Terms of Use

This web site is operated by GradFutures Ltd
The GradFutures web site (“our site”) is operated by GradFutures Ltd (“GradFutures”), a UK registered company (6329478) with its registered offices at 45A Station Road, Willington, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK44 3QL.

Your use of this web site is governed by these Terms of Use
Please take a few minutes to read the Terms of Use. Your use of the GradFutures web site constitutes your agreement to follow these rules and to be bound by them. If you do not agree with any of these Terms of Use, please do not use this site.

These Terms of Use may change
GradFutures reserves the right to update or modify these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice. Your use of this site following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms of Use as changed. For this reason, we encourage you to review these Terms of Use whenever you use this web site. Some of the provisions in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Accessing our site
Accessing our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice.) We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable for any period. From time to time we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us. If you choose or are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

Acceptable Use
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

• in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
• for the purposes of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
• to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with any content standards where outlined (for example, the format of a downloaded CV);
• to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
• to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other malicious or technologically harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware

You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any other server, computer or database connected with 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. In the event of such a breach your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Interactive Services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site including without limitation discussion groups and any other interactive features.

Where we do provide any interactive service we will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service produced on our site and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service whether the service is moderated or not.

You agree that the submission by you of any posting to our site (“Posting”) or the submission of any Comments (as defined below) shall be made in accordance with these Terms of Use (including the Content Standards) and in particular you agree the following:

• that we may at our sole discretion disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material sent by you to our site is defamatory, in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property right or otherwise is in breach of any applicable legislation;
• that you waive all moral rights which arise under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and all similar rights in all other jurisdictions;
• that the submission of any Posting or Comment to our site shall constitute an assignment to GradFutures of all worldwide rights, titles, and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in such Posting and/or Comment. GradFutures will be entitled to freely use, edit, alter, reproduce, disclose, publish and distribute any material you submit for any purpose whatsoever without restriction and without compensating you in any way. For this reason we require that you do not send us any Posting and/or Comment that you do not wish to assign to us We reserve the right to remove at any time and without reason or prior notice or any liability to you any material you have submitted.

Data protection and privacy
GradFutures is registered under the Data Protection Act to store and manage personal information. Your use of our site constitutes your agreement to be bound by the terms of the GradFutures Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy and secure data storage systems and processes ensure the safety of personal information held with GradFutures.

Copyright notice
All of the content on this web site including, but not limited to, page headers, images, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, and text (including the content of any Postings and Comments]), are subject to trademark, copyright and/or other intellectual property rights or licenses held by GradFutures, any of its affiliates or by third parties who have licensed their materials to GradFutures.

Copyright and related rights in some of the underlying content, layout, design and computer code embodied or presented on this site is the exclusive property of University of Reading (© University of Reading, 2007) and has been made available on this site under licence from the University of Reading.

The entire content of this site is Copyright © 2008 of GradFutures Ltd with All Rights Reserved. GradFutures owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of the content.
The content of this web site, and the site as a whole, are intended solely for users of our site. You may download, print and store selected portions of the content, provided you (1) only use these copies of the content for your own personal use, (2) do not copy or post the content on any network computer, broadcast the content in any media publish the content in any media or distribute any or all of the content, and (3) do not modify or alter the content in any way, or delete or change any copyright or trademark notice.

No right, title or interest in any downloaded materials is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading. GradFutures reserves complete title and full intellectual property rights in any content you download from this web site.

Except as noted above, you may not copy, download, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, transmit, transfer or create derivative works from the content without first obtaining written permission from GradFutures. For the avoidance of doubt you must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes or for gain without obtaining a licence to do so from us.

Copyrights & trademarks of other companies
We may reference or display logos, products, or other material with copyrighted and/or trademarked materials of other companies. These copyrights and trademarks are owned by their respective companies or organisations and we do not, endorse or save where explicitly noted have any association with these companies or organisations.

Hyperlinks to sites outside the GradFutures web site
Links may be present on our site that lead to sites and resources provided by third parties outside the control of GradFutures. GradFutures does not endorse, the views or opinions expressed on such external sites. GradFutures is not responsible for the contents of external sites and does not warrant the appropriateness of these sites for any viewers.

For the avoidance of doubt GradFutures will not accept any responsibility for such sites and resources and accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Unless otherwise noted, GradFutures does not have any association with the owners of sites external to our site.

Links to external sites will generally open in a new, separate browser window.

Your comments regarding the GradFutures web site
We welcome your comments regarding this web site. However, any comments, feedback, notes, messages, ideas, suggestions or other communications (collectively, "Comments") sent to GradFutures will be subject to these Terms of Use and specifically those outlined in the ‘Interactive Services’ section above.

Product and services representations / correction of errors and inaccuracies
We have done our best to describe and display information as accurately as possible. However, the information on our site may contain typographical errors or inaccuracies and may not be complete or current. We therefore reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions and to change or update information at any time without prior notice. However, any of the material on our site may be out of date or inaccurate at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Disclaimers
All information and/or data on our site is provided, on an "as is," "as available" basis, without representations, guarantees or warranties of any kind. To the extent permitted by law, GradFutures and its affiliates therefore expressly exclude any and all representations and warranties with respect to this site and its contents, whether express, implied, or statutory, including, but not limited to, warranties of title, warranties of satisfactory quality, conformity to contract, and fitness for a particular purpose. Further, GradFutures does not warrant that this site or the server that makes it available are free of computer "viruses" or free of other harmful components.

Without limiting the foregoing, GradFutures expressly excludes any and all warranties, express, statutory or implied, for any products or services offered on this site.

Without limiting the foregoing, GradFutures does not represent or warrant that the information on our site is accurate, complete or current or that our site will operate without interruption or error.

For the avoidance of doubt our site and its content are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on any information or material used by any visitor to our site or by anyone informed of its contents.

GradFutures does not endorse nor make any warranties or representations about any web site you may access through our site. Links to other sites are provided for convenience only. You need to make your own decisions regarding your interactions or communications with any other web site.

GradFutures makes no representation that content provided on the our site is applicable or appropriate for use in locations outside of the United Kingdom.

Limitation of liability
Under no circumstances, shall GradFutures or any of their employees, directors, officers, agents, vendors or suppliers be liable for any direct or indirect losses or damages arising out of or in connection with:

• the use or the results of the use of our site or the information content or materials included on our site;
• the, inability to use our site;
• a breach of security, hacking, computer virus, or other harmful component;
• any actions by a tax or social security or governmental authority; or
• any website linked to our site.

This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all losses and damages of any kind (whether general, special, consequential, incidental, exemplary or otherwise, including, without limitation, loss of data, income, revenue, business, anticipated savings, goodwill, contacts or profits and losses incurred through wasted management or office time), whether in contract, negligence or other tortious action, even if an authorised representative of GradFutures has been advised of or should have known of the possibility of such damages.

If you are dissatisfied with our site or any content on the site, or with the GradFutures Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using our site. You acknowledge, by your use of our site, that your use of the site is at your sole risk.

If any part of this limitation on liability is found to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, then the aggregate liability of GradFutures under such circumstances for liabilities that otherwise would have been limited shall not exceed one hundred pounds (£100).

Indemnity
You will indemnify GradFutures and keep GradFutures indemnified for any claim, loss, demand, damages, expenses (including legal expenses) or liability whatsoever arising out of any breach by you of these Terms of Use.

Enforcement of Terms of Use
By accessing and using our site, you agree that your access to and use of our site is subject to these Terms of Use which are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales notwithstanding the jurisdiction in which you are based. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute.

Content Standards
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

• Be accurate (where they state facts).
• Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
• Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

• Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
• Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Promote sexually explicit material.
• Promote violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Promote any illegal activity.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another´s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
• Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
  Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these Content Standards through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with these Content Standards constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Changes to the Content Standards
We may revise the Content Standards 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 make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Content Standards may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Deep Linking
It is forbidden to deep-link (meaning any links being made to the content of our website, other than by individual - not corporate or institutional - users of the Site for personal non-commercial use) to the content of our site.