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Last Updated: 9 December 2024
1. Website Terms of Use
1.1 These terms and conditions (the “Terms”) govern your use of this website (the “Site”). The Site is owned and operated by World Retail Ltd registered in England as company no. 15740401 (“WRC”, “Us”, “We” or “Our”). WRC specifically reserves all rights to limit provision of Our products and services to select persons, countries or geographic regions.
1.2 Please read these Terms carefully. By continuing to access and use the Site you are deemed to have understood and agreed to them. If you do not agree to them you must refrain from using this Site and any services available through it.
2. Disclaimer
2.1 This Site contains information, text, data, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, names, logos, trade marks and information about WRC.
2.2 The Site and all content on the Site is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis only and WRC does not give any representation, warranty, condition or other term as to its accuracy, timeliness, completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of the Site or any of the Information. WRC has tried to ensure that all the Information provided on the Site is correct at the time of publication. However no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of WRC for any errors, omissions, or inaccurate content on the Site. Further, WRC does not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error free or that any defects will be corrected.
2.3 WRC accepts no liability for the results of any action taken on the basis of the content on the Site and all implied warranties, conditions and other terms including but not limited to the implied warranties, conditions or terms of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy are excluded from these Terms to the extent that they may be excluded as a matter of law. We do not attempt to exclude any rights you may otherwise have as a consumer that We cannot exclude as a matter of law.
2.4 Save in respect of death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or for fraud, neither WRC nor any of its directors, employees or other representatives will be liable for any loss you suffer including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss, or any damages arising from loss of use, data or profits, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with the use of this Site.
3. Registration
3.1 To access certain parts of the Site, you must register your details with Us (including your name and e-mail address) to become a registered user (“User”). You understand and acknowledge that to the extent the data submitted by You amounts to personal information, such personal information will be processed in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws and our privacy policy. For further information, please read our Privacy Policy, which can be found at https://www.worldretailcongress.com/world-retail-congress-privacy-notice and our Cookies Policy at https://www.worldretailcongress.com/policy-cookies, both available via the Home page. If you do not agree to Our Privacy Policy or Cookies Policy you should not become a User of this service.
3.2 You are solely responsible for all use of and for protecting the confidentiality of your email verification and password. You must not share this information with any third parties. You must notify Us immediately of any unauthorised use of them or any other breach of security regarding Our Site that comes to your attention. Additionally, you indemnify Us against any unauthorised use of your User details, including use by a third party where you have allowed or facilitated access.
3.3 You undertake to register as a User using accurate, complete and current information and to maintain and update any changes to that information.
3.4 You acknowledge that permission to become a User is granted at the sole discretion of WRC and such permission may be withdrawn at any time without notice.
4. Use of the Site
4.1 You must not to (a) try to gain unauthorised access to the Site or any networks, servers or computer systems connected to the Site; (b) use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair our servers or networks or interfere with any other user’s use and enjoyment of the Site; (c) save to the extent expressly permitted by law and not capable of exclusion by law, copy, reproduce, redistribute, sell, create derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble all or part of the Site; and/or (d) use the Site to provide services to third parties.
4.2 The copyright and other intellectual property rights in the Site and the Information on the Site belongs to us or our licensors. All rights are reserved. You can view and download the Information for your own personal use but you cannot otherwise copy, edit, vary, reproduce, publish, display, distribute, store, transmit, commercially exploit, disseminate in any form whatsoever or use it without our permission.
4.3 There may be occasions when access to the Site may be interrupted, including for scheduled maintenance or upgrades, for emergency repairs, or due to failure of telecommunications links and/or equipment.
4.4 We reserve the right to remove any content or features from the Site for any reason, without prior notice, and shall have no liability or responsibility to you in any manner whatsoever in such circumstances.
4.5 Websites or web pages to which this Site is linked are for information purposes and have not been reviewed by WRC. We accept no responsibility for the content of such sites or web pages, nor do we accept responsibility for any losses or penalties incurred as a result of your use of any links or reliance on the content of any website to which this Site is linked.
4.6 You may not frame, link or deep-link this Site except for the home page to any other website without our prior written consent. Should you wish to frame or to set up a link / deep-link to our Site please contact enquiries@worldretailcongress.com
5. Computer Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses
5.1 Whilst we use reasonable endeavours to protect this Site (including Information and downloads) from computer viruses, worms, Trojan Horses and other such destructive features (the “Destructive Features”), we do not warrant that the Site is free from such Destructive Features and accept no liability for any damage that may result from the transmission of any Destructive Feature via this Site or via any files which are available for you to download from the Site. 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.
5.2 You are responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use the Site or any service made available through it and that it is compatible with the Site. We give no warranty, condition or other term that the Information is compatible with all computer systems and browsers.
6. Complaints or Queries
If you have any complaints or queries concerning this Site generally, please contact Us enquiries@worldretailcongress.com or by post at World Retail Congress Ltd, Preston Park House, South Road, Brighton, BN1 6SB.
7. Changes to the Terms
WRC reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes to any part of this Site, the content on the Site and/or these Terms. If We amend these Terms, we will publish details of the amendments on the Site. It is your responsibility to refer to and comply with these Terms on accessing this Site. By continuing to use the Site after we have published the notification you agree to be bound by these Terms as amended.
8. Severability and waiver
8.1 If these Terms or any part of them should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable under the laws of any state or country in which these Terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent that they are so illegal, invalid or unenforceable, they shall in that state or country be treated as severed and deleted from these Terms and the remaining terms shall survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable in that state or country.
8.2 If you breach these Terms and We take no action against you, We will still be entitled to enforce Our rights against you in relation to that breach and to use Our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these Terms.
9. Events beyond our control
We will not be responsible for any breach of these Terms caused by circumstances beyond Our reasonable control, including without limitation acts of god, war, terrorism or technical difficulties.
10. Third Party Rights
Except for our affiliates, directors, employees or representatives, a person who is not a party to these Terms has no statutory or other right to enforce them, to the extent that any such right can be lawfully excluded.
11. Entire Agreement
Except for in the case of fraud, these Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and WRC in relation to the subject matter.
12. Governing law
These Terms are subject to English law and to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.