Terms and conditions

These Terms of Use, together with our Privacy Policy (accessible at www.hamlins/compliance-and-regulatory/privacy/), Cookies Policy (www.hamlins/compliance-and-regulatory/privacy-help/) and Accessibility Policy (accessible at www.hamlins.com/compliance-and-regulatory/accessibility/) (together, the “Terms and Conditions”) govern your use of this Website. Use of the Website includes accessing it, perusing it, or using any of the functionality and/or content offered via it.

Please read the Terms and Conditions carefully before you start to use this Website, as they represent a binding legal agreement and you will be bound by them. Please note that we reserve the right to revise or amend the Terms and Conditions at any time to reflect changes to our business or changes in the law. It is your responsibility to check these Terms and Conditions regularly. By using this Website after the Terms and Conditions have been updated, you are consenting to any amendments. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you must not use our Website and/or any of the content or materials on the Website.

Terms of Use

The material contained on this Website contains general information only and does not constitute legal or other professional advice. While every care has been taken in the preparation of the information on this Website, readers are advised to seek specific legal advice in relation to any decision or course of action.

Neither the transmission of any material, nor the receipt of any material, is intended to create, nor should such transmission or receipt be taken as creating, a client-solicitor relationship between Hamlins and the recipient.

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

Our Website is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw and/or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website for business and/or operational reasons at any time without notice.

Acceptable Use of the Website

Your right to use this Website is subject to the following conditions:

• You may print off one copy and download extracts of any page of this Website for your personal, non-commercial use only.
• You must not modify any physical or digital copies of any page or contents of this Website.
• You must not use any of this Website’s illustrations, photographs, diagrams, charts, videos or audio sequences separately from accompanying text.
• Our status and that of any identified contributors must always be acknowledged.
• You may only use this Website for lawful purposes. This Website may not be used for:
• any purpose which breaches any applicable law, regulation, judgment or order;
• harming or intending to cause harm to minors;
• sending or knowingly receiving any material which does not comply with applicable law or these Terms of Use;
• transmitting or procuring the transmission of unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material (spam); or
• transmitting or procuring the transmission of viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, key stroke loggers, spyware, adware or other malicious programs or code.

Links to this Site

We welcome hypertext or other links to the “Home” page of this Website, but require notice in advance of such links being made. The right to link to the website is granted by us acting in our absolute discretion. We may remove this right at any time without notice. We do not consent to “deep links” into our site. We also reserve the right to refuse applications to link to our Website from people or organisations which we consider unsuitable.

You may link to this Website’s “Home” page from your website, provided:

• you are the owner and operator of that website;
• you do not link to this Website in a way which suggests an association with or endorsement by us;
• your website contains no content which is illegal, offensive, violent, sexually explicit or discriminatory against any person or group on the grounds of gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability or political or religious belief; and
• you do not reframe any part of this Website within your website.

For further information or to request permission to link to our Website please email us on enquiries@hamlins.com.

Links to Third Party Sites

The Website may contain links that make it easy for you to visit other websites and resources provided by third parties. These are provided for your information only. We do not have any control over these websites and have not necessarily reviewed them or approve of or endorse their content. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. If you use these links to visit a website operated by someone else, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which users have provided while visiting such websites or any content that it contains. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

If you think that the contents of any of the websites we have linked to is offensive, illegal or inappropriate, please let us know and we will review whether we should maintain that link.

Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in this Website and its content, including without limitation copyright, trade marks, patents, design rights, database rights, data, rights in data, confidential information and the right to sue under the laws of passing off and unfair competition anywhere in the world (the “Intellectual Property”).

Your sole right to use the Intellectual Property is a non-exclusive, limited, personal, revocable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, royalty-free licence to make use of such content only as is strictly necessary to enable you to access the Website and to peruse its contents, and strictly in accordance with the “Acceptable Use” section of this Terms of Use Policy above.

Except as provided by any relevant legal provision, no part of any of the Intellectual Property may be reproduced, adapted, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

All trade marks, service marks, trade names and logos contained on this Website belong to their respective owners. Unless specifically stated otherwise, nothing in these terms or on the Website shall give effect to any transfer of such intellectual property rights from us to you.

All other rights are expressly reserved.

Monitoring

Hamlins reserves the right to monitor any and all communications made to us or using our Website or our online communications infrastructure.

We may temporarily or permanently deny any user’s access to this Website without reason or notice.

We may refer any matter to a law enforcement agency or Court of competent jurisdiction where we consider a matter is of a criminal or unlawful nature.

Limitations and Exclusions

Any liability incurred in relation to material is limited to the resupply of the material, or the reasonable cost of having the material resupplied. Under no circumstances will Hamlins, or any of its Partners, be liable for any incidental, special or consequential damages, including damages for loss of business or other profits arising in relation to the material.

Changes are made periodically to the material, and the material could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Hamlins makes no warranties or representations regarding the quality, accuracy, completeness, merchantability or fitness for purpose of any material.

Hamlins does not warrant or represent that the material will not cause damage, or is free from any computer virus of any other defects or errors. Hamlins is not liable to users of the material for any loss or damage however caused resulting from the use of the material. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to the Website or any content on it, whether express or implied.

No part of the Website is intended to constitute a contractual offer capable of acceptance. No goods and/or services are sold through this Website and product and/or service details are provided for information purposes only.

Viruses

We make no warranty or representation that the material on this Website is free from any computer virus or any other defects or errors. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website. You should use your own virus protection 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 the Website or to your downloading of any content from it, or from any website linked to it.

You must not misuse our Website 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 Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website 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 Website will cease immediately.

Site credits

Hamlins is committed to making the information and resources provided via its Website accessible to the widest possible audience. To enable this, we follow widely accepted ‘best practice’ principles for design and usability.

This Website has been designed to be as useable and accessible as possible across a wide variety of user-agents. This has been done by using HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheets).

For more information on the importance of Web Standards please visit the Web Standards Project.

Governing Law

The material on this Website resides on a server in the United Kingdom. The law applicable to use of the material and to disputes arising out of or in connection with the material is the law of England and Wales.

Contact us

If you have a question regarding these Terms of Use, please email enquiries@hamlins.com.

Last updated: 13 August 2024