Terms and conditions of use

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.

2. Copyright notice

2.1 Copyright (c) 2024, CS Genetics Limited.

2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

2.2.1 we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

2.2.2 all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

3. Licence to use website

3.1 You may

3.1.1 view pages from our website in a web browser;

3.1.3 print pages from our website;

3.1.4 stream any audio and video files from our website; and

3.1.5 use our website services by means of a web browser,

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

3.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

3.5.1 republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

3.5.2 sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

3.5.3 show any material from our website in public;

3.5.4 exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

3.5.5 redistribute material from our website, save to the extent expressly permitted by these terms and conditions.

3.6 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

4. Downloadable content

4.1 We may from time to time make available on the website downloadable content (such as newsletters, brochures, white papers and technical specifications).

4.2 In addition to the rights granted under Section 3.1 above, you may redistribute print and/or electronic copies of downloadable content within your business, organisation, company or group of companies, providing that copies of downloadable content must not be edited or amended in any way and must retain:

4.2.1 the name of our company;

4.2.2 any disclaimers, copyright notices and other legal notices; and

4.2.3 any authorial credits.

5. Acceptable use

5.1 You must not:

5.1.1 use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

5.1.2 use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

5.1.3 use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

5.1.4 conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

5.1.5 access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

5.1.6 violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or

5.1.7 use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

6. Registration and accounts

6.1 Should the account service be available, you may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.

6.2 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

6.3 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

6.4 You must not use any other person’s account to access the website, unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.

7. User login details

7.1 If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.

7.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

7.3 You must keep your password confidential.

7.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

7.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

8. Cancellation and suspension of account

8.1 We may:

8.1.1 suspend your account;

8.1.2 cancel your account; and/or

8.1.3 edit your account details.

10. Report abuse

10.1 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.

10.2 You can let us know about any such material or activity by email.

11. Limited warranties

11.1 We do not warrant or represent:

11.1.1 the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

11.1.2 that the material on the website is up to date; or

11.1.3 that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

12. Limitations and exclusions of liability

12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

12.1.1 limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

12.1.2 limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

12.1.3 limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

12.1.4 exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

12.2.1 are subject to Section 12.1; and

12.2.2 govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

12.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).