PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SYNAMEDIA WEBSITE

What’s in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website www.synamedia.com (our site).

Who we are and how to contact us

www.synamedia.com is a site operated by Synamedia Holdings Limited and its affiliates (Synamedia, we, our, us). Synamedia Holdings Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 11305472 with its registered office at One London Road, Staines-Upon-Thames, London, Middlesex, England, TW18 4EX.

To contact us, please use this link here: https://www.synamedia.com/contact/.

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, and check back regularly for any updates to these terms.

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:

• Our Privacy Policy https://www.synamedia.com/privacy-policy/. See further under How we may use your personal information.
• Our Cookie Policy available here: https://www.synamedia.com/cookie-policy/, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

If you purchase goods or services from our site, depending on the type of purchase,  the relevant  terms and conditions of supply will apply to the sales. You can find the different terms and conditions in our Policy Centre here: https://www.synamedia.com/policy-centre/.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you use our site, these terms as updated will apply. Please check these terms regularly 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, for example, to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs and / or our business priorities.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

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.

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.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

You must keep your account details safe

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 here: https://www.synamedia.com/contact/.

How you may use our site and any material on our site

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. Any service, solution, product, process or technology described in any materials made available on our site may be subject to other intellectual property rights owned by Synamedia or its licensors, which are not licensed under these terms.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be clearly acknowledged.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your information purposes only and for personal and non-commercial use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

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, or otherwise infringes our or any other party’s rights, including without limitation intellectual property rights.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
• 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.
• In any way that involves child sexual exploitation or abuse.
• To upload or link to terrorist content.

You also agree:

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of these terms of use;
• Not to 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;
• 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;
• 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; and / or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

(together, Acceptable Use Policy)

When we consider that a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of these 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, and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made;
• 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; and / or
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of the Acceptable Use Policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

• Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
• Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our 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.

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.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

How to complain about or report content

If you wish to complain about any content, please contact us using the details available here:  https://www.synamedia.com/contact/.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

• We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
• Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which will be set out in our terms and conditions of supply – please visit our Policy Centre here: https://www.synamedia.com/policy-centre/.
• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
• 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:
  • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
• 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.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our https://www.synamedia.com/privacy-policy/.

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 Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us using the link here:  https://www.synamedia.com/contact/.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by the laws of England and Wales. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Trade marks acknowledgements

Synamedia and the Synamedia logo are trade marks or registered trade marks of Synamedia in the E.U., the U.S., and other countries. Third party trade marks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

You are not permitted to use them without our express prior written approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under section entitled How you may use our site and any material on our site.