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Small Print
Welcome to the www.chinanow.org.uk website (the “Website”). This page sets out the terms of use on which “you” may make use of the Website and you should read them carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you indicate that you accept these terms and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms, please refrain from using the Website.
1 Information about us
www.chinanow.org.uk is owned and operated by CHINA NOW (“we”). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number [1118156] and have our registered office at 16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED. CHINA NOW is a registered charity.
2 Accessing the Website
Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend access to the Website or any part of it without notice. We shall not be liable if, for any reason, the Website or any part of it is unavailable at any time or for any period.
When using the Website, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy set out below at paragraph 3. You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use, and that they comply with them.
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page or by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site. Any changes made will be binding on you.
3 Acceptable use of the Website
You may use the Website only for lawful purposes. Prohibited use of the Website includes (without limitation):
• using the Website in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• unlawful or fraudulent use (including use which has an unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect);
• using the Website to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
• using the Website 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.
You also agree:
• not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of these terms of use; and
• not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of the Website including without limitation: any equipment on which the Website is stored, any software used in the provision of the Website, or any equipment or software owned or used by any third party.
Failure to comply with this paragraph 3 constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use the Website. We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of the terms of acceptable use of the Website and we may take such action as we deem appropriate (including the right to suspend or terminate access to or use of the Website).
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to a breach of these terms of use and shall not be liable for any loss, howsoever arising, resulting from the unauthorised access of, interference with or any other prohibited use of the Website.
We also exclude liability for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses 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 material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
4 Intellectual property rights
Unless otherwise stated, we are the owner or the licensee of the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the Website, the material published on the Website (including, without limitation, photographs, graphical images, visual material or sound) and all trademarks displayed on the Website. Those works are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on the Website. You may not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you may not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text without obtaining our prior permission.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged and it is prohibited to remove any copyright, trademark or any other notices of intellectual property rights contained in any original material printed off or downloaded from the Website.
You must not use (including distributing or copying) any part of the materials on the Website or its content for commercial purposes.
If you print off, copy or download any part of the Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
5 Reliance on and changes to information posted
Commentary and other materials posted on the Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed and may be provided by third parties, particularly (but without limitation) advertising and sponsorship material. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any person or organisation.
We aim to update our site regularly but are under no obligation to update any material on the Website which may be out of date.
6 Our liability
The material displayed on the Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, and any third parties connected to us, hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit the liability of either party:
• for death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of that party or its directors, officers, employees, contractors or agents; or
• in respect of fraud or of any statements made fraudulently by that party or its directors, officers, employees, contractors or agents.
Subject to the above paragraph, CHINA NOW shall not be liable whether in contract (including under any indemnity or warranty), in tort (including negligence), under statute or otherwise for any (a) loss of profit; (b) loss of revenue; (c) loss of anticipated savings; (d) loss or corruption of data; (e) loss of contract or opportunity; (f) loss of goodwill; or (g) indirect or consequential loss of whatever nature including (without limit) any loss of a type described in (a) to (f) which could be regarded as indirect or consequential and whether or not reasonably foreseeable, reasonably contemplatable, or actually contemplated by either party.
7 Linking to and from our site
You may not link to the home page of the Website or any other part of it, without obtaining our written consent in advance, including framing the Website on any other site. If such linking is authorised by CHINA NOW you must do it in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects the applicable law in the UK and in any other country in which it is hosted. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
If you wish to make any use of material on the Website or establish links, other than as set out above, please address your request to office@chinanow.org.uk .
We have no control over the contents of third party sites which provide a link to this Website and accept no responsibility for the contents of such sites. To the extent permitted by law, we hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We accept no responsibility for these sites or resources or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them
8 Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms of use are governed by English law. The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to the Website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
9 Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
No provision of these terms of use is enforceable under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by a person who is not a party to such terms.
10 Invalidity
If any provision of these terms of use is determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
11 Waiver
If we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under these terms of use, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with your obligations. A waiver by us of any breach of these terms shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.
12 Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact office@chinanow.org.uk .
Thank you for visiting our site.
1 Information about us
www.chinanow.org.uk is owned and operated by CHINA NOW (“we”). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number [1118156] and have our registered office at 16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED. CHINA NOW is a registered charity.
2 Accessing the Website
Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend access to the Website or any part of it without notice. We shall not be liable if, for any reason, the Website or any part of it is unavailable at any time or for any period.
When using the Website, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy set out below at paragraph 3. You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use, and that they comply with them.
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page or by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site. Any changes made will be binding on you.
3 Acceptable use of the Website
You may use the Website only for lawful purposes. Prohibited use of the Website includes (without limitation):
• using the Website in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• unlawful or fraudulent use (including use which has an unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect);
• using the Website to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
• using the Website 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.
You also agree:
• not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of these terms of use; and
• not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of the Website including without limitation: any equipment on which the Website is stored, any software used in the provision of the Website, or any equipment or software owned or used by any third party.
Failure to comply with this paragraph 3 constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use the Website. We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of the terms of acceptable use of the Website and we may take such action as we deem appropriate (including the right to suspend or terminate access to or use of the Website).
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to a breach of these terms of use and shall not be liable for any loss, howsoever arising, resulting from the unauthorised access of, interference with or any other prohibited use of the Website.
We also exclude liability for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses 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 material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
4 Intellectual property rights
Unless otherwise stated, we are the owner or the licensee of the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the Website, the material published on the Website (including, without limitation, photographs, graphical images, visual material or sound) and all trademarks displayed on the Website. Those works are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on the Website. You may not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you may not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text without obtaining our prior permission.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged and it is prohibited to remove any copyright, trademark or any other notices of intellectual property rights contained in any original material printed off or downloaded from the Website.
You must not use (including distributing or copying) any part of the materials on the Website or its content for commercial purposes.
If you print off, copy or download any part of the Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
5 Reliance on and changes to information posted
Commentary and other materials posted on the Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed and may be provided by third parties, particularly (but without limitation) advertising and sponsorship material. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any person or organisation.
We aim to update our site regularly but are under no obligation to update any material on the Website which may be out of date.
6 Our liability
The material displayed on the Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, and any third parties connected to us, hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit the liability of either party:
• for death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of that party or its directors, officers, employees, contractors or agents; or
• in respect of fraud or of any statements made fraudulently by that party or its directors, officers, employees, contractors or agents.
Subject to the above paragraph, CHINA NOW shall not be liable whether in contract (including under any indemnity or warranty), in tort (including negligence), under statute or otherwise for any (a) loss of profit; (b) loss of revenue; (c) loss of anticipated savings; (d) loss or corruption of data; (e) loss of contract or opportunity; (f) loss of goodwill; or (g) indirect or consequential loss of whatever nature including (without limit) any loss of a type described in (a) to (f) which could be regarded as indirect or consequential and whether or not reasonably foreseeable, reasonably contemplatable, or actually contemplated by either party.
7 Linking to and from our site
You may not link to the home page of the Website or any other part of it, without obtaining our written consent in advance, including framing the Website on any other site. If such linking is authorised by CHINA NOW you must do it in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects the applicable law in the UK and in any other country in which it is hosted. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
If you wish to make any use of material on the Website or establish links, other than as set out above, please address your request to office@chinanow.org.uk .
We have no control over the contents of third party sites which provide a link to this Website and accept no responsibility for the contents of such sites. To the extent permitted by law, we hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We accept no responsibility for these sites or resources or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them
8 Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms of use are governed by English law. The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to the Website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
9 Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
No provision of these terms of use is enforceable under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by a person who is not a party to such terms.
10 Invalidity
If any provision of these terms of use is determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
11 Waiver
If we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under these terms of use, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with your obligations. A waiver by us of any breach of these terms shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.
12 Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact office@chinanow.org.uk .
Thank you for visiting our site.
