Terms and Conditions and Policies for Users of this Website
1. Introduction
a. All visitors to and users of this website agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and by any later variation or amendments to these terms and conditions.
2. Information
a. Please remember that if you use this website you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and any passwords and should ensure you restrict access to your computer to prevent unauthorized access to your account. You should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else or if it may be being used in any unauthorized manner.
b. Please ensure that the details you give to us are complete and up to date and notify us of any changes to the information you provide to us.
c. We make every effort to ensure that our website is accurate and up to date. Please advise us as soon as possible in the event you notice any inaccuracies or other problems with the website.
d. Please ensure you check independently on any information before you rely on it. Whilst we use do our utmost to ensure information is correct at the time of posting on the site no representations are made by us that all information is accurate, up to date and complete and we shall not be liable in any way for any loss or damage arising from any inaccuracy in any information or information which is out of date. All information is provided free of charge.
e. We reserve the right to refuse access to the website, to terminate customer accounts, to remove or edit website content or to cancel any orders if necessary.
f. Handy Blue Pages reserves the right at all times to make any change to the contents of this site and the subsidiary sites and to these terms and conditions. All visitors and users to this site and the subsidiary sites accept full responsibility for ensuring that they are fully aware of the most up to date version of the relevant site contents and terms before relying in whole or in part upon the site contents or these terms.
3. Ownership, Copyright and Intellectual Property
a. All content made available for access on this site and the copyright in all written material, design, text and graphics made available upon or posted by this site is owned by or licensed to Handy Blue Pages.
b. All visual elements, screen layouts and material displayed on the Web Site belong to Handy Blue Pages unless otherwise specified e.g. reports or extracts from brochures/journals/articles or is copyright to our technology or content providers. All designs, artwork, photographs and copy shall remain the property of Handy Blue Pages or their relevant owner. We reserve the right to take whatever legal action may be necessary against any visitor or user of this site who is found to have infringed out rights to recover all consequential losses including but not limited to recovery of all associated costs.
c. Nothing contained within these conditions or elsewhere upon this site and the subsidiary sites grants or may be implied as granting any licence to any visitor or other person in respect of any material on this site or any intellectual property rights and copyright therein. No copying, publication, adaptation or other dealing with any copyright material on this site is permitted without the prior written agreement of the relevant copyright owner. The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in a civil claim for damages and/or criminal prosecution in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988!
d. In the event that a visitor user or other person is proved to have infringed any of these intellectual property rights, Handy Blue Pages reserves the right to take whatever legal action may be necessary in both the criminal and civil courts to recover all consequential loss and damage together with all costs associated with such recovery.
e. You may view, print or download the contents of the website for personal use but for no other purposes including but not limited to commercial use or re-publication.
f. No materials from or belonging to www.handybluepages.co.uk website or content within, may be changed, adapted, copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, uploaded, transmitted, posted, stored or distributed in any way. We wish to make it abundantly clear that it is expressly prohibited without limitation to use the service or its content for any purpose that is likely to bring the Company, www.handybluepages.co.uk or any of its directors, employees, sponsors, clients or associates into disrepute.
4. Disclaimer
a. Neither Handy Blue Pages nor any company or individual associated with it (including but not limited to its directors, shareholders and employees) shall be liable for any loss or damage incurred by any visitor to this site and the subsidiary sites whether arising from access to the site contents, use of any of the material contained upon those sites, temporary or permanent unavailability of the whole or any part of those sites, or otherwise. In particular it is the exclusive responsibility of visitors to this site and the subsidiary sites to satisfy themselves in every respect as to advertisers upon those sites and the quality and nature of any goods or services provided by such advertisers.
b. We have used all reasonable endeavours to ensure the accuracy of information on the website but provide no warranty or guarantee in respect of the information.
c. www.handybluepages.co.uk reserves the right, at its discretion, from time to time to make changes to the information provided on the www.handybluepages.co.uk website. You are therefore, advised to check the information provided to you on the www.handybluepages.co.uk website regularly. Any reliance that you place on the accuracy of that information is at your own risk; we do not under any circumstances guarantee the accuracy of any of the information or links provided on the site.
d. We will not be liable under any circumstances whatsoever for any consequential, direct, indirect punitive, or special damages arising from the use of the service or whilst being transferred to any other site via links of any kind.
e. All users and visitors accept full responsibility for accessing any links to other websites and we shall not be liable for any products, information, advice or practices of any third parties who may be linked to this Website.
f. www.handybluepages.co.uk expressly disclaims and shall not be liable for all or any warranties, expressed or implied by any advertiser featured or listed by www.handybluepages.co.uk relating to any products or services, including in particular, any warranties of satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose. Customers must check this directly with the relevant supplier.
g. Under no circumstances will www.handybluepages.co.uk or any of its directors, employees, agents, shareholders, direct associates, sponsors or any other party involved in the advertising, maintenance, distribution or sale of www.handybluepages.co.uk services be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential damages, or incidental damage, including but not limited to, loss of business, goodwill, profits, savings or anticipated savings or any other intangible losses whatsoever that result from any of the following:
i. Errors, omissions, mistakes, interruptions, deletion of e-mail or files, suspension, delays in operation transmission or service response time, termination, defects, viruses or any failure of performance with and in connection with www.handybluepages.co.uk including, without limitation those arising from communications failure, destruction due to unauthorised access of systems, programs and services, theft or acts of God.
ii. We can not guarantee that the www.handybluepages.co.uk website will be uninterrupted or completely error-free; furthermore we cannot ensure or guarantee in any way that the www.handybluepages.co.uk website is free from viruses, harmful components or any interference by unauthorised users or hackers. It is the sole responsibility of the visitor or site user to protect his or her own systems against such situations.
5. Submission of Material to this Site
a. No material may be submitted to or via this site which is in any way in breach of any legislation, regulations or which is inaccurate, obscene, threatening or offensive or in breach of any third party rights, or which is calculated or likely to interfere with the proper functioning of this or any associated sites. Any breach of this provision will render the party in breach liable to indemnify Handy Blue Pages in connection with all costs, claims, damages, fees (including but not limited to legal and professional fees) or other liabilities that it may suffer or incur as a result (whether directly or indirectly) of such breach and Handy Blue Pages reserves the right to take whatever legal action may be necessary in the circumstances.
6. Contacting Customer Services
a. If you wish to contact Us for any reason please write to:- Handy Blue Pages PO Box 46 Atherton Manchester M46 9XZ or you may telephone our Customer Services department on 0871 2180 422 between 10am and 4pm.
b. You may email us at enquiries@handybluebook.co.uk
c. For information and answers to frequently asked questions please click this link.
7. Privacy and Confidentiality
a. Handy Blue Pages is committed to protecting the privacy of all our users, customers and clients and the confidentiality of Customers and site visitors is a top priority at Handy Blue Pages and we endeavour to comply with all required aspects of the Data Protection Act 1984 and the new act of 1998. When a client/customer makes an order or sends us an enquiry for the placing of an advert we may ask for their name, telephone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses and company information along with information to enable us to fulfil their request and to help us manage and maintain their records. We are committed to protecting the privacy of users of and advertisers on our website, services and subscribers to any newsletters and to protecting the personal information which our subscribers provide to us.
b. We will never sell or share your personal information with third parties unrelated to it (other than with your prior agreement and at your request) and will only use the information we collect from advertisers, customers, clients and subscribers in the following ways i.e.
i. We may use your name, email, address and other information you supply to us to let you know about our services and special offers as we aim to ensure that we will continue to meet all our customers’ demands and satisfy your requirements and to help us to understand your needs and improve the relevance of the services we offer you.
ii. We may also use your contact details to let you know about any enhancements to our website or any subscription benefits to which you may be entitled. If you would rather not receive any information from us please email us at: info@handybluepages.co.uk
iii. If you wish to find out more about Data Protection and privacy go to www.dataprotection.gov.uk
c. We do not use “cookies” (i.e. messages given to a web browser by a web server which is stored in the browser in a text file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server this message is sent back. A cookies main objective is to identify users and to personalize their visit by customizing web pages for them e.g. by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to give your name, address etc and your interests).
d. Handy Blue Pages wish to be open and honest about what information is acquired from you, how the information is used and how Handy Blue Pages will fulfil our obligations to protect your privacy by storing your information safely and enabling you to check, update or remove your personal details by emailing you. Please read this information carefully. By using our site and services you will be agreeing that you are happy for Handy Blue Pages to gather and use your information in the ways stated below.
e. If you are happy for Handy Blue Pages to use personal information obtained to communicate with advertisers via email newsletters or other avenues to offer marketing information and other communications to assist in business related activities you will be asked if you wish to “opt in” to do this. If you later decide (having opted in) that you do not wish to have your information used for these purposes you may elect to opt-out from future communications by any of the following: - Notifying Handy Blue Pages in writing to the registered address: PO Box 46 Atherton Manchester M46 9XZ. Or by using the “unsubscribe link” by any e mail communication.
f. The Handy Blue Pages website contains links to other sites, but we cannot assume responsibility for any other site's content or information handling practices. We urge that you review each site's own privacy policy before entering into any transactions with them.
8. Public Information
a. The Handy Blue Pages website will contain some information that is already in the public domain and readily accessible to the public and such information submitted to the site for such public display cannot be classed as private. If we request any information which could be classed as private we will make sure that you are fully aware of this at the time of submission and you can advise us of any information you wish to give us which you wish to remain confidential.
b. Any advertisers who submit information to Handy Blue Pages by doing so give us total consent to use this information including the right to use copyright and intellectual property rights (and the right to publish, adapt, edit, translate, distribute and otherwise duplicate the information in whatever format we choose) and must agree to our terms and conditions for the placing of adverts.
9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
a. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. Any dispute arising hereunder shall fall exclusively within the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
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