Last Updated

November 08, 2023

Website Terms & Conditions

Website Terms & Conditions

1. What do these terms cover?

You must read these terms carefully before using our website: https://www.bizik.co.uk/ (“Website”). They set out the rules that you must follow when using the Website and create a legally binding contract.

2. About us

The Website is owned and operated by Bizik Ltd (“We”).

We are a private limited company within the BSQ Group. We are registered in England and Wales and our company number is 15280068.

Our registered office is at 11-15 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9BP.

3. Do I have to agree to these terms?

By using the Website, you are confirming to us that you have read and accept these terms and that you will abide by the rules contained within them.

If you don’t agree to any of the terms set out on this webpage, you must not use the Website.

You are also responsible for making sure that anyone who accesses or uses the Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, our cookie policy and our privacy policy, and that they comply with them.

4. Are there any other terms that I should be aware of?

Yes, there are other terms that will apply to your use of the Website, these are:

There are also additional terms that will apply to you, if you purchase any of our services. Those terms can be found by scrolling down this page.

5. Will these terms ever change?

Yes, we may amend these terms from time to time, so it’s important that you check them each time you visit our Website.

6. Will the Website always be available?

As our Website is free of charge, we cannot and do not guarantee that it will always be available or that there will be no interruptions to it. The same applies to any content on the Website.

We are entitled to suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of our Website, or any part of it, for business or operational purposes.

7. Can I use the Website from outside of the UK?

Yes, but please note that we do not represent that content available on or through our Website is appropriate for use, or available in other locations.

8. Do I need an account to use the Website?

There may be some parts of our Website that require you to sign up for an account to obtain access. If you choose to register with us for an account, or if we provide you with any username, password, or similar, you must keep them confidential.

We have the right to disable any username or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms.

9. What if my account is hacked?

It is your responsibility to make sure that you do not disclose any of your account details or passwords to any third parties, and if you become aware that there has been a security breach of your account, you must notify us immediately.

You will be liable to indemnify us in relation to any losses we incur in relation to any activities undertaken through your account, including where such use is unauthorised.

10. Who is responsible for third party links on the Website?

We use third party links on our Website for information only. By using third party links we are not approving the linked websites or any of their content.

We are therefore not responsible for, nor do we have any control over, any third party websites or the content within them.

11. Does a limit on liability apply to Bizik Ltd?

Yes; however, we do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so – for example, in respect of death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors, and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Limits and exclusions

  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Website or any content on it.
  • Our liability is excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law.
  • We will not be liable to you 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 any action we may take in response to breaches of these terms.
  • We will not be liable to you 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 the use of, or inability to use, our Website, or the use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Website.
  • 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.
  • Where any such liability cannot legally be excluded, then to the extent legally possible, our total liability to you shall be capped at £200.

Please note that different limitations and exclusions will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products or services to you. These will be set out in the service terms which you should also read in full.

12. Is the Website free of bugs and viruses? 

Given the nature of the internet, we cannot and do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. As a result, we will not be liable to you in respect of these. We strongly recommend that you use your own virus protection software and ensure that your IT equipment and software is correctly configured to access our Website.

13. Are any warranties, representations or guarantees applicable to the Website?

No, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date, or that the Website will be free from errors, interruptions, bugs or viruses.

Please also note that the Website may include content uploaded by other users, including to social media pages and comment sections. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Website do not represent our views or values.

14. What restrictions must I comply with in order to use the Website?

Age

  • You must be at least 18 years of age to create any account on, or order services through, the Website.

Reliance

  • You must not rely on the information or content provided on the Website. It is provided for general informational purposes only and is not professional advice of any kind.
  • You must obtain the appropriate professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Website.

Purposes for which you cannot use our Website

  • 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 bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards set out in point 16.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material, or any other form of similar solicitation (e.g. 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.
  • In any way that involves child sexual exploitation or abuse.
  • To upload terrorist content.
  • For your own commercial gain, including but not limited to any attempt to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website, in contravention of the provisions of these terms.


Viruses and other harmful material

  • You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.
  • You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • our Website
  • the server or any other network or equipment on which our Website is stored
  • any server, computer or database connected to our Website
  • any software used in the provision of our Website; or
  • any equipment, or network, or software owned or used by any third party.
  • You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

If you do any of these things, 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 Website will cease immediately.

Text/Data mining and web scraping

  • You must not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Website. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
  • Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
  • Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information, which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The above is an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This  shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text, or data mining, or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

15. How can I use the material on the Website?

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

You may:

  • print off copies, and may download extracts of any page(s) from our Website for your personal use.
  • draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Website.

In all cases provided that our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Website must always be acknowledged.

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.
  • use any part of the content on our Website for commercial purposes.

If you breach any of these, 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.

16. Can I upload content to the Website?

The Website may contain features which allow you to upload content, or make contact with other users of the Website, e.g. comments on blogs. Where you use any of these features, you must comply with the following standards (in spirit as well as to the letter). Anything uploaded by you must:

  • be accurate if it states facts and must only contain opinions which are genuinely held.
  • comply with the law applicable in the UK and any country from which it is posted, and to which the Website is targeted.
  • not be likely to incite a terrorist offence, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offence, or threaten to commit a terrorist offence.
  • not be defamatory, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  • not bully, harass, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person, or promote discrimination in any way.
  • not encourage any form of self harm or suicide.
  • not include or promote sexually explicit material, terrorist material, or any other type of content which would be considered a criminal offence.
  • not infringe any copyright, database right, or trade mark of any other person, or breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  • not contain illegal content, or promote any illegal content or activity.
  • not be likely to deceive any person, including but not limited to giving the impression that the content comes from us if this is not the case, and impersonating any person or misrepresenting your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • not advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act, such as (by way of example only) terrorism, copyright infringement or computer misuse.
  • not be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  • not contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other competitor Websites.

We will determine, at our discretion, whether any content uploaded breaches these standards.

You warrant that any content uploaded by your account does comply with these standards, and you are liable to us and will indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of this warranty.

Any content you upload to our Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

Our rights in relation to your content

  • You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media, including to promote the Website or any of our services.
  • We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
  • We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the above standards.

If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our Website and that we have taken down, please contact us at: enquiries@bizik.co.uk.

17. How will my personal data be used?

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy.

18. Can I link to the Website?

Yes, you can link to our Website, provided that:

  • you do so in a way that is fair and legal
  • the link does not damage our reputation, or take advantage of it
  • the link does not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists
  • the website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the standards set out at point 16 of these terms.

However, you may not frame our Website on any other site.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

19. What if I breach these terms?

In the event that you breach any of these terms, we may take any of the following actions. Please note this is not an exhaustive list and will not effect any other remedies we may have:

  • Immediately, temporarily or permanently withdraw your right to use our Website.
  • Immediately, temporarily or permanently remove any content uploaded by you to our Website.
  • Issue of a warning to you.
  • Issue legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  • Take further legal action against you.
  • Disclose information to law enforcement authorities that we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

20. Can these terms be transferred?

Yes, we may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to someone else. We will always tell you in writing if this happens.

21. What law governs these terms and any disputes?

These terms, their subject matter, 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.

22. Contact us

You can contact us by:

  • Email : enquiries@bizik.co.uk
  • Phone: 020 3917 7444. Our phone lines are open Monday-Friday, between 8.30am and 5.30pm.