Terms and Conditions

 

These terms and conditions govern your use of the Website (“the Website”) operated and provided by "Vanguard Partners" which is an authorised division of Caledonian Group Services Limited, a limited company with registered in Scotland number SC604009. Please read these terms of and conditions carefully before you begin to access material on the Website. 

 

If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using the Website. By accessing, using and downloading from the Website, you are confirming your acceptance to be bound by these terms and conditions (“this Agreement”) and you confirm you will accept the Agreement every time you access the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, the reference in this Agreement to the Website shall include each and every page on the Website.

 

Information about us

 

We are Caledonian Group Services Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland with Company Number SC0604009 and having our registered office at 5 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH2 4AN (“we”, “us”, “our”)

 

Exclusion of Liability and Disclaimers

 

The Website and its contents are provided for general information purposes only. Whilst Caledonian Group Services Limited has taken every care in the preparation of the Website and its contents, Caledonian Group Services Limited cannot guarantee that the Website and its contents will be completely up to date, accurate and free of errors. We makes no warranties, representations and/or undertakings (express or implied) in respect of the Website and its contents, including the accuracy, reliability, suitability, quality, availability or completeness thereof.

 

To the extent permitted by law, Caledonian Group Services Limited excludes all liability for any type of loss or damage which you may sustain as a result of accessing and using the Website, whether such liability arises in contract, tort, negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise (including, without limitation, liability in respect of any losses, damages, costs or expenses) of any nature howsoever incurred by you of an indirect or consequential nature, such as loss of profits, data, business or good will. However, Caledonian Group Services Limited does not seek to exclude, limit or restrict its liability for death or personal injury, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability the exclusion or limitation which is not permitted by the law of England & Wales. 

 

Caledonian Group Services Limited will not be liable if, for any reason, the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

 

The Website and its contents are directed solely at organisations or individuals who access the Website from Scotland. Access to such materials may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you choose to access the Website from outside Scotland, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. Caledonian Group Services Limited reserves the right to restrict access to some parts of the Website to users who have registered.

 

We must emphasise that any information given on the Website is only intended as a general guide. Nothing on the Website is intended to amount to legal advice and it should not be relied upon in place of specific advice.

 

Content Management

 

Caledonian Group Services Limited shall be entitled to supplement, add to, modify, delete or move the contents of our Website at any time with or without notice. If any of the material on the Website is out of date at any given time, Caledonian Group Services Limited is under no obligation to update such material. 

 

Intellectual Property

 

Unless specified otherwise, Caledonian Group Services Limited is the owner or licensee of all copyright, database rights, trade marks and all other intellectual property rights to the Website and its content.

 

You are permitted to download, copy, use, view or print graphic or textural content from the Website provided that you use it solely for the purpose of enquiring about the services of Caledonian Group Services Limited and provided that you do not change or delete any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices on such content.

 

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded from the Website in any way and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

 

Under no circumstances may you use the contents of the Website in a manner that may give a false or misleading impression of Caledonian Group Services Limited. You agree not to copy, reproduce, store in any medium, distribute, transmit, modify, alter, disseminate or create derivative works from all or any part of any of the contents of the Website, nor may you edit any part of any of the Website other than as permitted above without obtaining Caledonian Group Services Limited prior consent in writing.

 

You must not use any part of the materials on the Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from Caledonian Group Services Limited or our licensors.

 

Links to and from other Websites

 

Caledonian Group Services Limited shall bear no responsibility for the contents of any websites to which the Website has links. The accessing of such websites is solely at your own risk. The fact that Caledonian Group Services Limited may have included links to other websites does not imply any endorsement or approval by Caledonian Group Services Limited of the materials on such websites or the owners of those sites. Where the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only and Caledonian Group Services Limited cannot be held responsible for the accuracy or content of information on those sites.

 

Caledonian Group Services Limited does not permit any third party to operate a link to its Website, nor does it permit any third party to frame the Website without obtaining the prior written consent of Caledonian Group Services Limited. 

 

World Wide Web 

 

The Website is accessed by the World Wide Web, which is independent of Caledonian Group Services Limited. Your use of the World Wide Web is at your own risk and subject to all applicable national and international laws and regulations. Caledonian Group Services Limited has no responsibility for any information or services obtained by you on the World Wide Web. 

 

Specific Prohibitions 

 

You not use any device or software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website, nor may you attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or making up a part of the Website. You agree to use the Website for lawful purposes only and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict the use of any of the Website by, any third party.

 

Computer Viruses and Errors

 

You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website 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. Caledonian Group Services Limited will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

 

Whilst Caledonian Group Services Limited will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Website does not contain or promulgate any errors, viruses, bugs or other malicious codes or harmful components and will be uninterrupted, Caledonian Group Services Limited makes no warranty or representation that this will be the case. Caledonian Group Services Limited recommends that you should virus check all material downloaded from the Website and regularly check for the presence of errors, viruses, bugs, other malicious codes and harmful components.

 

To the extent permitted by all applicable laws, Caledonian Group Services Limited excludes all liability (other than liability for death or personal injury cause by Caledonian Group Services Limited negligence) in connection with any damage or loss caused by errors, viruses, bugs, other malicious codes or harmful components originating or contracted from the Website and any interruptions in the running of the Website. 

 

Termination

 

Caledonian Group Services Limited reserves the right to immediately terminate your use of the Website if we determines at its sole discretion that you have breached these terms and conditions or have otherwise been engaged in conduct which it determines in its sole discretion to be unacceptable.

 

We reserves the right to report any activity which it suspects might violate any relevant laws or regulations to the appropriate authority. If such authority asks us for information, Caledonian Group Services Limited reserves the right to disclose any such information to them.

 

You shall be responsible for and indemnify Caledonian Group Services Limited against all actions, claims, proceedings, costs and damages and all legal costs or other expenses incurred by us which are caused by your breach of these terms and conditions.

 

Acceptance of These Terms and Conditions

 

By accessing the Website, you are confirming that you have read and understood this agreement.

 

Raising Concerns

 

If you have any concerns about material which appears on the Website, you should contact contact@vanguardpartners.co.uk If you are a client and we have made a contract with you by electronic means you may be entitled to use an EU online dispute resolution service to assist with any contractual dispute you may have with us. This service can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/odr. Our email address is contact@vanguardpartners.co.uk 

 

Amendments to these Terms and Conditions

 

Caledonian Group Services Limited may alter these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to make yourself aware of any changes we make, 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 elsewhere on the Website.

 

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

 

Each party to this agreement irrevocably agrees that the courts of England & Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear, settle and/or determine any dispute, controversy or claim (including any non-contractual dispute, controversy or claim) arising out of or in connection with this agreement, including any question regarding its existence, validity, formation or termination. For these purposes, each party irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of the Courts of England & Wales.