Terms of Use

Last updated 1st June 2023

PROJECTMATCH – TERMS OF USE FOR PROJECTMATCH WEBSITE, RELATED APP AND CONTENT

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY

BY USING THE WEBSITE YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT THIS AGREEMENT DOES

We ProjectMatch Ltd of Cornfields, Pegsdon, Hitchin, Bedfordshire, SG5 3JX, license you to use the Website as permitted in these Terms. For the avoidance of doubt, these Terms include the Privacy Notice and the relevant parts of the Terms and Conditions of Service [https://www.project-match.com/terms-service/], which you should read before you register an account with us. 

YOUR PRIVACY

We only use any personal data we collect through your use of the Website in the ways set out in our privacy notice [https://www.project-match.com/privacy-notice/] and these form part of these Terms.

Please be aware that internet transmissions are never completely private or secure and that any message or information you send using the Website may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission is encrypted.

SUPPORT FOR THE PLATFORM AND HOW TO TELL US ABOUT PROBLEMS

Support. If you want to learn more about the Website or have any problems using it, please contact us at [email protected]. 

Contacting us (including with complaints). If you think the Website is faulty or misdescribed or wish to contact us for any other reason please email us at [email protected]. 

How we will communicate with you. If we have to contact you we will do so by email using the contact details you have provided to us.

HOW YOU MAY USE THE PLATFORM

If you agree to comply with these Terms, you or your organisation has a subscription with us, you may register an account on the Website under your organisation’s subscription.

YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US

When you create an account, you must provide accurate and up-to-date information. It is important that you keep such information current and complete.

You must keep your account password confidential and do not disclose it to any third party. If you know or suspect that any third party knows your password or has accessed your account, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].

You may not otherwise transfer your account details to someone else, whether for money, for anything else or for free. 

You agree that you are solely responsible (to us and to others) for the activity that occurs under your account.

We reserve the right to disable your user account at any time, including if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms, or if activities occur on your account which, in our sole discretion, would or might cause damage to or impair the Website or infringe or violate any third party rights, or violate any applicable laws or regulations.

As your account is dependent on you or your organisation’s subscription with us, your account will automatically be deleted if you or your organisation no longer subscribes to the Website.

If you no longer want to use our Website, and would like your account deleted, we can take care of this for you. Please contact us at [email protected] and we will provide you with further assistance and guide you through the process. Once you choose to delete your account, you will not be able to reactivate your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added.

YOU MUST BE 18 TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND USE THE WEBSITE

You must be 18 or over to accept these terms and use the Website.

CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may need to change these terms to reflect changes in law or best practice or to deal with additional features which we introduce. 

We will give you as much notice as possible of any material change by sending you an email or notifying you of a change when you next login to the Website. 

If you do not accept the notified changes you will not be permitted to continue to use the Website.

UPDATES TO THE WEBSITE

From time to time we may automatically update the Website to improve performance, enhance functionality, reflect changes to the operating system or address security issues.

WE MAY COLLECT TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT YOUR DEVICE

By using the Website form you agree to us collecting and using technical information about the devices you use the Website on and related software, hardware and peripherals to improve our products and to provide any services to you.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER WEBSITES YOU LINK TO

The Website may contain links to other independent websites which are not provided by us. Such independent sites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for and have not checked and approved their content or their privacy policies (if any). 

You will need to make your own independent judgement about whether to use any such independent sites, including whether to buy any products or services offered by them.

LICENCE RESTRICTIONS

You agree that you will:

  • not rent, lease, sub-license, loan, provide, or otherwise make available, the Website in any form, in whole or in part to any person without prior written consent from us;
  • not copy the Website, except as part of the normal use of the Website or where it is necessary for the purpose of back-up or operational security;
  • not translate, merge, adapt, vary, alter or modify, the whole or any part of the Website,  nor permit the Website or any part of them to be combined with, or become incorporated in, any other programs, except as necessary to use the Website on devices as permitted in these terms;
  • not disassemble, de-compile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the Website nor attempt to do any such things;
  • comply with all applicable technology control or export laws and regulations that apply to the technology used or supported by the Website.

ACCEPTABLE USE RESTRICTIONS

You must: 

  • not use the Website in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these terms, or act fraudulently or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, such as viruses, or harmful data, into the Website or any operating system; 
  • not infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the Website, including by the submission of any material (to the extent that such use is not licensed by these terms); 
  • not transmit or upload any material that is defamatory, offensive or otherwise objectionable in relation to your use of the Website; 
  • not use the Website form in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems or security or interfere with other users; and 
  • not collect or harvest any information or data from the Website or our systems or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Website.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All intellectual property rights in the Website throughout the world belong or are licensed to us and the rights in the Website are licensed (not sold) to you. You have no intellectual property rights in, or to, the Website other than the right to use them in accordance with these terms. You will own any intellectual property rights which arise in any content that you post on the Website (including in any applications you make to Projects, Requests or Job Adverts), and license this content to us for the period it is live on the Website.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

We shall not be liable to any person for any loss or damage, which may arise from the use of any of the information or product contained or delivered via our Website. 

Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability for:

(a) death or personal injury resulting from our negligence;

(b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(d) any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

We provide the Website “as is”. To the fullest extent that we are permitted to do so, we disclaim any implied terms as to title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement to the extent permissible under applicable law. 

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.

NO RIGHTS FOR THIRD PARTIES

This agreement does not give rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this agreement.

IF A COURT FINDS PART OF THIS CONTRACT ILLEAGAL, THE REST WILL CONTINUE IN FORCE

Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

EVEN IF WE DELAY IN ENFORCING THIS CONTRACT, WE CAN STILL ENFORCE IT LATER

Even if we delay in enforcing this contract, we can still enforce it later. If we do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these terms, or if we delay in taking steps against you in respect of your breaking this contract, that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent us taking steps against you at a later date.

WHICH LAWS APPLY TO THIS CONTRACT AND WHERE YOU MAY BRING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

These terms are governed by English law and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the products in the English courts.