Gower News: Website Terms of Use

General Information

These Terms govern your use of the GOWER NEWS [GOWERNEWS.CO.UK] website, and your relationship with Gower News (known herein as ‘GowerNews.co.uk’). Please read them carefully as they affect your rights and liabilities under the law. If you do not agree to these Terms, then please do not use the GowerNews.co.uk website.

The GowerNews.co.uk Website is provided to you free of charge for your personal use, subject to these Terms.

By using the GowerNews.co.uk website you agree to be bound by these Terms.

The GowerNews.co.uk Website is owned and operated by the Editor: Ian Ambrose.

These Terms and Conditions including without limit paragraph 4 (GowerNews.co.uk Liabilities) do not affect your statutory rights.

Warning! You are strongly advised to take all reasonable precautions when participating in leisure activities, including checking tide times and weather forecasts. Under no circumstances should certain leisure (e.g. surfing) activities be undertaken without correct training and safety equipment. GowerNews.co.uk accepts no responsibility for any accident or injury that occurs as a result of any information published.

The information contained on this website has been published by GowerNews.co.uk in good faith, on the basis of information supplied.

GowerNews.co.uk cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, damage or inconvenience which may result from the use of the GowerNews.co.uk website or from information advertised by external sources.

GowerNews.co.uk makes every effort to ensure the businesses listed on the GowerNews.co.uk website are professionally qualified to carry on a particular trade, business or profession; GowerNews.co.uk bears no liability for supplying their details and you should check any information obtained from the third-party website before you act upon it.

1. Intellectual Property

1.1. All content and programming of the GowerNews.co.uk website is the property of GowerNews.co.uk. You may retrieve and display the content of the GowerNews.co.uk website on a computer screen, store such content in electronic form on disk (but not any server or other storage device connected to a network) or print one copy of such content for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content on the GowerNews.co.uk website without written permission from GowerNews.co.uk

1.2. No licence is granted to you in these Terms to use any trade mark of GowerNews.co.uk

2. Availability of the GowerNews.co.uk Website

2.1. Although GowerNews.co.uk aims to offer you the best service possible, we make no promise that our website services will meet your requirements and we cannot guarantee that the service will be fault free. If a fault occurs in the service, please report it to us and we will correct the fault as soon as we reasonably can.

2.2. Your access to the GowerNews.co.uk website may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will restore the service as soon as we reasonably can.

3. GowerNews.co.uk Right to Cancellation

3.1. GowerNews.co.uk may suspend or cancel any user account, article or advertisement at our reasonable discretion or if you breach any of your obligations under these Terms.

3.2. You can cancel a free user account at any time by informing us by e-amil. If you do so, you must stop using GowerNews.co.uk services, including this website.

3.3. The suspension or cancellation of your registration shall not affect either party's rights or liabilities.

3.4. Any other provisions of these Terms applicable to the use of the GowerNews.co.uk website together with and including paragraph 4 shall survive cancellation.

4. GowerNews.co.uk Liabilities

4.1. The GowerNews.co.uk Website is provided by GowerNews.co.uk “as is” without any warranties or guarantees save those set out in these Terms.

4.2. Whilst GowerNews.co.uk tries to ensure that material included on the GowerNews.co.uk website is correct, reputable and of high quality, we cannot accept responsibility if, despite our endeavours, this is not the case. Without prejudice to your statutory rights, GowerNews.co.uk will not be responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of such information or for any technical problems you may experience with the GowerNews.co.uk Website. If GowerNews.co.uk is informed of any inaccuracies in the material on the website, we will attempt to correct the inaccuracies as soon as we reasonably can.

4.3. We disclaim all liabilities in connection with the following:

Technical problems including errors or interruptions of the GowerNews.co.uk Website but we will use reasonable endeavours to correct or avoid them
Incompatibility of the GowerNews.co.uk Website with any of your equipment, software or telecommunications links
Unsuitability, unreliability or inaccuracy of the GowerNews.co.uk Website but we will take reasonable care to ensure information there is accurate
Inadequacy of the GowerNews.co.uk website to meet your requirements

4.4. To the full extent allowed by applicable law, you agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for:

Any consequential or incidental or indirect damages
Loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business or wasted expenditure (whether direct, consequential, incidental or indirect)
Any other loss or damages, whatsoever that arise out of or are related to the GowerNews.co.uk website

4.5. We shall collect, process, store, and transfer your personal data in compliance with the relevant EU and UK data protection legislation and regulation. We shall have no liability to you for loss or damage to data except strictly as required by that legislation and regulation.

5. Third Party Websites

5.1 As a convenience to GowerNews.co.uk website users, the GowerNews.co.uk website may include links to other websites or material which are beyond its control. GowerNews.co.uk is not responsible for content on any website outside the GowerNews.co.uk Website, even if it is reached via the GowerNews.co.uk website.

6. Excluded Rights

6.1 It is your responsibility, at your cost, to obtain computer, internet connectivity, telecommunications or other necessary equipment or services to access the GowerNews.co.uk website.

7. International Use

7.1. GowerNews.co.uk makes no promise that materials on the GowerNews.co.uk website is appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United Kingdom, and accessing the GowerNews.co.uk website from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access this website from locations outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

8. Applicable Law

8.1. These Website Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England & Wales.

8.2. The English & Welsh courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under or in relation to these Terms.

9. Miscellaenous

9.1. You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights under these Terms.

9.2. If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect.

9.3. A person who is not a party to these Terms shall have no right under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of these Terms but this shall not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act.

10. Amendments

10.1 We may update these Terms from time to time and any changes will be notified to you via the contact details provided by you on registration or via a suitable announcement on the GowerNews.co.uk website. The changes will apply to the use of the GowerNews.co.uk Website after we have given notice. If you do not wish to accept the new Terms, you should not continue to use the GowerNews.co.uk website. If you continue to use the GowerNews.co.uk website after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the GowerNews.co.uk website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Terms.