Terms and conditions
ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the
entire contents of this website under the domain name www.simpson-wood.co.uk (Website) and to any
correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these
terms carefully before using this Website. Using this Website
indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not
you choose to register with us. If you do not accept these terms,
do not use this Website. This notice is issued by Simpson Wood
(Firm) and Simpson Wood (Financial Services) Limited
(Company).
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 You may access most areas of this Website without registering
your details with us.
1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to
have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this
legal notice in full, you must leave this Website
immediately.
1.3 The Firm / Company may revise this legal notice at any time by
updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to
time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding
on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded
by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on
particular pages at this Website.
2. LICENCE
2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this
Website for your own use on the following basis: (a) no documents
or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way; (b) no
graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying
text; and (c) the Firm's / Company's copyright and trade mark
notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.
2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual
property rights in all material on this Website (including without
limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Firm
/ Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice,
any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with
paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach
any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this
Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy
any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.
2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be
reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public
or private electronic retrieval system or service without the
Firm's / Company's prior written permission.
2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are
reserved.
3. SERVICE ACCESS
3.1 While the Firm / Company endeavours to ensure that this Website
is normally available 24 hours a day, the Firm / Company shall not
be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time
or for any period.
3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without
notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for
reasons beyond the Firm's / Company's control.
4. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT
4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is
covered under our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post
to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and
non-proprietary. The Firm / Company shall have no obligations with
respect to such material. The Firm /Company and its designees shall
be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise
use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other
things embodied therein for any and all commercial or
non-commercial purposes.
4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this
Website any material: (a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene,
indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to
incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous,
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) 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 the UK or any other country in the
world; or (d) 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).
4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation,
by hacking).
4.4 The Firm / Company shall fully co-operate with any law
enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the
Firm / Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting
any material in breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.
5. LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES
5.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided
solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this
Website. The Firm / 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 Firm / Company
therefore 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 this Website, you do so entirely at your own
risk.
5.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so
on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page
of this Website, and subject to the following conditions: (a) you
do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of
the website; (b) you do not create a frame or any other
browser or border environment around this Website; (c) you do not
in any way imply that the Firm / Company is endorsing any products
or services other than its own; (d) you do not misrepresent your
relationship with the Firm / Company nor present any other false
information about the Firm / Company; (e) you do not otherwise use
any trade marks displayed on this Website without express written
permission from the Firm / Company; (f) you do not link from a
website that is not owned by you; and (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.
5.3 The Firm / Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the
right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms and to
take any action it deems appropriate.
5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Firm / Company for any loss or
damage suffered by the Firm / Company or any of its group companies
for breach of paragraph 5.2.
6. DISCLAIMER
6.1 While the Firm / Company endeavours to ensure that the
information on this Website is correct, the Firm / Company does not
warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this
Website. The Firm / Company may make changes to the material on
this Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any
time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of
date, and the Firm / Company makes no commitment to update such
material.
6.2 The material on this Website is provided "as is", without any
conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to
the maximum extent permitted by law, the Firm / Company provides
you with this Website on the basis that the Firm / Company excludes
all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms
(including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of
satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable
care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect
in relation to this Website.
7. LIABILITY
7.1 The Firm, Company, any other party (whether or not involved in
creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and
any of the Firm's or Company's group companies and the officers,
partners, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude
all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or
damage that may result to you or a third party (including without
limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or
damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts,
use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any
way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including
without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in
connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the
use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any
websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites,
including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may
infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on
account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your
downloading of any material from this Website or any websites
linked to this Website.
7.2 While we take all reasonable attempts to exclude viruses from
this website, we cannot ensure such attempts will be successful and
we do not accept any liability for such viruses. You are
recommended to take all appropriate safeguards before downloading
information from this website.
7.3 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Firm's
/ Company's liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by
negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms
Act 1977); or (b) fraud; or (c) misrepresentation as to a
fundamental matter; or (d) any liability which cannot be excluded
or limited under applicable law.
7.4 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for
servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you
assume all costs thereof.
7.5 You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from and
against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses arising
from or related to your breach of any of these terms.
8. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with
this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the English courts.
9. PROVISION OF SERVICES REGULATIONS 2009
Details about our audit registration can be viewed at www.auditregister.org.uk/ under reference
number C005300666.
In accordance with the disclosure requirements of the Provision
of Services Regulations 2009, our professional indemnity insurer is
Aviva Insurance Ltd of Level 4 East, Pitheavlis, Perth, Scotland,
PH2 0NH. The territorial coverage is worldwide excluding
professional business carried out from an office in the United
States of America or Canada and excludes any action for a claim
brought in any court in the United States of America or Canada.
Professional rules for audit work are shown in the Audit
Regulations and Guidance which can be found at www.icaew.com/auditnews. There are also
the International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) at www.frc.org.uk/apb/publications/isa.cfm.
Codes of conduct to be followed by all members are the
Institute's Code of Ethics which can be found at www.icaew.com/regulations. For auditors
there are also the APB Ethical Standards at www.frc.org.uk/apb/publications/ethical.cfm.
10. EMAIL DISCLAIMER
This email and its contents are subject to copyright and the
information in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It
is intended only for the named recipient(s). Access to this email
by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended
recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action
taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and
may be unlawful. If received in error please contact Simpson Wood
quoting the name of the sender and the addressee, then delete it
from your system. Any information, statements or opinions contained
in this message (including any attachments) are given by the
author. They are not given on behalf of Simpson Wood / Simpson Wood
(Financial Services) Limited unless the message is sent by a
partner or director. When addressed to our clients, any opinions or
advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and
conditions expressed in the governing Simpson Wood / Simpson Wood
(Financial Services) Limited client engagement letter. Please note
that neither Simpson Wood, Simpson Wood (Financial Services)
Limited nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses
and it is your responsibility to scan any attachments (if any).