Website Terms & Conditions of Use – User Agreement

Introduction 

In using this website you are deemed to have read and agreed to the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern this website’s (Domains www.mylocalstop.com & www.mylocalstop.co.uk) relationship with you . By proceeding further, you will be deemed to have accepted them.The term “mylocalstop.co.uk” or “mylocalstop.com” or “mylocalstop” or “us” or “we” refers to the owners or the Channel Partners of the website whose central contact address is 10, Shorediche Close, Ickenham, UB10 8EB. The Partners for different channels have a local contact address.References to “subsidiary sites” are to the sites maintained by authorised franchisees or Channel Partners trading under the style “mylocalstop” in the particular areas described within those sites, all of which are linked into the main website domains www.mylocalstop.co.uk & www.mylocalstop.com.   

Definitions

In these terms & conditions of use, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:-
The term “you” refers to the user (whether registered or not) or viewer of our website;
"Customers" means individuals or entities who use this website or who undertake any other business with the Website.;
"Mylocalstop" implies this website. It also refers to the “subsidiary sites” or “Channels” maintained by the Channel Partners and/or authorised franchisees;
“We” implies “Mylocalstop”
"Privacy Policy" means our statement of practice as regards the privacy and security of your information when accessing and/or using this website and any of the features hereon;
"terms & conditions of use" and "Agreement" means the terms and conditions of the website as referred to and/or contained herein;
Any use of the above terminology, definition or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same. 

Copyright & License to Use this Website

Unless otherwise stated, we or our Channel Partners own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use. 
You must not:

• republish material from this website (including republication on another website) without our written and express consent
• sub-license material from the website
• show any material from the website in public without our agreed consent
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose unless agreed by us as part of the commercial arrangement;

 Confidentiality

Any information concerning the Client and their respective client records may be passed to third parties. However, client records are regarded as confidential and therefore will not be divulged to any third party, other than our staff & suppliers, unless legally required to do so to the appropriate authorities.We will NOT sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third party or use your Email address for unsolicited mail. Any Emails sent by this website will only be in connection with the provision of agreed services and products.  

Acceptable Use

You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications unless expressly agreed in the relevant formats (such as Business Directory listing, Advertising).

Disclaimer: Exclusions and Limitations         

The information on this website is provided on an "as is" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, this website

• excludes all representations and warranties relating to this website and its contents or which is or may be provided by any affiliates or any other third party, including in relation to any inaccuracies or omissions in this website and/or the literature; and
  
• excludes all liability for damages arising out of or in connection with your use of this website. This includes, without limitation, direct loss, loss of business or profits (whether or not the loss of such profits was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you have advised this website of the possibility of such potential loss), damage caused to your computer, computer software, systems and programs and the data thereon or any other direct or indirect, consequential and incidental damages.
  

This website does not however exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence. The above exclusions and limitations apply only to the extent permitted by law. None of your statutory rights as a consumer are affected.  

Links to and from other websites

You may not create a link to any page of this website without our prior written consent or unless agreed by us as part of a commercial agreement. If you do create a link to a page of this website you do so at your own risk and the exclusions and limitations set out in the Disclaimer section above will apply to your use of this website by linking to it. We do not monitor or review the content of other party’s websites which are linked to from this website. Opinions expressed or material appearing on such websites is not necessarily shared or endorsed by us and should not be regarded as the publisher of such opinions or material. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices, or content, of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site & to read the privacy statements of these sites. You should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to this site or accessed through this site yourself, before disclosing any personal information to them. We will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information. 

Restricted Access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted.  We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion. If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password is kept confidential.  We may disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.  

User Generated Content

In these terms of use, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
Notwithstanding our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website. 

Terms of Use for Discussion Forums

When using the Discussion Forums (on of the website Services) you agree not to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise violates any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you.The website content in not monitored in this section on a real-time basis for us to confirm the validity of the information posted and therefore are not responsible for the messages posted. The messages posted on the Service express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of the website or anyone associated with the aforementioned.The contributions made must be civil, tasteful, constructive and relevant.  We do not permit racism, sexism, homophobia or any other material we consider inflammatory or objectionable. No spaming or advertising is permitted. For advertising opportunities and enquiries, you should use the relevant links available in the website.
We reserve the right to remove objectionable messages and delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the website and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).
We may disclose any information, including your identity (or whatever information we know about you) that we deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, code, legal process or governmental request. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or if you no longer wish to continue your registration as a member, or to participate in the Discussion Forums.In order to maintain the structure and integrity of the discussions, we may decide not to remove the posts of users who are no longer registered members.  

Terms of Use for sending Private Messages

When using the Discussion Forums, the website enables you to send private messages in reply to certain posts that are not displayed in public domain on the Discussion Forums section. The private message will contain your Email address for the recipient to be able to make contact with you or respond to you message, as required.Any private message that you send using this service will be from you and you are responsible for all the contents of it. You agree to use the service to send messages only to people who you, in good faith, believe would like to receive them. You also agree that you will not use the service to

• send email of a commercial nature
• send content that is racist, sexist, homophobic or any other material we consider inflammatory, objectionable or unlawful.
• infringe copyright or other intellectual property rights
• abuse the legal rights of third parties
• violate any applicable laws, codes or regulations; or
• create a false identity with the intention of misleading others.
  

We are under no obligation to send or monitor private message and are not liable in any way for the content of such messages. We, however, reserve the right to review, remove and edit any email at our sole discretion. We may disclose any information deemed necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, code, legal process or governmental request.

Limited Warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

Limitations of Liabilities

Nothing in these terms of use (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms of use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows

• to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature
• we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage
• we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information
• we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control
• our maximum liability in relation to any event or series of related events will be limited to average half-yearly turnover of the specific Channel website 

Cookies

Like most interactive websites this website [or ISP] uses cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting.

Indemnities

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use. 

Availability

Unless otherwise stated, the services featured on this website are only available within the United Kingdom, or in relation to postings from the United Kingdom. All advertising is intended solely for the United Kingdom market. You are solely responsible for evaluating the fitness for a particular purpose of any downloads, programs and text available through this site. Redistribution or republication of any part of this site or its content is prohibited, including such by framing or other similar or any other means, without our express written consent. The Website does not warrant that the service from this site will be uninterrupted, timely or error free, although it is provided to the best ability. By using this service you thereby indemnify this Website, its employees, agents and affiliates against any loss or damage, in whatever manner, howsoever caused. 

Communication

We have several different e-mail addresses for different queries. These, & other contact information, can be found on our Contact Us link on our website or other parts of the site or via Website literature or via the Website’s stated telephone, facsimile or mobile telephone numbers. 

Force Majeure

Neither party shall be liable to the other for any failure to perform any obligation under any Agreement which is due to an event beyond the control of such party including but not limited to any Act of God, terrorism, war, Political insurgence, insurrection, riot, civil unrest, act of civil or military authority, uprising, earthquake, flood or any other natural or man made eventuality outside of our control, which causes the termination of an agreement or contract entered into, nor which could have been reasonably foreseen. Any Party affected by such event shall forthwith inform the other Party of the same and shall use all reasonable endeavours to comply with the terms and conditions of any Agreement contained herein 

Waiver

Failure of either Party to insist upon strict performance of any provision of this or any Agreement or the failure of either Party to exercise any right or remedy to which it, he or they are entitled hereunder shall not constitute a waiver thereof and shall not cause a diminution of the obligations under this or any Agreement. No waiver of any of the provisions of this or any Agreement shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be such and signed by both Parties.  

General

The laws of England and Wales govern these terms and conditions. By accessing this website you consent to these terms and conditions and to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in all disputes arising out of such access. If any of these terms are deemed invalid or unenforceable for any reason (including, but not limited to the exclusions and limitations set out in the Disclaimer section above), then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be severed from these terms and the remaining terms will continue to apply. Failure of the Website to enforce any of the provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions and any Agreement, or failure to exercise any option to terminate, shall not be construed as waiver of such provisions and shall not affect the validity of these terms and conditions or of any Agreement or any part thereof, or the right thereafter to enforce each and every provision. These Terms and Conditions shall not be amended, modified, varied or supplemented except in writing and signed by duly authorised representatives of the Website 

Variation

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you access the current version. 

Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.   

Disclaimer as to Accuracy of Information

Care has been taken in the preparation of the information contained on this website. However, we do not make any representations or warranties as to the accuracy of the information contained on this website.

Exclusion of Third Parties

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party 

Privacy Policy

Mylocalstop.com & mylocalstop.co.uk will use your personal data in the manner set out in its Privacy Policy. However, in the event of a conflict between the Privacy Policy and these terms & conditions of use, the Terms and Conditions of Use shall prevail. 

Our Details

The main website is operated under domain names www.mylocalstop.co.uk & www.mylocalstop.com Our address is 10, Shorediche Close, Ickenham, Uxbridge UB10 8EB. You can contact us by email at the addresses shown in the website. The Channel Partners are based locally and their contact details also appear on the website.

Acknowledgement

These website terms of use are partly based on a template created by Website-contracts.co.uk and distributed by Website-law.co.uk. Version 2.0 Agreed & Published 23 October 2008