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General
By using this site, you signify your Assent and Agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not use the site. The UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it’s creators, owners, subsidiaries, business partners, employees, associates and all other relevant personnel, are herein referred to as UKCTE. All users must be at least 18 years of age or older due to child privacy regulations. All information that you supply must be correct and complete. Transgression of these terms may lead to termination of access to the website, its resources, all rights to material accessed from the site at any time, without notice and without the right to appeal. You agree that all access and use of material accessed from this website is used at your own risk, and indemnify UKCTE against all breaches of the Terms of Use by you. In addition, you agree that UKCTE will have no liability whatsoever in relation to such breaches.

Submitting Content
You agree that any content that a user may submit to this website will thereafter transfer to the ownership of UKCTE, including worldwide, non-exclusive rights and license to use, copyright, modify, distribute, disassemble and otherwise use at its sole discretion. It is a condition of submission, therefore, that copyright to such material belongs to the submissee. You will not submit information which would be illegal in your own jurisdiction or that of the UK, including proprietary material the rights to which belong to a third party, anything racist, offensive, libellous, defamous, inciteful of any illegal act, anything which contravenes the privacy of others and which is in any way misrepresentative or untruthful. UKCTE can at its discretion remove or refuse submission of any material it deems inappropriate.

Restrictions on Use of Materials
Materials in this website are Copyrighted and all rights are reserved. Text, graphics, databases, HTML or any other web-design code, and other intellectual property are protected by UK and International Copyright Laws, and may not be copied, reprinted, published, reengineered, translated, hosted, or otherwise distributed by any means without explicit permission. All of the trademarks on this site are trademarks of UKCTE or of other owners used with their permission.

Database Ownership, License, and Use
UKCTE warrants, and you accept, that UKCTE is the owner of the copyright of the databases of links to articles and resources available from time to time through UKCTE. UKCTE and its contributors reserve all rights and no intellectual property rights are conferred by this agreement.

UKCTE grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use database(s) accessible to you subject to these Terms and Conditions. The database(s) may be used only for viewing information or for extracting information to the extent described below.

You agree to use information obtained from marketing UKCTE’s databases only for your own private use or the internal purposes of your home or business, provided that is not the selling or brokering of information, and in no event cause or permit to be published, printed, downloaded, transmitted, distributed, reengineered, or reproduced in any form any part of the databases (whether directly or in condensed, selective or tabulated form) whether for resale, republishing, redistribution, viewing, or otherwise.

Nevertheless, you may on an occasional limited basis download or print out individual pages of information that have been individually selected, to meet a specific, identifiable need for information which is for your personal use only, or is for use in your business only internally, on a confidential basis. You may make such limited number of duplicates of any output, both in machine-readable or hard copy form, as may be reasonable for these purposes only. Nothing herein shall authorise you to create any database, directory or hard copy publication of or from the databases, whether for internal or external distribution or use.

Liability
The materials in this site are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind either express or implied. UKCTE disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. UKCTE does not warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. UKCTE does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials in this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not UKCTE) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to negligence, shall UKCTE be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this site, even if UKCTE or a UKCTE-authorised representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall UKCTE’s total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort, including but not limited to, negligence or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

Facts and information at this website are believed to be accurate at the time they were placed on the website. Changes may be made at any time without prior notice. All data provided on this website is to be used for information purposes only. The information contained on this website and pages within, is not intended to provide specific legal, financial or tax advice, or any other advice, whatsoever, for any individual or company and should not be relied upon in that regard. The services described on this website are only offered in jurisdictions where they may be legally offered. Information provided in our website is not all-inclusive, and is limited to information that is made available to UKCTE and such information should not be relied upon as all-inclusive or accurate.

Links and Marks
The owner of this site is not necessarily affiliated with sites that may be linked to this site and is not responsible for their content. The linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. Links to other websites or references to products, services or publications other than those of UKCTE and affiliates at this website, do not imply the endorsement or approval of such websites, products, services or publications by or its affiliates.

Certain names, graphics, logos, icons, designs, words, titles or phrases at this website may constitute trade names, trademarks or service marks of UKCTE or of other entities. The display of trademarks on this website does not imply that a license of any kind has been granted. Any unauthorised downloading, re-transmission, or other copying of modification of trademarks and/or the contents herein may be a violation of UK and/or federal common law, trademark and/or copyright laws and could subject the copier to legal action.

Confidentiality of Codes, Passwords and Information
You agree to treat as strictly private and confidential any Subscriber Code, username, user ID, or password which you may have received from UKCTE, and all information to which you have access through password-protected areas of UKCTE’s websites and will not cause or permit any such information to be communicated, copied or otherwise divulged to any other person whatsoever.

Other Legal Matters
These Terms of Use will apply to every access to UKCTE, who reserve the right to issue revisions to these Terms of Use by publishing a revised version of this document on this site: that version will then apply to all use by you following the date of publication. Each access of information from UKCTE will be a separate, discrete transaction based on the then prevailing terms.

This Terms of Use and the license granted may not be assigned or sublet by You without UKCTE’s written consent in advance.

These Terms of Use shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom (UK), as it is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within such jurisdiction.

To the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate UKCTE and/or its affiliates’ intellectual property rights, UKCTE and/or its affiliates may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any court in the UK, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

Any other disputes will be resolved as follows: If a dispute arises under this agreement, we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the UK. Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us.

If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration within the UK, under the rules of ACAS. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction so to do.

If any provision of this agreement is void or unenforceable in whole or in part, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not however be affected.

Termination
These Terms of Use agreement are effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from any and all UKCTE website(s) and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise. This agreement will terminate immediately without notice at UKCTE’s sole discretion, should you fail to comply with any term or provision of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this site and any and all other UKCTE website(s) and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise.