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This website https://www.equiniticonnect.com/ (the "Website"), is a website of Equiniti Limited, a company registered in England & Wales with Company Number 06226088, whose Registered Address is Highdown House, Yeoman Way, Worthing, West Sussex, BN99 3HH, and contains information provided by Equiniti Limited and its Group of companies, (together "EQ" or "We").

These terms and conditions (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of this Website. These Terms apply to you, no matter how you use the Website. Please read these Terms carefully. By continuing to access and use the Website you are deemed to have understood and agreed to the Terms, as well as any documents they refer to. If you do not agree to the Terms, you must not use the Website.

1. WEBSITE CONTENT

This Website contains text, data, information relating to data and services, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, names, logos, trademarks, service marks and information connected with EQ ("Information").

EQ attempts to ensure Information is accurate, however, the Information is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis and may not be accurate or up to date. No warranties of any kind either expressed or implied, including but not limited to any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, infringement or otherwise is provided hereunder. Information on this Website may or may not have been prepared by EQ but is made available without responsibility on the part of EQ. EQ does not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of the Website or any of the Information. No responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of EQ for any errors, omissions, or inaccurate Information on the Website.


Neither EQ, nor its third-party providers warrant that the provision of the Information will be uninterrupted, error free, timely, complete or accurate, nor do they make any warranties as to the results to be obtained from use of the same. Use of the Information and reliance thereon is at your sole risk. Neither EQ, nor its third-party providers will in any way be liable to you or any other entity or person for their inability to use the Information, or for any inaccuracies, errors, omissions, delays, computer virus or other infirmity or corruption, damages, claims, liabilities or losses, regardless of cause, in or arising from the use of the information. No action should be taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon Information on this Website. We accept no liability for the results of any action taken on the basis of the Information. Certain files of Information are available for download from the Website. These files of Information are subject to these Terms.


In no event will EQ or its third-party providers be liable for any damages, including without limitation direct or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, losses or expenses arising in connection with information even if EQ or its third-party providers or their representatives are advised of the possibility of such damages, losses or expenses. Further, EQ or its third-party providers shall not be liable in any manner for redistributor's products or services.


All Information is provided only for your personal use and only for the purposes of providing information and to facilitate education, research, analysis, and communication.


You may:


  • use the Information for internal purposes only; and

  • copy, paste and distribute internally only an insubstantial amount of the data contained in the Information provided that:
    (i) the distribution is incidental to or supports your business purpose;
    (ii) the data is not distributed by you in connection with information vending or commercial publishing (in any manner or format whatsoever), not reproduced through the press or mass media or on the Internet; and
    (iii) where practicable, clearly identifies EQ or its third party providers as the source of the data (note that data will be considered in "insubstantial amount" if such amount
    (a) has no independent commercial value; or
    (b) could not be used by the recipient as a substitute for any product or service (including any download service) provided by EQ or a substantial part of it).

2. LIABILITY


All implied warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security, and accuracy are excluded from these Terms to the extent that they may be excluded as a matter of law. Further, EQ does not warrant that either the Website or Information will be uninterrupted or error free or that any defects will be corrected.


To the extent permitted by applicable law, EQ expressly disclaims all liability howsoever arising whether in contract, tort (or deceit) or otherwise (including, but not limited to, liability for any negligent act or omissions) to any person in respect of any claims or losses of any nature, arising directly or indirectly from: (i) anything done or the consequences of anything done or omitted to be done wholly or partly in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this Website; and (ii) the use of any data or materials on this Website or unauthorized access to this Website or otherwise.


EQ will not be responsible for any breach of these Terms caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control. In its entire discretion, EQ may remove content or postings and/ or suspend your user account and access to the Website if it believes you are using or have used the Website in breach of these Terms.

3. ADVICE


Information on the Website is not offered as advice on any particular matter and must not be treated as a substitute for specific advice. In particular, Information on the Website does not constitute professional, financial or investment advice and must not be used as a basis for making investment decisions and is in no way intended, directly or indirectly, as an attempt to market or sell any type of financial instrument. Advice from a suitably qualified professional should always be sought in relation to any particular matter or circumstances.

4. THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS


EQ does not and has not reviewed, audited or otherwise assessed the third-party service/ product providers whose activities/services/products are offered as part of the Website. Any reference in this Website to any such person, or organisation, or activities, products, or services related to such person or organisation, or any linkages from this Website to the website of another party, do not constitute or imply the endorsement, recommendation, or favouring of EQ of such person, or organisation, or activities, products, or services related to such person or organisation; and EQ accepts no liability for any engagements of such third-party activities/services/products or the results of any action taken in relation to such third party activities/services/products.

6. COPYRIGHT AND REPRODUCTION NOTICE


Except as is otherwise indicated, or with respect to Third Party Content, EQ is the owner of the copyright in all the Information featured on this Website and of all related intellectual property rights, including but not limited to all database rights, trademarks, registered trademarks, service marks and logos.


You are permitted to download, print, store temporarily, retrieve and display Information from the Website on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your personal use. The permission to recopy by an individual does not allow for incorporation of material or any part of it in any work or publication in any form.


You are not permitted (except where you have been given express permission to do so) to adapt or modify the Information on this Website or any part of it and the Information or any part of it may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast, redistributed or transmitted in any other way to any third parties for any purpose whatsoever and the Information or any part of it may not be used for commercial purposes/gain.


7. COMPUTER VIRUSES


Whilst we use reasonable endeavours to protect this Website from computer viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses (the "Viruses"), we do not warrant that the Website is free from such Viruses and accept no liability for any damage that may result from the transmission of any Viruses via this Website or via any files which are available for you to download from the Website.


You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access the Website. You should use your own virus protection software.


You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack our Website 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 to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Website will cease immediately.


8. TRADEMARKS


The trademarks and service marks used on the Website (collectively, the "Marks" ) are trademarks (whether registered or unregistered) and/or service marks owned by EQ or by third party licensors. Nothing contained on this Website should be construed as granting any licence or right to use any of the Marks for any purpose whatsoever without the written permission or applicable licence terms of the lawful owner. Unauthorised use of the Marks or any Information is strictly prohibited and may violate trademark, copyright or other applicable laws.


EQ or its third-party providers own and retain all rights, title and interest, including but not limited to copyright, trademarks, patents, database rights, trade secrets, know-how, and all other intellectual property rights or forms of protection of similar nature or having equivalent effect, anywhere in the world, in the Information and you are not granted any proprietary interest therein or thereto. The Information constitutes confidential and trade secrets of EQ or its third-party providers. Display, performance, reproduction, distribution of, or creation of derivative works or improvements from Information in any form or manner is expressly prohibited, except to the extent expressly permitted hereunder, or otherwise, with the prior written permission of EQ.


9. ACCOUNT DETAILS


You must protect, treat as confidential and not disclose to any third party your account details for the Website, including any and all user identification codes, passwords or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.


If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at helpdesk.eqconnect@equiniti.com


10. UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITE


You warrant that any such contribution you make to the Website does comply with all applicable laws and the Terms, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

In using the Website, including whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must ensure any data or information you submit or send:
(a) is accurate (where it states facts);
(b) is genuinely held (where it states opinions);
(c) complies with applicable law in any country from which it is posted and that you have all necessary permissions to place such information on the Website; and
(d) will not, judged reasonably, negatively impact on the reputation of EQ.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.


11. LINKING TO THE WEBSITE


If you have been authorised to do so, you may link to your dedicated page on the Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

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 to our Website in any website that is not owned by you.

EQ is not responsible for any third-party website or website content (including, without limitation, any advertising appearing therein) which can be accessed through this Website. The Website includes links to other websites for information purposes only and EQ makes no representation whatsoever about any such link, website or content.

You may not frame, link or deep link this Website to any other website without our prior written consent. Should you wish to frame or to set up a link / deep link to our Website please contact: helpdesk.eqconnect@equiniti.com


12. ACCEPTABLE USE RESTRICTIONS


You must:


  • not use the Service in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these terms, or act fraudulently or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, such as viruses, or harmful data, into the Service or any operating system;
  • not infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the Service (to the extent that such use is not licensed by these terms);
  • not transmit any material that is defamatory, offensive or otherwise objectionable in relation to your use of the Service;
  • not use the Service in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems or security or interfere with other users; and
  • not collect or harvest any information or data from any Service or our systems or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running any Service.

WE MAY END YOUR RIGHTS TO USE THE SERVICES IF YOU BREAK THESE TERMS


We may end your rights to use the Services at any time by contacting you if you have broken these terms in a serious way. If what you have done can be put right, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to do so.

13. CHANGES


We amend the Terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. By continuing to use the Website you agree to be bound by these Terms as amended.

We may update and make changes to any part of the Website or the Information from time to time, without notice. Any changes shall be effective from the next time you access the Website following the changes, unless you are accessing the Website at the time the changes are made, in which case changes shall be effective immediately.

14. SEVERABILITY


If these Terms or any part of them should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable under the laws of any state or country in which these Terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent that they are so illegal, invalid or unenforceable, they shall in that state or country be treated as severed and deleted from these Terms and the remaining Terms shall survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable in that state or country.

15. PRIVACY POLICY


Please refer to the Privacy and Cookie Policy which is a part of these Terms and contains provisions applicable to the use of personal data.

16. GOVERNING LAW


These Terms are subject to English law and to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.