Terms and Conditions

Please read the following user agreement (Agreement) carefully before using this website. Your use of the website will constitute acceptance of this Agreement.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. This website is owned by the Auto-Cycle Union (ACU) Ltd.  www.acu.org.uk is a website operated by Auto-Cycle Union Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 00134679 and have our registered office at ACU House, Wood Street, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 2YX. To contact us please see our Contact Us page.

1.2. This Agreement may be amended by the ACU from time to time. Any changes to these terms and conditions will be announced on this page. Continued use of the service by you after any such announcement will constitute your acceptance of the changes so you should check this page regularly. Your failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the Agreement as amended from time to time may result in termination of your access to the service or to its exercise by ACU of other contractual remedies against you.

2. USE OF THE WEBSITE BY YOU

2.1. All material on this website belongs to ACU. You may retrieve and display content from this website on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your own (personal) non-commercial use.

2.2. You agree to use the website only for lawful purposes and that you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability. Other than by connecting to ACU's servers by HTTP requests using a web browser, you may not attempt to gain access to ACU servers by any means, including without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the website or otherwise.

2.3. You acknowledge that ACU has not reviewed, does not endorse and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites this website links to. Linking to any other service or site from this website is at your own risk.

3. LINKS

Any third party website that links to this website must not:

3.1. create a frame or any other browser or boardroom environment around the content of this site;

3.2. imply that ACU is endorsing it or its products or services;

3.3. use any ACU trade mark displayed on any ACU website without permission from ACU;

3.4. infringe any intellectual property or other right of any person;

3.5. be a website that contains content that could be construed as distasteful, offence or controversial.

3.6. ACU expressly reserves the right to request that any link in breach of these terms be removed and not take whatever other action it deems appropriate.

4. COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS 

ACU respects the intellectual property of others and we ask our users to do the same. ACU may in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion terminate the access of users who infringe the copyright of others.

5. COMMENTS, COMPETITIONS AND PRIZES

From time to time ACU may run competitions, free prize draws and promotions on this website. These are subject to additional terms that may be made available at the time.

6. MATERIALS PROVIDE BY OTHERS

You agree that ACU is not responsible and shall have no liability to you with respect to any information or materials posted by others including but not limited to defamatory, offensive or illicit materials.

7. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify acu and its affiliates, employees, agents and representatives and to hold them harmless from any and all claims and liabilities (including legal fees) from your unauthorised use of material obtained through the website, from your breach of this Agreement or from any such acts arising from your use of the website.

8. EDITING AND DELETIONS 

ACU reserves the right but undertakes no duty to review edit remove or delete any material posted on its website in its sole discretion and without notice.

9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY


9.1. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE USING THE WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. The website is provided “as is” and to the extent permitted by applicable law ACU hereby expressly disclaims any and all warranties expressed and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, title, merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, condition or guarantee or representation whether oral in writing or in electronic form, including but not limited to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained therein or provided by the website.

9.2. ACU does not represent or warrant that access to the website will be uninterrupted or that there will be no failures, errors, omissions or loss of transmitted information or that no viruses will be transmitted on the website.

9.3. Save for the provisions of the following clause, ACU shall not be liable to you or any third parties for any direct, indirect special, consequential or punitive damages allegedly sustained arising out of your access to or inability to access the website, including viruses alleged to have been obtained from the website, your use of or reliance on the website or any of the information or materials available on the website, regardless of the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action even if advised of the responsibility of such damages.

9.4. ACU's liability will not be limited in the case of death or personal injury directly caused by ACU's negligence.

10. TERMINATION

ACU may terminate your ability to access the website, for any reason, without notice.

11. PRIVACY POLICY

Any information about yourself that you provide to ACU will only be used by ACU in accordance with its privacy policy. The privacy policy does not apply to third party sites. See below.

12. CHOICE OF LAW AND JURISDICTION

You agree that this Agreement shall be governed by and construed for all purposes in accordance with English law. You will also agree, subject to the following clause, to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts as regards any claim or matter arising out of this Agreement. For the exclusive benefit of ACU, ACU shall retain the right to bring proceedings relating to the substance of the matter in the courts of the country of your residence.

13. GENERAL

13.1. This Agreement is the complete and entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of the website and supercedes any prior agreement whether written or oral.

13.2. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement which shall remain in full force and effect. Failure of either party to exercise any right or remedy under this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.