Terms

About us and contact information

Energy Systems Catapult is the trading name of the Energy Systems Catapult Limited, a company limited by guarantee, and registered in the UK under company number 08705784, whose main place of business is at 7th Floor, Cannon House, 18 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 6BS (“us”, “we”, “our”).

You can contact us at info@es.catapult.org.uk; for other ways to get in touch please visit the contact page.

Our website terms

By using the Site, you confirm that you accept and agree to comply with these terms and any terms referred to within them, which take effect on your first use of the Site.

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our Site.

Access to certain pages of the Site, or any other of our sites linked from here, may be restricted or subject to further conditions of use as indicated.

We may change these terms at any time. Please review the terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made.

Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated.

Other terms that may apply to you

Our Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate

Access

Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw, suspend or amend the service that we provide on our Site without notice.

Using material from our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright 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 use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted.

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 content on our Site must always be acknowledged by using the following wording: “© Energy Systems Catapult [insert year]. All rights reserved.” (or similar wording in the case of identified contributors).

You must not use any part of the content 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.

The names, images and logos identifying the Energy Systems Catapult or third-parties and their services or products are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks of us and/or third-parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication or otherwise any license or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of us, or any other third-party.

Uploading material to our site

Except for any specific exceptions listed within these terms and works which are explicitly expressed to be subject to copyright protection and which are submitted to the Site by users, any material that you upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our Site amounts to a violation of their intellectual property rights, or their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our Site.

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

Linking to our Site

You may link to our home page, as long as you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

Our Site must not be framed on any other site. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please send your request to info@es.catatpult.org.uk

Third party links

We cannot be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.

Accuracy

The material available on our Site is designed to provide general information only.

We strive to ensure all information on our Site is accurate and up to date. However, the contents are naturally subject to change and so we cannot always guarantee the accuracy of all information on the Site. You are responsible for checking the accuracy of relevant facts and opinions given before entering into any commitment based upon them. The information provided on the Site does not constitute legal or other professional advice.

Computer viruses

We have done our best to ensure our Site is free from viruses. However, we cannot always guarantee this. You are responsible for installing adequate and up-to-date virus-checking software on your computer.

We take no responsibility or liability, so far as legally possible, for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware; or telecommunications equipment or other material which may be transmitted with or as part of the site.

Service

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that your use of the Site will be free from error and/or uninterrupted. We take no responsibility or liability, so far as legally possible, for any damages including, but not limited to:

  • indirect or consequential damages;
  • damages for loss of opportunity or chance;
  • any damages arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of, or in connection with, any information on the Site or any other websites or the use thereof.

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

Personal information and security

Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Your personal information will not normally be disclosed to third parties. In some circumstances however we may recommend you disclose your personal details to a third party so that they can provide a service you have requested, or fulfil a request for information.

Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.

You have a right to request a copy of your personal details at any time. An 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. If you wish to do this, then please email us at dataprotectionoffice@es.catapult.org.uk or write to us at:

F.A.O Head of Legal
Energy Systems Catapult
Cannon House, 7th Floor
18 Priory Queensway
Birmingham, B4 6BS

Information we may collect from visitors

We may collect several kinds of information from visitors to us depending on the part of the Site being visited: feedback, email enquiries, email addresses, site usage information and personal details such as your name and postal details if you sign up for newsletters.

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales