Terms and Conditions of Website Use

1. Introduction

Wel­come to Raconteur.This page tells you the terms on which you may use our web­site https://www.raconteur.net whether as reg­is­tered user or guest.Please read care­ful­ly before use.By using the site, you accept the terms and agree to obey them. If you don’t accept them, please don’t use the site.

2. Who We Are

https://www.raconteur.net is oper­at­ed by Racon­teur Media Ltd., a UK Lim­it­ed com­pa­ny reg­is­tered in Eng­land under com­pa­ny num­ber 6641353.Some impor­tant details about us:Our reg­is­tered office is at: Racon­teur Media Ltd, 2nd Floor, Port­so­ken House, 155–157 Minories, Lon­don EC3N 1LJOur trad­ing office is at: Racon­teur Media Ltd, 2nd Floor, Port­so­ken House, 155–157 Minories, Lon­don EC3N 1LJOur VAT num­ber is: GB 938 194 000

3. Use of the Site

You have per­mis­sion for tem­po­rary use of the site, but we can with­draw or change our ser­vice at any time with­out telling you and with­out being legal­ly respon­si­ble to you.You must treat all iden­ti­fi­ca­tion codes, pass­words and oth­er secu­ri­ty infor­ma­tion as con­fi­den­tial. If we think you have failed to keep con­fi­den­tial­i­ty, we are allowed to dis­able any secu­ri­ty infor­ma­tion (includ­ing your pass­words and codes).You agree to fol­low our accept­able use pol­i­cy https://www.raconteur.net/acceptable-use-policy.If you allow any­one else to use our site, you must make sure that they read these terms first, and that they fol­low them.Only use the site as allowed by law and these terms. If you don’t, we may sus­pend your usage, or stop it completely.We fre­quent­ly update the site and make changes to it, but we don’t have to do this, and mate­r­i­al on the site may be out-of-date. No mate­r­i­al on the site is intend­ed to con­tain advice, and you shouldn’t rely on it. We exclude all legal respon­si­bil­i­ty and costs for reliance placed on the site by anyone.We fol­low our pri­va­cy pol­i­cy in han­dling infor­ma­tion about you. You can read our pol­i­cy at https://www.raconteur.net/privacy-policy.By using the site, you agree to us han­dling this infor­ma­tion and con­firm that data you pro­vide is accu­rate.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

We are the own­er or licensee of all intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights in the site (for exam­ple the copy­right and any rights in the designs) and in any of the mate­r­i­al post­ed on it. They are pro­tect­ed by copyright.You are allowed to print one copy and down­load extracts of any page on the site for your per­son­al ref­er­ence, but not for com­mer­cial use with­out a licence from us. You must not alter any­thing, or use any illus­tra­tions, video, audio or pho­tographs sep­a­rate­ly from the text that goes with them.If you breach these terms, you lose your right to use our site, and must destroy or return any copies you have made.

5. Our Legal Responsibility to You

We do not guar­an­tee the accu­ra­cy of mate­r­i­al on our site. As far as legal­ly pos­si­ble, we exclude legal respon­si­bil­i­ty for the following:Any loss to you aris­ing from use of our site.Loss of income, prof­it, busi­ness, data, con­tracts, good­will or savings.We also exclude, as far as legal­ly pos­si­ble, all terms and war­ranties or promis­es implied by law or by statutes.We don’t exclude legal respon­si­bil­i­ty for death or per­son­al injury owing to our neg­li­gence, or legal respon­si­bil­i­ty for fraud or fraud­u­lent mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion, or for any­thing else where exclu­sion is not allowed by the law.

6. Uploading to our Site 

If you con­tact oth­er users of our site or upload mate­r­i­al to it, you must fol­low our accept­able use pol­i­cy, which sets out stan­dards for usage. You can read this pol­i­cy at https://www.raconteur.net/acceptable-use-policy. You agree to reim­burse us for any costs or expens­es we incur as a result of any breach of this term.Material that you upload will be regard­ed as non-con­fi­den­tial and not owned. This means that we can copy it, dis­trib­ute it, and show it to oth­er peo­ple for any pur­pose. You agree that if any­one else claims to own the mate­r­i­al, or says that it breach­es their rights, we can give them your identity.We won’t be legal­ly respon­si­ble to any­body for the accu­ra­cy of mate­r­i­al that you upload to the site, and we can remove it at any time if we think it doesn’t fol­low our accept­able use pol­i­cy.

7. Computer Offences

If you do any­thing which is a crim­i­nal offence under a law called the Com­put­er Mis­use Act 1990, your right to use the site will end straight­away. We will report you to the rel­e­vant author­i­ties and give them your identity.Examples of com­put­er mis­use include intro­duc­ing virus­es, worms, Tro­jans and oth­er tech­no­log­i­cal­ly harm­ful or dam­ag­ing material.You mustn’t try to get access to our site or serv­er or any con­nect­ed data­base or make any ‘attack’ on the site. We won’t be legal­ly respon­si­ble to you for any dam­age from virus­es or oth­er harm­ful mate­r­i­al that you pick up via our site.

8. Links to Our Site

You are allowed to make a legal link to our website’s home­page from your web­site if the con­tent on your site meets the stan­dards of our accept­able use pol­i­cy. We can end this per­mis­sion at any time.You mustn’t sug­gest any endorse­ment by us or asso­ci­a­tion with us unless we agree in writ­ing.

9. Links From Our Site 

Links from our site to oth­er sites are only for infor­ma­tion. We don’t accept respon­si­bil­i­ty for oth­er sites or any loss you suf­fer from using them.

10. Variation

We change these terms from time to time and you must check them for changes because they are bind­ing on you.

11. Applicable Law

11.1 The Par­ties will use their best efforts to nego­ti­ate in good faith and set­tle any dis­pute that may arise out of or relate to this Agree­ment or any breach of it.11.2 Any dis­pute shall not affect the Par­ties’ ongo­ing oblig­a­tions under the Agreement.11.3 The Eng­lish courts have the only right to hear claims relat­ed to our site, and all dis­putes are gov­erned by Eng­lish law.

12. Contact Us

Please email us at contact@raconteur.net to con­tact us about any issues.