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Effective as from January 2001 ongoing.

All rights of www.BritBound.co.uk are reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopied, printed, recorded or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the BRITBOUND Group.

BritBound and its associated companies accept no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the information contained on or accessed through this site and makes no representations about its suitability for any particular purpose.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

All intellectual property rights (including without limitation patents, copyrights, design rights, registered designs and trade and service marks, and rights to apply for any of the foregoing) whatsoever, wheresoever and whensoever subsisting in or to any inventions, ideas or information or in or to any services, goods of works (including, without limitation, drawings, sketches, artwork, typography and photographs) invented, devised, made, created, acquired or written by or for the BRITBOUND Group (whether or not in connection with any contract with the advertiser shall be and remain the BRITBOUND Group's absolute property.

Neither the advertiser, nor any other person shall, have any licence or other rights whatsoever under or in respect of the said intellectual property rights. The advertiser undertakes that it will not reproduce or authorise or procure any other person to reproduce any of the said artwork, typography, photographs or other works without the written agreement of the BRITBOUND Group. The advertiser, hereby assigns all its rights (if any) in and to the said intellectual property rights to the BRITBOUND Group.

The advertiser must ensure that he has obtained the appropriate permission reproduce any artwork, logos, designs, trade names and trade service marks which he/she has supplied to or asked the company to incorporate in any advertisement to be published in the company's publications.

TRADE DECLARATION

It is a condition of acceptance of advertising orders that the BRITBOUND Group does not guarantee the insertion of particular advertisement on a specific date or at all.

Further, BRITBOUND Group does not accept liability for any loss or damage caused by an error or inaccuracy in the printing of any advertisement, by the appearance of an advertisement in an edition other than the one specified, or its acceptance in a position in the magazine other than the one requested. BRITBOUND Group also reserves the right to correctly classify, edit or delete any wording or reject any advertisement.

VISA AND TRAVEL INFORMATION DISCLAIMER

BritBound and its associated companies accept no responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of any of the information contained on or accessed through this site and its links and makes no representations about its suitability for any particular purpose. For full and up to date information users are strongly advised to contact the relevant authorities and to not take the information provided as being complete or accurate.

BritBound and its associated companies excludes all liability whatsoever for loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, the information contained on, or accessed through, this website whether or not caused by any negligence, or other legal or statutory obligation, howsoever arising owed on the part of the BritBound and its associated companies or its contractors.

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BritBound.com FIND A JOB TERMS AND CONDITIONS

If you are a recruitment agency wishing to advertise with us, please email sales@BritBound.co.uk or phone: +44 (0) 207 341 6677

What can you expect from BritBound.com?

Below are our terms and conditions.

They include the usual legal jargon (yawn!), but we have tried to keep them simple as possible. It is important for you to read the terms and conditions below, as well as the privacy statement. If you have any questions, or would like someone to talk you through them, please feel free to call us or email sales@BritBound.co.uk

1 Terms and Conditions

Certain areas of the Site are only available to you if you register. However, these Terms and Conditions will apply whether you are a registered user or not. Please read this page carefully.

If you do not accept the Terms and Conditions then you may not use the Site and facilities. In using the Site you are accepting these Terms and Conditions. We may revise these terms at any time by updating this posting.

The terms 'you/your' used here refers to all individuals and/or entities accessing the Site for any reason, and 'BritBound.co.uk and 'we/us' refers to BritBound.

The term "Adviser/Advisers" means anyone engaged by us to answer queries or offer information or advice on the Site.

2 Your Use of the Site

2.1 On acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, you may browse the areas of the Site that do not require registration, including viewing and posting questions on the Advisers' pages and viewing the job vacancy pages.

2.2 Subject to registration, you may:

- create a user profile;

- use the other facilities available in your personalised registered area.

2.3 You may be restricted from areas that contain sensitive or confidential information belonging to third parties.

2.4 You will ensure that any information or material you post or submit for publication on the site:

- is accurate, and complete in all material respects, up-to-date and not misleading;

- is not defamatory, threatening, abusive or obscene, does not infringe any third party intellectual property rights and does not contain any other unlawful content; and specifies any relevant qualifications you have where the holding of those qualifications is required by law for the type of employment you are seeking.

2.5 You will not impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity in your use of the Site.

2.6 You will not collect or store other users' personal data.

2.7 You will ensure that your use of the site is lawful and does not cause any damage or interference to the Site or facilities. In particular, you will not: - upload or post any viruses, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Site or any computer Software or equipment; or - upload or post any spam onto the website.

2.8 You agree to indemnify and hold harmless BritBound.com from all claims costs and expenses arising out of a breach by you of any of Clauses 2.3 to 2.7 above.

3 Registration

3.1 On registration, you must provide us with accurate and complete registration information and it is your responsibility to inform us of any changes to that information.

4 Disclaimers

4.1 We encourage you to use discretion while browsing the internet. Our Site contains links to external sites. Although we check such links from time to time, we have no control over these sites or have any responsibility for them. We cannot therefore be responsible for any content that some people may find offensive or inappropriate or which is inaccurate, misleading or in any other way unlawful. For the same reason, we cannot be responsible for information, materials, products or services on or available from external sites or any third parties you access through the Site, nor for any damage, loss or offence caused, or alleged to be caused, by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any information, materials, content, advertising, products or services available from such external sites or third parties.

4.2 Any dealings between you and any third party accessed on or via the Site, including payment for and delivery of information, materials, products, services and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations, associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the relevant third party. You agree not to hold us liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as the result of such dealings.

4.3 We are confident in the resilience of the Site, check its content and data for integrity on a regular basis and are confident in its performance but we cannot give any warranty or other assurance regarding the information and materials available or the content, operation or the functionality of the Site or that the Site will meet your requirements or will be uninterrupted, secure or error or virus free. Neither we nor the Advisers make any warranty or representation, whether express or implied, in relation to the Site or as to results or the accuracy of any information or material obtained by you through the Site. All implied warranties or conditions of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose, completeness or accuracy are hereby excluded, to the maximum extent permissible by us in our own right and on behalf of the Advisers.

4.4 Access to the Site may be interrupted, restricted or delayed. If for any reason the Site or our service to you is interrupted we will aim to restore our service as quickly as possible (to the extent that it is within our reasonable control to do so), although we shall be under no obligation to do so and shall not be liable in the event that we have not done so.

5 Protection rights

The name and logo of BritBound.com.com are trade marks of BritBound. You are not permitted to use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce these trademarks for any reason.

6 License

6.1 All copyright, trade marks and all other intellectual property rights in all material or content supplied as part of the Site shall remain at all times vested in us or our licensors. We grant you a non-exclusive license to access and use the content on the Site for your personal use only and you may not (and agree not to assist or facilitate any third party to) copy, reproduce, transmit, distribute, 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.

6.2 You acknowledge that by posting materials on the Site you grant to us and our licensors and assigns an irrevocable, perpetual royalty free world-wide license to use the materials within the Site and in any other manner. The license extends to copying, distributing, broadcasting, and otherwise transmitting, and adapting and editing such materials. We may use such materials in our discretion and may remove them from the Site at any time without notice to you.

7 Confidentiality

Through your use of the Site you may have access to sensitive or confidential information or materials belonging to other parties. You agree not to disclose any such information or materials to any other person and not to use such information or materials other than for the purposes for which you were given access to it on the Site.

8 Age and responsibility

8.1 You represent that you are 18 years of age or older unless you have notified us otherwise. If required by law you will provide us with any necessary references. You are responsible for anything you say or post. You understand that you are responsible for uses of the Site by you and those using your login information. You must notify us immediately if you suspect or become aware of any non-authorised person using your login information.

9 Changes to the Terms and the Site

9.1 We reserve the right to alter or remove the Site or any part of it and any information, material and facilities incorporating the Site, without any notice to you. 9.2 We reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to or use of all or some areas of the Site without any notice to you at any time.

9.3 No compensation will be payable to you as a result of any removal, alteration or termination under Clauses 9.1 and 9.2 above.

9.4 We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time. Such revised Terms and Conditions will be posted on the Site. By continued use of the Site after such Terms and Conditions have been posted, you agree to abide by such changes.

10 Email

10.1 On registration, we will send you an email confirming your registration details.

10.2 Use of the content received through this service will be subject to these Terms and Conditions.

10.3 We may email registered users, including those who do not choose to receive regular updates from us, if we make a change to our product or service that affects our service to you and if action is needed to restore this service.

11 Limitations of liability

11.1 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our servants, agents or employees.

11.2 You acknowledge that the information and material available on or through the Site is for your general information and use and is not intended to address your particular requirements. In particular, any information or material provided by the Advisers is their opinion only. It is provided for your general information only and is not necessarily endorsed by us. You should not regard the Advisers as professional advisers and should seek independent advice before making any decision based on anything you have seen on the Site.

11.3 You acknowledge that we have no control over the information and material which can be accessed by or through the Site and that we do not know the nature of the information and material you or other users are sending, uploading or posting on the Site. We therefore exclude all liability of any kind (including for libel, breach of confidence, intellectual property right infringement, invasion of privacy, defamation and negligence) for the transmission or reception of such information or material of whatever nature by, about or to you.

11.4 You acknowledge that your use of the Site and any information or material you download or obtain through the Site is at your own risk and we will not be responsible or liable to you for any loss of content, information or material uploaded or transmitted through the Site. You confirm that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification to, suspension of or discontinuance of the Site.

11.5 You further acknowledge that it is your decision to use the Site and, where applicable to (or not to) post, submit, remove or alter information or material on, to or from the Site. You agree that you do this at your own risk and that we shall have no liability for any loss or damages incurred by you or any other party as a result of you doing or failing to do the same.

11.6 To the full extent permissible by law, you agree that neither we nor the Advisers will be liable for any consequential, incidental or indirect loss or damages in contract, tort or otherwise, for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from or in any way connected with your use of the Site, including, without limitation, damage for any loss in business projects, loss of profits, loss of privacy or other consequential losses arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or the inability to use the Site or any information or material appearing on it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using the Site or any such information or material. This includes, but is not limited to, the exclusion of any implied warranty that the information and material it contains is lawful, accurate, complete or up-to-date or is suitable for any particular purpose.

11.7 You acknowledge that any agreements entered into by you and any third party as a result of or in connection with your or their use of the Site are made at your and their sole risk and responsibility. We do not vet other users of the Site and cannot vouch for their character, solvency or suitability for your purposes and accept no liability to you or them in connection with any aspect of your arrangements, dealings or agreements with them.

11.8 You agree that your only recovery for any damages that you incur, and your exclusive remedy, shall be limited to the direct damages you actually incur in reasonable reliance upon the applicable Site service.

11.9 We aim to provide a consistent and high level or service to all our customers but please note any assistance provided to you by means of our Help Desk facility must be solely at your risk.

12 General

12.1 Each provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as separately applying and surviving even if for any reason one or other of those provisions is held to be inapplicable or unenforceable in any circumstances. No waiver by us shall be construed as a waiver of any preceding or succeeding breach of any provision.

12.2 These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to their subject matter and exclude any representations and warranties previously given or made other than any negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation and may be amended only by us on notice to you by posting on the Site.

12.3 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership or any other form of joint enterprise between you and us.

12.4 These Terms and Conditions are exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales whose courts will have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute, save that we have the right at our sole discretion to commence and pursue proceedings in alternative jurisdictions.

Privacy Policy

BritBound respects your privacy, and is committed to conforming with the requirements of overseas countries National Privacy Principles.

This document relates primarily to the privacy of information stored on: our readers and other travellers; advertisers past present or future; distributors; backpacker operators generally; and other industry partners (hereafter collectively called "clients").

The following principles outline how we will collect, use, disclose, store and dispose of your personal information, in both paper and electronic form.

A. Collection & Use

1. BritBound will only store information that is of direct commercial interest to the company.
2. This information is collected for the purposes of providing products or services to our clients.
3. From time to time we will mail or email information to our clients regarding BritBound, its products and services. Should any recipient wish not to receive such information, they can request to be removed from our mailing or email list and we will promptly comply with that request.
4. We will always use fair and lawful ways to collect personal information.
5. We will always collect information directly from a client if it is reasonable and practicable to do so.
6. Reasonable steps will be taken to ensure personal information is relevant, accurate and current.

B. Storage & Security

1. We will take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
2. Access to personal information is restricted to authorised BritBound personnel only.
3. Electronic data will be secured by password, and paper data will be kept in a locked filing cabinet wherever practical. (Production records and other non-sensitive information are excluded from this requirement.)

C. Access

1. Clients can, at reasonable notice, access any data entered about them by BritBound since December 21st 2001.
2. There will be no charge for supplying this information other than retrieval and transmission costs.
3. Proof of ID will be required before any information is disclosed.
4. We may refuse to supply personal information where such refusal is allowable by law.

D. Destruction

1. To the extent that it is reasonably possible, BritBound will make every effort to securely dispose of client records.
2. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information if we no longer need it for any purpose for which we may use or disclose the information.

E. Passing of information to third parties.

1. BritBound will not pass any information of a sensitive, confidential or personal nature to a third party unless: (a) that client consents to us doing so; or (b) that disclosure is authorised or required by law.

F. BritBound.co.uk, and linked Websites

1. BritBound operates a website under the www.BritBound.co.uk address. This website helps users source products and services, and assists with their travel planning.
2. We may use a feature on your browser called a cookie to assign your computer a "user ID". Cookies do not contain information by which BritBound can identify you, however they do identify your computer to our server. You may configure your browser so that you are notified before a cookie is downloaded, or so that your browser does not accept cookies. (To disable your cookies, please refer to the Help menu within your Internet browser.)
3. To the extent that BritBound's websites contain links to sites operated by third parties and not related to BritBound products, services or events, these linked websites are not controlled by BritBound and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those companies.

G. Queries or Complaints

1. Any queries or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or its implementation should be directed in writing to: The Managing Director, BritBound, 3 rd Floor, 1 New Street, London, EC2m 4TP

 

 

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