Terms and rules
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SITE
Our site www.puregt.com provides a platform for like minded users to discuss matters relating to all things automotive.
What's in these terms?
These user content terms set out the content standards that apply when you use our site, upload content to our site, make contact with other users on our site, link to our site, or interact with our site in any other way.
Who we are and how to contact us
www.puregt.com is a site operated by PureGT Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 05968682 and have our registered office at The Old Exchange, 521 Wimborne Road East, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9NH. To contact us, please use the contact us feature or email admin@puregt.com.
By using our site you accept these terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them.MBR
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
We may make changes to the terms of this policy
Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
We may transfer this agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.
You must keep your account details safe
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at admin@puregt.com.
Do not rely on information on this site
The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.
We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
User-generated content is not approved by us
Our site includes information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to forums, posts, uploads and private message conversations. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
Prohibited uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
• in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
• in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• to bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
• to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards (see below).
• to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
• 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.
You also agree:
• not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site.
• not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
• any part of our site;
• any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
• any software used in the provision of our site; or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
Interactive services
We provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:
• Forums.
• Posts.
• Uploads.
• Private message conversations.
(“interactive services”)
You must be over the age of 18 to submit content to our site.
We are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
Content standards
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (“Contribution”), and to any interactive services associated with it.
The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.
PureGT will determine, in its discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.
A Contribution must:
• be accurate (where it states facts).
• be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
• comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted.
A Contribution must not:
• be defamatory of any person.
• be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
• promote sexually explicit material.
• include child sexual abuse material.
• promote violence.
• promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• be likely to deceive any person.
• breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• promote any illegal content or activity.
• be in contempt of court.
• be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• give the impression that the Contribution emanates from PureGT, if this is not the case.
• advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
• contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
• contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.
How to complain about content uploaded by other users
If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other users, please contact us by using the inbuilt reporting facility or by emailing admin@puregt.com.
Breach of these terms
When we consider that a breach of this user content terms has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this user content terms constitutes a material breach of these terms upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
• immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to our site.
• issue of a warning to you.
• legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• further legal action against you.
• disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this user content terms. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
Whether you are a consumer or a business user we do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes 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.
Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site 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.
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy
Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms, its subject matter and its formation are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland. If you are a business, these terms, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.