Roastbooks – Legal
Privacy Policy
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act the data controller of information submitted on the website is Roastbooks Limited. The Site is currently hosted in the United Kingdom but may later be hosted in another E.U. country. If the hosting of the Site is so altered this fact will be highlighted in the Site’s Privacy Policy. All data and information relating to the Site will be held where the Site is hosted.
1. If you order a book, your personal data is collected by our secure third party payment engine PROTX, and their privicy and security settings apply. We are never given your credit card details.
2.Information we collect
a. Contact Details: when you submit a manuscript we will ask you for your name, address and contact details. We retain this information to faciliatate contacting you in the event of us being interested in publishing your work.
b. Email correspondence: you may contact us to comment on aspects of the site or Competition. We will retain this information for the purpose of corresponding with you.
3.How we use your information
• With your permission.
• In response to a valid court order or other compulsory request from law enforcement.
• To third parties when necessary for investigation of Intellectual Property Infringement complaints.
• Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
• If you have been vandalising the site or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers.
• Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the Site or the public.
Our policy does not permit public distribution of personal information under any circumstances, except as described above.
4.Links & Affiliated Sites
We have relationships that allow visitors to our Site to link directly to sites operated by third parties. We choose our partners carefully. However, we are not responsible for the content or practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our Site. These links are meant for your interest only. Once you have left our Site via such a link, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party site. This Site may also be linked from other websites and visitors to those sites should refer to their separate privacy policies and practices.
5.Information security The data that we collect is stored in the U.K. but may be transferred to, and stored at, another destination within the E.U. By submitting any personal data you agree to this transfer, storage and processing.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. We restrict access to personal information to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations. However, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of data provided to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.
6.Questions, Suggestions and Compliance We regularly review our compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or our treatment of personal information by emailing us.
When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is our policy to contact the complainant regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between us and an individual.
7. Changes to this Privacy Policy We may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.
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Terms and Conditions
1. Introduction. Roastbooks.co.uk provides the information contained on this website or any of the pages comprising the website (‘the Service’) to Users (cumulatively referred to as “you” or “your” hereinafter) subject to the terms and conditions set out in these website terms and conditions, the privacy policy and any other relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices which may be applicable to a specific section or module of this website.
2. Intellectual Property. All intellectual property rights (including copyright, patents, trade marks) whether registered or not on the website shall remain the property of Roastbooks Limited and no customer or other person shall, or shall attempt to obtain any title to such rights. We own all the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos and domain names relating to Roastbooks used on or in connection with this website. Copying, transmitting, storing or using any of these materials in whole or in part without our permission infringes our copyright and is prohibited. These pages and the separate copyright works contained therein may be viewed on screen, downloaded or printed for your personal use as is reasonable for private purposes. No part of our site may be reproduced on or transmitted to or stored in any other web site or other form of electronic retrieval system. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, transmission and broadcasting of this web site including the text, sound, video and artwork (in any part or in whole form) is prohibited.
3. Prohibitions. You will not: commit or encourage a criminal offence; send or receive any material which is in any way offensive or obscene, or in breach of confidence, copyright, privacy or any other rights; act contrary to the acceptable use policies of any linked websites or community standards generally; transmit or distribute a virus; hack into any aspect of the Service; corrupt data; cause annoyance to other Users; infringe upon the rights of any other person’s trade marks or other proprietary rights; send any unsolicited advertising or other promotional material, commonly referred to as “spam”; or attempt to affect the performance or functionality of any computer facilities of or accessed through the Roastbooks.co.uk website.
4. Sale of Products and Services. By making a request/order you are offering to purchase a product which we will accept to sell to you on the following Terms and Conditions. All requests are subject to availability and confirmation of the order price by us. Dispatch times may vary according to availability and any guarantees warranties or representations made as to delivery times are limited to mainland UK and are on the basis that we are not responsible for any delay in delivery occurring due to postal delays or circumstances beyond our control. Roastbooks Limited is absolutely entitled to refuse any request made by you. If your order is accepted we will inform you by emailing you. We will also provide the identity of the party you have contracted with. This may be Roastbooks Limited or in certain cases a third party. Where a contract is made with a third party Roastbooks Limited is not acting as either agent or principal and the contract is made between yourself and that third party. When making an order you undertake that all details you provide to us when requesting goods or services are true and accurate, that you are an authorized user of the credit or debit card used to make your order and that there are sufficient funds to cover the cost of the goods and services ordered. It is your responsibility to inform us of any changes to these details as soon as possible. The cost of foreign products and services may fluctuate. All prices advertised are subject to such changes. Refunds are available if the product is returned within 30 days of purchase.
5. Disclaimer of warranties. The services and all information, products and other content included in or accessible from this website and the linked sites are subject to change at any time without notice to you. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Roastbooks Limited disclaims and excludes all representations and warranties as to the services and all information, products and content included in and accessible from this web site or the linked sites.
6. Disclaimer of liability. Unless expressly stated to the contrary, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Roastbooks Limited, its content providers, advertisers or linked sites shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever, including but without limitation to any direct, indirect, special, consequential, punitive or incidental damages, or damages for loss of use, profits, data or other intangibles, damage to goodwill or reputation, or the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services, arising out of or related to the use, inability to use, performance or failures of this web site or the linked sites, even if Roastbooks Limited had been advised of the possibility of such damages and irrespective of whether such damages arise in contract, tort, equity, restitution, by statute, at common law or otherwise.
7. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Roastbooks Limited, its directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents, and affiliates, from any and all third party claims, liability, damages and/or costs (including, but not limited to, legal fees) arising from, without limitation, your use of the roastbooks.co.uk services, your breach of the Terms of Service, your infringement of any intellectual property right or any other right of any person or entity, or your breach of any duty of confidence or privacy, or any defamatory statements made by you in any form.
8. Variation of content. Roastbooks Limited may at any time modify any relevant terms and conditions, policies or notices. You acknowledge that by visiting the website from time to time, you shall become bound to the current version of the relevant terms and conditions (the “current version”) and, unless stated in the current version, all previous versions shall be superseded by the current version. You shall be responsible for reviewing the then current version each time you visit the website.
9. Termination. Roastbooks Limited may at any time terminate or suspend any part of the Service without notice to you.
10. Invalidity. If any part of the Terms of Service is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of the Terms of Service will not be affected all other clauses remaining in full force and effect. So far as possible where any clause/sub-clause or part of a clause/sub-clause can be severed to render the remaining part valid or certain, the clause shall be interpreted accordingly.
11. Jurisdiction. These terms and conditions will be governed by the laws of England and Wales and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
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