Terms of Use

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General

This website is owned and operated on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), whose registered office is at Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR. For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions "we", "our" and "us" refers to DEFRA. Please review these Terms and Conditions carefully before using this website. Your use of this website indicates your agreement to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

Acceptable Use

You may only use this website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions and, in any event, for lawful and proper purposes which includes complying with all applicable laws, regulations and codes of practice within the UK or other jurisdiction from which you are accessing this website.

In particular, you agree that you will not:

• post, transmit or disseminate any information on or via this website which is or may be harmful, obscene, defamatory or otherwise illegal;
• use this website in a manner which causes or may cause an infringement of the rights of any other;
• use any software, routine or device to interfere or attempt to interfere electronically or manually with the operation or functionality of this website including but not limited to uploading or making available files containing corrupt data or viruses via any means;
• deface, alter or interfere with the front end 'look and feel' of this website or the underlying software code;
• take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on this website or related infrastructure;
• obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorised access, via whatever means, to any of our networks.

Without prejudice to any of our other rights (whether at law or otherwise) we reserve the right to deny you access to this website where we believe (in our absolute discretion) that you are in breach of any of these Terms and Conditions.

Disclaimer

The information contained in this website is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. We shall be under no obligation to notify any person of any error in any of the DEFRA websites.

Limitation of Liability

In no event will we be liable for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, exemplary or consequential losses or damages of whatsoever kind arising out of access to, or the use of this website or any information contained in it, including loss of profit and the like whether or not in the contemplation of the parties, whether based on breach of contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation.

Disclaimer of Warranty

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties with regard to the information, services and materials contained on this website. All such information, services and materials are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind.

Links

This website may include links to other internet sites. we do not endorse any such websites and we are not responsible for the information, material, products or services contained on or accessible through those websites. Your access and use of such websites remains solely at your own risk.

You may only link to this website with our express written permission. We expressly reserve the right to withdraw our consent at any time to a link, which in our sole opinion is inappropriate or controversial.

Proprietary Rights

All trade marks, copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the materials on this website (as well as the organisation and layout of this website) together with the underlying software code are owned either directly by us or by our licensors. Without our prior written permission, you may not copy, modify, alter, publish, broadcast, distribute, sell or transfer any material on this website or the underlying software code whether in whole or in part. However, the contents of this website may be downloaded, printed or copied for your personal non-commercial use.

Data Protection Act 1988

We acknowledge that, in respect of personal data obtained via this website, we comply with the data protection principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act").

No guarantee is given that individual pages on any of our sites would always remain available, and at the same URL.

Privacy Policy

Our websites do not store or capture personal information, but merely log the user's IP address, which is automatically recognised by the web server.

Information supplied by you will be held by us and we will use the information you give us to send you information such as our latest annual reports or publicity material. If you do not want to receive this information, please tick the appropriate box on the contact form (where applicable).

You are entitled to a copy of the information we hold about you, which you can obtain by writing to us and requesting it. There is a fee for this service.

We do not use cookies for collecting user information from the sites and we will not collect any information about you except that which is required for system administration of the web server. In instances where forums are used, cookies are used to store the following information: the last time you logged in, your Username and your Encrypted Password. These cookies are stored on your hard drive. Cookies are not used to track your movement or perform any function other than to enhance your use of these forums. If you have not enabled cookies in your browser, many of these time-saving features will not work properly. Also, you need to have cookies enabled if you want to enter a private forum or post a topic/reply. It is advisable to always logout of any forum at the end of a user session to keep personal details secure.

This privacy statement only covers sites developed and controlled by us, other links within these sites to other external websites are not covered by this policy.

Virus protection

Although we work in secure and monitored work environment. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus programme on all material downloaded from the internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from any of our websites.

Changes to this website

We may make improvements or changes to the information, services, products and other materials on this website, or terminate this website, at any time without notice. We may also modify these Terms and Conditions at any time, and such modification shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified Terms and Conditions on this website. Accordingly, your continued access or use of this website is deemed to be your acceptance of the modified Terms and Conditions.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from any liability, loss, claim and expense (including reasonable legal fees) related to your breach of these Terms and Conditions.

Miscellaneous

These Terms and Conditions contain all the terms of your agreement with us relating to your use of this website. No other written or oral statement (including statements in any brochure or promotional literature published by us) will be incorporated.

We make no warranty whatsoever for the reliability, stability or virus-free nature of any software being downloaded from this website, nor for the availability of the download sites where applicable.

All software products downloaded from any section of this website or via a link pointed to by this website are downloaded, installed, and used totally and entirely at the user's own risk.

Your use of this website, any downloaded material from it and the operation of these Terms and Conditions shall be governed by, construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. We reserve the right to bring proceedings in the Courts of the country of your residence.

Glossary

Cookie
Message given to a web browser by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back.

A cookie's main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them, for example by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to provide personal information such as your name, e-mail address and interests.

IP (Internet Protocol)
All networks connected to the internet speak IP, the technical standard which allows data to be transmitted between two devices. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is responsible for making sure messages get from one host to another and that the messages are understood.

IP address
If you are connected to the internet you have one, for example it may look something like this 198.184.98.9.

Web server
Delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.

Browser
Used to locate and display web pages via a software application. Examples of this are Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.