Terms and Conditions

2         CANCELLING YOUR APPLICATION

If you wish to cancel your application and receive a refund of your registration fee, you must do so before we send you the email confirming your successful application to the website as mentioned in paragraph 1 of these terms and you log into the website for the first time using your access codes. To cancel your application, please send an email to sales@steelspec.org.uk. We reserve the right to deduct from the refund any transaction costs that we have incurred..

Once you log into the website for the first time using your access codes, you will not be able to cancel your application or this agreement.

3         ACCESS RIGHTS

Upon our accepting your application, we grant you (or in the case of multi-user licences, the registered users) the access rights on the basis of these terms.

The access rights are the rights for you (or in the case of multi-user licences, the registered users):

a.       access areas of the website only available to registered users;

b.       view, download, save or print out content for your own use;

c.       bookmark any part of the website for your own use; and

d.       print out or copy any page on the website for supplying to one of your customers or suppliers. No customer or supplier is to be sent more than ten pages from the website in any period of a year.

The access rights will be suspended in the circumstances set out in paragraph 13 of these terms. The access right will terminate in the circumstances set out in paragraph 14 of these terms.

4         REGISTRATION FEE

The registration fee is payable on registration and then either on the renewal date each year or every three years on each renewal date.

If you are paying on an annual basis, each renewal date will be the anniversary of the date we accept your application.

If you are paying on a three-yearly basis, each renewal date will be the third anniversary of the date we accept your application.

Please note that if we accept your application on 29 February then the renewal dates shall be 28 February.

The registration fee payable on each renewal date shall be the registration fee applying on that renewal date.

Ordinarily, we will accept payment of the registration fee by credit card, debit card, cheque, direct debit and electronic transfer, but we reserve the right to refuse any payment method if we have reasonable cause to believe such payment will be dishonoured.

5         PROVISION OF SERVICE

We agree to use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the website is available continuously and that no interruption in access to the website lasts longer than one week, where this interruption relates to events within our control.

You are responsible for ensuring your system is compatible with the website.

6         SECURITY

You must:

a.       keep your access codes secret;

b.       not tell any other person your access codes; and

c.       not allow anyone else to access the website by means of your access codes, even if you do not tell them your access codes.

If you think someone else knows your access codes, you must change your access codes as soon as possible.

You must notify us promptly of any unauthorised use of your access codes or any other breach of security.

We reserve the right to issue you with new access codes if we believe someone else knows your access codes or is accessing the website using your access codes. This does not affect any other rights we may have under these terms if this occurs (including our right to suspend or terminate this agreement).

7         ACCEPTABLE USE

You (or in the case of multi-user licences, the registered users) must not:

a.       copy, print out or reproduce any content except as set out in paragraph 3 of these terms ("access rights");

b.       create hyperlinks to pages on the website other than the home page of the website;

c.       cause content to be reproduced or displayed as part of any website by any means (including without limitation "framing" of content);

d.       download or print content in a systematic or regular manner or in any other way that has the purpose or effect of creating a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the content; or

e.       alter any part of the website.

You must not use the website to transmit or upload or otherwise publish any material that is defamatory, abusive, obscene, of a harassing nature or in any other way offensive, or that infringes anyone else"s copyright or other intellectual property rights, or that infringes any right of privacy, confidentiality or legal privilege.

You must not to use any mechanism, device, software, script or routine to affect the proper functioning of the site, or take any action that places an unreasonable burden or excessive load on our system(s), or infect the site with any computer programming routine (e.g., any virus, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or trojan horse) that may damage, interfere with, delay, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

8         PRIVACY

We agree to comply with the provisions of our privacy policy, and you agree that our privacy policy is to apply to all information we hold about you, except as varied by these terms.

If you wish to see a copy of all information we hold about you, you should contact us to request this. A fee is payable.

9         CONTACTING UK STEEL

If at any time you need to contact us in connection with the website or these terms, you may do so in either of the following ways:

a.       by email to admin@steelspec.org.uk; or

b.       by post to us at the address given on the website.

10     CONTACTING YOU

If at any time we need to contact you (or the company, if applicable) in connection with the website or these terms, we may do so in either of the following ways:

a.       by email to your email address; or

b.       by post to your postal address.

It is your responsibility to ensure you inform us of any change in your email address or postal address by sending an email to admin@steelspec.org.uk. You will be deemed to have received any message which we can show was sent to the correct email address or postal address registered with us at the date the message was sent.

11     LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The data carried on the website have been extracted from the relevant standards and are for reference purposes only. You(or in the case of multi-user licences, the registered users) must refer to the published standards before taking or refraining from any action on the basis of any information given on this website. These standards are available from British Standards Institution (BSI) for BS, BS EN, and BS ISO specifications, and from ISO, ASTM, SAE and AISI for the other respective standards. Accordingly, we exclude all liability for loss or damage arising from any inaccuracy or omission in the information carried on this website.

In the event of any claim which does not related to inaccurate or omitted information, we are only liable for direct loss up to £500 per claim or series of related claims, and then only to the extent such loss is caused by our negligence or by our breach of these terms.

We are not liable for the following types of loss or damage in any circumstances:

a.       indirect or consequential loss, which includes (without limitation) any loss of income, loss of profits, loss of data, loss of software or computer equipment, or bank charges.

b.       unauthorised access to the website as a result of your failure to keep your access codes secret (unless this access arises from our own negligence or deliberate breach of these terms);

c.       incompatibility between your system and the website;

d.       anything beyond our reasonable control that disrupts or interrupts access to the website or any part of it;

e.       loss, corruption or interception of data transmitted over the Internet or any other computer network or system not under our control.

Nothing in these terms will limit or exclude our liability for personal injury or death to the extent these arise from our negligence.

12     AMENDMENT OF TERMS

We may amend these terms from time to time.

Where these terms are amended, you will be informed of this by means of a notice displayed on the next occasion you log in to the website, which will give you the opportunity to accept or decline the amendment.

You will be deemed to accept any amendment to these terms if you proceed to log in to the website after being informed of the amendment.

If you decline any amendment to these terms,this agreement will be terminated and we shall refund the registration fee last paid by you in respect of each complete month from the date of termination until the next renewal date.

13     SUSPENSION OF THE ACCESS RIGHTS

We may suspend the access rights automatically and without prior notification if:

a.       the registration fee is not paid on or before the relevant renewal date; or

b.       if any payment of the registration fee is dishonoured

until payment is received by us in full.

If you break any of these terms in a way that can be rectified by you, we may notify you of the breach and suspend your access to the website until the breach is rectified.

Suspension of the access rights does not affect our right to terminate this agreement under paragraph 14 of these terms.

14     TERMINATION

We may terminate this agreement with immediate effect (which means you will no longer be able to access the website or exercise any of the other access rights) in the following circumstances:

a.       if the registration fee is not paid within 21 days of the relevant renewal date;

b.       if you break any of these terms in a way that cannot be rectified by you;

c.       if you break any of these terms in a way that can be rectified by you, but you fail to do so within 14 days of us notifying you of the breach; or

d.       if we suspend the access rights as set out in paragraph 13 of these terms on two or more occasions in any twelve month period.

We may terminate this agreement at any time without specifying any reason, by notifying you using one of the methods set out in paragraph 10 of these terms or (in the case of a general withdrawal of the website) by a notice placed on the website. Such termination will take effect either:

e.       immediately, in which case we shall refund the registration fee last paid by you in respect of each complete month from the date of termination until the next renewal date; or

f.         at 00.01 hours on the next renewal date following our notification, with none of the registration fee refundable.

Termination of this agreement for any reason does not affect any rights which arise before termination.

15     LEGAL INFORMATION

These terms apply only between us and you, and no-one else is to have the right to enforce of these terms.

Any agreement between us and you will be concluded in the English language and shall be deemed to have been concluded in England. These terms will not be filed by us.

The place of performance for this agreement is England.

These terms are to be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England. Legal action in connection with these terms or the website may only be brought in the Courts of England and Wales.

16     REGISTRATION ON BEHALF OF A COMPANY

This paragraph only applies if you have completed the "Company" box in your application.

If you have completed the "Company" box thena. your application is deemed to be an offer by you on behalf of the company for the company to enter into this agreement with us;b. the agreement is deemed to be an agreement between us and the company named in the "Company" box (the "company") to allow you (and no other person, unless paragraph 17 applies) to access the website;

c. you confirm that you are authorised to make this application on behalf of the company, and that you are authorised to accept on behalf of the company any amendments to these terms made under paragraph 12 of these terms; and

d. references to any obligation on you to do or refrain from doing any act are to be interpreted as obligations on the company (i) to do or refrain from doing that act and (ii) to ensure that you do or refrain from doing that act.

17     MULTI-USER LICENCES

This paragraph only applies if you have applied for a multi-user licence.

If you have applied for a multi-user licence then:

a.       you shall notify us of the individual email addresses of the registered users. Subject to sub-paragraph b, you may from time to time notify us of new registered users or cancel the registration of existing registered users.

b.       the number of registered users shall at no time exceed the user limit. If the you wish to increase the user limit, then the you may do so upon payment to us of the appropriate fee, which shall be notified to you by us on request.

c.       you agree that all registered users shall be employees of the company.

d.       subject to sub-paragraph e, we shall issue access codes for each registered user.

e.       we reserve the right to decline to issue any named user with access codes or to cancel a registered user"s access codes if we reasonably believe that:

i) the user is not an employee of the company;

ii)       the user has broken any of the obligations of the acceptable use policy set out in paragraph 7 above; or

iii)      granting that user access to the website would expose us or our computer systems to a significant risk of loss or damage.

f.         All registered users undertake to accept the terms of the acceptable use policy set out in paragraph 7 above.

g.       If any registered user ceases to be employed by the company, you shall immediately notify us and that registered user"s access codes shall be cancelled. Subject to sub-paragraph b, the company may nominate a new user to replace the outgoing user.

h.       No refund of any monies payable by the company under this Agreement shall be made by UK Steel if any User is denied access to the Website under sub-paragraph e.

18     DEFINITIONS

In these terms the following words have the following meaning:

"access codes" means your user name and password used for accessing the website.

"access rights" means the rights granted to you to use the website, as set out in paragraph 3 of these terms.

"agreement" means the legally-binding agreement between us and you (or the company, if applicable) on the basis of these terms;

"application" means your application for registration on this website.

"company" means any company or other business entity (whether incorporated or unincorporated) specified in the "Company" box in your application;

"content" means all text, graphics, audio, video, software or other content on the website, as well as the structure and arrangement of the website.

"email address" means your email address as set out in your registered details on the website at any time.

"multi-user licence" means a licence permitting a specified number of people within the same company to use the website.

"postal address" means your postal address as set out in your registered details on the website at any time.

"registered users" means all users who are permitted to access the website under the terms of a multi-user licence and in respect of whom user names have been notified by you to us.

"registration fee" means the annual registration fee payable by you to access the website.

"renewal date" means the date on which you pay the registration fee each year.

"system" means the computer system (including all hardware, software and any telephone or other communication lines) by which you access the website.

"terms" means these terms and conditions.

"user limit" means the maximum number of registered users permitted to use the website under the terms of a multi-user licence.

"user name" means the user identification codes (other than the password) used to identify you when you use the website.

"we", "us", "our" means UK Steel (a division of the Engineering Employers" Federation).

"website"means the website available at www.steelspec.org.uk or any substitute or successor site used by us.

"you" means the registered user of the website; except that for a multi-user licence, "you" means the person making the application on behalf of a company

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

When you complete an application, you are required to tick a box indicating that you have read and accept the above terms. Submission of your application to us indicates that you have accepted these terms.