Terms & conditions

  1. Introduction

1.1    These terms and conditions govern your use of our website.

1.2    By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3    Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.

  1. Users outside the UK

2.1    Our website is directed at persons resident and situated in the UK and not at any other persons.

2.2    We do not warrant that our website complies with the applicable laws or regulations of any jurisdiction outside the UK.

2.3    Subject to Section 8.1, we do not accept any liability for any loss or damage resulting from, or related to, the availability of our website or any of our website content to persons resident or situated outside the UK.

  1. Copyright notice

3.1    Copyright (c) 2017 Emsworth Corporate Planning Ltd.

3.2    Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a)    we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b)    all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

  1. Licence to use website

4.1    You may:

(a)    view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b)    download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; and

(c)    print pages from our website,

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

4.2    Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

4.3    You may only use our website for your own business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

4.4    You must not:

(a)    republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b)    sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c)    show any material from our website in public;

(d)    exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose;

(e)    redistribute material from our website; or

(f)    edit or modify material from our website.

4.5    We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

  1. Acceptable use

5.1    You must not:

(a)    use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b)    use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)    use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d)    conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(e)    access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing; or

(f)    violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website.

  1. Investments and investment decisions

6.1    This website includes general information about our services, covering capital raising, corporate planning / auto-enrollment, human resources and EIS / SEIS. Nothing on this website constitutes or is intended to constitute:

(a)    a financial promotion, an advertisement for any particular investment or investment business, or an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity;

(b)    investment advice, including advice on the merits of buying, selling, subscribing for, underwriting or exercising rights in relation to a particular security or investment;

(c)    the making of an arrangement for another person to buy, sell, subscribe for or underwrite a security or investment; or

(d)    any financial service or activity regulated or controlled by or pursuant to UK financial services law or any other applicable law.

6.2    You should take professional financial advice in connection with, or independently research and verify, any information that you find on our website and wish to rely upon, whether for the purpose of making an investment decision or otherwise.

6.3    We would like to draw your attention to the following investment warnings:

(a)    the value of shares and investments and the income derived from them can go down as well as up;

(b)    investors may not get back the amount they invested; and

(c)    past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance.

  1. Limited warranties

7.1    We do not warrant or represent:

(a)    the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b)    that the material on the website is up to date; or

(c)    that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

7.2    To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 8.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

  1. Limitations and exclusions of liability

8.1    Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a)    limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)    limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)    limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)    exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

8.2    The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 8 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a)    are subject to Section 8.1; and

(b)    govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

8.3    We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature arising out of the free information published on our website.

8.4    We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

8.5    We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

8.6    We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

8.7    We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

8.8    You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

  1. Breaches of these terms and conditions

9.1    Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a)    send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)    temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c)    permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d)    block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

(e)    contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website; and/or

(f)    commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.

9.2    Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking.

  1. Third party websites

10.1  Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.

10.2  We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 8.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

  1. Trade marks

11.1  EMSWORTH CORPORATE PLANNING, ECP, our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

11.2  The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.

  1. Variation

12.1  We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

12.2  The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

  1. Assignment

13.1  You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

13.2  You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

  1. Severability

14.1  If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

14.2  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

  1. Entire agreement

15.1  Subject to Section 8.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

  1. Law and Jurisdiction

16.1  These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

16.2  Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

  1. Statutory and regulatory disclosures

17.1  We are members of the National Association of Commercial Brokers (NACFB) and adhere to their code of practice.  For details, see:

https://www.nacfb.org/what-we-do/our-code-of-practice/

17.2  Our VAT number is 04766961.

  1. Our details

18.1  This website is owned and operated by Emsworth Corporate Planning Limited.

18.2  We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 04766961, and our registered office is at 2 & 2a The Old Flour Mill, Queen Street, Emsworth, Hampshire, England, PO10 7BT.

18.3  You can contact us:

(a)    by post, using the postal address given above;

(b)    using our website contact form;

(c)    by telephone, on the contact number published on our website from time to time; or

(d)    by email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.

Contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation on +44 1243 956 810 or email us on info@emsworth-corporate.co.uk