Website Terms and Conditions

  1. Who we are and how to contact us
    1.1. https://uniquelylocal.co.uk/ (“Site”) is operated by Uniquely Local Experiences Limited, limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 13432837 and with registered office address at Office 22, Unit 15, Kettlestring Lane, York, YO30 4XF (“we”).
    1.2. You can contact us at [email protected].
  2. You accept to these terms when you use our Site
    2.1. By using our Site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.
    2.2. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Site.
  3. Other terms that may apply to you
    3.1. If you access our Site, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy also apply to you.
    3.2. If you purchase our Gifts and Experience Vouchers, our Gifts and Experiences Vouchers Terms and Conditions of Services also apply to you.
  4. Geographic reach
    4.1. Our Site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person in any country or jurisdiction where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.
    4.2. You are responsible for ascertain that you are authorised by the laws and regulations of the country where you are based to access and use our Site.
  5. Changes to these terms
    5.1. We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
  6. Changes to our Site
    6.1. We may update and change our Site from time to time. 
  7. Site suspension or withdrawal
    7.1. Our Site is made available free of charge.
    7.2. We do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted.
    7.3. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any such suspension, withdrawal or restriction.
    7.4. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of and will comply with these terms and the terms referred to in clause 3.
  8. Transfer of our agreement with you for the use of the Site
    8.1. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation.
  9. Account details must be kept safe and updated
    9.1. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
    9.2. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
    9.3. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us.
    9.4. If you register to receive information from us, we will send any notices to the email address you provided to us. It is your responsibility to ensure that you notify us of any change to your email address.
  10. Intellectual Property Rights and Use of our Site
    10.1. We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the material published on it. Those materials are protected by copyright laws and other intellectual property laws and regulations around the world. All such rights (whether registered or not) are reserved.
    10.2. Any third party intellectual property used by us in our Site should not be interpreted as meaning that such third party sponsors, endorses or is in any way affiliated with us or with our business.
    10.3. Except where necessary in order to view the content of Our Site on your browser, or as permitted under these terms and the applicable laws, no information or content on our Site may be reproduced, adapted, uploaded to a third party, linked to, framed, performed in public, distributed or transmitted in any form by any process without our specific written consent.
    10.4. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Site.
    10.5. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way.
    10.6. You must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
    10.7. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
    10.8. You must not use any part of the content on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
    10.9. Any instruction or communication transmitted by you or on your behalf via our Site is made at your own risk. You authorise us to rely and act on any such instruction and communication.
    10.10. If you breach any provision of these terms, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
  11. No text or data mining, or web scraping
    11.1. You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site. 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 site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
    • 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.
    11.2. 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.
  12. You should not rely on the content of our Site
    12.1. The content on our Site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.
    12.2. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Site.
    12.3. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Site is accurate, complete or up to date.
  13. No responsibility for links and third party offers
    13.1. Where our Site contains links and/or reference to other sites, resources, products or services provided by third parties, these links and references are provided for your information only. Such links and references should not be interpreted as our approval to those linked or referred websites, resources, products or services.
    13.2. We have no control or responsibility over the contents of those sites nor the quality, accuracy, merchantability or fitness for purpose of any such resources, products or services.
  14. User-Generated Content
    14.1. Our Site may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This includes reviews. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
  15. Our liability
    15.1. We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so.
    15.2. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it and we will not be liable for any loss or damage (even if foreseeable) arising under or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, our Site or your use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Site.
  16. Uploading content To Our Site
    16.1. Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Site, or to make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with our acceptable use standards set out in clause 19.
    16.2. You will be responsible and shall indemnify us for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of these standards.
    16.3. Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.
    16.4. You retain the ownership rights in your content, but you grant us and other users of our Site a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.
    16.5. 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 site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
    16.6. We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the acceptable use standards set out in clause 19.
    16.7. You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
  17. Virus, malwares and other malicious materials and conducts
    17.1. We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
    17.2. You are responsible for configuring your systems and devices to access our Site.
    17.3. You should use your own virus protection software.
    17.4. You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.
    17.5. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site.
    17.6. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
  18. Links to our Site
    18.1. You may link the home page of our Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
    18.2. 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.
    18.3. You must not establish a link to our Site in any website that is not owned by you.
    18.4. Our Site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page.
    18.5. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
    18.6. The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in clause 19.
  19. Acceptable Use
    19.1. You may not use our Site:
       • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
       • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
       • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
       • To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
       • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with this clause 19.
       • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
       • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
       • To upload terrorist content.
    19.2. You shall not:
       • Reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Site otherwise than in accordance with these terms
       • Access without our approval interfere with, damage or disrupt:
          o any part of our site;
          o any equipment or network on which our Site is stored;
          o any software used in the provision of our Site; or
          o any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
      19.3. When you upload any content to our Site, any such content must:
       • Be accurate (where it states facts).
       • Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
       • Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted.
       • Not be defamatory of any person.
       • Not be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
       • Not be bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
       • Not promote sexually explicit material.
       • Not include child sexual abuse material.
       • Not promote violence.
       • Not promote discrimination of any kind.
       • Not infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
       • Not be likely to deceive any person.
       • Not breach any legal duty owed to a third party.
       • Not promote any illegal content or activity.
       • Not be in contempt of court.
       • Not be threatening, abusive or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
       • Not be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
       • Not impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
       • Not give the impression that it comes from us, if this is not the case.
       • Not advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
       • Not contain any statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
       • Not contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.
  20. Severability
    20.1. If any part of these terms is void, unenforceable or illegal in any jurisdiction, then that part it will be severed and the remainder of these terms will continue in full force and effect This clause will have no effect if the severance alters the core principles of these terms or is contrary to public policy.
  21. Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution
    21.1. These terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

 

Website terms and conditions updated 13/09/2022