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Terms and Conditions

This website is offered to you on condition that you accept our terms of use. You must agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights, or restrict, or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the site by any third party.

This website is owned by North East Sensory Services (NESS), which is based at 21 John Street, Aberdeen AB25 1BT. NESS is the operational name of Grampian Society for the Blind, a Charity Registered in Scotland, charity number  SC009537 and a company limited by guarantee, company number 155630

How you may use material on the website

This website is for your information and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information or services obtained from this website.

As a condition of your use of this website, you undertake to NESS that you will not use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms.

Our liability to you for material on the website

NESS will not be legally liable for material on the website or for the consequences if you rely on it.

The information and services included on this website may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. NESS may improve or change the website at any time.

Notwithstanding anything in these terms, NESS does not disclaim liability for death or injury caused by its own negligence.

NESS makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information and services on this website for any purpose. All such information and services are provided without warranty of any kind. NESS disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to this information and services, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

NESS does not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy and reliability of the materials.

If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the website, or with any of these terms of use, your sole remedy, except as specifically provided in these terms, is to discontinue using the website.

Our liability to you for material obtained through links

The website contains links to other websites (“Third Party Websites”) operated by parties other than NESS. NESS does not control them, is not responsible for their contents and will not be liable for material on them. The links are provided for your convenience only. NESS chooses to provide and maintain links to Third Party Websites on the basis of the advice available to it. Its inclusion of links to Third Party Websites does not however imply any endorsement of the material on them or any association with their operators.You are to comply with their terms of use if you choose to use the sites, pages or services to which they apply.

Our use of your personal details

We will store the details that you provide to us when registering on this website in order to verify your identity whenever you re-visit the website.

We may contact you from time to time with any information about NESS and its activities that we feel may be useful to you.

We will keep your personal information secure and never make it available to third parties.

Access restriction

NESS reserves the right in its sole discretion to deny to any user access to all or part of this website without notice.

Changing these terms

NESS reserves the right to change the terms under which this website is offered, by giving not less than thirty days’ notice on the website.

Fees and transaction charges

NESS does not charge any fee to persons who participate in the online donation service. The only fees applicable to donation transactions are those charged by SagePay and the card issuers.

Unauthorised card use

When a donation is made the transaction is final and not disputable unless unauthorised use of your payment card is proved. If you become aware of fraudulent use of your card, or it is lost or stolen, you must notify your card provider in accordance with its reporting rules.

Security Policy

Full card details are not stored by NESS on our servers. However, card details are stored by our payment provider SagePay for the purposes of processing your donation. Information that is stored by NESS about individual donations is not made available to other organisations or companies use in aggregate form that is not personally identifiable for analysis.

Refund Policy

Donations will only be refunded if the refund complies with the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and is at the discretion of NESS.

Please contact us within 28 days of making your donation if you would like to claim a refund.

General

This agreement is governed by Scots Law. By accessing this website, you submit to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts. Use of this website is unauthorised in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and NESS as a result of the agreement constituted by these terms or use of this website.

NESS’s performance of the agreement constituted by these terms is subject to existing laws, and nothing in these terms derogates NESS’ right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements NESS with respect to that use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable under applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the term shall continue in effect.

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and NESS, with respect to this website, and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and NESS with respect to this website. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

Copyright and trade mark notices

All contents of this website are: Copyright NESS 2016©. All rights are reserved.

Withdrawal of consent

Your use of NESS  is conditional upon your implicit acceptance of its terms and conditions. In the case of a disagreement, you have the possibility to cease all use of NESS without any outside agreement.

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