Terms & Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONSCAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

What's in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our websitehttps://www.aptitudeglobal.com (our site).

Who we are and how to contact us

https://www.aptitudeglobal.com is a site operated by Aptitude Advisors Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 08948842 and have our registered office at Upper Willsley House, Angle y Road, Cranbrook, TN17 2LF. Our VAT number is 186680662.

We are a limited company.

To contact us, please email info@aptitudeglobal.com or telephone our customer service line on +44 20 3637 1970.

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

Our Privacy Policy. See further under How we may use your personal information.
Our Cookies Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 25 March2021.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time [toreflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our businesspriorities.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, willalways be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrictthe availability of all or any part of our site for business and operationalreasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension orwithdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons whoaccess our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms ofuse and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

We may transfer this agreement tosomeone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under theseterms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if thishappens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights underthe contract.

[Our site is only for users in the UK]

Our site is directed to people residing in the UnitedKingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site isappropriate for use or available in other locations.

You must keep your account detailssafe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a useridentification code, password or any other piece of information as part of oursecurity procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You mustnot disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification codeor password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in ourreasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions ofthese terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knowsyour user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us atinfo@aptitudeglobal.com.

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectualproperty rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Thoseworks are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All suchrights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, ofany page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attentionof others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of anymaterials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not useany illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphicsseparately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as theauthors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site forcommercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or ourlicensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site inbreach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediatelyand you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials youhave made.

Do not rely on information on thissite

The content on our site is provided for general informationonly. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You mustobtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, anyaction on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update theinformation on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees,whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, completeor up to date.

We are not responsible for websites welink to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resourcesprovided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websitesor information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites orresources.

User-generated content is not approvedby us

This website may include information and materials uploadedby other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. Thisinformation and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. Theviews expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views orvalues.

How to complain about content uploadedby other users

If you wish to complain about content uploaded by otherusers, please contact us at info@aptitudeglobal.com.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user:

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

use of, or inability to use, our site; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

In particular, we will not be liable for:

loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
business interruption;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. [However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.]

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy.

Uploading content to our site

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us [and other users of our site]a limited license to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in Rights you are giving us to use material you upload.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of theirright to privacy.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media [including to promote the site or the service] [to expire when the user deletes the content from the site;
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license for [other users, partners or advertisers] to use the content [for their purposes OR in accordance with the functionality of the site] [to expire when the user deletes the content from the site.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmed and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducingviruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious ortechnologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access toour site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer ordatabase connected to our site. You must not attack our site via adenial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. Bybreaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under theComputer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant lawenforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities bydisclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right touse our site will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a waythat is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage ofit.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggestany form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any websitethat is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may youcreate a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission withoutnotice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on oursite other than that set out above, please contact info@aptitudeglobal.com.

Which country's laws apply to anydisputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use,their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You andwe both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusivejurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may alsobring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, youmay also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subjectmatter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) aregoverned by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of thecourts of England and Wales.