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Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions of Co-operative Press Ltd (www.thenews.coop)

Last updated 22nd April 2005

This statement is the terms and conditions for use of the Co-operative News website, www.thenews.coop, which you may access in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web, digital television, PDA and RSS feeds

These terms and conditions apply whenever you access the network, on whatever device. In these terms and conditions, when we say Website, we mean www.thenews.coop, and Newspaper is the Co-operative News.

Registration

In order to fully use the Co-operative News website you are obliged to provide accurate and complete registration information. It is your responsibility to update and maintain any changes to that information (including your e-mail address) by altering your details as appropriate.

Registration is for a single user only. On registration, where required you must choose a user name and password. We do not allow any of the following:

any other person sharing your user name and password or pin number;
access through a single user name and password or pin number being made available to multiple users on a network.

We will not be liable for any unauthorised transactions made using your user name, pin number or password. When you register to use the website, you will be obliged to click on an icon indicating that you have read, understood and accepted these Terms and Conditions. You will not be allowed to register unless you indicate your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions and any other terms and conditions that may apply.

Jurisdiction

It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of the Website is not contrary to the laws of your country of residence.

Cancellation Rights

If you subscribe to any service on the Website you will not be entitled to cancel the subscription pursuant to the Consumer Protection Distance Selling Regulations 2000. Where you purchase any electronic content via the Website, you will also not be entitled to cancel that purchase pursuant to the Consumer Protection Distance Selling Regulations 2000 as the content cannot be returned once sent. If you purchase any other service from the Website, you will not be entitled to cancel that service once you have started to receive the service.

If you have subscribed to a Website, or any service offered by the Co-operative Press Ltd via the Website, no refunds will be payable on any subscription payments arising out of your cancellation of the subscription. Your cancellation rights in respect to any goods or services offered by a third party will be subject to the terms and conditions of that third party.

Payment

Where any goods or services offered via the Website requires payment:

It is your responsibility to ensure that your Electronic Device has the necessary technical specification to receive or use any content purchased from the Website.

All amounts payable must be paid in full in pounds sterling (unless otherwise indicated) without any deductions or set offs

If any payment is not paid on time, your payment is rejected or refused (including if you do not have sufficient credit in your prepaid mobile phone account) or you default in payment, the amount owing will be treated as overdue and we will be entitled immediately to cease or suspend the provision of the relevant service to you until payment has been received, or your credit topped up.

You must be the bill payer of the particular method of payment that you use to pay for any service, or alternatively you must get the prior permission of the bill payer. You are also responsible for any charges charged by a mobile phone network operator or internet operator. These charges may not be in addition to the price of the service. Those additional charges are outside our control, and we will not be responsible for refunding them to you.

E-mail Policy

We reserve the right to take such action as we in our sole discretion deem fit in respect of any electronic mail ("e-mail") which contains threatening, abusive, malicious, pornographic, obscene, defamatory or otherwise illegal or inappropriate material. Unless you indicate to the contrary, all e-mails received by us from you are deemed to have been submitted, where appropriate, for publication, free of charge. If we decide to publish an e-mail from you on the Website or in any the Newspaper we will incur no liability to you by doing so. We will not disclose any personal information under any circumstances of any of our staff. Where appropriate we will endeavour to respond to e-mails within 3 working days of receipt, but give no warranty that we will respond to any e-mail sent to us.

Our Liability

You agree that we have no control over third party content and information which can be accessed using the Website and that we do not examine or edit the use to which you or others put the Website or the nature of the content or information being accessed and that we are excluded from all liability of any kind arising from such third party content or information. This applies to advertisements as well as website offering goods or service.

Except for death or personal injury caused by negligent acts or omissions, we shall only be liable to you for any loss or damage arising from your use of the Website, which is a reasonably foreseeable consequence of a breach by us of these Terms and Conditions. We will also not be liable to you for any damages in excess of £40, or if higher, the amount of any fees you have paid us for access to the Website. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by us or our employees or agents in circumstances where:

(i) we are not at fault for the errors or inaccuracies; or

(ii) the loss or damage is not foreseeable to both of us at the time of your initial acceptance of these Terms and Conditions; or

(iii) the loss or damage is a business loss or the losses were caused in the course of business, including losses relating to lost data, lost profits or business interruption.

We cannot and do not accept any responsibility for the computer equipment and telephone services which you use to access the Website, or for the security of the same. You will be responsible for the security of your own computer system, and the transfer of any information from your computer system. We also cannot and do not accept responsibility for the loss or corruption of any material in transit, or the loss of or corruption of any material when downloaded onto any computer systems.

Where we are liable to you for any loss or damages, we will not be liable for any increase in loss or damage resulting from a breach by you of any term of these Terms and Conditions.

We reserve the right to remove any information/material we deem to be in breach of any of these Terms and Conditions without notice, and without prejudice to any other accrued rights, and/or to make available such information/material when required to do so by law or when requested to do so by regulatory bodies or law enforcement organisations.

Any goods or services purchased or obtained or offered to you through use of the Website, whether accessed directly or otherwise, are provided subject to the terms and conditions of the supplier of those goods or services. As such, unless otherwise stated, we make no warranty whatsoever in relation to those goods or services. We provide the Website on an "as is" basis and make no representations or warranties of any kind as to the Website or the content. We make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the content published on the Website. Any liability, however it occurs, for any such inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us and any of our officers, employees and agents harmless from and against all and any expenses, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses incurred or suffered and any claims or legal proceedings which are brought or threatened, in each case arising from your use of, or conduct on, the Website and/or a breach of the Privacy Policy and/or any of these Terms and Conditions.

Software and Security

We are not responsible for any technical or other issues that may arise if you download software from an external third party website (eg Acrobat Reader) or upgrade your browser software to enhance your usage of the Website.

Changes to These Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to make changes to any part of the Website. Due to our policy of updating and improving the Website, it may therefore be necessary to change these Terms and Conditions. If we do change the terms of these Terms and Conditions, we will update the date at the top of this page.

If you use any of the Website after we have published such changes, you will be agreeing to be bound by those changes. If you do not agree to be bound by them, you should not use the Website.

Use of material appearing on www.thenews.coop

For the purposes of this agreement, "material" means material including, without limitation, text, video, graphics and sound material, published on the Co-operative News website, whether copyright of Co-operative Press Ltd or a third party.

You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to download or print the material, or extracts from it, in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on Co-operative News.

You must not reproduce any part of Co-operative News or the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate any part of the material in any other form, unless we have indicated that you may do so.

Advertising and Sponsorship

This Website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Website complies with applicable laws, codes and regulations. We exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law any responsibility for any error or inaccuracy appearing in any advertising or sponsorship material.

Competitions, Prize Draw, and Chargeable Content

We may from time to time run competitions, free prize draws and/or other promotions on the Website and may offer content the access to and use of which, incurs a charge. These will be subject to additional terms and conditions that will be made known to you at the relevant time.

Delivery Policy

On subscription to the Co-operative News and full authorisation/clearance of a credit card, cheque or postal order payment we will dispatch the next edition of the Co-operative News to you when it is published. You will receive your first edition within three weeks, but is normally sooner depending on the date that you ordered.

E-commerce

Your dealings with any third parties, in particular advertisers and/or merchants, via the Website, and any terms or conditions agreed with, or representations given by, such third parties, are solely between you and such third party. You agree that we are not liable for such dealings, and that you will be liable for any costs or damages that we incur, as set out in clause 9 above in relation to such dealings.

Termination

We may terminate the provision of any of the Website or restrict your access to them without any prior notice to you where (by way of example and without limitation):

there is a regulatory or statutory change limiting our ability to provide a Website;
any event beyond our reasonable control prevents us from continuing to provide a Website (for example, without limitation, technical difficulties, capacity problems and communications failures); or
we consider in our reasonable discretion that you are abusing the services provided by a Website or are otherwise acting in breach of these Terms and Conditions and we have notified you of the abuse or breach.

Choice of Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and you irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with, these Terms and Conditions. We shall retain the right to bring proceedings as to the substance of the matter in any court or courts including, if appropriate, in the courts of your country of residence or, where these Terms and Conditions are entered into in the course of your trade or profession, the country of your principal place of business.