Terms & Conditions

Website Terms and Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

WHAT’S IN THESE TERMS

These terms tell you the rules for using our websitesat www.selectscience.net and www.thescientistschannel.com (our sites)

WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US

www.selectscience.net and www.thescientistschannel.com are sites operated by SelectScience Limited ("We").

We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 3597730 and have our registered office at Science House, Church Farm Business Park, Corston, Bath, BA2 9AP, UK.

Our main trading address is Science House, Church Farm Business Park, Corston, Bath, BA2 9AP, England. Our VAT number is 713563055.

To contact us, please email us at office@selectscience.net

BY USING OUR SITES YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS

By using our sites, whether as a guest or a registered user, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our sites. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

OTHER APPLICABLE TERMS
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our sites:

Our Privacy Notice
Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our sites, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our sites.
Our Sponsor Terms and Conditions, which provide additional terms governing your relationship with us if you are a sponsor (as defined in the Sponsor Terms and Conditions.

WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may amend these terms of use from time to time.

Every time you wish to use our sites, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

CHANGES TO OUR SITES

We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our sites may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our sites, or any content on any of them, will be free from errors or omissions.

WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR SITES

Our sites are made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that any of our sites, or any content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of any of our sites for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our sites through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

WE MAY TRANSFER THIS AGREEMENT TO SOMEONE ELSE

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under these terms.

Our sites are directed to users in the UK

Our sites are directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our sites is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

ACCESSING OUR SITES

We do not guarantee that our sites, or any content on any of them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our sites is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our sites without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our sites are unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our sites.

YOUR ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us.

HOW YOU MAY USE MATERIAL ON OUR SITES

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our sites, and in the material published on them. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our sites for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our sites.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our sites must always be acknowledged, except where it is not known.

You must not use any part of the content on our sites for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our sites in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our sites will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

NO TEXT OR DATA MINING, OR WEB SCRAPING

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our sites or any services provided via, or in relation to, our sites. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

•Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of any site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.

•Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

DO NOT RELY ON INFORMATION ON THE SITES

The content on our sites is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our sites.

Our sites provide information on scientific products and services. These products are for research use only and should be used by qualified personnel only. Some products and equipment may be extremely hazardous and the user of such products should refer to supplier's instructions. We are not responsible for any products or services.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our sites, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our sites is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US

This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the sites.

This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

HOW TO COMPLAIN ABOUT OR REPORT CONTENT

If you become aware of any material that is illegal or wish to complain about any other content or matter , please contact us.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products or services to you

If you are a business user:

•We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our sites or any content on them.

•We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

•use of, or inability to use, our sites; or

•use of or reliance on any content displayed on our sites.

•In particular, we will not be liable for:

•loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

•business interruption;

•loss of anticipated savings;

•loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

•any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

•Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

•If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked to from our sites. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITES

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our sites, or to make contact with other users of our sites, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our sites will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.

You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our sites a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our sites constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our sites.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our sites if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our sites and that we have taken down, please contact us.

The views expressed by other users on our sites do not represent our views or values.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

WE MAY SUSPEND OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO OUR SITES AND/OR SERVICES IF YOU FREQUENTLY UPLOAD ILLEGAL CONTENT

If you frequently upload material that is clearly illegal, we may suspend or terminate your access to our sites and/or service. When deciding whether to suspend or terminate your access, we will consider:

•how many items of clearly illegal content you have uploaded within a given time frame in terms of the volume of other content uploaded by other users during that time;

•the gravity of the misuse, including the nature of the illegal content and its consequences (potential or otherwise);

•where possible to identify, your intention in posting the material.

If you frequently submit notices or complaints that are clearly unfounded, we may suspend the processing of any further notices or complaints from you for a reasonable period of time. We will warn you in advance if we propose to suspend processing of your notices or complaints. When deciding whether to suspend you, we will consider:

•how many items of clearly unfounded notices or complaints you submitted within a given time frame in terms of the volume of other notices or complaints submitted by other users during that time;

•the gravity of the misuse;

•where possible to identify, your intention in submitting the notices or complaints.

RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO USE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD

By submitting content to our sites, you grant SelectScience and its licensees a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and sub-licensable right to (a) use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such submissions throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose; and (b) use the name that you submit in connection with such submission. You acknowledge that we may choose to provide attribution of your comments or reviews at our discretion.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM

We do not guarantee that our sites will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our sites. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our sites by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our sites, the server on which our sites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our sites.

You must not attack our sites via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our sites will cease immediately.

LINKING TO OUR SITES

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our sites in any website that is not owned by you.

Our sites must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our sites other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of content on our sites other than that set out above, please contact editor@selectscience.net.

THIRD PARTY LINKS AND RESOURCES IN OUR SITES

We are not responsible for websites we link to.

Where our sites contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

APPLICABLE LAW

These terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

OUR TRADE MARKS
SelectScience^™ and SelectScience.net^™ and Scientists' Choice Awards^™ are registered trade marks of SelectScience Ltd.

CONTACT US
To contact us, please email office@selectscience.net.