappropriate Material via the Website.

For the purposes of this Acceptable Use of Website Policy, “Inappropriate Material” is material, including views or opinion, that under the laws of any jurisdiction is or does any of the following: unlawful, vulgar, harassing, threatening, stalking, abusive, harmful, racist, obscene, pornographic, malicious, profane, libellous, defamatory, misleading or invasive of privacy or that otherwise violates the legal rights of others; discloses private or personal matters concerning any person; discriminatory in any form; infringes any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of Accretis Ltd or any third party; constitutes or encourages a criminal offence; purports to be posted by someone other than the person posting; purports to be validated or authorised by someone or somebody or entity when it has not been; or contains a virus, worm, trojan horse or other harmful code or contaminating or destructive features, or any other software or programs that may damage the operation of this site or a third party’s hardware or software or which may reasonably be expected to do so.

1.2 You agree not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

any part of the Website;
any equipment or network on which the Website or any Information is stored;
any software used in the provision of the Website; or
any equipment or network or software associated with the Website and owned or used by any third party.

1.3 If you use the Website other than in accordance with this Acceptable Use of Website Policy, we reserve the right to take any of the actions detailed in this Acceptable Use of Website Policy and/or the termination provisions within our Terms of Website Use.

1.4 You should ensure that you have suitable scanning software, firewalls and other safeguards in place to protect you from any virus or other contaminant which may affect you directly or indirectly through your use of the Website.

2. Conduct of Users & Content standards

2.1 Where we provide facilities for uploading and transmitting information, including the use of forms on our site, you agree to use any of the posting and uploading features only to post and upload information and material that is legal and related to the subject matter of our site which are reasonably deemed appropriate provided such does not contain Inappropriate Material. Where we, in our absolute discretion, deem information or material provided by you to not be appropriate, we reserve the right to delete it.

2.2 You agree to comply with the following content standards when using our site and warrant and undertake that:

Content shall:

be accurate, in relation to statements of fact;
be genuinely held and made, in relation to statements of opinion; and
comply with applicable laws and regulations in any country from which they are posted or received; and

Content shall not:

contain any Inappropriate Material;
contain any formal survey, contest, pyramid scheme or chain letter;
contain any material that infringes any trademark, copyright, trade secret or other intellectual property or proprietary right of any party, including Accretis Ltd, or breaches any confidentiality or privacy obligations, unless you are the owner of such material or have the express written permission of the owner to post or transmit such material; or
give the impression that they emanate from, or are endorsed by, Accretis Ltd if that is not the case; and

You shall not:

publish, post, upload, distribute, disseminate or circulate any Inappropriate Material;
advertise or offer to sell any goods or services for any commercial purpose unless you have our written permission;
download any information, material or files posted by us or another User that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner, without our or the User’s, as the case may be, express written permission;
impersonate us or another User, person or entity, or falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary or other information or material contained in information that is posted on the Website; or
restrict or inhibit any other User from using and enjoying the Website.

2.3 You shall be responsible for any content, including uploading information and documents, posts and transmissions, you make to our site. You may edit or remove your own content but not that of any other User (unless you are expressly authorized to do so on behalf of that User).

2.4 We have the right but not the obligation to monitor or moderate any content provided on the Website and we shall not be responsible as author, editor or publisher of any content submitted.

2.5 Any views or opinions expressed by any User are those of such User alone and do not necessarily reflect those of Accretis Ltd or the authors of any reports.

3. Safety of Other Users’ Rights and prevention of Bullying and Harassing Behaviours

3.1 We endeavour to keep this Website and the content contained therein safe for our Users in relation to any Personally Identifiable Information, and free from bullying or harassing behaviours, but we cannot guarantee it. In order to assist to keep this Website and content safe for other Users and to prevent bullying and harassment of Users, you undertake that you will at all times when using the Website, comply with the requirements of this Acceptable Use of Website Policy in relation to other Users’ rights, and specifically you undertake and agree that:

you will not post content or take any action on the Website that infringes or violates someone else’s rights, or constitutes, in our absolute discretion, bullying behaviour, or otherwise violates the law. For the purposes of this Acceptable Use of Website Policy, “bullying” behaviour shall include where repeated inappropriate and/or incorrect information is applied to a User by another User, or where a description of a User is offensive or harassing or otherwise contains Inappropriate Material;
we can remove any content or information you post on the Website if we believe that it violates this Acceptable Use of Website Policy;
if we remove your content for infringing someone else’s copyright (for example, by loading material that you do not have permission to upload), and you believe we removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal;
if you repeatedly infringe other Users’ or third parties’ intellectual property rights, we will disable your account when appropriate.
you will not use our copyrights or trademarks or any confusingly similar marks, without our written permission; and/ or
if you collect information from other Users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you (and not Accretis Ltd) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy notice explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.

4 Privacy & Data Protection

4.1 By using our site you agree to be bound by the requirements of the UK Data Protection Act 1998, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); the new legal framework in the EU and any additional regulations or laws applicable to your country of residence or operation.

4.2 By using our site you warrant that you will abide by the requirements of our Privacy and Data Protection Policy and any other applicable terms for using this website and using any services provided or accessible through this website.

5 Consequences of Misuse of this Website

5.1 We have the right to monitor and moderate content added to our site and we are authorised by you in our absolute discretion, and without notice, to remove, disable access to, or amend, edit or delete any contribution which we deem, in our absolute discretion, to be in breach of this Acceptable Use of Website Policy or otherwise inappropriate, and to remove, block or modify your use of our site (including downgrading, suspension or closure of your account) for any reason we deem, in our absolute discretion, constitutes non-compliance or a violation of our policies, whether stated, implied or otherwise.