Terms and conditions of website use

Version: 3.0. Issue date: 16/11/2023

• These terms and conditions of use tell you about the terms on which you may use any of our websites (www.itgovernance.co.uk, www.itgovernancepublishing.co.uk, www.itgovernanceusa.com, www.itgovernance.eu, www.itgovernance.asia) (‘our site’ or ‘our sites’) whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing or registering to use our site.
• Please read these terms and conditions of use carefully before you use our site. We recommend printing a copy of this document for future reference.
• By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them.
• If you do not agree to these terms and conditions of use, you must not use our site.
• The following additional terms, which can be accessed from the homepage of our site, will also apply to your use of our site:
  • Our Privacy Notice, which 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 you provide is accurate.
  • Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this policy.
  • Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
• If you purchase goods or services from our site, the transaction will be covered by our Terms and Conditions for buying goods and services on our website, which may also be accessed from the homepage of our site; you will be notified of any additional terms and conditions that may apply to specific transactions.

Information about us

• This site is operated by IT Governance Ltd of Unit 3, Clive Court, Bartholomew’s Walk, Cambridgeshire Business Park, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4EA, registered in England with number 4418178 (‘the Company’). Our VAT number is 927 5935 83. We are a limited company. We may be contacted on +44 (0)333 800 7000 or at servicecentre@itgovernance.co.uk.

Changes to these terms and our site, and access to our site

• We may revise these terms and conditions of use at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make as they are binding on you.
• We may update our site from time to time and change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.
• We do not guarantee that our site or any content on it will be free from errors or omissions.
• We do not guarantee that our site or any content on it will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

Security

• To ensure that this site remains available to all users, we may monitor network traffic to identify unauthorised attempts to upload or change information, or to otherwise cause damage to the site. Anyone using this site expressly consents to such monitoring.
• Unauthorised attempts to modify, alter, deface, destroy or corrupt any information stored on this site or this system, to defeat or circumvent any security features, to probe, scan or test for vulnerabilities, to breach security or authentication measures, to forge TCP/IP headers, to install or attempt to install unauthorised software, to mount denial-of-service attacks, or to use this system for anything other than its intended purposes are expressly prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.
• Any possible criminal activity will be reported, together with any evidence that may be gathered, to the appropriate authorities.
• If you choose or are provided with a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password whether chosen by you or allocated by us at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions of use.

Disclaimer of endorsement

• This site, and documents posted on it, may contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organisations. We do not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, usefulness, timeliness or completeness of any linked information.
• The inclusion of links or pointers to other sites is not intended to assign importance to those sites and the information contained in them, nor is it intended to endorse, recommend or favour any views expressed, or commercial products or services offered on those sites, or the organisations sponsoring the sites, by trade name, trademark, manufacture or otherwise.
• Reference on this site to any specific commercial products, processes or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the site’s visitors, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation or favouring by the Company.
• The views expressed by any individual within any web forum are the views of that individual only and do not reflect or represent in any way the views of the Company.

Copyright

• All content on this site, and all content of any documents provided to visitors or clients (in, for instance, newsletters) is our property, or that of another original copyright holder, unless stated otherwise.
• No user may copy, modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, display, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, except with our express written agreement or that of the original copyright holder. These copyright terms apply to all books and other products purchased from this site or acquired in any format by accessing our sites.

Free services

• The Company provides a number of free services from its site, such as newsletters, green papers, etc. There is no contract with the Company for any free service, so no user can become a client by using any free service, and we are not liable to any user in any way resulting from the use of any free service.

Limitation of liability

• Nothing in these terms and conditions 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.
• To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
• We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • The use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • The use of or reliance on any content on our site.
• If you are a business user, please note that, in particular, we will not be liable for:
  • Loss of profits, sales, business or revenue;
  • Business interruption;
  • Loss of anticipated savings;
  • Loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • Any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
• We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, a distributed denial-of-service attack, 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 content on it, or on any website linked to it.
• We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
• Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any goods by use to you, which are set out in our terms and conditions of supply.