Privacy Policy

Terms of websites use

This webpage (together with the webpages and documents referred to in it) sets out the terms and conditions (the Terms) on which you may use our websites (including www.automotive30club.co.uk) (our site). Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you accept these Terms and agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to or breach these Terms, please refrain from using our site.

Information about us

Our site is operated by Gaia Innovation Ltd for the Automotive 30% Club. We are registered for operation in the United Kingdom and have registered offices 465 Whirlowdale Road, Sheffield S11 9NH.

Individual agreements

From time to time, we may enter into a separate agreement with you. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms of that agreement and these Terms, the terms of that separate agreement shall apply.

Accessing our sites

Access to our sites is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our sites without notice. We shall not be liable if for any reason our sites are unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our sites, or our entire sites, to users who have registered with us.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our sites. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our sites through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and that they comply with them.

User content

In respect of any and all material (including data, photographs, images, sound and text) that you send to us or otherwise contribute to our sites (the User Content), you represent and warrant that:

(a) you are entitled to grant the licence granted to us under these Terms;

(b) the User Content does not, and our use of it (including as contemplated by the licence below) will not, infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights (including trademarks, copyright, moral rights, database rights, design rights, confidentiality rights and all other rights having equivalent or similar effect), or other proprietary rights, or personality rights or rights of privacy;

(c) the User Content does not, and our use of it (including as contemplated by the licence below) will not, violate any law regarding unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising; and

(d) all information that you disclose to us is complete and accurate;

(e) the User Content is not defamatory, trade libellous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing and does not otherwise breach any applicable law or regulation;

(f) the User Content does not contain any advertising, or any political or religious message, and is not obscene, indecent, blasphemous, offensive or sexually explicit; and

(g) the User Content does not contain viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.

We have the right to remove any User Content from our sites if, in our opinion, that User Content does not comply with these Terms or for any other reason. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who claims that any User Content on our sites violates a third party’s rights or is otherwise unlawful.

Licence of user content

Subject to our obligations under applicable data protection laws, you grant to us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable licence to use the User Content.

The licence granted under these Terms includes the right for us (and our sub-licensees) to modify, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, communicate, make available and display the User Content (including by reproducing and distributing the User Content (including as modified) in marketing and promotional media relating to us and/or our sites). We are under no obligation to use the User Content.

As between you and us, you irrevocably waive all moral rights (including under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988) in relation to the User Content. These Terms do not affect your ownership of any copyright (other than moral rights) in the User Content.

Our intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise stated on our sites (including in these Terms), we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights (including trademarks, copyright, database rights, design rights, confidentiality rights and all other rights having equivalent or similar effect) in our sites (including the material published on it). All such rights are reserved.

You acknowledge and agree that UK Automotive 30% Club, the UK Automotive 30% Club logo on our sites are our exclusive property and that you shall not make use of them without prior written consent from us. You shall not acquire, nor claim, any right, title or interest in or to any of them (or the goodwill attaching to them). All goodwill arising from the use of them shall at all times accrue to us.

Except to the extent that you are obliged by a court order or regulatory body to disclose it, you shall keep confidential all confidential information belonging to us that we may disclose to you.

Please contact us if you would like to refer to our sites or any material on it. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our sites must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our sites for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Our liability

The material on our sites is not intended to be advice and you should not rely on it. That material and our sites are provided without any guarantees, representations or warranties as to their accuracy or freedom from harmful material. To the extent permitted by law, we hereby expressly exclude:

(a) all representations, warranties and other terms that might otherwise be implied; and

(b) any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our sites or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our sites, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including 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 and negligent misrepresentation), breach of contract or otherwise. This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

Indemnity

You indemnify us against each and any loss, liability, and cost (including reasonable legal expenses) that we may suffer or incur as a result of or in connection with any claim against us that results (in whole or in part) from a breach by you of your obligations under these Terms.

Information about you and your visits to our sites

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy, which is available below. By using our sites, you consent to that processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our sites 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 sites, the server on which our sites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our sites. You must not attack our sites via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. We may co-operate with law enforcement authorities in relation to any such misuse, including by disclosing your identity to them.

Linking to our sites

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is – in our opinion – 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 without notice. The websites from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the representations and warranties above relating to User Content (as if that websites and its contents were User Content).

You must not establish a link from any websites that are not owned by you. Our sites must not be framed on any other sites, nor may you create a link to any part of our sites other than the home page.
If you wish to make any use of material on our sites other than as set out above, please contact us using the email julia@gaiainnovation.com

Links from our sites

Where our sites contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. 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.

Variations

We may revise these Terms at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we have made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our sites.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to all disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms (including claims for set-off and counterclaims), including disputes arising out of or in connection with: (i) the creation, validity, effect, interpretation, performance or non-performance of, or the legal relationships established by, these Terms; and (ii) any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with these Terms. For such purposes, you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts.

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with, English law.

• The right to object – If you don’t like what we’re doing – how we’re contacting you, etc. – you can always let us know using the above contact details and we will stop what we’re doing immediately.
• Finally, you also have the right to not have decisions made about you automatically without your knowledge. No decisions we make are made by an automatic process, so this is not relevant here.

WordPress

We use a third-party service, WordPress.com, to publish our website. These sites are hosted at WordPress.com, which is run by Automattic Inc. We use a standard WordPress service to collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the site, for example, the number of users viewing pages on the site, to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the site and help us improve it. For more information about how WordPress processes data, please see Automattic’s privacy notice.

Linking to other sites

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy.

Contact

Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed julia@gaiainnovation.com