Terms of Use

In order to ensure that our site is a safe, happy, stimulating place for all, please read our guidelines.

Use of our website

• You must not try to circumvent the security features of this website in any way, or disrupt any device used to host this website or make it available, or else you will spoil it for everyone.

Intellectual Property Rights

• We want you to enjoy our site so you may read, print and download material from this website and store it on a single computer for your personal, private use but you must reproduce all copyright and other notices. You may not make any profit from the use of that material or information, or transmit any of it, or exploit any of it for any commercial purpose, without first obtaining our written permission.

If you wish to seek such permission please contact:

rights@portobellobooks.com

• If you submit any material for inclusion on this website (including any posting to any part of this website), you grant us an indefinite, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate and make available to the public, combine or include in other works, that material and any extracts from it. We may grant sub-licences of these rights.

Contributions to this website

• You are not to make a personal attack on anyone. You are not to submit, or create any link to, any defamatory, pornographic, abusive, menacing, unlawful or blasphemous material.

• You are not to submit, or create any link to, any material that is an invasion of privacy, a seditious libel, a contempt of court, or that is likely to incite or capable of inciting violence, racial hatred, sadism or cruelty.

• You are not to submit, or create any link to, any material that is intentionally false.

• You are not to submit, or create any link to, any material that is protected by copyright, database rights or any other intellectual property rights unless you are the owner of those rights, or you have the permission of that owner to publish that material in that way;

• You are not to submit, or create any link to, any confidential information; if you do so it will no longer be confidential, d’oh. (Except as set out in our Privacy Policy, no information that is submitted to our website will be treated as confidential.);

• You are not to use our website to collect personal data about other individuals;
• You will not disclose your password to anyone; you are responsible for all submissions to our website made using it. If you know or suspect that someone else knows your password, you will let us know immediately by contacting: web@portobellobooks.com We may suspend or change any password if there is a breach of security or misuse of this website, or if we suspect that this is the case.
• We may, at our discretion, edit, block, delete or remove from this website any information or other material that you have posted or accessed, for any reason at any time and without informing you but generally, we will let you know.

• You are advised to make a copy of any material that you submit to our site and that you wish to keep. We may delete, archive, make unavailable, modify or comment on any material, and close or suspend any discussion topic without notice.

Data Protection and Privacy

We want to protect the privacy of visitors to our website and that of our customers and other individuals. Please read our Privacy Policy; it will help you to understand how we use your personal data. We may change our Privacy Policy at any time without giving you notice, so please check it each time you visit this website.
• Whenever you give us personal data, you are consenting to its collection and use in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Third Party Goods, Services, Contributions and Links

• If you purchase or acquire goods or services from any third parties, even if you have been directed from this website to them, any contract you enter into with those third parties and any use you make of their website is a matter between you and them.

• Any opinion, advice, statement, service, offer, or information or content provided or made by any third party on this website, or on any website to which this website is linked, is that of the author or provider, and not of Portobello Books Limited.

• We make no representation and give no warranty about any other websites or any opinion, advice, statement, offer, information or content on them or goods or services offered by them. We have no control over their content or availability. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by or in connection with any use of, or reliance on, any information, materials, goods or services available on or through any other website.
You should direct any concern about any other website to that site's website administrator.

Accuracy of Information and Disclaimer

• We try to ensure that any information and content on this website that has not been supplied by a third party is accurate, but we accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by inaccurate, out of date or incomplete information or content. If you suspect that something is an infringement of intellectual property rights or unlawful, you must let us know immediately by contacting the Web Mistress at web@portobellobooks.com She will get on to it.

• You should independently verify any information and content on this website before relying on it.

Our Liability

• We provide the information and material on this website free of charge; it is provided on the basis that we have no liability for that information or material.

• We have no liability for the inability of anyone to access this website or any information or material on it (although we will help where we can) and we do not warrant that this website will operate without interruption or will always be available.

• We are not responsible for, and will have no liability for, any error or corruption or breach of security resulting from the transmission of any information or material over any telecommunications network.

• We do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or for any fraud on our part, or for any liability that cannot be excluded by law.

• We will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of business, profit, revenue or goodwill, or loss or corruption of data, lost or wasted management time or the lost time of other employees arising from your use of our website or any information or material on it, or your inability to use it (whether that loss is direct or indirect).

• Except as expressly set out in any Terms and Terms that apply to our BOOKSHOP (which apply only in relation to that service), all warranties, representations, terms, Terms and undertakings, whether implied by statute, common law, custom, trade usage, course of dealing or otherwise (including any implied warranty, representation, term, condition or undertaking of satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose) are excluded to the fullest extent allowed by law.

• Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

General

• No delay, neglect or forbearance on our part in enforcing any of these Terms will be, or be deemed to be, a waiver; nor will it prejudice any of our rights.

• If any of these Terms is (for any reason) held to be unenforceable, illegal or in some other way invalid, the unenforceable, illegal or invalid provision will not affect the remainder of these Terms; and they will continue in full force and effect.

• These Terms are governed by English law and you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England. The place of performance will be England.

• No addition to or modification of any provision of these Terms that you propose will be binding on us unless made in writing and signed by our duly authorized representative. 'Writing' includes email.