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The website, material and information provided should not be viewed as a substitute for obtaining professional opinions, advice, products or services. Although skill, care and diligence has been used in compiling the information made available on the website, and in the newsletter and magazine www.coldformedsteel.com its subsidiaries and suppliers make no representations and give no warranties as to the accuracy and completeness of the information and material published, emailed, presented or provided and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, www.coldformedsteel.com, its subsidiaries, and suppliers will not be liable to any person, company, partnership or institution, for any advice, details, errors or omissions in any information appearing on the website, magazine or newsletter or incorporated into it by reference.
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Privacy Policy
By using the website, you authorise www.coldformedsteel.com to collect and use the following kinds of personal information from you:
- information regarding your use of the www.coldformedsteel.com;
- information that you have provided for the purpose of registering with www.coldformedsteel.com;
- information about transactions undertaken on www.coldformedsteel.com or newsletters and magazines;
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- any other information that you send to www.coldformedsteel, its distributors and/or agents or subsidiaries via emails or website.
You acknowledge and accept that www.coldformedsteel.com may use your personal information solely for the following purposes:
- administration and operations of the website;
- personalizing the website for your preferences;
- enabling your access to, and use of, the website;
- informing you of, Website, newsletter and magazine updates, product updates, marketing and advertising for products and services;
- supplying products and services to you or the designated recipient and obtaining the required payment.
Where www.coldformedsteel.com discloses your personal information to its subsidiaries, agents or third parties for these purposes, these parties will be required to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy and any applicable privacy legislation.
Cookies
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Other than as stated above, www.coldformedsteel.com will not disclose any personal information relating to you to any third party without obtaining consent.
You acknowledge and accept that:
- the information is held in secure data servers by www.coldformedsteel.com where the website host is located for www.coldformedsteel.com – notwithstanding that it may also be held elsewhere by www.coldformedsteel.com and other persons or subsidiaries for the purposes described above; and
- where information can be readily retrieved you will have access to it, the right to request corrections, deletion and the right to be notified of action taken in response to any such request, subject to payment of any reasonable charge provided adequate written notice is received by www.coldformedsteel.com.
www.coldformedsteel.com will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information, which includes storing all the personal information you provide on its secure servers, and protecting information relating to electronic transactions entered into via the website by encryption technology.
Information that www.coldformedsteel.com collects could be stored to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. You agree to such cross-border use of personal information.
In the event that www.coldformedsteel.com is sold, traded, acquired, merged, liquidated, restructured or otherwise transferred to another entity, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible by law its user databases, together with any personal or non-personal information contained therein to such entity acquiring the assets and intellectual property.
Intellectual Property / Copyright
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No part of the website or the Intellectual Property in any information, products and services provided by www.coldformedsteel.com may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose, nor incorporated in any other work or publication whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form. Intellectual Property includes the design of, and all content appearing on the Website, trade marks (including logos), domain names, copyright, registered designs, patents, rights in computer software, databases and lists, confidential information, know-how and trade secrets and manuals, whether registered or unregistered and whether such rights are capable of registration.
All Intellectual Property contained in the products and services provided pursuant to the Terms by www.coldformedsteel.com (including any improvements, addition, modification or revisions of the same) is owned by www.coldformedsteel.com.
Disputes, Governing Law and Jurisdiction
Any disputes relating in any way to your visit to the website, newsletter or magazine or to products or services sold or distributed by www.coldformedsteel.com through the website will be governed by the law of Great Britain, and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the Courts of Great Britain.
Compliance with Local Law
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Amendments
www.coldformedsteel.com reserves the right to amend these Terms of Trade from time to time, without notice to you, by posting amended terms and conditions on the website. By continuing your access and use of the Website and information, products or services acquired from www.coldformedsteel.com after such amendment, you are deemed to have agreed to the amended terms. Unless otherwise stated any changes to terms or privacy policy shall be effective immediaitly on posting to this site.
No Waiver
Failure by www.coldformedsteel.com to enforce any of the terms and conditions contained in the terms will not be deemed to be a waiver of any of the rights or obligations it has under the terms.
Severability
If any provision of the terms is declared or adjudged to be invalid, void or unenforceable, such provision will be severable and deemed deleted from this agreement and will not affect the validity, existence, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions.
Communication
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