Terms of Use
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE VIGILANTLY PRIOR TO USING THIS SITE.
3research offers the 3research.co.uk web site (the "Web Site"), to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions, policies and notices stated on the Web Site. By using the Web Site, you signify your assent to these Terms and Conditions and any following modifications. 3research.co.uk may revise these Terms and Conditions from time to time by updating this posting, with the new terms taking effect on the date of posting. You should review these Terms and Conditions every time you use this Web Site as they are binding upon you.
Personal and Non-commercial Use
The 3research.co.uk site is for your personal and non-commercial use. As a condition to your continued use of the Web Site, you warrant to 3research.co.uk that you will not use the Web Site for any purpose that is unlawful or forbidden by these Terms and Conditions.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Neither 3research.co.uk nor its employees, agents, third party information providers, merchants, licensors or the like warrant that the Web Site or its operation will be accurate, reliable, incessant or error-free. If your use of 3research.co.uk results in the need for servicing or replacing property, material, equipment or data, 3research.co.uk is not responsible for those costs. No agent or representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the Web Site on behalf of 3research.co.uk. 3research.co.uk reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of the Web Site.
3research.co.uk does not presuppose any liability for the contents of any material provided on the Web Site. Reliance on any information presented on the Web Site, other than that which you provided, is at your own risk. 3research.co.uk reserves the right to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the Web Site at any time. You acknowledge that, in connection with the Web Site, information will be transmitted over local exchange and Internet backbone carrier lines and through routers, switches and other devices owned, maintained and serviced by third party local exchange and long distance carriers, utilities, Internet service providers and others, all of which are beyond the control and jurisdiction of 3research.co.uk. Accordingly, 3research.co.uk assumes no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, disturbance or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the Web Site.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON 3research.co.uk IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. 3research.co.uk MAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE WEB SITE CONTENT, SOFTWARE TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS, OR ABOUT RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING THE WEB SITE OR 3research.co.uk SERVICES.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL 3research.co.uk OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED AT THE WEB SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS, DAMAGES AND EXPENSES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, HEALTH PROBLEMS, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ENSUING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE 3research.co.uk WEB SITE OR THE CONTENT OF THE WEB SITE WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT 3research.co.uk IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 3research.co.uk SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU ONLY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT AND ONLY TO THE DEGREE OF ACTUAL DAMAGES INCURRED BY YOU, NOT TO EXCEED U.S. $100.00 (ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS). BECAUSE SOME STATES AND COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR SUBSTANTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. REMEDIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE EXCLUSIVE AND ARE LIMITED TO THOSE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR IN THIS AGREEMENT.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold 3research.co.uk, its officers, directors, employees and agents, licensors and suppliers harmless From and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of the 3research.co.uk Web Site in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate these Terms and Conditions. 3research.co.uk shall provide you with prompt notice of any such claim, suit or proceeding and shall reasonably cooperate with you, at your expense, in your defence of any such claim, suit or proceeding.
Links/Advertisements
The 3research.co.uk Web Site may link to other sites operated by third parties. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by 3research.co.uk of the sites, but is for your reference and expediency only. 3research.co.uk has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Web Site and is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to 3research.co.uk. Nor does 3research.co.uk recommend or endorse any specific tests, products or procedures that may be mentioned on or represented in advertisements on the Web Site. Linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk and subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use of any hyper-linked site. For instance, 3research.co.uk provides a link to www.interest.com, which is subject to www.interest.com's Terms and Conditions of Use, and NOT these Terms and Conditions.
The 3research.co.uk Web Site also contains advertisements by third parties. Unless otherwise specifically stated on the Web Site, 3research.co.uk does not endorse or make any representation regarding the liability, quality, or accuracy of any products or services featured in, or linked to any advertisement that appears on the Web Site. Unless otherwise prohibited under these Terms and Conditions, you are hereby licensed to create hyperlinks to the content on the 3research.co.uk Web Site, provided that the hyperlink accurately describes the content as it appears on the Web Site. 3research.co.uk reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time. Under no circumstances may you "frame" the Web Site or any of its content or copy portions of the 3research.co.uk Web Site to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider's incidental caching of pages. Each page within 3research.co.uk must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within 3research.co.uk.
Copyrights
3research retains full copyright ownership, rights and protection in all material contained on 3research.co.uk (including all software, HTML code, Java applets, Active X controls and other code). Except as otherwise expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, rewrite, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Web Site without the prior consent of the copyright owner. You agree not to modify any documents, graphics, images or other material found on this Web Site.
You may, however make single copies of materials displayed on the 3research.co.uk Web Site for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided any copies include the copyright and other notices displayed with the materials on the Web Site. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not for a charge or other consideration, without prior written permission from 3research.co.uk or the copyright owner of the copied material. None of the material contained on the 3research.co.uk site may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of 3research.co.uk. All content of 3research.co.uk is Copyright © 2007 3research. All rights reserved.
Termination
You agree that 3research.co.uk may terminate your use of the Web Site, if 3research.co.uk reasonably believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms and Conditions of Use, or violated the rights of 3research.co.uk or any third party, or for any reason with or without notice to you. You agree that 3research.co.uk may modify or discontinue 3research.co.uk, with or without notice to you. You agree that 3research.co.uk will not be liable to you or any third party as a result of such modification or discontinuation.
Survival
The provisions entitled "Your Submissions," "Disclaimer of Warranties," "Limitation of Liability," "Indemnification" and "General Provisions" will survive termination of this agreement.
General Provisions
You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with 3research.co.uk, or in any way relating to your use of 3research.co.uk ("Legal Action"), resides in the courts of the UK. You further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the UK in connection with any such dispute. Any Legal Action that is subject to the jurisdiction of federal courts shall be instituted in the high courts of the UK. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the internal substantive laws of the UK, without regard to conflict of law principles. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions are found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition. Any cause of action you may have with respect to 3research.co.uk must be commenced within one year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred.
Contributing Content and Comments to 3research.co.uk
3research.co.uk includes various interactive community areas where people can post content to the site. These include (but are not limited to) user profiles, blogs, comments on profiles and blogs, and comments on news stories. We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that do not fit this description.
You agree to adhere to the following rules when posting content of any type, including text, audio, video and files, in any of these interactive areas on 3research.co.uk:
1. You agree not knowingly submit any false, defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening, racially offensive, sexually explicit or illegal material to the Web site. In posting comments on the contributions of others, you agree not to harass other participants.
2. You agree not to post anything that personally attacks an individual whose identity can be easily learned from what you post. An example of a personal attack is posting negative comments about an individual in a way meant to demean that person. Note that posting your opinion about someone's ideas or actions are not a personal attack.
3. You may not submit information that is libellous or defamatory or that discloses private or personal matters concerning any person.
4. You may not post information or links that are obscene or pornographic. You may not contribute information or pictures that violate the property rights of others, including unauthorized copyrighted music, images or programs, trade secrets or other confidential proprietary information, and trademarks or service marks used in an infringing fashion.
5. You may not use profanity.
6. Content contributions solely focused on the promotion of commercial events or businesses are not permitted.
7. You assert that the information, pictures, music and other files you contribute are your own, are licensed to be uploaded and downloaded by other participants, are in the public domain, or are otherwise free of copyright or other restrictions. You also grant 3research.co.uk an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to redistribute or republish the information in any medium or form.
8. You agree not to directly or indirectly solicit responses from minors. A minor is defined as anyone under 18 years of age.
9. You agree not post any item for sale that matches the following conditions:
Weapons or firearms of any kind.
Items that infringe on trademark or intellectual property rights.
Posting anything for sale.
Soliciting business.
3research.co.uk does not endorse and is not responsible for any statement, opinion or advice given or made in posts.
Use At Your Own Risk
Your use of the 3research.co.uk service is at your own risk. 3research.co.uk does not intend to engage in any prior review of notes posted to community content areas, but it reserves the right in its sole discretion and for any reason to delete or redirect any information or other content posted to 3research.co.uk, regardless of whether the information or other content violates the rules for content described in above policies. Further, 3research.co.uk reserves the right to limit or terminate service to participants who violate the terms of this Agreement.
In no event will 3research.co.uk be liable for any incidental, consequential, or indirect damages (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of programs or information, and the like) arising out of the 3research.co.uk community content areas, or any information or services provided on 3research.co.uk, even if 3research.co.uk has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim attributable to errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies published on 3research.co.uk.
3research.co.uk is not responsible for censoring or monitoring community content areas, but it reserves the right to enforce the policies outlined in this document, and reserves the right to move or remove posts at its sole discretion and without explanation. These posting rules may be revised over time. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what type of posts we prohibit. We do, however, recommend that you read this notice each time you use 3research.co.uk, in case you missed our notice of changes, at this URL:
http://www.3research.co.uk/terms.php
Transactions
3research.co.uk is not a store or "e-commerce" provider, and it is the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY of buyers and sellers to complete transactions. This Web Site acts as a venue to allow anyone to offer, sell, and buy items from one other. 3research.co.uk has no control over the quality, safety or legality of the items advertised, the truth or accuracy of the posts, the ability of sellers to sell items or the ability of buyers to pay for items. 3research.co.uk cannot ensure that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction, and 3research.co.uk does not transfer legal ownership of items.
Real-world Meetings
3research.co.uk offers User Profiles that are designed to allow individuals to meet each other for any purpose. You are advised that 3research.co.uk cannot vouch for the safety of offline meetings of individuals you meet through 3research.co.uk, and such meetings are held at your sole risk. Furthermore, you are advised to be careful not to accidentally divulge personally identifying information about yourself, including but not limited to your full name, telephone number(s), street addresses, URLs or email addresses. If you do provide this information to a third party who you met through 3research.co.uk, it is at your risk and you agree not to hold 3research.co.uk liable for anything that results from such meetings.