Terms of Use

TERMS OF WEBSITE USE

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.humanitarianlogistics.org (“our site”), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. These terms of use should be read in conjunction with our privacy statement. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

Information about us

www.humanitarianlogistics.org is a site operated by The Humanitarian Logistics Association Limited ("We" or “HLA”).  We are registered in England and Wales under charity number 1127723 and have our registered office at Earlstrees Court, Earlstrees Road, Corby, Northants, NN17 4AX, UK.

Accessing our site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. We may at any time prevent you from accessing and using this website as well as take other appropriate action against you if you breach these terms of use.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.  You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them. 

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in these terms of use.

Further, we reserve the right to take legal action against anyone found to be in breach of these terms of use.

Intellectual property rights

The elements of this website, including graphics, logos, images, designs, sounds, information, and documents (the "Materials"), are protected by copyright, trade mark and other laws and are owned by HLA and its subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates; or its suppliers, vendors or other third parties who have contributed Materials to the website (each a "Supplier"). In no event shall any of the Materials be copied, reproduced, distributed, displayed, downloaded, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior express written permission of HLA and/or its Supplier. The names of actual products and companies mentioned in this website may be registered trade marks or trade marks of their respective owners. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

Reliance on information

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Our site changes regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

General disclaimer

THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED AS IS. SUCH MATERIALS COULD INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME. THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED  WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HLA AND ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE MATERIALS, THEIR QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, SUITABILITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT WILL HLA AND ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT OR TORT, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN PARTICULAR, AND WITHOUT LIMITATION, HLA SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, INCLUDING THE COSTS OF RECOVERING SUCH DATA. NOTHING IN THIS STATEMENT SHALL EXCLUDE OR RESTRICT HLA’S LIABILITY IN NEGLIGENCE FOR PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION.

Information about you and your visits to our site

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy statement.  By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Viruses, hacking and improper use of this website

  You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. You must not use our site in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way. You must not use our site or any facility on the site (including any forum or email function) for any of the following:

•  for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity; or
•  to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trade mark, confidence, privacy, data protection or any other intellectual property right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains  political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, any "spam" or any other inappropriate material.

Links

Our site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the terms of use and privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

Governing law

The terms of use of this website shall be governed by English law. You agree that English courts will have jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, the interpretation of these terms of use or any breach thereof, provided that we may take action in  any court of competent jurisdiction.

Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we have made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site or any question or complaints, please contact info@humanitarianlogistics.org.