Terms of Website Use
This page (together with the documents referred to on it)
tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website
www.lowcarboneconomy.com (our “site”), whether as a guest or a registered user.
Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By
using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you
agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please
refrain from using our site.
Information About Us
www.lowcarboneconomy.com is a site operated by The Low
Carbon Economy Limited ("We").
We are registered as a private
limited company in England and Wales under company number 05962391 and have our
registered office and main trading address at:
Thorney Weir House, Iver, Bucks, SL0 9AQ, UK.
E-mail: info@lowcarboneconomy.com
Fax: +44 (0) 1895 431 880
Our VAT number is: GB 901 2419 69
Accessing Our Site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we
reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site
without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is
unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of
our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
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, and 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 opinion you have failed to comply with any of the
provisions of these terms of use.
When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of
our Acceptable Use Policy.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary
for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that
all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of
these terms, and that they comply with them.
Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual
property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. 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 site for your personal reference and you may draw the
attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.
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 material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site 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 site in
breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately
and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you
have made.
Reliance on Information Posted
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not
intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore
disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on
such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of
any of its contents.
Our Site Changes Regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the
content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or
close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at
any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
Our Liability
The material displayed on our site is provided without any
guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent
permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties
connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be
implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage
incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use,
inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it
and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability
for:
- loss of income or revenue;
- loss of business;
- loss of profits or contracts;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of data;
- loss of goodwill;
- wasted management or office time; and
for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising
and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or
otherwise, even if foreseeable.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal
injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent
misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any
other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Information About You and Your Visits to Our Site
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
By using our site, you consent to
such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Leads Generated Through Our Site
Leads generated for advertisers formed through our site or
as a result of visits made are governed by our Credit/Payment Policy and Advertisement Quality Policy.
Uploading Content to Our Site
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload
material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, 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 indemnify us for
any breach of that warranty.
Any material you upload to our site will be considered
non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute
and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have
the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any
material posted or uploaded by you to our site 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 materials posted by you or any other user of
our site.
We have the right to edit or remove any material or posting
you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the
content standards set out in our Acceptable
Use Policy or for any other reason.
Viruses, Hacking & Other Offences
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing
viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or
technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to
our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or
database connected to our site. You must not attack our site 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 site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a
distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses 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 material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Linking to Our Site
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, but 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 from any website that is not
owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site. We reserve
the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from 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 material on our site other
than that set out above, please address your request to info@lowcarboneconomy.com
Links from Our Site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources
provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no
responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use
of them.
Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any
claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site. These terms of use and
our site are governed by English law.
Variations
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending
this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice
of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions
contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices
published elsewhere on our site.
Your Concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our
site, please contact info@lowcarboneconomy.com
Thank you for visiting our site.
Community Content Rules
Acceptance of Community Content (“Forum”) Rules
These rules (“Rules”) set out the terms for use of any
community content directory (“Forum”) on this site including forums, bulletin
boards or notice boards, polls, reviews and voting appearing from time to time
which apply to all users. Any submission of material by you to the Forum means
that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the terms and conditions of these
Rules.
The Rules supplement our Terms
of Website Use and our Privacy Policy.
The Forums will be facilitated by The Low Carbon Economy
Limited (“we”, “us”).
Moderation
The Forum is moderated. Every contribution submitted to the
Forum (“Contribution”) may be checked by us for compliance with our Content Standards (“Content Standards”) usually
within one working day of it being published. We will try to publish as many
Contributions as we can but we cannot guarantee that all Contributions will be
published. We also cannot guarantee how quickly Contributions will be posted
on the Forum as this will depend on other editorial commitments.
Although the Forum is moderated, we are under no obligation
to you or any other person to oversee, monitor or moderate the Forum or any
other service we provide on our site and we may stop moderating the Forum at
any time. We reserve the right to edit, remove, or to disable access to, any
Contribution which we deem to be potentially defamatory of any person or which
we deem unlawful or in violation of any third party rights, or for any other
reason. We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from
the use of the Forum by any person in contravention of these Rules.
Use of the Forum by Minors
The use of the Forum by a minor is subject to the consent of
their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use
the Forum that it is important that they communicate with their children about
their safety online. Minors who are using the Forum should be made aware of
the potential risks to them and of their obligation to comply with these Rules
when using the Forum.
We will do our best to assess any possible risks to minors
from third parties when they use the Forum, and we will decide in each case
whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including
what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks.
Submission of Contributions
To add a Contribution to a discussion, please click here.
There is a limit to the length of a Contribution of 1500
words. We ask you to respect this limit and reserve the right to edit longer
contributions.
If you would like to start a new thread for discussion,
please click here.
Before making a Contribution you must register with the site
by completing the registration form. Your name, your position, community alias, the name of your
company and location may appear as part of your Contribution when published, and
a summary of your activities on the site is likely to be publically accessible. We reserve the right to change
your community alias, but will try to let you know if we do so.
Content Standards
These Content Standards apply to each part of a Contribution
as well as to its whole. The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit
as well as to the letter. The Low Carbon Economy Limited will determine, in its
discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.
A Contribution must:
- Be accurate (where it states facts).
- Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
- Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in
any country from which it is posted.
- Be relevant.
- Comply with reasonable spelling, grammatical and clarity
standards.
A Contribution must not:
- Be defamatory of any person.
- Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion,
nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Be likely to deceive any person.
- Promote sexually explicit material.
- Promote violence.
- Disclose the name, address, telephone, mobile or fax number,
e-mail address or any other personal data in respect of any individual.
- Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of
any other person.
- Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a
contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
- Be in contempt of court.
- Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or
cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
- Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any
other person.
- Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation
with any person.
- Give the impression that the Contribution emanates from us
if this is not the case.
- Advocate, promote, incite any third party to commit, or
assist any unlawful or criminal act.
- Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have
reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the
statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct
or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission,
preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
- Contain any advertising or promote any services or web
links to other sites.
- Be self-promotional
Copyright
By submitting a Contribution to the Forum, you agree to
grant us a non-exclusive licence to use that Contribution. Although you will
still own the copyright in your Contribution, we will have the right to freely
use, edit, alter, remove, reproduce, publish and/or distribute the material
contained in your Contribution. This licence will be free of charge, perpetual
and capable of sub-licensing. We may exercise all copyright licence and
publicity rights in the material contained in your Contribution in all
jurisdictions, to their full extent and for the full period for which any such
rights exist in that material.
Please also note that, in accordance with the Content Standards, you must ensure that your
Contribution does not infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of
any other person. By submitting your Contribution to the Forum, you are
warranting that you have the right to grant us the non-exclusive copyright
licence described above.
If you are not in a position to grant such a licence to us,
please do not submit the Contribution to the Forum.
Breach of these Rules
When we consider that a breach of the Content Standards has occurred, we may at our
discretion take such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with
these Rules constitutes a material breach of the terms of use on which you are
permitted to use the Forum, and may result in our taking all or any of the
following actions:
- Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right
to use the Forum.
- Immediate, temporary or permanent editing or removal of
any Contribution already posted on the Forum.
- Issue of a warning to you.
- Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all
costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable
administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
- Further legal action against you.
- Disclosure of such information to law enforcement
authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
We exclude our liability for all action we may take in
response to breaches of these Rules. The actions described above are not
limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
Complaints
If you wish to complain about any Contribution posted to the
Forum, please contact us at Thorney Weir House, Iver, Bucks, SL0 9AQ or info@lowcarboneconomy.com. We will
then review the Contribution and decide whether it complies with our Content Standards. We will deal with any
Contribution which, in our opinion, violates our Content
Standards as described above (see section "Breach
of these Rules"). We will inform you of the outcome of our review
within a reasonable time of receiving your complaint.
Changes to these Rules
We may revise these Rules at any time. You are expected to
check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as
they are legally binding on you.
Acceptable Use Policy
This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the terms between you
and us under which you may access our website www.lowcarboneconomy.com (our
“site”). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to,
our site.
Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to
abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our Terms of Website Use.
www.lowcarboneconomy.com
is a site operated by The Low Carbon Economy Limited (“we” or “us”). We are
registered as a private limited company in England and Wales under company
number 05962391 and we have our registered office and main trading address at
Thorney Weir House, Iver, Bucks, SL0 9AQ. Our VAT number is GB 901 2419 69.
Prohibited Uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not
use our site:
- In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or
international law or regulation.
- In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any
unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
- For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in
any way.
- To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or
re-use any material which does not comply with our Content Standards.
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or
unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of
similar solicitation (spam).
- To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material
that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke
loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer
code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software
or hardware.
You also agree:
- Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of
our site in contravention of the provisions of our Terms of Website Use.
- Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or
disrupt:
- any part of our site;
- any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
- any software used in the provision of our site; or
- any equipment or network or software owned or used by any
third party.
Interactive Services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our
site, including, without limitation:
- Chat rooms
- Bulletin boards
- Forums and/or Discussions
- Voting
- Comments
- Reviews
(“interactive services”).
Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide
clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated
and what form of moderation is used.
We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users
(and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any
interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case
whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including
what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are
under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we
provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or
damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in
contravention of our Content Standards,
whether the service is moderated or not.
The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is
subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who
permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that
they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation
is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made
aware of the potential risks to them.
Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will
normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern
or difficulty arise.
Content Standards
Our Content Standards
apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site
(“Contributions”) and to any interactive services associated with it.
You must comply with the spirit of the standards as well as
the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to
its whole.
Suspension and Termination
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been
a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy
through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may
take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this Acceptable
Use Policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms
of Website Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result
in our taking all or any of the following actions:
- Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right
to use our site.
- Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting
or material uploaded by you to our site.
- Issue of a warning to you.
- Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all
costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable
administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
- Further legal action against you.
- Disclosure of such information to law enforcement
authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to
breaches of this Acceptable Use Policy.
The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any
other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
Changes to the Acceptable Use Policy
We may revise this Acceptable
Use Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check
this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are
legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use
policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on
our site.
Privacy Policy
The Low Carbon Economy Limited ("We") are
committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our Terms
of Website Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the
basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to
us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand
our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”),
the data controller is The Low Carbon Economy Limited of Thorny Weir House,
Iver, Bucks, SL0 9AQ (Our contact for data protection issues is our legal
department: dataprotection@lowcarboneconomy.com).
Information We May Collect from You
We may collect, process and share with third parties the
following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our
site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use
our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting
further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a
problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for
research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our site and
of the fulfilment of your orders.
- Details of your visits to our site (including, but not
limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication
data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise)
and the resources that you access.
IP Addresses and Cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including
where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system
administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is
statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not
identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your
general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive
of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your
computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better
and more personalised service. They enable us:
- To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
- To store information about your preferences, and so allow
us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognise you when you return to our site.
- To deliver our Pay Per Click services effectively.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting
on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if
you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site.
Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies,
our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over
which we have no control.
Where we Store Your Personal Data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and
stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"),
although it will typically be stored on secure UK servers. It may also be
processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our
suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the processing of
your payment details and the provision of services. By submitting your personal
data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps
reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance
with this Privacy Policy.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a
password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a
password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the
internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your
personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our
site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your
information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to
prevent unauthorised access.
Uses Made of the Information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the
most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information, products or services that
you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have
consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts
entered into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our
service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
- To manage our Pay Per Click advertising service, prevent
click fraud and to cooperate with law enforcement agencies to investigate
suspected illegal activities.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties
to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services
which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by
email, post or telephone.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to
pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the
relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the
registration form). You may change this preference at any time by signing into
your account and ticking or unticking the box on the page entitled 'My Details' (sign-in required).
We do not disclose information about identifiable
individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate
information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged
under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use
such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they
want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you
to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their
advertisement to that target audience.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of
our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its
subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets,
in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller
or buyer of such business or assets.
- If The Low Carbon Economy Limited or substantially all of
its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held
by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal
data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce
or apply our Terms of Website Use and
other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of those
of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with
other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and
credit risk reduction.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal
data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your
data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to
disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can
exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the
forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time
by contacting us at our address or e-mail address stated above, or by signing
in and modifying your Account settings (sign-in required).
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from
the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you
follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have
their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or
liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit
any personal data to these websites.
Access to Information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about
you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any
access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing
you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future
will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy
policy are welcomed and should be addressed to our contact, whose details are
set out in the second paragraph of this policy.
Credit/Payment Policy and Terms
These terms set out the basis on which The Low Carbon
Economy Limited charges for advertising on its site. Please read the terms and
conditions carefully before seeking to place an advert. By registering with us,
you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
General
- If you wish to make use of the facility to advertise on
this site, you must register and thereafter always use your password to
access the relevant parts of the site.
- Once you have created your advert(s) to be inserted into
specific advertisement directories, you must visit our payment/credit
centre to buy credit, so that the adverts can be made visible on
the site.
- A minimum of £49.95 credit must be purchased to activate each new account, and this must be paid before any advert(s) will appear
in the site. We reserve the right to alter this amount at any time and without notice. The minimum credit purchase
amount will be indicated during the credit purchasing process.
- You are responsible for selecting the amount of credit desired,
which will generate a sales order based on the amount of credit.
- You will then be redirected to a secure third party
payment processor who takes the money for the credit and confirms the
transaction.
- Once the previous stage has been completed, the site adds
the credit purchased to your user account. You can check the credit in
Your Account (sign-in required).
- You must set a daily budget of credit for use in relation
to your advertisements (e.g. spend no more than £50 worth of credit per
day).
- Provided you have sufficient credit in your user account
and within the daily budget, the advertisements will appear on the site almost
immediately.
- Every time an advert is viewed (subject to our Valid Clicks/Impressions Policy,
this creates an impression. If one of your adverts is clicked, the cost
per click (“CPC”) for that advert will be deducted from your daily budget.
The CPC of an advert is determined by the keywords or key-phrases (“tags”)
with which the advert is classified, and by which tags are active on the
page at the time of the click. When you add an advert to our site, you
choose the tags you wish to associate with your advert, and then bid on
the CPC for each tag. Generally speaking, the higher your bid, the higher
your advert will rank.
- We reserve the right to add, change or remove your chosen keywords without notice
at any time and for any reason.
- With Premium listings, in addition to the CPC, you will be charged credit for
every impression relating to your advert (“cost per impression”
or “CPM”), the amount may vary depending on your account settings and at
our discretion.
- The adverts will remain on the site, provided the credit
in your daily budget is sufficient to meet all applicable CPCs and CPMs
relating to your adverts.
- Credit remains active for 6 months after the last account
activity – so if you archive all of your adverts and do nothing for 6
months, then you will lose your remaining credit. While we will use
reasonable endeavours to prompt you to use credit, we accept no liability
to you for lost credit.
- Credit only applies to advertiser directories.
- The site may refer to certain values such as Cost Per
Click or Cost Per Impression in currency terms (e.g. 10 pence, £5), but
the cost is actually measured in credit to the value of this currency
amount.
- We reserve the right to over-deliver your advertising.
This means that if you have run out of credit or daily budget, we may
still show your adverts at our discretion, but agree not to charge you
more than your daily budget when averaged out over a reasonable time scale
(for example one week or one month).
- You may choose between a standard and premium listing for each advert that you create.
- Premium listings allow you to upload a file instead of inserting a link. If you have uploaded your company logo, this will also
be displayed with each premium advert listing. We reserve the right to add or remove
benefits associated with premium listings without notice at any time and for any
reason.
Your Status
By registering with us, you warrant that:
- You are legally capable of entering into a binding contract;
- You are at least 18 years of age;
Cancellation
A contract shall be deemed made when you first purchase
credit and it is paid for pursuant to clause 4 above. You may cancel the
contract within 7 days of it being made, by giving written notice to us (by
post, fax or e-mail). We will use all reasonable endeavours to arrange a refund
of any un-used credit in the event of such cancellation, but you will be
responsible for any deductions or charges made by the third party payment
processor.
Refunds
We do not offer refunds except as detailed in our Cancellation
clause above. Once you have purchased credit, it will remain available to you to
spend on advertising within our site, in accordance with the terms above (under Credit/Payment
Policy and Terms / General).
Our Liability
Our liability for loss or damage you suffer as a result of
us breaching these terms and any contract is strictly limited in aggregate in
any 12 month rolling period to the value of the credit purchased by you for use
on our site in that 12 month period and for foreseeable losses (being those
contemplated by you and us when you registered with us).
This clause does not limit our liability to you for death or
personal injury caused by our negligence or for fraud.
We are not responsible or liable for indirect or
consequential loss or damage, such as but not limited to loss of income or
revenue, loss of business, loss of profits, loss of contracts, loss of
anticipated savings, loss of data or waste of management time, however arising
and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or
otherwise (even if foreseeable).
Right to Vary
We have the right to revise and amend these Credit/Payment Policy and Terms from
time to time and the terms appearing on our website from time to time shall
prevail. You are advised to check our site regularly for such changes.
Law and Jurisdiction
These terms, your registration and any arrangements
regarding adverts will be governed by English law and any dispute shall be
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Valid Clicks/Impressions Policy
Site Users
TLCE will not charge you for clicks or impressions (also referred to as 'views') generated
by the following classes of users:
- Robots
TLCE employs a number of measures to detect clicks generated by robots or
other automated clicking programmes. You will not be charged for these clicks
and impressions. If you suspect when you receive your report for any reason
that any of the clicks or impressions on were generated by robots please
contact us and we will investigate. Any clicks or impressions that subsequently
prove to have been generated by robots (highly unlikely) will be re-credited to
your account.
- TLCE Employees
TLCE enforces a policy that all employees and contractors sign in as soon
as they access www.lowcarboneconomy.com
so that the site can identify all internal TLCE activity on the site. You will
not be charged for any clicks or impressions generated by TLCE employees or
contractors.
- Ad Owners
We request that all advertisers sign in as soon as they access www.lowcarboneconomy.com so that the
site can identify Advertiser activity on the site. You will not be charged for
any clicks or impressions that you generate when clicking or viewing your own adverts.
Time Period
TLCE has a simple structure for charging our advertisers,
designed to be transparent and fair.
Advertising is managed on a daily basis: you are asked to
set a daily budget and your adverts will only show in the site as long as there
is enough left in the budget to cover any costs incurred.
- We will only charge you for one click per advert per user per
24 hour period
- We charge you every time that your adverts are
displayed on a page on the site. Only ten impressions per advert per user
per 24 hour period will be considered valid chargeable views/impressions.
Where a “user” is, in the following order of preference:
- A signed in user
- A computer identified by IP address and cookie
- An IP address
If there are any other clicks or impressions that you feel
are invalid, please inform us by telephone, post or email within one month of
receiving your invoice or statement.
We hope that this policy will help ensure a maximum Return
On Investment (ROI) for your advertising budget.
Advertisement Quality Policy
TLCE operates an advertisement quality policy designed to
ensure a high quality of informative and accurate advertising on www.lowcarboneconomy.com, and so
maximise the Return On Investment (ROI) of your advertisements.
Editorial Policy
Adverts should be:
- Clear, concise, relevant and appropriate
- Professional, easy to read and compelling
- Accurate, truthful and specific
- Free from hidden surprises
- Free from profanity, swearing or offensive language
If you include pricing, or ‘free’, in your advert, the
details must be available within a click or two of the target URL landing page.
In terms of spelling, punctuation and grammar, please follow
these guidelines:
- All spelling must be correct, and words used must be in
general circulation (e.g. found in an online dictionary)
- No action phrases such as ‘Click Here’
- Comparative and superlative words (such as “best” and
“most” must be used carefully and you must be able to back these claims up
if called to do so. We may ask you to include justification for these
claims within a click or two of the target URL landing page.
- Single spaces only, and no misuse of spaces, e.g. s p a c
i n g
- Punctuation should be appropriate and should not repeat,
e.g. Free!!!
Link Policy
Our link policy is designed to ensure a positive experience
for all users of www.lowcarboneconomy.com
Display URL: must be the same domain as the destination
URL and follow TLCE’s Editorial Policy
Target/Destination URL: must a valid HTML-only URL that
links to a web page in a site that is not under construction. It is your
responsibility as the advertiser to ensure that your target/destination links
are valid and comply with these rules and TLCE reserve the right to charge for
users who click through but are unable to load the target/destination URL for
any reason.
Pop-ups: Pop-ups (or pop-under) are not allowed on entry
to or exit from the destination page.
We will usually attempt to contact you by your account’s
registered email to notify you if we find any problem with any of your adverts,
but reserve the right to edit or remove any advert temporarily or permanently without
notice at any time.
Email Confidentiality and Privacy Notice
The information contained in all electronic messages from us are intended ONLY for the confidential use of the named recipient(s). If the reader of any message is not the intended recipient(s) or person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that you have received that communication in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received the message in error, please notify us immediately by electronic mail at the sender's address set forth in the message and destroy the electronic message.
Whilst we maintain protection against known computer viruses it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of any message and/or any of the attachments will not adversely affect their systems and or data.
We comply with EC directive 2002/58/EC as it applies to electronic communications from commercial organizations. Only individuals and companies that have approached us or companies active in the low carbon space whose contact details have been made available via the internet are included in our mailings. We do not purchase nor supply address data from or to 3rd parties. If you don’t wish to receive communications from us in the future, simply reply 'cancel' to any email from us.
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