1. Definitions and Interpretation

1.1 In these Terms and Conditions, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:

  • Account: means an account required for a User to access certain areas of Our Site, as detailed in Clause 4;
  • Our Site: means this website, www.tillpoint.com and a reference to “Our Site” includes reference to any and all content included therein (including the content of Users’ Blogs, Posts, and Comments, unless expressly stated otherwise);
  • Blog: means a blog hosted on Our Site, created by a User, containing Post(s) submitted by that User;
  • Comment: means a comment on a Blog or Post on Our Site made by a User;
  • Post: means a post created by a User in a Blog on Our Site;
  • User: means a user of Our Site; and
  • We/Us/Our: means Tillpoint Enterprise Ltd, a company registered in England under 7959651, whose registered address is 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 7BA and whose main trading address is 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 0NB.

2. Information About Us

2.1 Our Site, www.tillpoint.com, is owned and operated by Tillpoint Enterprise Ltd, a limited company registered in England under 7959651, whose registered address is 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 0NB and whose main trading address is 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 0NB. Our VAT number is 242537417.

3. Access to Our Site

3.1 Access to Our Site is free of charge. No part of Our Site requires payment of any kind in order to access or use it. Certain parts of Our Site may require an Account to log in and post. Accounts are free of charge.

3.2 It is your responsibility to make any and all arrangements necessary in order to access Our Site.

3.3 Access to Our Site is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis. We may alter, suspend or discontinue Our Site (or any part of it) at any time and without notice. We will not be liable to you in any way if Our Site (or any part of it) is unavailable at any time and for any period.

4. Accounts

4.1 Certain parts of Our Site (including the ability to create Blogs and Posts) may require an Account in order to access them.

4.2 You may not create an Account if you are 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age and wish to use the parts of Our Site that require an Account, your parent or guardian should create the Account for you and you must only use the Account with their supervision.

4.3 When creating an Account, the information you provide must be accurate and complete. If any of your information changes at a later date, it is your responsibility to ensure that your Account is kept up-to-date.

4.4 We recommend that you choose a strong password for your Account, consisting of a combination of upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols. It is your responsibility to keep your password safe. You must not share your Account with anyone else. If you believe your Account is being used without your permission, please contact Us immediately. We will not be liable for any unauthorised use of your Account.

4.5 You must not use anyone else’s Account without the express permission of the User to whom the Account belongs.

4.6 Any personal information provided in your Account will be collected, used, and held in accordance with your rights and Our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998, as set out in Clause 16.

4.7 If you wish to close and delete your Account, you may do so at any time. Deleting your Account will result in the removal of your information. Deleting your Account will also remove access to any areas of Our Site requiring an Account for access.

4.8 If you close and delete your Account, any Blogs or Posts you have created on Our Site will be deleted. Any Comments you have made on other Users’ Blogs or Posts will be anonymised by removing your username.

5. Intellectual Property Rights

5.1 Subject to the licence granted to Us under sub-Clause 6.4, Users retain the ownership of copyright and other intellectual property rights subsisting in the content of their Blogs, Posts and Comments (unless any part of that content is owned by a third party who has given their express permission for their material to be used). All other content included on Our Site (including all user-facing material, and all underlying content such as code, software and databases) and the copyright and other intellectual property rights subsisting in that content, unless specifically labelled otherwise, belongs to or has been licensed by Us. All content is protected by applicable United Kingdom and international intellectual property laws and treaties.

5.2 For personal use (including research and private study) only, you may:

5.2.1 Access, view and use Our Site in a web browser (including any web browsing capability built into other types of software or app);

5.2.2 Download Our Site (or any part of it) for caching;

5.2.3 Print pages from Our Site;

5.2.4 Download, copy, clip, print, or otherwise save extracts from pages on Our Site;

5.2.5 Not modify in any way content that is copyrighted or use content from our site that may breach copyright laws or breach the rights of its respectful owners;

5.2.6 Save pages from Our Site for later and/or offline viewing; and

5.2.7 View and use other Users’ Blogs, Posts and Comments in accordance with Clause 7.

5.3 You may not use any content downloaded, copied, clipped, printed or otherwise saved from Our Site for commercial purposes without first obtaining a licence to do so from Us, our licensors, or from the relevant User, as appropriate. This does not prohibit the normal access, viewing and use of Our Site for general information purposes whether by business users or consumers.

5.4 You may not systematically copy content from Our Site with a view to creating or compiling any form of comprehensive collection, compilation, directory, or database unless given Our express permission to do so.

5.5 Subject to sub-Clauses 5.2 and 5.7 and Clause 7 (governing Blogs, Posts, and Comments) you may not otherwise reproduce, copy, distribute, sell, rent, sub-licence, store, or in any other manner re-use content or any other material from Our Site unless given express written permission to do so.

5.6 Our status as the owner and author of the content on Our Site (or that of identified licensors or Users, as appropriate) must always be acknowledged.

5.7 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limits or excludes the provisions of Chapter III of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ‘Acts Permitted in Relation to Copyright Works’, covering in particular the making of temporary copies; the making of personal copies for private use; research and private study; the making of copies for text and data analysis for non-commercial research; criticism, review, quotation and news reporting; caricature, parody or pastiche; and the incidental inclusion of copyright material.

6. Links to Our Site

6.1 You may link to Our Site provided that:

6.1.1 You do so in a fair and legal manner;

6.1.2 You do not do so in a manner that suggests any form of association, endorsement or approval on Our part where none exists;

6.1.3 You do not use any logos or trade marks displayed on Our Site without Our express written permission; and

6.1.4 You do not do so in a way that is calculated to damage Our reputation or to take unfair advantage of it.

6.2 You may not link to any page other than the homepage of Our Site, www.tillpoint.com. Deep linking to other pages requires Our express written permission.

6.3 Framing or embedding of Our Site on other websites is not permitted without Our express written permission.

6.4 You may not use any logos or trade marks displayed on Our Site to link to Our Site without Our express written permission. You may not use any meta tags or other hidden text that incorporates Our Site’s trade marks without Our express written permission.

6.5 You may not link to Our Site from any other site the main content of which contains material that:

6.5.1 Is sexually explicit;

6.5.2 Is obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful, or otherwise inflammatory;

6.5.3 Promotes violence;

6.5.4 Promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity;

6.5.5 Discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;

6.5.6 Is intended or is otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset, or embarrass another person;

6.5.7 Is calculated or is otherwise likely to deceive another person;

6.5.8 Is intended or is otherwise likely to infringe (or to threaten to infringe) another person’s privacy;

6.5.9 Misleadingly impersonates any person or otherwise misrepresents the identity or affiliation of a particular person in a way that is calculated to deceive (obvious parodies are not included in this definition provided that they do not fall within any of the other provisions of this sub-Clause 6.5);

6.5.10 Implies any form of affiliation with Us where none exists;

6.5.11 Infringes, or assists in the infringement of, the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright, trademarks and database rights) of any other party; or

6.5.12 Is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence.

6.6 The content of your linking site must not contain any material that:

6.6.1 Is sexually explicit;

6.6.2 Is obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful or otherwise inflammatory;

6.6.3 Promotes violence;

6.6.4 Promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity;

6.6.5 Discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;

6.6.6 Is intended or is otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset, or embarrass another person;

6.6.7 Is calculated or is otherwise likely to deceive another person;

6.6.8 Is intended or is otherwise likely to infringe (or to threaten to infringe) another person’s privacy;

6.6.9 Misleadingly impersonates any person or otherwise misrepresents the identity or affiliation of a particular person in a way that is calculated to deceive (obvious parodies are not included in this definition provided that they do not fall within any of the other provisions of this sub-Clause 6.6);

6.6.10 Implies any form of affiliation with Us where none exists;

6.6.11 Infringes, or assists in the infringement of, the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright, trademarks and database rights) of any other party; or

6.6.12 Is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence.

6.7 We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your right to link to Our Site at any time and for any reason.

7. Blogs, Posts and Comments

7.1 We do not pre-moderate or monitor content posted by Users on Blogs, Posts or Comments. We do not endorse any opinions expressed by Users on Our Site. If you have any complaints about the content of any Blogs, Posts or Comments, please contact Us using the details provided in Clause 10.

7.2 We may delete, edit or take other appropriate action in relation to content posted by Users that We believe breaches these Terms and Conditions.

7.3 If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other Users, please contact Us using the details provided in Clause 10.

7.4 Blogs, Posts and Comments may not be used for any of the following purposes:

7.4.1 Disseminating any material that is or may be considered to be infringing, defamatory, offensive, obscene, or otherwise unlawful, or that is or may be considered to be in breach of any person’s intellectual property rights;

7.4.2 Disclosing any information relating to a third party in circumstances where that third party has not expressly consented to such disclosure;

7.4.3 Disclosing any personal information relating to another person, except to the extent that such person has expressly consented to such disclosure or where disclosure is necessary for the purposes of establishing, defending or exercising legal rights;

7.4.4 Uploading or disseminating any material that may damage or harm Our business or reputation, or that of any third party;

7.4.5 Using Blogs, Posts or Comments to promote any product, service, or other commercial interest;

7.4.6 Using Blogs, Posts or Comments to intentionally promote a business or commercial venture without Our express written permission; or

7.4.7 Uploading or disseminating any material that may, in Our sole discretion, upset other Users or that may restrict or inhibit the ability of other Users to use Our Site.

7.5 We may suspend or terminate your Account and/or restrict your access to all or any part of Our Site if We consider that you have breached these Terms and Conditions.

7.6 While We do not pre-moderate content, We reserve the right to monitor any and all content submitted to Our Site.

7.7 If you wish to delete a Blog or Post that you have created, you may do so at any time. Deleting a Blog or Post will remove it from public view and will anonymise any Comments made on that Blog or Post.

7.8 We will endeavour to publish all content submitted by Users, but We do not guarantee the publication of any content. We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the publication of any content on Our Site.