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User Agreement

Terms and Conditions of the use of E-consultancy.com web-site

These Terms and Conditions apply when you access our website to use E-consultancy.com Limited ("E-consultancy") services. Before proceeding to use our services, you should read the Terms and Conditions carefully. If you find yourself unable to agree to them, then you must not use our website. If, however, you agree to them unconditionally you will be given the opportunity to click the "I accept" checkbox during the registration process, and you will then be able to use our website to which these Terms and Conditions apply.

E-consultancy may amend these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting the amended Terms and Conditions on our web site ("the Site") and announcing such changes in the site forum.

Except as stated below, all amended Terms and Conditions shall be automatically effective after they are posted on the Site.


Table of contents

  1. General Information
  2. Membership Eligibility
  3. Formation of Contract
  4. Fees and Services
  5. Cancellation and Fees Refunds Policy
  6. Third Party Advertising and Links to Third Party Websites
  7. The Site
  8. E-consultancy.com is only a Venue
  9. Job Advertising Service
  10. Your Information
  11. Blogs Service
  12. Access and Interference
  13. Ratings
  14. Breach
  15. Privacy
  16. No Warranty
  17. Liability Limit
  18. Indemnity
  19. Legal Compliance
  20. No Agency
  21. Notices
  22. Arbitration
  23. Intellectual Property
  24. Intellectual Property Infringement
  25. General

1.  General Information

1.1 For your information we list below the address details of E-consultancy:

Registered Office: 4 Plantagenet Road, New Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 5JQ
Registered Company no. 4047149
Contact Address: E-consultancy.com Ltd, Lemon Studios 85 Clerkenwell Road London EC1R 5AR
E-Mail: Contact us

2. Membership Eligibility

2.1 Our services are available only to individuals who have the capacity to form legally binding contracts under the law applicable to these Terms and Conditions. Without limiting the foregoing, our services are not available to minors (under 18 years of age). If you do not qualify, you are not permitted to use our services and no contract will be formed between you and E-consultancy. Further, our services are not available to temporarily or indefinitely suspended E-consultancy members.

3. Formation of Contract

3.1 In order that a legally binding contract can be formed between E-consultancy and a member eligible under clause 2 above, the member is required to accept these Terms and Conditions unconditionally by clicking the 'I accept' checkbox during the registration process.

3.2 E-consultancy in their absolute discretion reserves the right to refuse, suspend or cancel membership of any member.

3.3 These Terms and Conditions shall override any contrary terms or conditions published by E-consultancy or appearing on this web site pertaining to members.

3.4 In consideration of E-consultancy agreeing to the member's use of the Site and its Services (as defined in clause 9.1 below), the member agrees to comply with these Terms and Conditions.

4. Fees and Services

4.1 Details of E-consultancy's services are set out in full on the Site ("Services") and will be undertaken by E-consultancy on acceptance by E-consultancy of your order to purchase individual Services or to subscribe to several Services and payment in full of the subscription fees for such relevant Services as correspondingly set out on the Site ("Fees"). Each separate order for Services shall form and be treated as a separate legal contract between you and E-consultancy for provision of the relevant Services, subject to these Terms and Conditions.

4.2 E-consultancy reserves the right to change its fee policy and the Fees charged for Services from time to time, with such changes become effective immediately upon posting notice of the changes on the Forum of the Site. Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in UK Sterling. You are responsible for paying all fees associated with using the Services and the Site and all applicable taxes.

4.3 You agree to pay to E-consultancy the Fees for the Services you purchase from E-consultancy, subject to the terms of this Agreement. All Fees shall be payable by you in full in advance and are non-refundable, subject to clause 5 below (Cancellation and Refunds Policy).

4.3.1 Any Services with the validity period of 365 days are considered subscriptions ("Subscriptions"). All Subscriptions purchased by credit card carry an automatic renewal agreement. You will be notified 14 days in advance of automatic renewal. You can cancel a Subscription automatic renewal at any point during its validity. The credit card used to purchase the Subscription will be charged the full and current Fee on the day of renewal. This will constitute a separate order for Services and shall be treated as a separate legal contract between you and E-consultancy for provision of the relevant Services, subject to these Terms and Conditions. The Cancellation and Fees Refund Policy applies.

4.4 E-consultancy.com accepts no responsibility for taxes etc on transactions effected as a direct or indirect result of the use of the Site. However, for persons based in the EU (including the UK), VAT may apply in two ways:

  • If you are a business, you may have to remit VAT on our services to you (under 'reverse charging').
  • Whether you are a business or not, and whether you are buying or selling, VAT may apply to your transactions. Please be aware that in some rare cases the amount a seller nets from a sale may be less than the net value once VAT is paid. The complexity of VAT (which applies differently in numerous countries, to different items, and at different rates) means E-consultancy cannot prevent some such occurrences. You accept the risk that this affects you.

4.5 The Services shall be made reasonably available to you, subject to these Terms and Conditions and subject to technical errors and downtime which may be associated with the Internet and the Site. You acknowledge and accept that E-consultancy has no control over the Internet which is a global decentralised network of computer systems. Access to the Site and Services shall not, therefore, be error free or uninterrupted and may be disrupted and very variable.

4.6 The Site is maintained in partnership with E-consultancy's hosting service providers. Every effort is made to ensure the continuity of the Site and Services, but some occasional technical downtime beyond our control and/or the control of our hosting service provider may occur. You acknowledge and accept that such downtime may prevent the Site being viewed and may restrict access to your subscription account or the ability to access the Services from time to time.

4.7 You acknowledge and accept that the disclaimers and limitation of liability relating to the Site and Services set out in clause 17 will apply.

4.8 In the event that any individual component of the Services is disputed then the parties shall endeavour in good faith to reach agreement in relation to the disputed Services. In the event that such dispute cannot be resolved, the matter shall be referred for resolution to an independent expert as appointed on application by either party by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the United Kingdom. The parties agree to be bound by the decision made by such independent expert.

5. Cancellation and Fees Refunds Policy

5.1 If you are acting as a consumer, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, you have a statutory right to cancel any distance contract either within 7 days of the date of purchase as long as you have not yet accessed the relevant services. Accordingly, if you are acting as a consumer you may cancel any subscription to/purchase of Services during the period up until the relevant Services are delivered (which shall for this purpose be defined as access by you to more than 1 report on the Site) or the end of 7 days from the date of purchase, whichever is shorter ("Consumer Cancellation Period"). If you are acting as a consumer and validly cancel any contract for Services within the Consumer Cancellation Period E-consultancy shall refund to you the Fees paid for the relevant Services. If you are acting as a consumer and cancel any contract for Services outside the Consumer Cancellation Period, the Fees paid by you for the relevant Services shall be non-refundable.

5.2 If you are not acting as a consumer (i.e. using the Services in the course of your business), the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 shall not apply. Accordingly, if you are not acting as a consumer E-consultancy's cancellation policy is as follows: you may cancel any subscription to/purchase of Services during the period up until the relevant Services are delivered (which shall for this purpose be defined as access by you to more than 1 report on the Site) or the end of 3 days from the date of purchase, whichever is shorter ("Business Cancellation Period"). If you are not acting as a consumer and validly cancel any contract for Services within the Business Cancellation Period E-consultancy shall refund to you the Fees paid for the relevant Services. If you are not acting as a consumer and you cancel any contract for Services outside the Business Cancellation Period, the Fees paid by you for the relevant Services shall be non-refundable.

6. Third Party Advertising and Links to Third Party Websites

6.1 There may be third party advertising posted on the Site from time to time which may contain links to third party web sites, frames and portals ("Third Party Sites"). You acknowledge and accept that E-consultancy does not exercise any review or editorial control over the content of such third party advertising whatsoever.

6.2 Accordingly, all E-consultancy's liability or responsibility for the content of such third party advertising on the Site and any damage it may cause is hereby disclaimed and excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law.

6.3 Furthermore, E-consultancy has not reviewed the content of Third Party Sites. E-consultancy is not responsible for the content or availability of these Third Party Sites. If you decide to use any link to a Third Party Site you leave the Site and you do so at your own risk. It is your sole responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements which may exist on those Third Party Sites.

6.4 Links to Third Party Sites in the third party advertising or otherwise on the Site does not imply that:

  • E-consultancy endorses the content of such Third Party Sites;
  • E-consultancy is affiliated or associated with the owners of such Third Party Sites;
  • E-consultancy is legally authorised to use any trade mark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol displayed in or accessible through the Third Party Sites; or
  • any linked Third Party Site is authorised to use any trade mark, trade name, logo or copyright of E-consultancy.

7. The Site

7.1 E-consultancy reserves the right to change the content, presentation, performance, user facilities and availability of any part of the Site at its sole discretion and without notice. It is the member's responsibility to refer to and update itself in relation to any changes made. Any such changes will become effective upon posting by E-consultancy.

7.2 E-consultancy does not warrant any continuity of connection, transmission over security or results from the use of any network connection or facilities provided or omitted to be provided in connection with the use of the Site.

7.3 Where E-consultancy provides hyperlinks to a third party's website, E-consultancy shall not take any responsibility for nor does it make any warranties, representations or undertakings about the content of any other web-site which may be referred to or accessed by the hyperlink and E-consultancy does not endorse or approve the content of such third parties websites.

7.4 E-consultancy makes no warranty as to the continuous availability of the Site, but shall use reasonable endeavours to keep down time to a minimum.

8. E-consultancy.com is only a Venue

8.1 Overview. The Site acts as a venue for online marketing and e-commerce professionals to interact, share information and opinions, and advertise ("the Services") including but not limited to posting information on the Site via forums and blogs (see clause 11 below) and advertising job vacancies (see clause 9 below). Although community members may choose to conduct business related communications and transactions through the site, E-consultancy is not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. As a result, E-consultancy have no control over the quality, safety, truth, accuracy or legality of any products, items, vacancies, statements or services posted or offered, nor does E-consultancy have any ability whatsoever to warrant or guarantee the integrity of the providers or purchasers of such products, items, vacancies, statements or services. E-consultancy cannot ensure that any provider or purchaser will actually complete a transaction.

8.2 Member identities. Because identification and authentication on the Internet is difficult, E-consultancy cannot and does not confirm each member's purported identity. E-consultancy has established a member-initiated rating system to help you evaluate the quality of any individual's input and E-consultancy allows members to give access to information about themselves to other members. If you are in any doubt as to an individual's identity you are encouraged to attempt to communicate directly with that person to further establish their credentials.

8.3 Release. In the event that you have a dispute or issue with one or more of the other members, you shall release E-consultancy (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of any kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

8.4 Information Control. E-consultancy is designed to help members obtain online marketing and e-commerce information, advertise details of vacancies and to discuss online marketing and e-commerce issues. This information is sometimes provided by our members, many of whom use anonymous User IDs and are people we may have never met. Whilst the quality of material submitted to our Site is generally high, E-consultancy does not control the information provided by members, and you may find other member's information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution and common sense when using our Site. Please note that there are also risks in dealing with foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretences including underage persons.

8.5 Furthermore, as you cannot be sure who any contributor really is, you should treat the contributors here in the same way that you would treat anyone you had come across for the first time. You should not rely upon the information you find at the Site but rather, you should use it as a starting point for doing independent research, then decide for yourself the accuracy and merits of the information that has been shared in our forum and on our Site including on the blogs section of the Site (see clause 11 below). As such E-consultancy cannot guarantee and gives no warranty as to the accuracy, veracity, or completeness of any such information provided.

8.6 The opinions expressed on this Site are those of the contributing individuals. If you act on anything that is said or done you must do so on the basis of a considered decision of your own, having weighed up the pros, cons and risks thereby fully accepting the responsibility for the success or failure of your actions. Under no circumstances shall E-consultancy be liable for direct, indirect, or incidental damages resulting from your use of information, commentary, advice or other content on the Site. You agree to indemnify E-consultancy against any actions, claims, proceedings, or liabilities arising from your use of the content of the Site.

9. Jobs Advertising Service

9.1 Notwithstanding and subject to the remaining terms and conditions herein, the following conditions govern our acceptance of all orders for digital content in the form of advertisement(s) for job vacancies to be published on the Site ("Job Advert"). No Job Advert shall be accepted by us other than via the "Post a Job" submission procedure set out on the Site, and submitting a Job Advert via this process shall be deemed to be acceptance of these terms and conditions.

9.2 If you submit a Job Advert to us to publication on the Site, you warrant to us that the Job Advert:

  • is legal, decent, honest and truthful and does not contain any obscene, insulting, defamatory or otherwise illegal content;
  • does not breach any third party contract or infringe or violate any copyright, trade mark or any other intellectual property rights of any third party and you have obtained any necessary permissions or clearance for any content owned by a third party;
  • complies with codes of practice governing advertising in force at the time of publishing the Job Advert, including but not limited to the Advertising Standards Agency Code of Practice in the United Kingdom, and
  • any breach of the warranties set out in this clause will entitle us to remove the relevant Job Advert from the Site and terminate your membership of the Site.

9.3 E-consultancy shall carry out a manual review of each Job Advert submitted by you before it is published on the Site. E-consultancy reserves the right to amend, edit or abbreviate any Job Advert at our discretion. E-consultancy also reserves the right to refuse to publish any Job Advert for any reason, but particularly if it is in breach of clause 9.2 above.

9.4 Notwithstanding clause 9.3 above, it shall be entirely your responsibility to correctly and accurately post job details when buying a Job Advert via the "Post a Job" submission procedure set out on the Site. E-consultancy shall not be liable for any omissions, errors or inaccuracies in the information submitted. Accordingly, it is your responsibility to check Job Adverts and notify us of any omission, error or inaccuracy. E-consultancy will make reasonable efforts to make corrections to Job Adverts as notified to us by you but make no guarantee that such corrections will be made.

9.5 You acknowledge and accept that there may be technical downtime relating to the Job Advertising Service and that E-consultancy has no control over the Internet. Job Adverts may be attacked by viruses, worms, Trojan horses, cancelbots, or other harmful and destructive elements causing error. Such downtime or errors may prevent Job Adverts being viewed by users of the Site. E-consultancy shall not be liable if the publication of a Job Advert is delayed, prevented from access or displayed incorrectly by any cause beyond our control including server downtime and such destructive elements.

9.6 If you properly notify us of an error in the publication of a Job Advert deviating from the information provided to us by you in the "Post a Job" submission procedure set out on the Site, which materially detracts from the Job Advert, E-consultancy may at your request either:

  • refund the sum payable for the relevant Job Advert and remove the Job Advert from the Site; or
  • post a corrected version of the Job Advert on the Site.

9.7 In any event, our liability in relation to each Job Advert shall be limited to a sum equal to the amount paid to us for the Job Advert in question, and E-consultancy shall not be liable for any loss of or damage to any images or text provided to us by you when submitting the Job Advert.

9.8 You agree to pay the relevant fees, if any, set out on the Site for submission of each Job Advert. Fees set out on the Site may change from time to time and any change will be posted on the Site and will take effect for new Job Adverts submitted after the change. Payment for all Job Adverts must be prepaid in accordance with the payment methods set out on the Site, and no submission shall be deemed accepted until payment in full for the relevant Job Advert is received by us. Fees paid to us for posting Job Adverts shall be non-refundable.

9.9 You agree to indemnify us in respect of claims, damages or other charges incurred by us (whether direct or consequential) including legal costs arising from any action relating to publication of any Job Advert submitted by you on the Site.

10. Your Information

10.1 "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to E-consultancy or other users during registration, in any public message area, through feedback or any e-mail or form features

10.2 Your Information and conduct (or any items listed therein) shall not:

  • be false, inaccurate or misleading
  • be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items
  • infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trade mark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy
  • violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including without limitation those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising)
  • be defamatory, trade libellous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing
  • be obscene, blasphemous, contain any pornography including without limitation child pornography or other legally resricted material
  • contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information
  • create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers
  • impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with anyone or anything
  • post or transmit chain letters, pyramid schemes, advertising, promotional materials, or other solicitation except as where explicitly requested by another user

10.3 To enable E-consultancy to use Your Information supplied, such that we are not violating any rights you might have in that information, you agree to grant E-consultancy a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence and the right to sub-license (through multiple tiers) to use the copyright, publicity and other intellectual property rights you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known. E-consultancy will only use Your Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy to the Site.

10.4 You are responsible for all statements made and acts that occur through the use of your membership and password. Please don't disclose your password to anyone. If your password has been stolen, you must let us know. E-consultancy may at any time, and at its sole discretion, terminate your membership without prior notice to you for violating the above provisions.

10.5 While E-consultancy cannot review all transmissions by members in the forum, we reserve the right to, and may from time to time, monitor any information transmitted or received through our service. E-consultancy, at our sole discretion and without further notice to you, may review, remove, or otherwise block any information (including posts to message boards, forums and blogs) that we deem inappropriate or that violates any of this agreement.

11. Blogs Service

11.1 "Blogs" are essentially web pages containing information posted by the relevant creator of such web pages. Blogs are managed and edited by certain editors on the Site who are either freelance or guest editors of the blogs on the Site ("Independent Editors") and as such Independent Editors are not representatives of E-consultancy or its views.

11.2 E-consultancy does not control or edit any of the information or views set out by Independent Editors on any blog on the Site and accordingly E-consultancy does not warrant or guarantee the validity, accuracy or reliability for such information or views expressed by Independent Editors on the Site. E-consultancy does not endorse or advocate any of the information or views set out on any blog on the Site which are the views of the Independent Editors and not of E-consultancy.

11.3 E-consultancy provides an automatic procedure on the Site whereby members can submit a press release or story to the Independent Editors for posting to a blog on the Site. Furthermore, E-consultancy provides no warranty or guarantee whatsoever to any third party that any such information or accompanying images used by an Independent Editor on a blog on the Site are legitimately cleared for publication.

11.4 E-consultancy carries out no review nor does it exercise any editorial control over any blogs posted on the Site. E-consultancy does not vet or otherwise filter any submissions made to Independent Editors for inclusion in blogs on the Site. However, if an Independent Editor uses any story, press release or other material submitted by you for inclusion in a blog, E-consultancy reserves the right to delete it from the Site at E-consultancy's sole discretion and E-consultancy may refuse to publish any blog for any reason. Accordingly all E-consultancy's liability or responsibility for the content of blogs on the Site and any damage it may cause is hereby disclaimed and excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law subject that E-consultancy's maximum liability for such material shall be strictly limited to removing any material which is reasonably notified in writing to E-consultancy as infringing the rights of others or otherwise illegal.

11.5 You acknowledge the risk of intellectual property rights infringement and breach of confidentiality relating to any material you submit to the Independent Editors through the Site for inclusion in a blog on the Site, You, therefore, warrant and represent that you own all intellectual property rights in such material and that such material shall not:

  • reproduce images or text copied in whole or in part from other sources;
  • be confidential information owned by a third party;
  • be false, fraudulent, inaccurate or misleading;
  • infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trade mark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  • be defamatory, libellous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing;
  • be obscene, blasphemous, contain any pornography including without limitation child pornography or other legally resricted material;
  • contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
  • create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers;
  • impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with anyone or anything.

11.6 You shall fully indemnify E-consultancy for any claims or damage (including legal costs) for any of the warranties set out in clause 11.5.

11.7 To enable E-consultancy to permit (un-reviewed) publication of the blogs of the Independent Editors on the Site, such that we are not violating any rights you have in that information or material, you agree to grant E-consultancy a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use the copyright, publicity and other intellectual property rights you have in such information and material for solely for the purpose of permitting its (un-reviewed) publication in Independent Editor's blogs on the Site.

11.8 If E-consultancy becomes aware that any material displayed on a blog on the Site is or may be in breach or probably breach any of the terms and conditions set out above it shall have the right to delete it in accordance with clause 11.4 above. Accordingly, we invite you to report to E-consultancy any material on a blog we you believe may breach the above terms and conditions.

12. Access and Interference

12.1 You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein without the prior written consent of E-consultancy.

12.2 You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site.

12.3 You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure.

12.4 Much of the information on the Site is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to E-consultancy by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from the Site without the prior written consent of E-consultancy or the appropriate third party, with the exception of downloading or printing a single copy for yourself for offline viewing.

13. Ratings

13.1 You may not take any actions, which may undermine the integrity of the ratings system.

13.2 Export. You acknowledge that your rating consists of a composite number compiled by the aggregated ratings of other site users. Because ratings are not designed for any purpose other than for facilitating information searching for E-consultancy members, you agree that you shall not market or export your E-consultancy rating in any other venue.

13.3 Import. E-consultancy does not provide the technical ability to allow you to import ratings from other websites, as this does not reflect your true online reputation within our community.

14. Breach

14.1 Without limiting other remedies, E-consultancy may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide the Services to you if:

  • you breach this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference (including but not limited to our Privacy Policy)
  • E-consultancy are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; and
  • E-consultancy believe that your actions may cause legal liability for you, our members or us

15. Privacy

15.1 By registering, you are agreeing that other members may make statements about your views, opinions or services which you regard as untrue. In any such case, if you contact E-consultancy, giving full details, E-consultancy will conduct a brief investigation and may remove the offending statement. Whether or not the offending statement is removed you hereby waive any right you might otherwise have against E-consultancy in connection with such statements. You accept that E-consultancy cannot control such statements and it is not practicable to conduct full, detailed, investigations. For more details on Privacy, please review our Privacy Policy.

16. No Warranty

16.1 The Site including, without limitation, its contents, functionality, performance and features are provided on an "as available basis" at the member's sole risk and without representations or warranties of any kind and to the full extent permitted by law. E-consultancy and other parties involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site expressly exclude all warranties, conditions or terms express or implied, statutory or otherwise including without limitation any warranty as to satisfactory quality or any warranty or commitment that access or use will be uninterrupted or error free.

17. Liability Limit

17.1 Nothing in this agreement is intended to limit or exclude any liability on the part of E-consultancy where and to the extent that applicable law prohibits such exclusion or limitation.

17.2 Subject to the above statement and any clauses relating to limitation of liability elsewhere in these terms and conditions, in no event shall E-consultancy or its suppliers be liable for any: lost profits; lost sales; lost business; lost opportunity; lost information; lost anticipated savings; or special, indirect or consequential damages (however arising, including as a result of negligence) arising out of or in connection with this agreement including the Site or Services.

17.3 Accordingly, subject to clause 17.1, you agree not to bring a claim of any nature against E-consultancy in relation the use of or access to the Site and use or access to the Services, except where such a claim cannot be excluded by law. You acknowledge and agree that E-consultancy will have the right (subject to the discretion of the Court) to a stay of proceeding if you bring any claim against E-consultancy in breach of the foregoing.

17.4 E-consultancy shall not be liable or responsible in any way for any damage caused by any misuse of the Site by you or any third party, or caused by any Service.

17.5 E-consultancy shall be free to modify, temporarily suspend or cancel the Services and to reasonably amend these Terms and conditions at any time in writing which amendments will be deemed to be agreed by you upon using the Site and Services. Subject to clause 17.1 above, E-consultancy shall not be liable for any damage or expenses incurred by you or any other person as a result of such modification, suspension or cancellation of any game or reasonable amendment to these Terms and Conditions.

17.6 You acknowledge that information, software and other material accessible over the Internet via the Site may contain viruses, worms, Trojan horses, cancelbots, or other harmful and destructive components. E-consultancy shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or other loss or damages which result or may result from your access to or use of the Internet, Site or Services.

17.7 E-consultancy shall not be liable for orders for purchase of or subscriptions to Services which are made via the Site but are not received by E-consultancy for any reason, including but not limited to errors, disruption or downtime of Site which may, owing to corruption of data, lead to such orders/subscriptions being lost or which may lead to orders of/subscriptions to Services being submitted incomplete or with errors in which case such orders of/subscriptions to Services may need to be re-submitted.

18. Indemnity

18.1 You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless E-consultancy and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, from and against any claim, demand, liability, cost, damage or lost it may incur, including legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

19. Legal Compliance

19.1 You shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service.

20. No Agency

20.1 You agree that you and E-consultancy are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

21. Notices

21.1 All notices required to be served on E-consultancy shall be sent to the contact address stated in clause 1 or to the e-mail address of E-consultancy as set out in clause 1 or as otherwise notified on the Site from time to time for such purpose.

22. Arbitration

22.1 Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or E-consultancy's Services shall be settled by an arbitration tribunal designated by E-consultancy. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in the U.K., and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or E-consultancy.com may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in the U.K. necessary to protect the rights or property of you or us pending the completion of arbitration.

23. Intellectual Property

23.1 You acknowledge that the ownership in any intellectual property rights (including, for the avoidance of doubt, patents, copyright, rights in databases, trade marks and trade names whether registered or unregistered and subsisting anywhere in the World) in the Site belongs to E-consultancy or its third party licensors. Accordingly, any part of this Site (or its source HTML or any other code) may not be used, transferred, copied or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner other than for the purposes of utilising this Site and the Services, meaning that you may only display it on your computer screen and print it out on your printer for the sole purpose of viewing its content in connection with the Services.

23.2 Subject to the terms and conditions herein, copyright and all other intellectual property rights subsisting in each and every piece of information provided on the Site is owned by E-consultancy or the third party providers of such information. You may use information retrieved from the Site only for the purposes of the Services.

23.3 E-consultancy reserves the right in accordance with the licence granted under clause 10.3 to license and republish the material contributed by you.

23.4 No person other than the rightful owner or licensee of any copyright and other intellectual property rights may:

  • distribute, modify, transmit, re-use, re-post, or use any or all of the information on this Site for any purpose other than as set out above nor for public or commercial purposes without E-consultancy's or the relevant licensee's prior written permission;
  • provide hypertext links, URL Links, graphic links, hyperlinks or other direct connection for profit or gain to the E-consultancy Services without E-consultancy's or the relevant licensee's prior written permission;
  • display, publish, copy, print, post or otherwise use the E-consultancy Services and the information contained therein for the benefit of any other website without E-consultancy's or the relevant licensee's prior written permission;
  • process or otherwise use the information contained on or within the E-consultancy Services for any illegal or immoral purpose nor use or process the same unfairly.

23.5 You agree and accept that E-consultancy may publish or otherwise distribute Your Information and you therefore grant to E-consultancy an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive right and licence to publish Your Information and all content contained therein on or within the Site, on any other media whatsoever and in its own advertising and promotion.

23.6 You therefore hereby undertake to E-consultancy to indemnify and hold harmless E-consultancy in full and defend at its own expense E-consultancy against all claims, liabilities, costs and losses whatsoever and howsoever incurred by E-consultancy its servants or nominees arising out of any claim made against it in any jurisdiction in the world for infringement of any intellectual property rights of any third party caused by your use of the Site and your Information.

23.7 E-consultancy, E-consultancy.com, the E-consultancy.com logo and the E-consultancy logo are trade names or trade marks of E-consultancy, the use of which is expressly forbidden by any other persons without the express permission of E-consultancy.

23.8 E-consultancy makes no warranty or representation in respect of any other trade mark or trading name, symbol or device, all of which are hereby acknowledged. If you have any questions in relation to the use of any marks contained within the E-consultancy Services please contact E-consultancy at the address below.

24. Intellectual Property Infringement

24.1 Contributors might share messages and information that they have electronically copied from other sources. As there are many thousands of possible sources spread out across the Internet, ranging from newspapers to scientific journals to bulletin boards, it is impossible for E-consultancy to know if a posting or other content contribution infringes a third party's intellectual property right and to what degree.

24.2 If you believe that your intellectual property right has been infringed, it is your obligation to notify E-consultancy immediately. E-consultancy accepts no liability for copyright or trade mark infringement or any other infringement of a third party's intellectual property rights by any of its members though E-consultancy will endeavour to protect any rights owner through reasonably appropriate action should any infringement come to light.

25. General

25.1 This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of England and Wales as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within England. The parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

25.2 If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out of these Terms and Conditions and the remaining provisions shall remain in force. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. E-consultancy's failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.

25.3 The laws of your country may be different from those of England and Wales in numerous respects. There is no practical way for E-consultancy to monitor the laws of every country in detail. Please do not assume that you are allowed to do what other members do. E-consultancy.com does not approve or validate transactions, advice or communications, and you accept sole responsibility for the legality of your actions under laws applying to you.

25.4 E-consultancy does not accept any obligation to protect you from any unsafe merchandise, products or services that may be offered on the Site. Please do not assume that such items offered will be harmless to people or property.

25.5 These rules are in addition to all others contained in the agreement. You are responsible for checking that your activities are all lawful according to the local laws in your country. If you and any other party are both based in the European Union and enter into a transaction agreement of any kind through the site then the seller's local law will govern further dealings as to shipment, payment etc. - unless you both explicitly agree otherwise.

25.6 Note however, that your country (and/or that of any member you deal with) may have some laws, which apply regardless of what you agree with us (now) or with that member (later).

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