Terms and conditions of use

These terms and conditions (“the Terms”) govern your use of this Link Media Corporation Ltd (“LINK  MEDIA”) website (the “website”). 

Please read through the Terms. Please note that by using this website (a “Site”), you accept these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, do not use this Site. We may change these Terms from time to time, so you should review them each time that you visit the Site. You should print a copy of these Terms for future reference.  We may also change this website as we consider appropriate from time to time.

About us

This Site (www.hyphenonline.com) is operated by Link Media Corporation Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 13633465, whose registered office is at Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QH. Our VAT number is GB397958704.

Copyright notices

Unless otherwise specified the copyright in the contents of all the pages in this website are owned or licensed to LINK MEDIA.

Unless otherwise specified, the authors of the literary and artistic works in the pages in this website have asserted their moral right pursuant to Section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of those works.

Conditions of your use of this website

Except as stated below, the contents of this website may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior express written permission of LINK MEDIA. 

You may not distribute, display or copy any of the contents of the pages contained in this website to third parties including, but not limited to “caching” any material on this website for access by third parties and “mirroring” any material on this website. 

You may not provide a link to this website from any other website without first obtaining LINK MEDIA’s prior written consent.

You may print or download to disk the contents of an individual page of this website for the purpose of private and personal non-commercial use. 

You may also permit your computer to make an electronically stored, transient copy of the content in this website for the purpose of viewing it while connected to the Internet only.  However, you may only make one copy of any content.

You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website 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 website will cease immediately. You may not use the LINK MEDIA trademark or name without our express prior permission except where our name is included in any material that you are permitted to use.

Exclusion of LINK MEDIA’s liability

The information contained in the material in this website is only for information purposes. The material on this website does not constitute advice and you should not rely on any material in this website to make (or refrain from making) any decision or take (or refrain from taking) any action.

If you are a business user:

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our website or any content on it.

We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  1. use of, or inability to use, our website; or
  2. use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website.

In particular, we will not be liable for:

  1. loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  2. business interruption;
  3. loss of anticipated savings;
  4. loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  5. any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

You agree not to use our website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

General

LINK MEDIA does not make any warranty or representation as to the accuracy or fitness for purpose of any material on this website or the reliability of the access to this website.

We do not seek to exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

LINK MEDIA makes no warranty and does not guarantee that this website (or websites which are linked to this website) is free from bugs computer viruses or any other malicious or impairing computer program.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

The pages contained in this website may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors.

The information in these pages may be updated from time to time and may at times be out of date. We accept no responsibility for keeping the information in these pages up to date or liability for any failure to do so.

We are not responsible if you cannot access the Site properly or at all because of any event outside our control, for example (without limitation) the performance of your or our ISP, your browser or the Internet.

The Site relies in part on software to work. Software has bugs. Whilst we will monitor the Site and try to fix bugs, we cannot guarantee that the Site or any individual feature of the Site will be error free, available all the time and/or free from viruses.

No text or data mining, or web scraping   

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.

Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard.  This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Third party material and advertisements

This website contains material submitted and created by third parties. LINK MEDIA excludes all liability for any illegality arising from or error, omission or inaccuracy in any such material and LINK MEDIA takes no responsibility for such material. 

In the event that you purchase or obtain any goods or services from a third party, your acquisition of such goods or services will be in accordance with the relevant third party’s terms and conditions and LINK MEDIA will have no liability to you in respect of the same. 

This website also contains links to other websites which are not under the control of and are not maintained by LINK MEDIA. 

LINK MEDIA is not responsible for the content of those sites. LINK MEDIA provides these links for your convenience only but does not endorse the material on these sites.

Sponsored content, third party content and links available on this Site

Where you see the label “Sponsored Content” on an article on this Site it means that our Publisher/Editor retains editorial control and sign off of the article. Where you see the label “Advertorial” these are also written by our journalists but control and final sign off lies with the advertiser.

We are not liable or responsible for the third party content on this Site. Third party content includes, for example, comments posted by users and the content of advertisements.

Where this Site contains links to other sites and resources, which are provided by third parties, these links and resources are provided for your information only and you access them at your own risk. We are not liable or responsible for the content of third party sites or resources.

If you see something which you reasonably believe breaches these Terms please contact us on admin@hyphenonline.com.

Material submitted by you

By submitting any material to LINK MEDIA, whilst we do not acquire ownership in your material, you grant LINK MEDIA the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such material (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content. You acknowledge that LINK MEDIA is not obliged to publish any material submitted by you.

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.


Data Protection and Privacy

We will use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy, which forms part of these Terms. Please read our Privacy Policy now.


Validity

If any term, condition, or provision of these terms and conditions is determined to be unlawful, invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms, conditions and provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Law governing the Terms

Use of this Website and these Terms shall be subject only to the laws of England and Wales which shall exclusively govern the interpretation, application and effect of all the above permissions, exclusions, licences and conditions of use. 

Jurisdiction

The Courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all claims or disputes arising in relation to, out of or in connection with this Website and its use and these Terms. 

This Website is aimed at users in the United Kingdom. Where UK regulatory authorities have jurisdiction over the contents of this Website, LINK MEDIA has attempted to ensure compliance with the requirements of such regulatory body.

However, some of the information in the pages contained in this Website is not to be accessed from certain jurisdictions and no representation or warranty is made as to whether the information available in this Website complies with the regulatory regime of countries other than the United Kingdom.

Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and LINK MEDIA relating to the subject matter herein.

Queries

If you have any questions or queries regarding any of the services or products featured please send an email to admin@hyphenonline.com and admin@linkmedia.uk

SECURITY

When you are buying services over the Internet, you need to be assured that your details will be safe from prying eyes and misuse. 

LINK MEDIA is well aware of these issues and it is important that you are too and that you are confident that every effort has been made to protect you. 

Any information being passed over the internet, whether credit card details, names, addresses, phone numbers or other sensitive information, is encrypted to the highest industry standard so as to prevent anyone reading or obtaining your personal details for fraudulent means.