Terms of Use

Please read these terms of use (together with the other web pages referred to in them) carefully, before you start to use the site. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or contacting us through our site. By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide and comply by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

1. Other applicable terms

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Our Accessibility Policy, which allows you to comment to us on how accessible our site is.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

2. Information about us

www.eghammuseum.org is a website operated by Egham Museum (“We”); we are a Charity registered in England and Wales under charity number 278422. Our registered office is The Literary Institute, 51 High Street, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9EW.

3. Accessing our site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or amend all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

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 of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

4. Intellectual property rights

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 laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

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

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

Please refer to our Copyright Policy for full details.

5. No reliance on information

The content and materials contained on our site are provided for general information purposes only. It is not intended to amount to or constitute professional advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content or materials on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content and materials on our site are accurate, complete or up-to-date.

6. Limitation of our liability

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 English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

• use of, or inability to use, our site; or
• use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

• loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• business interruption;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, 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 content on it, or on any website linked to it.

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. When accessing another website via our website, we advise that you check their terms of use and privacy policies to ensure compliance and to determine how they may use your information.

7. Contributions to our site

If we ever provide a feature that allows you to contribute your opinions or other information to our site, you must ensure that they are accurate (where they state facts), be genuinely held (where they state opinions) and comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted. Particularly, but without limitation, your contributions must not contain any material which is defamatory of any person; contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person; promote any illegal activity; or give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with these standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer user, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Anything you contribute will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such content for any purpose.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that your contribution constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

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

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

8. Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your computer, computer programmes and platform in order to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.

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.

9. Linking to our site

You may link to our website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

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 to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page, without our prior written permission.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

10. Applicable law

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

11. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you.

12. Changes to our site

We may update our site from time to time, 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. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

13. Contact us

We welcome feedback from our users: please contact curator@eghammuseum.org with any helpful comments and criticisms. We will use this information to help us to improve the terms of use of our website to all users, including disabled and elderly people.