These Terms of use apply in respect of your use of Deafax’s website (deafax.org) and our associated websites, together called “our website”.

Your use of our website is under:

Using our website means you agree to follow these Terms of use in full. If you not agree to these Terms of use, please do not use our website.

Use of our website

Our website is free for anyone to find out more about Deafax and the services we offer. We try hard to ensure that our website is accurate and up-to-date. We may sometimes make mistakes and can’t guarantee the accuracy of the information on our website or that you’ll always be able to access it. We don’t accept liability for errors or omissions or for any reliance you place on the information on our website.

You agree to use our website lawfully and ethically. In particular, you agree to not use our website in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk or spam email, or any unsolicited messages.

Visitors use links to move from one website to another or from one page to another in the same website.#

Our website contains links to third parties’ websites. We don’t endorse or accept liability for the contents of third party websites we link to.

Our website links to pages maintained by us on third party social media websites. When you use those pages, you must do so under those websites’ Terms of use and these Terms of use.

You agree that if you link to our website from any other website you will do so under our Terms of use.

Trade marks, logos and service marks

Trade marks, logos and service marks, together called “trade marks”, used on our website, whether registered or unregistered, are property of their owners.

Unless otherwise stated, we do not give you permission to use any trade mark on our website without its owner’s consent.

We, or our content and technology providers, own the copyright to our website. All content is under copyright. You may not use it unless with our prior written consent or as allowed by these Terms of use. Any unauthorised use of our website’s content may infringe third parties’ rights.

Unless we agree, you must not use information or images in our website in any way, except:

  • To ask about us and our services,
  • To download and temporarily store one or more page of our website for your viewing on a personal computer or terminal, or
  • For private or non-commercial academic research.

If you use any material on our website for any of these purposes you:

  • Must not change documents or related images
  • Must not use images separately from the accompanying text
  • Must include our copyright and trade mark notices on all permitted copies.

You must include “© Copyright Deafax. All rights reserved” if you quote our website’s content in a publication associated with your private or academic research.

If you wish to use any material on our website in any other way, please write to Deafax, Clare Charity Centre, Wycombe Road, Saunderton, Bucks HP14 4BF or email info@deafax.org

Viruses

We try to keep our anti-virus software up-to-date. We don’t guarantee that our website, its servers, downloadable files and emails are free from viruses or other harmful components. You should take reasonable steps to use suitable anti-virus and firewall systems in order to protect your computer and equipment. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage as a result of any infection of your computer and equipment.

You must not introduce, or try to introduce, any virus or other contaminant to our website or any of its software or systems; try to access, alter, de-compile, reverse engineer, destroy or tamper with any part of our website, its software or our systems; interfere with anybody else’s use of our website; try to weaken or damage how our website works, whether by helping to organise, or taking part in, a denial of service attack or otherwise.

Intellectual Property

The names, images and logos identifying and owned by us or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of ours and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of ours, or any other third party.

Donations and gift aid

If you use our website to donate, you may be able to take advantage of the United Kingdom’s gift aid scheme.

Provision of services

These Terms of use do not deal with the terms of any service advertised on our website. We will tell you the terms of a service when you ask us to provide the service. If the service is provided by a third party, the third party’s terms will apply.

Liability

You use our website at your risk. The information and materials on our website are general only and are not advice or recommendations, professional or otherwise.

We don’t accept liability for any loss or damage resulting from your use of our website:

  • where we comply with these Terms of use,
  • where we do not comply with these Terms of use and it is not reasonably foreseeable at the time when you use our website, and/or
  • where we do not comply with these Terms of use and such loss or damage is indirect, such as loss of of income, loss of profit, loss of contract, damage to reputation and waste of time.

We exclude all warranties, express or implied, relating to the information and materials on our website to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Nothing in these Terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Privacy policy

We will only use any personal information we collect from you under our privacy policy.

Connection and charges

You’re responsible for connecting with a telecommunications provider to access our website and for the costs you incur in using our website.

Changes to these Terms of use

We may sometimes change these Terms of use. If we make any big changes we will post a notice on the homepage of our website.

By continuing to use our website you agree to be bound by any changes we make to these Terms of use.

General

If we are prevented from enforcing any of these Terms it will not mean we cannot enforce the rest of them, which will continue to apply.

These Terms of Use will be governed by English law. The English Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to hear disputes about these Terms.

Feedback and complaints

We welcome your comments about our website. If you find anything incorrect, not working or want to say anything else, please email info@deafax.org.