Letchworth Garden Shed CIC 

Website terms and conditions

Completed 15/05/23

 

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

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What's in these terms? 

These terms tell you the rules for using our website letchworthgardenshed.com or www.letchworthgardenshed.com (“Website”).

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Who we are and how to contact us 

letchworthgardenshed.com is operated by the Letchworth Garden Shed (“We" or “LGS”). We are a friendly bunch so if you have any questions, drop us an email at letchworthgardenshed@gmail.com. 

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By using our site you accept these terms 

By using our Website, you accept these terms of use and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you can stop using our Website at any time. We may amend these terms from time to time so please check back in as the most recent terms will apply. 

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We may suspend or withdraw our site 

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. 

 

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 at letchworthgardenshed@gmail.com. 

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How you may use 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.

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• You may print off one copy, 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 (except where the content is user-generated).

• 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, download, share or repost 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.

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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 Website 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.

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

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User-generated content is not approved by us 

This Website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to social media pages, video-sharing sites, bulletin boards and chat rooms. 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. 

 

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. 

 

Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. 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. 

 

How we may use your personal information 

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

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Uploading content to our site 

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 a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

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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. 

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We know you won’t do it, but we have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post contains any libellous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable content.

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You must not upload any material that could incite a terrorist offence, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offence or threaten to commit a terrorist offence.

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We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We put quite a bit of effort into running our Website, but we do not guarantee that it will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You should use your own virus protection software if you choose to use one.

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You are also responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website.

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Please do 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 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. Doing any of these would be a criminal offence (under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 specifically) and we take this very seriously. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. If you commit such a breach, your right to use our Website will cease immediately.

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You are also not allowed to use any automated systems or software to conduct any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Website.

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Rules about linking to our site

It’s fine for you to link to our Website, as long as you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage or take advantage of our reputation. 

 

You agree not to link in a way to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

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You must not establish a link to our Website in any website that is not owned by you. Our Website must not be framed on any other site without our express permission. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. 

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact letchworthgardenshed@gmail.com

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Intellectual property, software and content 

LGS owns or has permission to use all the intellectual property rights in this Website and its content. 

You are not allowed to use, copy or make derivative works from any part of the Website unless you have our express permission or it is specifically permitted under the “How you may use material on our site” section.

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You are also not permitted to use our LGS logo or any LGS trade mark without our express approval (just ask, we won’t bite!).

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Which country's laws apply to any disputes? 

These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law and the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.