Terms and Conditions

Introduction

Welcome to our website.

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website – birminghamcivicsociety.org.uk. Suppose you continue to browse and use this website. In that case, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern The Birmingham Civic Society’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The term ‘The Birmingham Civic Society’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BS. Our Company Number is 6426178 and our Charity Number is 1123806 we are registered in England and Wales. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Website content

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.

Licence to use website

This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. 

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  All these intellectual property rights are reserved, subject to the licence below.

Subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions, you may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use.

You are not permitted to:

(a)    republish material from this website in any format;

(b)    republish material from this website on another website in any format;

(c)    sell, rent or sub-license material from this website in any format;

(d)    show any material from this website in public in any format;

(e)    reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;

(f)    edit or otherwise alter any material on this website; or

(g)    redistribute any material from this website except for content explicitly made available for redistribution.

Acceptable use

You must not use our website:

(a)   in any manner that is illegal, unlawful, fraudulent or harmful, or in relation with any illegal, unlawful, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity; or in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website;

(b)  to copy, store, transmit, host, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of or is affiliated to any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software whatsoever;

(c)  without our prior written consent,  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;

(d)  send or transmit unsolicited commercial communications;

(e)  for any objective, comment or feedback left related to your own marketing without our prior express written consent and agreement;

(f)  for in-line links to images, videos or any other content on our website, thus, stealing or leeching bandwidth or server capacity;

(g)  For any unacceptable use, unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence;

(h) Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Restricted access

Access to particular areas of our website is restricted i.e. our membership area. At our discretion we reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website.

Should we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you access to restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that your user ID and password is kept confidential.

At our discretion we may disable your user ID and password without notice or justification.

Warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website (excluding user content) is correct, we do not guarantee its correctness or completeness; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

We exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of a satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill.

Minimum service requirements

To view this website minimum requirements need to be met in terms of software you use to view the site correctly. These include but not limited to:

(a)    Browser – Google Chrome 10 or above (recommended), Fiirefox 3.0 or above, Internet Explorer 7 or above, Safrai S3 or above and Opera O9 or above.

(c)    Operating System – Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7,10,11), MacOs 10.5 or higher, Linux and Mobile Operating Systems e.g. Android, iOS, Windows Mobile.

Limitation of liability

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

Nothing in these terms and conditions or elsewhere on our website shall exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under the appropriate law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in association with these terms and conditions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, shall be limited as follows:

(a)    to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we shall not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;

(b)    we shall not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;

(c)    we shall not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, reputation, data, information or goodwill;

(d)    we shall not be liable for any loss or damage occurring out of any event or events that are beyond our reasonable control;

(e)    our maximum liability in relation to any event or series of related events shall be limited to £1.00.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses, including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers, incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any condition of these terms of service.

Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

We do not permit you to transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

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 shall continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part shall be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision shall continue in effect.

Third party and external links

From time to time, this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

Exclusion of third party rights

These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party.  The exercise of our and your rights in connection to these terms and conditions are not to be subject to the consent of any third party whatsoever.

Entire agreement

These terms of service, together with our privacy policy and disclaimer, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in regard to your use of our website and supersede all prior agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with applicable English law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of service, if you breach these terms of service in any way, we may take such action as we deem suitable to deal with the breach, including prohibiting you from accessing the website, removing comments, suspending your access to the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or taking court proceedings against you.

Variation

We may revise these terms and conditions on occasion.  Such revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website.  To ensure you are familiar with the current version please check this page regularly.

Our details

The full name of our organisation is the Birmingham Civic Society.

You can contact us by email at info@birminghamcivicsociety.org.uk”

You can contact us by telephone +44(0)7775 308062.