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BE NEWS WEBSITE TERMS & CONDITIONS

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE

 1. INFORMATION ABOUT US AND HOW TO CONTACT US

  • co.uk is a website operated by BE Content Solutions Limited (“BE News” or “we” or “our”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 14209664 and our registered address is at 24 Avenue Gardens, Margate, England, CT9 3BD. Our VAT number is GB 423129917.
  • To contact us, please email admin@benews.co.uk or our customer service line on +44 (0)7594 702308.

2. ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

  • By using our website and registering with BE News, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them.
  • If you do not agree with these terms, you must not register with BE News.

3. OTHER TERMS WHICH APPLY TO YOU

  • These website terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our website:
    • our Privacy Policy, which includes information on how we may use your personal information;
    • our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our website. When using our website, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy; and
    • our Cookies Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our website.

4. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS 

We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time that you wish to use our website, please check these terms to ensure that you understand the terms which apply at the time of use.

5. CHANGES TO OUR WEBSITE

We may update and make changes to our website from time to time to ensure all information is up to date and in order to reflect our user’s needs. We will endeavour to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

6. SUSPENSION OR WITHDRAWAL OF WEBSITE

  • We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted.
  • We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business or operational reasons. We will endeavour to give you reasonable notice of any such suspension or withdrawal.

7. LOCATION OF USE

  • Our website is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not guarantee that content available on or through our website is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

8. ACCOUNT SAFETY

  • You must treat your BE News user account details, including your username and password, as confidential. You must not disclose this information to a third party.
  • We have the right to disable any user account if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms.
  • If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user account password, you must promptly notify us by email and arrange for your password to be changed.

9. USE OF WEBSITE MATERIAL

  • We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in respect of our website, and the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
  • You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our website.
  • You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
  • Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
  • You must not use any part of the content on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
  • If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our request, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

10. DATA MINING & WEB SCRAPING

  • You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our website. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
    • any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; or
    • any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information, which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
  • This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

11. RELIANCE ON WEBSITE INFORMATION

  • The content on our website is provided for general information only. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our website.
  • Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website is complete or up to date.

12. WEBSITE LINKS

  • Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
  • We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.

13. COMPLAINTS & REPORTING PROCEDURE

If you wish to submit a complaint about the content of our website, please contact via email at admin@benews.co.uk, or via telephone at +44 (0)7594 702308.

 

14. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE

  • Whether you are a consumer or a business user, we do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • If you are a business user:
  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our website or any content on it.
  • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
    • use of, or inability to use, our website; or
    • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website
  • In particular, we will not be liable for:
    • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
    • business interruption;
    • loss of anticipated savings;
    • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
    • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
  • If you are a consumer:
    • Please note that we only provide our website for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
    • If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.

15. ANTI-BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION 

  • BE News has a strict anti-bribery and corruption policy.  You shall not engage in bribery or corruption in any form, and shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes and regulations relating to anti-bribery and anti-corruption (“ABC Laws”) including but not limited to the Bribery Act 2010 and shall have a zero-tolerance approach to breach of ABC Laws whether it involves private individuals or public officials.
  • You shall never solicit, accept, agree to receive, promise, offer or give a bribe, facilitation payment, kickback or other improper payment. You must ensure that all of your activities are managed in full compliance with all applicable ABC Laws. All of BE News’ activities are managed in full compliance with its anti-bribery and corruption policy and all applicable ABC Laws 

16. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

17. UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR WEBSITE

  • Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our website, or to make contact with other users of our website, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
  • You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
  • Any content you upload to our website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you grant us a world-wide, non-exclusive, ‘royalty free’, perpetual, transferable licence (with right to sublicense) to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.
  • We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.
  • We have the right to remove any posting you make on our website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
  • You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
  • You must not upload any material that could incite a terrorist offence, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offence or threaten to commit a terrorist offence.

18. RIGHT TO USE UPLOADED MATERIAL

  • When you upload or post content to our website, you grant us the following rights to use that content:
    • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the website or the service to expire when the user deletes the content from the website;
    • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable licence for other users, partners or advertisers to use the content in accordance with the functionality of the website, to expire when the user deletes the content from the website.

19. VIRUSES

  • We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
  • You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.
  • You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.

20. LINKS TO OUR WEBSITE

  • You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
  • You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
  • You must not establish a link to our website in any website that is not owned by you.
  • Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page.
  • We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
  • The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
  • If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact us via email at admin@benews.co.uk, or via telephone at +44 (0)7594 702308.

21. OTHER IMPORTANT TERMS 

  • We may transfer these terms and conditions to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights relating to the use of our website.
  • Nobody else has any rights under or in connection with the contract between you and us constituted by these terms. This contract is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms, except as explained in these terms and conditions. Neither of us will need to get the agreement of any other person in order to end the contract or make any changes to these terms.
  • If a court finds part of this contract illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
  • Even if we delay in enforcing this contract, we can still enforce it later. If we do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these terms, or if we delay in taking steps against you in respect of your breaking this contract, that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent us taking steps against you at a later date. For example, if you miss a payment and we do not chase you but we continue to provide the products, we can still require you to make the payment at a later date.
  • These terms are governed by English law and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the products or experiences in the English courts. If you live in Scotland you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the products in either the Scottish or the English courts. If you live in Northern Ireland you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the products in either the Northern Irish or the English courts.