| Terms
and Conditions
If you use
the World of Beatrix Potter Licensing and Retail Website (the
“Website”), you are regarded as having accepted the following
General Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) which include our Privacy
Policy and the Terms
and Conditions of Sale and Purchase where relevant
so please read and abide by them:
Intellectual
property
1. This Website
features characters that appear in books published by Frederick
Warne & Co Limited (“Warne”), a subsidiary of Penguin Books
Limited (“Penguin”). Penguin (also referred to in these Terms
as “we” and “us”) owns and operates this Site and the information
and materials appearing on the Website (the “Content”) are displayed
for personal, non-commercial use only.
2. All software
used on the Website and Content included on it (including, without
limitation, Website design, text, graphics, audio and video, and
the selection and arrangement of the Content) is the property
of us or our suppliers and is protected by international copyright
laws.
3. None of
the Content may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, republished,
posted, transmitted, stored, sold or distributed without the prior
written permission of the copyright holder, except that you may
download one copy of extracts from the Website on any single computer
for personal, non-commercial, home use only, provided that all
copyright and proprietary notices are kept intact.
4. You are
prohibited from modifying any of the Content or using any of the
Content for any purpose other than as set out in these Terms (including,
without limitation, on any other website or computer network).
Requests to republish any of the Content and to use quotations
or extracts from any book published by us should be addressed
to peterrabbit@penguin.co.uk
or to the Marketing Director of Frederick Warne & Co Limited,
at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL.
5. The Warne
and Penguin names and logos and the Beatrix Potter characters
featured on this Website are registered trade marks.
Links
to Third Party Web Sites
6. This Website
may have links to other Internet websites that are controlled
and maintained by third parties. These websites may be operated
by one of our divisions, associated or sister companies, or may
display our name or brand or refer to us in some way. These links
are included solely for your convenience and do not constitute
any endorsement by us of the websites linked or referred to. We
have no control over the content of any such websites.
Material
you Submit
7. By communicating
with this Website, you confirm that you:
a. have all
necessary legal rights, including, without limitation, intellectual
property rights, to the material and information you transmit
or send to this Website;
b. take full
responsibility for any material you transmit or send to this Website;
c. will not
transmit or send to this Website any unlawful, confidential, defamatory,
obscene, threatening, sexually or racially offensive, abusive,
harmful or otherwise objectionable material; and
d. subject
to the Website’s Privacy Policy,
you authorise Penguin and Warne, so far as the law permits, to
use any such information and/or materials as they see fit, in
any territory, in any media, in perpetuity.
Liability
Disclaimer
8. We provide
this Website in good faith and do not make any representations
or warranties of any kind, express or implied, in relation to
any part, or all, of this Website or its Content, nor in relation
to any part or all of any website to which this Website has a
link. We hereby exclude all warranties and representations to
the extent permitted by law. We give no guarantee that the activities
and offers made available on this Website will always function
as intended or that this Website will be free from infection by
viruses or anything else that may be harmful or destructive.
9. To the
extent permitted by law, we hereby disclaim all liability, however
it may arise, in connection with any loss and/or damage that may
occur in relation to, use of, or inability to use, or action taken
or refrained from being taken as a result of using, all or any
part of this Website or its Content, or any website to which this
Website is linked.
Changes
to these Conditions of Use
10. We reserve
the right to add or change these Terms and our Privacy
Policy and Terms and
Conditions Of Sale where relevant, and agree to ensure
that a note of the date and clause number of any such amendments
will be included as part of these Terms. Any changes will be posted
to the Website and it is your responsibility to ensure, from time
to time, that you are aware of any such changes. Changes will
become effective 24 hours after first posting and you will be
deemed to have accepted any change if you continue to access the
Website after that time.
Severance
11. If any
of these Terms is held by a court of law in any territory to be
invalid, illegal or otherwise unenforceable, then, to the extent
that it is held to be so, and with regard to the relevant territory
only, that provision shall be severed and deleted from these Terms,
provided that the remaining provisions of these Terms shall remain
binding and enforceable and the severed provision shall also remain
so in all other territories.
Governing
Law
12. These
terms shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
English law,
and any disputes that may arise under or in relation to these
Terms shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England.
Associated
Policies and Rules
13. The following
Policies and Rules form part of these Terms and by your use of
this Website you are regarded as having accepted them:
Privacy
Policy
14. We may
at times gather information about you when you are using this
Website. The ways we do this, the reasons why, and what you can
do if you do not want us to hold and use your personal information,
are all set out in our Privacy Policy.
Shopping
15. If you
shop on this Website, Penguin will fulfil your orders, so the
Penguin Terms and Conditions of Sale
and Purchase will apply. |