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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF WEBSITE USE

Access to and use of this website (http://www.rslsteeper.com) is subject to the following Terms and Conditions, including the choice of law and jurisdiction set out in paragraph 11, and all applicable laws which, by accessing and browsing the website, you accept without limitation or qualification to the exclusion of any other agreements between you and RSLSteeper with respect to use of this website.

Section headings in these terms are provided for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of any section.

  1. Responsibility for Content:
    While RSLSteeper uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information in the website, this website is published “as is” and “as available” without any warranties or representations as to the information, content or materials contained in it. RSLSteeper assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the website, which are subject to correction from time to time without notice. You expressly agree that your use of this website is at your own risk and imposes no obligation or other liability on RSLSteeper.

  2. Third Party Rights:
    RSLSteeper neither warrants nor represents that use of materials nor any content displayed on the website will not infringe rights of third parties.

  3. Exclusions and Limitations of Liability:
    No liability which may not be excluded or limited by applicable law shall be excluded or limited by these Terms and Conditions. Use of, browsing in and reliance on any information contained in the website are at your own risk. Neither RSLSteeper, any of its subsidiaries or associated companies, nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the website shall be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages (including without limitation loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of management time, third party liability, business interruption, loss of use of any tangible or intangible asset including data recorded on any computer or other machine, or loss of any anticipated benefit arising out of your access to, or use of, the website, save in the case of fraudulent misrepresentation, or death or personal injury caused by the negligence of RSLSteeper or its staff.

    Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the website is provided without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose.
    Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to all users of the website or you may have additional rights.

    RSLSteeper uses reasonable endeavours to protect the website from viruses but assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damage to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property, including data, on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the website or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the website. RSLSteeper does not warrant that this website, its servers or any email sent on its behalf are free from viruses or other harmful components. You are recommended to take all appropriate safeguards before downloading information from this website.

    Although reasonable endeavours are used to maintain this website, RSLSteeper shall not be liable for any losses caused by failure or stoppage of the website for any reason, including without limitation virus contamination, deliberate damage by hackers, failure of hardware software or systems, power failure, failure of telecommunications lines or any criminal activity of a third party.

  4. Rights in Content and Trade Marks:
    RSLSteeper is the proprietor of all logos and trademarks associated with this website, unless otherwise indicated. Users should assume that copyright in all content of the site is owned by RSLSteeper unless otherwise stated, and may not be used without the prior written permission of RSLSteeper or other relevant proprietor.

  5. Copying:
    You may download material displayed on the website for use in the ordinary and proper course of your business and any such use must be incidental to your normal business or for private or personal purposes provided you maintain the integrity of the material, do not use it in a derogatory or misleading context and retain all copyright and other proprietary notices. You may not, however, without RSLSteeper’s written permission:
    - distribute, modify, transmit, re-use, re-post, or use the content (whether text, images, audio, or video) of the website for public or other commercial purposes; or
    - transfer any material to more than ten hard copies of such material.
    - supply any material in any form to a third party for commercial purposes, whether for a fee or otherwise, or without informing such third party of the conditions which apply to such material and such party’s use of such material.

    You agree that you will not:
    - use any automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy this website or any web pages or the content contained herein without RSLSteeper’s prior written permission;
    - use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of this website;
    - take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our systems;
    - copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content from this website without the prior expressed written permission of RSLSteeper and/or the appropriate third party. All other rights are reserved.

    Without limiting the foregoing, you may not without RSLSteeper’s express written permission create a link to the website other than to or via the home page as published on the website from time to time.

  6. Data Protection:
    Any personal data (such as user’s name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) transmitted to the website by electronic mail or otherwise, will be used by RSLSteeper in accordance with the Privacy Policy of the website . Any other communication or material transmitted to the website, such as questions, comments or suggestions, will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

  7. Use of Images:
    Images of people or places displayed on the website are either the property of, or used with permission by, RSLSteeper . You may not use or permit anyone else to use these images unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or unless specific permission is provided elsewhere on the website.

  8. Licence to Use Content:
    The trade marks and logos displayed on the website (collectively the "trade marks") are registered and unregistered trade marks of RSLSteeper and others. Nothing contained on the website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any licence or right to use any trade marks displayed on the website without the written permission of RSLSteeper or any third party owner of such trade marks. Use of the trade marks, or of any other content on the website, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is strictly prohibited.

  9. Links to Other Sites:
    Certain hypertext links in this website may lead to websites that are not under the control of RSLSteeper. Such links are for the convenience of users only and RSLSteeper does not endorse any content of any websites linked to this website and gives no representation or warranty (express or implied) as to the information on such sites. RSLSteeper is not responsible for the nature or the content or the privacy policies of any off-site pages or any other websites linked to this website.

    Linking to this website, off-site pages or other websites and in particular downloading computer programs from certain websites, may infringe copyright or introduce computer viruses into the user‘s own system and is at the user’s own risk. Your attention is drawn to the prohibition on creating links to this website other than to or via the home page, in paragraph 5 above.

  10. Breach of Terms and Conditions:
    You agree to release, indemnify and hold RSLSteeper and its contractors, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, shareholders and employees harmless from any claim, liability, damage, cost, expense or demand, including reasonable lawyers' fees and expenses, made by any third party relating to or arising out of your breach of these Terms and Conditions or to any documents they specifically incorporate, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

  11. Updates to Terms and Conditions:
    RSLSteeper may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. Users are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions to which they are bound. The terms and conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales. By using this website, you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales in the event of any dispute.

  12. Severability:
    If any provision of this Terms and Conditions is found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, that invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions which will remain in full force and effect

  13. Transactions entered into via the Website:
    Any contract for the purchase by you of goods or services from RSLSteeper entered into over this or any other website operated by RSLSteeper shall be governed by the RSLSteeper Standard Terms and Conditions of Supply


Copyright © 2001 RSLSteeper. All rights reserved.

RSLSteeper is the trading name of Meditech Group Limited and its subsidiaries. Meditech Group Limited is a company incorporated in England, registration number 3039649, whose registered office is at Riverside Orthopaedic Centre, 51 Riverside, Medway City Estate, Rochester, Kent, ME2 4DP.

WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

General
RSLSteeper respects the privacy of every individual who visits this website. This Privacy Policy outlines the information RSLSteeper may collect and how it may use that information.

RSLSteeper does not sell, rent or otherwise distribute any user information to third parties.

Personal Data
RSLSteeper will not collect any personally identifiable information about the user (e.g., name, address, telephone number or email address ("Personal Data")) through this website unless the user has provided it voluntarily. If users do not want their personal data collected, they are asked not to submit it. Your supply of Personal Data indicates your consent to RSLSteeper’s use of such Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise expressly permitted by you from time to time. Users are advised that should they choose to provide information, the security of information transmitted over the Internet cannot be assured.

RSLSteeper is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 to put Personal Data submitted through this website, to the following uses:

i) {maintaining accounts and records relating to any business or other activity carried out by RSLSteeper or making financial or management forecasts to assist RSLSteeper in the conduct of any such business activity;

ii) advertising or marketing RSLSteeper’s own business, activity, goods, services or events, and promoting public relations in connection with that business, activity, goods, services or events}

Users can view their Personal Data by contacting {insert contact email address}.

Any communication or material transmitted to the website by email or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or similar type of information is, and will be treated, as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything transmitted or posted may be used by RSLSteeper and its affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting.

Additional Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, RSLSteeper may automatically (i.e. not via registration) collect technical information when a user connects to the website that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser used, the type of computer operating system used and the domain name of the website from which the link to this website is activated.

Information Placed automatically on the Computer -- ‘Cookies’
When viewing this website, some information may be stored on the user’s computer. This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or similar file and can help RSLSteeper in many ways for instance to improve the content of a website to better match users’ interests and preferences. With most Internet browsers, functions are available to erase cookies from the computer’s hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Users are advised to refer to their browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. Your access to the website indicates your consent to RSLSteeper’s use of information gathered from cookies for these purposes.

Information Provided By Users
You undertake that any information or data you supply to this website:

  • a)shall be accurate and as comprehensive as reasonably possible;
  • b)shall not be false, inaccurate or misleading;
  • c)will be updated by you (particularly if it becomes false, inaccurate or misleading) by written notice to us if the information was previously provided by you or on your behalf and is contained in a repository;
  • d)shall not be fraudulent or involve the representation of counterfeit or stolen items;
  • e)shall not infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  • f)shall not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (includingwithout limitation those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination or false advertising);
  • g)shall not be defamatory, trade libellous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing;
  • h)shall not be obscene or contain pornography;
  • i)shall not contain any viruses or other computer programming routines that may or will damage, detrimentally interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
  • j)shall not create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers;
  • k)shall not be such as to cause us to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation or bring us into disrepute with any professional body, trade organisation, government department or inter-governmental organisation.

Indemnity
By submitting information, data or materials to the website, each user agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless RSLSteeper, its directors, officers and employees from all damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable lawyer's fees and court costs arising out of all claims, challenges or actions related to the user's submission of such information, data or materials, including without limitation, claims for infringement of intellectual property rights, libel and defamation.

Copyright © 2001 RSLSteeper. All rights reserved.

RSLSteeper is the trading name of Meditech Group Limited and its subsidiaries. Meditech Group Limited is a company incorporated in England, registration number 3039649, whose registered office is at Riverside Orthopaedic Centre, 51 Riverside, Medway City Estate, Rochester, Kent, ME2 4DP