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If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using this website.

Information about us

www.howto.co.uk ("the Website"; "our Website") is a website operated by How to Books Limited ("Us"). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 02574996 and our registered office is at Greyfriars Court, Paradise Square, Oxford, OX1 4BE. Our VAT number is 557507423.

If you need to contact Us, please use [email protected] in the first instance.

Accessing Our Website

Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Website without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

We may disable any user's access to the Website without notice and at any time if we deem it to be appropriate.

Purpose and Use of Our Website

Our Website is designed to provide you with practical information on a range of general matters. It is not a substitute for professional advice. You may not use the material appearing on the Website for any commercial purposes.

The Website cannot and does not offer specific advice tailored to your individual circumstances and you should always obtain appropriate professional advice to ensure that you make informed decisions that take account of your needs and of your situation.

Our Website includes forums and discussion threads. Please refer to the Rules for Contributors for further detail.

Website Content

We aim to update our Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Website, or close it indefinitely.

Although we aim to keep the material appearing on Our Website accurate and up to date, we are under no obligation to update such material. Any of the material on our Website may be out of date at any given time.

Nothing on the Website is intended to, or does, represent an endorsement or recommendation of any specific product, company or course of action.

Intellectual property

We own or are authorised to use all of the intellectual property rights in our Website and in the material published on the Website. This includes but is not limited to copyright or a licence in the materials published on the Website.

All copyright, trade marks and all other intellectual property rights in all material or content supplied as part of the HowTo Site shall remain at all times vested in Us or our licensors.

You are permitted to use this material or content only as expressly authorised in writing by Us or our licensors.

You will not, and you will not assist or facilitate any third party to, copy, reproduce, transmit, distribute, frame, commercially exploit or create derivative works of such material or content.

If you become aware of any such distribution or commercial exploitation, you agree to notify Us immediately.

You acknowledge that by posting materials on our Website you grant to Us and our licensors and assigns an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty free, worldwide licence to use the materials both within the Website and in any other manner. The licence extends to copying, distributing, broadcasting, and otherwise transmitting, and adapting and editing the materials.

Contributions to the Website

Where you are invited to submit any contribution to the Website (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant Us a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in our Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to Us the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to our website.

By submitting your contribution to the Website, you warrant that your contribution;

• is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Us for all the purposes specified above;
• is not defamatory; and
• does not infringe any law.

You will indemnify us against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Us as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and

You will waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on our Website and the purposes specified above.

Copyright

We reserve all rights in relation to the copyright material published on the Website.

The material published on the Website is intended for your personal use only and you must not use any part of the materials on our Website for any commercial purposes.

You must not amend, modify, reproduce, distribute (whether across the internet or otherwise) or copy any of the material published on the Website.

Our liability

Material appearing on our Website is not intended to amount to advice. By its nature the material featured on the Website is of a general nature and has not been prepared with your particular circumstances in mind. You should not rely on or take decisions based on the material appearing on our Website and you should seek individual advice in relation to your specific concerns.

While we have taken care to ensure that the information appearing on the website is accurate and up to date, we cannot guarantee that it will be accurate, up to date or complete.

The material displayed on our Website is provided without any guarantees or warranties and to the extent permitted by law, We expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity and any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it.

We have not checked the accuracy or completeness of any material that has been submitted to us by any of our contributors. We do not accept responsibility for any liability arising from any reliance you place on material posted on our Website by any contributor to our Website.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Information about you and your visits to the Website

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

By using our Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Website Linking

Linking to Our Website

You may link to our home page from a website owned by you, provided that your website does not contain offensive, indecent, unlawful, defamatory or inappropriate material and provided that you link to our home page 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 and our Website must not be framed on any other website.

Our links to external websites

We have no control over external websites. We do not endorse the website that we provide links to and we are not responsible for the content or accuracy of those external websites.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to Our Website. We retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by English law.

Amendments

Where it is reasonably necessary for Us to revise these Terms, we may do so by amending this page. We will inform you of any substantive or material changes but you are expected to check this page from time to time, as they are binding on you.

Related links: Privacy Policy, Rules for Contributors