Website Terms of Use
https://www.compassmedia.ky (the “Website”) is owned and operated by Compass Media Ltd. In these Terms of Use, references to “we”, “us” or “our” means Compass Media Ltd. References to “you” and “your” are to users of our Website.
Acceptance of Terms
Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use our Website. By using our Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree, please do not use our Website.
Our Website may contain links to other websites at different web addresses which are owned and operated by third parties that are not part of Compass Media Ltd. These Terms of Use do not cover these websites. If you access these websites using the links provided, the operators of those websites may collect and use personal information from you in accordance with their privacy policies, which will differ from ours.
These Terms of Use must be read together with any other legal notices or terms and conditions available on other pages of our Website including our Privacy Policy.
Limitation of Liability
Except as otherwise required by applicable law, we do not accept any responsibility and shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
- use of or reliance on any information, opinions, content and/or material held on this Website or made available in connection with this Website; or
- interruption or delay in access, use of, or inability to use or access, this Website,
including but not limited to: loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; loss of data; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; wasted management time; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
Except as otherwise required by applicable law, we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused to your information technology, devices, computer programmes, platform, data or other proprietary material arising in connection with your use of this Website.
Though Compass Media endeavours to ensure the information on the Compass Media Sites or in any publication is correct at the time of publication, any and all liability which may arise from the access or use of the Compass Media Sites or reliance on any Compass Media Content is excluded. To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the Compass Media Content. Nothing in the Compass Media Content is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person. Compass Media Content is provided on an “as is”, “as available” basis and Compass Media does not give or make any warranty or representation whatsoever, whether express or implied.
The use of Compass Media Sites is at the User’s sole risk and Compass Media shall have no liability for any investigations, claims, fines, losses, damages, costs (including attorney’s fees) expenses and liabilities (“Losses”) whatsoever and howsoever arising as a result of any User’s use of or reliance upon the Compass Media Content, to the maximum extent permitted by law. For the avoidance of doubt, we will not be liable for any Losses caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the Compass Media Content or any part of it.
Compass Media does not represent or warrant that the Compass Media Compass Media Sites will be available and meet any User’s requirements, that access will be uninterrupted, that there will be no delays, failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information, that no viruses or other destructive properties will be transmitted or that no damage will occur to the User’s computer system. The User has sole responsibility for protection and back up of data and equipment and for undertaking reasonable precautions to scan for computer viruses or other destructive properties.
In some instances, content made available on the Compass Media Site may represent the opinions and judgments of providers or users, such as user content (“User Content”). Compass Media does not endorse nor shall it be responsible or liable for the accuracy or reliability of any statement made on the Compass Media Site by anyone other than authorised Compass Media employees acting in such capacity. Users should refer to the Community Guidelines for more information.
This disclaimer of liability applies to any Losses caused by the Compass Media Site, including, without limitation, those Losses occurring as a result of: (i) any error, omission, deletion, or defect in any content available on the Compass Media Site (including user comments, Third Party Content and Compass Media Content); or (ii) any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction of records, information or data, unauthorised access to, alteration of, or use of records, information or data, whether for breach of contract, tort, negligence, defamation, or any other cause of action, (whether or not Compass Media was aware of or advised of the possibility of such loss, damage or injury). Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.
For the avoidance of doubt, if you are dissatisfied with any of the Compass Media Content, the Terms or your experience in accessing or using the Compass Media Sites, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue access and use of the Compass Media Sites.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Compass Media, its employees and agents, from and against all Losses resulting from any violation of the Terms or your use of Compass Media Sites. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defence of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this paragraph. In such event, you shall provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us.
Username and Password
If you are provided with a username, password or any other piece of information in relation to your use of this Website, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any username and/or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time or otherwise in our complete discretion.
Registration
You may access those areas of the website that require registration by becoming a registered member. If you register you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your passwords and for all activities that occur under your account. If you no longer wish to have a registered account, you may terminate it by sending an email to at [email protected].
If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these Terms of Use, we may, at our sole discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of the website immediately and without prior notice. We may terminate your registered account, at our sole discretion.
Continued use of the website indicates your continued acceptance of the Terms of Use. If you no longer accept the Terms of Use (or any future amendment) you must cease using the website.
Community interaction
If you correspond or interact with other users or our staff, for example by using online polls or making online comments we may display this content indefinitely in any relevant context, subject to our editorial judgement and your rights as set out in the Privacy Policy and in the Compass Media Community Guidelines.
Your use of our website
You must not use our Website:
- in any way that breaches any law, rule, decision, judgment or regulation, or that has any unlawful or immoral purpose or effect;
- to transmit, or procure the sending of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional material or similar communications;
- to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, publish, post, distribute, disseminate, transmit, use or re-use any material or information which is inaccurate, illegal, defamatory, libellous, obscene, offensive, abusive, hurtful, hateful, threatening, inflammatory, harmful, infringing, pornographic, discriminatory, indecent, unsolicited, unauthorised, unlawful, objectionable or which may expose you or us to legal action or reputational damage; or
- to threaten, harass, stalk, abuse, disrupt others, or otherwise violate the rights of others.
You also agree not to:
- reproduce, duplicate, copy or sell any part of our Website, and its content, except as permitted by these Terms of Use;
- advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of this Website or to benefit commercially from its content; or
- access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt, any part of our Website; any equipment or network on which our Website is stored; any software used in the provision of our Website; or any equipment, network or software owned or used by any third party.
If you use a feature of this Website that allows you to upload or post material, or to make contact with other users of this Website, you must ensure that all such contributions are compliant with applicable law and that they do not breach any intellectual property, privacy or confidentiality rights of a third party, or any legal or contractual duty owed to a third party.
We have the right to remove any post you make on our Website if, in our opinion, that post does not comply with these Terms of Use or otherwise within our complete discretion.
The views expressed by other users on our Website do not represent our views or values.
Any material that you upload to our Website will be considered non-proprietary.
We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any material posted by you or any other user of this Website.
When you are asked to provide information in connection with our Website, you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete details. It may not be possible to provide you with the relevant services or information you require if you do not provide the minimum mandatory information requested.
Viruses and defects
We have taken appropriate steps to detect computer viruses but we cannot guarantee that our Website is free from malfunctions, defects, bugs and viruses; or that the Website will operate correctly and as expected, at any given time. We shall not be liable for any loss or damage which occurs as a result of any virus, including without limitation any distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other materials.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, devices, computer programmes and platform in order to access our Website and for protecting these with your own anti-virus software, firewalls and any other technical measures. We give no warranties as to the compatibility of our Website with your information technology, computer programmes and platform.
You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, and/or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware, or which is otherwise malicious or technologically harmful.
Intellectual property rights
We are the owner of all intellectual property rights in this Website, material published on it and material made available through it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and other intellectual property rights. All such rights are reserved.
Subject to the limited exceptions set out below, neither this Website nor any part of it may be copied, reproduced, modified, publicly displayed, republished, distributed, extracted or reutilised in any form, without the prior written permission of us. Requests for permission should be sent to us via our Contact Us page.
You may make copies, print or download material published on this Website or made available through it for your own personal use, provided that you name the author and specify the source where the copy was taken from and you do not modify the paper or digital copies of any material you have copied, printed or downloaded in any way.
You must not use any part of the material held on our Website or made available through it for commercial or business purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.
If you print, copy or download any part of the material held on this Website or made available through it in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use this Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
If you wish to use our content other than as permitted by the Terms, please contact us at [email protected]. Submission of any material to a Compass Media Site automatically grants Compass Media a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, copy, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, transmit, publicly perform or display any such material and to sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted with respect to the material. The foregoing grant shall include the right to exploit any proprietary right in such material, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, or patent laws in any relevant jurisdiction or country.
Children’s Use of Compass Media Sites
Compass Media is committed to the protection of children’s privacy and you can read more about privacy generally here. Children under 13 are not permitted to register for any activities on the Compass Media Sites. Compass Media encourages parents to monitor their children’s online usage and to prohibit them from disclosing any personally identifying information online. Users agree that they will not allow a child under the age of 13 to disclose any personal information using their accounts.
Privacy and cookies
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal information and our Cookies Policy provides information about the cookies that we use.
Website linking
Links to this Website are not permitted without our prior and express written consent, which can be requested via [email protected].
Termination of access rights
Compass Media Ltd. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or part of this Website with or without notice.
Changes to this Website
We may update this Website from time to time, change the content at any time and we may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of this Website without notice. As such, there may be times when this Website is unavailable for use.
Changes of these Terms of Use
We may change our Terms of Use from time to time. When we change our Terms of Use, we will publish the updated terms on our Website. Please check these Terms of Use regularly. Subject to applicable law, all changes will take effect as soon as we publish the updated Terms of Use, but where legally required to do so, we may take additional steps to inform you of any material changes to our Terms of Use and may request that you agree to these changes.
Should one or more provisions of these Terms of Use be or become invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, this shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use. In place of any provisions which are invalid or not incorporated in these Terms of Use the relevant statutory provisions shall apply. In all other cases, the parties shall agree a valid provision to replace the invalid or unenforceable provision which reflects as closely as possible the original purpose.
Waiver
Our rights under these Terms of Use may only be waived in writing.
Governing law
These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the Cayman Islands and you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Cayman Islands. To the extent the law permits, these Terms of Use prevail to the extent they are inconsistent with any law.
Contact us
If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, or if you would like to receive a hard-copy version of these Terms of Use, you can contact us at [email protected].