Publicate. Terms of Website Use
This page tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website publicate.it (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.
This page includes information about the following:
- Terms and conditions. This includes information about such things as intellectual property rights, limitations of liability and indemnities
- Privacy Policy
- Acceptable use policy
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 Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published else-where on our site.
Your Concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact hello@publicate.it if you think your intellectual property rights are being infringed or have any other concerns.
Information About Us
http://www.publicate.it is a site operated by Startup Seeds LTD ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 09311296 and have our registered office at International House, 1 Saint Katharine's Way, London E1W 1UN.
Our main trading address is International House, 1 Saint Katharine's Way, London E1W 1UN.We are a limited company.
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.
Subscriptions, Billing, Cancellation and Refunds
Your Publicate subscription will continue month-to-month or year-to-year, (depending on whether you subscribe to a monthly or annual plan), until terminated. To access your premium subscription you must have Internet access and provide a current, valid, accepted method of payment, which you may update from time to time ("Payment Method"). Unless you cancel your subscription before the end of the current billing period, you authorize us to charge the next month or years subscription fee to your Payment Method (see "Cancellation" below). You can find specific details regarding your Publicate subscription by visiting our website and clicking on the "Your Account Settings" link in the main menu in your account workspace.
The subscription fee for the Publicate service will be charged on a monthly or annual basis to your Payment Method on the calendar day corresponding to the commencement of the paying portion of your subscription. In some cases your payment date may change, for example if your Payment Method has not successfully settled or if your paid membership began on a day not contained in a given month.
Payment Methods. You can change your Payment Method by visiting our website and clicking on the "Your Account Settings" link. If a payment is not successfully settled, due to expiration, insufficient funds, or otherwise, and you do not change your Payment Method or cancel your account, we may suspend your access to the service until we have obtained a valid Payment Method. When you update your Payment Method, you authorise us to continue charging the updated Payment Method, and you remain responsible for any uncollected amounts. This may result in a change to your payment billing dates. For some Payment Methods, the issuer of your Payment Method may charge you certain fees, such as a foreign transaction fee or other fees relating to the processing of your Payment Method.
Cancellation. You can cancel your Publicate subscription at any time, you will continue to have access to the Publicate service through the end of your current billing period. To cancel, go to the "Your Account Settings" page and follow the instructions for cancellation. If you cancel your subscription, your account will automatically close at the end of your current billing period.
Refunds. Monthly subscription. If you are unsatisfied with your Publicate service we will be happy to give you a full refund for the current billing period, provided you tell us before the current billing period has ended.
Annual subscription. If you are unsatisfied with your Publicate service, we will be happy to give you a full refund for the current billing period, provided you tell us within the first 30 days of the commencement date of the subscription.
To claim a refund, please write to hello@publicate.it, or use the instant chat window within the workspace.
Changes to the Price and Service Plans. We may change our service plans and the price of our service from time to time; however, any price changes or changes to our service plans will apply to you no earlier than 30 days following notice to you.
Our Intellectual Property Rights
This section deals with our intellectual property rights and the material we create or publish. Your intellectual property rights in material you contribute to the site are dealt with in the following section.
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material we publish on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. 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.
Your Intellectual Property Rights - Posting & Uploading Material to Our Site
If you make a contribution to the site you must either own all the intellectual property rights in any material or content or have the express permission of the person who does own the intellectual property rights. Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to post or 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. We do not claim any intellectual property rights in your material but we do claim the rights to deal with your material so as to preserve and maximise the functionality of the site. We acknowledge any intellectual property rights you may have in any material posted or uploaded to the site.
By posting or uploading any material you will give us a worldwide non-exclusive payment and royalty free licence to use the material as the functionality of the site allows from time to time.We 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 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.
By posting or uploading any material you will give us a worldwide non-exclusive payment and royalty free licence to use the material as the functionality of the site allows from time to time.We 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 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 o
ur acceptable use policy.
Collaboration & Contribution
If you contribute content to a shared team workspace then you agree and accept that other users of the the shared team workspace can use your material in their Publications and collaborations.
If you contribute content to the site and you or one of the users of the team workspace share it using any of the Share or Export features, like sharing the URL, embedding the HTML on a website or sending the HTML in an email, then you consent to that content being publicly shared and linked to or embedded on other sites as well as being subject to rating and comment.
Infringement Of Intellectual Property Rights or Acceptable Use Policy
Our acceptable use policy prohibits you from posting or uploading materials which infringes the standards set out in that policy. Those standards include an obligation not to infringe another person’s intellectual property rights.
You warrant that any such material does comply with the standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. That indemnity includes and is not limited to any damage or damages or loss or losses that we suffer and any costs that we may incur including any legal and other professional costs which we pay or have to pay.
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, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.
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.
Shared Content
The exclusions and limitations of liability are also applicable to content shared with other websites including but not limited to Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Google+, Mailchimp, Gmail, Stumbleupon, Buffer, Hootsuite, Wordpress.
We cannot guarantee that content posted to our site will not result in some liability or breach of user conditions if shared with another site and it is your responsibility to ensure that does not happen.
If a claim is made against us because you have breached the terms of use of some other site then you agree to indemnify us. That indemnity includes and is not limited to any damage or damages or loss or losses that we suffer and any costs that we may incur including any legal and other professional costs which we pay or have to pay.
Information About You and Your Visits to Our Website - Privacy Policy
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.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Startup Seeds LTD We are registered in England and Wales under company number 09311296 and have our registered office at 5 Clayton Court, Mold, United Kingdom, CH71TW. Our main trading address is 5 Clayton Court, Mold, United Kingdom, CH71TW. Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Chris Bradley.
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.
Moderation
We do not moderate the site. However if you are concerned about any content on the site then please notify us at hello@publicate.it. We are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we may 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.
Content Standarts
These 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 following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Contributions must:
- Be accurate (where they state facts).
- Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
- Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
Contributions must not:
- Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
- Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
- Promote sexually explicit material.
- Promote violence.
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
- Be likely to deceive any person.
- Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
- Promote any illegal activity.
- 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.
- Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
- Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
- Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
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 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.
Viruses, Hacking and 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 site, 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.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission or block linking 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 hello@publicate.it.
Links From Our Site
Our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties and these links are either provided by other site users or by us for your information. 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 courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England.
Trade Marks
"PUBLICATE" is the UK registered trade mark of Startup Seeds LTD (trade mark registered number 2583256).
Jurisdiction And Applicable Law
If you have any questions or would like to talk to us about our Terms Of Website Use or our Privacy Policy, please email us at hello@publicate.it and or mail us at;
Publicate
5 Clayton Court, Mold, United Kingdom, CH7 1TW