The Elders

Terms and Conditions

Introduction

Welcome to our web site. Please read these terms and conditions carefully as your use of the site will indicate your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

About us

  1. http://www.theElders.org is a site owned and operated by The Elders Foundation, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 6317151 and whose principal place of business is 6th Floor, Communications Building, 48 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LT, United Kingdom.
  2. If you have any questions or comments about the site, please contact us by email at web@theElders.org or by post at The Elders Foundation, 6th Floor, Communications Building, 48 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LT, United Kingdom.

About use of our site

  1. You agree to use our site in accordance with these terms and conditions, only for lawful purposes and in a way which does not infringe the rights of anyone or restrict or inhibit anyone’s use and enjoyment of the site. If you don’t comply with these terms, we may deny you access to our site.
  2. You may download and print content from our site only for your private, personal and non-commercial use. We do not guarantee or warrant that any material available for downloading is free from infection, viruses, trojans or other contaminating codes.
  3. You will not use the site to send by email, post or otherwise submit or transmit any material that infringes any third party’s rights, or is unlawful, threatening, offensive, libellous, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy, vulgar, obscene or profane.
  4. You will not reproduce, distribute, modify or re-post our content on another site, frame or mirror our site or link to our site without our prior written consent.
  5. By submitting to us any ideas, suggestions, graphics, images or any other material, you represent that all rights in same (if any) are owned by you and you assign all rights in any such materials to us. To the extent you cannot assign such rights due to any public law restriction, you hereby grant us an exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, fully sublicenseable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to exercise all such rights. To the extent you cannot license such rights, you hereby irrevocably waive such rights with respect to us and all of our sublicensees.

    For the avoidance of doubt, we will be free to use any comments, stories, suggestions, concepts, know-how, content, text, images or other material contained in your communications with us for any purpose whatsoever, as we see fit, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

    This includes using (including publishing, exploiting and modifying) any of these materials for promotional, marketing or other commercial purposes. Under no circumstances will you be entitled to any payment if we use any of your submitted materials for any purpose.
  6. You can subscribe to receive information and other updates on the Elders. To subscribe, just enter your email address in the Global Village section of the site. To unsubscribe, send an email to web@theElders.org with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject field.

About access to our site

  1. We try to update our site regularly, so we may have to suspend access, service or functionality on this site, from time to time, without notice. If required, we may have to close our site indefinitely. We will not be liable if, for any reason, our site is unavailable at any time or for any period of time.
  2. As information or data transmitted to or from our site pass over public telecommunications networks, we can’t promise that the operation of our site will be secure, confidential, uninterrupted or error-free. You agree not to do anything that does or may interfere with the proper working of our site including tampering with, or hacking into, the site or the servers on which it resides.

About content on our site

  1. We own, or are the licensee of, the intellectual property rights in the content of our site, including text, photos, graphic designs, images, audio, video recordings and any data entered or submitted by you.
  2. ELDERS and the Elders’ logo are trade marks owned by us and The Virgin Foundation, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02155645 and whose registered address is at Hanover House, 14 Hanover Square, London W1S 1HP.
  3. Our site may contain links to third party sites and resources. We have no control over the contents of those sites, resources or third parties and accept no responsibility for them, or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. We do not review, censor, approve, edit or endorse any information placed on third party sites or resources.

About your privacy

  1. We are committed to protecting your privacy. Please read our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein, for full details.

About our liability

  1. The material on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties, including warranties of merchantability, non-infringement of intellectual property, fitness for purpose, or accuracy or completeness of any information.
  2. To the extent permitted by law, we, our Founders, supporters and third parties connected to us:
    1. Will not have any liability in connection with these terms and conditions, the site, or the site content, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, in excess of thirty pounds (£30). ; and
    2. Will not have any liability for any indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by you in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any sites linked to it and any content on it, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
  3. Except as expressly set out in these terms, all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute, common law or otherwise are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. However, nothing in these terms is intended to exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury arising from negligence.

About changes

  1. From time to time, we may update and change these terms and conditions. If we make any material changes to these terms and conditions (including the privacy policy), we will include a notice on this page and we will send a notice to the email address you have provided us, if any. You will always find the latest version of these terms and conditions on our site. Your continued use of our site after any change will indicate that you accept and agree to any amendments.

About other matters

  1. If any of these terms are held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of these terms will continue in full force and effect.
  2. These terms and conditions and any action related thereto will be governed, controlled, interpreted, and defined by and under the laws of England, without giving effect to any conflicts of laws principles that require the application of the law of a different jurisdiction. By using this site, you hereby expressly consent to the personal jurisdiction of and venue in the courts located in London, England. Any of our related companies may rely on and enforce these terms, but otherwise we and you agree that no other third parties are to be given any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
  3. You agree that we may assign these terms to any third party without notice to you.