User Terms
Last updated on 1 June 2023
These terms apply if you between Outsourced Data Protection LLP T/as ProDPO (OC417574) of Floor 8, 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom, EC4V 4AY (“we“, “us“, “our“) and each user of our website (www.prodpo.com) (our “site“), content, feature or other service (“you“, “your“).
1. By using our site, content or features you accept these terms
By using our site, content or features, you accept and agree to comply with these terms without limitation or qualification and acknowledge that you have read them and are bound by them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site, content or features. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
2. There are other terms and notices that may apply to you
These user terms refer to the following additional terms and notices, which also apply to your use of our site, content or features:
3. We may make changes to these terms
These terms and conditions can be modified at any time by us, and you agree to continue to be bound by these as modified. We will give you notice of these changes by publishing any revised version on our site, content or features, however, we will not separately notify you of these changes.
4. We may make changes to our site, content or features
We reserve the right to amend, modify, discontinue or remove our site, content or features at any time and you should not rely on our site, content or features as a permanent source of information or utility.
5. We may suspend or withdraw our site, content or features
5.1. Our site, content or features is made available free of charge on an ‘as is‘ basis unless otherwise stated. We do not guarantee that our site, content or features, will operate without fault or interruption.
5.2. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of, or suspend or remove your access to, all or any part of our site, content or features for business, operational or legal reasons.
6. How you may use our site, content or features
6.1. You may use our site, content or features only for your own personal and non-commercial use and only for the general access and use reasonably envisaged by us.
6.2. We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, content or features including but not limited to any material published on our site, content or features, in our content, or generated by the same. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world and we may be bound by restrictions under a contract. We reserve all rights. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site, content or features for your personal use and non-commercial. Other than that, you are not permitted to publish, disclose, use to create derivative works or otherwise use in whole or in part any material published on our site, content or features.
6.3. 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 materials or text.
6.4. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of our site, content or features must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of our site, content or features for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
6.5. If you print off, copy or download any part of our site, content or features in breach of these user terms, your right to use our site, content or features will cease immediately and you must, immediately upon request, return and destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
7. Do not rely on information on our site, content or features
7.1. Our site, content and features may show information such as marketing materials, market data, insights, news, analysis, numerical content such as calculations, forecasts and similar content and other information. Such information is provided by us and third parties ‘as is’ without verification for general information only and without taking into account your personal circumstances. The calculations, forecasts and other numerical content is not always accurate, error-free or reliable.
7.2. Such information on our site, content and features may not be complete, accurate, up to date, relevant, fit for purpose or based in fact and must not be relied upon. No such information is intended as personal advice or a call to action or inaction. We may not always agree with and we do not endorse any opinion of any third party in such information.
7.3. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of information on our site, app, in our content, service or feature. No opinion given in such information constitutes a recommendation by us or any third party that any particular investment, market, service or strategy is suitable for any specific person.
7.4. Although we make reasonable efforts to source and provide reliable information, neither we nor any third party makes any representation or gives any warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied, that any information on our site, content and features is complete, accurate, up to date, relevant, fit for purpose or based in fact or that any calculation, forecast or other numerical content is accurate, error-free or reliable.
7.5. All information on our site, content or features is indicative and subject to change without notice and may be out of date at any given time. To the extent permitted by law, neither we nor any third party shall be responsible for any loss or damage that you may incur, either directly or indirectly, arising from any investment or any action that you take or do not take based on any information provided by us or any third party on our site, in our content, service or feature.
8. We are not responsible for websites and other services we link to
Where our site, content or features contains links or access to other sites, domains, plugins, services, features or other resources provided by third parties, these resources are provided ‘as is’ for your information only and neither we nor any third party makes any representation or gives any warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied, that any such third party resource is reliable, error-free or fit for any purpose. Such links or access should not be interpreted as approval by us of any such third party resources or any information you may obtain from them. We have no control over such third party resources.
9. Prohibited use and your liability
You warrant and represent to us that you will not use and not permit others to use our site, content or features in any way that would cause loss or damage to us, our personnel or licensors, including to damage, interfere with or disrupt access to our site, content or features or do anything which might impair its functionality; to publish, post, distribute, disseminate or otherwise transmit, defamatory offensive, infringing, obscene, indecent or other unlawful or objectionable material or information; to access content which is restricted; make available third party materials without permission; to attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, content or features; to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of our site, content or features in breach of these terms without express written permission by us; to collect or track the personal information of others; to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape; to interfere with or circumvent our security features; or to impersonate another person or use a false name. Using our site, content or features in an unlawful way or in breach of these terms is expressly prohibited and will result in civil and criminal sanctions against you.
10. Rules about linking to our site, content or features
10.1. If you wish to link to or make any use of anything related to our site, content or features other than that set out above, please contact us.
10.2. 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 site, content or features in any website or other means that is not owned by you. Our site, content or features must not be framed on any other site or other means. You, may not create a link to any part of our site, content or features other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
11. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
11.1. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits 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.
11.2. Subject to this, you agree that your use of our site, content and features is entirely at your own risk and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms, whether express or implied, and we shall not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss or damage or any loss of profit, anticipated savings, business, opportunity, utility, benefit, business interruption or any loss or damage caused by events outside our control.
11.3. We shall not be responsible for any damage to your device or software arising from your use of our site, content or features due to incorrect configuration, third party interference or third-party hardware or software.
12. How we may use your personal information
We will use your personal information in accordance with our privacy notice.
13. We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them.
13.1. We will implement reasonable security measures to protect your information.
13.2. We do not guarantee that our site, content or features will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform(s) to access our site, content or features. You should use your own virus protection software.
13.3. You must not introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, content or features, the server on which it is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to it. You must not attack our site, content or features via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence. 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 licence to use our site, content or features will cease immediately.
14. Our trademarks are registered
‘ProDPO’ and all associated names and logos, including but not limited to the one displayed below, are our intellectual property.
You are not permitted to use them without our approval unless they are part of the material you are using as permitted by us.
15. Law and jurisdiction
These user terms including any contractual or non-contractual matters shall be governed by English laws and English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any disputes. If any provision of these terms is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the rest of the terms will continue in force unaffected.