Website policies

Terms of website use

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.stephens-scown.co.uk (our site). Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

Information about us

www.stephens-scown.co.uk is a site operated by Stephens Scown LLP (“We”).  We are a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales (number OC356696) and have our registered office at Curzon House, Southernhay West, Exeter, EX1 1RS.  Details of our main trading addresses can be found on the “Contact” section of our site. Our VAT number is 131 8055 94.

A list of members of Stephens Scown LLP is available from the registered office at Curzon House, Southernhay West Exeter EX1 1RS

Stephens Scown LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (No.  551582). The word “Partner” is used to refer to a member of Stephens Scown LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing.

Stephens Scown LLP maintain Professional Indemnity Insurance in accordance with the rules of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.  Details of the insurers and the territorial coverage of the policy are available on request.

Accessing our site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy as detailed below.

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

Acceptable Use Policy

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which;
• Contains any material which is defamatory of any person;
• Contains any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
• Promotes sexually explicit material;
• Promotes violence;
• Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
• Infringes any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
• Is likely to deceive any person;
• Is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
• Promotes any illegal activity;
• Is threatening, abusive or invades another’s privacy, or causes annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
• Is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
• Impersonates any person, or misrepresents your identity or affiliation with any person;
• Gives the impression that it emanates from us, if this is not the case;
• Advocates, promotes or assists any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  any part of our site;
• any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
• any software used in the provision of our site; or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Intellectual property rights

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and 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 material on our site must always be acknowledged.

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

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

The HRExpress logo is a UK registered trade mark (registration number: 2599660).

Reliance on information posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

The material displayed on our site does not constitute legal advice.

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

We are not authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

We may be able, in certain circumstances, to offer a limited range of investment services to clients, such as arranging and advising, which are incidental to the legal services we offer or which are regarded as a necessary part of our legal services.  In doing so, we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.  As we are not authorised by the UK Financial Services Authority, we are not able to give advice on the merits of investment transactions, and nothing we say or do should be construed as an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity.

We are included on the register maintained by the UK Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on insurance mediation activities which, broadly, is the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The register can be accessed via the UK Financial Services Authority’s website athttp://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/home.do.

Our site changes regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:
• 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;
• whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Information about you and your visits to our site

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

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our site 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 site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site 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 co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Linking to our site

You may link to our site, provided you do so in a way that is 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.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy details above.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to marketing@stephens-scown.co.uk.

Links from our site

Where our site contains 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.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, 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 our site.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contactmarketing@stephens-scown.co.uk.

Thank you for visiting our site.