Terms & Conditions

GENERAL

Welcome to our Website at www.ukota.org (the “Website”). The Website is provided by The United Kingdom Overseas Territory Association, at 150 Strand, London WC2R 1JA, UK (“The Government of Gibraltar”, “us”, “we” or “our” for short) “you” and “your” means you as the user of our Website. Our e-mail address is secretariat@ukota.org.

ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT

These terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) govern your use of the Website and the supply of all services, materials and information via the Website. By accessing the Website, you agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you should not use the Website. You should read all the Terms and Conditions prior to using the Website. You should also save and/or print out a copy of these Terms and Conditions for future reference. The privacy of your personal information (such as your name, e-mail address, address and other contact details) is important to us. Please see our Privacy Policy Click Here for details of how we may process your personal information.

These Terms and Conditions, together with the Privacy Policy shall be collectively referred to as the “Agreement”. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and us. If you are uncertain about any of its terms, email secretariat@ukota.org or write to us at the address set out above and we will try to respond to your query as soon as possible.

CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT

We may from time to time make changes to the terms of this Agreement. Any changes will be posted on our Website and notified to you by means of a notice and links to the revised terms of the Agreement on our homepage. Please review these Terms and Conditions regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by us. If you use the Website after changes are notified to you in this way, you agree to such changes. If you do not agree to such changes, you should not use this Website.

ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE

Access to our Website is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend any or the entire Website without notice. We may suspend access to the Website periodically to carry out emergency or scheduled maintenance or for any other reason at any time. Access to our Website is dependent upon availability of the worldwide web and we accept no responsibility for your inability to access our Website arising out of circumstances beyond our reasonable control. We have the right to disable your access to our Website at any time if, in our opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Agreement.

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary and other materials posted on our Website are not intended as advice and should not be relied upon. To the fullest extent permissible by law, we disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such information and all terms, representations, conditions or warranties that might otherwise be implied in this Agreement are hereby excluded.

OUR MATERIALS

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited right to access, view, and print out one copy of this Website and all data, information, software graphics, images, text, posts and other content on the Website, (“Materials”) on a single device strictly in accordance with this Agreement. You may only view, print out and use the Website and the Materials for your own personal, non-commercial use. We expressly reserve all intellectual property rights in and to the Website and the Materials and your use of the Website and Materials is subject to the following restrictions. You must not (a) remove any copyright or other proprietary notices contained in the Materials; (b) modify the Materials in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose; (c) transfer the Materials to any other person; (d) use any Materials from the Website in any manner that may infringe any copyright, intellectual property right, proprietary right, or property right of us or any third parties; or (e) reproduce, modify, display, perform, publish, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, frame, communicate to the public or circulate to any third party or exploit this Website and/or the Materials in any way; without our prior written consent.

TRADE MARKS

We expressly reserve all rights in and to the domain name www.ukota.org, the UKOTA trademark and the UKOTA logo and all other related service marks, trading names or other trade marks relating to our products and services. Other trade marks, products and company names mentioned on the Website may be trademarks of their respective owners or licensors and the rights in such marks are expressly reserved to the respective owners or licensors.

LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and which does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not link to our Website in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not remove or obscure by framing or otherwise, advertisements, copyright notices, or other information published on the Website. Our Website must not be framed on any other site.

To avoid any doubt you must not link to our Website from a linking site, which contains any adult or illegal material, or any material that is offensive, harassing or otherwise objectionable. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

THIRD PARTY SITES AND CONTENT

Our Website and/or the Materials may contain links to third party websites (e.g. www.gibraltar.gov.uk). If you decide to visit any third party site, you do so at your own risk. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites. Links do not imply that we or this Website is/are affiliated or associated with such sites. Third party content may appear on the Website or may be accessible via links from the Website. We are not responsible for and assume no liability for such content.

EXCLUSIONS AND DISCLAIMERS

To the fullest extent permissible by law, we exclude and disclaim all warranties, terms, conditions and representations that might otherwise be implied by law in relation to this Website and the Materials. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude our liability for: (a) death or personal injury arising through negligence; (b) fraudulent misrepresentation; and/or (c) anything else that cannot be excluded or limited by us under English law.

We shall not be liable under this Agreement for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages whether based on breach of contract, breach of warranty, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

The Materials may contain inaccuracies and typographical errors. We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the Materials. Any reliance on any such opinion, advice, statement, or other information shall be at your sole risk. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions in any portion of the Website and to make any changes to the features, functionality or content of the Website at any time. We reserve the right in our sole discretion to edit or delete any documents, information or other content on the Website.

We do not represent or warrant that the Website will be error-free, free of viruses or owner harmful components, or that defects will be corrected.

LEGAL COMPLIANCE AND APPLICABLE LAW

You shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations in connection with your use of the Website and the Materials that appear on it. The laws of England and Wales shall apply to this Agreement and this Agreement shall be interpreted under English law. Any dispute arising from this Agreement shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. Thank you for visitin