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Terms of Service

Last updated: 3rd October 2022

Definitions

Parties

"You" and "Your" refer to you, as a User or Third Party of the Site. A "User" is an individual who accesses, browses, crawls, scrapes, or in any way uses the Site. A "Third Party" is an individual and/or organisation who accesses, browses, crawls, scrapes, or in any way uses the Site. "We", "Us", and "Our" refer to Circuland Ltd.

Site

Unless otherwise specified, the terms "Site", "Website" refer to the pages hosted by Circuland Ltd at www.circuland.co.uk and subdomains, and "Circuland" refers to the infrastructure of the Site, the services provided by Circuland Ltd, primarily through the Site, and the Circuland brand.

Content

"Content" means text, images, photos, audio, video, location data, and all other forms of data or communication.

"Your Content" means Content that You submit or transmit to, through, or in connection with the Site, such as Material Passport information, messages, and information that you publicly display or displayed in your account profile.

"User Content" means Content that users submit or transmit to, through, or in connection with the Site.

"Circuland Content" means Content that we create and make available in connection with the Site.

"Third Party Content" means Content that originates from parties other than Circuland Ltd or its users, which is made available in connection with the Site.

"Site Content" means all of the Content that is made available in connection with the Site, including Your Content, User Content, Third Party Content, and Circuland Content.

Terms of Use

Circuland is owned and operated by Circuland Ltd, registered in England and Wales with company number 14353001. Please address all correspondence to:

Circuland Ltd
71-75 Shelton Street,
Covent Garden,
London,
United Kingdom,
WC2H 9JQ

By using this site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, which fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of English courts in the case of any dispute.

We collect anonymous data relating to how you use the site, for example which pages you visit, how long you look at them and details of what browser you are using. We cannot trace any personal information through this tracking, which is covered by our Privacy Policy.

You agree that in your use of this site:

  • any information you provide on this site is accurate and reliable to the best of your knowledge (this includes all personal information, contact details and information related to Material Passports);
  • you will not use Circuland to distribute any illegal, obscene or otherwise harmful material;
  • you will not do anything to interfere with other users' access to the site;
  • you will not copy material from the Website and/or Webapp without our permission.

Risk and Information Quality

Circuland Ltd. provides no absolute guarantees of the accuracy of any information supplied on this Website and/or Webapp. Material supplied on this site, including content on our social media accounts, does not constitute legal advice and is supplied for the purposes of information only.

Prohibited Activities

The content and information on this Site (including, but not limited to, messages, data, information, text, photos, graphics, maps, icons, software, code or other material), as well as the infrastructure used to provide such content and information, is proprietary to us. By using the Website and/or Webapp you agree not to otherwise modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell or re-sell any information, software, products, or services obtained from or through the Website and/or Webapp. Additionally, you agree not to:

  • access, monitor or copy any content or information of the Circuland Website and/or Webapp using any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose without our express written permission;
  • violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on the Circuland Website and/or Webapp or bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to this Website;
  • take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
  • deep-link to any portion of this Website for any purpose without our express written permission; or
  • "frame", "mirror" or otherwise incorporate any part of this Website into any other website without our prior written authorisation.
  • attempt to modify, translate, adapt, edit, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software programs used by Circuland in connection with the Website or the services we provide.

Copyright and Trademark Notices

All contents of this Website are: © 2022 Circuland Ltd. All rights reserved. Circuland is not responsible for content on websites operated by parties other than Circuland. Circuland is a registered and/or common law trademark of Circuland Ltd and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Circuland. The look and feel of the Site, including all page headers, custom graphics, button icons and scripts, is the service mark, trademark and/or trade dress of Circuland and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Circuland. All trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned in the Site are the property of their respective owners, and who by using the site provide permission for Circuland to use their name and logo. Reference to any products, services, processes, or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof by Circuland.

Notice and Take-Down Policy for Illegal Content

Circuland operates on a "notice and takedown" basis. If you have any complaints or objections to material or content posted on the Circuland Website and/or Webapp, or if you believe that material or content posted on the Circuland Website and/or Webapp infringes a copyright that you hold, please contact us immediately. We will make all reasonable endeavours to remove illegal content within a reasonable time.

Modifications

We may change, add or delete these Terms and Conditions or any portion thereof from time to time at our sole discretion for legal, general regulatory and technical purposes, or due to changes in the services provided or nature or layout of the Circuland Website and/or Webapp. Thereafter, you expressly agree to be bound by any such amended Terms and Conditions.

We may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Circuland service at any time, including availability of any feature, database or content. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to all or parts of the Circuland Website and/or Webapp or any other Circuland Ltd website without notice or liability for technical or security reasons, to prevent against unauthorised access, loss of, or destruction of data or where we consider in our sole discretion that you are in breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions or of any law or regulation and where it decides to discontinue providing a service. Your continued use of Circuland now, or following the posting of any such notice of any changes, will indicate your acceptance of such modifications.

Indemnity

By using the site, you agree to defend and indemnify Circuland Ltd and its affiliates and any of their officers, directors, employees from and against any claims, causes of action, demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties or other costs or expenses of any kind or nature including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by third parties as a result of:

  • Your breach of this Agreement or the documents referenced herein;
  • Your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or
  • Your use of the Circuland Website and/or Webapp.

Privacy Policy

We believe in protecting your privacy. Any personal information you post on the Site will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

User-generated Content

Please be aware that by submitting content to this Website by electronic mail, postings on this Website or otherwise, including any questions, comments, reports of Material Passports, suggestions, ideas or the like contained in any submissions (collectively, "Submissions"), you grant Circuland Ltd and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to (a) use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Submissions throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised; and (b) use the name that you submit in connection with such Submission. You acknowledge that Circuland may choose to provide attribution of your comments or reviews at our discretion. You further grant Circuland the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or Circuland's rights in the Submissions by a breach of this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that Submissions are non-confidential and nonproprietary.

You expressly agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create or otherwise publish through the Site any of the following:

  • Content that impersonates any person, entity or organisation or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity, including Circuland;
  • Any message, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, code or any other material that is false, unlawful, misleading, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing or advocates harassment of another person, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable;
  • Content that is patently offensive, such as content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  • Content that would constitute, encourage, promote or provide instructions for a conduct of an illegal activity, criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, violate the rights of any party in any country in the world;
  • Content that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party;
  • Unsolicited promotions, mass mailings or "spamming", transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters", political campaigning, advertising, contests, raffles, or solicitations;
  • Content containing commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
  • Content that provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
  • Private information of any third party, including, without limitation, surname (family name), addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, national insurance numbers and credit card numbers;
  • Contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images;
  • Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files;
  • Content that is unrelated to the topic of the property address for which a review is added; or
  • Content or links to content that, in the sole judgment of Us, (a) violates the previous subsections herein, (b) is objectionable, (c) which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Site, or (d) which may expose Us or Our affiliates or users to any harm or liability of any type.

Circuland Ltd takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Content posted, stored or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor are We liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography or profanity you may encounter. As a provider of interactive services, We are not liable for any statements, representations or Content provided by its users in any public forum, personal home page or other Interactive Area. Although We have no obligation to screen, edit or monitor any of the Content posted to or distributed through any Interactive Area, We reserve the right, and have absolute discretion, to remove, screen or edit without notice any Content posted or stored on the Site at any time and for any reason, and you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any Content you post or store on the Site at your sole cost and expense.

If it is determined that you retain moral rights (including rights of attribution or integrity) in the Content, you hereby declare that (a) you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the Content, or any derivative works of or upgrades or updates thereto; (b) you have no objection to the publication, use, modification, deletion and exploitation of the Content by Circuland or its licensees, successors and assigns; (c) you forever waive and agree not to claim or assert any entitlement to any and all moral rights of an author in any of the Content; and (d) you forever release Circuland, and its licensees, successors and assigns, from any claims that you could otherwise assert against Circuland by virtue of any such moral rights.

Liability Disclaimer

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR ERRORS. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OF, AND DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OTHER INACCURACIES RELATING TO THE INFORMATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE MATERIAL PASSPORTS DISPLAYED ON THIS WEBSITE AND/OR CIRCULAND WEBAPP.

CIRCULAND LTD MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE/WEBAPP (SITE CONTENT) OR ANY PORTION THEREOF FOR ANY PURPOSE, AND THE INCLUSION OR OFFERING OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ON THIS WEBSITE/WEBAPP DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ANY ENDORSEMENT OR RECOMMENDATION OF SUCH PRODUCTS OR SERVICES BY CIRCULAND LTD. ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

CIRCULAND LTD DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS THAT THIS WEBSITE, ITS SERVERS OR ANY EMAIL SENT FROM THE CIRCULAND LTD, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW CIRCULAND HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

CIRCULAND ALSO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION AS TO THE ACCURACY OR PROPRIETARY CHARACTER OF THE SITE CONTENT. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT CIRCULAND'S LIABILITY FOR (I) DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE; (II) FRAUD; OR (III) WILFUL DEFAULT OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE (IV) ANY OTHER LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, YOU USE THE SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND IN NO EVENT SHALL CIRCULAND LTD (ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND AFFILIATES) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES OR DAMAGES OR 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 OF ANY TYPE ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, YOUR ACCESS TO, DISPLAY OF OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO ACCESS, DISPLAY OR USE THIS WEBSITE AND/OR WEBAPP WHETHER BASED ON A THEORY OF NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF CIRCULAND LTD HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND FOREGOING LIABILITY DISCLAIMER, DO NOT AFFECT MANDATORY LEGAL RIGHTS THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

The limitation of liability reflects the allocation of risk between the parties. The limitations specified in this section will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in these terms is found to have failed of its essential purpose. The limitations of liability provided in these terms inure to the benefit of Circuland Ltd.