Terms of use & Privacy policy

Terms of website use

This page (together with the documents referred to on it, including our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.weatherden.co.uk (“our site”). Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

1. About us

Our website is a website operated by Weatherden Ltd (“we”, “our”, “us”). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 09241011 and have our registered office at 264 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DY, United Kingdom.

2. Our services

We are a global health and life science company focused on generating value from the development of innovative technologies. Our site is provided free of charge, but we reserve the right to charge for our services, or to change the price of such services, at any time. However, we will notify you before any such change becomes effective.

3. Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site (including but not limited to copyright, trade marks, patents, service marks, trade names, rights in know-how, database rights, design rights and other intellectual property rights or equivalent forms of protection, of whatever nature arising anywhere in the world, whether registered or unregistered and including applications for the grant of such rights), and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

4. Reliance on information posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

5. Accessing our website

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

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.

  • 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.

  • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of these terms of website use.

  • Not to use or attempt to use any automated programme (including, without limitation, any spider or other web crawler) to access our site, or to search, display or obtain links to any part of our site. Any such use or attempted use of an automated program shall be a misuse of our site. Obtaining access to any part of our site by means of any such automated programs is strictly unauthorised.

  • Not to attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

    1. any part of our site;

    2. any equipment or network on which our site is stored;

    3. any software or databases used in the provision of our site; or

    4. any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Some of the actions listed above are criminal offences 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 site will cease immediately.

6. Our website changes regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

7. Information about you and your visits to the website

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

9. Link from our website

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

10. Our liability

Whilst we take every reasonable precaution and care in relation to our site, the material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

We accept no liability under or in connection with this agreement (whether such liability arises in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) for any:

  1. loss of income or revenue;

  2. loss of business;

  3. loss of profits or contracts;

  4. loss of anticipated savings;

  5. loss of data;

  6. waste of management or office time, (for each of (i) – (vi) above, whether directly or directly occurring); or

  7. for any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind however arising

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us and our affiliates, and our and their officers, directors, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any losses, damages, costs, expenses (including reasonable legal fees), sums agreed to in settlement and other liabilities, arising out of:

  1. any claim, demand, allegation or proceeding brought by any third party due to or arising out of your use of this site;

  2. your breach of these terms of use; or

  3. your violation of any rights of another person or entity.

12. Linking to our website

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site. These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

13. Variations

Any changes we may make to these terms in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. You should also check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

14. Contact us

If you have any questions or comments in relation to these terms, please contact us on privacy@weatherden.co.uk.

Privacy policy

Please read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with our Cookie Policy (below).

Weatherden Ltd (“we”, “our”, “us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our Terms of Use (above) and our Cookie Policy (below) and any other documents referred to on our site) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Weatherden Ltd of 264 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DY, United Kingdom. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under number A8220660.

1. Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

General, aggregated, demographic, and non-personal data (such as aggregated anonymous information about your usage of our website https://weatherden.co.uk (“our site”)). This will not be linked to any of your personal data, through cookies or other means, without your consent. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence, along with your name, email address, telephone number and other contact details.

Anonymised details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise, and the resources that you access, may be recorded.

For information about how we use cookies, please see below.

2. Where we store your personal data

Our headquarters are in London, UK. The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information that you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will take reasonable best steps to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

3. Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.

  • To notify you about changes to our service.

4. E-mail marketing and newsletters

We may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by post or telephone.

If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about potential business leads similar to those which were the subject of a previous transaction with you.

If you are a new customer, we will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form or page on which we collect your data. You can also opt-out of receiving future marketing communications from us at any time by following the directions contained in the e-mail to unsubscribe, or by contacting us at privacy@weatherden.co.uk.

Please note that we will use personal data provided by you to contact you via e-mail about service-related announcements, changes to our app or policies, or other service or administrative-related matters. Please note that you cannot opt-out of such communications.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

5. Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may share your information with selected third parties, including:

Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you. Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Site. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or the sale of an individual website owned by us, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets or to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale.

  • If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.

  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation (including responding to requests from law enforcement authorities outside the EEA), or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction, and may require us to transfer your personal data outside of the EEA.

6. Access to information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

7. Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

8. Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to privacy@weatherden.co.uk.

Cookie policy

Please read this Cookie Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy (above).

Weatherden Limited (“we”, “our”, “us”) may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns when they use our website www.weatherden.co.uk (“our site”), and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.

They enable us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.

  • Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.

  • Speed up your searches.

  • Recognise you when you return to our site.

The Cookies We Set

  • Account related cookies: If you create an account, then cookies are used for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however, in some cases they may remain afterwards to recall your site preferences.

  • Login Related Cookies: Cookies are used when you are logged in so that the website recognises this between pages. This prevents you from having to log in every time you return or move to a different part of the website. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

  • Forms related cookies: When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on the contact page, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

  • Third Party Cookies: In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics website.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.