1. Introduction
1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy policy.
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2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).
3. Copyright notice
3.1 Copyright (c) 2019 MedTec Consulting Ltd.3.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
4. Licence to use website
4.1 You may:(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;(c) print pages from our website;(d) stream audio and video files from our website; and(e) use our website services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.4.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.4.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.4.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;(c) show any material from our website in public;(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or(e) redistribute material from our website.4.6 Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.4.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
5. Acceptable use
5.1 You must not:(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;(e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or(g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is [true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading].
6. Registration and accounts
6.1 To be eligible for an account on our website under this Section 6, you must be resident or situated in the United Kingdom.6.2 You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.6.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.6.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.6.5 You must not use any other person's account to access the website, unless you have that person's express permission to do so.
7. User login details
7.1 If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.7.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 10; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person. 7.3 You must keep your password confidential.7.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.7.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
8. Cancellation and suspension of account
8.1 We may:(a) suspend your account;(b) cancel your account; and/or(c) edit your account details, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.8.2 You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the website.
9. Your content: licence9.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.9.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media on and in relation to this website and any successor website. 9.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.9.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2.9.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.9.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.9.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
10. Your content: rules
10.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.10.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).10.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:(a) be libellous or maliciously false;(b) be obscene or indecent;(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;(i) be blasphemous;(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;(p) constitute spam;(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.
11. Limited warranties
11.1 We do not warrant or represent:(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
12. Limitations and exclusions of liability
12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions: (a) are subject to Section 12.1; and(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.12.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
13. Breaches of these terms and conditions
13.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may: (a) send you one or more formal warnings;(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.13.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).
14. Variation
14.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.14.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.14.3 If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.
15. Assignment15.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 15.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
16. Severability
16.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.16.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
17. Third party rights
17.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.17.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
18. Entire agreement
18.1 Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
19. Law and jurisdiction
19.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.19.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
20. Statutory and regulatory disclosures
20.1 We are registered in Companies House; you can find the online version of the register at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house, and our registration number is 07764378.20.2 Our VAT number is GB 124116066.21. Our details21.1 This website is owned and operated by MedTec Consulting Ltd.21.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 07764378, and our registered office is at 6 Romangate, Middleton St George, Darlington DL2 1FG.21.3 Our principal place of business is at 6 Romangate, Middleton St George, Darlington DL2 1FG.21.4 You can contact us:(a) by post, to the postal address given above;(b) using our website contact form;(c) by telephone, after contacting us via the website contact form; or(d) by email, using the automatically generated email address produced after submission of our website contact form.
1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of MedTec Consulting Ltd’s website visitors and service users.1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of MedTec Consulting Ltd’s website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.1.3 We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of MedTec Consulting Ltd’s website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.1.4 In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to MedTec Consulting Ltd.
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2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com/free-legal-documents/privacy-policy).
3. How we use your personal data
3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out:(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;(b) in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;(c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and(d) the legal bases of the processing.3.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is Google Analytics. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.3.3 We may process your website user account data ("account data"). The account data may include your name and email address. The source of the account data is you or your employer. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.3.4 We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services ("publication data"). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.3.5 We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services ("enquiry data"). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.3.6 We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and/or services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The source of the transaction data is you and/or our payment services provider. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and/or services and keeping proper records of those transactions. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract; providing that, if you are not the person contracting with us, the legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.3.7 We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters ("notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors and service users.3.8 We may process your enquiry data. This data may include your name and email address. The source of this data is the website contact form. This data may be processed for replying to your enquiry. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely responding to your enquiry.3.9 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.3.10 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.3.11 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.3.12 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
4. Providing your personal data to others
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.4.2 Your personal data held in our website database will be stored on the servers of our hosting services providers identified at https://www.123-reg.co.uk/.4.3 We may disclose your name and email address to our suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for conducting MedTec Consulting Ltd’s business.4.4 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International transfers of your personal data
5.1 In this Section 5, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).5.2 The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the UK. The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws of each of this country. Transfers to the UK will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a copy of which you can obtain from https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-protection-eu_en. 5.3 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and deleting personal data
6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.6.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.6.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:(a) usage data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 month following the date of collection, and for a maximum period of 24 months following that date;(b) account data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 month following the date of closure of the relevant account, and for a maximum period of 24 months following that date;(c) publication data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 month following the date when the relevant publication ceases to be published on our website or through our services, and for a maximum period of 24 months following that date;(d) enquiry data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 month following the date of the enquiry, and for a maximum period of 24 months following that date;(e) transaction data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 month following the date of the transaction, and for a maximum period of 24 months following that date;(f) notification data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 month following the date that we are instructed to cease sending the notifications, and for a maximum period of 24 months following that date (providing that we will retain notification data insofar as necessary to fulfil any request you make to actively suppress notifications); and(g) names and email addresses will be retained for a minimum period of 1 month following web form submission, and for a maximum period of 24 months following web form submission.6.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Your rights
7.1 In this Section 7, we have listed the rights that you have under data protection law.7.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:(a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data;(b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;(c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data;(d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask use to restrict the processing of your personal data;(e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data;(f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and(h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.7.3 These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.7.4 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact details set out below.
8. About cookies
8.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.8.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.8.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
9. Cookies that we use
9.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:(a) authentication and status - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to determine if you are logged into the website (cookies used for this purpose are: Google Analytics);(b) personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you (cookies used for this purpose are: Google Analytics);(c) security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally (cookies used for this purpose are: Google Analytics);(d) advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you (cookies used for this purpose are: Google Analytics);(e) analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services (cookies used for this purpose are: Google Analytics); and(f) cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally (cookies used for this purpose are: Google Analytics).
10. Cookies used by our service providers
10.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.10.2 We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.10.3 We use https://www.123-reg.co.uk/ to host our website. This service uses cookies for operational purposes. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider at https://www.123-reg.co.uk/terms/privacy/.
11. Managing cookies
11.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome);(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).11.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.11.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
12. Amendments
12.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.12.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.12.3 We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email.
13. Our details
13.1 This website is owned and operated by MedTec Consulting Ltd.13.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 07764378, and our registered office is at 6 Romangate, Middleton St George, Darlington DL2 1FG.13.3 Our principal place of business is at 6 Romangate, Middleton St George, Darlington DL2 1FG.13.4 You can contact us:(a) by post, to the postal address given above;(b) using our website contact form;(c) by telephone, after contacting us via the website contact form; or(d) by email, using the automatically generated email address produced after submission of our website contact form.
14. Data protection officer
14.1 Our data protection officer's contact details are: Mr. David Smiles BEng (Hons), Managing Director.