These terms and conditions (as amended from time to time) govern your use of all our Services. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, please do not use the Services.
If you wish to make a formal complaint about any of the editorial content of either the web or print issue of this magazine based on the Editors’ Code of Practice, please fill out the Editorial Complaints Form located in our Complaints Policy.
Please review the following terms and conditions carefully before using this Service. You should also read our Privacy Policy which can be found here or via the links on the Service.
1. Introduction
1.1 This Service is trademarked as Life.London and is owned and operated by Creatives Without Borders Limited, a company registered in the UK (England and Wales) with its registered office in London.
1.2 Where we use the term “Service” we mean any website, mobile site, app, application and/or other service, regardless of how distributed, transmitted, published, or broadcast and any related pages and Content, under our control.
1.3 Where we refer to “Content” we mean all content, information and material, including text, links, posts, messages, emails, music, sound, graphics, pictures, video, software, technology, games and all audio visual or other material available on or through the Service, whether posted, uploaded, transmitted, sent or otherwise made available by us, our licensors, vendors, and/or service providers, or by you, and/or other users or third parties.
1.4 Where we refer to “Life.London”, “we”, “us” and “our” we mean Life.London trademark and its owning company Creatives Without Borders Limited, its group company and assigns and each of our and their respective officers, directors, members, employees, sub-contractors, agents, and representatives.
1.5 Where we refer to “you” and “your” this means or relates to you the user.
1.6 You understand and agree that we may add to or change these terms and conditions at any time. New terms and conditions are effective immediately upon posting to the Service. Your continued use of the Service shall constitute on-going acceptance of these terms and conditions, as updated from time-to-time. We therefore recommend that you check this page regularly.
2. Age Limit
2.1 We strongly recommend that if you are 16 years of age or older but not yet 18, you ask your parents for permission before sending any information about yourself to anyone over the internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices. Parents can find out more here.
3. Third party links, service providers and linking to the Service
3.1 To provide increased value and convenience to our users, we may provide links to other websites or resources for you to access at your sole discretion and risk. The Service may include links or resources to services supplied by or operated by third parties including advertisers and other content providers. We do not control such linked services, and are not responsible for their content, functionality or legality. Those third parties may collect data or solicit personal information from you; we are not responsible for the collection, use or disclosure of any information those services may collect. Linking to any other service or website from this Service is at your own risk.
You acknowledge and agree that, as you have chosen to enter the linked website we are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and do not review or endorse and are not responsible or liable in any way, whether directly or indirectly, for: The privacy practices of such websites. The content of such websites, including (without limitation) any advertising, content, products, goods or other materials or services on or available from such websites or resources. The use which others make of these websites. Any damage, loss or offence caused or alleged to be caused to you, arising from or in connection with the use of or reliance upon any such advertising, content, products, goods, materials or services available on and/or purchased by you from such external websites or resources.
3.2 The Service may also include certain features, functionality, and/or content that may be hosted, administered, supplied by or operated by third party service providers, such as social, community and public discussion areas, photo and video galleries, blogs, auctions, shopping, payment processing. These service providers may require that you agree to their additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements and/or rules. Your compliance with any such additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements and/or rules is solely your responsibility and will have no effect on your continuing obligation to comply with these terms and conditions. Life.London specifically disclaims any and all liability in connection with the acts or omissions of such third party service providers.
3.3 Any service that links to or otherwise interacts with this Service must not
3.4 We expressly reserves the right to require that any link or activity which is in breach of these terms and conditions be removed and/or ceased, and to take whatever other action we deem appropriate.
4. Use of the Service by You
4.1 You may retrieve and display Content from this Service on a computer screen or other device, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorised use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of any Content. You agree to use the Service only for your own personal non-commercial use and lawful purposes and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.
4.2 Notwithstanding anything else in these terms and conditions, you agree not to use the Services:
4.2.1 in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
4.2.2 in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
4.2.3 for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
4.2.4 to send, knowingly receive, upload, submit download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our Acceptable Content Policy below;
4.2.5 to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
4.2.6 to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware; or
4.2.7 to copy, harvest, crawl, index, scrape, spider, mine, gather, extract, compile, obtain, aggregate, capture, or store any Content, including without limitation photos, images, text, music, audio, videos, podcasts, data, software, source or object code, algorithms, statistics, analysis, formulas, indexes, registries, repositories, or any other information available on or through the Service, including by an automated or manual process or otherwise
4.3 Other than connecting to our servers by HTTP requests using a web browser, you may not attempt to gain access to our servers by any means, including, without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Service or otherwise.
4.4 You agree not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Service or its associated software, hardware and servers in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere with others’ use of the Service.
4.5 To the extent the Service includes an download of software such as an app, you agree not to (and not to attempt to or encourage others to): (i) use the software or app for any use or purpose other than as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions; or (ii) copy, adapt, modify, reverse engineer, decompile disassemble, otherwise tamper with, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit the software or app or any portion of the software or app, except as expressly permitted in these terms and conditions.
5. Content by You or other users
“UGC” means any Content that you or other users upload, submit or make available to the Service, including you acknowledge that any review, feedback, or rating which you leave may be published by us on our Website.
5.1 You understand that your communications on the Service such as comments and participation in surveys and polls are not private or confidential and may be viewed by others accessing the Service.
5.2 You agree that any UGC may be displayed for as long as we consider appropriate and that the content may be syndicated to our other websites, publications or marketing materials.
5.3 Our Privacy Policy also applies to UGC.
5.4 We do not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted as UGC. Any information or material placed online by other users of the Service, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not represent our view. You agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we have no responsibility or liability to you for UGC including for any failure to or delay in removing UGC. If you have a complaint about any UGC, see the Complaints section below.
5.5 We reserve the right to, but undertake no duty to, review, publish, edit, move, remove, or delete any UGC in our sole discretion and without notice.
5.6 Your UGC should:
- Comply with applicable law in the UK and the law in any country from which they are posted
- Be factually accurate Contain genuinely held opinions (where applicable)
5.7 You are solely responsible for your UGC and may be held liable for UGC that you post. In this regard, you agree that you will comply with the following Acceptable Content Policy and not submit UGC that:
- Is or contains any material that is either hateful, abusive, racist, discriminatory, offensive, sexually offensive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, threatening to another user, promotes violence, inflammatory or is likely to harass, upset, annoy, alarm, embarrass or invade the privacy of, any person or be deceiving, is infringing of third-party rights such as copyright (including design rights), trademark, trade secret, database right, or other intellectual property rights of any other person or breach any legal duty you owe to a third-party, any other personal or proprietary rights, or confidentiality), invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, disruptive to the flow of chat or in our reasonable view, otherwise objectionable.
- impersonates another person (including celebrities), misrepresent your identity, or indicates falsely that you are an employee or a representative of Life.London or Creatives Without Borders Limited, or its companies or business partners.
- promotes any form of illegal activity including (by way of example) hacking, drug taking, terrorism, cracking or distribution of counterfeit software.
- contains advertising, promotions or commercial solicitations of any kind or could constitute junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other commercial activities.
- imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service’s infrastructure, or otherwise adversely affects, restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the Service;
- contains any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or other similar harmful programming routine.
5.8 When you submit UGC, you:
- Grant us a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual (i.e. lasting forever), worldwide, irrevocable licence to use, edit, and exploit it in any manner or form and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without notice, payment or attribution of any kind to you or any third party and you waive, and agree not to assert any moral or similar rights you may have in your UGC.
- You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless against any claim or action brought by third parties, arising out of or in connection with any review, feedback or rating posted by you on the Website, including, without limitation, the violation of their privacy, defamatory statements or infringement of intellectual property rights.
6. Competitions and Prizes
6.1 From time to time we may run competitions, free prize draws and promotions on the Service. These are subject to the Competition Terms & Conditions and/or separate terms and conditions that will be made available in each instance.
7. Additional Rules
7.1 We reserve the right to post, from time to time, additional terms and conditions that apply to specific parts of the Service. Such additional terms and conditions will be posted in the relevant parts of the Service and will be clearly identified. Your use of those parts of the Service constitutes your agreement to those additional terms and conditions.
8. Intellectual Property Rights
8.1 All Content and other material on the Service is owned by us or our third-party licensors (and is protected by international copyright, trade dress, design, patent, and trademark laws, international conventions, and other laws protecting intellectual property and related proprietary rights). All such rights are reserved to us and our licensors.
8.2 You acknowledge that Life.London and any other brands or logos that belong to us within the Service are Creatives Without Borders Limited trademarks and that you may not use them without written permission from us.
8.3 You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, patent, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices appearing on the Service. You may not sell, license, distribute, copy, modify, publicly perform or display, transmit, publish, edit, adapt, create derivative works from.
8.4 Making unauthorised copies of Content found on this Service may result in the prohibition of your use of the Service and further legal action.
9. Complaints
9.1 We respect the intellectual property and other rights of others, and we ask our users to do the same. We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, terminate the access of users who infringe the rights of others.
9.2 Copyright: If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that the Service contains links or other references to another online location that contains material or activity that infringes your copyright, please contact us.
9.3 Defamation: If you believe that another user has defamed you on the site through their UGC, please follow this link to inform us. You will need to give use certain information to allow us to investigate properly.
10. Indemnification
10.1 You agree to indemnify Life.London and Creatives Without Borders Limited and its licensors, vendors, suppliers, service providers, and their respective officers, directors, members, employees, sub-contractors, agents, and representatives, and to hold them harmless from any and all claims, actions, suits and liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including legal fees) that may arise from your UGC, from your unauthorised use of our Content, or from your breach of these terms and conditions.
11. Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability
11.1 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you expressly agree that your use of the Service is at your own risk. The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis for your use, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, we and our licensors, vendors, suppliers, service providers, and their respective officers, directors, members, employees, sub-contractors, agents, and representatives hereby expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, title, merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, condition, guarantee or representation, whether oral, in writing or in electronic form, including but not limited to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained therein or provided by the Service.
11.2 We do not represent or warrant that access to the Service will be uninterrupted or that there will be no failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information, or that no viruses will be transmitted on the Service. We do not guarantee that you will be able to access or use the Service at times or locations of your choosing, or that we will have adequate capacity for the Service as a whole or in any specific geographic area. This means, we will not be liable to you if the Service including our website is unavailable at any time.
- We will not be responsible or liable to you for any loss of content or material uploaded or transmitted through the Website and we accept no liability of any kind for any loss or damage from action taken in reliance on material or information contained on the Website.
- All drawings, images, descriptive matter and specifications on the Service including our website are for the sole purpose of giving an approximate description for your general information only and should be used only as a guide.
- Any prices and offers are only valid at the time they are published on the Website. All prices and descriptions supersede all previous publications.
- Every effort is made to keep information regarding stock availability on the Website up to date. However, we do not guarantee that this is the case, or that stock will always be available.
- We cannot guarantee and cannot be responsible for the security or privacy of the Website and any information provided by you. You must bear the risk associated with the use of the internet. In particular, we will not be liable for any damage or loss caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, any viruses trojans, worms, logic bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful that may infect your computer, peripheral computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material as a result of your use of the Website or you downloading any material posted or sold on the Website or from any website linked to it. Also note that we reserve the right to disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary should you breach this agreement.
11.3 In no event shall we or our licensors, vendors, suppliers, service providers, and their respective officers, directors, members, employees, sub-contractors, agents, and representatives, be liable for direct, indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service, the internet or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the Service, including for viruses alleged to have been obtained from the Service, your use of or reliance on the Service or any of the information or materials available on the Service, regardless of the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such jurisdictions, liability shall be limited to the full extent permitted by law. We do not endorse, warrant or guarantee any third party product or service offered through the Service and will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services
12. Termination
12.1 We have the right to terminate your use of or ability to access the Service, for any reason, without notice.
13. Privacy Policy
13.1 The information that you provide about yourself to us or otherwise collected by us about you will only be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy
14. General
14.1 We reserve the right to change the domain address of this Website and any services, products, product prices, product specifications and availability at any time.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of the other provisions in these terms and conditions and the remainder of the provision in question will not be affected. If you need any help or have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]
15. Governing Law And Jurisdiction
The Website is controlled and operated in the United Kingdom. These terms and conditions will be governed by the laws of England and Wales and you irrevocably agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
