WEBSITE TERMS OF USE

This page, together with the Privacy Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy and any otherdocuments referred or linked to in this page, (together, the “Terms of Use”) sets out the termsand conditions on which you may make use of our website www.forthvalleygis.co.uk (“our site”).

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site,you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you donot agree to these Terms of Use, you must refrain from using our site.

1. Information About Us

Our site is operated by Forth Valley GIS Limited ("we"/”us”/”our”). We are a limitedcompany registered in Scotland (Registered Number SC315349) and have ourregistered office at Drummond House, Wellgreen Place, Stirling, FK8 2DY.

2. Accessing Our Site

2.1 Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the rightto withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice. We willnot be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for anyperiod.

2.2 From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or ourentire site, to users who have registered with us.

2.3 If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password orany other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treatsuch information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party.We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whetherchosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failedto comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

2.4 When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our AcceptableUse Policy.

2.5 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to haveaccess to our site.

2.6 You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our sitethrough your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that theycomply with them.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

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

3.2 You may:

(a) view and display the contents of our site using your internet browser;

(b) download extracts of the contents of our site to your computer solely foryour own personal use and not for any commercial or business2purposes whatsoever. You must ensure that if you download anyextracts, you also download these Terms of Use; and

(c) print off a single copy of a page or extract of our solely for your ownpersonal use and not for any commercial or business purposeswhatsoever. You must ensure that any printed materials include anacknowledgement of our intellectual property rights in that content.

3.3 You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you haveprinted off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations,photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from anyaccompanying text.

3.4 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material onour site must always be acknowledged.

3.5 You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposeswithout obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

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

3.7 The names and logos identifying our site and/or us and our products andservices and the products and services of any third parties are either (a)proprietary marks of Forth Valley GIS Limited or (b) marks that Forth Valley GISLimited is licensed to use, and nothing in these Terms of Use shall confer onyou any licence or ownership of such marks or of any other intellectual propertyright.

4. Reliance on Information 

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

5. Our Site Changes Regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time withoutnotice (including, without limitation, the prices of our products and/or services). If theneed arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely (including,without limitation, as a result of the occurrence of a force majeure event). Any of thematerial on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under noobligation to update such material.

6. Our Liability

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

• all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise beimplied by statute, common law or the law of equity;
• any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damageincurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection withthe use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitationany liability for:
  • loss of income or revenue;
  • loss of business;
  • loss of profits or contracts;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of data;o loss of goodwill;
  • wasted management or office time; and/or
  • for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising andwhether caused by tort (including negligence), breach ofcontract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

6.2 Paragraph 6.1 does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arisingfrom our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation ormisrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability whichcannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

7. Information About You and Your Visits to Our Site

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using oursite, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you isaccurate.

8. Transactions Concluded Through Our Site

Contracts for the supply of goods, service and/or information concluded through our siteor as a result of visits made by you are governed by the relevant terms and conditionsof supply that you are required to agree to prior to completing the relevant purchase.

9. Uploading Material to Our Site

9.1 Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to oursite, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with thecontent standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. You warrant that anysuch contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us forany breach of that warranty.

9.2 Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and nonproprietary,and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to thirdparties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to discloseyour identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted oruploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual propertyrights, or of their right to privacy.

9.3 We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content oraccuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

9.4 We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, inour opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out inour Acceptable Use Policy.

10. Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences

10.1 You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms,logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. Youmust not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on whichour 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 distributeddenial-of service attack.

10.2 By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under theComputer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant lawenforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities bydisclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to useour site will cease immediately.

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

11. Linking to Our Site

11.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair andlegal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you mustnot establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association,approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

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

11.3 Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to anypart of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdrawlinking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking mustcomply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable UsePolicy.

11.4 If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set outabove, please address your request to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

12. 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 contentsof those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss ordamage that may arise from your use of them.

13. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

13.1 The Scottish courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arisingfrom, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bringproceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country ofresidence or any other relevant country.

13.2 These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection withthem or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes orclaims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws ofScotland.

14. Termination 

We reserve the right to refuse access to our site to any user at our sole discretion.

15. Severance 

If any provision of the Terms of Use is judged to be illegal or unenforceable by a courtof competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the provisions of the Terms shall continue infull force and effect.

16. Variations 

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You areexpected 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 mayalso be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

17. Your Concerns 

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PRIVACY POLICY

Forth Valley GIS Limited (“we”/”us”/”our”) are committed to protecting and respecting yourprivacy.This policy (which forms part of the Terms of Use of our site) sets out the basis on which anypersonal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Pleaseread the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal dataand how we will treat it.For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Forth Valley GISLimited of Drummond House, Wellgreen Place, Stirling, FK8 2DY. Our Data Protection Actregistration number is: ICO Z9985210.Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to our site and not to any third party sites thatare linked to from our site.

1. Information We May Collect From You

We may collect and process the following data about you:

1.1 Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information, for example when you enter a competition or promotion, andwhen you report a problem with our site.

1.2 If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

1.3 We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

1.4 Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.

1.5 Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

1.6 Any information you provide to us in connection with your use of the Forum.

2. IP Addresses and Cookies

2.1 We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

2.2 For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

• estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
• to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests;
• to speed up your searches; and
• to recognise you when you return to our site.

2.3 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

2.4 Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

3. Where We Store Your Personal Data

3.1 The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

3.2 Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

3.3 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission isat your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

4. Uses Made of the Information 

4.1 We use information held about you in the following ways:

• to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so; and
• to notify you about changes to our service.

4.2 We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by email, post or telephone.

4.3 Where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

4.4 If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

4.5 We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

5. Disclosure of Your Information 

5.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our associated third parties.

5.2 We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

5.2.1 In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which casewe may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

5.2.2 If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or relevant terms and conditions of supply of goods,services and/or information and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our employees, customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

6. Your Rights

6.1 You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketingpurposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend touse your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information toany third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent suchprocessing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

6.2 Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of ourpartner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of thesewebsites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies andthat we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Pleasecheck these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

7. Access to Information 

The Data Protection Act 1988 gives you the right to access information held about you.Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access requestmay be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of theinformation we hold about you.

8. Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on thispage and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

9. Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed andshould be addressed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.forthvalleygis.co.uk (our site). This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the rules and policies in this Acceptable Use Policy, which form part of the Terms of Use.

1. Prohibited Uses

1.1 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 does not comply with our Content Standards in paragraph 7 below (“Content Standards”);
• to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); and/or
• 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.

1.2 You also agree:

• not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of theprovisions of our Terms of Use;
• not to access without our 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.

2. Changes

We may revise this Acceptable Use Policy at any time. You are expected to check thispage from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legallybinding on you.