Terms and Conditions

Updated: April 2022

INTRODUCTION

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of all sites and services owned by Inovar Communications Ltd, including Metal Additive Manufacturing

1.2 By using our sites and services, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you should not use our sites or services

1.3 If you register to our mailing list, submit any material to our sites or use any of our services, you agree to these terms and conditions

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

2.1 Copyright (c) Inovar Communications Ltd

2.2 The copyright to all contents of this site is held either by Inovar or by the individual authors, and none of the material may be used elsewhere without written permission. For reprint enquiries, please contact us on [email protected].

LICENCE TO USE SITES AND SERVICES

3.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our sites in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our sites for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from our sites;

(d) download digital copies of our magazines for your own personal use;

(e) print paper copies of our magazines for your own personal use;

(f) stream video files from our sites; and

(g) use our sites and services by means of a web browser or smart device

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our sites.

3.3 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish or repost material from our sites (including republication or reposting on another site or in another print publication);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our sites;

(c) exploit material from our sites for a commercial purpose; or

(d) redistribute material from our sites.

3.4 You may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person, and share excerpts on social media platforms.

3.5 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our sites or services at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our sites or services.

3.6 We reserve the right to limit or remove access to a service we provide at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures for any of our services.

ACCEPTABLE USE

4.1 You must not:

(a) use our sites or services in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to our sites or services or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the sites or services;

(b) use our sites or services in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) use our sites or services 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;

(d) 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 sites or services without our express written consent;

(e) access or otherwise interact with our sites or services using any robot, spider or other automated means;

(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our sites; or

(g) use data collected from our sites or services for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

4.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our sites, or in relation to our sites or services, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS

5.1 You may subscribe to our enewsletter mailing list by completing and submitting the subscription forms on our sites or via a hosted webform or by asking in person, by email or by phone to be added, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the mailing host will send to you.

5.2 You must not subscribe using another individual’s details without their express permission.

5.3 All use of enewsletter mailing list subscriptions is limited by the subscription terms and conditions as applied to print magazine subscriptions, which follow:

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS

6.1 These terms and conditions set out the conditions relating to the sale of print subscriptions and provision of free digital subscriptions. Any agreement to purchase a subscription or access to our publications is with Inovar Communications Ltd. Inovar is a private limited company, incorporated in the United Kingdom under company registration number 05386964.

6.2 Types of subscriptions and what is included

6.2.1 Each publication or service we offer has multiple subscription options and therefore you should check the type of access and period of subscription/access on the web page which sets out its price and period of access.

6.2.2 For print subscriptions, these will be delivered to your nominated address, based on the number of issues stated on the subscription page, for 1 year starting with the current issue at the point of contract, unless otherwise agreed in writing. We cannot be held responsible for postal or customs delays. Digital subscriptions will be delivered to you by email during the week each issue is released.

6.2.3 We reserve full editorial control over our publications and services and reserve the right to make changes, including but not limited to, our editorial approach, the right to remove certain content which may be or become contentious, complained about, unlawful, or which has not been compiled in accordance with our requirements and includes the look, feel and functionality of our publications and services.

6.3 Placing an order and our acceptance

6.3.1 When you request a print subscription (which includes renewals), the subscription will be for the period agreed, unless Clause 6.3.3 below applies or as otherwise stated herein.

6.3.2 Subscriptions last twelve months and will not recur automatically. Near to or on your subscription renewal date, Inovar will invite you to renew by issuing an invoice. If you choose not to renew your subscription, we will cease to send renewal letters/emails and ask for no further payment.

6.3.3 Subscriptions and access rights are supplied subject to availability, remaining in current circulation and continuing to be owned by us or licensed to us. In the event that we are unable to supply any subscriptions/access rights for the agreed term, we will inform you as soon as possible and provide you with a full refund. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any other direct or indirect losses, nor any losses caused as a result of not being able to supply you with the subscriptions for all or any of the periods subscribed to. This does not affect your statutory rights.

6.4 Prices and payments

6.4.1 The price that you pay for your subscription/access rights should be the current pricing as indicated on our websites or in our magazines. These prices are valid for purchases made during the calendar year to which the purchase relates. Prices are listed in the currency indicated via the sites or magazines. We are not responsible for any additional exchange fees or charges your bank may apply in relation to currency exchange fees.

6.4.2 While we try to ensure that all prices we display and quote are accurate, errors may occur. If we discover an error in the prices of the subscriptions you have ordered and this is greater than what you have paid, we will inform you as soon as possible and give you the option of recommencing your order at the correct price or cancelling it. If you cancel for this reason and we have already processed your payment, you will receive a full refund.

6.4.3 We accept payment via credit card (Visa, Mastercard and AMEX), cheque and direct bank transfer. We are not liable for any fees associated with payment methods.

LIMITED WARRANTIES

7.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information we publish;

(b) that the material we publish is up to date; or

(c) that the sites or any service we offer will remain available.

7.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our sites or services, and to stop publishing our sites or any connected materials at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation, and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any sites or services, or if we stop publishing the sites or any connected materials.

7.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to section 8.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our sites and the use of our sites.

LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY

8.1 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

8.2 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

8.3 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

8.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

8.5 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the sites or these terms and conditions.

BREACHES OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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

(a) permanently prohibit you from accessing our sites;

(b) block computers using your IP address from accessing our sites;

(c) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our sites;

(d) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.

9.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our sites or a part of our sites, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking.

VARIATION

10.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

10.2 The revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our sites from the date of the revision; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you should stop using our sites.

ASSIGNMENT

11.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

11.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

SEVERABILITY

12.1 If a provision of a contract under these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

12.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of a contract under these terms and conditions 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.

THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS

13.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

13.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

14.1 Subject to Section 10.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our sites and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our sites.

LAW AND JURISDICTION

15.1 A contract under these terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

15.2 Any disputes relating to a contract under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England.

STATUTORY AND REGULATORY DISCLOSURES

16.1 Our VAT number is GB385 9264 05.

16.2 Inovar Communications Ltd is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the registration number Z8983469.

16.3 Our full Privacy Policy is available here. Inovar Communications Ltd is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust with respect to your privacy. We will not share your personal data except where required for the fulfilment of a service you have requested or authorised. We will never sell your data.

OUR DETAILS

17.1 This site is owned and operated by Inovar Communications Ltd.

17.2 We are registered in the United Kingdom under registration number 05386964 and our registered office is at 1 Brassey Road Old Potts Way Shrewsbury SY3 7FA.

17.3 Our principal place of business is at 11 Park Plaza, Battlefield Enterprise Park, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 3AF.

17.4 You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by email to [email protected] or by telephone at +44 (0)1743 469909.

About Metal Additive Manufacturing magazine

Metal AM magazine, published quarterly in digital and print formats, is read by a rapidly expanding international audience.

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