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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

TERMS OF WEBSITE USE

This terms of use policy (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.dickimaw-books.com (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site, as these will apply to your use of our site. We recommend that you print a copy of this for future reference.

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.

Other applicable terms

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

If you purchase goods from our site, our Terms and Conditions of Sale will apply to the sales.

Information about us

This website is run by Dr Nicola Talbot trading as Dickimaw Books (“We”, “Our”).  We operate from 47 The Street, Saxlingham Nethergate, Norwich, NR15 1AJ and can be contacted via our Contact page.

Changes to these terms and our site

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.

We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

Accessing our site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

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.  

Your account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code 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 of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us via our Contact Page.

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms through your use of our site.  When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including but not limited to immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site or further legal action against you.

Intellectual property rights (save for in relation to the Downloadable Software and LaTeX see below).

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.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.  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.

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

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

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, 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.

Software and LaTeX

Our Downloadable Software is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence and is free to download.

Our LaTeX code provided on our Experimental Page, Gallery and on CTAN is licensed under the LaTeX Public Project License and is free to download.

All our LaTeX tutorials are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and are free to download.

No reliance on information

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

Public Posts (Reports, Requests and Comments)

We welcome your reports, feature requests and comments via our Bug Report, Feature Request, Typo Report, Bug Tracker and Feature Tracker pages. Please note that we monitor these posts and have sole discretion over which comments are uploaded to our site, in no circumstances will we upload comments to the site if they fail to comply with our content standards as set out below. The content standards below apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site. You must comply with the spirit of the standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must: be 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.

Contributions must not: contain any material which is defamatory of any person; promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person; be likely to deceive any person; be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence; or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Bug reports and feature requests

We aim to respond to you as soon as possible when you use our Bug Report system however we are not able to guarantee a response or a solution. We are in no way responsible for any loss suffered by you from any delay to remove a bug or failure to remove a bug.

We are happy to consider your feature requests but do not undertake to comply with any such request.

We also provide a Bug Tracker and a feature request tracker and ask that you refer to these prior to submitting any comments or requests you may have.

Limitation of our liability

YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN IN PARTICULAR TO THIS CLAUSE

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:

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.

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 will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any goods by use to you, which will be set out in our Terms and conditions of supply.

Applicable law

Please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.

Trade marks

“Dickimaw”, “Dickimaw Books” and the Dickimaw parrot logo are trade marks.

Contact us

To contact us, please go to our Contact page.

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