ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name "www.connectchallenge.org" ("Website") and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Continuing to use this Website indicates that you accept these terms as amended from time to time regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. These terms include the Privacy Policy. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website.
- INTRODUCTION
1.1. The University of Warwick is the accountable body for the activities of Connect Midlands (both together referred to as "Connect Midlands") and is based at the address shown in our "contact us" page.
1.2. Worldwide copyright laws and treaties protect this Website and the domain name "connectchallenge.org" and "Connect Midlands £5Million Investment Challenge" and "Connect Midlands Investment Challenge" are the sole property of Connect Midlands unless expressly acknowledged otherwise.
1.3. The logos, "CONNECT", "CONNECTMIDLANDS.ORG" and "CONNECT the fast track for technology business" are the trade marks of Connect Midlands.
1.4. Connect Midlands may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the 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 Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of this Website.
- LICENCE
2.1. You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own lawful personal use, or such other use as Connect Midlands may agree with you in writing from time to time, but only on the following basis:
2.1.1. no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
2.1.2. no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text;
2.1.3. Connect Midlands copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.
2.2. Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including, without limitation, photographs and graphical images) are owned by Connect Midlands or its licensors. 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 without Connect Midland's prior written permission.
2.4. Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.
- SERVICE ACCESS
3.1. While Connect Midlands endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, Connect Midlands 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 Connect Midlands' reasonable control.
- VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT
4.1. Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under Our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this Website, shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Connect Midlands shall have no obligation with respect to such material. Connect Midlands 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 in it 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:
4.2.1. that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial or religious hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, or in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
4.2.2. for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
4.2.3. that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
4.2.4. that 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 or information on it (including, without limitation, by hacking) and YOU SHALL FULLY INDEMNIFY CONNECT MIDLANDS, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OWNERS, TRUSTEES AND AGENTS FOR YOUR MISUSE.
4.4. Connect Midlands shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Connect Midlands to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.
4.5. If Connect Midlands consider it appropriate it may act on complaints received about inaccuracies or errors on the Website without reference to you.
- 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. Connect Midlands has not reviewed all of these third party websites, does not control and is not responsible for them or their content or availability. Connect Midlands 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.
5.2. If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:
5.2.1. you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of any logo on this website;
5.2.2. you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
5.2.3. you do not in any way imply that Connect Midlands is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
5.2.4. you do not misrepresent your relationship with Connect Midlands nor present any other false information about Connect Midlands;
5.2.5. you do not otherwise use any trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from Connect Midlands or the relevant licensor;
5.2.6. you do not link from a website that is not owned by you;
5.2.7. your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations in any country to which this Website is targeted.
5.3. Other links may be made by agreement - please contact us on info@connectmidlands.org.
5.4. Connect Midlands expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.
5.5. YOU SHALL FULLY INDEMNIFY CONNECT MIDLANDS FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY CONNECT MIDLANDS OR ANY OF ITS GROUP COMPANIES FOR BREACH OF PARAGRAPH 5.2.
- DISCLAIMER
6.1. While Connect Midlands endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, Connect Midlands does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. Connect Midlands may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and Connect Midlands 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, Connect Midlands provides you with this Website on the basis that Connect Midlands 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. No advertisements on the Website are offers by Connect Midlands to provide products or services. No information included on the Website is intended to be a financial promotion.
6.4. The pages on this Website contain general information only and nothing in these pages constitutes professional advice of any kind. Connect Midlands accepts no responsibility for loss that may arise from reliance on information contained in this Website from time to time. Connect Midlands' recommends that for specific professional advice, you obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional in the area of your enquiry.
6.5. Business plans and other information provided by the participants of the Connect Midlands £5Million Investment Challenge will only be made available to persons outside of Connect Midlands with professional experience in matters relating to investments and the opportunity of investing in (or otherwise providing finance to) your company will only be made available to persons with such experience.
Persons who do not have professional experience in matters relating to investments should not rely on such information.
If the information is received by somebody who is not in fact an authorised person (as defined in Section 31 of the Financial Services & Markets Act 2000), there will be no discussions or negotiations with that person.
- LIABILITY
7.1. Connect Midlands, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of Connect Midlands related companies and the officers, directors, employees, owners, trustees 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, investment value 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 this or 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, or browsing of this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.
7.2. Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit Connect Midlands liability for:
7.2.1. death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
7.2.2. fraud; or
7.2.3. 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 of such.
- 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.
