Agreement to our legal terms

Thankyou for visiting the blogpolitics.co.uk website (the “Site”).  By using the site, you accept these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”).  If you do not accept these Terms, do not use this Site.  We may change these Terms from time to time, so you should review them each time that you visit the Site.  You should print a copy of these Terms for future reference.  

About us

This site is operated by Blog Politics, a division of System M IT Ltd, a company registered in England under company number 9717495 (“we”, “us”, “our”). You can contact us by email at webmaster@system-m.co.uk. The Site is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use or register for the Site.  

Using our site

You may view the content available on the Site for personal non-commercial use only and subject to your strict compliance with these Terms. You may occasionally print individual webpages on the Site for your private non-commercial use, provided that such printing is not substantial or systematic and our trade marks and copyright and trade mark notices are not removed.
Without limiting the clause above and unless expressly authorised by us in writing, you must not (whether directly or indirectly) access or use (or permit, authorise or facilitate the access or use of) the Site or any portion of the Site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the Site in any of the following ways (without limitation):

i. to copy, download, extract, collect, ‘scrape’, obtain, monitor or store all or any part of the content or Site, including whether manually or by way of any ‘bot/robot’, ‘spider’, ‘scraper’ or other automated software, device, algorithm, code, methodology, tool, process or similar technology (other than any such use by a public search engine for the sole purpose of providing direct links to the Site); 
ii. to make available, distribute, republish, sell or offer to sell all or any part of the content or Site; or 
iii. to use any content, files or data from the Site to make or populate a database or publication of any kind whatsoever, to develop or train any software program (including any machine learning or artificial intelligence systems), or for the purpose of text/ data mining or analysis to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations. 

The provisions in this clause relating to text/data mining and web scraping 
(a) should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, and 
(b) shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text/data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us. If you require any further information on permitted use, or a licence to re publish or otherwise utilise any part of the Site (or any Content), please email us at webmaster@system-m.co.uk

You must not use all or any part of our Site or the contents on it for commercial purposes without our permission. 

The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. 

Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws (and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws) and treaties in the United States and around the world. 

The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services ‘as is’ for your personal, non-commercial use only.

Third party content and links

We are not liable or responsible for the third party content on this Site. Third party content includes, for example, comments posted by users and the content of advertisements. 

Where this Site contains links to other sites and resources, which are provided by third parties, these links and resources are provided for your information only and you access them at your own risk. We are not liable or responsible for the content of third party sites or resources.  

Your personal information

We use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy which forms part of these Terms.  

Our liability

The information contained on this Site is for information purposes only and does not constitute advice. You should check any information on the Site and use your own judgment before doing or not doing anything on the basis of what you see. We give no warranties of any kind in relation to the Site or its contents.

Except for liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, we are not liable for:
(a) any action you may take as a result of relying on any information provided on this Site or for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of you taking this action;
(b) any dealings you have with third parties (e.g. other users, advertisers or promoters) that take place using or facilitated by the Site;
(c) any liability for losses which are not a foreseeable or likely consequence of (i) your use of the Site, or (ii) a breach of these Terms.  

We are not responsible if you cannot access the Site properly or at all because of any event outside our control, for example (without limitation) the performance of your or our ISP, your browser or the Internet.

The Site relies in part on software to work. Software has bugs. Whilst we will monitor the Site and try to fix bugs, we cannot guarantee that the Site or any individual feature of the Site will be error free, available all the time and/or free from viruses. 

However, nothing in these Terms will affect any liability we may have for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.  

Validity of these Terms

If any part or provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, this shall not affect the validity of any other part or provision.  

Jurisdiction and applicable law

These Terms are governed by English law. The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute relating to these Terms.