General Terms & Conditions
Effective date: 14 September 2019
Overview
The following list of legally enforceable agreements affect you (the registered customer or guest) and The International Trade Council. Ensure that you understand all of these Terms and Conditions, as they impact your usage of this Website, our services, and any of the material contained within.
These Terms and Conditions may also affect your usage and sharing of social media on our Website, and any of our products, goods and services.
1. Definitions
- ‘General Terms and Conditions’ refers to these exact Terms and Conditions.
- ‘Specific Terms and Conditions’ refers to the Specific Terms and Conditions outlined below, which will refer to any products, goods or services purchased from the company through formationsadvice.com. The Specific Terms and Conditions override these General Terms and Conditions in any instance of conflict between the agreements.
- The use of ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’ and ‘ourselves’ means the International Trade Council.
- In use of the term ‘web site’, ‘Website’ or ‘Site’, this refers to the website you were browsing when you clicked on a link to both these General and Specific Terms and Conditions, including all secondary pages.
2. Use of this website
- When visiting www.formationsadvice.com and any secondary web pages that are part of the website, you are in full agreement with these General Terms and Conditions, along with any explicit or supplementary terms and conditions that may be highlighted before you purchase any of our products, goods or services through this Website.
- Everything within this site and any material presented on our various social media accounts is presented as information only. It does not involve any kind of professional, accounting or legal advice. Consequently, you should seek advice and guidance from a trained professional should you require it, prior to relying on material on the Website and/or before acquiring its available products, goods or services.
- In using this Website, you are consenting to the information that you post being accessed by the public and online communities, such as comments on our Website and social media pages. The International Trade Council will not be held liable and has no power over how this material is obtained or viewed by any third party.
2. Hyper links to third-party services and websites
- When using our site you may come across links, banners or buttons within the content that forward you to other websites and information from third-party companies or organisations. We do not associate with the operators or authorise them, and you are not obliged to use or purchase any products or services from these third parties. These links are merely provided for your knowledge and convenience.
- We are not accountable for and are unable to regulate Linked Websites and their content. This includes any link within a Linked Website, or any alterations or updates on a Linked Website. The privacy of your personal data on any Linked Website is therefore not our liability and we will not be held liable for any exposure or usage of such data. We also do not accept accountability for webcasting or any kind of communication derived from a Linked Website.
- Our Terms and Conditions do not protect you from your personal use of Linked Websites. You are responsible for your own safety online and this includes your use of third-party Linked Websites. Ensure that you read all Terms and Conditions, as well as the privacy policies of any third-party sites.
- Some specific services accessible through QualityCompanyFormations.co.uk are distributed by third-party sites, and therefore you are consenting to the sharing and usage of your data to these third parties when you purchase or use a product or service that comes from this website name. Such data may be distributed to a third party where we have a professional obligation to send information on the product, service or utility for the site’s visitors and consumers, if it is asked for.
3. Modifications and renewal to the Website
- These General Terms and Conditions and the Specific Terms and Conditions are subject to change at any point, as is your usage of the web site and any acquisitions of products or services that you make. Each time you access the web site or purchase any products or services, it is your own obligation to track any alterations to the General Terms and Conditions or Specific Terms and Conditions, where applicable.
- It is our intention to modernise and make essential changes to our web site on a regular basis to improve our products and services. Conversely, in doing so we cannot confirm that the material provided will be fully correct, comprehensive and up-to-date at all times. Material may be renewed as and when it is needed, at any point. We do not give any declarations, guarantees or actions of any kind on any of the web site’s features or contents, including, without restriction, the standard, correctness, comprehensiveness and trustworthiness of the data.
- We endeavour to keep the web site live and accessible to you. However, with its ongoing renewals, modifications and developments, we have the right to alter or remove the web site and any of its features, products, services or prices, either provisionally or on a permanent basis without warning. In acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, you are confirming that we will not be held responsible for any potential modifications or deletions that may occur.
4. Elimination of legal responsibility to you from using this Website
- This web site is delivered on the foundations of ‘AS IS’ and ‘AS AVAILABLE’ terms without the requirement of a declaration or authorisation, and without any guarantee – whether communicated or inferred – comprising, but not restricted to, non-infringement, the inferred guarantees of acceptable standards, suitability for a specific cause, agreement, security and correctness.
- The accountability to you that may occur from your usage of the web site is recognised to the maximum extent permitted by law. This includes liability that occurs through breaking of any due obligations, negligence or other.
- We do not provide a guarantee to the way that the web site functions; interruptions may well occur and online faults may not necessarily be corrected. There is also no guarantee that the web site and its server will be immune to viruses or anything else technologically damaging.
- Any material from other websites that is linked to or from this site is not our responsibility, and we are not accountable for, nor do we support, these sites; they are only provided as a means of information.
- No aspect of these General Terms and Conditions shall be interpreted in order to eliminate or prevent the accountability of ourselves for death or personal injury as a consequence of our neglect or that of its employees or representatives. For the prevention of uncertainty, this section shall also apply to the Specific Terms and Conditions as follows.
5. Intellectual Property – Trade Marks and Copyright
- Every feature on this web site is the Intellectual Property (IP) of the International Trade Council (unless supplied by a third party). These features include the Website’s copy, pictures, data, designs, models and any other material.
- The International Trade Council own all rights to this web site, whether intellectual or other, and this remains the case without any rights being transferred to the site’s user, visitor or consumer. If required for your own personal usage, you have the permission to read, duplicate or print certain parts of this Website, but you must call or email our company if you want to use the Website’s IP for any other reason.
- The Site may feature content that is not the property of the International Trade Council. This content might include templates, copy, visuals, source code and software, and are all copyrighted by the individuals who own such materials.
- Any other form of IP also belongs to its individual owners, including listed or unlisted trademarks, logos, and registered corporation names.
- It is prohibited to sell or resell any existing items from the Website. There is an exemption for items within this agreement where the product or service acquired by you has specific and explicit authorisation to be sold or resold, or if it is a required feature of the product or service in question.
6. Force Majeure
- In incidents or situations beyond our reasonable control, we will not be held accountable if these situations cause interruption or prevent the supply of our goods or services, or any of our other duties. Situations outside of our reasonable control may include, but are not restricted to: acts of God; accidents; strikes; acts of terrorism; fire; lock outs; war; or breakdown of any communications, transmissions or software.
- If a Force Majeure incident takes place, we are authorised to delay our obligations, if owed, to a reasonable extent.
- If a Force Majeure incident takes place in conjunction with these terms, we will inform you as soon as possible. Either party has the right to revoke this contract once the Force Majeure incident has lasted for over 90 days. For any services, goods or products paid for beforehand that are yet to be delivered, you will be granted a full reimbursement from the revocation date.
7. Registering your account with us
- In incidents or situations beyond our reasonable control, we will not be held accountable if these situations cause interruption or prevent the supply of our goods or services, or any of our other duties. Situations outside of our reasonable control may include, but are not restricted to: acts of God; accidents; strikes; acts of terrorism; fire; lock outs; war; delay in government services; or breakdown of any communications, transmissions or software.
- If a Force Majeure incident takes place, we are authorised to delay our obligations, if owed, to a reasonable extent.
- If a Force Majeure incident takes place in conjunction with these terms, we will inform you as soon as possible. Either party has the right to revoke this contract once the Force Majeure incident has lasted for over 90 days. For any services, goods or products paid for beforehand that are yet to be delivered, you will be granted a full reimbursement from the revocation date.
8. Your Privacy and Data
- Your privacy is important to us. We respect all aspects of your personal data and make great efforts to ensure your privacy is protected at all times, and we will not sell or reveal your personal information to any third party without your permission.
- Whenever you see fit, you have the option to change or update your personal data that is registered on our web site.
- For the purposes of appropriate data protection regulations, the International Trade Council will process any personal information you have provided to us in accord with our Privacy Policy which is available on our website or on request from the International Trade Council. If you have any questions about the way your personal information will be managed by the International Trade Council or your rights in relation to such information processing, please contact us.
- If you have provided us with personal information which relates to a third party, you agree to the following; (1) you have in place all the required permissions and notices to allow the lawful transfer of the personal information to us and (2) you have brought to the attention of any such third party the Privacy Policy available on our website or otherwise provided a copy of it to the third party. You agree to provide us with indemnity to any and all legal responsibility, penalties, fines, awards or costs stemming from your non-compliance with these rules.
- For more information on how we protect your confidentiality and store your personal data, read our comprehensive Privacy Policy.
9. Terminating the use of this Website
The International Trade Council has the right to rescind or discontinue your right to access or utilise the web site at any point, and we do not need to give warning or provide a reason in such circumstances.
10. Waiver
No waiver that we make, however implicit or explicit, in implementing any of our rights will give bias to our right to implement these rights at a later date.
11. Miscellaneous
- Any clause of these General Terms and Conditions that is deemed illegal, invalid or unable to be enforced will be removed from the terms, without affecting the cogency and enforceability of the outstanding clauses.
- With regards to the procurement of specific products or services through the Site, any potential disagreement between these General Terms and Conditions and the Specific Terms and Conditions will go in favour of the latter.
- These General Terms and Conditions only apply to those individuals who are directly involved in these clauses, and no rights are given to those who are not directly involved to enforce any clause of the contract.
- Patrons reserve the right to withdraw from an agreement for the supply of any of our goods or services, providing you do so within 7 calendar days from the contract’s start date. You must request for any terminations of agreements in writing, and the right to terminate will not be provided if we have previously begun to fulfil our side of the agreement before you make your request, or in the case of a company formation order, you have already submitted an application for formation.
12. Notices
- This is applicable to both the General Terms and Conditions and the Specific Terms and Conditions when delivering the service of notices, whether explicitly or implicitly.
- All notices that need to be delivered, whether as part of our contract or in relation to matters within, will be written in English unless otherwise stated.
- Notices will be sent to the standard business address of the relevant party and sent in one of these ways:
- Delivered individually
- Posted via prepaid airmail or air carrier
- Sent using a fax machine
- Sent via email
- On receipt of each, the notice is given.
13. Governing law and jurisdiction
- Your access and use of the Site, along with any acquiring of products or services, are overseen in agreement with the acts of the State of Delaware, USA.
- Courts of in the State of Delaware will have absolute authority over all disagreements or dissimilarities that may occur in connection with or directly due to your use of formationsadvice.com or the acquisition of any of its products or services.