Terms Of Use

By utilising SIAuk.org and registering with our service, you are agreeing to the terms stated on this page. Please read them carefully.

1. Interpretation

1.1 In these Terms:

"Agreement" means the agreement between the Provider and the Subscriber for the provision of the Service;

"Provider" means Midas UK Limited (company number: 06253991) who is the provider of the service; 

"Security Agency" means an agency which acts for Security Professionals;

"Security User" means persons, firms and companies who use, engage or employ Security Professionals such as pubs, clubs, organisers of social events, (but, for the avoidance of doubt, it shall not mean any Security Agency);

"Security Professional" means an individual whose occupation it is to provide security services, such as a door supervisor or bodyguard, or a person in a similar occupation;

"Service" means the access to and use of the Website to allow Security Professionals to advertise their services, by way of registering their profile on the Website, and Security Users and Security Agencies to search for and to contact appropriate Security Professionals through the Website;

"Subscriber" means either a Security Professional, a Security User or a Security Agency who subscribes to the Service in accordance with these Terms;

"Subscription Charges" mean the following subscription charges for the Service which shall be paid to the Provider: a Security Professional may subscribe free of charge; a Security User and Security Agency may subscribe by payment of various fees dependant on credits usage (please refer to our credits section)

"Subscriber Content" means all content published, uploaded or displayed by a Subscriber through the Service and on the Website including, without limitation, any text, images, photos, profiles, messages, notes, files, information, music, video, advertisements, and any other content posted by a Subscriber on the Website;

"Terms" means these terms and conditions of use;

"Website" means the website http://www.siauk.org;

"Website Content" means all content on the Website and available through the Service, including, without limitation, any text, images, photos, design, messages, notes, files, information, software, music, sound and video, and their selection and arrangement, but, for the avoidance of doubt, Website Content shall not include Subscriber Content;

"Written Notice" and "in Writing" means communication made either by email or post.

"You", "your" and "yours" refer to the Subscriber who subscribes to the Service in accordance with these Terms.

1.2 The headings in these Terms are for convenience only and shall not affect their interpretation.

1.3 Reference to the plural shall include the singular and vice versa.

2. Provision of the Service

2.1 The Provider shall provide to you the Service subject to these Terms. Subject to clause 2.4, notification of any changes or additions to the Service or these Terms shall be published on the Website at least 6 weeks before such changes or additions are made to the Service or these Terms (the "Notice Period"), and the continued use of the Service after the expiry of such Notice Period by you constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.

2.2 You shall ensure that the information you provide to the Provider for the purposes of the Service is accurate and current.

2.3 When you subscribe to the Service, you will be asked to choose a password. You undertake to maintain the confidentiality of your password, and you undertake not to use the username or password of another Subscriber or to disclose your password to any third party.

2.4 The Provider may at any time without notifying you make any changes to the Service which are necessary to comply with any applicable safety or other statutory requirements, or which do not materially affect the nature or quality of the Service.

3. Charges

3.1 You shall pay the Subscription Charges for the provision of the Service.

3.2 The Provider may vary the Subscription Charges from time to time by giving not less than 6 weeks notice on the Website and by giving you 6 weeks Written Notice.

3.3 If the Subscription Charges are not paid on their due date, the Provider shall be entitled, without limiting any other rights it may have, to terminate immediately this Agreement with you.

4. Intellectual property rights and licence.

4.1 The property and any copyright or other intellectual property rights in:

4.1.1 any Subscriber Content shall belong to you; and

4.1.2 any Website Content shall belong to the Provider.

4.2 You undertake that you shall not infringe the intellectual property rights of the Provider or of any other Subscriber and that you shall notify the relevant party immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use by any third party.

4.3 Notwithstanding clause 4.1.1, by uploading or posting Subscriber Content onto the Website, you grant, and you represent and warrant that you have a right to grant, to the Provider a non exclusive, transferable, royalty free, worldwide licence to use, copy, reproduce, reformat, display or distribute that Subscriber Content in connection with the Website or the provision of the Service.

4.4 You may remove your Subscriber Content at any time, and, if it is removed, the licence granted under clause 4.3 will immediately expire, save that the Provider may retain archived copies of such Subscriber Content.

4.5 You warrant that any Subscriber Content and its use for the purpose of providing the Service will not infringe the copyright or other rights of any third party, and you shall indemnify the Provider against any loss, damages, costs, expenses or other claims arising from any such infringement.

5. Confidentiality

5.1 Each party undertakes that during the term of this Agreement and thereafter it shall keep confidential and shall not use for its own purpose, nor without the prior written consent of the other party disclose to any third party, all information of a confidential nature (including, without limitation, information relating to a party's products, operations, processes, plans or intentions, product information, know-how, design rights, trade secrets and information of commercial value) which may become known to that party from the other party ("Confidential Information") except in order to exercise its rights or perform its obligations under this Agreement, or except to its professional advisers on a confidential basis, or except as may be required under law or by any court of competent jurisdiction or except where the information is public knowledge or already known to that party at the time of disclosure or subsequently becomes public knowledge other than by breach of this Agreement.

5.2 The Provider shall comply with any applicable laws, regulations and other rules relating to data protection from time to time.

6. Subscriber Content and Website Content

6.1 The Provider reserves the right to delete or remove (without notice) any Website Content or Subscriber Content at its sole discretion, but if the Provider deletes or removes any Subscriber Content, the Provider shall give you Written Notice within 10 days of such deletion or removal.

6.2 Notwithstanding clause 6.1, you are solely responsible for the Subscriber Content that you post on the Website, for any material or information that you transmit to other Subscribers, and for your interactions with other Subscribers.

6.3 You acknowledge that the Provider does not make any representation or warranty, (whether express or implied), that any Subscriber Content or Website Content is accurate or reliable, or that the Subscriber Content or the Website Content is free of viruses or harmful components, or that any material or information transmitted between Subscribers is accurate or reliable.

7. Subscriber Disputes

The Provider reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Subscribers.

8. Liability

8.1 The Provider shall have no liability to you for any loss, damage, costs, expenses or other claims for compensation arising from any Subscriber Content or information supplied by any Subscriber which is incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, illegible, out of sequence or in the wrong form, or arising from any other fault of any Subscriber.

8.2 The Provider shall not be liable to you under any circumstances whatsoever for any loss of business, profit, data, goodwill or reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential loss which arises out of or in connection with the provision of the Service (including any delay in providing or failing to provide the Service) or its use by you.

8.3 The entire liability of the Provider under or in connection with the Agreement shall not exceed [ ] except as expressly provided in these Terms.

8.4 The Provider shall not be liable to you or be deemed to be in breach of the Agreement by reason of any delay in performing, or any failure to perform, any of the Agreement's obligations in relation to the Service, if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond the Provider's reasonable control.

8.5 You shall indemnify the Provider against any loss, liability, claim, demand, damages, costs and expenses arising out of or in connection with any Subscriber Content you shall post or share on or through the Website, your use of the Website or the Service, or any breach by you of this Agreement or of any law or the rights of any third party.

8.6 Nothing in this Agreement shall limit or exclude liability which cannot be limited or excluded at law.

9. Termination

9.1 Either party may terminate the Agreement at any time by giving not less than 30 days Written Notice to the other party.

9.2 The Provider may (without limiting any other remedy) at any time terminate the Agreement by giving Written Notice to the Subscriber if the Subscriber commits any breach of these Terms and (if capable of remedy) fails to remedy the breach within 10 days after being required by Written Notice to do so.

9.3 Termination shall mean that the Provider may delete your profile and Subscriber Content on the Website and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service or the Website (or any part or feature of the Service or the Website).

9.4 Termination shall be without prejudice to any rights or liabilities of either party accrued as at the date of termination, and shall not affect any rights under the Terms which are (expressly or by implication) intended to survive termination.

10. General

10.1 These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties, supersede any previous agreement or understanding and may not be varied except by agreement in Writing between the parties. All other terms, express or implied by statute or otherwise, are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10.2 A notice required or permitted to be given by either party to the other under these Terms shall be in Writing and, if sent by email, addressed to that party's email address provided for the purposes of this Agreement, or, if sent by post, addressed to the other party at its registered office or principal place of business or such other address as may at the relevant time have been notified pursuant to this provision to the party giving the notice.

10.3 If you breach the Agreement and the Provider takes no action, the Provider shall not be prevented from taking action at a later date concerning that breach or any other breach in the future.

10.4 If any provision of these Terms is held by any Court or other competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of the other provisions of these Terms and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected.

10.5 English law shall apply to the Agreement, and the parties agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

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