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| LINKING
YOUR WEBSITE TO TRANSPORT DIRECT |
| These terms
and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") set out the basis upon which you
("you") are authorised by the Secretary of State for Transport ("we",
"us", "our") to include a hypertext link ("link") from your company or
organisation's website ("your site") to the Transport Direct website at www.transportdirect.info ("our site"). |
| Use of our
site in this way is also subject to our site
terms and conditions and by
accepting these Terms and Conditions you agree to abide by our site terms
and conditions. |
| You are not
permitted to include a link from your site to our site unless you have
agreed to and accepted these Terms and Conditions. |
| 1 |
Ownership of Transport Direct |
| 1.1 |
The Secretary of State for Transport
either owns or is licensed to use the intellectual property rights in the
data and software ("data", "software") used in our site. |
| 1.2 |
The data remains our property, or our
suppliers' property, as the case may be. |
| 2 |
Licence to
link to Transport Direct |
| 2.1 |
Provided you accept these terms and
conditions in full, we grant you a non-exclusive, revocable,
non-transferable licence to link to our site. |
| 3 |
Your
obligations |
| 3.1 |
You shall ensure that: |
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3.1.1 |
your site complies with all applicable law,
regulations and legislation; |
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3.1.2 |
your site maintains the highest standards of good
taste and decency, does not offer products or services that encourage
lawlessness or infringe public health or safety and does not disparage or
bring into disrepute the concepts of public transport and environmental
best practice; |
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3.1.3 |
you do not charge anyone who makes use of the
link to our site; |
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3.1.4 |
users of your site use the link and our site for
non-commercial purposes only; |
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3.1.5 |
you protect and do not interfere with the
Secretary of State's rights in respect of Transport Direct's trade names,
trade marks and logos and do not distribute or re-use those names, marks
and logos without prior permission; |
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3.1.6 |
you do not infringe the intellectual property
rights of any other person; |
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3.1.7 |
you do not pass to anyone your rights or
obligations under these Terms and Conditions; |
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3.1.8 |
you represent fairly and lawfully the data, the
software and Transport Direct's good name; |
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3.1.9 |
you do not do anything or include anything on
your site that implies any endorsement, sponsorship or approval of your
site by us, and you acknowledge that the inclusion of the link on your
site does not in any way represent any such endorsement, sponsorship or
approval of your site by us; and |
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3.1.10 |
your site is not defamatory of any person,
business or undertaking. |
| 3.2 |
You accept that we may keep records of
your links and hold such records for periodic inspection and tracking
purposes. |
| 4 |
Your rights
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| 4.1 |
You may remove the link from your site
at any time. |
| 5 |
Our
rights |
| 5.1 |
We reserve the right to terminate or
modify your right to include the link on your site at any time by notice
in writing to you at the email address that you have provided us with. We
may disable/terminate your link to our site if: |
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5.1.1 |
you breach any part of these terms and
conditions; or |
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5.1.2 |
any legislation, order or regulation, or any
other matter prevents us from granting or continuing your licence. |
| 5.2 |
We reserve the right to revise these
Terms and Conditions at any time. We will post updated Terms and
Conditions on our site. It is your responsibility to review these Terms
and Conditions regularly so that you are aware of any revisions. If you
continue to include a link on your site after a change to these Terms and
Conditions has been made, you will be deemed to accept the revised Terms
and Conditions. If you do not accept any revised Terms and Conditions,
please remove the link from your site. |
| 5.3 |
If we disable your link to our site for
any reason, you will have no claim against us and you will remove from
your website all references and links to our site. |
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Responsibilities |
| 6.1 |
We make no promise or any other
statement or representation regarding the accuracy, fitness for purpose,
performance, satisfactory quality, or use of our site and exclude to the
fullest extent permissible by law all warranties, obligations, conditions
or terms which may be implied by common law, statute or otherwise in
relation to the link or our site. Accordingly, it is your responsibility
to ensure that the Transport Direct Portal is fit for your intended use.
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| 6.2 |
In no event shall we be liable to you
for any losses (whether direct, indirect, special or consequential)
suffered by you as a result of including a link on your site. |
| 6.3 |
We have no responsibility for any
technical problem or failure of any kind relating to the installation of
your link to our site. |