Website Terms and Conditions

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE

This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the Website under the domain name www.ifsf.org (“the Website”). Please read these terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. If you do not accept these terms, do not use the Website. This notice is issued by IFSF Limited (“the Company”, ”IFSF”, “we”, “us”).

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1           You may access some areas of the Website without registering your details with us. Certain areas of the Website are only open to registered and authorised users.  Your category of participation will determine which areas of the Website you may access.

1.2           By accessing any part of the Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave the Website immediately.

1.3           The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check the Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of the Website.

2. ACCESSING OUR SITE

2.1           Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if, for any reason, our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

2.2           From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us or who have been accepted as Members, Technical Interested Parties or Affiliated Organisations.

2.3           If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

2.4           You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.  You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

3. REGISTRATION

3.1           Certain Information is only accessible from our server with a valid user name and password. This includes, but is not limited to, IFSF standards, Bulletins, Software tools, scripts, Manuals and Work Group Meeting Minutes.

3.2           Information which is password protected is Confidential to IFSF and is provided for your internal business purposes only.  It may not be disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of IFSF Limited.  In the event that your participation in IFSF (whether as a Member, Technical Interested Party or Affiliated Organisation) lapses or is cancelled by either party, you must immediately cease using any and all Confidential Information and destroy all copies held in your possession.

3.3           Each registration is for a single user only. The Company does not permit you to share your user name and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.  Additional users within your organisation may apply via the Primary Contact for their own individual user name and password.  If you do not know who the Primary Contact for your organisation is, please contact the IFSF Administration manager (admin.manager@ifsf.org) for assistance.

3.4           Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.

4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

4.1           We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.

4.2           Permission to use and copy documents from this server is granted for internal business purposes only, provided that:

4.2.1        documents that are not provided in a format that can be edited, no modification or abstraction of portions may be made ; and

4.2.2        documents that are provided in a format that can be edited, modification and abstraction of portions are permitted. For copies of modifications and portions, the word “portions” must appear before the word “copyright”.

4.3           Any use of the documents detailed in 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 above, must have our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

4.4           You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

4.5           If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

5. SERVICE ACCESS

5.1           While the Company endeavours to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company shall not be liable if, for any reason, the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

5.2           Access to the Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company’s control.

6. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT

6.1           Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to the Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

6.2           You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Website any material:

6.2.1        that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy, or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or

6.2.2        for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or

6.2.3        which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or

6.2.4        which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

6.3           You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).

6.4           The Company shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of clause 6.2 or clause 6.3.

7. LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

7.1           Links to third party websites on the Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave the Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

8. TRADEMARKS

8.1           IFSF and the IFSF logo are trademarks of IFSF Limited and should not be used without the express permission of the Company. Any third party trademarks are hereby acknowledged.

9. DISCLAIMER

9.1           While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on the Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on the Website. The Company may make changes to the material on the Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.

9.2           The material on the Website is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with the Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which, but for this legal notice, might have effect in relation to the Website.

10. LIABILITY

10.1         The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other participants in IFSF and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

10.1.1      All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

10.1.2      Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

10.1.3      loss of income or revenue;

10.1.4      loss of business;

10.1.5      loss of profits or contracts;

10.1.6      loss of anticipated savings;

10.1.7      loss of data;

10.1.8      loss of goodwill;

10.1.9      wasted management or office time; and

10.1.10    for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

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

10.3         The Company shall not be liable to you for any failure to fulfil its obligations under this Agreement if such failure is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.  In such event we undertake to notify you as promptly as possible of any such failure.

10.4         Failure by the Company to fully exercise any provision in this Agreement or to take advantage of any of its rights hereunder shall not be construed as a waiver of such provision or the relinquishment of such right.

10.5         If any part or clause of this Agreement shall be found to be unenforceable, this shall not prejudice the Company’s right to enforce the remaining clauses of this Agreement.

11. Governing law and jurisdiction

11.1         This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.