The Business Club – The leading business networking events club

Use of this website provided by The Business Club.com Limited, ("Us") by your business, officers and employees, ("You") and any service contained within constitutes acceptance of these Terms & Conditions.

2.1 You should always check the contact information you provide is correct before creating a customer account or proceeding to payment.
2.2 Our website is only intended for use by adults, as defined as those aged 18 or over and who have sufficient capacity to enter into a binding agreement.

3.1 As part of the registration process you will need to create an account, including a username & password. It is your responsibility to ensure that the information you provide is accurate and not misleading. You cannot create an account or username & password using the names and information of another person or using words that are the trademarks or the property of another party or vulgar, obscene or in any other way inappropriate.
3.2 You are responsible for maintaining your own username and password via our website. You should ensure that you store your username and password securely and that the details required to access your customer account are not provided to another party.
3.3 You are responsible for your member / customer account and any actions taken within it. If you are aware or suspect that your member / customer account username and password or other details have become known to a third party, you should inform us immediately.

4.1 You must make every effort to ensure that the product and or service advertised including any pricing displayed on any Ad placed on our website is correct. However, if an error in the description, image material and or pricing of a product or service is found by whatever means, we reserve the right to either suspend and or cancel your Ad with immediate effect and make direct contact with you.
4.2 We reserve the right to alter all product and service pricing without notice of any Ads placed directly by us.

5.1 Any enquiry for an Ad placed either by a member or us will result in an email automatically being sent to your email address registered on the website. The confirmation email from us will detail your enquiry together with the advertising user / member’s details. Placing an enquiry via the website does not constitute an offer to purchase a product or service.
5.2 Any enquiry you place is direct between you and the advertising member or us.
5.3 We reserve the right to delay or refuse an enquiry where it contains incomplete details or details that cannot be verified or where fraud is suspected.
5.4 Enquiries which are advertised with a monetary cost where payment is required for the product / service advertised cannot be transacted on the website. Any payment required as advertised for a product / service must be transacted directly between you and the user / member. We accept no responsibility under any circumstances for any monetary transactions between you and a user / member and will take no part in any dispute remedy other than to suspend / cancel the user / members account if we deem it in breach of any terms and conditions detailed.

6.1 A free membership account is available with limitation for a period of 3 months. On successful registration and supply by us of your username & password you will have access to the website, and the products and services provided by the users / members and us for a period of 3 months.
6.2 A Pro membership account is available after satisfactory payment of the subscription fees and supply by us of your username & password you will have access to the website, and the products and services provided by the website and other members for a period of 12 months.
6.3 You will automatically receive an email notification before your free or Pro membership expires offering you the opportunity to renew your subscription.

7.1 As this is a business-to-business transaction no right of cancellation exists under The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
7.2 Full or partial refunds are not available.
7.3 In the case of a defective service we reserve the right to offer an additional free period of service or issue a partial or full refund at our sole discretion.
7.4 Where a refund is offered and accepted by you it will be made within seven working days of receiving your acceptance of a refund.

8.1 Where we allow content submission to the website by members / users the views expressed by any member / user on the website are their own and not those of The Business Club.com Limited.
8.2 As a member / user you agree not to do any of the following:
8.2.1 Abuse, harass, threaten, stalk, defame or in anyway seek to violate the rights of another member / user or third party.
8.2.2 Publish or seek to distribute any material or information that is unlawful, harmful, obscene, indecent, libellous, profane, defamatory, racist, or in any other way inappropriate or objectionable.
8.2.3 Use or harvest data provided by other users in a way that they would object to.
8.2.4 Contact other users in ways they may find inappropriate.
8.2.5 Encourage illegal activity or activity that violates the rights of other users or third parties, whether individuals or organisations.
8.2.6 Supply or post content calculated to deliberately mislead other users or third parties, including content falsely made to appear from or be endorsed by us.
8.2.7 To pose as another user, third party or organisation or one of our employees for the purposes of obtaining user or third party information.
8.2.8 To transmit or transfer any viruses, trojans, worms or any other malicious programs or code intended to spy on, gain control over, disrupt, destroy or in any other way impair any computer hardware or software or any other equipment.
8.2.9 Attempt to gain access to our servers or other equipment in order to disrupt, impair, overload or otherwise hinder or compromise the safety, security or privacy of any of the services provided by or relied upon by us and other users.
8.2.10 Reframe, repurpose the website or any content on it or remove or obscure any notices or advertising provided by us on the website.
8.2.11 Load or provide access to content on the website or link to other content from the website, which infringes the trademark, patent, trade secret or any other proprietary right of a third party or infringes any intellectual property law.
8.2.12 Make commercial posts or comment spam or attempt to disguise such spam as content.
8.2.13 Send junk or spam email or emails or posts promoting pyramid schemes, chain letters or any other activity that invites users and others to participate in wasting their time and/or money.
8.2.14 Use any robot, spider, scraper or other technical means to access the website or content on the website.
8.3 If you breach these Terms and Conditions by sending any unsolicited bulk email, (spam) or any other bulk communications to users your actions will cause harm to us and our website. Such harm is difficult to quantify and as such you agree to pay us the sum of £50 for each and every individual email or other communication sent to a user or third party.
8.4 The above list is not intended to be exhaustive.

9.1 As a member / user you retain all ownership rights to content provided by you.
9.2 By submitting, posting or displaying your content on the website you agree to grant a non-exclusive royalty-free licence to us to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and distribute such content on the website. This allows us to place your content on the website and let all users view your content. It also allows us to compress or alter the size of any files you may post onto the Site to ensure that they can be readily displayed for other users.
9.3 As this is a non-exclusive licence you as a member / user are free to provide your content to other websites or other parties, without restriction.
9.4 This licence is also royalty-free, which means that the content is provided free of charge to us and we will not pay for the content or account for any advertising revenue generated on the website or on any specific content pages.
9.5 This licence is also sub-licensable, which means that our partners and affiliates can also use the content.
9.6 This licence also applies worldwide because the website can be accessed from anywhere in the world, at any time.
9.7 As part of the licence you warrant that any content provided by you does not belong to a third party whose rights have been violated by the content being posted on to the website. Furthermore, if any content is owned by a third party you agree to pay all royalties owed to that party, without seeking any contribution from us.

Members / users can freely add content to the website. We do not monitor or assume any responsibility for content posted to the website. If at any time we decide to monitor the website on any occasion it does not assume responsibility for removing any content or the conduct of any users.

11.1 We reserve the right to remove (with or without notice) content and suspend or terminate (with or without notice) the account of any member / user who in our sole judgment is in breach of these Terms and Conditions.
11.2 If a member / user account is suspended, the suspension the length of the suspension period and any reactivation will be at our sole discretion.

We take all reasonable steps to ensure the website is available and functioning fully at all times. However, we do not accept any responsibility for "down-time" or poor performance of our fileservers or where the website or any associated service is unavailable for any reason, whether within or outside our direct control.

13.1 We are not responsible for the accuracy of any content on the website nor any advertisements placed on the website.
13.2 We are not responsible for any links to third party websites from our website and the inclusion of any link does not imply an endorsement of a third party website by us.

We endeavour to respond to all customer complaints or queries within five working days.

The Business Club.com Limited takes your privacy seriously. We are registered under and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. For further details please see our Privacy Policy.

The Business Club.com Limited shall not be liable for delay or failure to perform any obligation under these Terms & Conditions if the delay or failure is caused by any circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including, but not limited to, acts of god, war, civil disorder or industrial dispute.

17.1 The Business Club.com Limited grants you a licence to access the content, information and services contained within our website for business use only.
17.2 This licence allows you to download and cache (using your browser) individual pages from our website.
17.3 This licence does not allow you to make our website available via an intranet, where our website or a substantial part of it is hosted locally on the intranet in question.
17.4 Our website design, layout, content or text cannot be copied, edited or otherwise manipulated without our express prior written permission.
17.5 Our website cannot be placed within the frame-set of another website.
17.6 Third parties are not allowed to “deep link” to pages within our website, without our express prior written permission. All links (unless expressly permitted by us) should be to the main index page of our website. Furthermore, the content of such links, whether graphic or text should not be misleading, false, derogatory or in any other way offensive.
17.7 The restriction on “deep linking” does not apply to affiliate partners who wish to send customers directly to a particular page or product in order to increase their affiliate sales.

18.1 All content, databases, graphics, buttons, icons, logos, layouts and look & feel are the copyright of The Business Club.com Limited unless expressly acknowledged as otherwise or provided by a user as part of content submission.
18.2 The data mining, extraction or utilisation of product information from our website is not permitted without our express prior written permission.

19.1 The Business Club.com Limited will be liable for any losses incurred by you due to breaches of these Terms & Conditions by us, where such losses were reasonably foreseeable at the time the contract was made.
19.2 All business, indirect or consequential losses not reasonably foreseeable at the time of the contract between you and us are excluded.

The foregoing paragraphs, sub-paragraphs and clauses of these Terms & Conditions shall be read and construed independently of each other. Should any part of this agreement or its paragraphs, sub-paragraphs or clauses be found invalid it shall not affect the remaining paragraphs, sub-paragraphs and clauses.

Failure by The Business Club.com Limited to enforce any accrued rights under these Terms & Conditions is not to be taken as or deemed to be a waiver of those rights unless we acknowledge the waiver in writing.

These Terms & Conditions set out the entire agreement and understanding between you and The Business Club.com Limited. We reserve the right to change these Terms & Conditions at any time, without giving notice.

These Terms & Conditions shall be interpreted, construed and enforced in accordance with English law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

The Business Club.com Limited | www.thebusinessclub.com | [email protected]
Registered Address 66, Cross Street, sale, Cheshire M33 7AN
Registered in England Company registration number 09347520

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