Terms and Conditions

1. Introduction

In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to OfficeClerk Filing. "You" refers to the entity reading this policy in whatever capacity that entity resides in within the scope of this policy. "Content Provider" refers to a person or company who uploads digital content for the purposes of storage and, or distribution. "Services" refer to storage, upload, download, view and shared access to files to others.

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 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, you are expressly agreeing to these terms and conditions.

1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

1.5 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

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

(a) 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
(b) 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:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
(c) download files from our website;
(d) stream audio and video files from our website; and
(e) use our website services by means of a web browser,
subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2 Except as expressly permitted 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:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(c) show any material from our website in public;
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from our website.

3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.

3.7 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. RSS feed

4.1 You may access our RSS feed using an RSS reader or aggregator.

4.2 By accessing our RSS feed, you accept these terms and conditions.

4.3 Subject to your acceptance of these terms and conditions, we grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable licence to display content from our RSS feed in unmodified form on any website owned and operated by you, providing that you must not aggregate our RSS feed with any other feed when displaying it in accordance with this Section 4.3.

4.4 It is a condition of this licence that you include a credit for us and hyperlink to our website on each web page where the RSS feed is published (in such form as we may specify from time to time, or if we do not specify any particular form, in a reasonable form).

4.5 We may revoke any licence set out in this Section 4 at any time, with or without notice or explanation.

5. Acceptable use

The transmission, storage and processing of content by you, or by any person on your behalf, using the Services ("Content").

General usage rules:

5.1 You must not use the Services in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Services or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Services.

5.2 You must not use the Services:

(a) in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful; or
(b) in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
(c) 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;
(d) 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;
(e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or
(g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

5.3 You must ensure that all Content complies with the provisions of this Policy.

6. Unlawful Content

6.1 Content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

6.2 Content, and the use of Content by us in any manner licensed or otherwise authorised by you, must not:

6.3 You must ensure that Content is not and has never been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

7. Graphic material

7.1 Content must be appropriate for all persons who have access to or are likely to access the Content in question, and in particular for children over 12 years of age.

7.2 Content must not depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner.

7.3 Content must not be pornographic or sexually explicit.

8. Factual accuracy

8.1 Content must not be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading.

8.2 Statements of fact contained in Content and relating to persons (legal or natural) must be true; and statements of opinion contained in Content and relating to persons (legal or natural) must be reasonable, be honestly held and indicate the basis of the opinion.

9. Negligent advice

9.1 Content must not consist of or contain any legal, financial, investment, taxation, accountancy, medical or other professional advice, and you must not use the Services to provide any legal, financial, investment, taxation, accountancy, medical or other professional advisory services unless professionally qualified to do so and suitable indemnified.

9.2 Content must not consist of or contain any advice, instructions or other information that may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause death, illness or personal injury, damage to property, or any other loss or damage.

10. Etiquette

10.1 Content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

10.2 Content must not be offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory.

10.3 Content must not be liable to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.

10.4 You must not use the Services to send any hostile communication or any communication intended to insult, including such communications directed at a particular person or group of people.

10.5 You must not use the Services for the purpose of deliberately upsetting or offending others.

10.6 You must not unnecessarily flood the Services with material relating to a particular subject or subject area, whether alone or in conjunction with others.

10.7 You must ensure that Content does not duplicate other content available through the Services.

10.8 You must ensure that Content is appropriately categorised.

10.9 10.9 You should use appropriate and informative titles for all Content.

10.10 You must at all times be courteous and polite to other users of the Services.

11. Marketing and spam

11.1 You must not without our written permission use the Services for any purpose relating to the marketing, advertising, promotion, sale or supply of any product, service or commercial offering.

11.2 Content must not constitute or contain spam, and you must not use the Services to store or transmit spam - which for these purposes shall include all unlawful marketing communications and unsolicited commercial communications.

11.3 You must not send any spam or other marketing communications to any person using any email address or other contact details made available through the Services or that you find using the Services.

11.4 You must not use the Services to promote or operate any chain letters, Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, matrix programs, "get rich quick" schemes or similar letters, schemes or programs.

12. Gambling

12.1 You must not use the Services for any purpose relating to gambling, gaming, betting, lotteries, sweepstakes, prize competitions or any gambling-related activity.

13. Monitoring

13.1 You acknowledge that we may actively monitor the Content and the use of the Services.

14. Data mining

14.1 You must not conduct any systematic or automated data scraping, data mining, data extraction or data harvesting, or other systematic or automated data collection activity, by means of or in relation to the Services.

15. Hyperlinks

15.1 You must not link to any material using or by means of the Services that would, if it were made available through the Services, breach the provisions of this Policy.

16. Harmful software

16.1 The Content must not contain or consist of, and you must not promote or distribute by means of the Services, any viruses, worms, spyware, adware or other harmful or malicious software, programs, routines, applications or technologies.

16.2 The Content must not contain or consist of, and you must not promote or distribute by means of the Services, any software, programs, routines, applications or technologies that will or may have a material negative effect upon the performance of a computer or introduce material security risks to a computer.

17. Registration and accounts

17.1 To be eligible for an account on our website under this Section 17, you must over 18 years of age.

17.2 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.

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

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

17.5 You must fully comply with any account verification protocols we require you to follow.

17.6 You must not open multiple free accounts.

17.7 If at any time you do not make a payment to us when required (including on termination), we can;

(a) suspend or terminate your use of our service and/or;
(b) require you to pay, on demand, default interest on any amount you owe us per annum calculated on a daily basis, from the date when payment was due until the date when payment is made.
You will also need to pay all expenses and costs (including our full legal costs) in connection with us trying to recover any unpaid amount from you.

17.8 We can at any time change the fees for our services other than those you have already paid for as long as we give you 30 days notice of any such changes. Where we change the fees for our services you cannot withhold payment or claim any set-off without getting our written agreement.

18. User login details

18.1 If you register for an account with our website, we will provide you with you with a user ID and password.

18.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 21; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

18.3 You must keep your password confidential.

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

18.5 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.

19. Cancellation and suspension of account

19.1 We may:

(a) suspend your account;
(b) cancel your account; and/or
(c) edit your account details,
at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

19.2 You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the website.

20. Your content: license

20.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

20.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website.

20.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 20.2.

20.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 20.2.

20.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

20.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

20.7 Our service may automatically delete a file you upload, store, access or share where it determines that the file is an exact duplicate of a file already on our service. In this case, the original file will be accessed by you and any other user and that file will be retained as long as any user has a right to access it under these terms. Any right of deletion that you exercise will not apply to a file associated in this way with another user.

20.8 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

21. Your content: rules

21.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

21.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

21.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;
(b) be obscene or indecent;
(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;
(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
(i) be blasphemous;
(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;
(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
(p) constitute spam;
(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

21.4 Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

21.5 You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.

21.6 You must not submit to our website any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

22. Report abuse

22.1 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.

23. Limited warranties

23.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or
(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

23.2 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.

23.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 24.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

24. Limitations and exclusions of liability

24.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

24.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 24 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 24.1; and
(b) 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.

24.3 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.

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

24.5 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.

24.6 You must maintain copies of all data stored by you on our services. We do not make any guarantees that there will be no loss of data. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data.

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

24.8 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).

25. Indemnity

25.1 You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

26. Breaches of these terms and conditions

26.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) temporarily suspend your access to our website;
(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;
(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.

26.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

27. Third party websites

27.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.

27.2 We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 24.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

28. Trade marks

28.1 Trade marks, our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

28.2 The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any license to exercise such rights.

29. Variation

29.1 We can change these terms at any time by providing you at least 30 days prior notice of the change. Your continued use after that notice means that you agree to the changed terms.

29.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website.

30. Assignment

30.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

30.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

31. Refunds/Recurring Paid Subscriptions

31.1 All purchases are final and non-refundable. If you believe that you have been charged in error by us, you must contact us within 60 days of such charge. No refunds will be given for any charges more than 60 days old. We reserve the right to issue refunds or credits at our sole discretion. If we issue a refund or credit, we are under no obligation to issue the same or similar refund in the future. This refund policy does not affect any statutory rights that may apply.

32. Cancellation of Paid Subscriptions

32.1 Recurring subscriptions will renew indefinitely, either monthly or annually, based upon your chosen subscription period, unless the subscription is cancelled prior to a renewal date. If you cancel a paid subscription but maintain your account as a free account, access to your account may be restricted if the level of use is above the limits applying to free accounts at that time and files contained within your account may be deleted by our system.

33. Severability

33.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

33.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

34. Third party rights

34.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

34.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

35. Entire agreement

35.1 Subject to Section 24.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

36. Law and jurisdiction

36.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

36.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

Last update: 10 february 2021. Effective: 10 march 2021