Website Terms Of Use

Last modified: January 2018

These terms of use (Terms) (together with the documents referred to in them) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website at www.cpduk.co.uk (our site), whether as a guest or as a registered user. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our site.

Other applicable terms

These Terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

  • Terms and Conditions – available from us upon when you make an application to use our services;
  • Our Privacy Policy which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us; and
  • Our Cookies Policy, which is set out as part of our Privacy Policy, and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy
  • Our General Membership Service Terms and Conditions for CPD Certification

Information about us

www.cpduk.co.uk is a site operated by The CPD Certification Service Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 03606693 and with its registered office and main trading address at Boston House, 69-75 Boston Manor Road, Brentford, London, TW8 9JJ. The company VAT number is 744 3921 27.

Changes to these terms and to our Site

We may revise these Terms at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

Accessing our site

Our site is made available free of charge, although parts of it may only be accessible to persons who have signed up for our services. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You 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 access our site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them. Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate or available in other locations.

Your account and password

If 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. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly contact us.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the 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. You may view our website in a web – browser; download pages from our website in a web browser; print off one copy of website page(s), and may download extracts of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site. You 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. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Our registered trademarks can be found here: Intellectual Property Office

No reliance on information

The content on our site is provided for general information only. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete; up-to-date; or that the website will remain available.

Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied. To the extent that our site is provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature. We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, 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 content on it, or on any website linked to it. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any goods or services to you, which will be set out in our separate Terms and Conditions which are made available to you when you apply to us to receive our goods or services.

Acceptable Use Policy

You must not:

  • use the site in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the site or impair its availability or performance;
  • use the site in any way which is unlawful, fraudulent or harmful;
  • conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) or on in relation to our site without our express written consent; or
  • use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity

Breaches of these terms or use

Without prejudice to our other rights under these Terms of Use, if you breach these Terms of Use in any way, or we reasonably suspect that you have breached these Terms of Use, we may temporarily or permanently prohibit you from accessing our site, including by blocking computers using your IP address from accessing our site.

Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You 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. By breaching this provision, you would 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.

Linking to and from our site

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. 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. You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you. 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. If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us. Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed by any court or competent authority to be unlawful or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect and the unlawful part will be deemed to be deleted.

Application law

These Terms are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Contact us

To contact us, please email info@cpduk.co.uk

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