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1. Terms of website use
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.cambridgeconference.com (our Site). Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the Site. By using our Site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our Site.
www.cambridgeconference.com is a Site operated by Ordnance Survey (on behalf of the national mapping organisations involved with The Cambridge Conference (“We”, “Us”). Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency of Great Britain, whose principal place of business is Romsey Road, Southampton, SO16 4GU.
3.1 Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
4. Intellectual property rights
4.1 We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the materials published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
4.2 You may view, download, print, copy and use the materials posted on the Site (including for the avoidance of doubt, any conference speaker papers, presentations or other works identified as being copyright of a third party) solely for your own personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to the material posted on our Site.
4.3 For the avoidance of doubt, you may use the materials posted on the Site (including any conference speaker papers, presentations or other works identified as being copyright of a third party) for the purposes of research and private study provided that that you do so in accordance with the ‘fair dealing’ provisions set out in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). These provisions require, amongst other things, that you do not plagiarise the materials and you must ensure that our status (and that of any identified 3rd party contributors) as the authors of the material are always acknowledged.
4.4 You may not use any part of the materials posted on the Site for commercial purposes without our (or where applicable our 3rd party contributors) express written permission.
4.5 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.
4.6 If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
5. Reliance on information posted
We hope that you will find the materials (including the conference speaker papers and presentations) informative. However please note that commentary and other materials posted on our Site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
6.1 The material displayed on our Site (including for the avoidance of doubt, the conference speaker papers, presentations and other works), are provided ‘as is’ without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to their accuracy, timeliness or completeness.
6.2 To the fullest extent permitted by law, we, and other members of the Cambridge Conference, hereby expressly exclude:
· All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
· Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for 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 for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
6.3 This does not affect 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.
We aim to update our Site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend or restrict access to our Site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
8. Information about you and your visits to our Site
8.1 We will not collect or process, or ask you to provide any personal information about yourself, on our Site.
8.2 We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
8.3 For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
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To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
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To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
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To speed up your searches.
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To recognise you when you return to our site.
8.4 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
9.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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.
9.2 You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
9.3 Our Site must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
9.4 If you wish to make any use of material on our Site other than that set out above, please address your request to peter.standen@ordnancesurvey.co.uk.
Where our Site contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided in good faith and for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. You are responsible for reviewing the terms and conditions applicable to such websites.
Where our Site contains a link to a 3rd party website to facilitate the online purchase of tickets to the Cambridge Conference, any contract you enter into for the supply of such tickets formed online will be governed by the terms and conditions set out on such 3rd party website. You are responsible for reviewing the terms and conditions thereon.
12. Jurisdiction and applicable law
These terms of use are governed by English law and the English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Site.
OS, Ordnance Survey and the Ordnance Survey logo are registered trade marks of Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of Great Britain.
14. 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 Site.
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our Site, please contact peter.standen@ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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