This page, together with the documents referred to on it, establishes the Terms of Use for the website www.firstdraftbooks.co.uk (“our Site”). Please read the Terms of Use carefully before engaging with our Site. By using our Site, you indicate that you accept the Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, please refrain from using our Site.
Information about us
First Draft Books Ltd (“we”) operate our Site. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 14725640 at Moors Edge Barn, Woodside, Blackawton, Devon TQ7 9AA.
Accessing our Site
Access to 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 at any time or for any period.
When using our Site, you must comply with the provisions of these Terms of Use. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site. 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 that they comply with them.
Acceptable Use of our Site
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 purpose 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 these Terms of Use;
- to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation;
- 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 harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
- not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Site in contravention of the provisions of these Terms of Use; and
- not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our Site; any equipment or network on which our Site is stored; any software used in the provision of our Site; and/or any equipment, network or software owned or used by any third party.
We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether there has been a breach of acceptable use through your use of our Site. When a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with these terms of acceptable use of our Site constitutes a material breach of these Terms of Use, 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; and
- any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
We hereby exclude any and all liability arising from all actions taken by us (including, but not limited to, those set out above) in response to breaches of these terms on acceptable use of our Site.
Intellectual property rights
We are the owner, or the licensee, of all intellectual property rights in our Site and in the material published on it. The materials are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your personal reference only, and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our Site.
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.
Our status and that of any identified contributors as the authors of material on our Site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download 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.
Reliance on information posted
Commentary and other materials posted on our Site 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 such materials by you or any visitor to our Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Our Site changes regularly
We aim to update our Site regularly and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Site or close it indefinitely. Any of the materials on our Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
Our liability
The material displayed on our Site is provided without any guarantees, representations or warranties as to its accuracy. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we hereby expressly exclude all guarantees, representations, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
To the fullest extent permitted by law we hereby expressly exclude and do not accept any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Site, any websites linked to or from our Site, and any materials posted on our Site. This exclusion of liability includes, but is not limited to, any liability for:
- loss of income or revenue;
- loss of business;
- loss of profits or contracts;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of data;
- loss of goodwill;
- wasted management or office time; and
- any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Information about you and your visits to our Site
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our Site, you consent to such processing and warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Viruses, hacking and other offences
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material, due to your use of our Site or to your downloading of any material posted on our Site or on any website linked to it.
You must not knowingly introduce to our Site any 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 cooperate 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.
Linking to our Site
You may link to the home page of our Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. However, you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our Site must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with these Terms of Use.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If we request at any time that you take down any link to our Site, you agree that you will take it down immediately.
If you wish to make any use of material on our Site other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected].
Links from our Site
Where our Site contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Jurisdiction and applicable law
The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Site, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
Variations
We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page periodically to take notice of any changes, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.
General
Failure by us to enforce a right does not result in waiver of such right.
If any of the terms of these Terms of Use are held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court having authority to determine such issues, the remaining terms of these Terms of Use will not be affected.
You may not assign or otherwise transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use, nor sub-license your rights, nor sub-contract your obligations under these Terms of Use.
Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our Site, please contact [email protected].
Thank you for visiting our Site.