Please read these terms and conditions carefully as they apply to your access to and use of our Website. We request that you pay particular attention to our Privacy Policy (link) which sets out the principles by which we abide in relation to the treatment of information about visitors to our Website.

ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name www.shm-group.com (Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Using this 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 proceed to use this Website. This notice is issued by shm Smith Hodgkinson.

You may save these terms and conditions for your future reference by clicking on "save" and print a copy of them by clicking on "print".

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between us with respect to our Website and supersede all prior communications and agreements between us, whether electronic, oral or written, regarding the subject matter contained in our Website. A printed version of these terms and conditions and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 You may access most areas of this Website without registering your details with us. The information on this Website is intended solely to provide general information on the Company and the consultancy services it provides.

1.2 By accessing any part of this 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 this Website immediately.

1.3 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this 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 Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.

2. LICENCE

2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use for the sole purpose of reading or seeking information from it on the following basis:

(a) no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;

(b) no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and

(c) the Company's copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.

2.2 You may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, licence, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information, products or services appearing on this Website.

2.3 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, software) photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraphs 2.1 and 2.2 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service other than temporarily as one single copy in the cache of your computer in the course of using the Website without the Company's prior written permission.

2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

2.5 Any framing of this website is prohibited. All links to this website must go to www.shm-group.com

3. SERVICE ACCESS

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

3.2 Access to this 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.

4. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT

4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this 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.

4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material (including but without limitation):

(a) 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

(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or

(c) 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 the UK or any other country in the world; or

(d) 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).

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

4.4 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 paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.

5. LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

5.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this 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 and their inclusion does not imply our endorsement of their material. 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 this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk. You agree that we will not incur any liability in respect of the content of any site accessed through a hyperlink on this website.

6. DISCLAIMER

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

6.2 The material on this 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 this 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 this Website.

6.3 The material on this Website does not constitute advice of any kind, whether financial or otherwise. By using this Website you confirm that you have not relied on its content as advice on any specific matter.

7. LIABILITY

7.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of the Company's group officers, employees, or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.

7.2 If you are accessing our website in the course of a business, all implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law.

7.3 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company's liability for:

(a) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or

(b) fraud; or

(c) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or

(d) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

7.3 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.

8. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

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.
9. GENERAL

If any provision contained in these terms and conditions is determined to be invalid or unenforceable the remainder of the terms and conditions shall not be affected.

Our Website is operated and controlled from the United Kingdom and these terms and conditions and your use of this Website are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Unless you are using our Website and services as a consumer, by agreeing to these terms and conditions you consent to all disputes arising out of or relating to your use of this Website being decided only by the courts of England and Wales. If you are accessing this Website from another jurisdiction it is your responsibility to ensure compliance with the laws that apply to that jurisdiction.
You are not permitted to assign your rights under these terms and conditions. All rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

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Issue Date: 9 December 2005