TERMS OF USE

Welcome to Daresbury Business Advisory website ("Website").

These terms of use ("Terms of Use") apply to your use of the Website at www.daresbury.co.nz (or such other URL as the Website may subsequently be hosted at), the software, documentation and any associated materials comprising or made available to you via the Website (the "Materials") as well as any services offered or provided to you by Daresbury Business Advisory or its nominated third parties via the Website (the "Services"). By making use of any of the Website, Materials and Services, you are deemed to have read and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use.

Daresbury Business Advisory reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use from time to time upon placing any such amendments on the Website or by providing you direct notice of any such changes. Your continued use of any of the Website, Materials and Services thereafter will be deemed to be acceptance by you of any such changes to these Terms of Use.

Intellectual property

Unless otherwise stated in these Terms of Use, Daresbury Business Advisory is the owner or licensee of all rights including all copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights relating to or included within the Website, Materials and Services. For the avoidance of doubt this includes without limitation all intellectual property rights in respect of all graphics, logos, text, images and software relating to or included within any of the Website, Materials and Services.

Licence

Darebury Business Advisory grants you a limited licence (Licence) in accordance with these Terms of Use for the purpose of accessing, as applicable downloading, and making use of the Website, Materials and Services (or any parts of such as Daresbury Business Advisory may make available to you from time to time) for your own personal and non-commercial use or your own general use in the context of your position as a client of Daresbury Business Advisory. Utilising any form of automated software in relation to your access or use of the Website, Materials or Services is prohibited. Any contravention by you of these Terms of Use or any other terms or conditions notified to you by Daresbury Business Advisory, terminates the Licence Immediately.

Restrictions

Under no circumstances, may you adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, print, display, publish or create derivative works from any part of the Website, Materials or Services other than in accordance with the Licence. You may not use any data gathering and extraction tools or software to extract information from the Website or utilize framing techniques to enclose any of the contents of the Website. You may not use any meta tags or other hidden text which incorporate Daresbury Business Advisorys name or any of its intellectual property including trademarks. Using any information or content included in or related to the Website, Materials and Services other than in accordance with the terms of the Licence is strictly prohibited. You agree to fully indemnify Daresbury Business Advisory for any loss or damage it may suffer in contract, tort, equity, statute, regulation or otherwise, including without limitation any economic loss, loss of turnover, profits, business or goodwill, whether direct or consequential as a result of your breach of the Licence, including, in respect of any third party claims against Daresbury Business Advisory, its related parties, employees, contractors or agents.

Content

While Daresbury Business Advisory has endeavoured to take all reasonable and appropriate care in the preparation of the content of the Website, Materials and Services and has no reason to believe that any information contained in any of the Website, Materials or Services is inaccurate, Daresbury Business Advisory does not warrant the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of any information contained in any of the Website, Materials or Services and that such information is error free. Daresbury Business Advisory does not undertake to keep any of the Website, Materials or Services updated. To the greatest extent permitted by law Daresbury Business Advisory does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result either directly or indirectly from reliance by you upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in any of the Website, Materials or Services, including without limitation where such loss or damage is a result of or contributed to by the negligence of Daresbury Business Advisory . The content of the Website, Materials and Services is not intended to serve as legal, accounting, financial or tax advice.

Linked websites

The Website, Materials or Services may contain links to other websites not controlled by Daresbury Business Advisory (Linked Websites). Those links are provided for convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained. Daresbury Business Advisory is not responsible for the content or privacy practices associated with Linked Websites. Daresbury Business Advisory links with Linked Websites should not be regarded as approval or as an endorsement, of those Linked Websites, their operators or owners, or of any information, graphics, materials, products or services referred to or contained on those Linked Websites including further links contained on those Linked Websites, unless and to the extent stipulated to the contrary in these Terms of Use.

Online access

To acquire or make full use of any of the Website, Materials and Services you may need to obtain directly from Daresbury Business Advisory a username and password (Client Login) (if you have not been provided with such already,) which will provide you with online access to such Materials, Services, and parts of the Website as Daresbury Business Advisory acting in its sole discretion deems appropriate from time to time (Online Access). If you do obtain Online Access you warrant that all information and personal details you provide to Daresbury Business Advisory are correct and that you have full authority on behalf of any third party you may represent to obtain Online Access. You may not transfer your Client Login or any rights you may have in respect of your Online Access to any other person or entity.

Confidentiality of passwords

You must keep your Client Login confidential and not disclose such information to any third party or allow a third party to make use of your Online Access without first obtaining Daresbury Business Advisory written consent. You will be solely responsible for all activities undertaken and/or costs incurred under the use of your Client Login. You must notify Daresbury Business Advisory immediately if you know or suspect that your Online Access has been used by a third party or your Client Login has been, or may have been, obtained by a third party.

Cancellation of online access

Daresbury Business Advisory reserves the right, acting at its sole discretion, to refuse to grant you Online Access. To the greatest extent permitted by law, Daresbury Business Advisory also reserves the right, acting at its sole discretion, at any time to cancel your Online Access or to change your existing rights of access or any current benefit afforded to you in relation to your Online Access, if it believes you have breached these Terms of Use or any other agreements you may have with Daresbury Business Advisory or for any other reason whatsoever. In such event you agree that Daresbury Business Advisory will not be required to provide you with prior notice or explanation in respect of such action.

Links

If you provide a link to the Website you agree that you will not use any Daresbury Business Advisory logo, trade mark or other proprietary graphic as part of such link without the express prior approval of Daresbury Business Advisory .

Collecting information

Whenever you access or make use of any of the Website, Materials or Services, Daresbury Business Advisory may as applicable collect the following types of information from you:

the lP address of your machine when connected to the internet and the domain name from which you are accessing the internet;
the operating system and the browser your computer uses and any search engine you are using;
the date and time you are visiting;
the URL’s of the Website pages you visit; and
information relating to the actions you undertake within the Website,

as well as any other information you may explicitly provide Daresbury Business Advisory in the course of accessing or making use of any of the Website, Materials or Services.

Further collection

Where possible, information will be obtained directly from you. However, you acknowledge that by accessing or making use of any of the Website, Materials or Services that information may also be collected from you as a result of the workings of the Website, Materials or Services as applicable and the attached systems and software.

Use of information

Daresbury Business Advisory uses the information provided by you or generated by your accessing or making use of any of the Website, Materials or Services to provide the services Daresbury Business Advisory to you in relation to any of the Website, Materials or Services. Daresbury Business Advisory also uses information collected from you to assess the performance of the Website, Materials and Services and to ensure that the Website, Materials and Services serve your needs in the most efficient manner possible.

Daresbury Business Advisory may also place cookies on your computer. Cookies are alpha numeric identifiers which are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable Daresbury Business Advisory to recognise you whenever you access the Website and therefore better personalise your access of and use of the Website, Materials and Services. A cookie does not identify you personally but it does identify your computer. The help portion of your browser’s toolbar should tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. You should note however that if you do not allow the use of cookies or do not wish to provide certain information to Daresbury Business Advisory , you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website, Materials and Services.

Statistics

Although Daresbury Business Advisory may use and publish non-personal aggregate statistics and group data about those people who access or make use of any of the Website, Materials or Services and their usage of any of the Website, Materials or Services, subject to the further terms of these Terms of Use, Daresbury Business Advisory will not share or make public personal information identifiably about you without your prior permission.

Data transmission

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst Daresbury Business Advisory strives to protect such information, we do not warrant and cannot ensure complete security of any information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk. Nevertheless, once we receive your transmission, we will take all reasonable steps to preserve the security of such information.

Disclosing information

You agree that to the greatest extent permitted at law Daresbury Business Advisory is entitled to disclose information it holds about you without your prior permission if Daresbury Business Advisory reasonably believes that such disclosure is necessary to:

meet legal requirements;
comply with legal process or help to maintain the law;
protect Daresbury Business Advisory rights or property or that of Daresbury Business Advisory related companies; or
enforce these Terms of Use or any other agreement that Daresbury Business Advisory may have with you.

Combining information

To the greatest extent permitted at law, Daresbury Business Advisory may combine any information which it collects from you or otherwise obtains, with information collected or otherwise obtained by its related companies.

Lost data

In the event that any information or data relating to you or your use of any of the Website, Materials and Services held by Daresbury Business Advisory or any third party on behalf of Daresbury Business Advisory is lost, corrupted or otherwise no longer reasonably available or accessible as judged by Daresbury Business Advisory in its sole discretion, you agree that Daresbury Business Advisory will have no liability to you of any nature relating to any such information or data.

Accessing

You must take your own precautions to ensure that the process which you employ for accessing or making use of any of the Website, Materials and Services does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system or any data contained therein. To the greatest extent permitted by law Daresbury Business Advisory does not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your computer system or any data contained therein which may arise in connection with your accessing or making use of any of the Website, Materials and Services.

Support

Daresbury Business Advisory reserves the right to make support services available in relation to any of the Website, Materials and Services on such terms and conditions as Daresbury Business Advisory at its sole discretion deems appropriate and further reserves the right to alter, suspend or withdraw such support services as Daresbury Business Advisory at its sole discretion deems appropriate.

Exclusion of warranty

To the greatest extent permitted by law, in relation to your access and use of the Website, Materials and Services, any condition or warranty either express or which would otherwise be implied by law into these Terms of Use is hereby excluded.

Exclusion of liability

To the greatest extent permitted by law, under no circumstances will Daresbury Business Advisory , its employees, contractors or agents be liable to you in contract, tort, equity, statute, regulation or otherwise for any loss, damage, costs, legal costs, professional and other expenses of any nature whatsoever incurred or suffered by you or by any third party, whether direct or consequential (including without limitation any economic loss or other loss of turnover, profits, business or goodwill) arising out of any dispute or contractual, tortious or other claims or proceedings made by or bought against you which relate in any way to your access and use of any of the Website, Materials and Services, including without limitation in relation to any failure or omission on the part of Daresbury Business Advisory to comply with its obligations as set out in these Terms of Use.

Jurisdiction

The provision and use of the Website, Materials and Services is governed by and is to be interpreted in accordance with the laws of New Zealand and, in all matters relating to or arising from your access and use of any of the Website, Materials and Services, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of New Zealand. If you are accessing or making use of any of the Website, Materials and Services from outside of New Zealand then you agree that you are entirely responsible for ensuring that your access and use of any of the Website, Materials and Services will not contravene any laws in your country.

Failure to comply

Daresbury Business Advisory accepts no liability for any failure to comply with these Terms of Use where such failure is due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

Waiver

If Daresbury Business Advisory waives any rights available to it under these Terms of Use on one occasion, this does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other occasion.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid, void, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, such provision shall be deemed to be severed from these Terms of Use, but only to the minimum extent necessary to avoid such issue and the remainder of any such provision as well as all other provisions of these Terms of Use shall continue in full force.

Entire agreement

These Terms supplement any other agreement (including license agreements) you have with Daresbury Business Advisory and are binding in respect of any use of the Website. If there is any conflict between these Terms and any other agreement and/or specific terms of use relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.

Queries

If you have any queries in regard to these Terms of Use please don’t hesitate to contact us. Please also refer to our separate Privacy Policy.