Terms of use

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE

ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name www.equityfd.com ("the Website") and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website.

This notice is issued by FD Direct Limited (company no. 4035641) trading under the name of EquityFD or EquityInterim on the internet ("EquityFD"). FD Direct Limited's registered office and trading address is at 10 Market Mews, Mayfair, London W1J 7BZ.

1. Introduction

1.1 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Website immediately.

1.2 EquityFD may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.

2. Printing and downloading extracts

2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:

2.1.1 no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
2.1.2 no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text;
2.1.3 EquityFD's and FD Direct Limited's copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies;
2.1.4 if you are a candidate, you only use the printed or downloaded documents or related graphics for the purposes of finding employment or engagement for yourself, not for any other commercial or personal purposes; and
2.1.5 if you are a client or potential client, you only use the printed or downloaded documents or related graphics for the purposes of looking for a candidate to fill a vacancy for your business, not for any other commercial or personal purposes.

2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including, without limitation, job descriptions, photographs and graphical images) are owned by FD Direct Limited or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without EquityFD's prior written permission.

2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

3. Service access

3.1 While EquityFD endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, EquityFD shall not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice.

4. Visitor conduct and material

4.1 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking or sending spam to the e-mail addresses appearing on this Website).

4.2 You are solely responsible and liable for any information you submit to this Website and you are responsible for ensuring that all information you supply is accurate, up-to-date and not likely to mislead or deceive anyone.

4.3 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:

4.3.1 that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
4.3.2 for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals;
4.3.3 which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of, or infringe the rights of any third party in, the UK or any other country in the world; or
4.3.4 which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

4.4 You hereby authorise EquityFD to disclose your identity to, and to co-operate fully with, any third party who requests such disclosure or assistance to locate you if you breach paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.

4.5 You shall fully indemnify EquityFD for any loss, damage or costs suffered or incurred by EquityFD caused by, or in connection with, any breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3 by you.

4.6 EquityFD reserves the right to remove any material submitted by you at any time, for any reason and without explanation to you.

5. Links to and from other websites

5.1 Any links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. EquityFD has not reviewed any linked third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. EquityFD therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any esults that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third arty websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

5.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link o, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following onditions:

5.2.1 you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the quityFD logo;
5.2.2 you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
5.2.3 you do not in any way imply that EquityFD is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
5.2.4 you do not misrepresent your relationship with EquityFD nor present any other false information about EquityFD;
5.2.5 you do not otherwise use any EquityFD trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from EquityFD;
5.2.6 you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and
5.2.7 your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

5.3 EquityFD expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.

5.4 You shall fully indemnify EquityFD for any loss or damage suffered by EquityFD or any of its group companies for breach of paragraph 5.2.

6. Disclaimer

6.1 While EquityFD endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, EquityFD does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. EquityFD may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the services and any fees described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and EquityFD is not obliged to update such material.

6.2 The material on this Website is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, EquityFD provides you with this Website on the basis that EquityFD excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.

7. Liability

7.1 EquityFD, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.

7.2 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit EquityFD's liability for:

7.2.1 death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
7.2.2 fraud; or
7.2.3 misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or
7.2.4 any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

7.3 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.

8. Termination

8.1 EquityFD may, using its absolute discretion, deny you access to the Website or any part of it at any time.

9. Governing law and jurisdiction

9.1 These terms of use are governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts, although EquityFD reserves the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these terms in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

Issue Date: August 2009