United Kingdom Council for Access and Equality (UKCAE) Website Terms of Use

This website is managed by the United Kingdom Council for Access and Equality (UKCAE). By using the website, you are accepting the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our website.

• Accessing our website
• Acceptable use
• Intellectual property rights
• Links to other websites
• Virus protection
• Disclaimer
• Information about you and your visits to our website
• Jurisdiction and applicable law
• Variations
• Complaint Policy and Procedure

Accessing our website

Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend any service we provide on our website without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our website, or our entire website, to users who have registered with us.

If you choose, or you 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.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

Acceptable use

You may not use our website 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; 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; to attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the servers on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website; or to attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

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Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website, and in the material published on it. Those works 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 website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our website. 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 website must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our website 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 website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

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Links to other websites

We include links to a number of external websites where appropriate to help users find other related information. However, UKCAE cannot guarantee the reliability of those links or the accuracy of information on other organisations' websites. A link from UKCAE to another website does not imply endorsement of that organisation nor of their information.

Virus protection

We will not be liable for any loss or damage or disruption 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 website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Disclaimer

This website's content is for general information purposes and is not intended to constitute legal or other professional advice. You should seek specific specialist or legal advice in relation to any specific matter. Legal information is provided for guidance only and should not be regarded as an authoritative statement of the law, which can only be given by the courts. Legal considerations must be looked at in the light of the particular circumstances and it may be wise to seek legal advice.

Whilst considerable effort is made to ensure that the information in this website is accurate and up to date, a website is limited in its ability to convey the complexities of information of a legal, policy or procedural nature. UKCAE makes no representations or warranties, either express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information on this website or its fitness for any purpose whatsoever. In no event will UKCAE be liable for any direct, indirect, special incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of the information held on this website.

To the extent permitted by law, we hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; and any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our website, any websites linked to them and any materials posted on them, including 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 whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

Nothing affects 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.

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Information about you and your visits to our website

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Statement. By using our website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions 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 from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, 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 website.

Complaint Policy and Procedure

UKCAE is committed to providing a high quality service to everyone we deal with, whether members or the public. In order to achieve this we welcome any comments about our service.

A complaint is any dissatisfaction with our service which requires a response. We will take each complaint seriously, learn from them and improve what we do.

If you would like to contact us or receive information in another language or format (such as Braille, audio CD, large print or Easy Read) please contact us at info@ukcae.com.

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