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Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) are applicable to your use of the website (http://secretcompany.co.uk) (“Website”). We may change the Terms and Conditions at any time without notice to you, by posting such changes on the Website.  By using the Website you agree to these Terms and Conditions as the same may be amended from time to time.

Ownership of rights

We and/or our affiliates, licensors and suppliers own the information and materials contained on the Website which are protected by copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property and proprietary rights. Unless you are specifically permitted to do so in advance, you agree not to reproduce, modify, rent, sell, distribute and create derivative works or otherwise deal with any part of the Website or any information or materials made available through the Website.
You may not use any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property and proprietary rights owned by us in connection with a product or service that is not ours or in a way which is likely to cause confusion.
Nothing contained on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any service, product, intellectual property right or other right(s) on the Website without our written permission or the third party that may own the applicable right(s). Any unauthorised use of any service, product, intellectual property right or other right(s) may result in legal action and/or civil or criminal penalties which may include but not be limited to monetary damages.

User Information

Whilst using the Website you may be asked to provide certain personalised information to us. The way we collect and use personalised information is set out in the Website’s Privacy Policy which can be accessed through the Website.

Unsolicited Materials

Unless specifically requested, we do not seek nor do we wish to receive any confidential or secret information or other material from you through the Website, by e-mail or in any other way.  Any information you submit will not be deemed confidential and may be used by us in any manner consistent with our Privacy Policy.  If you submit material to us in any manner you represent and warrant that it is original to you, that no other party has any rights to it and that all your so-called “moral rights” have been waived. You grant us a royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully transferable and assignable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, rent, sell, distribute, create derivative works or otherwise deal with such material (whether in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.  We are under no obligation to maintain any information and/or material you provide to us. We can delete any such information and/or material from our Website and systems at any time.

Conduct

By using the Website you agree to adhere to the law, respect all rights of others and refrain from uploading, posting or transmitting to the Website any threatening, harassing, degrading, indecent, pornographic, defamatory, disruptive, hateful, intimidating, fraudulent and otherwise objectionable behaviour. You shall refrain from any such behaviour and shall not deal with anything which is protected by copyright, trademark or other intellectual and/or proprietary rights without the express prior consent of the relevant rights owners. You shall refrain from any activity that may give rise to criminal or civil liability, encourages conduct which constitutes a criminal offence, encourages or provides instructional information about illegal activities or any activities such as hacking and the like.

You shall not impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any other person or entity; upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, distribute or in any way exploit any information or other material obtained through the Website for commercial purposes (without the express prior consent of the owners); engage in spamming, harvesting of e-mail addresses or other personal information, scraping or any other activity with the purpose of obtaining lists and/or schedules of information or send chain letters and the like via the Website; and/or attempt to gain unauthorised access to other computer systems through the Website. You agree that you will not use the Website in any manner that could damage, crash or impair the Website in any way or interfere with any other person’s use and enjoyment of the Website.
You agree not to link from another website to the Website in a manner which detrimentally affects the Website or any of our affiliates, licensors and suppliers. We shall have the right to revoke your right to link to the Website at any time upon notice to you.

We may terminate your use of the Website for any conduct that we consider inappropriate or in breach of these Terms and Conditions. You shall indemnify and hold us and our directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, costs and expenses arising in any way from your use of the Website.

Registration

You may need to register to use part of the Website. We may reject or require you to change your username, password or other information that you provide to us. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account details including the password and you agree to promptly notify us of any breach in this confidentiality or any unauthorised use.

Linking

We have no responsibility for the information, content, products, services or other materials which may be provided by or through any websites which are linked to from the Website.

Disclaimers

Users and visitors to the Website may post information or materials which are wrong and/or misleading or that otherwise breach these Terms and Conditions. We, our affiliates, licensors and/or suppliers do not endorse and cannot be held responsible for any information which is made available through the Website or for any use of such information by you. Subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy, any and all submissions to the Website will be deemed non-confidential and we shall be entitled to use them without attributing such to you or any third party.

Limitation of liability

The Website and all goods, information, content, products, services or other materials which may be provided as mentioned in these Terms and Conditions are provided to you without any express representations or warranties. We and our affiliates, licensors and suppliers shall not be liable for any statutory or implied representations, warranties, terms and conditions with respect to the site and all goods, services, third party applications/content, information and materials made available through the site.

We, our affiliates, licensors and/or suppliers shall not be liable for damages of any kind in connection with the Website including but not limited to any damages for loss of profits, loss of data, loss of any business opportunities or loss or information you have provided in connection with your use of the Website or any third party applications and the like thereon even if we are advised in advance of such damages or losses. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any dissatisfaction in relation to the Website is to refrain from any further use of the Website. Our maximum liability to you for any claim brought by you in relation to the Website shall be an amount the equal to such amount as you have paid to us in order to access the Website.

Modifications

We may in our sole discretion, terminate, change, suspend and/or discontinue any aspect of the Website, including, but not limited to its content, features and/or availability.  We may also restrict your access without notice.

Jurisdiction

The Website is operated from the United Kingdom and we therefore cannot and do not represent that materials on the Website are appropriate for use in other territories.  Anyone wishing to access the Website outside of the United Kingdom does so at their own risk and is responsible for their own conduct with regard to the Website.
The laws of England shall govern this agreement and the courts of England shall have sole jurisdiction over any disputes hereunder.

Any failure by us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.  If any provision of the Terms and Conditions is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid the other provisions of the Terms and Conditions remain in full force and effect.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is applicable to our website (http://secretcompany.co.uk) (“Website”) and by using the Website you agree to this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy).

Please note that communications to you via SMS and other non-email systems may not include an option to unsubscribe from such communications. Please contact us in the event you wish to cease receiving such communications.

Types of information we collect from you

All such information collected below may be used by us for data analysis, audits, developing new products, improving our services, indentifying trends and determining the effectiveness of any competitions, promotions and/or surveys.

  • Newsletters and any other communications from us

Our customers (and registered users if applicable) which shall include but not be limited to users of the website and/or any completion entrants, may receive newsletters, emails, or other communications though other channels for e.g. promoting and marketing the Website or related product(s) and/or website(s), business partners and we may also invite other visitors to the Website and offer them the opportunity to sign up to receive such information. We may sometimes, for the purposes of a particular newsletter or series of newsletters ask for certain contact information such as but not limited to name, email address, telephone number and demographic (e.g. country, gender etc). We may offer you the choice to receive communications from other websites, products, programs, services and promotions which we think will be of interest to you. Any recipients of emails from us will be able to unsubscribe by following the instructions that may appear at the end of email communications and/or on the Website. In order to keep you and other users informed about our services we may send you emails and/or announcements that are needed for the proper functioning and administration of the Website and services ancillary thereto.

  • Registration

You may be able to register to the Website or certain areas of it. We may use registration forms which request your contact information such as your name, email address and telephone number. You may be assigned or assign to yourself a username and/or password. We will use such information internally and to better communicate with you and/or to provide a more personalized experience to our Website.

  • Communications

The Website may include features where you can send communications to us and/or others on the Website and/or your friends. We may retain any such information contained in these communications and any other information you submit to us for our internal purposes.

  • Interactive features

The Website may include interactive features such as but not limited to chat, message boards and instant messaging. Any information sent via such methods of communications may be public so you should therefore be aware that when you voluntarily disclose any personal information said information can be collected and used by others and may result in other unsolicited communications from other people and/or companies for which we cannot be held liable. You shall be solely responsible for any content you post and/or send via the interactive features.

  • Competitions

The Website may have competitions, promotions and/or surveys in which you may participate. If you enter and/or participate in such and we request any contact or personal information from you we will use such information for the purposes of conducting any such competition, promotion and/or survey. We may offer you the choice to receive communications from other websites, artists, products, programs, services and promotions which we think will be of interest to you. Any recipient of emails from us will be able to unsubscribe by following the instructions that may appear at the end of email communications and/or on the Website. We may share so-called aggregate information with other companies and/or affiliates. We may also partner up with sponsors in offering any competitions, promotions or surveys and share information with them.

Data collection and cookies

The Website has features which automatically collect information from you to better serve you with more tailored information and to facilitate your ongoing use of our Website. Such information may include your IP address, computer type, screen resolution, operating system, internet browser, pixel tags, web beacons, other technologies and demographic. The Website will also use cookies, which are small files containing information about you which are stored on your hard drive.

Some cookies are used to make login to the Website easier such as remembering usernames and passwords. Information obtained with cookies may be associated with your personal information so we can amongst other things market to you specific advertisements, competitions, promotions and/or surveys which we think will be of interest to you. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to reject the use of cookies. You can also delete cookies that are currently stored on your computer’s hard drive. If you disable cookies some features on the Website may not run as normal.

Who we may share your information with

We may share your information with third parties who provide services to us so that they can provide services such as data analysis, IT services, customer services, and other similar activities and in some cases we do not have knowledge of or are able to control their privacy practices.

We may merge with another company, sell, assign, transfer or dispose of all or any part of our business, assets or stock. Such other parties, including any parent company of ours, shall be able to use your personal information.

We will comply with the law, respond to request from government departments and/or public authorities of any country in which we operate, to enforce our terms and conditions, to protect our operations or those of our affiliates, to protect your, our or our affiliates rights, privacy, safety and/or property and to enable us to pursue any available remedies or limit the damages we may incur.

Security

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect your personal information under our control.  Security measures and tools, such as firewalls, are in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.  Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be 100% secure.  Please do not send us sensitive information.

Opt-Out.

If you change your mind, and no longer wish to receive marketing e-mails (if any) from us and our affiliates, or if you would prefer that we do not share your personal information with our affiliates, you may opt-out of receiving such marketing e-mails and from such sharing by contacting us. Please make it clear in your email that you wish to opt-out.  We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  If you do opt-out, we will not be able to remove your personal information from the databases of our affiliates with which we have already shared such.  If you wish to stop receiving marketing e-mails from affiliates please contact these affiliates directly and use any opt-out mechanisms set forth in their respective privacy policies or marketing e-mails.

Note Regarding the Use of the Website by Children

The Website is not directed to individuals under the age of 13 and we request that these individuals do not provide personal information through the Website.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.  Any updates are effective from when such updates are added to the Website.  Please review the Privacy Policy from time to time to see what updates have been made and how these may affect you. If you use the Website after it has been updated you are deemed to have accepted any such updates to this Privacy Policy.