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Terms and conditions

 

Use of the FM World website

FM World authorizes you to view and download the materials on this web site ("site") only for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copies of the materials. You may not modify the materials on this site in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose without express permission from FM World.

For the purposes of these terms, any use of these materials on any other web site or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. The materials on this site are copyrighted and any unauthorized use of any materials on this site may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. If you breach any of these terms, your authorization to use this site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.

 

Linking to the FM World website

We welcome links from other websites to the FM World web site. Anyone linking to this website must comply with all applicable laws and our guidelines for doing so. If we consider your website to be offensive, discriminatory or unsuitable we will ask you to remove the link. For more information, please go to the Link to us section or contact us direct.

 

Third parties

Links to third-party web sites on this site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this site. FM World has not reviewed all of these third-party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content, advertising, products, services or information (including payment for and delivery of such products or services). Arrangements made between you and any third party named or referred to on this site are entirely at your own risk and responsibility.

FM World is not responsible for any damage, loss or offence caused by, or in connection with, any content, advertising, products, services or information available on such websites or material. Any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the relevant provider of the service.

We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our Site and recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.

In addition, if you linked to this Site from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.

 

Advertising and sponsorship

Part of the FM World website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the FM World website complies with relevant laws and codes. We will not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in advertising and sponsorship material.

 

Limitation of liability

In no event will FM World, its suppliers, or other third parties mentioned at this site be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, those resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption) arising out of the use, inability to use, or the results of use of this site, any web sites linked to this site, or the materials or information contained at any or all such sites, whether based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages. If your use of the materials or information from this site results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data, you assume all costs thereof. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

 

Your liability

You shall compensate us in full if we incur any losses or if any claims or legal proceedings are brought or threatened against us by any other person arising from your use of the FM World website.

 

Applicable laws

This site is administered by FM World from its offices in London. FM World makes no representation that materials at this site are appropriate or available for use outside the United Kingdom, and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use or export or re-export the materials at this site or make any copy or adaptation in violation of any applicable laws or regulations including without limitation UK export laws and regulations. If you choose to access this site from outside the UK, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. These terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.

 

Intellectual property

The names, images and logos identifying and owned by FM World or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks of FM World and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of FM World, or any other third party.

By submitting your contribution to FM World you warrant that your contribution is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to FM World for any or all of the purposes specified above. Furthermore, you warrant your contribution is not defamatory, does not infringe any law, you indemnify FM World against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by FM World as a result of your breach of the above warranty and waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the FM World website and the purposes specified above.

 

Privacy

FM World imposes restrictions on the use of any personal information you provide with the aim of protecting personal data and your privacy. The personal information you provide will be used for the purposes you specify only and will not be passed to third parties.

The law allows you to see and correct data held about you. Questions about data protection should be sent in writing to: FM World, 17 Britton Street, London, EC1M 5TP.

 

Information automatically collected from your PC

Log files/IP addresses: When you visit the site our web server automatically records your IP address.  This IP address is not linked to any of your personal information.  We use IP addresses to help us administer the site and to collect demographic information for aggregation purposes.

We may also gather other non-personal information (from which we cannot identify you) such as the type of your internet browser which we use to provide you with a more effective service.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

 

Cookies

When you visit the site we may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means that they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Passwords are not stored in cookies. A cookie helps you get the best out of the site and helps us to provide you with a more customised service.

You can block or erase cookies from your computer if you want to (your browser's help screen or manual should tell you how to do this).

 

What we do with the information we gather

We use this information to understand which areas of the site are of interest to you which helps us to provide you with a better service. We may send you emails about news,  products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.  From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests. 

 

Disclaimer

The materials provided on this site are provided "as is" without any warranties of any kind including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property.

The information and other materials included on this site may contain inaccuracies and typographical errors. FM World further does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information and materials or the reliability of any statement or other information displayed or distributed through this web site (including, without limitation, the information provided through the use of any software. You acknowledge that any reliance on such statement or information shall be at your sole risk. 

FM World may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of this site, including the availability of any features of the site, or to the information, products and prices described in them, at any time without notice.

 

General

FM World may revise these terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current terms because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this site.

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