Terms of Use

Information about us

https://www.kootoo.com is a site operated by Kootoo Digital Ltd (We). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 11776687 and our registered and trading address is Kootoo Digital Ltd, Unit 4 Arrowe Commercial Park, Arrowe Park Road, Upton, Wirral, CH49 1AB, United Kingdom.

Your privacy and personal information

Your privacy and personal information are important to us. We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy . Any personal information that you provide to us will be dealt with in line with our Privacy Policy, which explains what personal information we collect from you, how and why we collect, store, use and share such information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact ourselves and/or the supervisory authorities in the event you have a query or complaint about the use of your personal information.

Accessing our site

Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if, for any reason, our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Site, or our entire Site, to users who have registered with us.

If you choose, or you are provided with, an ID code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party. You agree that you are solely responsible for keeping your password and other account details confidential.

We may prevent or suspend your access to the Site if you do not comply with any part of these Terms, any terms or policies to which they refer or any applicable law.

When using our Site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms, and that they comply with them.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by intellectual property rights which include rights such as copyright, trade marks, domain names, design rights, database rights, patents and all other intellectual property rights of any kind whether or not they are registered or unregistered (anywhere in the world). All such rights are reserved.

Nothing in these Terms grants you any legal rights in the Site other than as necessary to enable you to access the Site.

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

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our Site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Reliance upon and accuracy of information posted

While we try to make sure that the Site is accurate, up-to-date and free from bugs, we cannot promise that it will be. Furthermore, we cannot promise that the Site will be fit or suitable for any purpose.

Content is provided for your general information purposes only and to inform you about us and our products and news, features, services and other websites that may be of interest. It does not constitute technical, financial or legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied upon for any purposes.

While we try to make sure that the Site is available for your use, we do not promise that the Site is available at all times nor do we promise the uninterrupted use by you of the Site as we aim to update our Site regularly.

Limitation on our liability

The material displayed on our Site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, both we and third parties connected to us, hereby expressly exclude:

• all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity;
• any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for any business losses, any losses that were not caused by any breach on our part, any loss of goodwill, or losses that were not foreseeable to you and us when these Terms were formed.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Events beyond our control

We shall have no liability to you for any breach of these Terms caused by any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control including, but not limited to, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes; breakdown of systems or network access; pandemics, epidemics; or flood, fire, explosion or accident.

Uploading material to our site

From time to time we may add features to our site which allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site.

Whenever you make use of these features you must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy . You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our Site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

Viruses, hacking and other services

You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our Site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of material on our Site other than that set out above, please address your request to hello@kootoo.co.uk.

Links from our site

Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Disputes

We will try to resolve any disputes with you quickly and efficiently. If you are unhappy with us, please contact us as soon as possible at hello@kootoo.co.uk.

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Site.

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

Variations

We reserve the right to revise these Terms from time to time. Our updated Terms will be displayed on the Site and by continuing to use and access the Site following such changes, you agree to be bound by any variation made by us. It is your responsibility to check these Terms from time to time to verify such variations.

Quotation requests and pitches

We aim to respond to most proposals within 24 hours, all are replied to within 7 days.

The information you submit (name, email address, phone number, project outline, budget, timescale etc.) via forms on the Site, or pitched via email to hello@kootoo.co.uk, will be stored securely.

Clients should be aware that their data (including but not limited to: names, phone numbers, email addresses) needs to be held for the duration of our contractual relationship and in accordance with our Privacy Policy to allow for ongoing communication, without which maintenance and continued support would not be possible.
All submitted data will be stored securely, in the unlikely occurrence of a data breach – clients will be informed as soon as practicably possible.

Potential, previous and present clients can email hello@kootoo.co.uk to find out what information is held on them, or to ask for it to be removed.