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Terms of use

(1) Introduction

These terms of use govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our website.

If you register with our website, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms of use.

We will not file a copy of these terms of use specifically in relation to each registered user and, if we update these terms of use, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our website. For this reason, we recommend that users print and file a copy of these terms of use for future reference.

These terms of use are provided in the English language only.

(2) Licence to use website

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.

You must not, and must not purport to:

  1. republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
  2. sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  3. show any material from the website in public;
  4. reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
  5. edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
  6. redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution (such as our electronic newsletter).

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.

(3) Acceptable use

Unless you are a registered member, you must not access or attempt to access any area on the website that is restricted to registered members.

You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.

You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing except in accordance with these terms of use or otherwise with our express written consent.

(4) User content

In these terms of use, “your content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit or send to us or to our website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

Your content (and its publication on our website) must not:

  1. be libellous or maliciously false;
  2. be obscene or indecent;
  3. infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
  4. infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy, or right under data protection legislation;
  5. constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
  6. constitute an incitement to commit a crime;
  7. be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;
  8. be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
  9. be blasphemous;
  10. be in breach of official secrets legislation;
  11. be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
  12. depict violence in a explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
  13. be pornographic or sexually explicit;
  14. be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
  15. consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
  16. constitute spam;
  17. be offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, or menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
  18. cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

Your content must be appropriate, civil, tasteful and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

You must not submit any content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms of use.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website. Notwithstanding our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website.

(5) Registration and membership

Access to most of our website is restricted to registered members. We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.

You must not register as a member unless you are at least 16 years of age.

You may become a registered member by completing the registration form, accepting these terms of use, submitting our registration form, and then clicking the validation link in the email that we will send you.

Each registered user must choose a login and password to enable access the restricted areas of our website. Users must ensure that their login and password details are kept confidential.

Registered members may have access to the following features on our website:

  1. Inspire magazine;
  2. the Book of Gems;
  3. our calendar of events;
  4. our forums; and
  5. our e-card facility.

For the avoidance of doubt, submissions to the Book of Gems, submissions to the calendar of events, submissions to our forums, and the use of our e-cards facility are subject to the provisions of Sections 3 and 4.

(6) Premium members

Premium members will have access to additional benefits and/or functionality on our website (as stated on the website from time to time).

If, during the registration process, you opt to become a premium member, you will need to pay for the premium membership via PayPal. You will have the opportunity, on the PayPal website, to identify and correct input errors prior to ordering your premium membership.

The contract for the provision of premium member services will come into force when we send to you our acknowledge of payment of your premium membership charge.

The charges for premium membership will be as set out on our website from time to time. All membership charges stated on the website are stated inclusive of VAT. We may vary premium membership charges from time to time by posting new charges on our website. However, such variations will not affect periods of premium memberships that have already been paid for.

Your premium membership will be activated automatically following receipt of the charges in cleared funds in our PayPal account. Your premium membership will continue for one year, subject to early termination in accordance with these terms of use.

(7) Premium membership and consumer rights

If you become a premium member and are contracting as a consumer, you may cancel your premium membership at any time within 7 working days, beginning on the day after we send to you our acknowledge of payment of your premium membership charge, providing that we have not at the time of receipt of your notice of cancellation:

  1. begun preparing your premium membership card; and/or
  2. made available to you any other premium member services.

You hereby agree that we may (and indeed usually will) begin preparing your premium membership card and/or make available to you other premium member services during the 7 working day period specified above.

If you cancel a premium membership in accordance with this provision, you will receive a full refund of the charges paid. We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase. We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of the day we received your valid notice of cancellation. Your notice of cancellation should be sent to the address or email address at the end of these terms of use.

(8) Book of Gems

We welcome submissions to the Book of Gems, our directory of members’ businesses. Submissions should not be made in respect of any other subject matter.

You may submit a listing to the Book of Gems by clicking “add listing” in the Book of Gems, and completing the listing form.

Your submission will be individually reviewed within 48 hours following receipt.

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, we reserve the right to reject or delete listings that in our reasonable opinion breach these terms of use.

If we accept your listing then, it will remain published on our website indefinitely, subject to termination or deletion in accordance with these terms of use.

You must keep your directory listings up-to-date using our website interface.

With reference to the last paragraph of Section 3, we consent to the use of the Book of Gems on our website for the publication of advertisements.

(9) Book of Gems: premium listings

If, during the Book of Gems listing process, you opt for a premium listing, you will need to pay for the premium listing via PayPal. You will have the opportunity, on the PayPal website, to identify and correct input errors prior to ordering your premium listing.

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, we reserve the right to reject or delete premium listings that in our reasonable opinion breach these terms of use. If we reject or delete a premium listing on this basis, we will not refund any charges paid for a premium listing.

If we accept your premium listing then, it will remain published on our website for a period of one year, subject to termination or deletion in accordance with these terms of use. At the end of the period of a premium listing, it will be converted into a standard listing, and all additional images and other materials may be deleted from our servers.

The charges for premium listing will be as set out on our website from time to time. All listing charges stated on the website are stated exclusive of VAT. We may vary premium listing charges from time to time by posting new charges on our website. However, such variations will not affect periods of premium listings that have already been paid for.

Your premium listing will be activated automatically following approval of your listing and receipt of the charges in cleared funds in our PayPal account. Your premium listing will continue for one year, subject to early termination in accordance with these terms of use.

(10) Other website facilities

Registered users may submit events to us for publication on our calendar of events. We do not undertake to publish submissions in the calendar of events, although we will usually publish appropriate submissions within a few days following receipt. We may refuse to publish submissions for any reason, with or without giving notice of the refusal and/or reason.

Registered users may read and participate in our forums. You must ensure that all forum threads are posted in the appropriate forum or forum section. You may use the business introductions forum to post basic information about your business on not more than one occasion. Subject to this the last paragraph of Section 3 applies.

Registered users may send e-cards to contacts using our website e-card facility. Recipients of e-cards will be invited to register with our website.

(11) Limited warranties

We warrant to paying users that the paid-for services will be provided with reasonable care and skill, and that we will use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of the website (subject to scheduled maintenance) during the term of those paid-for services.

You acknowledge that some of the information published on this website is submitted by users, and that we do not usually review, approve or edit such information. We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

(12) Limitations of liability

Nothing in these terms of use (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms of use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:

  1. to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;
  2. we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;
  3. we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information;
  4. we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees. Having regard to that interest, you accept that we are a limited liability entity and agree that you will not bring any claim personally against individual officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms of use. This will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the company itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees.

You agreed to the publication of comments relating to you, by others, on our website. You acknowledge that such comments may be critical or defamatory; and you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such comments, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such comments.

(13) Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use.

(14) Breaches of these terms of use

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms of use in any way, we may:

  1. send you one or more formal warnings;
  2. temporarily suspend your access to the website;
  3. permanently prohibit you from accessing the website;
  4. block computers using your IP address from accessing the website;
  5. contact your internet services provider and request that they block your access to the website;
  6. bring court proceedings against you for breach of contract or otherwise;
  7. suspend and/or delete your account with the website; and/or
  8. delete and/or edit any or all of your content.

Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

In addition to our rights and remedies above, if a premium member or premium advertiser breaches these terms of use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that a premium member or premium advertiser has breached these terms of use in any way, we may cancel the person’s access to the relevant premium features on the website.

Where we cancel a person’s access to the premium features on the website for this reason, or take any other action against a premium member or premium advertiser under this Section, we will not provide any refund of charges paid.

(15) Third party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These links are not recommendations. We have no control over the contents of third party websites, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

(16) Trade marks

BE FABULOUS and our logo are trade marks belonging to us. We give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

The other registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners. Unless stated otherwise, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.

(17) Variation

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(18) Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent – providing that, where you are a consumer, we will not transfer our rights and/or obligations in any way which may serve to reduce the guarantees benefiting you under these terms of use.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

(19) Severability

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

(20) Exclusion of third party rights

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

(21) Entire agreement

These terms of use constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

(22) Law and jurisdiction

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

(23) Our details

The full name of our company is Be Fabulous Online Limited.

We are registered in England & Wales under registration number 06715146.

Our registered address is at Be Fabulous Online Limited, 31 Sedgmoor Road, Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire HP10 9AW.

You can contact us by email to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Our VAT number is 943 0946 16.

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