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Rights of
Access to the Gigateway Website
Your use of this site is governed solely by these Terms
and Conditions. By using this site, you are acknowledging
that you have read these Terms and Conditions and have accepted
that you are bound by them.
If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms and Conditions,
please do not use this site.
These Terms and Conditions may be updated from time to time
without notice and you should therefore revisit this page
periodically to review these Terms and Conditions.
Your use of this site is governed by the Laws of England.
You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts
in relation to all matters arising out of your use of this
site. The headings and hypertext links in these Terms and
Conditions are inserted for convenience only and shall not
be taken into account in the interpretation of these Terms
and Conditions.
In consideration of your being permitted to use this site,
you hereby warrant that you will not use this site:
• for any purpose which is illegal or immoral; or
• otherwise than as permitted by these Terms and Conditions.
Misuse
You agree not to use or reproduce any material on this site
for your own commercial purposes.
We reserve the right to terminate all or part of the services
offered by this site with or without prior notice. You agree
that we shall be under no liability to you in relation to
any loss suffered as a result of any suspension, termination
or withdrawal of all or part of this site or your rights
to use them.
Disclaimer
This section headed "Disclaimer" and the next
section headed "Limits of Liability and Indemnity" does
not apply to you if you are a consumer or acting otherwise
than in the course of a profession or trade in your use
of this site.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information
contained within this site and created by us is factually
correct and up-to-date. However, we do not check much of
the information on this site which is provided to us by third
parties and accordingly, we accept no liability for any loss
you may suffer as a result of reliance upon any information
contained in this site. Prior to relying on any of this information,
you are advised to seek independent verification of all such
information.
We make no warranty that (a) any search result obtained
by you is the most appropriate result for your uses, (b)
that the service offered by this site will meet your requirements
or (c) that this site or any of the services offered by it
will be available without interruption. The geospatial and
other information are matched using a proprietary algorithm
encompassing subjective criteria which may not necessarily
produce the result you consider most appropriate. We accept
no liability for any loss you may suffer by reason of (i)
the accuracy, suitability or otherwise of any geospatial
or other data you see on this site, (ii) the unavailability
of this site or any of the services offered by it, (iii)
reliance on any information provided on this site or (iv)
otherwise in relation to your use of this site.
This site contains links to other sites. We do not verify
the content of these other sites and are not responsible
for the content of such sites.
Limit of Liability and Indemnity
All conditions and warranties which are to be implied by
statute or otherwise by general law into these Terms and
Conditions relating to this site or the services offered
on it are hereby excluded to the maximum extent permissible
in law.
We are not liable to you for any loss of
data, and you should keep back-up copies of all data you
post on this site. We
shall not be liable to you for economic loss of data, loss
of profit, loss of business and like loss, howsoever arising.
In respect of all other liability, we shall not be liable
to you for any loss you incur, howsoever arising, and aggregating
all claims you may have against us, in excess of the total
sum of [ten thousand pound (£10,000)].
You agree to indemnify us from and against all loss, costs,
charges, claims, actions or demands, suffered or incurred
by us directly or indirectly resulting from your use of this
site or any of the services offered by it otherwise in accordance
with these Terms and Conditions.
Legal Identity
The "gigateway.org.uk" website
is operated by the Association for Geographic Information
who can be contacted
at:
AGI
Block C, 4th Floor
Morelands
5-23 Old Street
London
EC1V 9HL.
"Gigateway" is a trademark of the
Association for Geographic Information.
Copyright Notice
The content of this site is copyright © Association
for Geographic Information. The content of this site may
be copied for viewing purposes, but may not be included in
or as part of any other site.
Privacy Policy
The Association for Geographic Information is committed
to protecting the privacy of users of this site. We operate
to the following principles:
We do not proactively collect personally identifiable information
from you when you use the gigateway site. However, we do
collect general statistical information about the users of
this site to enable us to continually improve this site for
the benefit of all our users. For example, we may collect
general information about which parts of this site are most
frequently visited and which searches are made most frequently.
We may also collect other non-personally identifiable information
about you such as your browser type (e.g. Internet Explorer)
or screen resolution.
Any changes to our privacy policy will be set out on this
site.
If you have any queries or concerns about the operation
of our Privacy Policy, please email them to us.
Defamation and Other Liability
We are not able to examine the information placed on our
site by third parties. If any material which is posted is
subsequently found to breach the intellectual property rights
(e.g. the trade secrets, trade marks or copyright) of any
third party or if it is obscene, abusive, defamatory or otherwise
unlawful in any way, we reserve the right in our absolute
discretion to remove such material without prior warning.
We also reserve the right to disclose such material as required
by law and as evidence in any civil or criminal proceedings.
Version Control
We may amend these Terms and Conditions by posting a revised
version of these Terms and Conditions on this site. These
Terms and Conditions were last updated on 12th April 2005.
Version 2.1.
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