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Terms & Conditions

Terms of use

These terms of use (“Terms”) contain important information explaining your relationship with The Silver Spoon Company (as defined below) on this internet Site and your rights to access and use information on this Site. By using this Site, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to accept these Terms, you must not use this Site.


Information about The Silver Spoon Company

This Site is operated by The Silver Spoon Company, a business of British Sugar plc, whose is registered in England and Wales under the company number 315158 and has its registered office at Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 4QY (“The Silver Spoon Company”).


Changes to the site

The Silver Spoon Company may revise these terms of use at any time without notice to you by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes The Silver Spoon Company make, as they are binding on you.


Accessing the site

This site is made available free of charge.

The Silver Spoon Company does not guarantee that this Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to this Site is permitted on a temporary basis. The Silver Spoon Company may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of this Site without notice. The Silver Spoon Company will not be liable to you if for any reason this Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to this Site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access this Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.


Illegality

If the advertising, offering for sale, or selling of the goods and/or services referred to on this Site is illegal for any reason in the jurisdiction in which it is accessed or viewed, whether by virtue of the age of the person seeking to view it or otherwise, access to and/or viewing of such material is not authorised by The Silver Spoon Company.


Warning

Any unauthorised access and/or viewing may be an infringement of the copyright and/or other intellectual property rights of The Silver Spoon Company and may result in civil and/or criminal liability.


Intellectual property

All trade marks referred to on this Site are either owned by or licensed to The Silver Spoon Company. Any reproduction or use of such trade marks, save as permitted hereby, is strictly prohibited and may result in civil and/or criminal liability.

Copyright and other intellectual property rights in this Site (including the materials comprising this Site) is owned by or licensed to The Silver Spoon Company.

Save as expressly permitted, no part of this material may be reproduced in any form including storing it in any medium by electronic means whether or not temporary or incidental to some other use.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from this Site solely for the purpose of:

  • (i) private study;
  • (ii) non-published research; and
  • (iii) reporting in the media, so long as those reports are legitimate and legal in their country of publication.

You must not use any part of the content on this Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from The Silver Spoon Company or its licensors.

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.

The Silver Spoon Company’s status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on this Site must always be acknowledged.

If you print off, copy or download any part of this Site in breach of these Terms, your right to use this Site will cease immediately and you must, at The Silver Spoon Company’s option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

WARNING: The doing of any unauthorised act in relation to material on this Site may result in civil and/or criminal liability.


Information contained on this site and disclaimer

The Silver Spoon Company does not represent, warrant or guarantee that any material comprised in this Site is completely accurate or up to date and accordingly The Silver Spoon Company shall not have any liability in respect of such material or for any use of such information by any such person.

The content on this Site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to 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 on this Site.


Contributions to this site

Where you are invited to submit any contribution to this Site or the e-newsletter (including, without limitation, any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant The Silver Spoon Company a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in The Silver Spoon Company's Privacy Policy.

If you do not want to grant to The Silver Spoon Company the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to The Silver Spoon Company.

Further to the above paragraphs, by submitting your contribution to The Silver Spoon Company, you warrant that your contribution;

  • (i) is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to The Silver Spoon Company for all the purposes specified above;
  • (ii) is not defamatory; and
  • (iii) does not infringe any law.

You shall indemnify The Silver Spoon Company against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by The Silver Spoon Company as a result of your breach of the forgoing warranty and you waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on this Site, the e-newsletter and the purposes specified above.


Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits The Silver Spoon Company’s 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, The Silver Spoon Company excludes all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to this Site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

The Silver Spoon Company 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, this Site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on this Site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, The Silver Spoon Company 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 The Silver Spoon Company only provides this Site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use this Site for any commercial or business purposes, and The Silver Spoon Company has no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

The Silver Spoon Company 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 this 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 this Site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by The Silver Spoon Company of those linked websites. The Silver Spoon Company will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.


Viruses

The Silver Spoon Company does not guarantee that this Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform in order to access this Site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse this 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 this Site, the server on which this Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to this Site. You must not attack this Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The Silver Spoon Company will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and The Silver Spoon Company will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use this Site will cease immediately.


Linking to this site

You may link to The Silver Spoon Company’s home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage The Silver Spoon Company’s 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 The Silver Spoon Company’s part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to this Site in any website that is not owned by you.

The website in which you are linking must not:

  • (i) contain any material which is defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; or
  • (ii) promote sexually explicit material, violence, discrimination (whether based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age) or illegal activity or unlawful acts such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse; or
  • (iii) infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person; or
  • (ix) (in the sole opinion of The Silver Spoon Company) bring the good name and/or reputation of The Silver Spoon Company into disrepute.

This Site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of this Site other than the home page.

The Silver Spoon Company reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without reason and/or notice.


Where this Site contains links to other sites and resources, these links are provided for your information only. You will be subject to the terms of use and other applicable terms of those sites if you decide to access them through such links.

Where such sites and resources are owned by third parties, you acknowledge and agree that The Silver Spoon Company has no control over the contents of those sites or resources.


Other applicable terms

In addition to these Terms, your use of this Site is also subject to the following additional terms:

  • The Silver Spoon Company's Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which The Silver Spoon Company process any personal data The Silver Spoon Company collect from you, or that you provide to The Silver Spoon Company. By using this Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • The Silver Spoon Company’s Cookie Policy sets out information about the cookies on this Site.

General

If there is any conflict between these Terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on this Site then the latter shall prevail. If any of these Terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.


Applicable law

If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and The Silver Spoon Company both agree to 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, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. You and The Silver Spoon Company both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.


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