Terms of use

What's in these terms?

These terms (the “Terms”) set out the rules for using our website www.imiplc.com (the “Website”).

Who we are and how to contact us

The Website is operated by IMI plc, (“IMI”, “us” or “we”) a company registered in England and Wales under company number 00714275 with its registered address Lakeside Solihull Parkway Birmingham Business Park Birmingham B37 7XZ. To contact us, please email [email protected].

By using the Website you accept the Terms

Please read these Terms carefully. By accessing and using the Website you are deemed to have read, understood and agreed to the Terms and that you will comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Website.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

We may make changes to the Terms

We reserve the right to vary these Terms at any time and will post any variations here. Please review these Terms of use on a regular basis as you will be deemed to have accepted variations if you continue to use the Website after they have been posted.

Website availability

IMI does not guarantee that the Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the Website without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons with access to the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them.

Information we provide on the Website

Information (including text, data, graphics, photographs, videos, audio recordings, podcasts, illustrations, artwork, technical documentation, names, logos, trademarks, service marks and information about IMI and its products and services) published by IMI on the Website is supplied by IMI and, where indicated, by certain third parties. IMI takes every care and precaution to ensure that information published on the Website is accurate when posted and regularly updated, but IMI does not guarantee and cannot be held liable for its accuracy or timeliness.

The content on the Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and you acknowledge that you must take appropriate steps to verify this information before acting on it.

The Website is published “AS IS”

IMI PUBLISHES THE WEBSITE “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES REFERRED TO ON THE WEBSITE (IN SO FAR AS SUCH WARRANTIES MAY BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW) AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IMI SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGE WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT OR INDIRECT LOSS OF PROFITS), CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR OTHERWISE INCIDENTAL THAT MAY RESULT FROM ACCESS OR USE OF THE WEBSITE HOWSOEVER ARISING.

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

Third-party websites

We are not responsible for the content of any other website from which you have accessed the Website or to which you may hyperlink from the Website. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and we cannot be held liable for any loss or damage you incur as a result.

How you may use material on the Website

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off copies, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on the Website.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, except where you have been given express permission to do so. Furthermore, you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on the Website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

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

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of the Website in breach of these terms of service, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these Terms).

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to the Website or any services provided via, or in relation to, the Website for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the Website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information [or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

We are not responsible for viruses

We use reasonable efforts to protect the Website, but we do not guarantee that it will be secure or warrant that it is free from computer viruses, trojan horses, worms or bugs or other “detrimental code” and accept no liability for any damage or loss that may result from transmission of such via the Website (including any files that are available for download). You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access the Website. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not introduce viruses

You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful or otherwise harmfully interacting with the Website or any part of it. 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 interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of the Website or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. You must not attack the Website including 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. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will cooperate with those authorities and may disclose your identity to them. In the event of such a breach of these Terms, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

Other legal terms may apply

These Terms are not intended to cover conditions of sale of and IMI products or services. Additional terms may also apply for different functionality that is provided on the Website. In such cases additional terms will be provided to you when the functionality is offered. Information describing how IMI processes your personal information and your rights in relation to this can be found in the Privacy Notice and Cookies Notice

General

These terms of use are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and you agree that the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute.

To the extent that any part of these terms of use is found to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction such part shall to that extent be severed from the remaining terms all of which shall remain in full force and effect as permitted by law.

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