PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

 

WHAT’S IN THESE TERMS?  

These terms tell you the rules for using our website markings.co.uk (our Site).

 

WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US  

markings.co.uk is a Site owned and operated by Sovereign Design Play Systems Limited (trading as Easy Markings), a company registered in England under Company Number 5024016.  Our address is 40 Towerfield Road, Shoeburyness Southend-On-Sea, Essex SS3 9QT. Our VAT number is 832510264.

You can contact us by writing to us at the above address, emailing us at [email protected], or calling us on 01702 804198 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Fridays (excluding public and bank holidays).

 

Website User Policy

 

BY USING OUR SITE YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS  

By using our Site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

 

THERE ARE OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU  

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

  1. Our Privacy and Cookies Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, and information about cookies on our Site. By using our Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  1. Our Acceptable Use Policy below, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our Site. When using our Site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to order any of our products on our Site, additional terms and conditions will apply.

 

WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS  

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

 

WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR SITE 

We may update and change our Site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users’ needs and our business priorities.

 

WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR SITE  

Our Site is made available free of charge but charges apply if you wish to order any of our products.

We do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal where you have paid for online content.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Our Site is intended for the United Kingdom.  We do not represent that content available on or through our Site is appropriate for use or available in other locations outside of the UK.

 

YOU MUST KEEP YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS SAFE  

You may require an account to access certain parts of our Site. 

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 of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us immediately.

 

HOW YOU MAY USE MATERIAL ON OUR SITE

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your personal use only.

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.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

INFORMATION ON THIS SITE  

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 or up to date.

All information on our Site is provided for general information purposes only. Professional or specialist advice should always be sought before taking any action on the basis of any information provided on our Site.

 

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO  

Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them and you should make your own enquiries as to whether third party is providing goods or services that are relevant and of benefit to you.

 

USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US  

Our Site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the Site, including reviews. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Site do not represent our views or values.

If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us.

 

OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU  

If you are a business user we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Site or any content on it, and we will not be liable to you 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 however so arising.

Where you are a consumer (i.e. not acting within the course of a business, trade or profession, then you agree not to use our Site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

 

UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITE  

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Site or to make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our Site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in Rights you are giving us to use material you upload.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

 

RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO USE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD  

When you upload or post content to our Site, you grant us full rights to use, re-post and deal with all such content provided we deal with it in a fair and reasonable way.

 

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM  

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 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 that 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.

 

RULES ABOUT LINKING TO 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.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy (see below).

 

USE OF OUR TRADE MARKS  

You are not permitted to use any of our trademarks, whether they are registered or not, without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under How you may use material on our site.

 

Website acceptable use policy

This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our Site.

 

PROHIBITED USES  

 You may use our Site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Site:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards below.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;
  • To advertise any services that are illegal, immoral or offensive, hazardous, restricted or regulated.

You also agree: 

  • Not to reproduce, duplicate copy or re-sell any part of our Site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use above.
  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • any part of our Site;
  • any equipment or network on which our Site is stored;
  • any software used in the provision of our Site; or
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

 

INTERACTIVE SERVICES  

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our Site, including, without limitation:

Chat rooms.

Bulletin boards.

(Interactive services).

 

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our Site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our Site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

The use of any of our interactive services is not permitted for minors.  All users of our Site must be over the age of 18.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

 

CONTENT STANDARDS  

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our Site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must: 

  • Be accurate (where they state facts).
  • Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  • Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

  • Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
  • Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  • Promote sexually explicit material.
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
  • Be likely to deceive any person.
  • Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  • Promote any illegal activity.
  • Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  • Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
  • Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

 

SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION  

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this general user and acceptable use policy through your use of our Site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our Site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions: 

  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Site.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Site.
  • Issue of a warning to you.
  • Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  • Further legal action against you.
  • Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary. 

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. 

The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

 

CHANGES  

We may revise this user and acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this user and acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.

 

WHICH COUNTRY’S LAWS APPLY TO ANY DISPUTES?  

These terms of use and acceptable use policy, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.