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Except where indicated otherwise all copyright and other rights
that subsist in the home page and in the sub-domain pages of the
www.icr.ac.uk website the www.icrdonations.org.uk
website and the www.gosportsmad.org.uk website (together "the Site")
are owned by The Institute of Cancer Research ("The Institute")
of 123 Old Brompton Rd London SW7 3RP, (a charity, not for profit,
company limited by guarantee and registered in England No. 534147).
All use of the Site is subject to the following terms and conditions
of use:
1. You may use all material from the Site for your own
personal, non-commercial purposes as a personal information resource
in good faith only. Any other type of use requires the prior written
agreement of The Institute.
2. The Site is intended to be accessed by users in the
UK. Non-UK users must appreciate that the information contained
on the Site may not be relevant to them and that their access
to the Site might be restricted by local laws.
3. You will not use the Site:
(a) for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission
of any material, the publication, dissemination, use or possession
of which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful
in any other respect;
(b) in any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene
or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or
which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Site
by any person; (c) for the posting, uploading, emailing
or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising,
promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid
schemes," or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;
(d) for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission
of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer
code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy,
limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any
computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
(e) to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that
includes material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the Site;
(f) to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from
the Site to any third party;
(g) in such a way so as to remove the copyright or trade
mark notice(s) from any copies of any material made in accordance
with these terms; or
(h) in any way that might bring The Institute into disrepute.
4. The information provided on or in the Site is intended
for recreational, information, non-commercial purposes only. Whilst
every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information
provided by The Institute, its employees and agents in these pages,
the contents of the Site are naturally subject to change from
time to time. On those pages of the Site containing medical or
legal information, The Institute cannot guarantee the accuracy
or completeness of that information. The Site should only be used
to support, not replace, the advice of your own doctor, solicitor
or other advisor.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHECKING THE ACCURACY OF RELEVANT FACTS
AND OPINIONS GIVEN ON THE SITE BEFORE ENTERING INTO ANY COMMITMENT
BASED UPON THEM.
5. The Institute cannot guarantee that your use of the
Site will be free from error and/or uninterrupted. The Institute,
its directors, its trustees, its employees and its representatives
exclude, in so far as it is legally possible, all liability and
responsibility for any damages (other than liability for death
or physical injury arising out of the negligence of The Institute
or its officers) including, but not limited to, indirect or consequential
damages, damages for loss of opportunity or chance, or any damages
whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits,
whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action,
arising out of, or in connection with, any information on the
Site or any other Internet sites or the use thereof.
6. On some of the pages of the Site you may be informed
of the opportunity of entering into agreements with third parties.
The Institute is not liable in relation to, and takes no responsibility
for, any contract entered into by you with any third party.
7. On the donations pages of the Site you may make online
donations to The Institute. The Institute will treat each donation
confirmed when you click on the "Send Form" button on the Online
Donations Screen. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy
of your donation. The ICR shall confirm each donation in writing
to the address that you provide.
8. Where information (including sensitive financial or
personal information) is provided to The Institute directly through
the Site or by email you accept that these methods of communication
cannot be 100% secure. Where sensitive financial information is
provided to The Institute it uses encryption software to attempt
to prevent unauthorised access to this information being obtained.
However, The Institute cannot accept any responsibility or liability
for any damages (other than liability for death or physical injury
arising out of the negligence of The Institute or its officers)
arising from the misuse or loss of data or information submitted
by you to The Institute directly through the Site or by email.
9. Some of the pages on the Site include links to external
websites. These links are included to give you the opportunity
to access other pages that it is felt may be of interest or assistance
to you. The Institute is not responsible for the content of these
Internet sites.
10. The Institute may, from time to time, have competitions,
prize draws or other promotions and offers on the Site. These
will be subject to additional terms and conditions that will be
made known to you.
11. Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the Site
is free from viruses, The Institute gives no warranties it will
always be free from viruses and you are responsible for ensuring
that you have installed adequate and up-to-date virus-checking
software. The Institute excludes, in so far as it is legally possible,
all liability and responsibility (other than liability for death
or physical injury arising out of the negligence of The Institute
or its officers) for any viruses or any other computer code, files
or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the
functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software
or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material
transmitted with or as part of the Site.
12. The names, images and logos identifying The Institute
or third parties and their products and services, are the proprietary
marks of The Institute, and/or may be the proprietary marks of
third parties. Any use made of these marks may be an infringement
of rights in those marks and The Institute reserves all rights
to enforce such rights that it might have.
13. These terms may be varied from time to time. Please
ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as
you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue
to use the Site after any variation has been posted.
14. If any of these terms and conditions should be determined
to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be
severed and deleted from the terms and conditions and the remaining
terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect
and continue to be binding and enforceable.
15. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any
disputes arising from matters relating to the Site shall be exclusively
subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
16. Data Protection: How we protect your personal information
16.1 The Institute is registered under The Data Protection
Act 1998 and we process your personal information in accordance
with that legislation.
16.2 What you agree to when you give us personal information
about yourself. When you give us any personal information about
yourself by submitting such information via the donations pages
on the Site or in any other way, you agree that we may use such
information, including that otherwise obtained by The Institute,
to:
- send you information by email or other means;
- send you information about products and services of the ICR
and other parties;
- enable us to carry out statistical analysis and conduct market
research surveys;
- assess and evaluate the use that is being made of the Site;
- compile and administer the information that we have about
you. In doing this we aim to provide you with a continually
improving service.
16.3 When processing your personal information we may disclose
your details to regulatory bodies and/or other third parties. However,
if you do not want us to disclose your personal information in this
way, please make this clear by sending an appropriately worded message
to The Institute by clicking here.
16.4 In connection with the processing mentioned above, you
also agree to your personal information being transferred, stored
and processed to/in countries which do not have the same level of
data protection legislation as that of the UK and the European Union.
If you would prefer not to have your personal information transferred
in this way, please make this clear by sending an appropriately worded
message to The Institute by clicking here.
16.5 We may use cookies to collect information
about your use of the Site. A cookie is a piece of information which
is sent to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow
the sender to recognise you when you next visit the Site. Currently
we do not use cookies but, if we do in the future, any data that
we collect in this way may be processed in the same way as other
data sent to The Institute (and outlined above) and for the same
purposes.
16.6 From time to time we may also notify you of other goods
and/or services offered by The Institute or others. If you prefer
not to receive such offers or details, or if you do not wish your
personal information to be processed in the manner outlined above,
please make this clear by sending an appropriately worded message
to The Institute by clicking here.
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