Please read and make sure you understand these Terms of Use. If you choose to access or use our Service you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to our Terms of Use then you should not access or use the Service. If you are under the age of 18 then you should not access the Service at all.
We recommend that you print or save a copy of these Terms of Use for your records and future reference.
The Service is controlled and operated by BECK AND CO CONSULTANTS LIMITED (referred to in these Terms of Use as “Beck & Co”, “we”, “us” or “our”). Beck & Co is a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 05334431. Our registered office address is: BECK AND CO CONSULTANTS LIMITED, 6 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham TW1 4RU.
You can contact us by email at: info@beckandco.co.uk if you have any questions, comments or complaints about the Service. It would be great to hear from you.
We keep these Terms of Use under review and will place any updates at http://www.beckandco.co.uk. You agree that any changes will be effective as soon as they are posted on the Website and will govern all of your future access, browsing or using of the Service. Where material changes are made to your use of the Service we may also email you notice of any such changes to the email address registered to your Account. These Terms of Use were last updated on 10 July 2012.
You are purchasing a Service which you now accept is subject to change, and as such we reserve the right to modify or, upon notice, terminate the Service or any part of it, whether on a temporary or permanent basis. This may include making a charge for the provision of a new addition to the Service or requesting that you increase payments in lieu with additional features and functionality that we may add, and we reserve the right to charge you a subscription or other fee for additional functionality and, as such, additional Terms of Use and Payment Terms may apply.
We will give you notice of any material changes which we make by posting details of the Service modification, or termination, in question – by posting an update on the Website and/or by emailing you.
You need internet access and a compatible browser in order to use this Service. You are responsible for your internet connection and fees associated with your use of the Service. The availability and performance of the Service will be affected by the device and/or quality or speed of internet connection through which you access the Service. High speed broadband access is highly recommended if you wish to obtain the best use of the Service.
The Service is designed to be compatible with the following compatible web browsers: Apple Safari 5, Mozilla Firefox 13, Google Chrome 20, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.
The Service is currently available in the English language only and to registered Users.
We do not guarantee that the Service will be available or suitable for you and if you choose to use the Service or any part of it you accept that you do so at your own risk. It is your responsibility to comply with any applicable laws relating to your access and use of the Service. We reserve the unilateral right, to restrict your use of the Service, or any part of it, by time, territory, language or in any other way we may choose.
By using the Service you specifically understand and agree that the Service:
Some features of the Service may be subject to additional terms of use or licensing requirements and/or may only be available subject to payment of a subscription or other fee, the Service may also be provided in conjunction with other services which similarly require agreement to their own terms and separate payment e.g. an End User Licence Agreement to use the TeamPURE application. In order to use such features you must agree to any separate agreement governing such features as a condition of such use and our Payment Terms may apply.
Full details of how we collect, hold and process your personally identifiable information via the Service are set out in our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy. The delivery of Beck and Co’s Service, by its very nature, involves the collection, storage, processing and use of data, which can include personal data, and you must bear this in mind in your use of the Service. Beck and Co takes the privacy of everyone using the Services very seriously and our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, reflect that.
Access to the Service is restricted to registered Account holders (“Users”). In order to register for an Account you must provide your name together with a valid email address registered to you. You will also be prompted to create a password for your account.
It is a condition of use of the Service that you be no less than sixteen (16) years old, and that all of the details you provide will be correct, current and complete. If we believe that they are not we reserve the right to refuse you access to the Service, to terminate or suspend your ability to use the Service, or we may deactivate your Account and will refund any monies we consider we may owe you.
Once you have registered we will send an email to the email address provided by you at registration to confirm your registration. In order to activate your Account you must click on the link embedded in the email. Upon receipt of your activation, your Account registration will be completed. All future notifications will be sent to this email address unless and until a different email address is given by you making a change to your Account settings.
To use the Service you must be a person who is not prevented by law from receiving the Service under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction including the country and place where you live or from where you access or use the Service.
When you register as a User you will provide a password. You must treat your password as confidential. We may monitor your choice of login / password in order to ensure it is secure and, at our discretion, may require you to change it. If you think that there has been any unauthorised use on your Account please contact us at info@beckandco.co.uk You must not share your Account log-in details with anyone else.
We will provide the Service for so long as we are willing to provide it to you, but you must not rely on the Service as your sole record of nor the only medium for the storage of any Content stored by means of the Website. You are strongly advised to ensure that you have printed out any summary of the learning materials provided to you by Us, as the presentation of such materials is proprietary to Beck & Co, and you are not permitted under these Terms, to store or otherwise back-up such summaries by any other means.
SUBJECT TO OUR PAYMENT TERMS WHICH GOVERN PAID STORAGE OF YOUR CONTENT, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE, REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ANY CONTENT WHICH YOU ACCESS THROUGH THIS SERVICE WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO LOSS, DAMAGE, CORRUPTION OR REMOVAL AND WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY IN THE EVENT THAT ANY SUCH LOSS, DAMAGE, CORRUPTION OR REMOVAL OCCURS.
In these Terms of Use, “Content” means any and all content including that you or your business (or any Users on you or your business’s behalf) upload, post, publish, display, transmit, share, store or make available (“Post”) on or via the Service or in connection with the Service.
In using the Service you understand that:
We do NOT make any claim to ownership of any of the Content you Post or use in conjunction with our Service. However, in order to provide you with social networking services you understand that you must grant us the broadest royalty-free licence possible for us to use, store, distribute, reproduce, publish and display such Content on the Service. The licence will continue unless and until such Content is removed by you or us from the Service in accordance with these Terms of Use (but will also cover any cached Content which may remain on the servers beyond the point at which it has been removed and is accessible).
By submitting or otherwise uploading any Content on or through the Service you warrant, represent and agree with us that:
While using the Service you agree you will NOT:
Whilst you acknowledge that we do not pre-screen any Content that you have submitted for use within the PURE methodology or for any other reason by means of the Service, we reserve the right to do so and to refuse, remove or revise and Content without prior notice or any liability to you, where we, in our opinion, decide any such Content is in breach of these Terms of Use or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that if any of your Content is removed as a result of your breach of these Terms of Use, or in response to a third party take down notice, or because the Content is infringing or illegal, we shall have the right to access, use, keep, reproduce and disclose the Content in any manner we require if (a) we are legally required to do so or (b) if we believe it is necessary either to comply with any legal order, procedure or request; or to enforce the Terms of Use or (c) to defend or to comply with any claim or order made against Beck & Co (or our directors, employees or other representatives), or (d) to detect, prevent or limit fraud or security breaches or (d) correct technical issues and errors with the Service; or (e) as we consider in our sole discretion may be required to protect Beck & Co or any users of the Service or the public.
You may terminate your Account and stop using the Service at any time by emailing us at info@beckandco.co.uk
No fees or any proportion thereof which you have paid us prior to your termination (including any pre-payment or subscription covering a period of time which has expired as at the time of your termination) are refundable except where expressly provided otherwise in these Terms of Use or as otherwise required by applicable law. Similarly, termination shall not excuse you from any obligation to pay any fees or other charges due but unpaid as at the time of your termination.
At any time and without giving you any advance notice, we may suspend your access to the Service on account of routine, planned or emergency maintenance or upgrades to the Service or its supporting hardware and/or software. Where practicable and where the Service is likely to be unavailable for a period in excess of 30 minutes, we may post notices of any scheduled maintenance or upgrade in advance on the Website.
Without prejudice to any other right on our part to terminate or suspend the Service or any part of it under these Terms of Use, we may at any time terminate or suspend your Account and/or any part of it and/or access to all or any part of the Service. The circumstances in which such suspension or termination may incur include but are not limited the following circumstances:
In such circumstances we will not refund any fees or charges including any prepayments or subscriptions on account of such termination or suspension. Our liability (as well as the liability of our directors, employees or other representatives) for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from our termination or suspension of your Account or access to the Service is excluded, insofar as it is possible to do so by applicable law.
If we terminate your Account, you will not create another one without our permission.
Upon termination of your Account:
We have no obligation to assist you in migrating any of your Content to another backup device, system or social network platform and we do not keep backup copies of your Content to enable restoration of your Account once deleted.
We do not guarantee that any part or parts of the Service which are at any time made available for access and use without charge will remain so for any period of time. Your continued use of the Service or relevant part of it will be subject to you accepting our Payment Terms and paying such fees and charges as we may impose.
The results of the PURE methodology rely entirely upon the input of its Users and the views they come to in using the Services. As a User of the Service you accept that the views of the Users using the Service are their views alone. You accept that neither Beck & Co, nor any employee, officer, contractor or agent of Beck & Co, endorses or shares such views, and that the results of the Services of courses of action developed in the course of using the PURE methodology do not constitute advice that is advocated by Beck & Co. Similarly, Content Posted by Users is not Content Posted by Beck & Co nor any employee, officer, contractor or agent of Beck & Co.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute or at law or in equity are now expressly excluded and no representations, warranties or terms of any kind are made in respect of the Service or its content, including, without limitation, warranties of satisfactory quality, or to description or fitness for any particular purpose.
Neither we nor any of our data providers or affiliates gives any warranty or guarantee: (a) relating to the availability of the Service; or (b) that the Service and/or our operation of it, the content or the server that makes the Service available, are error or virus free or free of other harmful components; or (c) that your use of the Service and / or the Website will be uninterrupted.
Unless and to the extent only that the following exclusions are incapable of exclusion by applicable law, the Service and all its features are used by you at your risk and are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any guarantees, warranties, representations, terms or conditions of any kind (whether express or implied by legislation or operation of law).
To the fullest extent permitted by law:
Despite the preceding provisions of this section:
You agree to reimburse each Beck & Co Party in full for the amount of any and all claims, proceedings, actions, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses suffered or incurred by such Beck & Co Party, in each case as a result of or in connection with: (a) your use of, or conduct on, the Service; (b) any breach of any of your obligations, warranties, representations or undertakings under the Terms of Use; (c) any improper or illegal use of your Account by any person(s); and/or (d) your posting, sharing, storage and/or transmission of any Content.
You acknowledge that we are the owner or the licensee of all of the intellectual property rights contained within the Service and, with the exception of the Content Posted by our Users, all of the content on it and data associated with it (including all text, trade marks, data, graphics, layout, logos, images, music or other audio material, clips, films or other moving images, algorithms, product details and/or software published or otherwise available on the Service from time to time). We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence under our intellectual property rights to the minimum extent necessary in order for you to use the Service in the form provided to you for the sole purpose of accessing and use the Service in accordance with these Terms of Use. Such licence shall terminate immediately upon cancellation or termination of your Account for any reason.
If you wish to use the Content posted by other Users, before you use it in any way you must first obtain their written consent to use their Content and explaining why.
Except as set out in the limited licence above (or as may be required under any applicable law), no part of this Website may be used, reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, accessed, linked to, modified, or otherwise exploited, in full or in part, for any purpose without our prior written consent. In particular, you are not permitted to republish (or frame) any part of this Website on any other website, in any other medium without our prior written permission. All the intellectual property rights referred to above remain owned by us or by our licensors.
Parts of the Website and/or the Service may contain links to third party websites. We are not responsible for, nor do we endorse such third party websites or their content. If you access any third party websites linked from the Website or Service you do so at your own risk.
If whilst using the Service you believe that any Content breaches the Terms of Use and you wish to have it removed you may notify us in the manner provided below. You agree that a minimum of two week’s notice is a reasonable amount of time to provide Beck & Co within which to remove Content which we agree breaches the Terms of Use and should be removed. Your notice will be in writing, to either: info@beckandco.co.uk or by post to: Website Administrator, BECK AND CO CONSULTANTS LIMITED, 6 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham TW1 4RU, and it should state clearly and concisely the precise nature of your concern.
If you believe any Content on the Website infringes your copyright, you should email us at info@beckandco.co.uk or notify us by post to: Website Administrator, BECK AND CO CONSULTANTS LIMITED, 6 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham TW1 4RU. You agree that a minimum of two weeks’ notice is a reasonable amount of time to provide Beck & Co within which to remove infringing Content. Takedown notices will be dealt with in accordance with such takedown policies and procedures as we may from time to time adopt for such purpose and make available on the Website.
If the whole or any part of any provision of these Terms of Use is or becomes invalid, void or unenforceable for any reason the same shall to the extent required be severed from these Terms of Use and rendered ineffective so far as is possible without modifying the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any of the other provisions.
No waiver by us of any breach of these Terms of Use shall constitute a waiver of any other prior or subsequent breach and we shall not be affected by any delay, failure or omission to enforce or express forbearance granted in respect of any of your obligations.
We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations that we have to you that is caused by any event, act, omission or circumstance beyond our reasonable control (“Force Majeure Event”).
You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise dispose of any of your rights under these Terms of Use. Without limiting the foregoing, this legal agreement is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assignees. You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of this legal agreement (or any of your rights or obligations under it) without our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of any our rights or obligations under this legal agreement
These Terms of Use (including all provisions incorporated by reference in these Terms of Use) contain the entire agreement, and supersede any previous agreement (whether oral or written), between Beck & Co and you in relation to the subject matter of these Terms of Use. You acknowledge that you are not relying on any warranty, representation or other assurance except as expressly set out or referred to in these Terms of Use.
These Terms of Use are not intended to confer, and do not confer, any rights or remedies on any person other than the parties to these Terms of Use, except that any Beck & Co Party may enforce any right or remedy expressly conferred on such Beck & Co Party under these Terms of Use.
Applicable laws may require that some of the information or communications that we send to you should be in writing. By registering as a registered User you accept that communication between you and us will be mainly electronic. We shall contact you by email to the email address provided by you when you register your Account or provide you with information by posting notices on the Website. You agree to this means of communication complies with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
These Terms of Use and any related dispute or claim (contractual or non-contractual) shall be governed by, and interpreted in accordance with, English law and subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. We reserve the right to bring any action(s) in any other court(s) of competent jurisdiction.
The United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods is specifically excluded from application to this legal agreement between us.