Website Terms & Conditions
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. THE USE OF ALL PAGES ON THIS WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
1. WHO WE ARE
1.1 This website is provided by Digital Catapult (“We”). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 07964699 and have our registered office at Level 9, 101 Euston Road, London, NW1 2RA.
2. BY USING OUR SITE YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS
2.1 By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.
2.2 If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
3. THERE ARE OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU
3.1 These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
3.1.2 Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
3.1.3 Specific terms which apply to the competitions advertised on this website which will be published with each competition.
4. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
4.1 We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
5. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR SITE
5.1 We may update and change our site from time to time. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.
6. WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR SITE
6.1 Our site is made available free of charge.
6.2 We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
6.3 You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
7. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS SAFE
7.1 If you create an account on this website, you must treat your password as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
7.2 We have the right to disable your account, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
8. HOW YOU MAY USE MATERIAL ON OUR SITE
8.1 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.
8.2 You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for the purpose of creating an account on our site and applying for a competition advertised on our site. You may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
8.3 You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
8.4 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
8.5 You must not use any part of the content for any use other than creating an account on our site and applying to a competition advertised on our site without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
8.6 If you print off, copy, download, share or repost 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.
8.7 You are not permitted to use our trade marks displayed on this website without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under this clause 8.
9. DO NOT RELY ON INFORMATION ON THIS SITE
9.1 The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
9.2 Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.
10. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO
10.1 Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
10.2 We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
11. USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US
11.1 This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
12. OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU
12.1 Most applicants to the competitions advertised on our site will be businesses.
12.2 Whether you are an individual (non-business) consumer or a business user:
12.2.1 We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
12.3 If you are a business user:
12.3.1 We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
12.3.2 We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
12.3.2.1 use of, or inability to use, our site; or
12.3.2.2 use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
12.4 In particular, we will not be liable for:
12.4.1 loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
12.4.2 business interruption;
12.4.3 loss of anticipated savings;
12.4.4 loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
12.4.5 any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
12.5 If you are an individual (non-business) consumer user:
12.5.1 Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
12.5.2 If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.
13. HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
13.1 We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy (please refer to the link in section 3.1.1) and our Cookies Policy (please refer to the link in section 3.1.2).
14. UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITE
14.1 We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.
14.2 We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site.
14.3 You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
14.4 You must not upload any material that could incite a terrorist offence, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offence or threaten to commit a terrorist offence.
15. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM
15.1 We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
15.2 You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
15.3 You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
16. WHICH COUNTRY'S LAWS APPLY TO ANY DISPUTES?
16.1 If you are an individual (non-business) consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
16.2 If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.