Terms of Use (22/10/07)

These Terms of Use are intended to help users. They set out what is and is not legitimate use of this website. In part this is to facilitate access to and use of this website by bona fide users and in part to prevent such use being disrupted by others.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully and make sure that you understand them. If you have any queries about these Terms of Use, please contact the website owner.

These Terms of Use apply to all access to, and all use of, this website – www.richardpoynton.com

Please note that these Terms of Use apply in full and immediately on your first use of this website and to all subsequent uses of this website.

By using this website, you agree to be legally bound by and to comply in full with these Terms of Use.

If therefore you are unable or unwilling to comply in full with these Terms of Use and to agree to be legally bound by them please do not use this website.

Updates:

These Terms of Use will be updated periodically. The latest published update of these Terms of Use will be in force at any given time and will take immediate effect from the date of its posting on this website. This date will show in the title line to this Terms of Use page.

A brief guide to the paragraphs affected by the latest update will be provided at the end of this Updates sub-section, along with the date of the latest update.

NB: Users, particularly frequent users, are strongly advised to check for updates. Please ensure that you understand and agree to be legally bound to comply with the Terms of Use in force at any given time.

If you do not agree to be legally bound to comply in full with the Terms of Use in force at any given time. Please do not use this website, even if you have agreed to previous Terms of Use, which no longer apply.

[Latest Update/Affected Paragraphs: 22/10/07/Intellectual Property sub-section: Two new paragraphs about Usernames and Passwords.]

Governing Law & Jurisdiction:

These Terms of Use shall be governed and construed in accordance with English Law. The website owner and all users of this website irrevocably agree that the Courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any claim, dispute or difference concerning these Terms of Use.

Legitimate & Prohibited Use of This Website:

You agree to use this website legitimately, that is in connection with your general, specific, or other interest in the website owner’s work and professional services and/or in the information available to you on, or via this website.

You agree to use this website lawfully and for lawful purposes concerned with your interests in its content, links and/or services.

You agree that that prohibited use of this website includes, but is not restricted to:

• Interfering, or attempting to interfere with legitimate access to this website and/or with legitimate use of this website by others, including by the website owner and those authorised to maintain and/or to operate this website.
• Disrupting, or attempting to disrupt legitimate dialogue between the website owner and other website users.
• Taking, or attempting to take information from this website in breach of these Terms of Use and/or for any unlawful purpose.
• Gaining, or attempting to gain access to this website and/or to any of its restricted access areas and/or facilities, by providing false information.
• Placing, or attempting to place any offensive, obscene or other prohibited material on this website.
• Publishing, or attempting to publish without the prior written consent of the website owner, any material taken from this website, on another website and/or on, or in any other form or type of publication.
• Using any means to create and/or publish, or to attempt to create and/or to publish, any derivative or caricature of this website.
• Using any means to divert, or to attempt to divert, users wishing to use this website legitimately, to any alternative website, including to a derivative or caricature of this website.

Content & Copying

The content of this website belongs to the website owner and is subject to copyright.

Users are welcome to take one copy only for their personal, non-commercial use of any page, or part page, of this website.

If you require more than one copy, please contact the website owner before taking any further copies. The website owner will respond as soon as is practicable. Any delay in replying to a request for additional copies, does not constitute the website owner’s agreement to such copies being taken.

The website owner’s prior written agreement is required before any further duplication of any page, or part page of this website, including, but not restricted to, any duplication of a permitted single copy, or of any derivative of that permitted single copy.

Disclaimers:

The existence of this website in no way expresses or implies any warranties as to the continuing availability and/or availability at any given time of this website as a whole and/or of any page or part page of this website.

No warranty is expressed or implied that the content of this website is free of errors.

No warranty is given that the website and/or any electronic equipment involved in its operation are free from computer viruses and/or other malicious software.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website owner will not, be liable for:

• Any loss or damage arising in any way from the use of this website.
• Any loss or damage arising in any way from the unavailability for any reason, of all or part of this website, regardless of the duration of the unavailability.
• Any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, by computer viruses or other malicious software, emanating, or alleged to have emanated from this website.
• Any loss or damage arising in any way from the prohibited, or unlawful use of this website, be this prohibited, or unlawful use by the party alleging loss or damage and/or by any other party or parties.

The website owner will not be liable for any breach of applicable legislation caused by any user who is under 16 years of age providing her or his personal information without the required prior approval of a parent or guardian.

The website owner will not be liable for any breach of applicable legislation caused by a user under 16 years of age providing false personal information and/or false evidence of the prior approval of a parent or guardian to provide her or his personal information on this website.

The website owner is not responsible for the availability, content or efficacy of any external website which is accessible via this website.

The website owner will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of any external website which is accessible via this website, regardless of whether or not access to the external website at the time of the alleged loss or damage, was made via this website.

Intellectual Property:

The words: RICHARD POYNTON GUIDING BUSINESS SENSE WITH PLANET SENSE ® constitute a trade mark of the website owner.

This website, its content and its identifiers are subject to copyright.

No rights of any kind to these items of intellectual property are conferred to users of this website, including to those users who have access to the Members’ area and/or to any other restricted access areas of this website.

All Personal Usernames and/or Personal Passwords which enable access to the Members’ area and/or to any other restricted access areas of this website and, when used for this purpose, the particular combinations at any given time, of letters, numbers and other characters which comprise these Personal Usernames and Personal Passwords, are the property of the website owner.

Personal Usernames and Passwords are intended for the exclusive use of the person to whom they are allocated. As such, they are confidential and must not be disclosed to any third parties for any purpose in connection with this website. The website owner reserves the right, at any time and entirely at his discretion, to disable and/or to cancel his authority to use any Personal Username and/or Personal Password, e.g. if he believes that it has been abused, is being abused, or is likely to be abused.

NB: Please also read the Privacy Policy