This web site known as hepatitiscnews.com (the “Site”) is operated by Tudor Reilly Ltd, company registration number 06262589 with registered office at PO Box 1295, 20, Station Road, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire SL9 8EL and VAT registration number 920 8106 52 (“we”, “us” or “our”).
Please read the information below carefully. Any person browsing, accessing or otherwise using the Site (“you”, “your” or “yours”) is treated as having accepted these Terms and Conditions of Use, together with our policies on Privacy and Data Protection for users of the Site. If you do not agree with the Terms and Conditions, then please do not browse, access or use the Site.
IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE: The Site is intended to provide general information only and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice or instruction. We strongly recommend that you always consult appropriate and qualified health professionals on any matter relating to your health and well-being.
Any reliance placed on information that appears on this Site or information sent in emails is at your own risk. None of the Site’s contents should be interpreted as medical advice or recommendations of any treatment, procedure, products, health professionals or any related matters.
Please also refer to Section 5 of these Terms and Conditions.
1. Registered Users policy
1.1 Our Site is intended for adults based only in countries in which participation in our Site is not illegal, unlawful or otherwise restricted. Please do not register if you are under 18 years of age and/or are accessing our Site from any country in which participation in our Site is illegal, unlawful or otherwise restricted.
1.2 You warrant that you are over 18 years of age and that all of the personal details you provide to us on registration are true and accurate and will be kept up to date by you.
1.3 If you wish to register to use the Site, we will ask you for your name, title, address or postcode, telephone number and email address (and we may sometimes allow you to choose to provide us with other information, such as your particular interest in the subject matter of the Site). This information will be used to allow you to access the registered users only areas of the site so you can access additional product and service offerings. Your user name and password (collectively known as “ID”) are personal to you and you are responsible for preventing unauthorised use of your ID. If you believe there has been any breach of security such as the disclosure, theft or unauthorised use of your ID, you must notify us immediately by emailing us at info@hepatitiscnews.com
1.4 Once you have registered, we allow you to access the registration areas of our Site and we may allow you to make postings, contributions, comments on the basis that:
(i) you will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to make contributions or to gain access to any registration area of our Site;
(ii) you do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the Site, or other users, nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user; and
(iii) you comply with these terms and conditions.
If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of our Site immediately and without giving you any advance notice.
2. Postings supplied by you
2.1 The Site may provide some areas where you can post or exchange information, ideas and opinions e.g. “discussion forums” or “bulletin boards” or you may choose to submit contributions or materials to us for publication on the Site. Such actions, materials and contributions are collectively referred to as “Postings”.
2.2 You hereby represent and warrant that all of your Postings comply with these terms and conditions. You will indemnify us for breach of that warranty.
2.3 You must comply with the spirit as well as the letter of these terms relating to Postings. They apply to each part of a Posting as well as its whole. All Postings must:
(i) where they state facts, be accurate;
(ii) where they state opinions, be genuinely held;
(iii) comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
2.4 You must also ensure that your Postings:
(i) are your own work (or that you have all necessary rights in and to all Postings you provide and all material they contain);
(ii) do not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties;
(iv) do not contain any viruses or other contaminating or destructive devices or features;
(v) do not contain any defamatory, indecent, offensive, tortuous, or otherwise unlawful or immoral material or content;
(vi) are not used to carry out or solicit any unlawful activity and/or be used to make commercial solicitations;
(vii) do not promote sexually explicit material;
(viii) do not promote violence;
(ix) do not promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
(x) are not threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
(xi) are not likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
(xii) are not used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person; and
(xiii) do not advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.
2.5 Your Postings must not include any personal details (including any image of any other person) about anyone other than yourself (and you should be cautious about revealing your own personal details on our Site).
2.6 You hereby authorize us to copy and use and/or authorize others to use all or part of your Postings in any manner, format, or medium that we or such other parties see fit throughout the world. You hereby waive all moral rights in relation to any Postings.
3. Monitoring and moderating
3.1 Publication of any Posting shall be at our sole discretion.
3.2 Please be aware that we have no obligation to (and do not always) exercise editorial control over Postings or other information that users post to the Site and such information does not necessarily reflect our views.
3.3 Notwithstanding Section 3.2, we reserve the right to monitor all Postings and to remove all or part of any which we consider in our absolute discretion to be offensive or otherwise in breach of these terms and conditions.
3.4 We would like our Site to be accurate, informative and incorporate quality content. Notwithstanding the above, we may moderate all Postings and make alterations at any time and at our discretion.
4. Complaints
4.1 If you have any complaint about any Posting or other content on our Site please contact us at info@hepatitiscnews.com
4.2 Your complaint will be dealt with by our team in accordance with our internal moderation and take down policy and guidelines in place from time to time. A member of our team will use reasonable endeavors to respond to you although you should be aware that we receive, review, investigate and deal with complaints only during our normal business hours.
4.3 We reserve the right to terminate your registration if we suspect any misuse of our complaints procedure.
5. Liabilities and disclaimer
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CLAUSE. ITS EFFECT IS TO LIMIT AND EXCLUDE OUR LIABILITY UNDER THESE TERMS. YOU SHOULD READ IT CAREFULLY AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH IT BEFORE AGREEING TO THESE TERMS.
5.1 Nothing in these terms shall limit our liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or in relation to any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.
5.2 The Site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and we offer no warranty or representation of any kind relating to our Site, any content or otherwise. Any implied terms, conditions or warranties (including any implied condition, warranty or term of satisfactory quality or fitness for purpose) relating to the Site (including its operation and content) are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
5.3 Whilst we make every effort to ensure the availability and accuracy of our Site and any content, we do not warrant the availability of our Site will be uninterrupted or that Site will be error or omission free. In particular, but without limiting the foregoing or the above, we do not guarantee the accuracy of any information or advice or product description on the Site. As stated above, you should always seek specific, expert medical advice from a qualified doctor or other health professional. In particular, medical and health information changes frequently and is often updated and the way in which your computer equipment and/or this Site operates means that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of such content that it is available to you via our Site.
5.4 We do not accept any responsibility for any use made of the Site or any of its content and, subject to Section 5.1 above, we shall not be liable:
(i) in any circumstances for any loss of profits, loss or revenue, loss of or damage to goodwill, loss of customers, loss in connection with third party claims, or any indirect, special or consequential loss (even if the party concerned has advised of the possibility of such loss);
(ii) for any failures, interruptions, delays or other matters of a similar nature arising out of circumstances beyond our reasonable control; and/or
(iii) for any other loss suffered in connection with the use of our Site or any content to the fullest extent that we may exclude or limit such liability under applicable law.
5.5 Subject to Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4, our total aggregate liability arising from any claim relating to the use or operation or content of our Site shall not exceed an amount equal to the total amounts paid or payable by you for your participation in the Site (if any), such amount to be calculated at the time when our liability comes to be assessed, or to £500.00 (whichever shall be the greater).
6. Your Indemnification
6.1 You hereby agree to indemnify us and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, charges, demands, damages, losses, expenses, and liabilities of whatever nature and howsoever arising (including but not limited to any legal or other professional fees and the costs of defending or prosecuting any claim and any loss of profit, goodwill, and any other direct or consequential loss) incurred or suffered by us directly or indirectly by reason of any act or omission which you commit in breach of these Terms and Conditions and the obligations and warranties contained in them.
7. Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright
7.1 All intellectual property rights, including copyright and database right, in the Site and its contents, are owned by us or our licensors. You may use the content of the Site for your own use. You may save content onto any medium and make printed copies provided that you acknowledge the source of the information by referencing “Tudor Reilly” with the title of the article or the Internet Unique Resource Locator (URL), but you may not distribute or publish any part of this Site without our prior written permission. We reserve the right to change the content of the Site without notice.
8. Your personal information and cookies
8.1 Please see our privacy policy for details of how we process your personal details.
8.2 Cookies are small files which are sent by our Web Site or the third party advertisers whose adverts appear on our Web Site to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard disk. You confirm that you consent to our use of cookies.
8.3 Other third-party vendors and ad networks may use cookies to serve ads on our Site.
9. Variations
9.1 We may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Variations will be summarised from time to time via this link. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms and Conditions may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.
10. Linking to the Site
10.1 You may link to our home page or any other relevant page of our Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must only establish a link that complies with this Section 10.
10.2 Please ensure that a website that links to the Site:
(i) displays a Tudor Reilly logo;
(ii) does not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the logo;
(iii) links to, but does not replicate, the Site
(iv) does not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the content of the Site;
(v) does not in any way imply that we are endorsing it or its products or services;
(vi) does not misrepresent its relationship with us;
(vii) does not present false information about us;
(viii) is not a website that infringes any intellectual property or other rights of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations;
(ix) is not a website that contains content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial; and
(x) does not deep link to pages within the Site.
10.3 We expressly reserve the right to request that any link in breach of these Terms and Conditions be removed and to take whatever other action we deem appropriate.
11. Links from the Site
11.1 Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
12. Waiver
If we fail, at any time, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under these terms and conditions, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.
13. Contact
13.1 If you have any general enquiries about the Site or these Terms and Conditions, please contact info@hepatitiscnews.com
14. Law and jurisdiction
14.1 These terms are governed by English law. You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts although nothing in this clause shall prevent us from taking any action in any court that has jurisdiction over you.
