Terms & Conditions

The terms and conditions of use of this website  is governed by English law and you agree, as we do, to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. All dealings through the website are subject to these terms.

GENERAL:

1. In these terms and conditions, “we” and “us” mean CPD Specialist which is a trading name of CPD Specialist Ltd., registered in England & Wales 2008, company number 6671128.  
2. We reserve the right to revise these Terms & Conditions from time to time at our discretion which will then be published on the website. Your continued use of the website signifies your acceptance of such modifications.    
3. All disclaimers, indemnities and exclusions in these terms and conditions shall survive termination of the agreement between us for any reason,  
4. If we fail to enforce a right under this agreement, that failure will not prevent us from enforcing other rights, or the same type of right on a later occasion.   

REGISTRATION & ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE:

5.     The use of the website constitutes your acceptance of these Terms as a legally binding agreement. If you do not agree with these Terms you must not use the website. By using the website you agree to indemnify and hold harmless us and our agents, representatives, partners, employees, licensors, content and technology providers, and any parent or subsidiary company from any and all losses, claims, demands, causes of actions and judgments (including legal fees on an indemnity basis and court costs) which arise out of a breach of these terms.

6.     To make use of the website you must be a registered user of the website and must set up a user account. To register you must provide information including, but not limited to, a username, password and valid primary email address. We use this information in strict accordance with our data protection as detailed below.

7.     Where you provide information for the website you agree to provide accurate, up to date and complete details.

8.     Users may wish to remove their entry/ies from the website at any time. No refunds will be paid.

USE OF THE WEBSITE:

9. Users accept that their use of the website and the services provided by it is at your own risk. Save as expressly stated in the terms, the website and content are provided without warranties of any kind either expressed or implied. This shall include (but not limited to) all implied warranties of fitness for purpose or merchantability to the extent permitted by law.
10. We grant you non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the software on our server to access and collect information from the website of third party providers as permitted by use of our service.   When you use this service, you may cause our software to send a request to the third party providers for information regarding products and/or services.   You acknowledge and agree that when you access such information from the third party using our website, you do so on your own behalf and that you have not appointed us to act as your agent.   We simply make our service and software available to you by which you may access such third party information.  
11. When you opt to use the website you agree, for contractual purposes, to consent to receive communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
12. We reserve the right to determine the final design, layout and functionality of the web site.
13. The copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the material contained in the website, together with the website design, text and graphics and their selection and arrangement, and all software compilations, underlying source code and software (including applets) belong to us or our licensors and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws.  All rights are reserved.   None of this material may be reproduced or redistributed without our prior written permission.   You may, however, download or print a single copy for your own non-commercial off-line viewing.  
14. This website or any portion of this website may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent.
15. We reserve the right to refuse hypertext links to, or addresses of, other web sites from entry pages, and to remove links or web addresses without notice at our sole discretion.
16. Where a user attempts to enter unsuitable materials onto the website, or persistently misuses the on-line system, we reserve the right to remove the user’s entry or entries from the web site, without notice. No refunds will be paid.
17. We reserve the right to refuse any entry on the web site and will not be liable for any loss or expense in so doing.
18. You shall retain ownership of the data you submit to the website.   You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to use, keep, share, save, collect, copy, distribute, publish and transmit such data in any manner.  
19. By making use of the website CPD event providers agree that we may display their company name & logo on our website.
20. Users may not sell our services on to any third parties, directly or indirectly.

YOUR   OBLIGATIONS

21.   You acknowledge and agree that you may be required to complete a registration process.   This includes the creation of a password in order for you to access your account.   You warrant that all information provided on registration on the website and otherwise provided by you on this site shall be true, complete and accurate.   You agree to immediately inform us if your information changes.  

22.   You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way. You must not use the site:

a.      for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity,

b.     to send, use or re-use any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any “spam”,

c.      to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or falsify the true ownership of Content or any other material or information on the website. You indemnify us in respect of any loss that we suffer as a result, directly or indirectly, of any breach by you of this agreement.

23.   Any password allocated to, or created by you to enable you to use the services provided by the website shall be kept strictly confidential by you.   You agree to keep this password safe and not to disclose it to anyone.   You agree to immediately notify us if any unauthorised third party becomes aware of that password.   You agree that any person to whom your username and password is disclosed or to whom you allow access to your information on the website is authorised to act as your agent on this site.   You agree to take all steps necessary to prevent unauthorised access to your account.  

EXCLUSIONS   OF   LIABILITY

24. We use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the data, material and information on the website is accurate and to correct any errors or omissions as soon as practicable after being notified of them.   However, we are not responsible if the data, material and information on the website is inaccurate or if there are any errors or omissions in the data, material and information and indemnify CPD Specialist Ltd. against all or any costs, expenses and losses arising out of a claim relating to the content of an entry.  
25. We will not be responsible for the loss or damage, however caused, of any materials, information or data supplied to us or stored by us nor for any loss or damage, errors, omissions or loss sustained as a result thereof.
26. We do not monitor, verify or endorse data, material and information submitted or provided by third parties which is included on the website and you should be aware that such information may be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. We are not responsible for any data, material or information which has been provided by third parties.  
27. We are not responsible for any losses or damages arising from an inability to access the website, from any use of the website or from reliance on the data transmitted or stored on the website where such losses or damages are caused by any event beyond our reasonable control including as a result of the nature of electronic transmission of date over the internet.  
28. We may terminate the provision the website or restrict your access to it without any prior notice to you where (by way of example and without limitation): there is a regulatory or statutory change limited our ability to provide the website; any event beyond our reasonable control prevents us from continuing to provide the website (for example, without limitation, technical difficulties, capacity problems and communications failures); or we consider in our reasonable discretion that you are abusing the services provided by the website or are otherwise acting in breach of these terms and we have notified you of the abuse or breach.
29. We are not responsible or liable for any indirect losses or damages suffered or incurred by you or for any losses or damages suffered or incurred by you which were not foreseeable by us when you accessed or used the website.  
30. We are not responsible or liable for any losses or damages suffered or incurred by you that were not caused by any breach of these terms and conditions by us.  
31. We do not warrant that this website will be compatible with all hardware and software which you may use. Although we may put in place security measures for your protection, we will not be liable for damages to, or viruses that may affect, any computer equipment, software, data or other property as a result of your access to or use of the website.
32. Third party providers will be supplying such services as seen on our website on their own standard terms and conditions and you should check that you agree to those terms and conditions before making an application for such services.   This does not in any way affect your Statutory Rights as a consumer.  
33. We will do our utmost to ensure that the availability of the website will not be interrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, we do not make any guarantee, representation or warranty that your use of the website will be uninterrupted and without error. You acknowledge and accept that access to the website may be occasionally or temporarily be suspended or restricted from time to time, without notice, to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.
34. Under no circumstances will CPD Specialist Ltd. be liable to users for any special, consequential, incidental or indirect damages, including loss of profits or loss of information.   
35. We shall be under no obligation for damage, loss or expense resulting from the failure to give advice or information or the giving of inaccurate advice or information, whether on the website or elsewhere, including when this has resulted from our negligence or that of any of our employees, agents or sub-contractors.
36. We accept no liability for any reliance placed on any opinions expressed on this website by its users.
37. The liability assumed by us under these terms shall be in lieu of and to the exclusion of all other warranties, conditions, terms and liabilities, express or implied, statutory or otherwise, in respect of the quality or the fitness for any particular purpose of the content or otherwise however arising, except any implied by law that cannot be excluded as a matter of law.
38. Except as provided in these terms we shall be under no liability, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, in respect of defects in or failure of the content or for any injury, damage or loss resulting from such defects or failure.
39. In no event shall any breach of contract on our part or tort (including negligence and breach of statutory duty) or failure of any kind on our part or that of our employees or agents give rise to any liability for loss of profit, revenue or any consequential or indirect loss or damage arising from any cause whatever.
40. You shall not sue or seek to recover any damages or other payment from us or our agents, representatives, partners, employees, licensors, content and technology providers, and any parent or subsidiary company as a result of its decision to terminate or suspect the services currently provided on the website.
41. A failure or delay by us in enforcing compliance with these terms shall not be a waiver of any provision of these terms including such enforcement.
42. None of these terms shall be enforceable under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any third party.
43. If any provision of these disclaimers and exclusions shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.
44. Any and all notices to be given by us to you or by you to us pursuant to or in connection with these terms shall be deemed sufficiently given when forwarded by email addressed to you at the email address you have provided to us or to the email address on the website.

PAYMENT

45.   Payment for advertising on the website must be in GB pounds. Our exclusive method of payment is online via our payment module accepting all major credit and debit cards.

46.   If a payment is rejected or refused the purchase process may not be continued until full payment is received.

PRIVACY POLICY & DATA PROTECTION

47. We are committed to protecting your privacy.   We may disclose your details or access your account if required to do so by law, by The General Council of the Bar, Bar Standards Board, The Law Society, Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority, the Office of Fair Trading or any other applicable regulator, compliance monitor, Governmental or law enforcement agency.  
48. We gather personal information from users to the website through the use of online forms.
49. We process personal information collected in this way for the purposes of:

a.      Providing and personalising our service;

b.     Dealing with your enquiries and requests;

c.      Administering your enquiries and accounts;

d.     Processing payment for your orders;

e.     Providing you with information about content and services.

50.   All employees and data processors that have access to, and are associated with the processing of your personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of the information.

51.   CPD Specialist Limited is registered business with the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) and as such are governed by with The Data Protection Act (DPA) 1988 guidelines for handling of personal information.

52.   We will use our reasonable efforts to protect the information submitted by you, however by using the website you acknowledge and accept that your submission of such information is at your own risk and no liability shall attach to us for any loss or liability to you relating the information provided by you.

53.   Personal information will not be disclosed or shared with any third party without your prior consent and we will take all reasonable steps to ensure the security of your password, membership number and other personal information in accordance with ICO’s Data Protection Guidelines for Businesses under which we are registered. By registering, you agree to accept responsibility and liability for all activity that occurs under your account and password.

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