Terms & Conditions

Terms of Use

ATTENTION: These terms of use (the Terms) apply to the entire contents of the Website under the domain https://www.wae.com/ and any sub-domains (the Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept these terms. If you have any questions about them or do not accept them, please contact enquiries@wae.com before using this website.

This notice is issued by WAE Technologies Limited (the Company), a limited company registered in England and Wales at Companies House. Our registered office is at Station Road, Grove, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 0ST and registered number is 08012215.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Company may change these Terms from time to time and we cannot guarantee that the Website will stay the same. You should check the Website from time to time to review the current Terms as you will be bound by such Terms.

1.2 We can’t guarantee that this Website will be:

(a) compatible with all or any hardware and software which you may use;

(b) available all the time or at any specific time; or

(c) accurate and up to date. We do try but the information on this Website is given for general information and interest purposes only. You should not rely on it. We recommend that you take further advice or seek further guidance before taking any action based on the information contained on this Website.

1.3 This Website and its contents are protected by intellectual property rights, and either belong to us or are licensed to us to use. You may not copy or use them for a commercial purpose without our written consent.

1.4 For more information about how we collect and use personal data (including information collected through this Website) and for information about cookies used on our Website please see our Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy.

2. LICENCE

2.1 You may print and download extracts from the Website for your own personal and non-commercial use on the following basis:

(a) no documents or related graphics on the Website are modified in any way;

(b) no graphics on the Website are used separately from the corresponding text; and

(c) the Company’s copyright and trade mark notices and these Terms appear in all copies.

2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in all material on the Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images, but excluding the Visitor Material (see section 3 below)) are owned by the Company or its licensors. The images, logos, names and trade marks used to identify the Company or the Williams brand, whether registered or not, are proprietary marks of the Company (or its licensors), which may not be used without the Company’s permission (unless the use is authorised under clause 2.1).

2.3 The images, logos, names and trade marks on the Website which identify partners or customers of the Company, or their products or services, belong to them and are used with their permission. You may not copy or use them for any purpose (except the uses authorised under clause 2.1).

2.4 For the purposes of these Terms, any use of extracts from the Website other than in accordance with clause 2.1 is prohibited. If you breach any of these Terms, your permission to use the Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Website.

2.5 Unless authorised under clause 2.1, no part of the Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company’s prior written permission.

2.6 Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.

3. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT

3.1 Other than personal information, which is covered under our Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy, any material you transmit or post to the Website (Visitor Material,) shall be considered non-confidential and not owned by you. . The Company shall have no obligations with respect to the Visitor Material. The Company and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Visitor Material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things contained within the material for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

3.2 You are not allowed to transmit to or from the Website any material:

(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, threatening, immoral, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or

(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or

(c) that infringes other people’s intellectual property rights; or

(d) that contains other people’s private and confidential information (including personal information) without their express authorisation and permission; or

(e) that impersonates others in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse or deceive others; or

(f) that promotes any service (including non-commercial) or includes advertisements, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or solicitations whether by means of a link or contacting other visitors to the Website through the messaging tools provided on the Website; or

(g) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or

(h) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

3.3 You may not misuse the Website including, without limitation, by hacking or for other illegal purposes. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.

3.4 All Visitor Material provided is the sole responsibility of its originator and the Company cannot take responsibility for it.

3.5 You retain your rights to any Visitor Material that you submit, post or display via the Website and you grant to the Company a limited licence to use it. You agree that this licence includes the right for the Company to make such Visitor Material available to other companies, organisations or individuals who partner with the Company for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of the same on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such use.

3.6 You confirm you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights in these Terms to any Visitor Material that you submit to the Website.

3.7 The Company shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of clause 3.2 or clause 3.3.

4. LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

4.1 Links to third party websites on the Website are provided solely for your convenience and by using them, you leave the Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk. You should check their terms and conditions and privacy policy when you visit those third party websites.

4.2 If you would like to link to the Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of the Website, and subject to the following conditions:

(a) you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of any of the Company’s logos;

(b) you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the Website;

(c) you do not in any way imply that the Company endorses any products or services other than its own;

(d) you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company (nor any entities within the Company’s group) nor present any other false information about the Company (nor any entities within the Company’s group);

(e) you do not otherwise use any Company trade marks displayed on the Website without express written permission from the Company;

(f) you do not link from a website that is not owned by you;

(g) your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations; and

(h) you inform the Company in writing that you are linking this Website to another website.

4.3 The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in clause 4.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate including making any claims for any loss or damage suffered by the Company or any of its group companies.

5. DISCLAIMER

5.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on the Website is correct, the Company does not confirm the accuracy and completeness of any material on the Website. The Company may make changes to the material on the Website at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material. The Website, and content on the Website, is provided ‘as is’ without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind.

5.2 The Company cannot guarantee that the material and downloads on the Website are free from viruses or malicious codes. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have taken precautions to protect your own computer system and device(s) from virus infection.

6. SERVICE ACCESS

6.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, it shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

6.2 The Company reserves the right to alter, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Website, including your access to it for any reason.

6.3 You will not interfere with the proper working of the Website and will not tamper with, hack into or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, router or any other internet connected device associated with the Website.

7. LIABILITY

7.1 These Terms do not exclude our liability (if any) to you for:

(a) personal injury or death resulting from our negligence;

(b) fraud; or

(c) any matter which it would be illegal for us to exclude or to attempt to exclude our liability.

7.2 We are only liable to you for losses which you suffer as a direct result of our breach of these Terms, and shall have no liability for any indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of the Website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it.

7.3 You may have other rights granted by law, and these Terms do not affect these except if the two are inconsistent. If this is the case then these Terms will override any other rights which you may have, unless this is not permitted by law.

8. DISPUTES

If you have any complaint about this Website or any of the goods or services we provide, you should contact us at enquiries@wae.com and we will try and resolve it as soon as possible. However, if we have a dispute regarding your use of the Website or these Terms, the courts will use English law to determine that dispute. If you wish to take legal action against us, as we are a UK company you should do so in the English courts.

Our terms and conditions were last updated on 12 May 2021.