Please read these terms and conditions carefully, they contain important information about your rights and obligations.

1. Introduction

1.1 Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using the web site operated by Engineers Without Borders UK ('EWB-UK','EWB', 'we' or 'us'). In particular, we draw your attention to clause 11 (Liability). By accessing or using the EWB-UK web site, the address of which is www.ewb-uk.org ('our web site'), you agree to be legally bound by these terms and conditions as they may be modified and posted on our web site from time to time.

1.2 If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions then you may not use our web site.

1.3 Our web site is controlled and operated by us from our offices at the Humanitarian Centre, Fenners, Gresham Road, Cambridge.

2. Nature of our web site

2.1 Our web site is a place for you to view the information contained about our organisation and its activities, and other such information as we may consider to be of interest to our members.

3. Buying Products on our web site

3.1 We may in future make Products available for purchase via this site. The following conditions will then apply to all purchases carried out through the site.

3.2 Details of our prices for the Products, and the procedures for payment and delivery will be displayed on the relevant pages of our web site.

3.3 The price of any Product is the price in force at the date and time of your order. We may change the price of any Product before you place an order. We will try to ensure that our prices displayed on our web site are accurate but the price of your order will need to be validated by us as part of the acceptance procedure (see clause 3.4 below). We will inform you if a Product's correct price is higher than that stated in your order and you may cancel the order or decide whether or not to order the product at the correct price.

3.4 EWB-UK is entitled to refuse any order placed by you. If your order is accepted, we will confirm acceptance to you by online electronic means to the email address you have given us on ordering and by sending an invoice to the postal address you have given us on ordering.

3.5 We do not give any guarantee regarding availability of products advertised on this site.

3.6 We do not give any guarantee regarding time of delivery of products sold through this site but will endeavour to achieve delivery in the minimum possible time.

3.7 You undertake that all details you provide to us for the purpose of purchasing Products will be correct.

4. Modifications to web site

 

We reserve the right to alter, suspend or discontinue any aspect of our web site or the content or services available through it, including your access to it. Unless explicitly stated any new features including new content, and/or the sale of new Products shall be subject to these terms and conditions.

5. Modifications to Training Courses and Events

5.1 We reserve the right to alter all training courses and events described on this site with respect to programme content, speakers, timing or location.

6. Information you provide

6.1 The following applies to any information you provide to us; for example, during any registration or ordering process:

6.1.1 you authorise us to use, store or otherwise process any personal information which relates to and identifies you, including but not limited to your name and address ('Personal Information'), in accordance with our privacy policy;

6.1.2 you must ensure that the Personal Information you provide is accurate and complete and that all ordering or registration details (where applicable) contain your correct name, address and other requested details.

7. Applicability of Online Materials

7.1 We have used our best endeavours to ensure that our web site complies with UK law. However, we make no representations that the materials on our web site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United Kingdom.

8. Intellectual Property

8.1 The contents of our web site are protected by international copyright laws and other intellectual property rights. The owner of these rights is EWB-UK or other third party licensors. All product and company names and logos mentioned in our web site are the trade marks, service marks or trading names of their respective owners including us. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute, by any means or in any manner, any material or information downloaded from our web site including but not limited to text, graphics without acknowledging EWB-UK as the source of such material or information.

8.2 Any images uploaded to our website are done so on the basis of a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, a summary explanation of which can be found here. Full terms of the license can be found here

9. Linked Sites

9.1 EWB-UK makes no representations whatsoever about any other web sites which you may access through our web site or which may link to our web site.

9.2 When you access any other web site, you understand that it is independent from EWB-UK and that we have no control over the content or availability of that web site.

9.3 A link to any other site does not mean that EWB-UK endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use of, such a web site and shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through any other web site or resource.

9.4 Any concerns regarding any external link should be directed to its web site administrator or web master.

10. Availability of our web site

10.1 We will try to make our web site available but cannot guarantee that our web site will operate continuously or without interruptions or be error free and can accept no liability for its unavailability.

10.2 You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of our web site and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, web site, router or any other internet connection device.

11. Liability

11.1 To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all express or implied terms, conditions, warranties, representations or endorsements whatsoever with regard to the Products provided through our web site.

11.2 We will do our best to ensure that all freely available materials and information published on our web site are accurate, but please note that we exclude all express or implied terms, conditions, warranties, representations or endorsements whatsoever with regard to the content of our web site.

11.3 In relation to the purchase of Products, we accept no liability for any indirect or consequential loss or damage, or for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business (whether direct or indirect), however caused, even if foreseeable.

11.4 In circumstances where you suffer loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the viewing, use or performance of our web site or its contents other than as a direct result of purchasing Products, we accept no liability for this loss or damage (except where we have been negligent) whether due to inaccuracy, error, omission or any other cause and whether on the part of EWB-UK or our servants, agents or any other person.

11.5 If we are liable to you for any reason, our liability will be limited to the amount paid by you for the Product concerned. This limit does not apply to any liability we may have for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence.

11.6 You are responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use our web site and is compatible with our web site. You also understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that any material available for downloading from our web site will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

11.7 The limitations and exclusions in this clause 11 only apply to the extent permitted by applicable law.

12. General

12.1 We may assign, novate or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations under these terms and conditions at any time.

12.2 We may alter these terms and conditions from time to time and post the new version on our web site, following which all use of our web site will be governed by that version. You must check the terms and conditions on the web site regularly.

12.3 These terms and conditions, together with the privacy policy, any order form and payment method instructions, if any, are the whole agreement between you and EWB-UK. You acknowledge that you have not entered into this agreement in reliance upon any warranty or representation made by EWB-UK or any other person and you waive any rights to damages/rescission you may have for misrepresentation (other than a fraudulent misrepresentation) that is not contained in the terms and conditions, privacy policy, order form and payment method instructions.

12.4 If any provision or term of these terms and conditions shall become or be declared illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever, such term or provision shall be divisible from the other terms and conditions and shall be deemed to be deleted from them.

12.5 These terms and conditions and your use of our web site are governed by the law and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

12.6 Neither you nor EWB-UK will be held liable for any failure to perform any obligation to the other due to causes beyond your or EWB-UK's respective reasonable control.

12.7 Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under this agreement does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.

13. Notices

13.1 All notices shall be given:

13.1.1 to us via the enquiries contact form or via post to the Humanitarian Centre, Fenners, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB2 1ES

13.1.2 to you at either the email or postal address you provide during any registration process. Notice will be deemed received when an email is received in full (or else on the next business day if it is received on a weekend or a public holiday in the place of receipt) or 3 days after the date of posting.

14. Replacement

These terms and conditions replace all other terms and conditions previously applicable to the use of our web site and/or sale of the Products.