You may also wish to read our Privacy Policy. These Terms and Conditions apply to the entire contents of this Website under the domain name www.mates.co.uk ("the Website") and to any associated competitions or correspondence by email between us, Ansell (UK) Limited ("the Company"), their agents and you.
Please read these terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept these Terms and Conditions, whether or not you decide to register with us. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions, do not use this Website. This notice is issued by the Company. You should not use the Website if you are under 16 years old or are not resident in the United Kingdom.
1. The Website is owned by the Company (Ansell (UK) Ltd).
2. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your email address.
3. The Company accepts no responsibility for lost, late or misdirected mail or email communication.
4. The Company reserves the right to use all information provided by your use of the Website in accordance with the conditions laid out in our Privacy Policy.
5. The Company may revise or update these Terms and Conditions at any time. You should check the Website from time to time to see whether the Terms and Conditions have changed, because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of this Terms and Conditions notice may be superseded by other notices or terms located on particular pages of the Website. Use of the Website is subject to the Terms and Conditions posted on the Website at the time of your visit.
Intellectual property
6. Unless otherwise stated, all materials (including all intellectual property rights, including, but not limited to, trademarks, copyright, database rights and so on in such materials) contained in the Website are the property of the Company and/or its licensors. INTENSIFY and MATES are trademarks of Ansell (UK) Limited. You may access the contents of the Website only for your own private use or internal use, but not for any commercial or public use. Subject only to clause 7, reproduction of any materials from this Website without the written permission of the Company is strictly prohibited. If you breach any of the Terms and Conditions, your permission to use the Website will automatically terminate and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Website materials.
7. You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Website for your own personal, private use provided that:
(a) No documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
(b) No graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text;
(c) You do not use such extracts for commercial purposes; and
(d) The Company's copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.
8. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to the Website (including any text, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the Company a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all intellectual property rights (including all copyright and publicity rights) with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, subject to the privacy restrictions set out in the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the Company the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to the Company.
9. Further to paragraph 8, by submitting your contribution to the Website you:
(a) warrant that your contribution; (i) is your own original work, does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any 3rd party and that you have the right to make it available to the Company for all the purposes specified above; (ii) is not defamatory, threatening, obscene, seditious, offensive, pornographic, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or of a kind which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; (iii) does not infringe any law; and (iv) is not technically harmful.
(b) indemnify the Company against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the Company as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
(c) waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Website and the purposes specified above.
10. While the Company endeavours to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company reserves the right to suspend and withdraw access to some or all of the pages on the Website without notice at any time and accepts no responsibility for these pages not being available.
11. The Company does not warrant:
(a) the full functionality of the Website;
(b) that defects in Website will be corrected; or
(c) that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs
12. The Company reserves the right, at its own discretion and without cause, to disqualify any individual from being a registered user.
13. Links from the Website to websites provided by 3rd parties are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave the Website. The Company does not control and is not responsible for these Websites or their content and it does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the 3rd party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
14. Except as set out in these Terms and Conditions you may not link to the Website, nor frame it without the express permission of the Company. If you require information about linking to the Website please contact mates_info@eu.ansell.com.
15. No right or licence, implied or otherwise, to use the Website or its contents is granted other than as expressly set out in these Terms and Conditions.
16. The Company endeavours to ensure that the information and material on the Website is correct, but it does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of such information and material. The Company may make changes to the material on the Website at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.
17. The Company assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Website. The material on the Website is provided 'as is' without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with the Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to the Website.
Liability
18. Subject to paragraph 19, the Company, any member of the Company's group, any agents and sub-contractors of the Company or any member of the Company's group and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders of any of the aforementioned parties, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party, including without limitation,
(a) any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages;
(b) any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption; and
(c) whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise,
In connection with the Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Website, any Websites linked to the Website or the material on such Websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property, on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the website or your downloading of any material from the Website or any Websites linked to the Website.
19. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit the company's liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence; fraud; misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.
Entire Agreement
20. These Terms and Conditions, and the Privacy Policy contain the entire understanding between you and the Company with regard to your use of the Website and no representation, statement or inducement, whether oral or written, not contained therein shall bind either you or the Company. The Company reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions from time to time.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
21. This notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts and may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Dated: January 2006