Important legal notice
Attention: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the Law Debenture corporate website (“Website”) . Please read these terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept these terms . If you do not accept these terms, do not use the Website. This notice is issued by The Law Debenture Corporation p.l.c. and its subsidiaries (“Group”).
1. Introduction
1.1 You may access [most areas of] the Website without registering your details with us. Certain areas of the Website are only open to you if you register.
1.2 By accessing any part of the Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave the Website immediately.
1.3 This legal notice refers to the following additional terms, which also apply to the use of our Website:
(a) our Privacy Policy which explains how we collect and use your personal data; [and]
(b) our Cookie Policy , which sets out the information about the cookies on our Website;
(c) our Investment trust pages relevant to retail and non-retail investors.
1.4 The Group may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check the Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice . Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of the Website or, if and when relevant, any agreements we may enter into with you in order to provide any services.
2. Licence
2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Website for your personal use on the following basis:
(a) no documents or related graphics on the Website are modified in any way;
(b) no graphics on the Website are used separately from the corresponding text; and
(c) the Group’s copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.
2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on the Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Group or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from the Website other than in accordance with clause 2.1 for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use the Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the website.
2.3 Subject to clause 2.1, no part of the Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Group’s prior written permission.
2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.
3. Service access
3.1 While the Group endeavours to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Group shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 Access to the Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Group’s control.
4. Visitor material and conduct
4.1 Other than personal data, which is covered under our Privacy Policy , any material you transmit or post to the Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Group shall have no obligations with respect to such material. The Group and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Website any material:
(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licenses and/or approvals; or
(c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or
(d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or other malicious software or harmful data or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware).
4.3 You may not use the Website:
(a) in any way that breaches any local, national or international law or regulation;
(b) in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
(c) to harm or attempting to harm, bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person;
(d) to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, share, post, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our terms (including but not limited to clause 4.2 above);
(e) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
(f) to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic 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.
4.4 The Group shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Group to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of clause 4.2 or clause 4.3.
5. Links to and from other websites
5.1 Links to third party websites on the Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave the Website. The Group does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Group therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
5.2 If you would like to link to the Website, you may only do so subject to the following conditions:
(a) you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Law Debenture logo;
(b) you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the Website;
(c) you do not in any way imply that the Group is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
(d) you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Group nor present any other false information about the Group;
(e) you do not otherwise use any of the Group’s trade marks displayed on the Website without express written permission from the Group;
(f) you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and
(g) your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
5.3 The Group expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in clause 5.2 without any notice, at any time and for any reason (including for breach of these terms), and to take any action it deems appropriate.
5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Group for any loss or damage suffered by the Group or any of its group companies for breach of clause 5.
6. Share dealing in The Law Debenture Corporation p.l.c.
If you are considering buying Law Debenture shares , please visit our information pages. If you are uncertain about how to purchase shares or what it entails, you should contact a qualified adviser such as an independent financial adviser. Law Debenture does not give investment advice and nothing contained on this website constitutes a recommendation to buy our shares, or an offer or inducement to do so. Every effort has been made to ensure that information is accurate and complete, but Law Debenture excludes all and any liability for loss or damage, whether direct or consequential, which may arise from reliance on any information contained in this site or from the use of this site.
Please remember that past performance is not a guide to future performance and that the value of an investment and the income from it can fall as well as rise and that you may not get back the amount originally invested.
7. Disclaimer
7.1 While the Group endeavours to ensure that the information on the Website is correct, the Group does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on the Website. The Group may make changes to the material on the Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and the Group makes no commitment to update such material.
7.2 The material on the Website is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Group provides you with the Website on the basis that the Group excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill which, but for this legal notice, might have effect in relation to the Website).
8. Liability
8.1 The Group, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Website), and any member of the Group and its officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation), any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence, contract or otherwise) in connection with the Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Website, any websites linked to the Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Website or your downloading of any material from the Website or any websites linked to the Website.
8.2 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Group's liability for:
(a) death or personal injury caused by gross negligence; or
(b) fraud; or
(c) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or
(d) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
8.3 If your use of material on the Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
9. Governing law and jurisdiction
This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.