This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.universed.co.uk (our site). Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
www.universed.co.uk is a site operated by the University of Newcastle (“We”) our registered office is:
Newcastle University
6 Kensington Terrace,
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 7RU
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time, or if you are unable for any reason (including, without limitation, any internet restrictions) to view any of the content feeds available through our site. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users.
You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
The materials accessible through our site such as video and audio content (Third Party Materials) are provided by third parties to our site.
Any Third Party Materials accessible through our site and all intellectual property rights in them are owned by the third party that provides them, or their licensors.
Provision of Third Party Materials through our site may be subject to terms and conditions agreed between us and the relevant third party. We reserve the right to withdraw or suspend access to any Third Party Materials if we are required to do so by the relevant third party or to take any other actions in respect of any Third Party Materials as we may be required to do so by the relevant third party from time to time.
Save in respect of any Third Party Materials, we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site. 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 reference and you may draw the attention of others to material 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 including the owners of Third Party Materials) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us, our licensors or the relevant owner of any Third Party Materials.
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.
Commentary and other materials posted or accessible on our site (including Third Party Materials) are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
We aim to update our site regularly, 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 (including Third Party Materials) may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
The Third Party Materials are not stored on our site, but exist at the original source and are fed into our site via RSS. This means that if any Third Party Materials are removed from their original source, they will not be accessable on our site.
The material displayed on our site (including Third Party Materials) is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy or suitability of any purpose. To the extent permitted by law, we and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the 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 limitation any liability for:
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
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.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses 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 material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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 from 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. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with any content standards that we may specify from time to time.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to projectmanager@universed.co.uk.
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 contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by English law.
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected 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 may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact projectmanager@universed.co.uk.
Newcastle University
Old Library Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
e: projectmanager@universed.co.uk
t: +44 (0) 191 222 5571
f: +44 (0) 191 222 5239
