COMPANYINFORMATION.COM USER AGREEMENT
Legal Information
COMPANYINFORMATION.COM (which definition shall also include any person, firm or organisation providing financial or credit data or information to COMPANYINFORMATION.COM) provides its financial information services ("Services" - which definition shall also include this Web site and all the information and data provided to you via this Web site) to you subject to the following notices, terms and conditions ("Terms")
BY USING THE SERVICES YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE ACCEPTED ALL OF THE NOTICES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT APPEAR BELOW AND AGREED TO BE BOUND BY THEM. YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS.
COMPANYINFORMATION.COM reserves the right to modify all or any part of these Terms or make changes to the Services or to withdraw the Services or any part of them at any time at its own discretion and without notice to you.
It is therefore recommended that you revisit these Terms regularly so that you are aware of the Terms in force at any particular time. You will be deemed to be bound by those Terms prevailing at each time that you use the Services and each such use shall be a separate, discrete transaction based on the then prevailing Terms.
Any service messages which may occasionally be published (other than price and product revisions) and any statements or timings provided by any staff or help menu are intended for informal guidance only and do not form part of your contract with COMPANYINFORMATION.COM
Warranties, Liability and Disclaimers
COMPANYINFORMATION.COM provides the Services to you on an "as is" basis. COMPANYINFORMATION.COM has made efforts to ensure that the information contained in the Services is accurate but does not give any warranty, guarantee or other term or representation of any kind, either express or implied, as to the completeness or accuracy of any such information or the credit worthiness or otherwise of any person, firm, company or other organisation referred to in the Services.
All material provided through the Services is for informational purposes only and must not be interpreted as an endorsement or otherwise of any specific person, firm, company or other organisation by COMPANYINFORMATION.COM. The information obtained from the Service should be interpreted in accordance with the definitions and explanations which are provided in "FAQ" on the website. The Services are intended to provide one source of information; you should not rely exclusively on the Services but should make your own independent enquiry. In entering into any contract or other arrangement with any person, firm, company or other organisation referred to in the Services, you warrant that the you have taken all such steps as you shall consider necessary or appropriate to verify the credit worthiness or otherwise of such person, firm, company or other organisation. You are advised to exercise the standard of care in selecting or contacting any person, firm, company or other organisation from the Services as would be appropriate in selecting or contacting any other person, firm, company or other organisation with whom you have not previously dealt. The Services neither offer nor purport to offer any advice on any subject, and nothing contained in the Services is intended to be given or taken as advice on any subject.
You understand and agree that COMPANYINFORMATION.COM takes no responsibility for any credit ratings or credit opinions in the reports. You understand that credit ratings and credit opinions in the reports are not calculated by COMPANYINFORMATION.COM and are presented without review or warranty as to appropriateness or competence as received from the agent or data provider from which the report has been sourced.
The Services shall be provided in such manner at such times and in such places as COMPANYINFORMATION.COM shall from time to time in its absolute discretion determine. COMPANYINFORMATION.COM reserves the right to modify, alter the nature of or discontinue the Services or any part of the Services without notice.
COMPANYINFORMATION.COM shall not be liable for any typographical or other errors or omissions in the Services.
No liability or responsibility is accepted if email communication is, for whatever reason corrupted or does not reach its intended recipient. Although COMPANYINFORMATION.COM takes reasonable steps to ensure that email communications and any attachments are free from computer virus no warranty is given that any email is free of viruses and you should take your own steps to ensure that they are actually virus free.
Except as may be specifically stated herein, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall COMPANYINFORMATION.COM, nor any of its directors, employees or other representatives be liable for any damages, loss or claim of any kind howsoever arising out of or in connection with the use of the Services including (without limitation) compensatory, direct or indirect, special, punitive, consequential or exemplary damages, lost profits, lost sales or business, lost data or inability to use data, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties irrespective of whether COMPANYINFORMATION.COM or any of its directors, employees or other representatives has been informed of, knew of, or should have known of the likelihood of such damages. This limitation applies to all causes of action including (without limitation) breach of contract, breach of warranty, negligence, strict liability, misrepresentation and other torts, although COMPANYINFORMATION.COM does not seek to limit its liability for death or personal injury caused by their negligence.
If COMPANYINFORMATION.COM's limitation of liability set out in this agreement shall for any reason whatever be held unenforceable or inapplicable in whole or in part, or in the event that a judgment is awarded against COMPANYINFORMATION.COM arising out of your use of the Services (other than in the case of death or personal injury) you hereby agree that COMPANYINFORMATION.COM's entire liability to you or anyone claiming through you, whether in tort or contract, arising out of any one incident or series of connected incidents shall in any event not exceed GBP 1,000 in aggregate or the cost of all Reports you have purchased from COMPANYINFORMATION.COM in the 12 months preceding the date of any claim, whichever is the higher.
By their very nature, some of the facts or opinions you receive from the Services may be open to dispute, particularly by the subject company or its directors, or considered damaging or defamatory. If you breach any of the terms set out in these Terms and Conditions relating to the use of or dissemination of information from the Services, you agree to indemnify in full COMPANYINFORMATION.COM against all liabilities, claims, costs and expenses which they may incur as a result.
You agree that any information you provide to us through your use of the Services will be accurate and that we may use any such information to provide and improve our products and services.
Restrictions on Use of the Services
You confirm that if you use our services to obtain information about individual persons within the United Kingdom or unincorporated businesses trading within the United Kingdom, that you are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 for the purposes of accessing and holding information about individuals for the purposes of assessing credit worthiness. You confirm that in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, if the subject of your search is not a Limited company, it is your standard practice to notify the subject as to the purpose of the search and to obtain the subject's consent to a search being carried out with a credit reference agency which will keep a record of that search and will share information with other businesses. This includes any occasions when you may be making enquiries about the principal directors of a Limited company with a credit reference agency. You understand and agree that if at any time your Data Protection registration is allowed to lapse or is discontinued that you shall not access or attempt to access personal data from this or any other COMPANYINFORMATION.COM service.
We may make a search with a credit reference agency, which will keep a record of that search and will share the information with other businesses. We may also make enquiries about the principal directors with a credit reference agency.
You are entitled to use the information on the Services for your own private personal use only. You may electronically copy and print in hard copy portions of the Services solely for your own private personal use. You may not use the Services or any part or copy of the Services for any commercial purposes. Any use or reproduction of the Services or any part of the Services (other than private personal use), or any modification, distribution, communication or republication of the Services or any part of the Services without the prior written permission of COMPANYINFORMATION.COM is strictly prohibited.
COMPANYINFORMATION.COM reserves the right to amend or withdraw any product or service at any time. COMPANYINFORMATION.COM reserves the right to withdraw or terminate your use of the service at any time.
If Credits are added to your account in advance of payment you agree to settle invoices within our standard credit terms which are 14 days from date of invoice. If you have any dispute or query in respect of any invoices you agree to notify us in writing within 7 days of the date of the invoice.
Refund Policy
Due to the nature of our service whereby we cannot reverse the provision of data when Credits are purchased or a prepayment is made for our services it is understood that Credits or prepayments are not refundable. Credits can be used to obtain our services for a maximum of 12 months from the date of purchase. Credits not used within 12 months of purchase will expire. In the case of manually investigated international corporate credit reports only Credits may be refunded if the subject of the enquiry cannot be traced by our agent and no report is provided in which case a refund will be less the cost of 3 Credits to cover agents search fees and administration. It is also understood that in many countries local filing requirements may restrict the information and no guarantee is given that financial data, accounts information, or any other data can be provided.
Privacy Policy
You agree that COMPANYINFORMATION.COM may contact you by email for the purposes of providing services or information about the services. If you do not wish to receive any communication by email you may contact COMPANYINFORMATION.COM and ask to remove your email address from your account records although you agree that by so doing COMPANYINFORMATION.COM may not be able to provide you with the services which require an email address. You agree that any information you provide to us through your use of the Services may be used by us to provide or improve our products and services.
We may use tracking and statistical research tools such as Google Analytics when you visit our website to help us understand visitor interaction with our website.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you use the Service to access personal data as defined by the GDPR you shall at all times abide by any and all requirements that apply to you or your organisation under the GDPR. You acknowledge that the GDPR includes specific requirements in respect of data breach prevention and data breach management. You will cooperate and assist COMPANYINFORMATION.COM in fulfilling its obligations under the GDPR in respect to your use of the Services. You agree to indemnify in full COMPANYINFORMATION.COM against all costs, claims, demands, losses and expenses which it may incur as a result of or in connection with you not complying with any or all of the requirements that apply to you or your organisation under the GDPR.
Intellectual Property
The data, information and material contained in the Services, all Web site design, text and graphics and the selection and arrangement thereof and all software used to operate the Services and the trademarks, logos and other intellectual property used in connection with the Services are the property of COMPANYINFORMATION.COM. No licence of any such intellectual property rights is granted to you as a result of your use of the Services. Other product and company names mentioned in the information provided in the Services may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
About
COMPANYINFORMATION.COM is operated by First Report Limited, a limited liability company registered in England and Wales, company number 2456252 with a Registered Office address at C/O MJB Avanti, Office 12, Epsilon House, West Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9FJ.
General
This agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between COMPANYINFORMATION.COM and you. It supersedes any previous agreement or understanding and may not be varied except in writing between us. All other terms and conditions, express or implied by statute or otherwise, are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Any notice required or permitted to be given by either party to the other under these Terms shall be in writing addressed to the other party at its registered office or principal place of business or such other address as may at the relevant time have been notified pursuant to this provision to the party giving the notice.
No failure or delay by either party in exercising any of its rights under this agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of that right, and no waiver by either party of any breach of this agreement by the other shall be considered as a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same or any other provision.
If any provision of this agreement is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of the other provisions of this agreement and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected.
Any dispute arising under or in connection with this agreement or the Services shall be referred to arbitration by a single arbitrator appointed by agreement or (in default) nominated on the application of either party by the President for the time being of The British Computer Society in accordance with the rules of The British Computer Society.
This Agreement shall be governed and construed in all respects in accordance with English law and the parties irrevocably agree to submit to the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your local jurisdiction regarding the use of the Services.