Website Terms of Use

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Privacy @ BLOCK7 Limited

Last Revised January 2022

Introduction and Definitions

Welcome to Our website (“Site”). If You continue to browse and use Our Site, You are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with Our privacy policies govern BLOCK7 Limited’s relationship with You in relation to this Site

Our Privacy Statement located on Our Site describes how We use and protect information You provide to Us. The most current version of the Privacy Statement can be reviewed by clicking on Our privacy policies and statements hypertext links located on the Site footer pages and You acknowledge that We may use Your personal information and data according to these and Our Cookie Policy which are incorporated herein by this reference. You hereby agree to the terms of Our privacy policies and statements together with Our Cookie Policy, including any obligations imposed on You therein by using the Site.

Any personal information collected on this Site may be accessed and stored and will be treated in accordance with Our Privacy Policy. You understand that We collect, use, process, posses, and otherwise store Your personal information and utilisation data and may share such data with third party service providers for the purpose of improving or providing services subject to BLOCK7’s Privacy Policy.

Through the Site, You have access to a variety of resources and content. These include: (a) software as a service offerings together with products and expert services (“Subscription Services and Offerings”); (b) Web pages, data, messages, text, images, photographs, graphics, audio and video such as podcasts and webcasts, and documents such as press releases, white papers and product data sheets (“Materials”); and (c) forums, discussion groups, chat areas, bulletin boards, blogs, wikis, e-mail functions, and other services in connection with which You can upload, download, share, email, post, publish, transmit or otherwise access or make available content in a shared secured community user or Partner Portal or library such as the community resource portal (“BLOCK7 Community Hub”) or the portal provided for Our channel partners (“Partner Portal”)  and these are all collectively referred to as (“Content“).

The following are terms of a legal agreement between You (“You” or “Your”) and BLOCK7 Limited (“We, Us, Our or “BLOCK7”) whereby BLOCK7 Limited is the owner of the Site a Company incorporated and registered in England and Wales (company number 11217086) whose registered office is at The Venture Centre, University of Warwick Science Park, Sir William Lyons Road, Coventry, CV4 7EZ (together the “Parties”)

If You disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use Our Site. The term (“You”) refers to the user, viewer or visitor of Our Site and together referenced as (“Your”) use of Our Site.

  1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the Site or the Content provided on or through the Site, You agree to follow and be bound by the following terms and conditions concerning Your access to and use of the Site and the Content provided on or through the Site (“Terms of Use”) and Our privacy policies on Our Site. BLOCK7 may revise the Terms of Use and our privacy policies at any time without notice to You. The revised Terms of Use and General Privacy Policy and other policies which will be effective when posted on Our Site.

  1. Updates

This Terms of Use was last updated on the Last Revised date at the top of this statement. However, this Terms of Use can change over time, for example to comply with legal requirements or to meet changing business needs. The most up-to-date version can be found on Our Site. In case there is an important change that We want to highlight to You, We will also inform You in another appropriate way (for example via a pop-up notice or statement of changes on Our Site).

When We update this Terms of Use, We will amend the revision date at the top of this page. The modified or amended Terms of Use will apply from that date.

  1. General Terms of Use

The use of Our Site is subject to the following terms of use:

4.1 The Content of the pages of this Site is for Your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

4.2 Our Site uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences. If You do allow cookies to be used, Information About You may be stored by Us for use by third parties according to Our Cookie Policy https://www.block7.co.uk/privacy/cookie-policy

4.3Your use of any Content on this website is entirely at Your own risk, for which We shall not be liable. It shall be Your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services, or information available through this Site meet Your specific requirements.

4.4All trademarks reproduced in this Site which are not the property of, or licensed to, BLOCK7 are acknowledged on the Site.

4.5 Unauthorised use of this Site may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

 

5. Permissible Use of Site and Content

As a condition of Your use of the Site, You agree not to use the Site, or Content provided on or through the Site, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use or the rules, guidelines or Terms Of Use posted for a specific area of the Site or Content provided on or through the Site. You agree not to modify, move, add to, delete, or otherwise tamper with the information contained within this Site, or Content provided on or through the Site, reverse engineer, break into the Site or gain unauthorised access to any parts of the Site, or use Content, materials, products, or services in violation of any law. The use of this Site is at Our discretion, and We may terminate Your use of this Site at any time.

Unauthorised use of this Site or any of the intellectual property rights held by BLOCK7 may give rise to an injunction and to a claim for damages and legal costs and may be a civil and/or criminal offence.

You must not link Our Site to any other website without Our prior written permission. You are not permitted to make any changes to Our Site that is outside that of normal use of the Site and its Contents. Any use of Our Site must be appropriately acknowledged.

You agree not to use the Site to:

5.1 publish, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that (a) You do not have the right to make available (b) is unlawful, harmful, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (c) infringes any Intellectual Property Rights of any party, (d) includes any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, surveys, junk mail, spamming, chain letters, or any other form of solicitation, commercial or otherwise, or (e) contains a software virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot, corrupted file, or any other computer file or software designed to interrupt, destroy, damage or limit the functionality of any computer hardware, software or other property;

5.2 defame, harass, abuse, stalk, threaten or violate the legal rights of others such as rights of privacy and publicity or business integrity;

5.3 attempt to gain unauthorised by impersonating any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a BLOCK7 official, BLOCK7 employee, or any other third party, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Your affiliation with a person or entity;

5.4 forge email headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted through the Site;

5.5 download any file or User Content posted by another user that You know, or reasonably should know, should not be legally reproduced, displayed, performed and/or distributed in such manner;

5.6 that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any BLOCK7 accounts, computer systems or networks nor interfere with or disrupt the servers, or networks which support the Site, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to the Site;

5.7 use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access the Site or any BLOCK7 accounts, computer systems or networks;

5.8 harvest, collect, or store personal information or data of other users without BLOCK7’s express written permission for lawful audit.

 

6. Terms Applicable to Specific Content and Areas of the Site

Certain areas of the Site or Content provided on or through the Site may have additional rules, guidelines, license agreements, user agreements or other terms and conditions that apply to Your access or use of that area of the Site or Content (including terms and conditions applicable to a corporation or other organisation and its users). If there is a conflict or inconsistency between these Terms of Use and the rules, guidelines, license agreement, user agreement or other terms and conditions for a specific area of the Site or for specific Content, the latter shall have precedence with respect to Your access and use of that area of the Site or Content.

6.1 Subscription Services and Offerings

Your use of software and products such as the Subscription Services and Offerings offered on the Site is subject to all agreements that accompanies or is included with the Subscription Services and Offerings, ordering processes and documents, exhibits, and other terms and conditions that apply (“Subscription Terms”).

Where Subscription Services and Offerings is provided on or through the Site and is not licensed for Your use through Subscription Terms specific to their use, for example free trials You may use the software subject to the following: (a) the software may be used solely for Your personal, informational, non-commercial purposes; (b) the software may not be modified or altered in any way; and (c) the software may not be redistributed to any third-party.

6.2 Use of Free Materials Rights

You may download, store, display on Your computer, view, listen to, play, and print Materials that BLOCK7 freely publishes or broadcasts on the Site or makes freely available for download through the Site subject to the following: (a) the Materials may be used solely for Your personal, informational, non-commercial purposes; (b) the Materials may not be modified or altered in any way; and (c) the Materials may not be redistributed.

6.3 Community Resource Services

BLOCK7’s Community Hub (“Hub”) ensure all subscription users have access to BLOCK7’s resources and tools to support their business where certain Content will have restricted access that are only available to BLOCK7’s paid subscribers via current customer agreements that are in place. These include (a) Digital and Online Training (b) Business Documentation (c) Community Forums  (d) Operating Best Practices (e) Customer Support.

BLOCK7’s Hub Content is provided as a high quality and cost-effective convenience and benefit to Our users and although BLOCK7 participates, creates, and updates the Materials and services to develop new services in response to changing community needs BLOCK7 is not obligated to provide any technical support for such. While BLOCK7’s Hub Content may include information regarding BLOCK7 products and services, including information from BLOCK7’s employees, they are not an official customer support channel for BLOCK7.

Authorised users may use Our Hub Content subject to the following: (a) used solely for Your own internal business operations, informational, and non-commercial purposes; (b) Content provided on or through BLOCK7’s Community Hub may not be redistributed; and (c) personal data about other users may not be stored or collected except where expressly authorised by BLOCK7.

 

  1. Copyright, Intellectual Property and Trademarks

As used herein, ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ means patents of any type, design rights, utility models or other similar invention rights, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secret or confidentiality rights, and any other intangible property rights including applications for any of the foregoing, in any country, arising under statutory or common law or by contract and whether perfected, now existing, or hereafter filed, issued, or acquired.

All Intellectual Proprietary Rights to any BLOCK7 Subscription Services and or Offerings, the BLOCK7 Site, BLOCK7 Materials, and Shared Content belongs to BLOCK7. Nothing in this Terms of Use shall be deemed to give You the right to modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative words from, transfer, or sell any BLOCK7 Subscription Services and/or Offerings, the BLOCK7 Site, any BLOCK7 Materials, or any Shared Content for any reason, unless otherwise expressly permitted by the Terms of Use or by law. You hereby agree to assign and do assign to BLOCK7 (and BLOCK7 accepts such assignment) any modifications or derivative works of any BLOCK7 Subscription Services and/or Offerings, the BLOCK7 Site, and BLOCK7 Materials made by You in contravention of this limitation without remuneration of any kind.

Information on requirements for using BLOCK7 trademarks can be found by clicking on the “Copyright Information and Claims” link in the footer on Our Site.

The Site and Content provided on or through the Site are the intellectual property and copyrighted works of BLOCK7 or a third-party provider.

This Site contains Copyright, Intellectual Property and Trademarks, belonging to, or licenced or authorised and acknowledged for the use by BLOCK7 unless otherwise noted. Copyright and Intellectual Property exists but is not limited in the screen design, method of operation and functionality. All rights, title and interest not expressly granted with respect to the Site and Content provided on or through the Site are reserved.

If You believe or become aware of any material on this Site infringes Your or any other person’s copyright, please report this by contacting Us using Our Contact Form on Our Site or by post to BLOCK7 Limited, Legal Department, the Venture Centre University of Warwick Science Park, Sir William Lyons Road, Coventry, West Midlands, England, CV4 7EZ

 

  1. Shared Content License to BLOCK7

BLOCK7 does not claim ownership of any Content that You share, post, upload, input or submit to any BLOCK7 Site (“Shared Content”). You agree that You will only upload, share, post, publish, transmit, or otherwise make available Shared Content on or through the Site that You have the right and authority to do so and for which You have the right and authority to grant to BLOCK7 all the licenses and rights set forth herein.

By posting, transmitting or uploading any Shared Content, including any article, information, data, code, text, software, documentation, graphic, image, marketing material, video, photograph, message, suggestion, feedback, idea, or posting to any forum, wiki, or blog on any BLOCK7 Site, You grant BLOCK7 a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive, fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, broadcast, transmit and distribute the Content for any purpose and in any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed. This includes, without limitation, the right to incorporate or implement the Shared Content into any BLOCK7 product or service, and to display, market, sublicense and distribute the Content as incorporated or embedded in any product or service distributed or offered by BLOCK7 without compensation to You.

You represent and warrant to BLOCK7 that You have the right, title, and/or authority to grant such license to BLOCK7 and that should BLOCK7’s exercise the rights granted pursuant to this license it will not infringe or otherwise violate any third-party rights and all so-called moral rights in the Content have been waived to the full extent allowed by law.

BLOCK7 may elect not to post or publish Shared Content that You submit. If We elect to post or publish Your User Content, We may in Our sole discretion withdraw the posted or published Shared Content for any reason and without notice even if We have previously indicated to You that We might or will post the Shared Content You have submitted.

You agree that You will not upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Shared Content that is unlawful that breaches any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect, or , that; (a) is false or misleading; (b) is harmful, threatening, abusive, tortuous, defamatory, derogatory, degrading, vulgar, obscene or not in good taste, libellous, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable or harassing of another or constitutes a personal attack; (c) invades another’s privacy or includes, copies or transmits another’s confidential, sensitive or personal information; (d) promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual; (f) violates or infringes or promotes the violation or infringement of another’s rights, including intellectual property rights; (e) violates or promotes the violation of any applicable laws or regulations; (f) contains a solicitation of funds, goods or services, or promotes or advertises goods or services; or (g) contains any viruses, trojan horses, or other components designed to limit or harm the functionality of a computer (h) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional Materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation that facilitates illegal activity.

We may report You to the relevant authorities and may act under the fullest extent of applicable laws if You transmit or upload Content intended or designed to cause harm and infringes Your rights and restrictions under this Section. All Shared Content is provided on an “As Is” and “As Available basis.

 

  1. Use of Logos

The use of other company logos is only used when permission has been accepted in writing by both Parties.

 

  1. Security and Means of Accessing the Site and Content

If any of the Content requires You to open an account (“Secure Services”), You must complete the registration process by providing BLOCK7 with current, complete, and accurate information as required by the applicable registration form. You may also be required to choose a login security credentials as an authorised user (“Named User”) to access the Secure Services via the Site or access may be automatically granted via the Secure Services as an existing user under Your current Subscription Terms with BLOCK7. Access to and use of secure areas of the Site are restricted to authorised Named Users only. You shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any security login credentials in respect of Your account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under Your Login credentials or account, and You agree not to share Your security login credentials, account information, or access to the Secure Services within the Site with any other person. In relation to Your active login as a Named User, You undertake that, (a) You shall not create a generic Named User Login for use by more than one person. If BLOCK7 notices that a generic user login is being used, then Your account will be locked; and  (b) You shall, keep confidential and not under any circumstances share Your secure login credentials and/or access details to facilitate access to Secure Services with any third party.

You agree to immediately notify BLOCK7 of any unauthorised access to, or use of Your Secure Services or Your Account or Login credentials or any other breach of security. BLOCK7 has the right to disable any Named User identification code or security login credentials, whether chosen by You or allocated by BLOCK7, at any time, if in BLOCK7’s opinion You have failed to comply with these Terms of Use and BLOCK7 reserves the right to immediately and without notice suspend Your Account and/or access to any or all Secure Services provided by BLOCK7. We will not be liable for any loss that You may incur resulting of someone else using Your Secure Services and/or account, either with or without Your knowledge.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless BLOCK7, its officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, due to or arising out of Content that You Share, Your violation of these Terms of Use or any additional rules, guidelines or terms of use posted for a specific area of the Site or Content provided on or through the Site, or Your violation or infringement of any third party rights, including intellectual property rights.

  1. Monitoring

BLOCK7 has no obligation to monitor the Site or screen Content that is Shared on or through the Site. However, We reserve the right to review the Site and Content and to monitor all use of and activity on the Site, and to remove or choose not to make available on or through the Site any Content in Our sole discretion. We may remove Content that is confidential or proprietary to a third party without that third party’s permission.

  1. Termination of Use

By using Our Site and Shared Content You agree that We may, in Our sole discretion, at any time discontinue providing, terminate or limit Your access to the Site, any areas of the Site or Content provided on or through the Site. We may do so if We determine, in Our sole discretion, that You have infringed the copyrights of a third party. You agree that We shall not be liable to You or any third-party for any termination or limitation of Your access to, or use of, the Site or any Content, including Content that You may have Shared. BLOCK7 shall not be liable to You or any third party for any such suspension or termination.

  1. Third Party Web Sites, Content, Products and Services

From time to time this Site may also include links to other websites. They do not signify that We endorse the website(s).

These links are provided for Your convenience to provide further information and access to Content, products, and services of third parties, including users, advertisers, affiliates, and sponsors of the Site which may be maintained by third parties over whom We have no control, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER REGARDING SUCH WEBSITES, CONTENT, RESOURCES AND TOOLS, AND LINKS TO ANY SUCH WEBSITES, CONTENT, RESOURCES AND TOOLS SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS AN ENDORSEMENT OF THEM OR THEIR CONTENT BY US.

We are not responsible for third party Content provided on or through the Site or for any changes or updates to such third-party website(s), and You bear all risks associated with the access to, and use of, such Web sites and third-party Content, products, and services

  1. Disclaimer

EXCEPT WHERE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE, THE SITE, AND ALL CONTENT PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE, ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. BLOCK7 EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE. BLOCK7 MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT: (A) THE SITE OR CONTENT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (B) THE SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS; (C) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; OR (D) THE QUALITY OF ANY CONTENT PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU ON OR THROUGH THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

ANY CONTENT ACCESSED, DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED ON OR THROUGH THE USE OF THE SITE IS USED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. WE SHALL HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF CONTENT.

WE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES OR UPDATES TO, AND MONITOR THE USE OF, THE SITE AND CONTENT PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE.

  1. Exclusion Of Warranties

Our Site and Content are being provided to You “AS IS.” To the fullest extent allowable by law, BLOCK7 nor any third parties does not guarantee or warrant any features or qualities such as accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the Content and Materials found or offered on this Site for any particular purpose or give any undertaking regarding any other quality. Statements and explanations on Our Site and Content in promotional material or on Our Site and/or documentation are made for explanatory purposes only and they are not meant to constitute any guarantee or warranty of certain features. No warranty, or undertaking, shall be implied by You from any published BLOCK7 description of or advertisement except to the extent BLOCK7 has expressly confirmed such warranty or undertaking in writing. Warranties are validly given only with the express written confirmation of BLOCK7’s management.

  1. Limitation of Liability

BLOCK7 SHALL NOT BE LIABLE WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (SAVE IN CASE OF NEGLIGENCE, WILFUL ACT, OR BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY), MISREPRESENTATION, RESTITUTION OR OTHERWISE FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING, (A) LOSS OF PROFITS, AND/OR (B) LOSS OF REVENUE, AND/OR (C) LOSS OF CONTRACTS, AND/OR (D) BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, AND/OR (E) LOSS OF INFORMATION, AND/OR (F) LOSS OF DATA OR DAMAGE TO OR CORRUPTION OF DATA, OR (G) ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, COSTS, DAMAGES, CHARGES, OR EXPENSES OF ANY KIND INCURRED BY YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY ARISING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO, OR USE OF, THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE.

  1. Waiver and Severability

The failure of BLOCK7 to exercise or enforce any rights or provisions in these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any part or provision of these Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable, such part or provision may be modified to make the Terms of Use as modified legal and enforceable. The balance of the Terms of Use shall not be affected.

  1. Entire Agreement

This Terms of Use represents the entire arrangement between the Parties in respect of its subject matter and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings, or arrangements (both oral and written) relating to its subject matter. No collateral agreements have been made.

  1. Governing Laws

These Terms and Conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these Terms of Use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

 

Contact Information

If You have questions or comments about this Terms of Use and Our policies and procedures, please contact Us using Our Contact Form on Our Site.