Terms of Use
Please read these terms of use carefully. Use of this Website by you
indicates that you accept the relevant terms. If you do not accept these terms,
do not use this Website.
Subscriber: If you have been authorised by your employer to access and use the
Conect Intelligence Platform please refer to the
Subscriber Terms of Use.
Counterparty: If you have been invited by email to complete an assessment please
refer to the Counterparty Terms of Use.
Subscriber Personnel Terms of Use
(“STU”)
Please read these terms of use carefully. Use of this Website by you
indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not
use this Website.
1.1 This Website https://www.albanygrp.com (“Website”)
is provided by Albany Group (“we”).
1.2 The organisation that
you represent (the “Subscriber”) has nominated you as an authorised user
of this Website. Accordingly, a User ID and Password provided by us will give
you access via the Internet to this Website.
1.3 Access to this
Website is by invitation and is subject to this STU.
1.4 This Website provides
a facility enabling you, on behalf of the Subscriber to evaluate current or
prospective suppliers of the Subscriber. For example
by using this Website you may (i) request information from suppliers (typically
in the form of questionnaires known as “Assessments”); and/or (ii) requisition
reports relating to the financial status of suppliers directly from our Data
Suppliers (together or individually the “Services”).
1.5 By proceeding to use
this Website you agree to:
1.5.1 the STU terms;
1.5.2 our privacy policy (“Privacy
Policy”) and our cookies policy (“Cookie Policy”) are available
at https://www.albanygrp.com
2 Licence and Permitted
Use:
2.1 We hereby grant you a
non-exclusive, non-sub-licensable, non-transferable licence to use, on behalf
of your organisation and for internal business use only, the Website in
accordance with the permissions and purposes made known to you by the
organisation you represent.
2.2 For the purposes of
the STU ‘internal business use’ shall not include onward vending, distributing,
sublicensing, copying, transmitting, publishing, broadcasting, displaying,
altering, modifying, (including abbreviating, re-organising or restructuring),
posting on the internet, making available on a network, reproducing, licensing
or otherwise dealing with this Website either directly or indirectly, in any
medium in whole or part, other than as permitted by the STU, without our prior
written consent.
2.3 You must always
ensure that you use the Website fairly which means that you must (i) only use the
Website in accordance with the levels made known to you by the Subscriber; and
(ii) act reasonably in the way that you print, store, download or share
contents of the Website.
2.4 You may not, and you
may not assist a third party to:
2.4.1 attempt to reproduce,
assign, resell, copy, reverse engineer, modify, reuse, disassemble, decompile
transfer or make any derivatives of the Website
2.4.2 remove or alter any
proprietary notices or marks on the Website
2.4.3 access all or any
part of the Website in order to create any product or services which competes
with the Website
2.4.4 use the Website or
Assessments to operate the business of a third party that offers EU regulatory
monitoring services
2.4.5 circumvent any
security measures or technical limitations of the Website
2.4.6 licence, sell, rent,
lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, download or otherwise
commercially exploit or otherwise make use of the Website and or the Services
available to any third party
2.4.7 take any screen-shots
of the contents or pages of this Website or
2.4.8 use the Website for
any unlawful purposes, in an unlawful manner or in any way that may bring us or
any of its Data Suppliers into disrepute.
3 Data Protection:
3.1 In processing your
personal data, we will at all times comply with the
obligations we set out in our Privacy Policy.
3.2 You shall not post or
upload any special categories of personal data onto this Website, which may
include information about yourself or another person that may relate to race,
ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or political beliefs, trade unions
memberships, health data or any other special categories of personal data as
defined by the General Data Protection Legislation or the Data Protection Act
2018.
4 Disclaimer
4.1 The Website is provided
on an “as is” basis and we do not make any representations or warranties,
including without limitation, representations or warranties relating to the
timeliness, currency, continuity, accuracy, completeness, merchantability, or
fitness for a particular purpose of the Website. By using this Website you acknowledge that every business decision
involves the assumption of a risk and that we, in making the Website available
to you; do not underwrite that risk, in any manner whatsoever. Subject
to Clause 4.6 neither we nor any of our Data Suppliers, shall be
liable for any loss caused in whole or in part by your use of the Website.
4.2 You acknowledge that
no component of the Website shall constitute any financial, legal, investment
or any other professional advice.
4.3 Access to the Website
is granted to you for the purposes set out in Clause 2.1 and is not intended to
facilitate the formation of any business decisions.
4.4 To the fullest extent
permitted by law, we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus,
distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material
that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other
proprietary material due to your use of the Website.
4.5 Albany Group shall
not under any circumstances (i) assume any responsibility for the quality,
approval, verification, endorsement or legality of Assessments or any responses
to Assessments (“Contributions”); or (ii) be liable whatsoever for any
reliance, loss claim or complaint arising from or in connection with the
Contributions.
4.6 Nothing in the STU
shall exclude or limit our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do
so.
5 Uploading content
onto the Website:
5.1 Whenever you make use
of a feature that allows you to upload any Contribution to our Website or to make contact with other users of the Website, you must
comply with the content standards set out in clause 5.2.
5.2 Your Contribution
must:
5.2.1 be accurate;
5.2.2 comply with the laws
of England and Wales;
5.2.3 not be defamatory;
5.2.4 not Promote unlawful violence;
5.2.5 not infringe any
copyright, database right, trademark or any other third party
rights;
5.2.6 not breach data
protection legislation or confidentiality rights;
5.2.7 not deliberately nor
negligently introduce viruses, worms, bombs, Trojan horses and trap doors; or
5.2.8 not be in contempt of
court.
6 Third Party Claims:
6.1 If you are notified
by a third party that your use of the Website infringes the rights of a third
party you agree to (i) notify us as soon as reasonably possible; and (ii) at
our request immediately cease to use any element of the Website that allegedly
infringes third party rights.
7 General
7.1 Change to these
Terms: We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to
use the Website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms
that apply at that time. We will endeavour to give you notice of any material
changes to these terms.
7.2 Data Suppliers: You acknowledge and
agree that (i) the Services and the Website include information that we obtain
from our third party suppliers of data (“Data Suppliers”); and (ii) our Data
Supplier(s) are third party beneficiaries to these Subscriber Terms of Use and
that each such Data Supplier may seek to enforce, on its own behalf, these
Subscriber Terms of Use.
7.3 Governing Law: These terms
shall be governed by English law and the English courts shall have exclusive
jurisdiction.
Counterparty Terms of Use (“CTU”)
Please read these terms of use carefully. Use of this Website by you
indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not
use this Website.
1.1 This website https://www.albanygrp.com (“Website”)
is provided by Albany Group (“we”).
1.2 Access to this
Website is by invitation and is subject to this “CTU”.
1.3 The organisation you
represent (the “Counterparty”) has been has been invited by a client of
ours (the “Subscriber”) to access this Website to enabling you, on
behalf of the Counterparty, to respond electronically to requests for
information from the Subscriber typically in the form of questionnaires known
as “Assessments” (together or individually referred to as the “Services”).
1.4 A User ID and
Password, provided by us, will give you access via the Internet to this Website
1.5 By proceeding to use
this Website you on behalf of the Counterparty agree to:
1.5.1 the CTU;
1.5.2 our privacy policy (“Privacy
Policy”) and our cookies policy (“Cookie Policy”) are available
at https://www.albanygrp.com
2 Licence and Permitted
Use:
2.1 We hereby grant you a
non-exclusive, non-sub-licensable, non-transferable licence to use, on behalf
of the Counterparty, the Website for the purposes of completing, saving,
storing, drafting and submitting Assessments in response to requests from the
Subscriber.
2.2 You may not, and you
may not assist any third party to:
2.2.1 attempt to reproduce,
assign, resell, copy, reverse engineer, modify, reuse, disassemble, decompile
transfer or make any derivatives of the Website or the Assessment(s);
2.2.2 remove or alter any
proprietary notices or marks on the Website;
2.2.3 access all or any
part of the Website in order to create any product or service which competes
with the Website;
2.2.4 use the Website or
Assessments to operate the business of a third party that offers EU regulatory
monitoring services.
2.2.5 circumvent any security
measures or technical limitations of the Website;
2.2.6 take any screen shots
of the contents on the Website;
2.2.7 licence, sell, rent,
lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, download or otherwise
commercially exploit, or otherwise make use of the Website and or the Services
available to any third party; or
2.2.8 use the Website for
any unlawful purposes, in an unlawful manner or in any way that may bring us or
the Subscriber, or any third party suppliers of data
contained on the Website into disrepute.
3 Data Protection:
3.1 In processing your
personal data we will at all times comply with the
obligations we set out in our Privacy Policy.
3.2 You shall not post or
upload any special categories of personal data onto this Website, which may
include information about yourself or another person that may relate to race,
ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or political beliefs, trade unions
memberships, health data or any other special categories of personal data as
defined by the General Data Protection Legislation or the Data Protection Act
2018.
4 Disclaimer
4.1 The Website is
provided on an “as is” basis and we do not make any representations or
warranties, including without limitation, representations or warranties
relating to the timeliness, currency, continuity, accuracy, completeness,
merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose of the Website. By using
this Website you acknowledges that every business
decision involves the assumption of a risk and that we, in making the Website
available to you, do not underwrite that risk, in any manner whatsoever. To the
fullest extent permitted by law, we nor the Subscriber shall not be liable for
any loss caused in whole or in part by your use of the Website.
4.2 You acknowledge that
no component of the Website shall constitute any financial, legal, investment
or any other professional advice.
4.3 Access to the Website
is granted to you for the purposes set out in Clause 2.1 and is not intended to
facilitate the formation of any business decisions.
4.4 We shall not, under
any circumstances (i) assume any responsibility for the quality, approval,
verification, endorsement or legality of the Assessments or your responses (“Contributions”);
or (ii) be liable whatsoever for any, reliance, loss, claim or complaint
arising from, or in connection with, the Assessments or Contributions.
5 Changes to these
Terms
5.1 We may amend these
terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use the Website please check
these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. We will
endeavour to give you notice of any material changes to these terms.
6 Uploading content
onto the Website:
6.1 Whenever you make use
of a feature that allows you to upload any Contribution to our Website, you
must comply with the content standards set out in clause 6.2.
6.2 Your Contribution
must:
6.2.1 be accurate;
6.2.2 comply with the laws
of England and Wales;
6.2.3 not be defamatory;
6.2.4 not promote unlawful
violence;
6.2.5 not infringe any
copyright, database right, trademark or any other third party
rights;
6.2.6 not breach data
protection legislation or confidentiality rights;
6.2.7 not deliberately nor
negligently introduce viruses, worms, bombs, trojan horses, and trap doors; or
6.2.8 not be in contempt of
court.