Terms of service.

Terms and Conditions of Use of Golden Leaf Illustrations Website

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of my website.

1.2 By using my website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use my website.

1.3 If you register with my website, submit any material to my website or use any of my website services, I will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

2. Copyright notice

2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) I, together with my licensors, own and control the general copyright and other intellectual property rights in my website and the material on my website; however the intellectual property of any artist’s works used will remain with the artist and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in my website and the material on my website are reserved, excepting images provided by artists who retain their intellectual property.

(c) any material repurposed from the Golden Leaf Illustrations website should only be used expressly for the promotion of Golden Leaf Illustrations, its events and artists. Where such material is used it should be marked as courtesy of Golden Leaf Illustrations and copyright of the relevant artist where applicable

3. Permission to use website

3.1 You may:

(a) view pages from my website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from my website for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from my website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive; and

(d) stream audio and video files from my website using the media player on my website,

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from my website or save any such material to your computer.

3.3 You may only use my website for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use my website for any other purposes.

3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on my website.

3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from my website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from my website;

(d) exploit material from my website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from my website.

3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute my newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.

3.7 I reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to my website, to areas of my website and/or to functionality upon my website. I may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

4. Misuse of website

4.1 You must not:

(a) use my website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

(b) use my website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of my website without my permission;

(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to my website;

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

(g) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to my website without my permission;

(h) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to my website without my express written consent;

(i) access or otherwise interact with my website using any robot, spider or other automated means;

(j) use my website except by means of my public interfaces;

(k) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for my website;

(l) use data collected from my website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

(m) do anything that interferes with the normal use of my website.

4.2 You must not use data collected from my website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

4.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to me through my website, or in relation to my website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

5. Inquiries and leads

5.1 my website includes an inquiry form that you can use to request information about or quotations in respect of my exhibitions and events and general customers’ inquires .

5.2 You acknowledge that:

(a) I do not vet suppliers;

(b) I do not check, audit, monitor or control: the identity, credit worthiness or bona fides of suppliers, the security of supplier websites, or the accuracy of the information published by suppliers;

(c) I am not party to any contract for the sale or purchase of goods or services entered into between you and a supplier; and

(d) my website contains information provided by suppliers, and I do not check, audit or monitor the accuracy of that information,

and accordingly I will not be liable to you in relation to any loss or damage arising out of any use of a supplier website, any information provided by a supplier, any offer made by a supplier, or any contract with a supplier.

5.3 I am not responsible for the enforcement of any obligations arising out of a contract between you and any third party, and I will have no obligation to mediate between the parties to any such contract.

5.4 The provisions of this Section 5 are subject to Section 10.1.

6. my rights to use your content

6.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to me or my website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, my website.

6.2 You grant to me a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.

6.3 You grant me the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 6.2.

6.4 You grant me the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 6.2.

6.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

6.6 Without prejudice to my other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if I reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, I may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

7. Rules about your content

7.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

7.2 your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

7.3 your content, and the use of your content by me in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g) be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

8. Report abuse

8.1 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on my website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let me know.

8.2 You can let me know about any such material or activity by email at martinaobrien29@gmail.com.

9. Limited warranties

9.1 I do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on my website;

(b) that the material on the website is up to date;

(d) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

9.2 I reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of my website services, and to stop publishing my website, at any time in my sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if I stop publishing the website.

9.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 10.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, my website and the use of my website.

10. Limitations and exclusions of liability

10.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

10.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 10 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 10.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

10.3 To the extent that my website and the information and services on my website are provided free of charge, I will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

10.4 I will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond my reasonable control.

10.5 I will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

10.6 I will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

10.7 I will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

10.8 You accept that I have an interest in limiting the personal liability of my officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that I am a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against my officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of my officers and employees).

11. Indemnity

11.1 You hereby indemnify me, and undertake to keep me indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by me to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by me and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of my website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

12. Breaches of these terms and conditions

12.1 Without prejudice to my other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if I reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, I may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to my website;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing my website;

(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to my website;

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g) suspend or delete your account on my website.

12.2 Where I suspend or prohibit or block your access to my website or a part of my website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

13. Third party websites

13.1 my website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.

13.2 I have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 10.1 I accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

14. Trade marks

14.1 Golden Leaf Illustrations trade marks, my logos and my other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to me; I give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of my rights.

14.2 The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on my website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, I do not endorse and am not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such I cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.

15. Variation

15.1 I may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

15.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of my website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

15.3 If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, I will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as I may specify, I will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

16. Assignment

16.1 You hereby agree that I may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with my rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

16.2 You may not without my prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

17. Severability

17.1 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 will continue in effect.

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

18. Third party rights

18.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for my benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

18.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

19. Entire agreement

19.1 Subject to Section 10.1, these terms and conditions, together with my privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and me in relation to your use of my website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and me in relation to your use of my website.

20. Law and jurisdiction

20.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

20.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

21. my details

21.1 This website is owned and operated by Martina O’Brien, trading as Golden Leaf Illustrations.

21.2 My office is at 119 Larksfield, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0RA.

21.3 You can contact me:

(a) using my website contact form; or

(b) by email, using the email address martinaobrien29@gmail.com.