Terms and conditions of use

Terms and conditions of use

Access to and use of Cimex.com web sites provided by Cimex Media Ltd are subject to the following terms:

1. By visiting Cimex sites you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the site.

2. Cimex reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. Your continued use of Cimex web sites after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of Cimex web sites

3. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit or otherwise use Cimex content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any Cimex content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any use of Cimex content requires the prior written permission of Cimex.

4. You agree not use Cimex web sites for unlawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of Cimex web sites. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within Cimex.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

5. Cimex content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the Cimex brand, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided ‘AS IS’ and on an ‘IS AVAILABLE’ basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

6. Cimex will not be liable for any damages, including indirect or consequential damages, or any damages arising from use or loss of use, data or profits, whether in contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising from or in connection with the use of Cimex web sites.

7. Cimex does not warrant that functions contained in Cimex web sites content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that Cimex or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

8. The names, images and logos identifying Cimex and/or third parties and its products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of Cimex, and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of the Cimex brand or any other third party.

Contributions to Cimex web sites

9. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to Cimex web sites (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the Cimex a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the Cimex Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant Cimex the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to Cimex.

10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to Cimex, you:

10.1 warrant that your contribution;

10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Cimex for all the purposes specified above;

10.1.2 is not defamatory; and

10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and

10.2 indemnifies Cimex against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Cimex as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and

10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on Cimex and the purposes specified above.

Cimex Community Rules

11. You agree to use Cimex web sites in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all Cimex sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service you’re using, as there may be some local variations to these Community Rules.

About your posts:

• Contributions must be civil and tasteful
• No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
  No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
• If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the community or annoying other users you may have action taken against your accounts.
• Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant Cimex Community.
• No spamming or off-topic material: we don’t allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don’t re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
• No advertising.
• Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
• No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
• You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the host of the Community area.
• Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.

Safety

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include postal addresses of any kind. If you have a helpful address to share, inform the host of the relevant Community area using the appropriate contact Cimex link.

About the law

You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in Cimex web sites. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

The views expressed in Cimex web site community areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of the Cimex.

If you’re under 16

Please get a parent’s or guardian’s permission before taking part in any Cimex discussion.
Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

If you breach the Terms and Conditions of Use

If you fail to abide by these web site Rules (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in Cimex web site services, you will be sent an e-mail which informs you why your contribution has been failed or edited. This mail will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

This action may include your relevant account or accounts being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of Cimex web site areas.

If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to Cimex web sites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Cimex, and Cimex considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Cimex may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. We may also inform the appropriate authorities of such behaviour.

Cimex reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

General

12. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on Cimex (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.

13. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

14. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Europe.

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