This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the Website
under the domain name www.procurementlawyers.org (the "Website")
and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read
these terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website
indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these
terms, do not use the Website. The Website is owned and operated by
the Procurement Lawyers' Association ("PLA").
You can contact us via Kathy Thompson at Addleshaw
Goddard, 100 Barbirolli Square, Manchester M2 3AB, by telephone on
+44 (0)161 934 6384 or by sending an email to kathy.thompson@addleshawgoddard.com.
1. Intellectual
Property
1.1 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright
and other intellectual property rights in all material on the
Website (including without limitation text, logos, photographs and
graphical images) are owned by the PLA or its licensors. All rights
are reserved.
1.2 You are permitted to print and download
extracts from the Website for your own personal use, provided that
no documents or related graphics on the Website are modified in any
way. You may also copy materials on this Website to third
parties for a non-commercial purpose, provided that any such
copy is accurate and not misleading, is provided free of charge,
acknowledges the PLA as its source and prominently features both
this limited right to copy and the www.procurementlawyers.org web
address.
1.3 Save as expressly set out in this
notice, no part of the Website may be reproduced or stored in any
other website or included in any public or private electronic
retrieval system or service without the PLA's prior written
permission. Any commercial use of extracts from the Website
is prohibited without the prior written consent of PLA.
1.4 You may provide a link (but not a framed
link) to this Website from any other business information or
business service web site, but not (save with our prior written
agreement) in any way which creates the impression that we are
associated with or have approved such other site.
1.5 If you breach any of the terms in this
legal notice, your permission to use the Website automatically
terminates.
2. Disclaimer and
Liability
2.1 While the PLA endeavours to ensure that
the information on the Website is correct, the PLA does not warrant
the accuracy or completeness of the material on the Website. The
PLA may make changes to the material on the Website at any time
without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and
the PLA makes no commitment to update such material.
2.2 The material on the Website is provided
"as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any
kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the PLA
excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other
terms that can be excluded by law.
2.3 This Website contains general
information only. Nothing in these pages constitutes legal advice.
The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of
the authors and not necessarily those of the PLA.
2.4 Links to third party websites on the
Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use
these links, you leave the Website. The PLA has not reviewed
all of these third party websites and does not control and is not
responsible for these websites or their content or availability.
The PLA therefore does not endorse or make any representations
about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be
obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third
party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your
own risk.
2.5 The PLA does not accept any liability,
or responsibility for loss or damage incurred (whether in tort
(including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise)
in connection with the Website in any way, including without
limitation as a result of the use of or reliance upon the
information contained on this Website or any other information
accessed via this Website or via links on this Website to external
sites.
2.6 Nothing in this legal notice shall
exclude or limit the PLA's liability for death or personal injury
caused by negligence, fraud, misrepresentation as to a fundamental
matter; or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under
applicable law.
3. MEMBERSHIP
3.1 To enjoy the full benefits of the PLA,
you may join as a member. For a description of the benefits
of membership and details of how to join, please consult our
Membership page.
3.2 The fees for joining as a member will be
at our currently listed price and is payable in advance
("Membership Fee"). Membership is for a minimum 12
month period, with an option to renew for further 12 month
periods. Membership Fees are non-refundable.
3.3 We may cancel your membership at any
time if you do not pay your Membership Fee. You may cancel
your membership at any time by contacting us. We reserve the
right to refuse membership.
4. Privacy
4.1 Any personal information you submit
through the Website or by correspondence to the PLA is covered by
the Data Protection Act 1998 and will be kept in accordance with
this Act. For the purposes of the Act, the PLA is the Data
Controller. The PLA shall only use the data submitted by you
to respond to your comments or enquiries. The PLA does not
share email addresses or other contact details with any other
organisations without your consent.
4.2 We may collect and process the following
data about you:
4.2.1 Information that you provide by
filling in forms on our Website;
4.2.2 If you contact us, we may keep a
record of that correspondence;
4.2.3 Information which you supply in the
course of registering for membership of the PLA;
4.2.4 We may also ask you to complete
surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have
to respond to them; and
4.2.5 Details of your visits to our Website
including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs
and other communication data, whether this is required for our own
billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you
access.
4.3 We use information held about you in the
following ways:
4.3.1 To ensure that content from our
Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for
your computer;
4.3.2 To provide you with information,
products or services that you request from us or which we feel may
interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such
purposes;
4.3.3 To carry out our obligations arising
from any contracts entered into between you and us;
4.3.4 To allow you to participate in
interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
and
4.3.5 To notify you about changes to our
service
4.4 If you do not want us to use your data
in this way, please contact us.
4.5 We may employ cookie technology (small
text files websites can use to recognise repeat users and
facilitate users' ongoing access to and preferences within a
website -they pose no threat to users' files, nor do they contain
personal information) to allow users to move more quickly through
our Website. We do not and will not use cookies or any other
technology to track or report on user activity when users are not
on our Website, nor will we pass user data to other websites.
4.6 Users should be aware that we cannot
control the use of cookies by third parties hosting data for us.
However, users who do not want information to be collected through
the use of cookies can access the option, available in most
browsers, to accept or reject the cookie feature. Note that cookies
may be necessary to provide the user with access to certain parts
of our Website or to certain features (for example, customised
delivery of information) available on our Website.
4.7 To control your cookies:
4.7.1 In Netscape: on your task bar click
Edit, then Preferences then Advanced, and alter the settings.
4.7.2 In Internet Explorer: click on Tools
then Internet Options. Depending on the version of Internet
Explorer you may also then need to click on the Privacy/Security
tab and Custom Level, before clicking the Advanced tab. Then set
your cookie options.
5. Governing Law
This legal notice shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and
Wales.