TERMS AND CONDITIONS & MEDICAL DISCLAIMER

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our GHIC website.
1.2 By using our GHIC website, you accept these terms and conditions in full;accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of theseterms and conditions, you must not use our website.
1.3 If you register with our GHIC website or use any of our website services, wewill ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
1.4 This GHIC website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to theseterms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with theterms of our privacy and cookies policy.

2. Credit

2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal(http://www.seqlegal.com).

3. Copyright notice

3.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:(a) we, together with our licensors, own any copyright and the otherintellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website;and
(b)all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our websiteand the material on our website are reserved.

4. Licence to use website

4.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
(b)download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;(c)print pages from our website for your own personal use; and(d) stream audio and video files from our website, subject to the otherprovisions of these terms and conditions.
4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of theseterms and conditions, you must not download any material from the GHICwebsite or save any such material to your computer.
4.3 You may only use our GHIC website for your own personal and businesspurposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.
4.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must notedit or otherwise modify any material on our GHIC website.
4.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:(a) republish material from our website (including republication on anotherwebsite);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;(c) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material from ourwebsite for commercial purposes;
(d) edit or otherwise modify any material on our website;(d)(e) redistribute material from our website except for contentspecifically and expressly made available for redistribution (such as ournewsletter)

5. Acceptable use

5.1 You must NOT:
(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or maycause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance,availability or accessibility of the website;
(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent orharmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmfulpurpose or activity;
(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish ordistribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware,computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or othermalicious computer software;
(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities(including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction anddata harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our expresswritten consent;
(e) use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercialcommunications
(f) use our website for any purposes related to marketing activity(including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing,telemarketing and direct mailing) without our express written consent.
5.2 You must not use data collected from our GHIC website to contactindividuals, companies or other persons or entities.
5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through ourwebsite, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete andnon-misleading.

6. Medical Information Disclaimer

6.1 Our GHIC website contains general medical information.
6.2 The medical information is not advice and should not be treated as such.

7. No warranties

7.1 The medical information on our website is provided without anyrepresentations or warranties, express or implied.
7.2 Without limiting the scope of Section 7.1, we do not warrant or represent thatthe medical information on this website will be constantly available, or available atall.

8. Medical assistance

8.1 You must not rely on the information on our website as an alternative tomedical advice from your doctor or other professional healthcare provider.
8.2 If you have any specific questions about any medical matter, you shouldconsult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider.
8.3 If you think you may be suffering from any medical condition, you shouldseek immediate medical attention.
8.4 You should never delay seeking medical advice, disregard medical advice ordiscontinue medical treatment because of information on our website.

9. Limits upon exclusions of liability

9.1 Nothing in this disclaimer will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting fromnegligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law;or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

10. Registration

10.1 You may register your personal details on GHIC by completing andsubmitting the registration form on our website;

11. Your content: licence

11.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials(including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material,audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us for storageor publication on, processing by, or transmission via, the GHIC website.
11.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licenceto use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content inany existing or future media.
11.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section11.2.
11.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rightslicensed under Section 11.2.
11.5 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms ofuse. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any thirdparty’s legal rights and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whetheragainst you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). Youmust not submit content for use to the website that is or has ever been thesubject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to remove any material submitted for use to our website, orstored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
11.6 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, ifyou breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if wereasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in anyway, we may delete, un-publish or edit any or all of your content.

12. Limited warranties

12.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or full accuracy of the information published on ourwebsite;
(b) that all the material on the website is up to date; or(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
12.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or any or all of our website services, andto stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice orexplanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these termsand conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other paymentupon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stoppublishing the website.
12.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude allrepresentations and warranties relating to this website and the use of this website(including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law in respect ofsatisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care andskill).

13. Limitations and exclusions of liability

13.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting fromnegligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law;or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
13.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 13 andelsewhere in these terms and conditions:
(a) are subject to Section 13.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relatingto the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilitiesarising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach ofstatutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in theseterms and conditions.
13.3 To the extent that the GHIC website and the information and services onour website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss ordamage of any nature.
13.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any eventor events beyond our reasonable control.
13.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including(without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use,production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities orgoodwill.
13.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data,database or software.
13.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect orconsequential loss or damage.
13.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of ourofficers and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limitedliability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against ourofficers in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website orthese terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability ofthe limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers.

14. Indemnity

14.1 You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against anylosses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, legalexpenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim ordispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising outof any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

15. Breaches of these terms and conditions

15.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, ifyou breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspectthat you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may take suchaction as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including;(a) suspending your access to our GHIC website;
(b) permanently prohibit you from accessing our GHIC website;(c) block computers using your IP address from accessing our GHICwebsite;
(d) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request thatthey block your access to our GHIC website;
(e) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract orotherwise;

16. Variation

16.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
16.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website fromthe date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, andyou hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or toconsent to, revisions of these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to therevised terms and conditions, you must stop using our GHIC website.

17. Assignment

17.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwisedeal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions withoutnotifying you or obtaining your permission.
17.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, subcontract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under theseterms and conditions.

18. Severability

18.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court orother competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the otherprovisions will continue in effect.
18.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms andconditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part willbe deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

19. Third party rights

19.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and yourbenefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
19.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms andconditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

20. Entire agreement

20.1 Subject to Section 13.1, these terms and conditions, medical informationdisclaimer, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute theentire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website andshall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to youruse of our GHIC website.

21. Law and jurisdiction

21.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed inaccordance with English law.
21.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to thenon-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales and the UnitedStates of America or the jurisdiction of the courts in the country where youreside.

22. Our details

22.1 This GHIC website is owned and operated by The Graham HughesInternational Charity for Hughes (antiphospholipid) Syndrome.
22.2 We are a charity registered in England and Wales under registration number1172388, and our address is at GHIC, The Shard, 32 London Bridge Street,London, SE1 9SG.
22.4 You can contact us:
(a) by post, using the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by email, using hello@ghic.world
(d) by telephoning us on; 0300 800 1234