Terms of Use
The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB),
including subsidiaries and affiliates ("NLB" or "Aton" or
"we" or "us" or "our") provides the information
contained on this website or any of the pages comprising the website (https://nlbhq.nlb.org.uk/latonsonline)
to visitors (cumulatively referred to as "you" or "your"
hereinafter) subject to the terms and conditions set out in these website terms
and conditions, the privacy policy and any other relevant terms and conditions,
policies and notices which may be applicable to a specific section or module of
this website.
2. Information on Aids to Navigation
(ATON).
Whilst every effort is made to update
the information contained on this website, neither NLB nor any third party or
data or content provider make any representations or warranties, whether
express, implied in law or residual, as to the sequence, accuracy, completeness
or reliability of information, opinions research information, data and/or
content contained on the website (including but not limited to any information
which may be provided by any third party or data or content providers) and
shall not be bound in any manner by any information contained on the website.
NLB reserves the right at any time to change or discontinue without notice, any
aspect or feature of this website. No information shall be construed as advice
and information is offered for information purposes only and is not intended
for trading purposes. You and your company rely on the information contained on
this website at your own risk. If you find an error or omission at this site,
please submit an email to the support staff.
3. Trade Marks
The trade marks, names, logos and
service marks (collectively "trade marks")
displayed on this website are registered and unregistered trade
marks of NLB. Nothing contained on this website should be construed as
granting any licence or right to use any trade mark without the prior written
permission of NLB.
4. External Links
External links may be provided for your
convenience, but they are beyond the control of NLB and no representation is
made as to their content. Use or reliance on any external links and the content
thereon provided is at your own risk. When visiting external links you must
refer to that external websites terms and conditions of use. No hypertext links
shall be created from any website controlled by you or otherwise to this
website without the express prior written permission of NLB. Please contact us
if you would like to link to this website or would like to request a link to
your website.
5. Public Forums and User Submissions
NLB is not responsible for any material
submitted to the public areas by you (which include bulletin boards, hosted
pages, or any other public area found on the website. Any material (whether
submitted by you or any other user) is not endorsed, reviewed or approved by
NLB. NLB reserves the right to remove any material submitted or posted by you
in the public areas, without notice to you, if it becomes aware and determines,
in its sole and absolute discretion that you are or there is the likelihood
that you may, including but not limited to -
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defame abuse, harass, stalk, threaten
or otherwise violate the rights of other users or any third parties;
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publish post, distribute or disseminate
any defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information;
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post or upload files that contain
viruses, corrupted files or any other similar software or programmes that may
damage the operation of the Website Owner's and/or a third party's computer
system and/or network;
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violate any copyright, trade mark,
other applicable UK, Scottish or international laws or intellectual property
rights of NLB or any other third party;
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submit contents containing marketing or promotional
material which is intended to solicit business.
6. Specific Use
You further agree not to use the
website to send or post any message or material that is unlawful, harassing,
defamatory, abusive, indecent, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually
orientated, racially offensive, profane, pornographic or violates any
applicable law and you hereby indemnify NLB against any loss, liability, damage
or expense of whatever nature which the NLB or any third party may suffer which
is caused by or attributable to, whether directly or indirectly, your use of
the website to send or post any such message or material.
7. Warranties
NLB makes no warranties,
representations, statements or guarantees (whether express, implied in law or residual)
regarding the website, the information contained on the website, your or your
company's personal information or material and information transmitted over our
system.
8. Disclaimer of Liability.
NLB shall not be responsible for and
disclaims all liability for any loss, liability, damage (whether direct,
indirect or consequential), personal injury or expense of any nature whatsoever
which may be suffered by you or any third party (including your company), as a
result of or which may be attributable, directly or indirectly, to your access
and use of the website, any information contained on the website, your or your
company's personal information or material and information transmitted over our
system. In particular, neither NLB nor any third party or data or content
provider shall be liable in any way to you or to any other person, firm or
corporation whatsoever for any loss, liability, damage (whether direct or
consequential), personal injury or expense of any nature whatsoever arising
from any delays, inaccuracies, errors in, or omission of any share price
information or the transmission thereof, or for any actions taken in reliance
thereon or occasioned thereby or by reason of non-performance or interruption,
or termination thereof.
9. Use of the Aton website.
NLB does not make any warranty or
representation that information on the website is appropriate for use in any
jurisdiction. By accessing the website, you warrant and represent to the NLB
that you are legally entitled to do so and to make use of information made
available via the website.
10. General
10.1 Entire
Agreement.
These website terms and conditions
constitute the sole record of the agreement between you and NLB in relation to
your use of the website. Neither you nor NLB shall be bound by any express
tacit nor implied representation, warranty, promise or the like not recorded
herein. Unless otherwise specifically stated these website terms and conditions
supersede and replace all prior commitments, undertakings or representations, whether
written or oral, between you and NLB in respect of your use of the website.
10.2 Alteration
NLB may at any time modify any relevant
terms and conditions, policies or notices. You acknowledge that by visiting the
website from time to time, you shall become bound to the current version of the
relevant terms and conditions (the "current version") and, unless
stated in the current version, all previous versions shall be superseded by the
current version. You shall be responsible for reviewing the then current
version each time you visit the website.
10.3 Conflict.
Where any conflict or contradiction
appears between the provisions of these website terms and conditions and any
other relevant terms and conditions, policies or notices, the other relevant
terms and conditions, policies or notices which relate specifically to a
particular section or module of the website shall prevail in respect of your
use of the relevant section or module of the website.
10.4 Waiver.
No indulgence or extension of time
which either you or NLB may grant to the other will constitute a waiver of or,
whether by estoppel or otherwise, limit any of the existing or future rights of
the grantor in terms hereof, save in the event or to the extent that the
grantor has signed a written document expressly waiving or limiting such
rights.
10.5 Cession.
NLB shall be entitled to cede, assign
and delegate all or any of its rights and obligations in terms of any relevant
terms and conditions, policies and notices to any third party.
10.6 Severability.
All provisions of any relevant terms
and conditions, policies and notices are, notwithstanding the manner in which
they have been grouped together or linked grammatically, severable from each
other. Any provision of any relevant terms and conditions, policies and
notices, which is or becomes unenforceable in any jurisdiction, whether due to voidness, invalidity, illegality, unlawfulness or for any
reason whatever, shall, in such jurisdiction only and only to the extent that
it is so unenforceable, be treated as pro non scripto
and the remaining provisions of any relevant terms and conditions, policies and
notices shall remain in full force and effect.
10.7 Applicable laws.
Any relevant terms and conditions,
policies and notices shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of Scotland without giving effect to any principles of conflict of law.
You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish Court of
Session in respect of any disputes arising in connection with the website, or
any relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices or any matter related
to or in connection therewith.
11. Privacy and Cookies Statement
This statement relates to our privacy practices
in connection with this website.
11.1 Collection and
use of personal information
This
website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you
volunteer. Any information you provide in this way is used solely
for the purpose for which you provide it. Once we are made aware that you are no longer
responsible for an AtoN, we disable your accounts and remove your names from
our contacts.
11.2 Information we
routinely collect
We may collect the following information
from each user of this site:
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Statistical information (IP address and
hostname, web browser version, pages visited etc.).
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Other information submitted in forms,
for example user contact details when logging a failure record
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The date and time you access our site
11.3 What we use the
information for
Any personal information you provide
will be used only for the purpose supplied. We will neither make attempts to
identify individual visitors, nor associate the technical details listed above
with any individual. It is our policy never to disclose such technical
information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless
obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical
information will only be used for statistical and other administrative
purposes.
You should note that technical details,
which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute
'personal data' for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 or the GDPR.
AtoN
specific data is retained indefinitely as it is a historic record of its
performance and the changes that have happened to it.
11.4 Cookies
Cookies are very small text files that
are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. We use cookies so we
can tailor your user experience. You can disable any cookies already stored on
your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.
This website will:
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Remember who the logged in user is
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Remember that you are logged in and
that your session is secure.
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Remember selected records in grids to
provide you with the best user experience.
This website will not:
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Share any personal information with
third parties.