1             INTRODUCTION

These terms of use govern your use of our website and by using our website, you accept these terms of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our website.

2             LICENCE TO USE WEBSITE

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

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or documents from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use. 

You must not:

(a)    republish material from this website (including republication on another website)

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

(c)    show any material from the website in public;

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

(e)    edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or

(f)    redistribute material from this website;

Nothing in this clause 2 shall prevent you from using or modifying material downloaded from this website for reproduction in tender documentation or similar business purposes.

3             ACCEPTABLE USE

You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use our 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.

You must not 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 without our express written consent.

You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent. 

4             RESTRICTED ACCESS

We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.

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

We may disable your user ID and password at our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

5             LIMITED WARRANTIES

We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law 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 satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

6             LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

Nothing in these terms of use (or elsewhere on our website) will 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 applicable law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms of use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will 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 will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;

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

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

(d)   we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;

(e)    our maximum liability in relation to any event or series of related events will be limited to £1,000.

7             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 provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

8             BREACHES OF THESE TERMS OF USE

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing 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 bringing court proceedings against you.

9             VARIATION

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time.  Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on our website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

10           ASSIGNMENT

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

11          SEVERABILITY

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision 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.

12           EXCLUSION OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS

These terms of use 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 relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

13           ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These terms of use constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

14           LAW AND JURISDICTION

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

15           PERSONAL DATA

You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself in any registration or subscription form you complete (“the Registration Information”).  You agree to maintain and promptly update the Registration Information and keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

We will process your personal data in accordance with data protection legislation.

You hereby agree that the Registration Information (and all updates of the Registration Information) and any other information sent to us by you or otherwise obtained by us about you (“the Personal Data”) may be processed by us for the purposes of:

(a)   processing your requests;

(b)   providing you with information by e-mail or other means;

(c)   providing you with information about products and services provided by us and other parties;

(d)   providing a personalised service;

(e)   maintaining accounts and records;

(f)    statistical analysis and conducting market research surveys;

(g)   assessing and evaluating the use that is being made of the site; and

(h)   information and databank compilation and administration

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.  A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.  When you visit the site, we may send you a cookie.  Cookies may be used in the following ways:

(a)    to help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to the site and to allow us to tailor content;

(b)   to compile anonymous aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use the site and to help us improve the structure of the site.

Two types of cookies may be used on the site – session cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser, however, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of the site if cookies are disabled.

16          CHARGE BASED CONTENT

Some of the content available on or via this site may be available conditional on payment of a one-off charge.

Except where expressly provided in other applicable terms, where one-off charges are charged in respect of download of content from this site (Fees), Fees shall be payable by you in advance at the time, by the means of payment and at the rates stipulated us.

Where charged, Fees are subject to change at any time. We will make commercially reasonable efforts to inform users who subscribe for Fee-based content and/or services of any such changes in advance. Where you elect via or in connection with this site to download or receive content for which Fees are payable you represent and warrant that your access/receiving device supports such download/receipt and that it is compatible with the format of the requested content.

After download/sending of such content (1) Fees paid in advance shall not be refunded, and (2) subject to any express limitations, and to the provisions of clause 2 you may save the content on the destination device for which it was intended but you are strictly prohibited from saving it elsewhere, editing or modifying it, copying, distributing or forwarding it to third parties or allowing third parties to access it. The provisions of these terms relating to site content (as defined below) shall also apply to any such sent/downloaded content.

17           OUR DETAILS

Brunton Bid Writing is a division of Brunton Consultancy Limited. 

We are registered in England & Wales under registration number 5337520.

Our registered address is Suite 3, 24 High Street, Ruddington, Nottingham, NG11 6EA. 

You can contact us by email to fiona.brunton@bruntonconsultancy.co.uk.

Our VAT number is 857 5050 13.